FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 hours ago:
They don’t play ads on Google home/nest devices like this says Amazon do.
I would know if my Google home hubs played ads on them.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 hours ago:
Most of them have already had a “fair trial”/warrant/etc and been ordered to leave, and just……didn’t.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 hours ago:
You think “actual tech nerds” don’t like smart devices? I don’t think you know what a “tech nerd” is.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 hours ago:
Google is NOT going to be any better at this
What are you talking about? Google Home devices have been out for like a decade at this point, they don’t play ads on them.
- Comment on "AI is an attack from above on wages": An interview with cognitive scientist Hagen Blix 19 hours ago:
A link to a tiny blog post that just says someone wrote a book about being afraid of AI, and you should check it out?
Spam, no thanks.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 21 hours ago:
You think it’s easy to steal someone fingerprint or iris in a way that will work on scanners?
How?
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 21 hours ago:
Nothing stopping you from registering your penis on a fingerprint scanner as a fingerprint haha. Maybe just the ability to reach where the scanner is.
- Comment on JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters 21 hours ago:
Biometric access requires staff to scan their fingerprints or eye to gain access through security gates in the lobby instead of swiping their ID badges.
You could not sign me up fast enough to be able to open my office’s door with my fingerprint or eye.
The systems that handle biometric logins for gigantic companies are usually pretty bulletproof and have been audited many times.
I’m guessing people on here will think this is the second coming of the devil though lol. I can only imagine the outrage if FaceID/TouchID didn’t already exist on phones and Apple/google/etc added it in 2025 🤣
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 23 hours ago:
They’re not mutually exclusive. Listing the fees is pointless if there’s nothing anyone can do about them.
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 23 hours ago:
How does this hurt people?
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 23 hours ago:
What exactly is the point of making them list the fees anyway? So you can shake your head at the ridiculous fees, ask them to waive them, and they say “No”?
- Comment on ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions 23 hours ago:
You don’t even need an LLM, just an internet connected browser.
- Comment on Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users 1 day ago:
Do the laws that required them to do the age verification also require them to keep the verification images?
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 day ago:
Oh so your position is that all the Democrat politicians/celebrities/media mouthpieces/people on the left throwing around fascist/nazi/transphobe/racist/etc at people they disagree with are not on the left?
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 day ago:
You can’t think of a single example of someone’s opinion not influencing someone else?
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 day ago:
Where are the answers? A vague “they will commit suicide” isn’t an answer to “what rights don’t trans people have?”.
I take it you can answer the question, right? Or is your lack of an answer indicative of something?
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 day ago:
What unjust laws? Immigration laws?
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
Again though - best practice for using an EOL OS in 2025 mean that an attack like wannacry wouldn’t affect you, since you wouldn’t have the SMB ports exposed to the internet. You’d also have AV software - Defender at a minimum, which is fantastic - and the Windows firewall on.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
If you disable the firewall and AV, sure, you can get in trouble. That’s not following even the most basic online safety steps though.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
So windows 8 computers that connect to the Internet just become compromised?
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
Enterprises dont need to buy new license keys every time they buy a new machine. That’s the whole point of Microsoft’s enterprise licensing.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
Absolutely you will be able to. How many previous versions of Windows have exploits that don’t require the user to do anything other than be connected to the Internet for their machine to be compromised?
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 day ago:
Running out of ram isn’t a problem in itself. You want your ram to be in use as much as possible ideally, otherwise why do you have it?
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 1 day ago:
Not when their sole purpose is to assist in breaking the law.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 day ago:
Who said “works on my machine”? Not me. You can test it on a hundred different machines and OS versions and it’s flawless on them all, and you’ll still get people having errors on their machines.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 day ago:
A very long matter.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 day ago:
You’re not funding white nationalists (if that’s what these people are, I have zero idea who they are), you’re funding the product they’re making.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 1 day ago:
What right is that? What care are they being denied?
- Comment on Can mental health medication change nature of dreams? 1 day ago:
I don’t think it’s really possible to not dream, more so you just don’t remember them.
Medications absolutely can mess with your sleep.
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 1 day ago:
It’s named shower thoughts because they’re thoughts you have in the shower. When you’re on the shitter you’re usually on your phone, not solving the world’s problems like you do when you’re in the shower.