Armand1
@Armand1@lemmy.world
- Comment on Data Bill: First They Came for Trans People 9 hours ago:
TL;DR:
This bill’s proposed amendment NC21 would out trans people. It was rejected by the MPs, but the House of Lords have effectively appealed this.
However, the article claims that even if this amendment isn’t in there, the bill itself is dangerous, allowing the government to reintroduce these effects even without the amendments, by allowing itself to define how and what data needs to be shared by verification providers.
It would do so at its own discretion, without further legislative scrutiny.
- Comment on Oh god 1 day ago:
Vlad the impaler
- Comment on California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People 5 days ago:
Yeah, but that’s because I choose the second highest plan available to me. Entry cost is lower, and I’d expect most poor families would go for that or the next tier above.
- Comment on California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People 5 days ago:
$30 discount on broadband bills
It’s wild that it costs over $30 at all for you guys. In the UK 100Mbps starts at £22/m (~$30) and I’m comfortably at 500mbps at around £35/m ($45) and we’ve got pretty bad deals compared to other European countries!
- Comment on And irritate eyes to drink tears 6 days ago:
I thought this was a Monster Hunter screenshot
- Comment on Or a shrimp 6 days ago:
The child was prophesied 🌞
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- Comment on Messaging App Used by Mike Waltz, Trump Deportation Airline GlobalX Both Hacked in Separate Breaches 1 week ago:
Isn’t the whole point of Signal that it’s end-to-end encrypted?
How can it (or rather it’s fork) getting hacked result in messages being exposed?
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 3 weeks ago:
"Power does not corrupt, it reveals."
- John Steinbeck
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 3 weeks ago:
Now that you mention it…
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 3 weeks ago:
The best way to get macro plastics into your blood stream
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 weeks ago:
I have a Pixel, so I have considered switching to something like GrapheneOS, but historically (with other ROMs) that meant giving up on camera quality and features.
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- Comment on ooo.ooo 5 weeks ago:
Now he just looks like everyone’s racist great-uncle.
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- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 1 month ago:
Nah I think it will just be
const benefits = false; - Comment on OneNote to perish alongside Windows 10. 1 month ago:
Do what I did a few months back and switch to Obsidian.
Especially if you write any code. It’s way better for that.
You will need to either
- Pay for their sync at $5/m (hugely overpriced imo)
- Use your own sync solution like Dropbox, Google Drive, Resilio Sync or Syncthing.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 1 month ago:
I bought it for $90 in 2020.
- Comment on Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays? 2 months ago:
4 times once every few years is still way lower than using it every few weeks, once, as it works the first time.
- Comment on Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays? 2 months ago:
Hmmm I couldn’t really find anything. The only way to guarantee that is to have models that run purely locally, but until very recently that wasn’t feasible.
Smaller AI models that could ruin a phone are now doable, but making them useful requires a lot of dev time and only giant data-guzzling companies have tried so far.
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- Comment on I don't need your stinking technology 2 months ago:
Boomer humour
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Boost has not had an update since mid 2024. I think it’s abandonware.
I managed to clear it by going to the tab left of messages tab and clicking clear all.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 months ago:
That must be it!
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 months ago:
2G is also gone.
www.ofcom.org.uk/…/3g-switch-off/
The old phone was a couple years into 4G existing but before we started to send voice over it.
I assume it just wasn’t in the OS-level code. It only went up to Android 11. We could have tried LineageOS but that would have required a bunch of work including wiping the phone.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 months ago:
We switched off 3G this year in the UK and my brothers phone stopped being able to make calls. He was using a 6 year old high-end Android phone, but it was from just before the cutoff where you could turn on VoLTE (calls over 4G).
Thankfully, I had a spare phone from the next year after that to hand him, and that one could work with some hidden menu (the type you type into your dialer) hacking.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 2 months ago:
For people who have not read the article:
Forbes states that there is no indication that this app can or will “phone home”.
It’s stated use is for other apps to scan an image they have access to find out what kind of thing it is (known as "classification"). For example, to find out if the picture you’ve been sent is a dick-pick so the app can blur it.
My understanding is that, if this is implemented correctly (a big ‘if’) this can be completely safe.
Apps requesting classification could be limited to only classifying files that they already have access to. Remember that android has a concept of “scoped storage” nowadays that let you restrict folder access. If this is the case, we’ll it’s no less safe than not having SafetyCore at all. It just saves you space as companies like Signal, WhatsApp etc. no longer need to train and ship their own machine learning models inside their apps, as it becomes a common library / API any app can use.
It could, of course, if implemented incorrectly, allow apps to snoop without asking for file access. I don’t know enough to say.
Besides, you think that Google isn’t already scanning for things like CSAM? It’s been confirmed to be done on platforms like Google Photos well before SafetyCore was introduced, though I’ve not seen anything about it being done on devices yet (correct me if I’m wrong).
- Comment on NSA is the only government instution that actually listens to you 2 months ago:
They hear, but do they really listen?
We keep telling them our great ideas but all they do is put us on lists!
- Comment on Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps. 2 months ago:
Very disappointing that Match Group, being effectively a monopoly, doesn’t give us the one benefit we would get from it being a monopoly: industry-wide bans.
Normally, you’d need a whole bunch of companies to agree on a universal standard for communicating bans between each other and agreements to stick to it (similar to standards like USB) but here they could just do it. They even collect the information, they just don’t act on it.
- Comment on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 2 months ago:
So to sum up the data, it sounds like:
- WD seems to have the most reliable drives of those tested, with Toshiba being a relatively close second
- Some models of drives are significantly more likely to fail than others, with some having a ~6% annual failure rate vs another model from the same company at 1%
- Seagate had a rough year when it comes to reliability
- It’s hard to tell if capacity affects drive life as the drives being tested have been in use for different lengths of time
