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- Comment on MODPOD: The collapse of IETF's protections for dissent - new rules will go into effect unless enough people hear what's happening and file objections by October 7 (in any timezone, so 18 hours remain) 2 weeks ago:
The article is from a security researcher involved in the development of post-quantum encryption. Hes known for fighting against various agencies trying to weaken encryption for their questionable benefit. Hes been very successful but a one-man-show only goes so far. Please, if you read this: write those emails to the mailing list and tell others whats going on!
This (sadly) has implications across the whole world, but right now its very easy to stop.
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 4 weeks ago:
Yes, true, but imagine future versions of this looking more like normal glasses, and displaying information like all the managers people report to, items on the todo list concerning them, etc. Or it displays what the customer ordered, what his bill is, etc. All things you could do with your phone on a one on one basis, but with glasses you could look across the room and get the information of the specific people in that corner without having to stop and looking all of them up.
Perhaps the wow factor for knowing the first name of your business customer or voter will be greatly lessened, but referencing personal things still makes an impression, even when your memory of it has been externalised to the database in your note app.
And concerning the creepy aspect: its what our world is converging to. I feel creeped out every time I spot a surveilience camera, or every time I walk by someone making a tiktok or instagram reel or whatever. Every time someone walks by with a phone out they could be recording.
But most people dont care. All the articles about how creepy wearables with integrated cameras are is only because its still new and rare.
But yes, I agree. The current glasses are solutions looking for problems, with barely functioning features, a horrible price point and lots of drawbacks. The stuff ive described above can be done with the technology, but right now all they do is make photos, record video, and gimmick features like “AI powered” note taking and giving you poor map directions.
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 4 weeks ago:
My guess is that the reason that you’d use something like this specific product … (is to) obtain someone’s name … it’s just not enough of a use case to warrant wearing the thing if you’ve already got a smartphone.
I dunno, if all the glasses did was quickly find out the name and short bio of the person I am talking to and display it visible to only me, then that does sound like a big market. I could see demand from managers in big firms, polititians and activists, all customer oriented roles, and meee because I keep forgetting :3
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Wow, lots of fediverse projects I had no idea existed! Epicyon for example. Although I dont think bluesky is part of the fediverse…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
For me, the worst part is when they interrupt a video. Anything longer than 5 seconds is also a dealbreaker, often I decide that I dont need to see the video after all when multiple longer ads happen. But then again, I could never stand ads on TV either.
I think whats especially egregious about youtube ads is that they prevent you doing what you came for. On basically all other sites, ads are something in the backround, something you ignore. They cannot be ignored if they play instead of a video.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 4 months ago:
finally Image
- Comment on Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app 4 months ago:
Ah, they get paid 300 million dollars for this action. Understandable.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
No they did not. You are literally spreading misinformation.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 5 months ago:
You are allowed to criticise and call the leaders of israel whatever you want, its not banned.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 5 months ago:
It is because their admins are in Germany and they fear the extreme repercussion that the German State has done recently. Did you even read the post you pasted? Are are you intentionally trying to stir up drama?
Not everyone lives in safety these days. Fascism has made it hard to do things like host a volunteer run online forum safely. There are cases where the heavily armed SEK arrest people at gun point for this. Do you think online moderators should be required to catch a bullet for your posts?
- Comment on Apple customers are paying 16 times more for a chinese product sold 25 bucks 5 months ago:
I mean, yes, obviously. Still, “made in the same city” is a wierd description implying that all ram produced there has the same quality.
- Comment on Apple customers are paying 16 times more for a chinese product sold 25 bucks 5 months ago:
What do you mean “the same city”? What does this statement say about the quality of the chip? I get when you say " the same factory" or “the same company” but “the same city” says nothing. Isnt lots of different tech produced in a few chinese cities?
- Comment on LIARS! 5 months ago:
Eehrm, Ackchyually the souls of true humans in the game are dark, the dark soul referencing the Soul that was used to create humanity ☝️🤓
- Comment on On Evils in Software Licensing 6 months ago:
The ideas we explore in concrete work should be informed by what open source licensing proponents seek to restrict (the individual freedom to refuse), the tools they employ (software licensing), the language they attempt to monopolize (“Free as in Freedom”), and what the established systems and cultural norms do in practice
The article doesnt use the wording “Free Software Movement” it uses “open source licensing proponents” which includes the Free Software Movement.
As for the genocide per default part: Its nonsense to believe that if open source didnt exist or was different that it would somehow lead to less genocide.
- Comment on On Evils in Software Licensing 6 months ago:
“We know that there is a clear relationship between corporations which expend focused energy explicitly and implicitly promoting the use of Open Source Initiative-approved licenses to independent developers, and the genocide being committed in Palestine.”
“The Freedom to refuse”
This article is bonkers. It manages to twist the Free Software Movement, that I would argue is intrinsically radically anti-capitalist, to be somehow pro capitalist, because free labour. Completely ignoring the whole mutual benefit and means of production held in common part of the deal. It tries to paint restricions of who is allowed to use the software (breaking F(L)OSS definitions) as a “Freedom”, the freedom to “refuse”. Actual use of Orwellian phrasing there. And then somehow: Open source = Siding against Palestine.
- Comment on HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million 8 months ago:
They finally found a bagholder!
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 8 months ago:
Theres a “do not disturb at night” option on all modern phones nowadays for people who dont want to become unreachable
- Comment on plart bart mart tart 8 months ago:
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 10 months ago:
ah thats cool. I didnt know there finally was a permanent storage facility.
As far as I know france stopped the breeder program?
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 10 months ago:
The source for that number is the International Atomic Energy Agency aka the nuclear fusion control agency. As for the rest of your ideas, its sadly not that easy. It has to be stored somewhere where it cant contaminate the environment, water cant get to it, tectonics are stable, etc. No permanent storage location for the waste has been found, to date.
And to burn the unburned fuel you would have to breed the material, which is a process that requires the most dangerous reactors and is extremely costly.
- Comment on TURKEY POWER 10 months ago:
2.5 Million Turkeys… and 500-5000 cubic meters of impossible to store basically forever radioactive nuclear (LILW) waste😋😋😋
source: this study
- Comment on Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system 11 months ago:
Literally no. They are planning all of this, they are simply still in the ‘grow’ phase.
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- Comment on Ban on Chinese tech so broad, US-made cars would be blocked, Polestar says 11 months ago:
haha. I hope they will. I hope that this “inspires” companies to produce more locally again. Pretty please?
- Comment on Russian TV companies demand 2 undecillion rubles from Google 11 months ago:
I wonder what that means for google operating in russia. Since the demanded sum is so large, do they get their assets seized, like for example authorities sacking google phones? Or does this have absolutely no consequences?
- Comment on Russian TV companies demand 2 undecillion rubles from Google 11 months ago:
for the record, that is $ 10,779,224,060,605,345,000,000,000,000,000 (american) dollars
- Comment on Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law 11 months ago:
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 11 months ago:
Another Unsafe Product, Brought To You By Boeing!
- Comment on Maintaining a level of anonymity. 1 year ago:
Tor if you dont want your fediverse server + ISP to know who you are on the fediverse. Other than that, fediverse people are not likely to use google trackers, so you should be safe without having to make new accounts constantly. Noscript for all other websites, gets rid of trackers very effectivly, but a bit annoying because you have to whitelist the javascript you need.
- Comment on Robot moderation could be coming to your town 1 year ago:
This is an extremely important tool for moderating large forums, thank you for working on this! This is one of those mod tools that some people may need to enable large scale moderated federated forums!
