SnoringEarthworm
@SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 20 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 6 days ago:
Schrödinger’s Surety
- Comment on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t share basic healthcare with everyone, you’re not going to share genetic healthcare, either.
The government shouldn’t subsidize the development of super-healthcare (or pass conveniently targeted policies that enable its development at the expense of citizens) when all the non-billionaires get nothing promises of I’ll-totally-share-it-you-guys from the same guy who says we’re-almost-at-AGI-we-just-need-another-trillion-dollars-I-swear.
- Comment on Chat Control isn’t dead, Denmark has a new proposal − here’s all we know 3 weeks ago:
As per the text shared by the Danish Presidency, the October 30 compromise proposes removing all provisions on detection obligations included in the bill (Articles 7 to 11). These are the obligations to monitor all users’ chat activities.
Voluntary CSAM scanning would then be made permanent and included in Article 4 as a possible mitigation measure.
Yet, the Danish Presidency still leaves a door open for mandatory scanning by planning to introduce a “review clause.”
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This, Director of Government Affairs and Advocacy at the Internet Society, Callum Voge, told TechRadar, allows for the file to be revisited in the future if new detection technologies are developed as alternatives to client-side scanning.
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According to Breyer, though, this may instead be a way to “introduce mandatory Chat Control through the backdoor,” rather than a real fix.
Another amendment could also require providers of high-risk services to develop relevant technologies to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse identified in their services (Article 5).
This indicates, Voge explains, the Danish Presidency’s high-level intention. Yet, without providing the details. “To say definitively, we would need to see the concrete compromise text.”
What’s certain, both Breyer and Voge also believe voluntary scanning may carry some security and privacy risks.
Breyer said to TechRadar: “Even where voluntarily implemented by communications service providers such as currently Meta, Microsoft, or Google, chat control is still totally untargeted and results in indiscriminate mass surveillance of all private messages on these services.”
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 3 weeks ago:
Here before this becomes the backing track for a million conservative TikToks.
- Comment on Why a Reliable Compressed Air Dryer Is Essential for Every Industrial Air System 3 weeks ago:
Reported. Less than a day old, first post is shilling something.
- Comment on Funding Mirlo Federation 3 weeks ago:
Mirlo is the Bandcamp alternative, right?
I don’t mind federating all the things. But why does it need federation?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There is no substitute for Hank Green.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
A lot of creators I watch are YouTube exclusive with their content.
If they were on Peertube, I’d delete YouTube in a heartbeat.
But I also understand that a lot of them make their living off ad revenue, so I don’t blame them for staying.
- Comment on Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies? 3 weeks ago:
For people who know they would be the average guy in that future, they were warnings.
For the tech lords who believe they’ll be in the penthouse suite with sex droids serving sushi, they were advertisements for cool toys.
- Comment on Controversial opinion 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 4 weeks ago:
If they put out a press release about fixing it, I won’t believe it until I see “click the squares with a cat in them” captchas.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 4 weeks ago:
The safety record of these cars has been no less than stellar until now.
Typo?
