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- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 1 day ago:
This did not sound like an isolated incident at all. It may have been accidental, if they put too much pressure on sales not realizing how it was corrupting the company, or the leadership may have tacitly approved of this. Hard to tell.
- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 1 day ago:
You may want to read: …substack.com/…/cloudflare-took-down-our-website
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 days ago:
Oh so it’s my device issue. My apologies.
Well, I would say it is a combination on both. Your device reveals it is slower. No need to apologize. :)
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 days ago:
I don’t feel it is particularly slow, but I have a Pixel 7. It may be slow on 7 years old HW unfortunately :(
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 3 days ago:
I run IronFox for Android and Librewolf on Desktop. Since they are both Firefox forks, migrating is not that bad.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 days ago:
It is a lot harder to notice incorrect information in review, than making sure it is correct when writing it.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 5 days ago:
I was hesitating due to this as well, until I realized that my payments is something I want google to have data on least of all. So I got a debit card and turns out it is no inconvenience at all.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 5 days ago:
Based on what data?
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 5 days ago:
Sure, but it is not a study general public, like us on lemmy, should care about.
Yet you can already see people calling for phone bans…
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
No joke, YandereDev has been making more progress than Thor on Hartbound.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
I’m not gonna go out of my way to review bomb his game or send him messages or at him on twitter. But I am not gonna stop calling him a narcisistic idiot whenever the topic comes up. People should know. That is not harassment, that is countering misinformation, at least IMO. A meme like this is not harassment in my book either.
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 1 week ago:
are somehow valuable are should be protected.
No. I believe that what isn’t harmful shouldn’t be banned. You don’t get to decide what is valuable or enjoyable to other people. If it does not harm someone, it should be allowed.
I thought that only other kids watch those videos and that everything about it is harmful. It basically trains easy to influence kids to fight for internet points
You can make this point about almost any entertainment for children. Having pretty clothes. Having fancy toys. Playing videogames. Playing sports.
Parent your children properly if you have any instead of trying to put them into bubble wrap.
That is not to say there are not specific things that are too harmful, but we won’t ban everything because maybe, some of it it could influence kids badly.
As for phones, if we have science proving that they are harmful to kids I don’t see how they are different from cigarettes or alcohol.
Show me research that show a dumb phone only making calls is harmful and I will admit you are right. Otherwise, it is not phones that are harmful, it is something specific on them. I have no issue regulating apps harmful to kids, like lootboxes, idle games etc. But it is not about phones.
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 1 week ago:
You don’t know why it would be good to stop exploiting children for clicks and ad revenue? Do you think a 12 yo can consent to live streaming their life for the whole world to watch?
The question is not whether you can find one kind of video/streaming that is exploitative but whether all of them are. Is it exploitative to share video from a spelling bee competition? Is it exploitative to share a school theater video? If not, ban the things that are.
As for whether to give phones to children, that is a parents decision. As for the research, it is the same as above. Clearly these issues did not exist with early smartphones. So it’s not the phones, it something on them. My money is on social media and the “idle” games. Parents have the option to prevent installation of those.
You don’t ban pipes, because they can be used to make pipe-bombs. You ban making pipe-bombes. Your proposals are so broad they would ban way too many things that are ok.
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 1 week ago:
Most people could live without youtube period. But what the fuck would be the reason?
Even so, the much more ridiculous one to me is the second one.
- Comment on Meta said it supports proposals for an EU-wide age of digital adulthood, below which minors would need parental consent to use social media 1 week ago:
No one.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about being pixel specific. They built high security OS that uses HW components to deliver that high security. It can’t be delivered without them. These components are not google patented nor does GrapheneOS demands they use the exact pixel ones. GrapheneOS just refuses to lower security to support phones that lack these components, because manufacturers wanted to save maybe a $1 per phone.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
Then let us know when it is solved. Until then, I have a lot more hope in matrix than XMPP. They at least seems to be making progress in the right direction, although they are not there yet either.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
So much cope you didn’t even notice no-one mentioned matrix. We are comparing with Signal.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 weeks ago:
The encryption being crap really does not depend on the threat model. Sure, in some threat models you may not need it at all but in that case, what’s wrong with WhatsApp?
The issue with XMPP is that security really was an afterthought. Not only is e2ee an optional extension, but there are actually 2 incompatible extensions, each with multiple versions. Then you have some clients not implementing either, some clients implementing the older, less secure one. Some implement the newer one but older version of the spec with known issues. And of course, the few clients that implement it well become incompatible with other clients if you enable e2ee, so it is disabled by default.
That is all before you start looking into security audits or metadata harveating.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 weeks ago:
Tell me you don’t know anything about security without telling me you don’t know anything about security.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 5 weeks ago:
There are: nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/
They are just not listed in shops for poor people. (joking)
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 3 months ago:
Not really. Sure, China is able to make unpopular decisions better then democracies, but that makes them inefficient in different directions. E.g. high speed rail in areas where it is not needed but greatly lacking freight trains. Or their housing bubble.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 4 months ago:
“We don’t accept ideologically motivated changes” = White supremacist language…
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 4 months ago:
My bad, I thought it was about payments in general (including other programs) but it says social security database. Sorry.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 4 months ago:
Another accusation Elon made was that payments are going to people missing SSNs.
A much simpler answer is that not all Americans actually have an SSN. The Amish for example have religious objections towards insurance, so they were allowed to opt out from social security and therefore don’t get an SSN.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 5 months ago:
Honestly, if the app was open-source so we can check it does not leak data, I would probably have no issue with it.
Making it a separate app makes sense if google wants to allow other apps to re-use the code. No reason to have the same functionality bundled into each app separately.
And the feature, as long as it is configurable, seems useful.
The auto-install is bad but understandable. As far as I am aware, there isn’t and easy way to mark an app as a dependency of another app so it gets automatically installed only when needed. This should be fixed but auto-install for all is not terrible temporary solution. This does not apply when the app is closed source and may steal your data.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
Again? Didn’t they try this once already?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 8 months ago:
I mean sure, that is how some (mostly strategy) games do it, but for an FPS, figuring out where the buffer should be would be a programmers nightmare. I guess you would have to try to calculate all possible line of sights a player could have within some buffer time and then all players that could in theory enter them… Add physics and it is practically impossible.
Also, corner hack is useful enough and it does not address aimbot. IMO the answer is some combination of human moderation and ability to play with “friends” instead of randos. E.g. you could ask people to like or dislike a player at the end of a match and try to pair players that liked each other in the past.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 8 months ago:
That does not detect things like wall hack and aim-bots that don’t modify the game state directly.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 8 months ago:
In XMPP, e2e encryption (just like everything else) is an optional extension. So in practice half the clients don’t support e2ee, half support different version of e2ee (can’t talk to each other) and pretty much all e2ee are likely full of holes since there are too many implementations.
In Matrix, e2ee is in a library that all clients can use.