Ganbat
@Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What would be the top ten items in a MAGA starter pack? 2 days ago:
Imagine actually fucking believing this, lmao.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 3 days ago:
- Comment on Bluesky: eXodus continues as TERFS lose their brain-rotted minds 3 days ago:
Are the Russian fascists in the room right now?
Bluesky was founded by Jack Dorsey and is currently majority-owned and ran by Jay Graber, a Chinese-American woman from Tulsa.
Hell, I even searched specifically for controversies and Russian connections, and absolutely everything that came up said the exact opposite of your claims here.
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 5 days ago:
Not even national. I have a toilet with a ceramic flush valve built into the tank and it’s almost impossible to find a flapper that’s set up for this.
- Comment on French court blocks Google project to limit news content in searches 6 days ago:
Considering that some searches right now tend to be thirty different “news” sites republishing the same article… I dunno how to feel about this.
- Comment on Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal. 3 weeks ago:
Also Doctor Who.
- Comment on Malicious CAPTCHA delivers Lumma and Amadey Trojans. 3 weeks ago:
Wait, is that the actual like it copies? Does powershell just straight up parse base64?
- Comment on Looks like the good times are over for Temu ( and Chinese sites like them) 3 weeks ago:
That’s not specific to shitty suspicious marketplaces. Fucking Chase Bank allowed some fucker to use my E-mail address with no verification. I didn’t have any idea until I started getting emails about this asshole’s mortgage. They won’t do a damned thing about it, either.
- Comment on Not haunted. 3 weeks ago:
So the strange man in the striped shirt that vanished into the wall of my hallway was just lead pipes?
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
Uh… No it isn’t? Like, my dude, did you click the link up there?
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
Blocking an article worldwide based on the orders of a single oppressive regime? That settles it, Wikipedia is no longer worth donating to, since they’ve proven they’re willing to bow to this type of thing rather than stand behind the truth.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
I still dualboot because I have games that don’t work right, but every instance of that in my case seems to be problems with DXVK. In some cases, but not all, I’ve noticed it severely degrades performance, and in others, it seems to break certain features, such as streaming video. I actually had one game that I finished about 90% of before I encountered a sequence with a projector playing a video with important information. That would only display on Windows without DXVK, which was… unpleasant.
Of course, the most extreme DXVK problem I ever encountered was about two years ago, but I can’t remember what game it was. What I do remember, however, is the extreme and rapid flashing it caused as the visuals horribly corrupted. IMO, DXVK functionality seems to still be one of the bigger hurdles.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
What’s it like to be a clown? Brother, I did not write the bad faith reply here, I was responding to it, as I am now doing once again with you. And as I said, I don’t make time for bad actors who like to run around falsifying information and lying about the contents of my own previous responses, which is why I blocked them, and which is why I’m now blocking you.
Get a life.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
Yep, at that point they’re just fishing for more which, hey, why wouldn’t they.
It’s a give and take for sure, requiring a real phone number makes it harder for automated spam bots to use the service, but at the same time, it puts the weight of true privacy on the shoulders and wallets of the users, and in a lesser way, incentives the use of less than reputable services, should a user want to truly keep their activities private.
And yeah, there’s an argument to be made for keeping crime at bay, but that also comes with risks itself. If there was some way to keep truly egregious use at bay while not risking a $10,000 fine on someone for downloading an episode of Ms. Marvel, I think that would be great.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
Please, use some critical thinking here.
What information? The gov already had the phone number. They needed it to make the request.
Yes. That’s the leak. A phone number can bridge the gap between your messages and your identity.
Notice the lack of any usernames provided.
You literally changed what I said to fit your narrative. Should a government agency already have access to a message and username, and make a legally valid request for the phone number associated with that username, Signal will be required by law to provide it, as it’s already know and proven that they have access to it. The subpoena you provided shows that they already have the phone numbers, so it is moot to this point.
If they’re getting evidence outside of Signal, that’s outside the scope of this discussion.
No, it’s not, that was literally the point of the discussion to begin with, you are the one trying to change it.
…no. It can’t.
Do you not know how phone numbers work? Generally if you go through a reputable provider, you’re going to be required to give at least your name. Additionally, even if you don’t give them your address, your location can pretty easily be extrapolated from things like the area codes and areas in which the phone number has been used. A warrant/subpoena is all it would take, and since that phone number is already tied to any messages they may have, that ties them directly to your identity.
It’s proof that it doesn’t.
This one barely even warrants a response. You’re either being plain obtuse or are genuinely failing to think critically about this, so I’ll break it down for you. They wouldn’t be serving a warrant to or subpoenaing Signal if they didn’t know the accounts in question were involved in something, which at minimum strongly implies that they already have some evidence of these users’ use of the service. Additionally, the fact that they’re subpoenaing so many at once implies they were in some kind of group on Signal.
Let’s try a hypothetical. Let’s say we have downtrodden citizens A-F, who are using Signal to talk about Bad Government. Now, let’s say someone from BG joins their group undercover and records those messages. Well, now BG wants to punish those poor DCs. If the undercover bad guy already has their phone numbers, job done, they can go find them. If not, all BG has to do is make a legal request for those phone numbers as associated with the usernames, which they do have. That would leave Signal with the choice of complying and directly harming these individuals, or becoming effectively a criminal entity within this territory.
Now, as for you, you have deflected, misquoted, misrepresented, and employed willful ignorance in this debate, and I will broker no further time for bad actors. Goodbye.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
Yep, looked it up again today and some proper information has been posted publicly in the interim since I last tried. I was able to strip the drm from a handful of my books today using it and an older version of the Kindle PC app.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
Says right there in the subpoena “You are required to provide all information tied to the following phone numbers.” This means that the phone number requirement has already created a leak of private information in this instance, Signal simply could add more to it.
Additionally, that was posted in 2021. Since then, Signal has introduced usernames to “keep your phone number private.” Good for your average Joe Blow, but should another subpoena be submitted, this time stating “You are required to provide all information tied to the following usernames,” this time they will have something to give, being the user’s phone number, which can then be used to tie any use of Signal they already have proof of back to the individual.
Yeah, it’s great that they don’t log what you send, but that doesn’t help if they get proof in any other way. The fact is, because of the phone number requirement, anything you ever send on Signal can easily be tied back to you should it get out, and that subpoena alone is proof that it does.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
It’s bad for privacy no matter how you sell it. Unless you have a good amount of disposable income to buy up burner numbers all the time, a phone number tends to be incredibly identifying. So if a government agency comes along saying “Hey, we know this account sent this message and you have to give us everything you have about this account,” for the average person, it doesn’t end up being that different than having given them your full id.
- Comment on Telegram is exposing their users privacy. 1 month ago:
The second I went to sign up and learned a phone number was absolutely required, I knew that declaration was pure bullshit.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
I looked in to the whole DRM removal thing. From what I could tell, everything was majorly out of date, required a really old version of Calibre, and didn’t work with newer books.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Scroll down and listen to the recording for Never Gonna Give You Up. Someone knows where that box is.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s kinda been all over the place, but that’s where the show ended up going. What I’m thinking of, though, was also in Fallout 4. I’ve been thinking on it, and I remember now that what I’m thinking of is that it’s implied that the AI from the Railroad quests fed fake info about incoming missiles to force America to fire. I still don’t remember any specifics, though, and I could be misremembering. It’s been a good few years after all, lol.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
There are actual science fiction stories built on the premise that AI reporting on the start of Nuclear War resulted in actual kickoff of the apocalypse, and we’re at that corner now.
IIRC, this was the running theory in Fallout until the show.
- Comment on A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit. 1 month ago:
Oh, this would be funny if people en masse were smart enough to understand the problems with generative ai. But, because there are people out there like that one dude threatening to sue Mutahar (quoted as saying “ChatGPT understands the law”), this has to be a problem.
- Comment on An AI-powered copyright tool is taking down AI-generated Mario pictures 1 month ago:
Spite. That’s why.
- Comment on TikTok removes Russian media accounts for 'covert influence operations'. 1 month ago:
Singaporean
What kinda drug are you on, because if it can fly me that far from reality, I wanna give it a try.
And now, a message from reality:
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
ByteDance was founded and is headed by one Zhang Yeming, born April 1, 1983 in Longyan, Fujian, China.
- Comment on GitHub - WinampDesktop/winamp: Iconic media player 1 month ago:
I hope it develops a healthy community and we get some good software out of it.
Thing is, their license denies that outright.
- No Distribution of Modified Versions: You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form.
- No Forking: You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software.
- Official Distribution: Only the maintainers of the official repository are allowed to distribute the software and its modifications.
Of course, this license is in direct violation of GitHub’s ToS, which states that by hosting publicly on GitHub you accept that anyone can see and fork your code.
