SavageCoconut
@SavageCoconut@lemmy.world
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day 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 days 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 4 days 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 4 weeks ago:
My brother did what!?!?
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Fucker!!
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
So i won’t be able to download my ebooks from amazon.com to my PC, right?