SnoringEarthworm
@SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade 13 hours ago:
They’re working on a non-Google alternative, last I heard.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
For the most part, it’s believed that carmakers are doing way with Android Auto support simply as a way to expand their control over user data. Because Android Auto utilizes your phone’s connection, all of the data that runs through it goes straight to Android and the phone manufacturer. So, by utilizing built-in systems, the car manufacturers would indeed be able to collect more data about how you use the systems in place, while also possibly getting more money out of you through subscriptions.
You are unfortunately correct.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 2 weeks ago:
Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.
He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”
What does he mean by this?
I struggle to believe Chromebooks will meaningfully contribute to more people adopting Linux, because Google is more interested in getting people to adopt Google instead.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 2 weeks ago:
Simone reminds me of the class perspective: musicians here behave like atomized small owners, caught in their enterprecarity, who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI. Because from these property rights, in this case IP, comes a rent, and from this rent, independent artists and label owners try to make a living. Again, right or wrong, this is what’s happening.
I remember reading somewhere that independent artists make basically no money from Spotify.
Is that still true, or have creators found a way to claw back value from the platform, and that’s why they’re defending it?
- Comment on US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
What is punycode?
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
The video codec was AV1. Saved you a click.
- Comment on Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100 4 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. 5 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 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Schrödinger’s Surety
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
It was a Reddit comment in response to this video (Catbox alt).
