FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 17 hours ago:
Because there’s nothing to do anything about. Why would they be sanctioned?
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 17 hours ago:
If you love being stuck in the dark ages and hating all innovation and new tech, go for it.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 17 hours ago:
Congratulations, you’re seeing what communism leads to *EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. This is why people that aren’t smooth brains know that communism isn’t the utopia that leftists and 90% of Lemmy users think it is. It always ends in fascism, elites, and keeping everyone else held down on the bottom.
- Comment on [deleted] 17 hours ago:
Huh?
I don’t care if you block me.
Communism isn’t right wing. You’re saying it is.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 17 hours ago:
Public service spending isn’t a subsidy.
Nothing about EVs are “renewable”. The government subsidies for “renewables” are one of the biggest examples of corruption we’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 17 hours ago:
Passwordless isn’t 2FA……it’s passwordless.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 17 hours ago:
Do you think toggling hdr is the only thing copilot can do? Do you not understand examples?
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 18 hours ago:
My example was perfect, but you got yourself twisted up in knots trying to pretend that firstly you understand what these AI tools can do, and secondly that what I made it do is something that is easy for all users to do as quickly as the AI agent can do it. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the entire concept of AI agents and their abilities and reasons for existing. Now you’re just digging in your heels and digging yourself further into the hole because you don’t want to admit that there are massive use cases for LLMs/AI.
The AI has access to all of the database structure, including primary and foreign keys. It doesn’t hallucinate when you’re getting it to tell you about a set of data like that. With these agents you also can give them a massive ever evolving prompt to “train” it on what to do and what not to do, and how to interpret things.
It’s clear as day that you have literally zero experience in the field, so quit while you’re behind.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 18 hours ago:
The tech “enthusiasts” of Lemmy are really showing their arses in here lol. They have a “I took 2 semesters of computer science so I’m somewhat of an expert” level of understanding and mentality.
There’s a reason most big tech companies are starting to move to passwordless logins. If 2FA is the ultimate protection about unauthorised access, the password is ultimately irrelevant - and given all we know about password reuse and data breaches, getting rid of them is a good thing.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 18 hours ago:
If they’ve got your phone with your 2FA they’ve also got your email on your phone lol
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 18 hours ago:
If a thief already has your phone unlocked then nothing else matters.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 18 hours ago:
It’s communism lol. They’re a communist country - communism is not right wing.
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 18 hours ago:
The Chinese communist party ruling a communist country are not “right wing” lol.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 18 hours ago:
They don’t subsidise the purchase price of petrol cars.
Should the oil industry be subsidised? Absolutely not, they would still be extremely profitable without the subsidies. It’s pure corruption by politicians who want to help their mates, help keep the donations flowing, and want to position themselves for cushy exec jobs and board seats when they leave politics.
The EV market is different though, as this situation shows. The oil industry doesn’t need subsidies. The EV market, as well as the “renewables” market, do.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 18 hours ago:
What computers do now was considered “impossible” once. What cars do now was considered “impossible” once. That’s my point - saying absolutes like “impossible” in tech is a giant red flag.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 18 hours ago:
Because corruption, mostly.
Oil however is a bit different as the world would literally collapse without it. We have no replacement for it. We need it.
- Comment on [deleted] 19 hours ago:
It’s both left leaning and fascist, because the left want fascism as long as it’s controlled by them.
- Comment on [deleted] 19 hours ago:
New Study
Study is from 2018 lol
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 1 day ago:
You think the Chinese Communist Party are right wing? Did I get that right?
- Comment on TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale 1 day ago:
Aka less obnoxiously left-wing.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
If a product can only exist with huge government subsidies, it’s probably not ready for the market. These cuts are because of the government cutting federal tax rebates for purchasing an EV.
I love EVs, and my next car will likely be one, but if you can’t make an EV at a price point that people will buy them at without the government essentially using taxpayer money to discount them, then you shouldn’t be making EVs.
- Comment on Windows zero-day actively exploited to spy on European diplomats 1 day ago:
The main issue with this is that the computer is compromised before this attack can occur. The user has already fallen prey to a virus. This exploit isn’t a super urgent priority really because it only affects already compromised PCs.
- Comment on Windows zero-day actively exploited to spy on European diplomats 1 day ago:
However, user interaction is required for successful exploitation, as it involves tricking potential victims into visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file.
So it’s essentially just user error, with the user downloading a virus.
They definitely made it sound more “fuck windows!” in the title though, which is nice hey?
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 day ago:
It is, therefore, impossible to eliminate them
If anyone says something like this in regard to technology they’re raising a red flag about themselves immediately.
- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 1 day ago:
Oh no!
The issue, which turned up in the non-security preview update for Windows 11 (KB5067036)
Oh so it’s nothing. Don’t join the Windows Insider program unless you are ok with getting bugs, and when you do get bugs - report them. That’s what it’s for! It’s NOT for regular everyday Joe Blow to run on their personal machine.
- Comment on Would it be correct to say that enshittification is the physical manifestation of the economic ai bubble bursting? 1 day ago:
No.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 day ago:
Yeh but with 2FA the password is essentially irrelevant because no one other than you can get in even if they have your password, so why not just skip it?
What downsides are there to passwordless authentication in your mind?
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 day ago:
It’s all just a big “in theory” really. It’s “insecure” in that if someone knows the telco you are with, and the telco that you’re with doesn’t follow procedures to verify that a caller is who they say they are, you could have someone else steal your phone number by getting a replacement sim card sent to them.
In reality it’s nothing to worry about. Like…at all. Every telco I’ve been with sends you a sms to confirm that you requested a new SIM card, and that’s after they’ve confirmed that you are who you say you are via sending you a code on your phone number or email.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 day ago:
To make it worse, SMS is incredibly insecure. Nothing should send you codes via SMS
Theoretically sure, but the chances of anyone getting their SMS hacked and their 2FA code being used to compromise their account is so infinitesimally small that it’s not even worth mentioning.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 day ago:
Because passwordless authentication is awesome and needs to be the standard.