joshchandra
@joshchandra@midwest.social
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 4 weeks ago:
I, too, have Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN installed.
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 4 weeks ago:
Huh. Well, I was watching the URL bar the entire time and it only moved directly from the emoji to the X tweet; I never saw your decoded URL, unless it simply happens that fast.
Also, that’s one heck of a short link, haha.
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t even understand what it is, really; do you have an example of it in action?
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 4 weeks ago:
Dang. Is there an equivalent Firefox add-on that checks for this stuff?
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations 5 weeks ago:
From the small thumbnail, I thought the graphic was showing pirate ships, not battle stations.
- Comment on First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android 5 weeks ago:
Darn! Well, at least the option is available for computer-less smartphone owners, I guess.
- Comment on First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android 5 weeks ago:
Can DeX be used with just an external monitor without a PC?
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 1 month ago:
Absolutely!
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure @booly@sh.itjust.works was meaning the exact opposite, that it’s more about educating perpetrators than taking vengeance or merely dishing out old-fashioned justice on them.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 1 month ago:
Fair… I suppose the sensationalism of it grips some of us unnecessarily.
influence the sentence
From what I’ve seen, to be fair, judges’ decisions have varied wildly regardless, sadly, and sentences should be more standardized. I wonder what it would’ve been otherwise.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 1 month ago:
Perhaps; it seemed like they knew the decedent well enough to know that he would appreciate this, from everything that the article says. With that said, I also won’t be surprised if templates for wills or living trusts add a no-duplication statement by default over the coming years.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 1 month ago:
Thanks for sharing; I thought this was a fascinating read, especially since it ended on a positive note and not pure condemnation. It seems totally Black Mirror-esque, but I do wonder how many of the commentators here attacking it didn’t read the article. They obviously didn’t make this decision lightly and even the judge appreciated the novel approach. This is probably one of the best-case use scenarios relative to the abyss of unstoppable horror that awaits us.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 month ago:
When do they diverge in character? I went all the way to the mole dungeon and they feel entirely and identically bland.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 month ago:
Also PlateUp!
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 1 month ago:
There’s a lot of unvoiced dialogue, which I could see as being a barrier to enjoyment
No, it’s more like the protagonists’ personalities being totally interchangeable. That made me stop playing after I realized it doesn’t improve.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Maybe they are in bed with ISPs.
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 2 months ago:
*Not Bitcoin.
Why not? Otherwise, there are CBDCs purportedly under way, but I haven’t read about them in probably half a year or longer, come to think of it…
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 2 months ago:
I have still quite literally found no other tool, even paid products, that can interior-crop the way IrfanView can (select row/column Y in XYZ if the entire image was XYZ, and crop out that inner part and auto-tuck X and Z directly against each other). And it’s had this feature for decades, I think.
- Comment on An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots 2 months ago:
Since it’s already a Pandora’s box as it is, at least open-source is the least-worst way to go. All closed-source models are evil(er).
- Comment on Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes 2 months ago:
Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block
fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine. - Comment on Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes 2 months ago:
There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don’t think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.
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- Comment on Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community Notes 2 months ago:
why are people still using facebook?
I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I’m all
earseyes.I asked the attendees about how they’d feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don’t want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 2 months ago:
Ironically… I myself found this through Reddit, no joke! But yeah, I hope to sway more people here.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 months ago:
Wow, infinite aliases?! This is way better than Fx Relay, thanks!
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 2 months ago:
I rather have them using AI to create it than having to go searching for real content.
A rebuttal to this that I’ve read is that the easy access may encourage people to dig into it and eventually want “the real thing”… but regardless, with it being FOSS, there’s no easy way to stop it anyway… It’s just a Pandora’s box that we can never close.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 2 months ago:
Consider the decentralized amily of trom.tf apps, such as search.trom.tf as a replacement (that’s the only one I use of their stuff so far… but may poke around more later).
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
… until they keep having to dismiss people and go, “… huh.” This is a marathon we’re playing. You certainly don’t have to use it, but I think the philosophy makes sense, especially given how AdNauseam doesn’t click on acceptable ads that don’t track you.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
Dang, I had no idea of Portmaster! I wish I talked to you years ago and will check these out, thanks.