DocMcStuffin
@DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bean jean 4 days ago:
Is there something in particular you want to point out? Because I’m not seeing anything that screams monster.
- Comment on Smothsinian 2 weeks ago:
That depends on if you work for the government
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Needs more jpeg.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 2 months ago:
There’s one good news. Reddit didn’t want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 2 months ago:
At this point I wouldn’t trust Reddit to actually delete posts. Just hide them then sell them as training data if the upvotes are decent.
- Comment on I hate my mind 2 months ago:
Or a shape shifting alien from a 1980’s horror film.
- Comment on First ever iOS trojan discovered — and it’s stealing Face ID data to break into bank accounts 2 months ago:
Tom’s Guide has shit reporting. This was the same site that repeated the bogus DDoS smart toothbrushes story. And they’re at it again more sensationalism.
From something more reputable:
The use of the victims’ faces for bank fraud is an assumption by Group-IB, also corroborated by the Thai police, based on the fact that many financial institutes added biometric checks last year for transactions above a certain amount.
It is essential to clarify that while GoldPickaxe can steal images from iOS and Android phones showing the victim’s face and trick the users into disclosing their face on video through social engineering, the malware does not hijack Face ID data or exploit any vulnerability on the two mobile OSes.
More from bleeping computer:
A new iOS and Android trojan named ‘GoldPickaxe’ employs a social engineering scheme to trick victims into scanning their faces and ID documents, which are believed to be used to generate deepfakes for unauthorized banking access.
Now, don’t get me wrong, you should take malware and social engineering attacks seriously. But get your information from sites that do real security journalism.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 2 months ago:
You got me curious enough to look and what a shitshow of a person working against their own self-interests. She’s a good candidate for !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world.
Aaaannnnd she’s already there, lol.
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 2 months ago:
A few months back Ruud stood up a copy: searxng.world
I’ve been using it, and it tends to be as good as or better than google’s search. There’s only been a handful of instances where I’ve explicitly used google’s.
- Comment on I would have disowned him too. 3 months ago:
Oh no, disowned isn’t nearly far enough. Dad should have responded, “My hands are named crows because they are part of a murder.”
- Comment on Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk) 3 months ago:
Yeah, the first 2/3rds of the article covering Naomi Wu was worth a read, but that last 1/3rd… I get her argument, but she should have left that out to focus just on Naomi.
- Comment on Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic 3 months ago:
Internet of Targets
- Comment on Fuck the balloon police 3 months ago:
I don’t know if they can actually stop you. Especially the first time. But they can definitely find you and fine you. A lot. Like more than tree fiddy.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 3 months ago:
Found the article where the screenshot came from, and wow it’s even more infuriating! The VideoLAN folks tried to work with them for months, and Unity seems to have cranial rectal inversion.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 3 months ago:
I completely forgot about that term. That may be more accurate. In fact, it describes what has Windows has become.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 3 months ago:
Neat, TIL of another app. Unfortunately, it looks like development has been abandoned. The last update was from 13 years ago.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 3 months ago:
I like Cory Doctorow. I think his theory of enshittification is useful, but I find his definition flawed.
- Why is it limited to platforms? Can’t enshittification apply to other things like applications?
- Are business customers really required or can that step be skipped?
- The platforms dying thing isn’t what we are seeing. For example, Amazon is absolutely enshittified. They’re not dead. More like undead, continuing to shamble on consuming everything.
I still give credit to Cory for being an acute observer and coming up with a useful theory.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 3 months ago:
You know what’s free (as in beer and speech) and not being enshittified? Notepad++
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- Comment on Male Loneliness 4 months ago:
But service guarantees citizenship
- Comment on To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole. 4 months ago:
Potato masher then hand mix. I also have a ricer but 9 times out of 10 I don’t want to mess around with it.
- Comment on To prevent mashed potatoes from being gummy, boil the potatoes whole. 4 months ago:
I’ve never had gummy mashed potatoes, and I’ve been giving them a 1" chop for years. Takes 10 minutes to cook then drain them right away. They come out fine every time. Plus the butter melts right away when you throw everything together.
- Comment on Hmmm... 5 months ago:
I don’t think this sandwich will be very crispy. Once you wrap it in plastic that keeps the moisture in and ruins the crust. No one likes soggy children.
- Comment on How Did Anyone Beat This In The Arcade? 6 months ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 6 months ago:
Musk must have a fetish for having government regulators up his ass. The FTC is already up there to where he screams like a pig. Now add banking-but-not-a-bank and they’re going to be up there even further.
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- Comment on Only thing getting developed is a headache 6 months ago:
You never have to exit vim when you make it your only editor.
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 6 months ago:
It won’t go obsolete per se. It will just have lots of security vulnerabilities after they stop patching the 10,000,000+ lines of code used in all the microcontrollers and microprocessor.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 80 comments
- Comment on This indie dev (Indie RPG Inkbound) is removing all microtransactions after noting that "player sentiment is trending against" them 6 months ago:
In a statement posted to Steam, developer Shiny Shoe said […]
What a sloppy and lazy article. They don’t even bother linking to the statement from the devs. Seriously, that would have taken less then 1 minute to add.