serenissi

@serenissi@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kinda crazy that we willingly give money to companies in advance (say for gift vouchers and pre-orders)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish the windows support guy on the phone will use the google play gift card for something fun, not for security update.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How can she be fertile if her ovaries are removed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  :fake internet award:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll enjoy the night with the git guy instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Party is new, ideology is old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love the future.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Germany just had a sweeping far right election

  you can’t say 20% a ‘sweeping’. The situation is worse at other places. And thanks to true multi party democracy, AfD probably won’t be in government anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex once got rickrolled in a public bus. I said the song is cool and kept it playing on speakerphone. The whole bus genuinely enjoyed it (people singing along), nobody complained :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well eating the fruit from tree of knowledge was a pretty big sin…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m like an atheist monk.

  you might be having SzPD. I’m not saying that but you might think about it.

  I don’t want to travel because it costs money.

  I don’t spend much money on clothing or media and save most of my paycheck.

  then why don’t you use some of those to travel? There are ways to travel less expensively. I had a phase like this when I was a college kid and I saved up the small scholarship (much less than an actual job) and travelled, which did something that depression meds couldn’t do then. ymmv though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How to fo that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't need no app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a wrapper where content blockers can’t be installed, unlike a browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'tis the season⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t give them idea :)

  Yes that’s indeed a possibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s done locally. You can try training wake word models for any open assistant and see how much computing power it needs for even simple phrase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s well possible and previously tv mic had been used as bugging device. The problem is, way too many security researchers look in system level software of iOS and even other components of the device that such practice will be too risky for apple (same applies for mainstream android products). Also processing realtime audio, finding potentially unrealiable topic from it and doing realtime ad is actually too much work as of today’s tech (might change sooner than you think though).

  What, I think, is more practical is to use the whole query after the wake word to show ad, and potentially use other app tracking data, which is way much reliable than voice for targeting purpose. Voice data is useful for bugging purpose, primarily (ab)used by nation states and LE.

  I bet in the medical procedure case mentioned in the blog the user searched/talked about that in other apps and average people aren’t good to notice these privacy leaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah yes producer knows characters better than creator...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know who 2B or 9S is and I’m too afraid to ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨critical latex mod⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a mod btw.