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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol…that’s funny and also so depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the clarification!

  I still don’t like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Game-Key Card Overview⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only when I took Ambien

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is sucking dick supposed to be a bad thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wire has calling voice and video calling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. There is a firefox extension called Chameleon that does this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leo knew it was a joke and laughed because it was just a joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ricky Gervais is transphobic garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!taneggs@lemmy.ca Declares National Pika Day; immediately escalates to Global Pika Day!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All hail the mighty pika!