masterofn001
@masterofn001@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Tor calls for more Snowflake proxies! 1 day ago:
That link for orbot doesn’t go anywhere. At least for me. A bunch of qr codes - 3 of which 404. None get to a download.
The fdroid link 404s.
Anyway, here’s the current release
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 1 day ago:
I did goatsee that coming.
- Comment on Best gas masks 4 days ago:
Lemon juice and milk.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 4 days ago:
A couple short stories on the matter:
Is there a god? (Less than a page, but says it all)
Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing. He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe – ninety-six billion planets – into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies. Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment’s silence he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.” Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel. Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.” “Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.” He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?” The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay. “Yes, now there is a God.” Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch. A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut. (Fredric Brown, “Answer”) www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
Or
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov
- Comment on Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers 4 days ago:
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
nothing; Good
A semicolon saves the day.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
- Comment on How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE 4 weeks ago:
This man is a gift to all in these times.
Spread his word.
Learn his craft.
Build those tools.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter if the people with the war machines are the ones who control the grids,lines,pipes,etc.
The ‘holy grail’ will most likely result in further top down dominance. As god king tyrants demonstrate their continued uselessness to humanity by creating more powerful and destructive weapons and hoarding the infinite power supply for their own.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He is.
He’s not human. Some kind of demon cyborg.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 months ago:
If 85 people have an IQ of 100 and 15 have an IQ of 0, then 85% are smarter than the average.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
So was:
1984, Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) and other pk dick novels/film adaptations, , etc.
- Comment on Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry 2 months ago:
All I wanted was a slow painful death.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
freedom and democracy are incompatible
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 months ago:
Eliminate the poor.
Eliminate poverty.
The wealthy only need maintain their indefatigable AI robot slaves.
Simple.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 2 months ago:
That doesn’t stop or turn off google services, or services framework, or safety scan, or scanning your images, or reading your contacts and phone logs, what apps you use, when you use them, biometric data, location data, etc.
You can mitigate against these by limiting permissions or appops with adb or shizuku enabled programs.
Uninstall/disable as many google apps, components, and services as safely possible.
Use a DNS filter to block Google from sending data, DNS rebinding, and using mdns for internet.
Or go all the way and use graphene or similarly degoogled OS.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds 3 months ago:
They want to take away your ovens!!!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
NFC definitely.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 3 months ago:
Don’t fret peons!
The billionaires will become trillionaires and you will become poorer.
Win / win.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 months ago:
I’m just skimming through the license on my phone and they include LGPL, apache, BSD, Mozilla public license, eclipse public license, w3c, MIT, apple, and GNu.
IANAPOLL (The extra POL is for patent or licensing) so I don’t know the intricacies of each type.
But there are a lot.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 3 months ago:
If both grandparents were born there you have rights of descent and are an Irish citizen.
Just have to do the paperwork.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 months ago:
I wonder if any and everyone who has ever contributed code under whichever open license was used could sue the tits off google, not as a class, but thousands upon thousands of individual lawsuits, for breach of terms of said licence/contract.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 months ago:
So, will an app like this
codeberg.org/muntashir/AppManager
which uses (w)adb, be able to install apk as I currently do?
Or will they also fuck this up ?
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 3 months ago:
Human psychology is the same no matter the tech.
It just makes it easier.
And deadlier.
- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 3 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
The 90-minute live demonstration featured the introduction of a complete computer hardware and software system called the oN-Line System or, more commonly, NLS, which demonstrated for the first time many of the fundamental elements of modern personal computing, including windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.
In 1968
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 months ago:
Moral of the story - tech co’s and gov id requirements are evil and have no basis in actual security.
Now that peoples data has been exposed, they are susceptible to id theft. So, how does a site or gov deal with that?
There suddenly are over 9000 Stan Smith’s on the site. Weird.
Well, guys, for the safety of… … (Murmuring… We’re using the kids as justification this time or terrorism… Kids. OK.) the children, we will require a blood sample to verify your genetic code.
Thank you and have a nice day and welcome to gattaca.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 4 months ago:
So, Discord - by forcing your acceptance of their tos which renders them immune from damages done by "third parties*
By offloading a term of service that Discord requires you to provide.
If they force you to give the info, they are responsible for handling and storing it properly, no matter what some evil lawyer or exec says.
If laws make bad things legal because rich people can use words, then there needs to be some form of redress to return the spirit of the laws to the people.
Maybe we all make usernames with a legally binding personal ToS that is deemed agreed upon by the corporation accepting the username.
This is just a shell game and they are conmen.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 4 months ago:
Fmhy ✅
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 4 months ago:
Tbf both are true.
Source: I have gone mad and everything has only become worse.
- Comment on Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one) 4 months ago:
I just have my old PC’s running Linux connected directly to the tv or projector.
I use a super basic webdav server or free^arr matey^ streaming sites.
I sometimes sftp into devices.
That’s my setup.
