jim3692
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- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 hours ago:
There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.
Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.
Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
I didn’t say that it can’t be detected. I said it fools your eyes.
Besides that, stop using ML for everything. My guess is that you need insane amounts of processing power for ML to detect hidden messages inside terabytes of live internet traffic.
In fact, the algorithm for steganography is standard. It’s probably trivial to detect it, unless you add encryption and padding to the mix.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 day ago:
Sorry, out of the loop. What does MAP stand for ?
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 1 day ago:
The United States paid nothing for these shares
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
There is actually a technique called steganography, that does exactly that. It is used to hide arbitrary binary info inside images, while still fooling your eyes into thinking there is nothing sketchy there.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 2 days ago:
You can’t block VPNs without blocking the entire internet. You can block known VPN services, but you can’t prevent people from hosting their own.
Some known VPN protocols could be blocked, using introspection tools. However, this would just render corporate VPNs useless. VPN traffic is just bytes, and so is WebSockets. Good luck figuring out whether my HTTPS traffic is legitimate internet traffic, or masked VPN traffic.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 5 days ago:
It is indeed very suspicious that they talk about “median” and not “average”.
For those who don’t understand what the difference is, think of the following numbers:
1, 2, 3, 34, 40
The median is 3, because it’s in the middle.
The average is 16 (1+2+3+34+40=80, 80/5=16).
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 5 days ago:
To waste electric energy. All those power plants produce immense amounts of energy that needs to be consumed. If we didn’t have LLMs, the pollution of those plants would be for nothing. At least now, there is an attempt to put it in good use.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 5 days ago:
As a Debian and NixOS user, I can confirm that Ubuntu sucks
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 5 days ago:
I don’t expect Arch Linux ARM to have wider support than Ubuntu Touch or postmarketOS.
The later 2 projects aim to support Android devices, while (based on my understanding) Arch Linux ARM mainly targets SBCs (single board computers), like Raspberry Pi.
Arch Linux ARM nowadays, probably, also serves as a base for Asahi, but this does not help with Android device compatibility.
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 1 week ago:
All those kernel level protections go out of the window, if the motherboard itself is compromised
- Comment on Choose one before starting the game... 2 weeks ago:
Until you realize your life is in fucking danger there. Nearly every summer, in Greece, we are dealing with wildfires.
Last year, there was a fire in Rhodes during September. People were jumping in the sea to same their life. The response of the government was to provide vouchers to tourists from foreign countries, so that they will visit again next year.
The government gave no shit to Greek people, and I don’t really think people from other countries dared to come again.
Besides the issues with emergency services, there are also pricing problems. I only know about Greece and Turkey. In tourist areas of those countries, all prices are inexcusably high.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
If you want to support a webpage, then donate to it. This ad-based business model should die.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
But Apple cares about children. They were the first to run CSAM scans on their cloud storage and devices.
/s
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 3 weeks ago:
I use local Ollama. I don’t trust anyone with my AI conversations.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 4 weeks ago:
Of course there is no public evidence. It’s just a very probable speculation that governments want to control the internet.
Back in the days of newspapers/radio/tv, governments had control as they could easily go after news outlets.
However, with internet, they lost this power. They have been trying hard to regain the power of controlling information. The latest success was masking moderation as child protection.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 4 weeks ago:
Kiwi Browser has developer tools
- Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 4 weeks ago:
Why no Five Nights at Freddy’s ???
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 4 weeks ago:
For the lazy, here is the summarization of my local AI:
You’d like to have a powerful ability: being able to ask the universe any question in modern English at any time, without limitations or rituals, and receive an answer that’s:
- Understandable by your current self (no significant changes to physical or mental stability)
- Delivered within 3600 seconds (an hour) of asking
- Reformatted if necessary to protect your stability
- Includes explanations for unknowable questions
- Avoids circular logic
- Doesn’t require an unreasonable sacrifice (if a sacrifice is needed, you’ll be informed)
- Allows transfer of answers to another individual, as long as they can understand the answer and meet the previous conditions.
In essence, you want to have direct access to all knowledge in the universe, without any negative consequences or sacrifices that might harm your well-being or stability.
- Comment on You'd need to calculate the compound interest 5 weeks ago:
Money doesn’t bring happiness
- Comment on Enough 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 month ago:
Are people still mining chia ?
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 month ago:
I used to watch The Hated One, who has also made similar recommendations for strikes. He has suggested the use of Briar, as it can fallback to Bluetooth connectivity.
However, I mostly wanted to point out that burner phones is not the answer for everyone. People need to be familiar with their local laws to stay safe.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 month ago:
In some countries, like Greece, you can’t use an unregistered phone number.
Since phone numbers are tied to people’s identities, does it really matter whether you use a burner or your main?
- Comment on Oatmeal 1 month ago:
Σκορδοπατατάκια
- Comment on ha! 1 month ago:
Don’t let him distract you from the fact that you can’t spell “advertisements” without semen between the tits
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 1 month ago:
Finally! Someone said it! My company changed my work laptop to a Mac. It’s been a couple of months, and I still haven’t got used to the desktop environment. Navigating between open windows with regular mouse/keyboard is a pain.
I find window grouping very annoying (this is also true for Gnome). What makes it even worse, is that the tilde is next to the left shift, instead of being above Tab. I think that’s because we have British keyboard.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 1 month ago:
No, we need massive data centers for LLMs and data analysis for targeted ads /s
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 1 month ago:
Unless you run a custom ROM, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS, you most probably have some Meta apps installed at system level.
This is Meta Services, as a system app which can only be disabled, on my work Samsung.
