lemmysmash
@lemmysmash@beehaw.org
- Comment on RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted 5 hours ago:
RIP -> BIH (burn in hell)
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 10 hours ago:
On device? While google services are present there? In this universe?
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 4 days ago:
IDK Rick, seems like hype-driven something that will either cease to exist or leak all your data in like a half a year. At this point I’d better self-host.
- Comment on Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools 4 days ago:
Digg is still alive?!
- Comment on Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs 5 days ago:
None of the privacy-seeking people in their sane mind would use Instagram at all, being fair. But yes, it still sucks.
- Comment on Meta to charge advertisers a fee to offset Europe's digital taxes 1 week ago:
Seems like a good reason for a fine :)
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 weeks ago:
From the article it seems that it’s not even stylometry, but profile features extraction from the large amount of text. So, for example, if I have my full true profile somewhere where I never mention something like BDSM but in another place I have a blog specifically about BDSM but intentionally (and let’s assume efficiently) omit or change every single detail about myself there, then, in theory, this particular technique should fail.
But yes, nothing prevents people from using LLMs in the same way for stylometry (and I’m 101% sure that those who are interested in that are already doing so). And yes, local “rewriter” LLM would help to some extent, but I think there has been another research somewhere that LLM-produced text allows to, if not completely recover the original prompt, then at least kind of fingerprint it, so… I wouldn’t fully trust that method either :)
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 3 weeks ago:
What kind of absolutely insanely mad and psychotic mind an individual should have to generate passwords with AI?
- Comment on Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp 1 month ago:
Fuck them.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling AI Content "Slop" 2 months ago:
No. Sorry, Microslop.
- Comment on You can now see what your friends are listening to on Spotify in real time 2 months ago:
No, that might hurt someone’s feelings, so if you do that you’ll be banned from the platform, your data will perish and your whole online personality will be canceled eventually. Welcome to the modern internet :)
- Comment on The best browser for privacy? 3 months ago:
A fair question to be asked: does sandboxing really matter if you view all sites on the one-origin-at-a-time and incognito-only basis? This way there’s no way for one site to escape its sandbox and get into another site’s cookies (because there are no another site’s cookies) and there’s also no way (theoretically) to escape the app sandbox imposed by Android itself and mingle with another app’s data, right?
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 6 months ago:
This. And obviously to ban all the things like adblockers, NewPipe, custom browsers, etc that give people any kind of relief from Google’s digital slavery.