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- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
People that buy commercial displays won’t tolerate adware on their monitors. Can you imagine having a screen in a store and it suddenly displaying ads that are not for what the store sells itself? This ensures there will always be an healthy demand for ad free displays.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
Some premium brands like Bang & Olufsen sell TVs without adware, I think Panasonic TVs are mostly ad-free for now.
Outside of that, most big brands will have “professional” or “commercial” product lines that also don’t have ads. But in all cases you’ll have to pay extra over the TVs subsidized by ads. - Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 1 week ago:
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/Authentication_Authorization mentions HTTP signatures since the very first version of the document in 2017. The current efforts seem more in the direction of describing standardizing the existing usage.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 1 week ago:
One example is HTTP signatures. Servers sign their payloads and receiving servers should validate not just the hash but ensure the payload is not too old. Mastodon allows for a twelve hour difference (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/#http-signatures) but other software might be stricter for security reasons. The a bunch of things like webfinger were designed around public dns and public key chains A mastodon server running on the open internet and/or expecting public keychain HTTPs will not be able to federate with something running in tor.
You could cut enough corners to make something that federates inside tor, but at that point it’s better to design something around tor’s features.
- Comment on How feasible would it be to host Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Friendica, or Matrix over Tor/I2P? 1 week ago:
That’s just a frontend issue. You can have clients that don’t try to do regular polling.
Having reliable activitypub federation is going to be a much harder challenge. The server to server protocol has a bunch of assumptions that are not true for tor and i2p.
And unless you want the entire network to become a CSAM and Nazi cespool, you would also need a reliable way of identifying servers, which defeats the purpose.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 2 weeks ago:
Regarding what Bernie calls the risks “robot soldiers”, I think the Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon should be mandatory viewing.
War is not always avoidable, but it becomes less so if the costs of fighting it are perceived as small.
- Comment on Asking the right questions... 2 weeks ago:
That goes back to the original Luddites. They weren’t anti technology per-se, they were were anti oligarchy.
- Comment on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you have more than 26 storage devices, but don’t know how to use folder mounts on windows, or are weirdly attached to bad design decision from the 1980s.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 month ago:
Does it predict people that allegedly finished university not knowing the difference between correlation and causality?
This reminds me of a fraud risk classification model I once heard about, which ended up being an excellent income-by-postal-code classifier.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December 1 month ago:
Those are all thing that can all be controlled by the direct lead on any well run company.
I know from my own work that some mediocre middle managers wanted a rigid technological enforcement of the hybrid work framework and are probably dreaming about rolling out a “feature” like this.
- Comment on Double standards from FIFA, as Infantino says it cannot suspend Israel's membership 2 months ago:
This was already clarified. FIFA cannot ban Israel for the same reason they weren’t the ones banning Russia. UEFA suspended Russia, and as a side effect Russia was also prevented from participating in FIFA competitions, and only UEFA can suspend Israel.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 2 months ago:
To add to this, accept when people tell you it’s fine to pronounce their name wrong. My name is very hard to pronounce if you don’t speak my native language, and I prefer that people mispronounce it the “obvious” way, instead of trying to approximate it because then I have people calling me by 20 different variations, and sometimes I’ve no idea they are referring to me.
- Comment on Why does Lemmy output horribly invalid HTML? 2 months ago:
Works is different from works consistently across all browsers, or even versions of the same browser. I know most web developers got into their heads that only Chrome (and maybe Firefox if they are filling generous) matters, but open source projects shouldn’t incentivise this.
- Comment on EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes? 2 months ago:
Depending on the country, and depending on the gift, yes. Though it’s mostly not enforced.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 months ago:
But then you need to use cloud services to sync with your family/roommates/etc. Not everyone lives alone.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 months ago:
Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.
People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 3 months ago:
Congratulations, you started with the action parody. Now go catch up on the classics.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 months ago:
So, if say, Saudi Arabia's CERT tells them to block a list of reporters accounts, they will gladly do it without demanding any evidence?
- Comment on Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research 3 months ago:
Israel's own reports admit they are killing more civilians by an order of magnitude, even if you count only the people that were directly killed by the IDF. That's not even up for debate.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 months ago:
Meta got a fine of over a billion euros.
Google got a bunch of smaller fines, but it's probably way above everyone else in terms of fines.
Microsoft got half a billion.
Even Apple got an 8 million euro fine, but that was more a tap in the wrist to make them think twice about some data collection.And besides this, large companies are constantly in contact with the authorities and in smaller violations the general policy is to give a warning and let companies stop the illegal data processing voluntarily.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 months ago:
You cannot use an algorithm to corelate it with other data without express consent.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 months ago:
GDPR article 9 (1) says you can't play algorithmic guess with people's religion or political opinions unless you gave express permission to the service provider to do it (i.e. it's not covered in the general GDPR boilerplate)
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 months ago:
GDPR also applies to data you get from public sources.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 months ago:
That's probably a massive GDPR violation. Automated processing of extra sensitive data like political beliefs and religion is not outright forbidden but it subject to extra protections.
- Comment on xkcd #3127: Where Babies Come From 4 months ago:
That's where Americans come from. Thanks all gods, most babies are not American.
- Comment on ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results 4 months ago:
The trick is reading checkboxes before pressing them.
I don't know what people expected the option
☐ Make this chat discoverable
Allows it to be shown in web searches
to do.
I also don't know why it would have been implemented in the first place, but at least it was very clear.
- Comment on Zero-hours contracts: Peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’ 4 months ago:
said the Lords was “doing the bidding of bad bosses” and ought to “get out of the way” of the plans.
I think someone didn't notice who the "lords" are yet.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 4 months ago:
In terms of private banks, a basic savings account wouldn't really be a big risk for them nowadays because it's a bare bones account. It doesn't include things like access to credit cards or other forms of credits, or any form of long term investments.
If anything, banks might even like the idea, because it gives them a way to offload their riskier (and let's be honest less profitable) customers without making society fully collapse.
If the system is implemented properly it's a win-win for everyone.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 4 months ago:
For all other Europeans out there, avoiding this situations is another thing the EU did for us.
For the Americans, write to your representatives demanding the same rights.
Excluding people from having a bank account in 2025 is basically condemning them to ostracism even without sending to concentration camps.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 4 months ago:
It's almost like most customers prefer function over form.