FauxLiving
@FauxLiving@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 1 day ago:
Exactly.
Yes, there are wait time… Because they are helping people based on a priority system.
In the US, for example, there is no/short wait times. This is because a lot of people that need help are just suffering in silence due to lack of funds for treatment. (Or they turn to chatbots and suffer worse outcomes)
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 1 day ago:
The criminals, or the people they paid to carry out the physical attack, connected a Raspberry Pi to a bank’s network switch, the same one hooked up to the ATM that was subsequently raided.
They’re kind of skipping over an important detail here.
Sure the technical details are interesting, but it’s a bit like discussing the alloys of the tumblers of the safe deposit box after the team has unexplainably bypassed the main safe door…
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 day ago:
That does it, I’m not having waffles anymore
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 1 day ago:
If you don’t want corporations to use you chats as data, don’t use corporate hosted language models.
Even non-public chats are archived by OpenAI, and the terms of service of ChatGPT essentially give OpenAI the right to use your conversations in any way that they choose.
You can bet they’ll eventually find ways to monetize your data at some point in the future. If you think GoogleAds is powerful, wait until people’s assistants are trained with every manipulative technique we’ve ever invented and are trying to sell you breakfast cereals or boner pills…
You can’t uncheck that box except by not using it in the first place. But people will sell their soul to a company in order to not have to learn a little bit about self-hosting
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 days ago:
FYI, clicking the “Claim now!” button under a game will still claim the whole bundle
i now own a bunch of porn games cuz i wanted to try Postal 2 -_-
Uhh, yeah me too. And they used my credit card to sign up for porn. Smh, GOG
- Comment on Florida prison data breach exposes visitors’ contact information to inmates: Department of Corrections has not communicated anything to those whose info was revealed to inmates. 2 days ago:
“Emails”
It’s a messaging system where you pay like $.25/message, you have to be manually approved by the prison to contact the inmate and all messages are saved and screened for things like PII and criminal activity. You can be permanently suspended if either person breaks the rules (I think the inmate can be put in the box and lose gain-time also), the screening process often just rejects things without explanation, and it may take 24-48 hours to be delivered
It’s better than the $.15/minute phone calls, but it isn’t exactly a Gmail account.
It’s basically another service provider that DOC has given their blessing so that they can fleece the families of inmates. It’s cheap, breaks all the time and costs a ridiculous amount.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 days ago:
Oh yeah, almost certainly; and software defined radios of all types.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 days ago:
Any device that transmits radio frequencies wont be able to be sold in the EU.
The only way a manufacturer can be sure that won’t happen is to create their hardware such that it isn’t usable unless it can be sure its in an environment which won’t do that.
Currently, that would mean a machine running Secure Boot and Windows 11 using driver signing.
Linux wouldn’t be able to fake the verification to the hardware, due to not having the keys, and so could not create drivers for any hardware designed this way.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
Which dude? How are you going to identify them?
Their full name, pictures and location would be required or your information about his rapeyness is worthless.
You’re not going to have that person’s permission to post their information and so you’re doing it without their consent.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
There are no private spaces online, because your privacy is only protected by the people who own the servers. Your data isn’t private to them, nor any governments who can compell them.
You cannot trust that any data you put on services, that you’re not completely in control of, is going to remain private.
There are countless examples of services selling your data, hackets getting access to your data or governments compelling a service provider to produce your data on demand.
The exception to that are services where you can enforce your privacy through well implemented encryption.
For exsmple, I don’t need to trust a cloud storage provider that is storing my data because it’s encrypted on my machine using keys that only I control prior to being stored. My privacy doesn’t require me to trust that Google will protect my data from insiders, hackers or hostile governments because they don’t have the ability to produce it. My privacy is protected by the laws of mathematics regardless of how compromised the service provider is.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
I can’t think of any way to use the app that doesn’trely on posting pictures and personal information of people without their consent.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 3 days ago:
Getting rid of social media will improve your mood dramatically.
I also like doing homelab stuff, and it’s even more satisfying to know I’m having a better experience than, say, someone subscribing to every streaming service but still having to watch ads.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
It’s not great, but it’s an acceptable kludge if you’re the one holding everyone back and you can’t figure out the problem immediately. Set it to public, let the devs get to work and research the problem until you find a real solution.
The test environment data should be generic so if someone were to discover the bucket they’ll get some pictures of cats and a bunch of people who live at 12345 anywhere street.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
This wasn’t vibe coding, it’s incompetant devops.
You have to go out of your way to make these buckets public like this. Several giant “Everyone will have access to this” warnings, re-authentication, a permanent warning symbol on the dashboard AND regular e-mails reminding you that you have a public bucket. I don’t even think you can do this via the API, it requires a human to manually make this setting.
I’m guessing that they couldn’t figure out how to configure the Access Control Lists and just made it public so that it would work. That’s fine in a test environment, without any user data but it’s pure incompetence to have a production system setup this way.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
There are no private spaces online, your privacy is at the whim of whoever owns the servers and whatever government controls them.
Unless you’re using end to end encrypted communication with people you know and trust you should assume that everything you do online has your actual name and face attached to it.
I do agree that it sucks.
There should be laws, with criminal consequences, that protect our privacy but essentially every government is of the opinion that actual privacy should never exist online because they think it’s better to sacrifice everyone’s privacy than to let a single criminal go undetected.
This is why you see all Western governments simultaneously running “think of the children” campaigns as they slowly manuver the Internet into requiring every device be identifiable and linked to a person.
This is why the end-to-end encrypted communication providers are also being pressured right now. Because with systems built using encryption to enforce the rules are actually private.
Governments know this, as they heavily rely on encrypted communication systems. They just don’t want anybody else to have that privilege.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s on brand. The doxxing app is successfully doxxing people…
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 3 days ago:
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 4 days ago:
Same as anywhere else. Complacency, lax auditing, temporary fixes which are in place for years, non-technical people making technical decisions (choosing convenience over security, generally).
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 4 days ago:
Port security prevents this. As soon as the switch detects a physical disconnect it disables the port.
You could, with some electrical engineer-level tools and hardware, passively read the traffic to determine the MAC and then splice into the wire without disrupting the physical connection. But it would be very hard to do covertly or quickly.
- Comment on In search of riches, hackers plant 4G-enabled Raspberry Pi in bank network 4 days ago:
It’s not too hard to get a SIM in someone else name.
They’d have an account owner name, but that person may not exist or they only remember some person paying them to get a phone in their name which isn’t illegal.
- Comment on Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult 5 days ago:
How do you do fellow adult westerners
- Comment on Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult 5 days ago:
Ya know, I’m starting to think Google uses our data for doing more than providing the service that we sign up for… 🤔
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 days ago:
Given the reactions at Thanksgiving, I think some may be antimatter
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
Yeah, the entire point of the app is that you go there and talk about the bad things a person has done.
That seems pretty hard to identify them without posting their image without their consent and discussing private details of their life so others can identify them. It is creepy as hell, at a minimum.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 6 days ago:
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 6 days ago:
I can’t say for sure.
After the first one, it has become much harder to get core samples.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 6 days ago:
github.com/vndee/local-talking-llm
Seems like it would be a good place to start. You’d need to write the bit in order to send the output to a voip service and receive the input from the same service.
If you could get that going in a container you could spawn a bunch of them on VPSs (finding ones that have the hardware to run local AI would probably be expensive, probably better to use a hosting service if you’re going to scale this).
I’m sure there are more conversation agent frameworks that people have built (it’s a pretty simple loop to create), but if you wanted to get started this isn’t bad.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 days ago:
Keep the pressure on.
Collective Shout got them to change their position and they’re a small group. We are legion, as the kids say
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 6 days ago:
Mate, some of my relatives are made of chemicals
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 6 days ago:
I don’t think a single person here is disputing the fact that they can legally do this. There’s a lot of things that are legal which are immoral.
It isn’t the payment processor’s place, ESPECIALLY one that we have allowed to have a de facto monopoly on credit card processing, to use that position in order to dictate morality.
From a pragmatic perspective, they’re playing with fire by giving in to small but vocal extremist groups. Public outcry on issues can result in laws and regulations which would limit how payment processors can operate. We could pass laws which make it illegal for a payment processor to refuse to process payments for otherwise legal transactions.
