phoenixz

@phoenixz@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers.

  Awesome, you’re going to make my life…

  As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value, we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.

  Worse.

  Fuck Samsung

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  And we call it “smart forward”

  Fuck Samsung

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When “Ordinary People” on TikTok Turn Out to Be Professional Actors⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but when that hobby includes using acting to deliver corporate or conservative propaganda, I’d say it’s something that should be mentioned at the very least, because when you get paid for it, it ain’t a hobby

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That screenshots NEEDS more not random CAPITALIZED WORDS to make SURE that you know what THIS IS ABOUT

  Don’t you just love to read TRUMP STYLE messages?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  “The politically right wing motivated assassination of Charlie Kirk claimed the life of a husband, father, and American Nazi

  I couldn’t agree more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Right wing extremism and radicalization?

  Nooo problem

  A right wing radicalizer gets shot?

  We need to investigate radicalization of the online left!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's only funny when I do it⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite literally this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Religions using AI is an obvious move as religion has never been about a higher power, it’s about power,control, and money.

  Had religions been about actual real higher powers then all of them would have been smited to hell and back for their behaviours.

  There isn’t such a thing as a non evil religious organization

  So AI is obvious for them. A system that can capture the less intelligent amongst us and make them members of the flock so that they get more money and power? Must be awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you need actual instructions to build a nuclear bomb, you will not nearly be able to build a nuclear bomb

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave it up to microsoft to screw up even something that simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Another attendee said the talk revealed a less well-known, more scholarly side of Thiel.

  I call bullshit. How can it be that we went from people like Currie and Einstein to fucktards like this, and people actually nearly worship them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  the automobile has represented freedom

  That’s a part I never understood.

  Cara are fucking expensive, they’re literally money drains. Unless you have that much money, you ainns having a car.

  In Europe, bot having a car generally nis perfectly fine, you still can go everywhere easily as that place hasn’t been turned into a cars-only paradise

  In the US, and countries that modelled themselves after it, you’re not going anywhere without a car. Public transit it shit at best and in many places completely absent. Want to try a bicycle? Good luck, you gotta mix in with the murder cars.

  Cars do not represent freedom, they’re the opposite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Stop Trump coalition published this video⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There ya go!

  Wish I saw more like this in the US.

  I feel like a lot of people need to watch that movie “v for vengeance” again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a person ever pretended to be a major Republican did a podcast interviews and everythinng else? While raking in a butt load of money? The turn around and be like HA MF's I am a liberal?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw the Jew down the well?

  That. Was. Awesome.

  Everyone singing along, nobody understanding that he was taking the piss out of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite significant academic criticism of the research, reasoning, and conclusions of Sex at Dawn, the book received praise from many non-academic reviewers in the media.

  So yeah, academically, the both likely hasn’t much worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEI, more like DIED⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hate to dance on someone’s grave but some people make it so easy to laugh and cheer about their assassination and the following memes…

  Sorry kirkie, you deserved this one and all the ridicule that followed. You sold your soul for money and power, of course most people hate you.

  This meme shows perfectly why people laugh at your death.

  I lolled hard at this meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s a problem with debating classes in the US where people lost sight on why debates are useful in the first place.

  It should be an exchange of ideas and views, an opportunity to learn, not a training in ways to just yell over your opponent so that then you can just claim you won something. Then again, writing this “out loud” makes me realize that that is the American way, no?

  May e that’s where a lot of gains can be made for the next generation. Teach them how to debate with reason AND LISTEN TO YOUR OPPONENT.For fucking once, actually listen, and try to understand, and not stick with your guns even though you’re obviously in the wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I heard it and I lolled

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of agree?

  Yeah, guns must be banned completely in the US, fully agree, but phones in class too. Waiting with one for the other won’t make anything better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens are adjusting to the smartphone ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Really now, would you?

  I was on the line, like, what do you want me to do?

  Wake up 5 minutes earlier so that next time you won’t be late. OMG, how dare I even say that out loud

  Nobody has cellphones in schools for hundreds of years and after a few years of having them it’s funny to see how all kids think that it’s impossible and a human rights violation to be without

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s mostly how the body reacts to the bullet, the hands going up a little Ina reflex, but you can see he’s already lost control of his body. That part is always what gets me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[JS] European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  commitments lies of Microsoft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[JS] European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Teams is the absofuckinglutely worst

  It’s the worst software product I’ve ever have been forced to use

  I use it every day for years now because we don’t really have much of a choice, yet I haven’t had a single day where it actually worked as it would

  Typically screen sharing is broken, the cam doesn’t work half the time, the first 5 minutes of every call and meet is always “can you hear me now?” because the fucking audio settings always get set wrong… sometimes it just dumps my browser in a loop that causesy entire computer to freeze, requiring a hard reboot, custom backgrounds never work

  But all our customers use it because reasons, and it being a closed system, it leaves you with no option

  Meanwhile Google meet (as evil as Google is now) just works. Zoom just works. Hell, the next cloud video calling system just works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI generated ads

  It doesn’t happen a lot that headlines make me vomit a little in my mouth but this one did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French lawmakers urged a social media ban for under-15s and "digital curfew" for older minors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not a social media ban, this is limiting children’s access, something I agree with

  Problem is that the responsibility for that is left with the providers, which is how we get to identification requirements for websites, which I vehemently disagree with

  Do it, but do it differently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Questions Pentagon Awarding $200 Million Contract to Integrate Elon Musk’s “Grok” Into Military Systems Following the Chatbot’s Antisemitic Posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just saw a post where grok was saying that the video of CK bring shot was a meme and that CK was perfectly fine

  I mean of course they should integrate this into every system.in the US army

  I’m looking forward to the Wikipedia article about that army that utterly destroyed itself with sheer stupidity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A hash is just a mathematical algorithm that generates a somewhat unique number from any input, and usually in such a way that the tiniest difference generates a completely different hash.

  I can put a single letter in a hash, I can put the entire Bible in a hash, I can put the entire universe in a hash, the output is always the same amount of bytes.

  For example, if I have a hash algorithm that generates a two letter hash, a-z, then the input “Lemmy” could give me “WK” while “Lemmx” (literally one bit difference in binary) could give me “AV”. If I put the Bible in there, I could get out “XX”, for example.

  The same input always generates the same output, and another important tidbit: hashing is always one way, you can’t do it in reverse.

  Also important, as you probably already noticed: the hash contains (usually, but not necessarily) much less information than the original input. This means that at some point, two different inputs can generate the same output, that’s called a collision.

  If the entire world would use the same hash all the time, and users would all use the same password for every website, then all the hashes for all the websites would be the same.

  Now, humans are humans, and most humans use a fairly limited set of passwords. Sole people try to be ingentilent by replacing “s” with “5”, thinking that computers won’t get that.

  Then, somebody started compiling a list of all known passwords with all variations and put them in a table. Then they went over each password, and hashed it with a bunch of well known hashing algorithms. Those tables, called rainbow tables iirc, are super easy and fast lookup tables if you have a hash and want to see what password it could have been.

  Now what can websites do to protect against this? They can “salt” the password by prefixing then with a random text string only known to the website. If I download the database of that website, all the hashes will now be different and I won’t be able to do the lookup anymore. Better even would be to also include the user id in there, making it even harder to decipher.

  What can users do? Don’t use those “Kn0w13DgE” passwords, use a random string of characters. Use unique passwords for each site. Use a password manager which will do both for you so you won’t have to remember anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’d basically how these hash tables work, they have the account and hash and known password so you can do rapid lookups

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it does, but had they done their security right it likely wouldn’t have happened.

  Yeah, 100% secure doesn’t exist but at the same time it’s always closed source companies like these that turn out to have horrible software security. Can’t say for sure of course, but at this point it’s a safe bet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like arguing that if a bank takes my gold to put in a security deposit box but then puts that box open out in the street. Of course the bank would be responsible for the theft.