Also, there's like 10 per webpage, and then you have the damn pop-ups when you scroll π€¬
pete_the_cat
joined 1 year ago
Every time I turn off uBlock and reload a webpage I'm like "JFC this is eye cancer".
I was gonna say "only $25 for a concert t-shirt?" because they wanted like $50 for one at a Pantera concert about 6 months ago...then I saw this was over a decade ago.
A) it's a horrible idea from a security standpoint
B) all the anti-piracy groups would probably have a heart attack and attempt to shut it down in any way possible
C) it's a lot more expensive for the band to pay for this type of distribution compared to CDs
D) it will most likely end up as e-waste
I'm 38 and man, you sound like you're 75 π€£
I'm assuming you haven't been to a concert in a few decades? I went to see Pantera and Lamb of God about 6 months ago and the only merch being sold was overpriced t-shirts, like $45-50 USD.
They're "push" updates so it's not something you have to do. Also, it would only affect you if your laptop was running Falcon Endpoint Protection.
It caused me to not get a job there (I had been interviewing with them for a Linux Engineer position for a few weeks beforehand).
Other than that, it didn't affect me at all.
I was just talking with a friend who is a software dev (I'm a Linux Engineer so I do software as part of my job, just not my main focus) and we were just commiserating on how 75-80% of the world doesn't understand that "AI" is just regurgitating information it has collected and it's not like Jarvis or Skynet and thinks for itself.
I agree that the term "sexual abuse" is definitely misleading, I think "sexual exploitation" is better. I agree with you it's no different than face swapping, but the difference is that it's a lot easier for the general public to do it now than it was 5 or 10 years ago. It's also pretty fucked that a fake image of you could potentially put you in "hot water" years down the road and you have zero control over it.
While I definitely hate the "AI bubble" that has grown tremendously over the past 2-3 years, we definitely need to figure out how to place limits on it before shit really gets out of hand in another year or two. The problem is that anyone that knows anything about this stuff doesn't work in or for the government. The woman in the article that said that this needs to be regulated at every point of course doesn't work in tech, she works for some rights organization π€¦ββοΈ
You can download AdGuard (it's not in the Play Store, download it from their website) and block Internet access, selectively, for pretty much any app (even system apps) and to any domain name. I've been using it for years to block ads. It's not free, it's like $10/year, but it's better than something free like NextDNS.
I understand what you're saying, but if you've ever uploaded a picture or video of yourself to the Internet, they already had enough for surveillance.
A lot of people don't care that much and opting out is your right if you do care.
The reason for this is because switching from Windows to Linux is a lot bigger change, requiring a fair amount of technical know-how, and even knowing that Linux exists in the first place. Swapping browsers is easy in the technical sense, it's breaking the habit that's the hard part, but if they piss people off enough all it takes is uninstalling it in order to break the habit, not a drastic paradigm shift. I'm a long time Chrome user, like over a decade and with the recent "unverified download" nonsense unless you enable their invasive tracking has put me over the edge. I had both the Chrome and Firefox icons pinned to the taskbar and just out of habit kept clicking it, I finally removed it last week