Dekkia
@Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 days ago:
AI very much did break Copyright law by taking stuff without having a license for it.
I haven’t read the article, but if the headline already starts out this wrong I don’t think it’ll get better.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
And what if your target is using a different app for messaging?
I agree that blindly going trough memory isn’t the best solution. To catch everything, a keylogger as part of the input-handler of the OS would probably be the way to go.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
You’ve already gotten a lot of responses about the first claim.
But to answer the second one:
Why would they mess with a specific app if they already control the OS? They could read everything they ever wanted from memory without anyone noticing.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 1 week ago:
No it’s not a good idea.
It’s extremely inefficent compared to just using elecricity directly for whatever you’re planning to do with it.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
to ensure that its users are […] who they claim to be
I dont’t want that either. Maybe for verified accounts this makes sense, but not for the average shitposter.
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Hot take: We shouldn’t lock down devices by default to a point where they protect even the most vulnerable.
Child safety locks exist for a reason and can also be used for the elderly.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 weeks ago:
All other countries curently forgo their climate commitments to “win” the AI race. (Whatever that even means)
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 weeks ago:
Being shown in maps like this is opt-in, so there’s an unknown amount of users which are not displayed.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
When the 3DS came out I was sure it would be a stepping stone to 3D TVs that didn’t require glasses.
3D TVs basically died out by now.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 4 weeks ago:
Maybe you want to edit your original post. It looks like you’re claiming it does.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 4 weeks ago:
Does google photos really index photos locally? I somehow don’t believe that.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Context aware search, summarizing in side view or importing an agent directly from a repository into your browser are things that come to mind without much thinking, and i am not a developer.
And this is something normal users require?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
And where to?
If both noteworthy browser engines are made by companies who make decisions against their user’s interest I might as well switch to the one with higher development budget.
The majority wants something that works with everything they throw at it out of the box without rummaging through settings.
And where does AI come into play here? It’s not like a browser without AI doesn’t work.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
so asking us while FF wants to get NEW users
This is a balancing act and Mozilla behaves like an elefant in a porcelain shop right now. Worst case they loose their current users without attracting new ones.
existing users will bitch and moan even if it’s just one click
I’m one of them. Why not make it one click for people who want it instead?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
very loud minority.
Please share your data that lead you to that conclusion.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
They could do a survey amongst Firefox users about what they want.
But if the result is anti-AI they can’t claim anymore that they weren’t aware of their users opinions.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
I hope people don’t buy the story that the kill switch was part of the plan all along.
This is clearly the result of mozilla scrabling for a compromise after the backlash to their recent announcement.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 month ago:
The idea behind anubis is that a browser needs to deliver proof-of-work before accessing a website.
If you’re doing it one-off with puppeteer, your “browser” will happily do just that.
But if you’re scraping millions of websites, short challenges like this add up quickly and you’ll end up wasting lots of compute on them. As long as scrapers decide that those websites are not worth it anubis works.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
Have you tried to buy a non-smart TV recently?
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 month ago:
There’s a tool for that: anubis.techaro.lol
Alternatively cloudflare also has scraper-protection offerings.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 2 months ago:
So it’s opt-out. Great
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 2 months ago:
But that stuff is copywritten as well most of the time.
Just because it’s free to look at doesn’t mean it’s free to download, modify or feed into an AI.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 2 months ago:
This is the definition of ethically sourced data from the Apertus website:
[…] the training corpus builds only on data which is publicly available.
So they still train on Websites, Blogs and Social Media. Ethical my ass.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Counterpoint:
If kids where taught how to solve them properly we wouldn’t need to dumb down equasions.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 2 months ago:
I don’t know what to tell you other than that there’s probably something wrong with you.
- Comment on New battery life record: This CPU makes the best known business laptop more efficient 2 months ago:
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 2 months ago:
While a lot of people die trough suicide, it’s not exactly good or helpful when an AI guides some of them trough the process and even encourages them to do it.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 3 months ago:
vast majority of Internet traffic across the world is unencrypted.
In 2023 between 80% and 95% of web traffic was encryted. Unencrypted web traffic is getting pretty rare.
- Comment on ICEBlock handled my vulnerability report in the worst possible way 4 months ago:
The best part is in the comments.
You’re right, he might have a backported patch and not be vulnerable to any of the several CVEs for this version of Apache. But also, his server might be really easy to hack. Rather than confirming that his server is secure, he blocked me when I reported the issue.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 5 months ago:
Nothing is stopping you from doing that: us.macmillan.com/books/…/enshittification/