cygnus
@cygnus@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 7 hours ago:
Try PopOS if you’re coming from Mac, it’s pretty easy to get used to!
- Comment on 'Star Trek' now a Canadian enterprise. What made it so? 1 day ago:
I’d like to know where the model came from - was it a gift?
Seems to be DIY: www.facebook.com/groups/…/10169226099440427/
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 1 day ago:
Good question. I imagine it’s too niche to make much difference right now, but I can see this eventually being a reprise of the display ad industry shooting itself in the foot by doing nothing about click fraud.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 days ago:
That sounds like the same kind of guy who will make a never-ending stink because he insists on BYOD despite IT’s objections.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 month ago:
I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.
The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.
He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don’t need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 2 months ago:
My expectations for this show could not be any lower.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 months ago:
I’m not surprised the Corsair is better - it looks like there’s a whole nvme drive in there.
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 months ago:
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 months ago:
I can absolutely see how the greedy would get scammed by this.
Really? The only way that could sound more like a scam is if there were a chyron at the bottom spelling out THIS IS A SCAM.
- Comment on So Long WordPress. 2 months ago:
Kirby
I wish they had agency pricing. Buying a license for every install is a bit much.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 2 months ago:
That tweet has such a clinical PR tone to it that is not helping put me at ease and im probably going to be moving my vault
Calling open source a “licensing model” in particular sounds like MBA-speak.
- Comment on New "Lower Decks" poster 2 months ago:
This makes me want a Lower Decks movie.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 2 months ago:
I’m certainly not going to defend anything Israel is doing here. Both sides in this debacle are bloodthirsty maniacs.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 2 months ago:
It’s not only in the article, but in the excerpt posted by OP.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 2 months ago:
What is this even in reference to?
Seriously? Did you just see the word “Israel” and start arguing without knowing the topic at hand?
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 2 months ago:
Did they use it as a targeting reticle in 1938?
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 2 months ago:
I don’t agree with this, but I do find it idiotic and tone-deaf for pro-Palestinians to co-opt Hamas imagery and a symbol of violence as a show of support. They are either bloodthirsty lunatics or too stupid to understand the implications.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 3 months ago:
V3 isn’t necessarily more effective than V2, it’s just less obtrusive.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Consistent duration can be assumed, because that’s how advertising works. The 15-second spot is still the standard.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Sure, in a reality where that happens, but that isn’t ours. Ads are overwhelmingly made to match the standard 0:15 and 0:30.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
I mean placement within the video timeline. E.g. do all users see the ad at 0:00 or 2:00 or does it jump around for everyone to prevent it from being tagged.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
This breaks the current SB implementation, but if the ad duration is known and consistent across the userbase then it will fix itself as users tag videos with the “new” timestamps.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 3 months ago:
Crowdsourced “tagging” of the affected area of the video timeline (like Sponsorblock) would fix this, unless Google get really devious and randomize the placement of the ad for various users.
- Comment on Australian police infiltrate encrypted messaging app Ghost and arrest dozens | AP News 3 months ago:
France isn’t part of Five Eyes.
- Comment on Australian police infiltrate encrypted messaging app Ghost and arrest dozens | AP News 3 months ago:
Col. Florian Manet, who heads France’s Home Affairs Ministry National Cyber Command Technical Department, said in a statement issued by Australian police that his officers provided technical resources to the task force over several years that helped decrypt the communications.
McCartney said the French had “provided a foot in the door” for Australian police to decrypt Ghost communications.
Australian police technicians were able to modify software updates regularly pushed out by the administrator, McCartney said.
“In effect, we infected the devices, enabling us to access the content on Australian devices,” McCartney said, adding that the alleged administrator lived in his parents’ Sydney home and had no police record.
It’s hard to parse what happened here. Sounds like a MITM attack that allowed them to view messages once decrypted by the device?
- Comment on Would you buy "self-hosted in a box" hardware? 3 months ago:
Isn’t that just a SFF PC?
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 3 months ago:
I did read the article. It’s a bunch of whinging and rationalization as she furiously tries to paper over the real reason she refuses to quit Twitter — her precious 70k followers. That’s all that matters to these journalists.
- Comment on Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? 3 months ago:
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 4 months ago:
It’s mind-boggling. How many articles can they write about the latest Twitter clusterfuck, followed up immediately by “follow me on Twitter”, before they wonder if they’re the baddies?
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) labeled an unflattering NPR story about Donald Trump as ‘unsafe’ | A spokesperson said the warning was a "false positive." 4 months ago:
If large outlets said they were quitting Twitter and going elsewhere (Threads, Mastodon, whatever), the audience would follow. Media deserves most of the blame IMO.
