besselj
@besselj@lemmy.ca
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 weeks ago:
Safety concerns aside, you should trust your partner enough to not need to track them
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
The tracking happens even with a big reflector/scatterer on your head, but as long as you dont wear it regularly, the system would have difficulty identifying you from wave propagation alone
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
Ironically, a tin foil hat would probably work to prevent that kind of surveillance
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what the success rate is if you verify using AI generated faces.
- Comment on Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global 2 weeks ago:
A modern day Don Quixote
- Comment on As a friendly reminder, this comm is for the satirizing of conservatives only 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something a woke person would say
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
He was vibe-coding in production. Am I reading that right? Sounds like an intern-level mistake.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
Raw-dogging the internet is about as irresponsible as not using contraception
- Comment on Russian lawmakers say 'security threat' WhatsApp should prepare to leave Russia 3 weeks ago:
Meta is a security threat outside of Russia too. No privacy should be expected when using their services
- Comment on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users 3 weeks ago:
People who don’t use LLMs to write code:
- Comment on Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists 3 weeks ago:
You guys are paying for a website, rather than just buying a physical dictionary?
- Comment on Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving 3 weeks ago:
Joining a teams call from the car sounds miserable. Doubly so if there’s traffic.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 3 weeks ago:
How journalists sound when they compare an LLM to specialized software that plays chess
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT-powered browser is codenamed 'Aura' 3 weeks ago:
Not much substance in that article, but I’ll remember to avoid installing any web browsers called “Aura”
- Comment on Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content 3 weeks ago:
Shrimp Jesus take the wheel
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
They’re mad they can’t use cellbrite to snoop on properly configured GOS phones and that they actually have to do real police work to catch drug dealers
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 3 weeks ago:
The magic smoke comes out so that you know its working. It’s a very human design.
- Comment on Chinese Scientists Create Cyborg Bees That Can Be Controlled Like Drones for Undercover Military Missions 3 weeks ago:
Y’all remember that #DeathTo Black Mirror episode?
- Comment on Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats 5 weeks ago:
This is one of many PR stunts by Anthropic. They’re about as credible as an LLM at this point.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 5 weeks ago:
It’s like the trump admin has never heard of the Streisand effect. Hopefully the developer lives outside of US jurisdiction and the service doesn’t get taken down for a while.
- Comment on Netflix teams up with NASA to show live rocket launches and spacewalks 5 weeks ago:
Are we gonna see Netflix logos on launch vehicles soon?
- Comment on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared 1 month ago:
No telling what else they do with your pictures once they’re on Meta’s servers. Literal spyware (as if it hasn’t already been for a long time).
Imagine having your nudes accidentally ghiblified, with the originals stored indefinitely on Meta’s servers.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 1 month ago:
If the tools were as useful as MS claimed, they wouldn’t need to force people to use them.
- Comment on AI is ruining houseplant communities online 1 month ago:
I started them indoors out of caution. The seeds were pretty small. They sprouted and kinda looked like clovers, but I didn’t bother growing them further.
- Comment on AI is ruining houseplant communities online 1 month ago:
My mom’s friend fell for one of those scams and paid something like $30 for some mystery seeds online because they were advertised on facebook as flowers shaped like cat faces. The website also claimed they were in the Bromeliad family, but the advertised flowers looked nothing like bromeliads. These scammers prey on people who take everything at face-value.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
Long enough for GOS to port Android 16 or get their own OEM, I hope
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 month ago:
Laughs in GrapheneOS
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 month ago:
Lol. The bots to humans ratio will get even bigger if that happens.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Oh look, another centralized social media platform that will eventually get enshittified
