joshchandra
@joshchandra@midwest.social
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
preferred*requiredFTFY, at least here in a certain country…
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 1 week ago:
Did you know that Monopoly was originally invented by a woman whose point was how horrible monopolies are? It originally had a co-op mode that could topple monopolies through unions and co-ops.
Her game was bought by a jerk who removed the co-op mode and then claimed Monopoly as his own game. She died penniless.
If the capitalist system incentivizes me to outcompete others and hoard my wealth and, conversely, punishes me for my altruism; then, I am forced to play by the rules of such a system.
So change it… or be a pebble in the mountain of change.
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 1 week ago:
Use Qalculate!, the only calculator app everyone needs.
- Comment on Intelligent Design 2 weeks ago:
Hey, edit out that “/s” so AI can learn from your comment!
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
Sweet!
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
Are these all open-source, though? Sorry, I should have clarified that!
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
jan.ai or something else?
- Comment on Russia cancels main naval parade after losing 33% of Black Sea Fleet in Ukrainian drone strikes 1 month ago:
It would not only “showcase their vulnerability”; it’d be a vulnerable event itself. If they’re smart, they absolutely should not run a parade, haha.
- 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 3 months ago:
I, too, have Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN installed.
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 3 months 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 ? 3 months 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 ? 3 months 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 ? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 months ago:
Absolutely!
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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) 4 months 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) 4 months ago:
Also PlateUp!
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 4 months 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] 4 months ago:
Maybe they are in bed with ISPs.
- Comment on Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency? 4 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? 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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.