EngineerGaming

@EngineerGaming@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would that mean censorship of moobs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t block ads on Youtube? Why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this title is misleading. Sorry if I made a mistake, I just know that some facial recognition systems (including the one used in our cities) use data from multiple public sources including social media, so assumed this one was the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the comment was about “giving PimEyes training data via interacting with Facebook”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much use is there in photos of you where you haven’t been tagged (in addition to being bad quality). When it comes to better-quality, tagged ones - you can just ask people not to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had a wireless mouse, I would prefer it to not have a built-in battery at all. Pop the batteries out, swap them for a pair of charged ones, put the old ones on a charger. That’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but it is still the most usable alternative we have for now. I would avoid stock FF and use either Librewolf or hardened FF because the default browser spies too.

  Really have hopes for Servo/Ladybird!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, my point was that the reasons are way deeper than “being allowed to buy alcohol on their own”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought not about buying moonshine through specific channels but rather asking an older friend/acquaintance/family member to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not saying that companies are trusted - they’re equally as bad. They collect and hoard your data for profit, government hoards it for control, that’s all the difference. And both can exchange data with each other. The trust level is about the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be as trusting of them. They have all the power to lie to people and just do the thing in their interest. Or someone there may just be bribed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have evidence in form of drinking classmates. Moderately so in my school because it was cultured, but classmates told it was much worse in their previous schools. I guess it largely comes from the families.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression that kids don’t smoke anymore because it is not trendy like it was in my parents’ times. But they do drink alcohol. And especially they do vape.

  Interesting how in parents’ times, you did not have to be 18 to buy alcohol… But juvenile alcoholism is a much bigger problem now. As if there is some bigger underlying reason…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government can keep a log of what sites asked for such a proof though, and better assume they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be very much against tying my social media accounts to a government services one. I know it can be correlated if needed, but the government automatically neatly having this information all in one place? No thanks, it’s outright dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of whether the content is “useful and educative” or “brainrot”, I just don’t seem how you can comprehend rapidly-changing and very short content at all, this just seems unnatural. Is that how ADHD feels like? And not like you can get comprehensive knowledge from such bite-sized videos anyway, maximum disjointed factoids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By “passport” I meant “the universal ID everyone has”, maybe it’s named differently where you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sorry for being confusing. The library having a record is indeed just an additional concern, personal main one is the reader’s manufaturer getting telemetry, including on the DRMless books. I personally download my books from Libgen.

  The passport mention is because here - at least as far as I remember - they do want your passport to sign you up for the library system. And I would just be surprised if this massive system isn’t a part of the super-invasive surveillance apparatus, or at least isn’t freely accessible to whoever wants it in the law enforcement (like most data out there).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do just that. You do you. Even though the topics aren’t dangerous, I am still uncomfortable having them recorded tied to my passport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, my issue is needing internet connection at all - as well as having my reading in the library app itself being spied on, even if my reader did have an OS I trust to be online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t like the surveillance this would indirectly cause. My guess would be that a library app would need an internet connection… And I would not trust my reader to ever be online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still cannot get over the fact that a browser requires an account to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …Or just not taking a phone and taking public transport instead of a car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Could Reportedly Stop Vision Pro Production Soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They might be cool for gaming ag least. Or porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint - the only reason I didn’t degoogle earlier was because my phone simply didn’t support Lineage or Divest. Chances are that whatever budget Chinaphone you have would be in the same situation. Now I bought a Pixel specifically with the intent of installing a privacy-preserving OS, but for a while most I could do was ADB-disabling Google services.

  Unlike installing Linux, chances are high that a degoogled OS wouldn’t work on the hardware you already have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think cellular location would be excluded from such tracking tbh. I would rather not take my phone with me at all when visiting such a potentially sensitive place, or at the very least use a Faraday cage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Rabbit hole”? Isn’t it as easy as just not going to a carrier’s store for it?

  We always bought from generic tech stores, almost always big chain ones - never got a carrier-locked device. Is it different in the US?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least until the official client allows registration from desktop without VM shenanigans, there NEED to be third-party clients like signal-cli.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In such a sitiation, I usually just ask to be out of the picture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Darkweb”? I was under the impression that it means a messenger that is onion/i2p-only. Simplex, while having an easy Tor integration, is mostly used by clearnet.