Laborer3652
@Laborer3652@reddthat.com
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 1 month ago:
Thats why the only social media I use is Lemmy and I delete my accounts regularly.
Actually speaking of that, is time to delete this one too.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
Yeah kinda! My 4a5g is still going strong, but I kind of feel forced to get rid of it now. I would much prefer to just flash a new ROM and get a few more years out of it. The hardware is (still) really good for the performance I expect out of my phone.
Eh. Maybe I’ll get a new phone, wipe this one and use it for traveling.
- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
Why? C++ does wasm and I’m pretty sure the signal client is already written in C++. It definitely wouldn’t be something that could be pulled off quickly, but the ability to securely run code like this is kind of the whole point of wasm as I understand it, no?
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
Graphene only supports devices for as long as the manufacturer does, maybe slightly longer.
Doesn’t seem like the old CyanogenMod days where you could slap that shit on there forever.
- Comment on GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project 2 months ago:
I’m still rocking my 4a5g and honestly its great. Don’t really want to get rid of it tbh but I’ll probably pickup an 8a sometime next year. Don’t really like giving Google money but they make good phones.
- Comment on A quantum neural network can see optical illusions like humans do. Could it be the future of AI? 2 months ago:
Man those things took me years to figure out how to do. It was really hard for me but I finally got it! I have to focus on the image without looking at it directly, and then the image “snaps” into place and I can look at it freely almost. Really bizzare.
- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
Yeah this is what Bitwarden ended up doing. They didn’t want to be on F-Droid for very similar reasons; eventually they started hosting their own repo and its been gravey ever since. Highly recommend this option.
- Comment on Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong 2 months ago:
Not if they used WebAssembly to do all the decryption locally.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
I definitely did, and thats what made leaving so hard. I trusted the people around me, and they were telling me all kinds of things, so of course it is true. The indoctrination starts before critical thinking develops, so its just built into the firmware of your brain, you know?
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
This is my story too. Leaving Christianity behind has been an amazing and humbling experience.
- Comment on Launch dates for upcoming Xbox games 2 months ago:
I’m clean now but back when I played WoW people said there was a mod that gave really good controller support. Its very popular on the steam deck.
- Comment on So it begins... 2 months ago:
Thanks! One of those things I’ve wondered about but never bothered asking. Now I know :)
- Comment on So it begins... 2 months ago:
Is that plastic piece supposed to be there or can we only see it because of digital remastry? I never knew if that was part of the costume or not.
- Comment on Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say 3 months ago:
I have a German Shepherd who sheds a lot and my vacuum runs every, single, day.
Being able to offload all that work to a machine is a godsend.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
I mean this is what Google does though. Some new exec comes in, rebrands existing tech to solve some problem, support continues for a few tears, rinse and repeat until google decides it isnt worth it and kills the entire platform.
- Comment on Many such cases 3 months ago:
I’d rather have my credit card information on a highly secure platform like Paypal than give it out to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that asks for it on the internet.
Even if PayPal is only “mostly” secure, I still get better security from having a smaller attack surface.
- Comment on Anyone else feel like their blood is kind of vibrating? 3 months ago:
I’m just explaining the joke.
- Comment on Anyone else feel like their blood is kind of vibrating? 3 months ago:
Which is why they have a few months to live, and not a few minutes.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
The problem with that though, at least for Android Auto, is that Google (and I also presume Apple) controls the apps that can be shown on the center console. They effectively cut out all competitors by controlling the access. I would like an Open API for this please!
- Comment on WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly 3 months ago:
I’ve become convinced that Matrix should have been built on top of XMPP. They went out of their way to create a protocol from scratch when we already had XMPP available and well developed. This turned out to be much more difficult than they anticipated, and they’ve had to make drastic changes to the api, spec, and server over the years. Matrix will never be a stable, finished product because they aren’t even sure what that looks like. They can’t even stick with a name for crying out loud. Dendrite? Synapse? Pick one and put all your effort behind it.
The sifting sand base that Matrix is built on top of becomes really glatibg when you look at the clients and servers available for Matrix. Not one single third party app that I’m aware of implements every single feature offered by Element (the app). No other server is fully compliant with the API. And, Matrix is YET ANOTHER PROTOCOL that chat apps have to integrate with.
None of that is to mention that the VC for Matrix is about to run out. Either Riot/Matrix/Element/Whatever is going to sellout and enshittify, or they’re going to stop existing and the entire protocol will be dead in the water. XMPP doesn’t have this problem.
They should have built a beautiful XMPP app, slapped signal encryption on top, and called it a day.
- Comment on WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly 3 months ago:
Man Signal would be the perfect messenger if it was defederated.
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
I disagree, but the USA just isn’t willing to have that conversation right now. I work in a suburb and work in the middle of fucking no where 19 miles away; I regularly e-bike and take the bus to my place of employment. It takes the same amount of time to drive as it does to e-bike. The e-bike can also get me to all the places I run errands at as well. The only infrastructure I need is a dedicated, protected bike lane on the state and busy roads, and a well maintained public transportation system.
This is a solvable problem, even with the limited resources we have at our disposal.
- Comment on If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials. 3 months ago:
Public transportation. In Germany at least, many of the train stations are located underneath common points of interest, such as malls, airports, downtown, etc. As a result, they are nearly always flushed with people.