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- Comment on This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air 4 days ago:
I think this would only really be relevant in drier areas. Areas where you can just to catchment don’t need to worry about this.
Not entirely sure what you meant by this, but if you mean only dry areas benefit from this, I’m not sure. Most of the world is losing groundwater. Capturing any, especially in sub/urban areas might have a measurable impact.
- Comment on OpenAI signs $38 billion compute deal with Amazon, partnering with cloud leader for first time 4 days ago:
At that level why not just build your own?
- Comment on Video games often have crouch and crawl for stealth but not the much more commonly used tiptoeing 1 week ago:
Tarkov sort of has it. You can slow down and walk quieter.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
The company says that 0.15% of ChatGPT’s active users in a given week have “conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.” Given that ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly active users, that translates to more than a million people a week.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 week ago:
Split screen yo
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 2 weeks ago:
From the OG Guardian article:
“It’s only software developers and drug dealers who call people users,” Kosmyna mutters at one point, frustrated at AI companies’ determination to push their products on to the public before we fully understand the psychological and cognitive costs.
I disagree for a ton of reasons but what a great line.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 2 weeks ago:
Someone in ancient times carving a piece of art that’s a bear-man has virtually nothing to do with this:
Trying to link the two is disingenuous.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 2 weeks ago:
Linking anthropomorphized animals to furry culture is quite a stretch. Even old tribal cultures where they might wear animal skins/skulls for rituals doesn’t even really have much in common with what people are doing in fur suits today.
- Comment on Why do adults have such big noses? 2 weeks ago:
I was just wondering if my nose was getting larger.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like fixing the current mess would require a pretty serious overhaul of the government but no one seems to be having that conversation.
Obviously the act of protest alone won’t do a thing. It’s a method for the people to express themselves and show those that may have power to make changes that they have popular support. A prosecutor, legislator, judge, or president going out on a lonely limb not knowing if they have support of the people is a risky position to be in.
Believe it or not, all governments (more or less) rule by consent of the people.
- Comment on make like a tree ii 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a sphincter to me.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 3 weeks ago:
A truly open source (and functional) phone can’t come fast enough.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 3 weeks ago:
Never seen it.
- Comment on International Shitpost Wednesday! 3 weeks ago:
That’s a turtle.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 3 weeks ago:
I mean, some parts of the protocols we use for the Internet need to be in the clear to work, DNS comes to mind. If you want that kept private as well you need to use something like tor.
Not really. We also have DNS over HTTPs, DNS over TLS, and DNSCrypt which are all becoming more popular. But that’s still application level data that I’m not really talking about.
But regardless, what people generally actually care about keeping secret is the content, not the protocol.
A lot of information can be gleaned from protocol metadata though. Source, destination, which applications are being used, maybe more depending on protocols. Not exactly information I want to be easily available to the public, but also not exactly critical either.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 3 weeks ago:
I should’ve been more clear, I didn’t mean the data, but at the protocol level it’s all open.
Same with the Internet traffic through these satellites.
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 3 weeks ago:
“Generally, our users choose the encryption that they apply to their communications to suit their specific application or need,” says a spokesperson for SES, the parent company of Intelsat. “For SES’s inflight customers, for example, SES provides a public Wi-Fi hot spot connection similar to the public internet available at a coffee shop or hotel. On such public networks, user traffic would be encrypted when accessing a website via HTTPS/TLS or communicating using a virtual private network.”
Can’t decide the side of the fence I am on for this. Of course the vast majority of Internet traffic across the world is unencrypted. Anyone could be on the line between me and this Lemmy instance, just as they could if there was a satellite between us. However, you’re also broadcasting it to like 25% of the globe and not even making any kind of physical infrastructure efforts.
Quest can’t entirely guarantee nobody will snoop a fiber line, but they do bury them.
- Comment on ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions 4 weeks ago:
As much as I don’t want chatbots to explain to morons how to harm people, I don’t like that this just seems to be a form of censorship. If it’s not illegal to publish this information, why should it be censored via a chatbot interface?
- Comment on Me irl 4 weeks ago:
That dog will growl when you pet it but also when you stop.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 5 weeks ago:
You should really talk to some real in-the-flesh people.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for including the mirror, OP.
Companies that obtain mobile phone location data generally do it in two different ways. The first is through software development kits (SDKs) embedded in ordinary smartphone apps, like games or weather forecasters. These SDKs continuously gather a user’s granular location, transfer that to the data broker, and then sell that data onward or repackage it and sell access to government agencies.
The second is through real-time bidding (RTB). When an advert is about to be served to a mobile phone user, there is a near instantaneous, and invisible, bidding process in which different companies vie to have their advert placed in front of certain demographics. A side-effect is that this demographic data, including mobile phones’ location, can be harvested by surveillance firms. Sometimes spy companies buy ad tech companies out right to insert themselves into this data supply chain. We previously found at least thousands of apps were hijacked to provide location data in this way.
I really despise these practices. I don’t know how people can build these tools with a clear conscience.
- Comment on Swift To Build a Global Financial Blockchain 5 weeks ago:
This isn’t likely to be open at all.
- Comment on Fallout: London's first DLC, Rabbit and Pork, is finally out and adds 30 new quests 5 weeks ago:
Did London ever become compatible with the latest FO4 release?
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 5 weeks ago:
May as well just rig the house to burst into flames
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 5 weeks ago:
Like Dean Karzanes. Dude can run almost indefinitely.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 5 weeks ago:
Money transfers, online payments for whatever, place to park your assets in volatile times in the market, integration into other on-chain investment systems, etc…
- Comment on Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I’m really curious who these people are that actually use these things.
- Comment on Arc Raiders' devs would you like you to slam its servers with one last, open to all tech test next month 1 month ago:
Third person shooters are weird.
- Comment on The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure the stuff can be funny but mostly just feels me with dread that for this cat meme I have to watch others suffer. 1 month ago:
So it’s either be uninformed or miserable.
- Comment on Please make it stop - Google Chrome to be reimagined with AI 1 month ago:
Difficult things like “booking a haircut” or “ordering your weekly groceries” will be a thing of the past Google hope, as they’ll get their AI to do it for you.
I gotta wonder how the ad business will fit into this. Are companies just going to make a bid for consumers that Google will just deliver via blind AI orders like this?
Consumer choice comes down to who bribes the AI the most. This seems almost inevitable.
