joshchandra

@joshchandra@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look at Google’s Unfinished DeX-Like Desktop Mode for Android⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also PlateUp!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they are in bed with ISPs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a new type of currency working to replace currency?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ears eyes.

  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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, I had no idea of Portmaster! I wish I talked to you years ago and will check these out, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, this is as hilarious as it is creative. Interesting find; got any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I thought I saw a similar picker existing in AdNauseam, but I may be wrong. I could definitely get on board with your approach; while Inspector can delete stuff, it doesn’t remember them across page reloads or sessions, so this would be handy indeed!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: midwest.social/post/25573927

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  omg, I’m using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can’t ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was reacting to its GitHub:

  This project is NOT currently being maintained. Code is made available for developers to fork. This is the FireFox version of the project, for Chrome see github.com/vtoubiana/TrackMeNot-Chrome.

  So I’m wondering which fork is best to go off of for Firefox. I could’ve been clearer; my bad.