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@Dojan@pawb.social
- Comment on The Danger Behind Meta Killing End-to-End Encryption for Instagram DMs 1 day ago:
Does anyone genuinely believe that it was true e2ee? It’s Facebook. There is NO WAY they didn’t have a man-in-the-middle backdoor.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 day ago:
If you care about encryption I’d recommend Ente. They have guides for migrating from Google Photos.
I was initially just doing local backups but I decided I wanted something offsite and Ente has been great.
- Comment on Equine vets who perform ultrasound on horses can test positive at the breath alcohol test for up to 60 min following ethanol exposure. 1 day ago:
Gonna get absolutely pissed from the horse belly fumes.
- Comment on Video Game Developer Heart Machine Voluntarily Recognizes Staff Union 1 day ago:
Wow, the bare minimum. Bravo. I bet everyone clapped when they paid their workers, too.
- Comment on Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge 1 day ago:
Users should’ve gone to mastodon to begin with. Why the fuck would they leave a monolithic corpo platform for another monolithic corpo platform? It’s stupid.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 day ago:
This literally already happened here in Sweden. A guy got assaulted by masked police in the middle of the night because an American company had gone through photos in his Yahoo mail and flagged his 30 year old boyfriend as possible CSAM.
People like to think that Sweden is progressive etc. and I’d rebut it with this. If it can happen here, it could happen anywhere.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 day ago:
Was a gay guy here in Sweden who got assaulted and kidnapped by masked police because some American company had found CSAM on his account while crawling through Yahoo email.
Only it wasn’t CSAM, the photos depicted the man’s 30 year old twinky boyfriend.
No restitution. No police were punished for assaulting a suspect proved innocent. The man and his boyfriend both were humiliated.
I’ve no mixed feelings about it. Spying through private data is entirely unforgivable. There are plenty of pesos out there who get caught and nothing happens anyway. They don’t need to violate innocent people’s privacy to do their job.
Like if the ends justify the means you can end all suffering in the world by just nuking everything. All problems solved.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 days ago:
My OS has never needed to know my DoB before. What’s it gonna do, make me a cake?
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 days ago:
Per their own description
MCP is an open protocol that enables AI models to securely interact with local and remote resources through standardized server implementations. This list focuses on production-ready and experimental MCP servers that extend AI capabilities through file access, database connections, API integrations, and other contextual services.
It’s ironic that they’d complain that their PRs are just auto-generated slop when they’re collating tools for that exact purpose. They made that bed, so now they should lie in it.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 days ago:
I thought it was something related to Minecraft, but it’s a slop enabler so honestly, poetic justice. If someone who peddles slop is upset about receiving slop, I’m happy.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 4 days ago:
I don’t know if I have any physical scars from chickenpox, but the misery of having it is one of my earliest memories.
I recall sitting in the bathroom, everything was itching and painful, the light was off, but what little light there was bored into my head.
I didn’t know that there even was a vaccine for chickenpox until I was in my 20s. I was so little, who in their right mind is okay with their child going through that? My mother is an anti-vaxxer and honestly I loathe her for that.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 4 days ago:
Well you know… they could get better. Necromancy is a dying art, but it’s not dead yet.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah, it is a problem.
Like the most recent example I can think of is literally from yesterday. Used to be that healthcare and schooling was generally owned by the state, but over the past few decades with the right-wingers at the helm privatisation has grown and we now have significant problems with private companies exploiting public resources for financial gain.
Thus we have people arguing that we should ban operating a company for profit in the welfare sector. So this Centre party leader demands that welfare should be profitable, while owning several private healthcare companies. That’s “jäv”, a conflict of interest, but this kind of bullshit is common nowadays.
There are memes about it, every time a person in the Sweden Democrats get caught being a total nazi, there’s another “individual rotten egg” because that’s literally the entire party.
We’ve had some great things going for us. We really went all in on workers rights back when the military came in and shot workers demonstrating for their rights., but we’ve got problems too. The most recent time a eugenics law was abolished here was in 2013.
Chat Control was originally proposed by a Swedish social democrat.
I’m happy to live here, but we’re not some utopia.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Grew because the population became less homogenous.
I’d argue that it’s more complicated than that. It’s a factor, but we don’t exactly have a great track record of treating non-Swedes that well. We were quite cosy with the German nazis prior to and during WWII, and were enthusiastic about racial biology. Note how poorly we’ve historically treated the native Sami population.
We also still have a lot of systemic problems with e.g. “women’s professions” like nursing, cleaning, etc. not being valued fairly. Women’s health problems aren’t taken as seriously either.
Further, the right-block are campaigning to restrict rights overall. It’s not just the nazis but the Christ-democrats as well. We’re talking restricted abortion rights, there’s arguments against LGBTQ+ people, and so on.
The homogeneity was a helpful factor in establishing a more egalitarian system, but it’s not truly egalitarian, and there are still unequalities endemic in our society.
I admit I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction whenever Sweden or Scandinavia is mentioned, because we’re so often, unfairly, painted as some kind of nigh utopia, where people are equal, education and healthcare is easily accessed, etc. etc. but we have problems. I grew up in poverty, to an abusive single mother. I’ve seen some low points of Swedish society and I resent people glossing over their existence.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I don’t like the term succeed. It’s not a case of once you have it you have it. You have to keep working for it to keep it.
As it stands, we’ve not had a majority-left government in ages, our welfare is being sold off to private interests, and the gaps between classes are widening. The younger generation in particular has been susceptible to the influence of American right-wing media and as such we’re seeing an increased amount of religious extremism and right wing thinking.
Hell, the xenophobic lobbying has lead to the Nazi party having a majority seat in parliament.
Understanding of intersectionality is a useful tool regardless of the size or homogeneity of the population.
- Comment on FBI admits buying Americans' location data and says it won't stop 5 days ago:
Maybe they do. Would that be so surprising?
I blanket my whole network in a VPN, it rotates between servers every so often, and via NetBird which I self-host, all my devices access the internet via my home network, even when I’m not at home.
It’s not hard to set up.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 5 days ago:
It used to be no time at all. You could just do it. From that perspective they’ve already taken a mile.
- Comment on AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming 5 days ago:
I actually really love machine learning. I trained my own language models back in the late 201Xs, and at my previous company I worked on image classification for a smaller photography platform they were developing. I’m not an ML expert, but it’s easy to see the bullshit that the “AI” companies are selling as bullshit when you know the foundations of the tech. A little like how you don’t need to be a surgeon to call bullshit on someone saying that they performed open heart surgery and brain surgery on themselves simultaneously.
You’re already in their cloud. Yes, unfortunately. There was a time when I was a lot more naïve and way less critical. People change. This is what “radicalised” me. I know that a story like that is just daily life in the U.S., but despite my cynicism I thought things were better here.
You probably use GitHub. I don’t. I self-host everything that I can, and make careful choices with what I choose not to. I’ve left what I had on GitHub on there, and I’ll probably use it as a mirror whenever I release a FOSS project, because I’m OK with Microsoft paying the hosting costs for me, if they’re going to try and scrape my shit anyway. You know, just like GNOME is doing.
caring on one hand and not on the other means nothing.
I don’t really agree. This is the same idiotic take as “if you hate capitalism so much, why are you partaking in it?” You’re also speaking directly through your sphincter as you’ve no idea what my life is like, what choices I’ve made, and so forth; you don’t know me.
Would I prefer to never have to engage with a payment processor or a bank again? Absolutely. That however, is sadly impossible in my society. LLMs aren’t integral to society yet, and I’d see them continue that way.
I’ll continue farming out bullshit tasks to AI while I play with my cat and prepare for the next round of layoffs, rather than giving my soul to a company who doesn’t actually care about me.
Not a fan of the LLM part, but I love the overall sentiment. Fuck the corporations, your time and energy is better spent on the people you love. I hope things work out for you.
~Animals are people too. Lots of love to your cat.~
~I love cats.~
- Comment on AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming 5 days ago:
Oh absolutely, and we can do our best to swear off of that but thanks to them worming their way in like a cancer in every part of society, shaping it to benefit them, that’s just the nature of taking part in society. The ones in power have always, and will always continue to exploit us for as long as we let them.
All the more reason to not outsource our thinking to their machines. Governments are already doing it, getting caught red-handed acting on reports that never existed. Why rely on that when the option not to is so readily available?
- Comment on AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming 5 days ago:
Not really a valid excuse in this case as we aren’t really experiencing layoffs here. Au contraire, our company is hiring. I’m not in the U.S.
Still think that letting language models controlled by billionaire paedophiles and wannabe dictators is a poor idea, regardless of how fed up one is with one’s job.
- Comment on AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming 5 days ago:
Too many people are willingly paying anti-democratic billionaires to outsource their thinking and agency.
- Comment on AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming 5 days ago:
I saw a vibe coded PR the other day. So much redundant code, lots of comments making assumptions and questions. It’s a mess.
Glad it didn’t land in my lap but the person who is now responsible for steering that up is already quite busy and wasting their time with this feels shit.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 5 days ago:
Aha. Thank you.
That honestly just reads like a modern political playbook. Literally, in some places.
Man I hate the world. I just want to be left alone in a hut in the forest.
- Comment on Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June 5 days ago:
Let me introduce you to Resonite.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 6 days ago:
No, I’m literally asking what he says; I’ve not read Machiavelli.
There’s one dude saying “that’s what Machiavelli said!” then another saying “no it isn’t you cockforest” and now you saying that what he said is satirical.
But what did he say?
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 6 days ago:
What does he argue?
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 6 days ago:
“In politics, obtaining power and maintaining power justifies anything”
I mean if that doesn’t sum up most big name politicians I don’t know what does.
- Comment on dddlas4 6 days ago:
Face is too big, barely recognised him.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 6 days ago:
I only found out because a colleague spent an entire day maintaining the server we host it on. The notion of having to pay to do all the BS operative work around using that shitty platform is so silly to me. If anything it feels like Microsoft should pay us.
- Comment on Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway. 1 week ago:
I found out that Azure DevOps can be hosted in this same manner. You pay a license fee to host and maintain it yourself.
I was shocked. Lmao.