Ulrich
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- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 week ago:
Public streaming webcams have been a thing for three decades.
Most of those public streaming cams are streaming to a private server, and not 40k cameras contributing to the same global database. They’re also not being tracked with AI and storing license plate numbers, facial recognition, etc. to be categorized and later searched by law enforcement for, whatever reason they want.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
Yes but you can’t always disconnect. For instance, my healthcare provider requires in order to access your account you:
- Get an ID card with Google or Apple Wallet, which I don’t have.
- Verify over text message, except they refuse my phone # bc it’s VoIP.
I will quite literally die without this so I had to get a new phone and a Google account.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 weeks ago:
If you don’t know what samurai wallet is then that title would be less informative.
No.
Replacing samurai with crypto can only mislead the reader into thinking that the issue was the crypto and not the privacy part.
No.
It also doesn’t tell you anything about why he’s being imprisoned
Neither does the current title. But at least then we know it’s something to do with a crypto wallet instead of a “privacy tool”.
it’s implied why (because he built a privacy tool)
A “privacy tool” could be an infinite number of things. A “crypto wallet” is super specific.
At this point I think it’s pretty clear you’re just being disingenuous so I’ll bid you good day.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 weeks ago:
What details are being withheld? His name, the tool’s name, the crime, the sentence? What title would be more informative?
…yeah?
Samurai wallet dev sentenced to 5 years
Is that better? Only if you already know what samurai wallet is.
Correct again. I mean it’s infinitely better than the current one where it doesn’t matter if you do know what Samourai is. Also replace Samourai with “crypto” and baby you got a stew goin’.
You can’t condense an hour long video into a single sentence beyond the basic premise
You don’t have to. You just try to make it as information dense as possible. That’s the entire point of a title. It’s not supposed to be just a bunch of random filler words.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
Sure, and we’ve always compromised on the 2 as a society. But we continually trend more and more towards prevention rather than privacy and sovereignty.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 2 weeks ago:
They’re deliberately withholding basic details of the story so that you have to click the video to get them. That’s clickbait.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
Ok but that is a separate discussion.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
Honestly everywhere sounds like an awful place at this point. Freedom is a thing of the past. A thing from a time whence literally everything we did wasn’t tracked, and in order to exist in society, you’re expected to submit to the tracking.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
I’m not disagreeing with you but what would happen back then is that they simply wouldn’t stop the crime.
At some point we need to decide if giving up all of our personal freedoms is with stopping some of that. I vote no enthusiastically. We just have to accept that some of that crime won’t be stopped and law enforcement will have to work harder.
- Comment on What is the best way to link to a podcast episode on the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
Pod.link
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
No one said it was significant.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Read it again:
Physical software and hardware sales
- Comment on Selling my old printer, looking for feedback 2 weeks ago:
I dunno Canada bucks but probably closer to $50-100 USD.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I mean Valve sells the Steam Deck(s)?
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 weeks ago:
AI search is useless for the same reason search engines are useless. But at least search engines force you to look at the source information and the context around it. So AI search is even more useless.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 weeks ago:
I understand the existential pressure Mozilla faces. Their lunch is being eaten by AI browsers
It’s there any data to back this up? Last I checked Firefox was still the 3rd most used browser, by a wide margin.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Their statement is “we’re incorporating AI into your browser”. What “agenda” do you think this author has? Other than informing users?
- Comment on Ghost's ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked 2 weeks ago:
Agreed on all accounts. Feels half-baked and abandoned.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 weeks ago:
Vivaldi is like the only tech company in the world that has come out and stated definitively “we will not use AI”.
- Comment on Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI 2 weeks ago:
Can you just skip the clickbait and post the answer
- Comment on Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
I’ll gladly pay more to not have to deal with Epic’s endless fucking captchas.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
Is that guy supposed to be Dylan?
- Comment on Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s any sense to be made of it, really. But somehow still really well written and produced.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 3 weeks ago:
I’d probably choose somewhere outside of France. Hetzner probably a better bet.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 3 weeks ago:
Bruuuuuhhh I’m so stoked
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No endless lists. Just a fast decision.
I mean I could click on the first title on Netflix and quit scrolling. But it’s not what I want to watch. That’s why I scroll. You’re suggesting your app knows exactly what I want to watch, every time, based on some very basic input, and I don’t believe that, and I’m not willing to install it to find out.
The problem with Netflix (and every other platforms) is that they have this massive library of thousands of titles but they just show you the same fucking content over and over again.
If you had something that simply surfaced different titles, I could see that alone being useful.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I find that people on the internet are largely incapable of level-headed discussions.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet
Do we really need more petty debates? 😅
- Comment on I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result 3 weeks ago:
- Are you using the filament that came with it? Because it’s horrendous.
- Look up the "Creality hotend fix"
- Throw some Elmer’s Stick glue or similar on that bed before firing it up.
- Comment on Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only 3 weeks ago:
Mostly cultural, with a strong focus from NOSTR appearing to be crypto scams.