themurphy
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- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 2 days ago:
Screen recording or snapshots like Windows Recall. Or keyboard telemitry.
But that’s it I think.
- Comment on We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's Fallout 2 days ago:
When it’s negative, I think it’s good to get it in.
We all know Hitler too and he’s mentioned alot in a time periode, but I think his legacy is a little stained imo.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 2 weeks ago:
I have it on my Pi, and it does the job just fine. But if you have a home server with a little more power, do it there instead.
The last thing you want is your DNS to bottleneck. Never had a problem with my Rasp5, but it all depends on how many other services you try to run.
- Comment on Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, he is just asking for more reasons than privacy. No reason not to give him them, and also okay to say we don’t think there is any.
- Comment on Wikipedia sources their information better than most journalists do in their articles. 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia is very good, but ALWAYS look for more than one source.
I also once wrote a paper about WW2 in school, and when I got into Wikipedia, someone had edited the entire page to say “Hitler won”. Nothing else.
It was only in my language tho, and was resolved quickly.
- Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop 2 weeks ago:
My guess is that people who would use DEX is also people who are satisfied with ChromeOS. Which is just as closed down.
Hopefully, when Android does this, they will be under same gatekeeper restrictions in the EU as Windows.
- Comment on TikTok fined $600 million for China data transfers that broke EU privacy rules 2 weeks ago:
Random question, as Im guessing you are from the states.
How impossible is it actually in pratice to vote in other parties than Democrats and Republicans?
Asking because it seems like you got a hard time changing things, if theres no competition in politics.
- Comment on TikTok fined $600 million for China data transfers that broke EU privacy rules 2 weeks ago:
But only as it seems.
EU fines is a ladder system. First offence it can be around the 600m. Next one is % of their income worldwide (not profit).
Should they hit hard on the first offence? Maybe, but getting the first strike is not fun either with how this system works.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
Aah, the US.
The only place in the world where everyone knows the word ‘communism’ and nobody knows what it is.
Russia and China are not communism btw. :shocked Pikachu:
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
This is the way.
I for sure also want to access it on my Home Assistant, and it really can save alot of power to automate it. Even going down to 20C in the night, and make it going to 22C before anyone wakes up saves alot in a year.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
They call the product line ‘Nest’, because it’s where their data servers is getting nutrition from.
- Comment on Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe 3 weeks ago:
So Google is telling us, they cant make a product if there are standards or requirements for what they are doing?
That means whatever US customers are buying, theres something in it, that does something illegal in EU.
- Comment on Energy labelling and ecodesign requirements will apply to smartphones and tablets from June 2025 3 weeks ago:
Same, good to find out though. Good thing is some phone manufatures will now actually have to do something about poor efficiency, if they want to sell more.
I always look at it when buying machines for my home, why not a phone.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 weeks ago:
It goes up if they dont comply. This is first offence since the law came into effect.
- Comment on In 2024, 62% of all child sexual abuse webpages found were traced to an EU country, and the Netherlands remains the most abused global location for hosting CSAM. 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I know nothing, but my VPN always defaults to Netherlands in the EU.
Could it be that its just hosted there through some tunnel VPN or some shit?
I dont know how it works, so maybe its all wrong.
- Comment on LLM Virology Capabilities Test 3 weeks ago:
Great results. Would an AI build for this not be better, or is it just meant as a kind of benchmark for LLMs?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
EU is democratic, which means everyone can propose a law. Never have EU put a backdoor into anything, but its true that there have been law proposals for it.
Never voted through.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
EU could potentially make a group category like for Norway or Switzerland, and then take in other countries all around the world to cooperate more and stand together with the EU on some issues.
Canada would be a great candidate. Maybe even Australia, but I dont really know anything about their politics.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 4 weeks ago:
Everything is provocative if your dick is orange.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
EU and its contries are pro open source and i fucking love it.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
If its because hes part of the opposition, its worrying. But Bluesky mentions he also violates their ToS, so it might be worse in some way.
Theres too much missing information to make an opinion, but we should keep an eye out either way for more examples of this.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
Probably, but it could also have been incredibly racist and whats worse.
This guy really needs to show what he posted. Why hide that.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 weeks ago:
Literally the rest of world against these fuckers soon.
- Comment on The TAKE IT DOWN Act Is Poised To Become Law. But Will It Provide Justice To Victims? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a tool for censuring things. And it will hide behind a very few number of cases where its put to good use.
But most of the time, its probably gonna get misused.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
It actually matches a specific personality type, and is sometimes not even related to general intelligence.
Some of these people are choosing dumb, and are not born with it.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Damn, take my vote in any presidental election.
- Comment on Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I think they are already allowed to do that, if you dont opt out. This is about their own platforms, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, where they werent allowed to use it for AI training.
They harvest your data to sell like they did yesterday. Nobody should be fooled by that.
- Comment on Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data. 5 weeks ago:
People based in the EU who use our platforms can choose to object to their public data being used for training purposes.
And last in the article it says it works with EU regulators to ensure its legal, basically.
Also, they are only allowed to use post, comments etc from adults.
So yeah, they probably scrape less data in EU. At least what they are telling.
- Comment on China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies. 5 weeks ago:
True, but this changes the world dynamic much more than we’d think.
Before China would sell materials and other countries would have factories to produce products from them.
Now, China can move the production into their own country, selling their products without the middleman, but still keep the prices up.
Factories shut down in the rest of the world and open in China. They now control the full product from material to the sale.
- Comment on Day 266 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 5 weeks ago:
Love these posts.
Dont know if you have any statistics on your posts, but it could be pretty cool to see how many different games you played when/if you hit a year!
Keep it up.