DarkWinterNights

@DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I designed and made a thing!⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious what material you used.

  I made some similar items, and given the aggregation of exposure to the elements, constant daylight, and strength/the potential to shatter, I veered away from PLA and ABS into PETG (with TPU sleeves on sensitive bits), which I’ve found worked really well, but my parts don’t move as much as yours probably do.

  How have you found the results in these regards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly 20 years ago, I was in a computer programming class surrounded by clunky towers and desktops.

  Suddenly, a loud popping, then one of the machines starts belching smoke like a budget fog machine. The kid using it is calmly moved to another station while the prof investigates.

  Fifteen minutes later - pop. Smoke again.

  Turns out the kid was jamming a paperclip into the power supply like he was playing Operation: Arson Edition.

  That was his last day.

  On the bright side, computers are a lot cheaper now - and kids are still dumb. So, progress?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X blocks 8,000 accounts in India under government order⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only the bots have rights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. House Panel Says China's DeepSeek AI Is a 'Profound Threat' to National Security⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with Internet connection, LLMs only infer. The software you run it on (or online) is a different story, and it’s literally already the case with everything else for decades (although it is getting worse).

  We weren’t upset enough when Google started scraping everyone’s emails, or how Meta/Amazon/Google/Microsoft/ByteDance track all your Internet activity right now via browser fingerprinting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally the plot to Trillion Game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can barely comment on this stuff anymore because of the literal horror being inflicted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprisingly enough, shady USB-C multiport adapters can be dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I read to the end; your comment got me laughing and checking my life insurance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks - good notes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great note - thanks for the contribution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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  Cloud Sync	Yes	Yes	Optional	Yes	Yes	Yes	Manual	Yes	Manual
  Offline Support	Partial	Yes	Yes	Paid only	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
  Handwriting Support	No	Limited	No	Yes	Yes	Excellent	No	No	No
  Encryption	No	Yes	No	Partial	No	No	No	Yes	No
  Hierarchy Support	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
  Free Version	Yes	Yes	Yes	Limited	Yes	Limited	Yes	Limited	No
  Platform Support	Win, macOS, iOS, Android, Web	Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android	Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android	Win, macOS, iOS, Android, Web	Win, macOS, iOS, Android, Web	iOS, macOS, Web, Win (beta)	Win, Linux	Win, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web	Windows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to redo the work of others:

  What makes fingerprinting a threat to online privacy? It is pretty simple. First, there is no need to ask for permissions to collect all this information. Any script running in your browser can silently build a fingerprint of your device without you even knowing about it. Second, if one attribute of your browser fingerprint is unique or if the combination of several attributes is unique, your device can be identified and tracked online. In that case, no need for a cookie with an ID in it, the fingerprint is enough. Hopefully, as we will see in the next sections, a lot of progress have been made to prevent users from having unique values in their fingerprint and thus, avoid tracking.

  A couple of useful articles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint

  blog.torproject.org/browser-fingerprinting-introd… (Excerpt above)

  onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2022/3363335?…

  There’s also a number of interviews with white and red hat hackers who delve quite deeply into the subject and how they’ve used this telemetry to go after black hats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly already a moot point - your browser fingerprints are already uniquely identifying (even before IP, cookies, and backend analytics). Realistically, tho, just more info for them to sell, leak and then eventually pay $0.25 per person in Google Play credit in the class action settlement.