floquant
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- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 11 hours ago:
Did it ever stop?
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 day ago:
I am not saying privacy is a lost cause, I fully agree with you on your approach. But there’s a big difference between minimizing your footprint to avoid passive surveillance, and the FBI having your phone
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 day ago:
I am not moving goalposts or making different statements, I’m not the user you were replying to.
I also mostly agree with you, but my angle is that the difference between “the government can get into virtually any phone” and “the government can get into most phones” is that the latter makes it seem like you can be “smart/knowledgeable enough” to avoid that, and that’s untrue. You should assume everything you keep on your phone can be extracted because of the nature of smartphone manufacturers, the supply chain etc, but I do not believe no phone can’t be broken into like OP was saying.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 1 day ago:
Virtually any phone I would say, yeah. Either by rubberhose cryptanalysis or by sheer time, money, and tools, they most likely can.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 days ago:
… murder is also illegal?
- Comment on You must tell me, please! 2 days ago:
At 200 it’s not even a class, just a club.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 days ago:
“Copyright” is an overloaded word that can both mean “IP/copyright law, it’s terms and enforcement” as well as “the rights of an author to decide how their work should be used”
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 days ago:
You probably should’ve because yeah, the way AI companies are testing creative works is disgusting and downright wrong, but copyright law has very much been broken ever since the Internet because a thing. It’s just silly to treat works published on the internet the same way you treat books, paintings and DVDs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Yes, but I don’t think they’re checking what they’re ingesting super hard, especially at those volumes.
- Comment on lightbulbs 3 days ago:
Adjustable temperature bulbs and local control/automation
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 6 days ago:
Yeah, you know things are bad when one of the major manipulator entities in history says you’re manipulating too much
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 6 days ago:
Only $100 billion? That’s like nothing!
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 6 days ago:
Meanwhile I just got into retrogaming (as a PS1 kid) and I’m amazed by how… just all around better old games are, unless you want realistic graphics. You don’t need battle passes and daily quests to have an entertaining experience, just a d-pad and a couple of actions (one can be jump)
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 1 week ago:
Well, yes, but its physical location does make a difference. Having the bits that make up the backup of your life’s memories in the other room vs in some company’s datacenter who knows where is not the same thing.
(Not saying that running your own services on rented “cloud” hardware is inferior, I also do that)
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 1 week ago:
I love software that acts without my consent or knowledge while atrophying my brain and wasting tremendous amounts of resources
- Comment on This is why you should respect our vets 1 week ago:
Thanks to all vets for your service 🫡
- Comment on Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement 1 week ago:
Don’t make me miss the good timeline like that
- Comment on It's pronounced OI-lur, not YOO-lur 1 week ago:
Yeah I was also like “who is hateposting on hummus” lmao
- Comment on Is it weird that whenever there's an internet disruption, the first thing that I assume is happening is war, civil unrest, or government censorship, or some sort of conspiracy happening? 1 week ago:
Until it is
- Comment on Is it weird that whenever there's an internet disruption, the first thing that I assume is happening is war, civil unrest, or government censorship, or some sort of conspiracy happening? 1 week ago:
Shout out to Reticulum, I think it deserves a lot more attention.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Punks?
What’s the point of not mentioning which subculture? It’s not exactly doxxing lol
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 1 week ago:
Intel ME: helo
- Comment on Does your boss even love you if he doesn't portray himself as the big minion and you as a baby minion? 1 week ago:
Man the last decade or two have really liquefied a lot of brains.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
Microsoft innovating so hard it’s bringing us back to the 80s
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 weeks ago:
Also mined a ton of data for… less than benevolent purposes
- Comment on Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists 2 weeks ago:
Are you not aware of the great firewall?
- Comment on You don't have to use gyroelongation 2 weeks ago:
Because the golden ratio is a rune, so magic.
- Comment on Their loss is our loss too 3 weeks ago:
He would’ve been so much happier too. Along with everybody else.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 3 weeks ago:
“More personalised responses” means more finely tuned to influence your behaviour, not “smarter answers”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The means of information are the new means of production