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Who still uses pagers? in c/[email protected]
To the girls here: what action or social behaviour/etiquette you think you can get away doing/not doing that you couldn't if you were a man? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

This is why Israeli spies are mostly women.... It's super easy for them to gain trust and get away with things. Just an "oops silly mistake" and a smile gets you out of trouble. :)

"Socialism doesn't work" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

No not a real concept, thank god. Got lucky to be born in northern Europe. Seems to be one of the best spots on the planet.

"Socialism doesn't work" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

America has freedom of owning the speech. They almost got it right. :p

In Authoritarian America... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I've killed people for breathing the same air as me. It's MY air goddammit.

/s

When was the last time you felt guilt about something, as in that emotional pit you noticeably feel in your stomach when you have done something wrong towards someone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Sorry, I didn't realize it's not the same in English. :) It's when you live together with someone but you are not married. You are both registered on the address and usually own the apartment or house together.

When was the last time you felt guilt about something, as in that emotional pit you noticeably feel in your stomach when you have done something wrong towards someone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A few days ago. I talked about our kid with my Sambo and was telling her that some of his behavior can be annoying.

The kid walked by in the hallway, probably hearing some of that.

Felt very ashamed.

Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Good. Stop fucking around, focus on the browser. If they can make it provide value that Google can't, they are succeeding. Google cant compete in privacy.

Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' | Business Insider India in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People can rise up at any time and start destroying the machines that guard them.

It's not bad enough yet but at some point, people won't accept it anymore. Probably when they have almost nothing left to fight for.

"participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code" and "were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code" - 2023 Stanford University study published at CCS23 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Hmm. To me 2023 was the breakthrough year for them. Now we are already getting used to their flaws.

Unacceptable in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah I agree. I will never be filthy rich but I will also never be very stressed out or risk ending up on the street. It's a fair deal. :)

Unacceptable in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The US values company profits over all else. It's different in Europe because we have legal protections.

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My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves (www.businessinsider.com)
 

Some quotes from the article:

There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone's life. It feels odd to see someone's daily drive, but it's also an important part of correcting and refining the program.

We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you're just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.

Anytime you're not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren't working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.

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Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all (mashable.com)
 

Who is surprised?

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Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube (www.popsci.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
140 comments fedilink
 

I'm using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.

And the best part is no ads whatsoever.

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iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones (m.gsmarena.com)
 

I don't expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it's nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 – Firefox Nightly News (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
22 comments fedilink
 

I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner.

And you can have AI models open in the sidebar. Not only chatgpt but also other open source and free models like huggingface. I thought that was very cool.

I don't know if the general public have even tried any other model than chatgpt. It's fun to play around with others.

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Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion in facial recognition case (www.texastribune.org)
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1 comments fedilink
 

Meta had been using facial recognition software on photos uploaded to Facebook without Texans’ consent.

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Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier (m.gsmarena.com)
 

Netflix execs needs a new jet.

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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)
 

Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay... :)

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Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free (www.nbcnews.com)
 

Julian Assange is free.

After living in a cell for more than 5 years, he can soon go home and meet his family again.

I'm wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.

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Snowden: OpenAI just went full mask off (x.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink
 

I personally don't trust Snowden. Looking at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind.

But that being said, I think he is truthful about OpenAI. Which sucks, because now I and many others love using chat gpt.

It's possible to self host these things though. I read an article about it here:

https://blog.lytix.co/posts/self-hosting-llama-3

But probably not worth the money for most people.

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I banned my daughter from using the iPhone she bought. It made her a better person | Em Rio (www.theguardian.com)
 

I think its not just kids anymore, it's adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from "social" media and don't have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI (maggieappleton.com)
 

I think this is the perfect analogy for what's happening right now to the open web.

We are part of the Cosy Web here on Lemmy.. :)

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