mrnobody
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- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 6 days ago:
Windows, since 7 (2009ish), had a feature to hit CTRL which zeros in on the mouse to find it if you can’t find it. On my 3x 19" LCDs I had, it was handy to have that 3" circle close in on it.
- Comment on 80s and 90s commercials... they just hit different, don't they? 6 days ago:
You ever talk about something with someone with your phone nearby but locked/screen off, but get ads for that Betty thing shortly after the conversation?
nypost.com/…/marketing-firm-spies-on-you-through-…
Another one about microphone tracking from advertisers that’s really good (unfortunately only YouTube) youtu.be/EVzhDH2q1Bs
- Comment on 80s and 90s commercials... they just hit different, don't they? 6 days ago:
They had to actually come up with proper advertising to grab attention. Now, they just hit you with ads all over and track your phone to see it they work.
I also feel like ads today are more common/more types. Yeah there are TV and radio still. Maybe newspaper… but you’ve got phone app ads, which are so invasive and highly trackable. Same with internet ads too. Before, there was limited proof anything worked outside of mailed coupons.
I know this isn’t the privacy group, but wait until the regular people learn about how companies track you and your location without Bluetooth, GPS, or WiFi scanning! They play high frequency tones over the speakers (usually with music going) that act like barcodes so your mic picks it up and sends data while we’re none the wiser. Something like reporting this IMSI, IMEI, or user has arrived at this location at this timestamp. But they’ll be able to look up who owns that device if they don’t know already, because there are HUNDREDS of data brokers managing, trading, selling your data.
Lesson: disable mic and camera access when you’re not talking con the phone!
- Comment on How to be attractive 6 days ago:
Ah, thank you. I knew they used a different rating system but I didn’t realize the numbers were so similar.
- Comment on CATTACK 6 days ago:
Funny meme but an AI generated gun fucking kills my eyes!
The nose of the slide and barrel say 1911, the ejection port says Browning Hi Power, the rubber finger grooves of the grip sit in top of the wooden pistol grip, and the laser is somehow attached while the slide has no picatinny rail.
- Comment on What's your favorite Steve Wood role? 6 days ago:
Dude, my fucking eyes!!
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 6 days ago:
Color me shocked! Jk everybody saw that coming… It was probably hinted at to get reactions, then went ahead when people didn’t bitch too much.
- Comment on How to be attractive 6 days ago:
95? Shiiit, all I got near me is 87, 89, and/or 91, 92, or maybe 93! I got a bit of a drive to go near a track to find anything above that.
- Comment on So, how's it hanging? 1 week ago:
Short, shriveled, and a little to the left.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Oh, dude, my bad!! I’ve switched keyboards for swipe and sometimes don’t fully proofread everything bc I forget it’s not accurate.
Fixed. Storyteller, idk how, but should’ve been September 😖 fixed the others too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think in your first paragraph, you meant Celsius? With the 0-100 comment.
Anyway, is not really being selfish, it’s that most people don’t know or don’t understand what they’ve not been taught, and an argument could be made that "it’s too difficult"to switch. Same reason we have MPH not Km/h, 12 inches = Foot vs CM or M. Or pounds (Lbs) not kilograms.
I would love to adopt that system as its more intuitive to understand.
I also like the argument of 13 months at 28 days each for a solid Sunday - Saturday approach. Yes, that only = 364 days, which leaves 1 extra each year plus leap year. I day those are called bonus days, where everything is truly shut down for a time to be together, rest, enjoy, etc. Don’t make it a big holiday where travel is involved as that requires fuel stations to remain open or grocery stores to operate. Anything like emergency services and whatnot get paid 3x holiday pay not just 2x.
OK one last thing. Fix the goddamn month names!!! Storyteller should be 7, October =8ty, etc. But somewhere along the lines I think we’re aged July and August so those got pushed out of sync two months and so December meaning 10 is more 12 lol. But we all go along with it because of tradition and history. Not stubbornness or selfishness.
- Comment on How many crts yall have? 1 week ago:
None. Got rid of my last when I got married. Owned since brand new, was a 27" Toshiba w Component and S-Video. It worked perfectly well as a kids room TV, but I also got really sick of lugging it when moving and furniture got cheaper and less stable to hold something so heavy too, so it was time to part ways!
- Comment on I'll handle my own data, thank you very much! 1 week ago:
That’s what I was getting at
- Comment on I'll handle my own data, thank you very much! 1 week ago:
Just wait until you apply for a new job… The amount of data these applicant tracking systems gather is horrendous!
Those will be the next target. Unfortunately, no matter how private I try to be, the fact all my data is out there with 100 different companies’ job portals fucking sucks!!
- Comment on List of Fediverse instances 1 week ago:
So, these are lists of lists in a list?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Hey, shhh, I’m trying to prove a point lol
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What about something xmpp-based like Jabber, Prosody, or Snikket?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
Haha yeah my bad no context.
My concern and reason for signing was, my kid in hs said a guy in class was using them, joking about use for a test. Then someone commented if he was uploading pics of his gf yet (popular girl I assume)and I really grew concerned. I totally get kids joking around, but at the point of under age limit, where do you draw the line is the device is always recording data? You could make moderators unintentionally view CP to a degree.
Yes, “public” doesn’t immediately scream privacy, however, when i walk around the city, NOBODY knows who I am. They won’t remember my face, don’t know my name, address, etc. So, there’s privacy from humans since we don’t all wear name tags with our phone number or address.
Overhearing a conversion is one thing, but recording it is a whole other issue! What about self incrimination? What about no consent from being recorded? I think of a show, Impractical Jokers, where they do a lot of stuff in public, and sometimes faces are blurred likely bc that person didn’t consent. Why would these social media stuff be any different?!
Idk, I think It’s awful, and worse so since Zuck pushed back on the lawsuit to get gov regulation in social media and age verification. To me, they’re buying politicians left and right, so they’ll get their way, but it’s “security theater” action basically. Especially data harvesting! Nothing more.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Thank you, Nvidia 🙏😇 2 weeks ago:
Thank you for the explanation!
- Comment on Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address? 2 weeks ago:
Really??? That’s insane it resets so much! Who is your ISP?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
It’s the old story of boiling a frog alive!
You increase the temp too fast or throw him into boiling water hell get out. If you slowly increase the temp from cool to boil, it’ll get cooked alive.
Society incrementally gets worse so it’s hardly noticeable. Inflation made the news a few years back but now it’s all hush hush. Everything can go unnoticed until it doesn’t, and most things are so subtle, most people don’t give it a second thought.
Or like buying a new car and then you see that same model everywhere. Now that you’re familiar, is easier to see. Same with security and privacy!!
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
I’m think I’m going to make a shirt that says, “Don’t scan me” so that all the flock, security systems, etc auto scan, but humans hopefully wouldn’t. Obviously if they did they’d be idiots.
It would be nice if it were a simple reboot command or something harmless, but it’d cause me to essentially be invisible walking through an area as every camera would reboot and go offline a couple minutes.
Makes me chuckle as it’d puzzle anyone reviewing the footage!
- Comment on Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address? 2 weeks ago:
Oh wow! That’s pretty excessive lol. Is it CGNAT maybe?
- Comment on Is it possible to have a usable domain without a VPS or a static IP address? 2 weeks ago:
I’m late to the party, but could everyone answer me this- how often does you’re public IP actually change with any of your ISPs??
With the numerous companies I’ve used, the ONLY time I’ve ever seen my IP change is getting a new modem through, say, Comcast or whoever. It goes by MAC address, and if you use Comcast and then set to bridge mode and use your own device, that’s a new MAC so you’d get a new public IP. Swap ISPs obviously a new IP.
I’ve NEVER randomly received a new IP when using the same equipment consistently, so I’m not sure why everyone’s so worried about dynamic DNS stuff… Maybe outside the US is different? I’ve lived in a few States and it’s always the same. If you make a hardware change, just note you should also double check your IP and update it, that’s all.
- Comment on Thank you, Nvidia 🙏😇 2 weeks ago:
Meme or not, I don’t get everyone’s obsession with this guy. Never fucking heard of him until he died.
- Comment on Nvidia's new DLSS 5 Brings Photo-Realistic Lighting To RTX 50-Series 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, people. I feel there are comments from non-gamers and all “AI” haters.
A. Game developers are constantly chasing the photorealism aspect, and if there’s a chip that helps to achieve this in real-time, they’ll want to get help achieving this.
B. It’s not film, not even close. There’s not 1 single director who wants it done 1 way. It’s not ruining the “artists original intent” because so many aspects are developed in fragments and then pieced together to make characters or scenes or certain elements, etc. Most goals are to captivate the player, get a lot of time spent playing, and this is a way to do it.
C. It’s also taking advantage of some hardware elements to enhance the player experience. I remember jumping from a GTX 10 series to a RTX 30 series and seeing improvements since it had ray tracing lighting effects. Most people want the realism in more than just cut scenes. They want to feel they’re inside something real. It’s also just fun to spend time admiring the realism inside a game. And people insulting this ate clearly ai haters. This is sort of a different system of inelegance, not some LLM trying to interpret what it thinks you want, smh.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
It was also a mess as there was a lot of confusion around “64-bit” and “32-bit” systems that even most retailers weren’t sure how to describe. Dude it was entertaining talking to best buy his who weren’t even sure how to explain it all and the compatibility issues.
I didn’t like Vista myself, but 8 seemed to be modernized enough and get away from Aero icons and glassy things.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
You mean when care was taken while coding and an OS could "run on 1GB but suffice with 2GB? I know everyone hated Win 8 but it was a welcomed change plus no bullshit on it at the time.
- Comment on Hacked data shines light on homeland security’s AI surveillance ambitions 2 weeks ago:
well, they tell you they hold data for up to 7 years for legal reasons, but I deleted this stuff about 10+ years ago.
Unfortunately, Facebook build data profiles for non users too, so they can continue tracking based on crappy face detection or people being tagged in photos. I don’t really know if it’s even worth trying to sue, because they could “accidentally acquire” info about you from data brokers when they buy in bulk.
However, it never hurts to minimize what they have access to!