limer
@limer@lemmy.ml
Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier
- Comment on No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords 10 hours ago:
For anyone concerned about this; please login, using your google credentials, to your nearest scam website
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
I was fruitful and multiplied, its hard to organize a large migration of people, some of whom want to stay.
I will travel, but am rather tied to this area, even if I do not see it changing for the better in my lifetime
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
I agree with masterdon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 1 week ago:
Putting a device on airplane mode removes the distractions. If I play a video game while the lecture is going on, well that is on me, or the lecture, or both.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 1 week ago:
I git laid a month after I flipped through the first chapter of an introduction.
Coincidence? I think not
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 1 week ago:
Well, what a surprise. For the first time I feel smug about not having a phd, much education or common sense
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 1 week ago:
He aged pretty well
- Comment on Amy Klobuchar learned that a video clip of her was going viral. So she clicked on it and saw her face and her voice saying vulgar things she had never said. It was AI. 1 week ago:
She has a well earned reputation of sounding in private just like in the video . I’m sure the video is not her, but it was really accurate in tone; which is why it’s getting traction
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 1 week ago:
If it was good enough for my parents, it’s good enough for me!
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 3 weeks ago:
I used the word 50 years ago in a conversation once; I own it
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 weeks ago:
It’s like watching an online version of Brexit, without the referendum
- Comment on Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler 5 weeks ago:
“Barbarian horde” backed by a foreign empire
- Comment on Thailand sees US offering ‘very good’ trade deal after ceasefire 5 weeks ago:
Hopium
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 5 weeks ago:
Users are funneled towards actions exploited by both politics and greed. Many have no choice.
- Comment on As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution 5 weeks ago:
This tech we all use is advancing exponentially.
And we must be ready to embrace the dizzying changes in the next few years so that we can improve our lives and have better governments.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 5 weeks ago:
I design systems similar to this; in my mindset the competency and privacy are the same.
There is simply no way anyone competent or knowledgeable would have made this series of mistakes in good faith. And it’s very hard for someone not knowledgeable about the tech to understand the magnitude.
It’s rather like designing and selling car with bad breaks, and your car gets into an accident which could have been avoided had the breaks worked. But nobody could test the breaks fully?
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 5 weeks ago:
Indeed, how can anyone know?
I think failures like this will be readily apparent, within months after launch, to technically minded people only. But only if people have summaries in their news feeds or know how to research the opinions of others…
Perhaps non technical people should wait at least a year or two of before trying a new service? By then the worst of them will have crashed or be found out.
This will not be the last time it happens. With llm coding, I think there will be dozens similar to this in a few years
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 5 weeks ago:
It is too bad all these people trusted a bad company which cared little about them or their privacy.
- Comment on sharks are older than polaris 1 month ago:
Rumors to this day state it pulses to a Gregorian chant