SavageCoconut

@SavageCoconut@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: some government/military official added a reporter to a Signal group were some high profile people were discussing and sharing war plans. The app’s encryption is perfectly fine. It’s just clickbait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked your post ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I undertands Musk’s, but why do we hate taylor swift now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe this is happening in the land of liberty. surprised pikachu face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My brother did what!?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Vivaldi, no adblocker, it seems it has one integrated… maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucker!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  XDA is asking for disabling my adblocker? WTF? I guess i won’t be reading the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. Have been using AMD since the HD5000 series day, always on Windows, never had an issue with the drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google says that SafetyCore “provides on-device infrastructure for securely and privately performing classification to help users detect unwanted content. Users control SafetyCore, and SafetyCore only classifies specific content when an app requests it through an optionally enabled feature.”

  GrapheneOS — an Android security developer — provides some comfort, that SafetyCore “doesn’t provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.”

  But GrapheneOS also points out that “it’s unfortunate that it’s not open source and released as part of the Android Open Source Project and the models also aren’t open let alone open source… We’d have no problem with having local neural network features for users, but they’d have to be open source.” Which gets to transparency again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qualcomm and Google team up to offer 8 years of Android updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great news. It’s unfortunate that the 8 years of updates is limited to qualcomm flagship chip, anyway it’s still a step in the right direction. My phone will be 8 years this year and it survived this long because of custom ROMs that don’t support this device anymore, so i’m all in for this types of policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon will remove the option to download/transfer Kindle e-books via USB by February 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So i won’t be able to download my ebooks from amazon.com to my PC, right?