IllNess
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- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 20 hours ago:
Agreed. I hope more people leave that dumpster fire.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 22 hours ago:
I’m not the person you were replying to but maybe the limit of using the websites like the ones I posted is you can’t reuse the same face (at least not than I’m aware of).
So if you are in the UK and you upload 2 selfies from the site and the facial recognition pattern is different from each other, then the system which Reddit is using might reject it.
This is only a guess though.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 day ago:
There’s a bunch of AI face generating pictures. I wonder if you can just use those. Or maybe this is just to create a new law to arrest people of uploading fake pictures…
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 4 days ago:
You are correct. AI can give an a completely different answer than its source and they can just blame it on AI. This is true but Google has sway the results given depending on the individual. Obama talks about this and how it contributes to the extreme divide of people of the US.
- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 4 days ago:
It steals content from creators while being worse for the environment at the same time. Not the same thing, it is worse.
I worked in education in computer science and basic usage in nearly every age group. When you realize how bad people are at using search engines, you can see why people think they accomplished something using AI. It’s like giving a child a calculator saying he can do math now.
Creating search prompts itself is a skill. You wouldn’t think so until trying to teach some one logic through search prompts. It is hell, literally my hell. Some people just don’t get it like 0 percent.
Differentiating what is a good source and what is a bad source is an even harder skill. People will believe what they want to believe. Google search adapts to the bias of individuals because it keeps people searching. This is why, even though it isn’t perfect, engines like duckduckgo are important.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 4 days ago:
That’s why the news that Grok is racist is true. The US government will be even more systematically racist now.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 4 days ago:
I commented a user’s use of “rare”. Then you did the same to my comment.
I didn’t think how the initial poster use of the word “rare” meant to describe “a matter of popular practice, not difficulty.” So I replied back to you.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 5 days ago:
When someone says “rare operating system”, the word “rare” describes “operating system”.
Here is the statement again:
Normal people either can’t afford these devices or don’t have time for all the hassle of installing and using a rare operating system on a phone.
In your sentence, “rare” is used to describe “it”, a pronoun, which refers to the action “to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat”.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 5 days ago:
Umm… I don’t think that’s right. I don’t think you could ever buy a phone from Google with GrapheneOS.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 5 days ago:
Minimum wage in Spain is €1,300 per month. A Pixel 9a is under $500 and under €550 and currently on sale for $449 and €500. A couple of hundred can get you a Pixel 9. What exactly is a not obscenely price for a flagship phone to you?
And I don’t even understand your second comment. People spend over an hour a day on social media alone.
So the normal person in Spain could buy this phone and the normal person in Spain does have the time to figure out how to install a “rare” operating system. A “rare” operating system that’s free and easily copied.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 1 week ago:
This was also explained in the source I linked.
Interestingly, since the data is read twice, some unlicensed developers exploited that. They would have logo data for something other than Nintendo in the location the logo data was normally stored. So you could boot the Gameboy and see some other logo besides the Nintendo one. But, when the logo data was read again for validation, they would quickly change the logo data to the Nintendo logo. That way, the Nintendo logo was never technically reproduced on screen, yet the Gameboy would still boot. Even more genius if you ask me! Very few unlicensed games were released for the Gameboy (at least here in the states). Here’s the best list I could find of unlicensed games.
Thank you for the info.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 1 week ago:
I appreciate you took the time to correct me on this. I appreciate the information.
As for me saying copyright infringement, I thought it would’ve be trademark infringement since it is a trademarked logo but the blog post said copyright and they seem to have done their research so I went with that. I figured maybe the code itself for the Game Boy hardware and rom was copyrighted.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 1 week ago:
Here something I always thought was interesting about Nintendo and copyrights.
The Nintendo logo for the original Game Boy (the one that scrolls down) was a way to prevent unlicensed developers from releasing games on the Game Boy.
Games would not boot up if they Nintendo logo is not read on the cartridge and the ROM.
So for a developer to release a game on the Game Boy without Nintendo knowing, they would have to commit copyright infringement.
Source: Reverse Engineering the Gameboy Boot Screen (catskull.net)
The Game Boy was released in 1989, over 36 years ago. They used this same tactic to on the Switch. They claim the prod keys, which are needed for switch emulators, are copyrighted.
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 1 week ago:
Well yeah! My uncle works for Nintendo!
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 weeks ago:
They are banking on the AI will eventually be smart enough that it will replace the workers that fed it.
- Comment on California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare: it would let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability. 3 weeks ago:
California was 58.47% Dem to 38.33% Rep.
Only District of Columbia (90.28% to 6.47%), Maryland (62.62% to 34.08%), Massachusetts (61.22% to 36.02%), Hawaii (60.59% to 37.48%), and Vermont (63.83% to 32.32%) did better percentage wise.
California is still in the top 5 of the most Democratic states, even beating out New York (55.91% to 43.31%), Washington State (57.23% to 39.01%), and Illinois (54.37% to 43.47%).
If you look at the percentages, a lot of people voted for Trump everywhere. You can’t just single out California for this.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 3 weeks ago:
Looks good on Lynx.
- Comment on New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click. 3 weeks ago:
They have the code built in to their keyboard and their messaging app just in case you switch keyboards.
It would be easier looking in to their own internal company files or databases than to parse information from a website even if they are really good at that.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 3 weeks ago:
In April, Anthropic filed its opposition to the class certification motion, arguing that a copyright class relating to 5 million books is not manageable and that the questions are too distinct to be resolved in a class action.
I also like this one too. We stole so much content that you can’t sue us. Naming too many pieces means it can’t be a class action lawsuit.
- Comment on New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click. 3 weeks ago:
Their AI and their quick answers, like taking Wikipedia articles, definitely steals content from creators.
But is this stealing content from creators? Or does Google have their own list of emojis with corresponding descriptions?
If it’s the latter then I say it’s fine. That’s like complaining Duckduckgo’s search result of a calculator takes away views from calculator.com. Calculator.com and emojipedia.org don’t own the patent to online calculators or description of emojis with a copy function.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 3 weeks ago:
This isn’t working for me. It’s just stuck on ‘Processing…’. It also has a Javascript error.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 4 weeks ago:
- Case made in USA, not the phone.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
Journalism budget.
This person buying it might convince persuade others to not to buy it.
- Comment on Anker recalls over a million power banks due to fire and burn hazards 4 weeks ago:
If the serial number is worn off or not visible, please contact Anker for guidance.
- Comment on What happened to the fediverse stats here? 5 weeks ago:
That is my guess too. Israel is preparing for Iran propaganda. Israel and Russia are the top internet propaganda countries.
- Comment on 109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas 5 weeks ago:
More than 70 Texas law enforcement agencies joined forces throughout the month of April to combat the exploitation of children in the digital space. These agencies leveraged the expertise of highly skilled computer crimes investigators that worked around the clock to identify victims and apprehend offenders engaged in the production, distribution, and possession of child sexual abuse material.
“The coordinated efforts of all agencies involved in Operation Soteria Shield serve as a powerful demonstration of unwavering dedication in the battle against online child exploitation. By exposing the darkest corners of the Internet, this operation has targeted predators who seek to harm vulnerable children,” said Wylie Police Chief Anthony Henderson.
The online part. I say this passes for a tech article.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 5 weeks ago:
Eventually, I had a PoC running, but I was still getting the captcha? It seemed that for whatever reason, datacenter IP addresses using the JS disabled form were always presented with a captcha, damn!
The simplest answer is probably the right one. They are used for bots.
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 1 month ago:
We should start with, what car do you have? Then we can figure out if it has an AUX port.
Also if this think has an original battery, you might want to replace it before it becomes bloated.
- Comment on Sunsetting the Ghostery Private Browser 1 month ago:
Is there any reason to use Ghostery with uBlock Origin?
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 1 month ago:
What I meant is they don’t care about people as people.
It’s just a number to them.
If they can profit of millions dying and they know they could get away with it, they would.