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- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Can we please ban electronic advertising already? And billboards? Society would be better off without them.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
My 17-year-old account is at $600. That’s an average of $35 per year.
Most of my gaming spending for the last 8 years has been on Nintendo Switch. That number is too embarrassing to post.
- Comment on 390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot 2 weeks ago:
Do you know what their enforcement mechanism is for a situation like this, where a company like Clearview is doing it against Illinois residents but it’s all happening online?
- Comment on Intel Unison allowed Android and iOS to connect to Windows, now it's shutting down 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. It is oddly worded in places, but otherwise seems fine. I didn’t see any grammatical errors.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, plenty of telemetry is still being sent by Microsoft in Windows 10. It’s not as bad as 11 though.
- Comment on Technological Suggestions for LGBT+, Immigrants, Protestors, Anti-War Activists and Other Marginalized Groups 3 weeks ago:
Where is kryptkey? I don’t see it on F-droid.
I do see KryptEy, which sounds like the same thing. What’s important to mention is that it’s a proof-of-concept app that hasn’t been updated in two years. It may still function fine and be secure, but I wouldn’t necessarily assume that, especially when we are talking about high stakes like avoiding government intrusion into chats. Has anyone ever checked or audited it?
- Comment on BAFTA Crowns Shenmue "The Most Influential Video Game Of All Time" In Surprise Result | Time Extension 3 weeks ago:
The actual BAFTA article with the full list starts off by mentioning most influential game on popular culture, which is going to be different regionally. Shenmue may have been the most influential in Japan or the UK, but it sure didn’t have the effect on pop culture in the US that Mario, Zelda, or Minecraft has had, not even close.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
Lol…that’s funny and also so depressing.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
Well I’m hoping to live in a world where banks don’t provide loans anymore. I’m demanding a better world than this nightmare that is unregulated capitalism in the US.
I’m demanding a better world than any economic system that incentivizes and rewards screwing each other over and hurting one another in a race to get ahead.
- Comment on Based on a true story 3 weeks ago:
Loans with interest rates above inflation are weapons. They are violence. Why should we all have to pay more than something is worth for our education, our transportation, our housing? Why are we paying directly for these things at all?
Government should be providing all this for its people. Higher education should be provided. Starter housing should be provided. Public transportation should be provided.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is anything stopping nintendo from making 64GB or larger cartridges except the cost.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the clarification!
I still don’t like it.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview 3 weeks ago:
So they essentially stuffed a download code into a physical cartridge to make people feel like they are getting something?
Isn’t that needless and wasteful? Isn’t it also going to trick unsuspecting people into buying something they think is a physical version of a game but isn’t?
- Comment on Magic: The Gathering devs unban cards as ‘an experiment’ 3 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if this is just Wizards of the Coast panicking and flailing because they are out of good ideas, or if they are actually carefully analyzing and re-evaluating older cards because the balance and synergy of the current cards allow for the use of these older cards without being game breaking.
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 3 weeks ago:
So this may still be possible
This article seems to be saying that’s it’s not only possible, it’s being actively (and I would assume widely) exploited on current versions of Android. Google is supposed to catch any abuses of listed exceptions, but they are either missing a bunch or letting them intentionally slide through. Either way, apps being able to see other apps is a big security risk that IMO only the user should be able to explicitly allow, and on a case-by-case basis.
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, meaning all newer phones past Android 11 shouldn’t have this issue, but they do because of a workaround by shady companies that Google is either not aware of or not addressing. This issue isn’t limited to older phones – quite the opposite.
- Comment on The NGage Has A New Boxed Game For The First Time In 20 Years 3 weeks ago:
I love stuff like this! I never had an NGage because the competing handhelds at the time were better. I’ve never even seen one in person.
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 3 weeks ago:
Well that was a horrifying read. Is there any software that can protect against this? GrapheneOS? LineageOS? A Magisk module?
- Comment on Everyone knows all the apps on your phone - by peabee 3 weeks ago:
What do you mean? The article is talking about current versions of Android.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
Chandler’s “dad” was trans, but they didn’t use that word. I don’t remember if they ever put a hard label on that character, but his dad wasn’t just a drag queen. Chandler’s growing acceptance over the course of the show was a positive, but the jokes made were not.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 4 weeks ago:
You could try Permute. It’s a pretty simple app for converting video and audio. Permute is my go-to for quick video conversion.
DBPowerAmp has an easy-to-use audio converter that supports pretty much every audio format and does batch file conversion as well. DBPowerAmp is my go-to for audio conversion.
Both of these are paid apps.
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 4 weeks ago:
I would argue that Friends does not hold up so well. It still has funny bits, but it’s also quite sexist and is homophobic and transphobic (while also being one of the few big shows to even talk about gay and trans topics at the time).
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 5 weeks ago:
Only when I took Ambien
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 5 weeks ago:
No one has asked so I am going to ask:
What the heck is Elon University and why should I trust them?
- Comment on Scientists for Future, October 2021: Nuclear Energy is no technology for solving the Climate Crisis 1 month ago:
You don’t think there’s debate about nuclear waste and how and where to store it? Because those are my reservations about nuclear power.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 1 month ago:
I would only say that a calculator always gives people the right answer. ChatGPT does not. People should not be using any of these current LLM tools to seek answers to things they don’t plan on verifying through some other source.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 1 month ago:
If students can cheat on writing papers, why don’t we stop using it as a learning metric? Why not use in-person, timed tests instead?
- Comment on New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla 1 month ago:
Is sucking dick supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May 1 month ago:
Wire has calling voice and video calling.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 months ago:
Yes. There is a firefox extension called Chameleon that does this.