SnoringEarthworm
@SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price 2 days ago:
This is how people justify surveillance states.
What you actually get is “accountability for thee, none for me”, because people with power get to turn the cameras off whenever they want.
Just look at !Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world to see how easy for people with money and power to [REDACTED].
We don’t need (state) surveillance (on citizens).
We need (citizen) surveillance (on the the state).
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 4 days ago:
What is punycode?
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 5 days ago:
We even had a huge reminder with V for Vendetta, but maybe that was too subtle.
- Comment on Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide 1 week ago:
“Telegram is widely used for influence operations, particularly by state actors such as Russia, who invested heavily in information warfare on the channel.” WhatsApp and Telegram are among platforms with consistently expensive fake accounts, averaging $1.02 and $0.89 respectively.
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Small vendors resell and broker existing accounts, or manually create and “farm” accounts. The larger players will provide a one-stop shop and offer bulk order services for follower numbers or fake accounts, and even have customer support.
A 2022 study co-authored by Dek showed that around ten Euros on average (just over ten US dollars) can buy some 90,000 fake views or 200 fake comments for a typical social media post.
I’m glad that the fediverse is mostly humans and not corpo-bots, but I think this is mostly because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet.
We have manual sign-ups and instance-level blocking, but I wonder if that would be enough if the botters really decide they want a piece of us.
- Comment on Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me 1 week ago:
Looking through reviews and official specs, they are infuriatingly vague about what the refresh rate actually is.
It’s all “super refresh technology” and “four different modes”, which is about as meaningful as “natural flavors” on food packaging.
- Comment on Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me 1 week ago:
The latency with VNC is very little. The main bottleneck is the low refresh rate and the lag of my old E-ink tablet. This can be a much better experience with a newer tablet with higher refresh rate.
What refresh would we need to hit with e-ink monitors for this to be a viable alternative?
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
What the judge should have done is threaten to cut the domain name in half and see who was willing to give up their claim out of motherly love.
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy 1 week ago:
The video codec was AV1. Saved you a click.
- Comment on Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100 2 weeks ago:
Trying to figure out what is up with that formatting.
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- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
Hundreds of thousands of internet strangers is differently from lived experience.
I take the author’s opinion more seriously because they went out and tried it for themselves.
- Comment on Best Project Management and Time Tracking Software 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 weeks ago:
December 2, 2025 02:52 PM
It looks up to me right now.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 weeks ago:
If you VPN into the UK or Australia, you’ll run into the same restrictions.
As more countries impose this kind of legislation, VPNs become less and less of a solution, and they were only ever a solution for people who can afford them.
- Comment on 4.3 Million Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign | Koi Blog 3 weeks ago:
TL;Dr: Chrome extensions are sleeper agents, because Chrome doesn’t review updates before pushing them out to users.
ShadyPanda learned three critical lessons:
- Chrome’s review process focused on initial submission, not ongoing behavior
- Users trust extensions with high install counts and positive reviews
- Patience pays off - some extensions operated for months before detection. The longer you look legitimate, the more damage you can do.
- Comment on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app 3 weeks ago:
The app is mainly designed to help users block and track lost or stolen smartphones across all telecom networks, using a central registry. It also lets them identify, and disconnect, fraudulent mobile connections.
With more than 5 million downloads since its launch, the app has helped block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones, while more than 30 million fraudulent connections have also been terminated.
The government says it helps prevent cyber threats and assists tracking and blocking of lost or stolen phones, helping police to trace devices, while keeping counterfeits out of the black market.
There has to be a way to do all of this without installing something on your phone that you didn’t ask for.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 3 weeks ago:
Something weird about corporations spending billions on “the Comic Sans of technology”
- Comment on ‘The new price of eggs.’ The political shocks of data centers and electric bills 3 weeks ago:
The link just brings me to the front page of a web app. Is there a direct link to the original article ?
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 3 weeks ago:
Schrödinger’s Surety
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 3 weeks ago:
I saw the furry art and that’s how I knew they were a pro*.
::: * If you’re not sure whether or not I’m being sarcastic… neither am I. :::
- Comment on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected 4 weeks ago:
No Way To Prevent This" Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 4 weeks ago:
Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.
Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”
- Comment on AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times 4 weeks ago:
While the analysis suggests ChatGPT — one of the most widely used text-based forms of generative AI — is rapidly changing the mix of occupations on offer to tech workers, it is not shifting the composition of jobs throughout the entire US economy at a much swifter pace than the arrival of computers and the internet.
The headline vs the actual graphs is suspicious to me.
Is it “AI is not replacing jobs” or “AI is not replacing jobs faster than [insert other things that have definitely replaced jobs]”
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 4 weeks ago:
You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
“Feature”
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
If someone was going to accept a $500 pastry, I’d put my money on the gay guy.
(It’s me.)
- Comment on Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator 5 weeks ago:
It was a Reddit comment in response to this video (Catbox alt).
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
In a different time, it was popular to think that capitalism would be better if minorities were winning at it.
A few girlbosses and Diddys later, I’d like to think we know better.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel.
We have enough data points to suggest that being gay doesn’t insulate you from being greedy and corrupt.
That’s important, too.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 weeks ago:
I think people are seeing only the negatives in this merely because of the association with Altman’s name and ignoring the potential benefits out of cynicism.
I don’t know about what other people see, but I see negatives because it’s associated with a billionaire.
If Taylor Swift put her name on it, my opinion would not change.
Billionaires don’t build, they finance machines that extract value from human beings.
Actual scientists have been working on using CRISPR to fight hereditary disease in the US and around the world. This money should go to them instead of yet another billionaire’s pet designer baby startup.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 5 weeks ago:
I understand “eat the rich”, but I have no desire to drink the rich.
I will, however, pour them out on my plants.
It’s what the plants crave.
- Comment on Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices 5 weeks ago:
A new type of Android spyware that requires a password for uninstallation has been identified, making it increasingly difficult for victims to remove the malicious software from their devices.
The first sentence in the link that you linked.
