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preasket , to technology in It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !!

Here’s hoping for popularising secure communication protocols. It’s gonna become a must at some point.

riskable ,
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WhatsApp video calls are end-to-end encrypted. A secure protocol means nothing in this context.

Takumidesh ,

But key exchanges work.

Signal for example, will warn you when the person you are talking to is using a new device.

As long as the user heeds the warning, it is an effective stop, and at the very least gives the user pause.

If the signal safety number changes, but the communication stays on track, as in, the context of the conversation is the same, it’s unlikely to be a problem. But if the safety number changes and the next message is asking for money, that is a very simple and easy to process situation.

calabast , to programmerhumor in Dumb human doesnt know what two handed means

I’ve also found that when you ask it to show someone “drawing a bow” they end up with a strange mix of a pencil that goes up to their cheek, and another weird stick going perpendicular to whatever they’re doing, and other weird bow-related artifacts. It’s pretty funny. (At least with SD 1.5)

nottheengineer ,

Synonyms are stable diffusion’s enemy. OpenAI is way ahead on that front, but there’s a good reason for that: They invented CLIP, so they probably have better checkpoints than anyone else.

fubo ,

“drawing a bow” →

  • an artist makes an illustration of a samurai bowing to his general
  • a gift-wrapped package; hands reach in from off-camera to pull on the tied ribbons
  • a gunslinger reaches to their holster, and pulls out a bow-tie instead of a pistol
  • a bartender pulls on the tap and the front end of a boat comes out
PaulDevonUK , to mildlyinfuriating in You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey
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I would have used Revo Uninstaller - the free version to remove it. After it runs the uninstaller it finds registry and file items left behind by the uninstaller.

rufus , to aww in A picture of some llamas i took a few years ago

alpaca?

Cylusthevirus , to cat in Apparently I woke up, took this picture, and went back to sleep. I have no memory of it.
@Cylusthevirus@kbin.social avatar

Bae caught me slippin.

marx2k , to world in The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks

“Its hot in summer. Who knew??”

yuri ,

hey that’s actually entirely missing the point! a more accurate statement would be “this summer was hotter than every other summer we’ve ever recorded, and it’s not even done yet!”

i just gotta assume you’re willfully misunderstanding because this seems like pretty elementary level deduction here.

puchaczyk ,

They put it in quotes, so I think they may just be mocking people who say such things IRL.

Gork ,

This is why the discriminator /s is necessary for comments like that.

marx2k ,

I’m repeating the conservative argument. There’s 4 or 5 templated responses every time agw comes up

Siegfried ,

Here in the south it’s winter. Today is the first day since the season started that I actually feel some cold. That of course ends tomorrow, cause, why not? We are expecting ~26C for saturday

GnuLinuxDude , to technology in Top Extensions to Make YouTube Bearable
@GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml avatar

I wouldn’t mind YouTube Shorts, except it seems that most of them are of such low quality and value. I don’t have a TikTok account but I have seen many great TikToks (because they get reposted elsewhere). I have seen comparatively few quality YouTube Shorts.

delial , to world in The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks
@delial@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You hear that Venus? We’re coming for you!

penix , to technology in It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !!

So this dude is out $8, hopefully he learned his lesson.

nave ,
@nave@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

It’s more like $500

penix ,

It’s pretend money anyway so it can be worth anything.

nave ,
@nave@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

Then give me your money /s

kn33 , to technology in It has begun !!! Now we need passwords for each other !!

I got one of these a few months ago. I could tell it was fake before I even answered, but I was curious so I pointed my own camera at a blank wall and answered. It was creepy to see my friend’s face (albeit one that was obviously fake if you knew what to look for) when I answered.

Kodemystic ,
@Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev avatar

How do these scamers know who our friends are? Also how are they able to get pictures or video from said friend to create the fake?

einsteinx2 ,
@einsteinx2@programming.dev avatar

From social media presumably

Kodemystic ,
@Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev avatar

What about the voice? How it sounds like etc? Maybe from videos people post. Shits getting weird. Glad I deleted everything from FB long time ago. Actually looking back its crazy thay had all that info on my profile, pics and videos. Makes no sense now. Lots of people still dont care and have a lot of infro freely available online.

kn33 ,

In my case, the friend’s facebook account was compromised. So they were able to get his pictures and call me from his account.

ieightpi , to lemmyshitpost in "It has to be Chromium"

Im really confused by this sentiment. Ive been using Firefox since like 2007 and I was just a teenager who didn’t know any better.

Its been working fine for 16 years now.

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Damn you stuck with it during it’s trash years, too?

It wasn’t even acceptable until pretty recently, and it’s still missing a lot of QoL features that make me keep Vivaldi around (except on my Linux machines, those just run Fox cause Vivaldi isn’t available.)

los_wochos ,

What are you talking about? Firefox has always been very much acceptable for me. What qol features are you missing?

VinnieFarsheds ,

Nah, for any functions I’ve missed there has been a Firefox addon so far. My fave QOL addon is Tree Style Tab

Then you want to hide the horizontal tabs bad in the top, with an extra CSS file in the Firefox folder. Instructions here

LegionEris ,

Personally, I stopped using Firefox when mobile became my main computing device. When I had shitty phones and mobile browsers were newer, Chrome was much more stable for me than FF. I should try to break the habit and go back to FF now that they are both structurally sound, but by now I have years of stuff saved to and remembered by Chrome. It would be a hassle to switch, and somewhat more control of a portion of my data isn’t worth the trouble to me. I’m still gonna use Instagram for professional networking and personal posting, so I’m gonna be in packaged data anyway.

ieightpi ,

yeah having all your stuff saved in chrome would make it a hassle. sounds like a rainy day project haha

Resistentialism ,

Even better idea. Wait until about 6pm, open maybe 7 beers and drink them over a four hour time frame. At 10pm, start mixing some cocktails (you can do this beforehand and just store them in the fridge), make sure you have plenty, as over the next 2 hours, you’ll need them.

Finally, at 12am, get yourself a nice spirit you enjoy, so maybe a good whisky, a good tequila, a good rum. Anything you like, and start mixing, 50ml alcohol, to about 250ml mixer is what I personally enjoy.

Once you hit 12, just get your things done. Whether it’s moving data over. Or just anything that needs to be done. Unless it involves leaving your house. As that may get messy.

This is what I always do when I know I need to get something done. And it hasn’t let me down yet.

Oh, and don’t forget your favourite music.

WarmSoda ,

Don’t forget to speaker phone your ex at some point! Spice that night up baby

WarmSoda ,

All that stuff you have saved isn’t important. You won’t even miss what you saved.

That’s like not moving into a better home because you don’t want to lose what’s in your junk drawer in the kitchen.

Edit. Three downvotes with no replies? No one cares to explain thier point of view?

JJhonson ,

I perpetually want to document and keep things but learning that browsing history, tabs, bookmarks, and cookies are disposable trash that I know I truly don’t give a fuck about was enlightening. A clean slate is actually great!

BananaMangoShake ,
@BananaMangoShake@lemmy.world avatar

Man, what you said is so true. A few years ago, when I switched from Chrome to Brave (I now use Firefox), one of my worries was losing all the “important” stuff I had saved over the years. As you said, those things weren’t important at all, I don’t even remember what they were.

For those of you who are like that: change now, you won’t regret it and if you really need to save something, just copy/paste those links into a word or any other program.

Kekzkrieger , to technology in TOMRA Cyber attack

And what or who is Tomra?

TheWorstNL OP ,

One of the largest manufacturer of return vending machines. It has approximately 105,000 installations in over 100 markets worldwide.

TwoCubed ,

Brudi, you have a German username and you don’t know Tomra? You keeping all your bottles and cans stacked in your basement or what?

Reivax ,

This was not a helpful response. I also don’t know what it is.

TwoCubed ,

The answer was already posted, my comment wasn’t meant to be helpful, just a little jab at a presumably German person who apparently has never seen one of the billion machines that you put your returnable bottles and cans into.

Kekzkrieger ,

i never realized this is the firm and i didnt recognize their logo

dojan , to world in The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

The nice thing is that this is going to become a more or less yearly thing. Wee.

HandOfDoom ,

More or even more.

dojan ,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

I suppose on a global scale, probably. I live in Sweden, so way up north, climate has been royally fucked here for a while, mostly in the sense that it’s just been wrong. Short cold winters. Spread out cold snaps. Weird heatwaves. Not 50C like some places, but back in 2018 I think we were pushing 40, which is just unheard of.

Thankfully we’ve not had something since but it’s just a matter of time.

mark_dennis1199 , to cat in Couple of Patriots fans

As a Bills fan, I almost downvoted this!

tinyVoltron OP ,
@tinyVoltron@lemmy.world avatar

Legit

Celivalg , to world in The hottest 14 days ever recorded are the last 2 weeks

Yeah, sad thing is we are already signed up for the next 20 years, as in even if we stopped emitting everything tomorrow, we would still have +2°C in 20 years…

And how realistic is stopping everything tomorow?

+3°C… we would need to have a new coronavirus crisis every years, not just a new one, but stack them on top, in terms of emissions. Ofc you can’t have more then one global confinement at a time (doesn’t make sense to double confine someone) so that wouldn’t even work.

We. Are. Fucked.

Talaraine , (edited )
@Talaraine@kbin.social avatar

I've started telling people to prepare for the Mad Max times. Yeah it's hyperbole, but it actually makes them pause for half a second.

What's disturbing is the gleam in some alt-right people's eyes.

alvvayson ,

We aren’t locked in for the next twenty years, only the next ten years.

We could build a thousand RBMK like nuclear reactors in a decade and then suck out 50 ppm of CO2 out of the atmosphere in another decade.

Would cost $500B to $1T or so.

We just don’t really think global warming is serious enough to warrant an action plan at the scale of the Manhattan project, Apollo program or Messmer plan.

entropicdrift ,
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We’re not locked in for the next 20 years. Not for the next 10.

The carbon in the atmosphere is going to be there for the next millenium and the temperature won’t level out till the 2100s if we stopped all carbon emission right this second.

Furthermore, if we did stop all emissions right now, the planet would get 0.5-1.5 °C hotter within a year or two due to the end of the aerosol pollution cooling effect that’s been cutting the effects of carbon induced climate change in half this whole time.

This year is so hot because they put limitations on sulfur emissions from shipping boats in the Pacific. Those emissions were cooling the atmosphere, but the aerosol emissions (which that sulfur is one of) only last in the atmosphere for about 2 weeks before they’re rained out of the air.

We’re fucked.

sndrtj ,

So can’t we reintroduce the sulfur?

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It was taken out because the pollution was directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths per year. If we need to geoengineer an aerosol to cool the planet, we can do better.

jarfil ,

Deaths from increasing temperatures are estimated to be in the hundreds of thousands a year already, how many of those could the aerosols have prevented? Was that more or less than tens of thousands?

entropicdrift ,
@entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’m not saying it can’t be done or it shouldn’t necessarily, I’m just trying to express why this decision happened at a political level. Politics only occasionally leads humanity to the logical course of action.

sndrtj ,

So which is the lesser evil?

SkyeStarfall ,

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is a speculative technology at the moment.

Like, yes, we “can” do it, if you ignore all the materials and energy needed to perform that process. And that’s just in theory, in practice its bound to be far more difficult.

No matter how you put it, it’s easier to just… Not release the pollution in the first place. If it’s too difficult to stop polluting, it will certainly be too difficult to remove that pollution that has been already released. Entropy and all that.

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere is something we should only really start thinking about when the world already runs nearly entirely cleanly.

alvvayson ,

You ignore political realities.

An Apollo scale program to extract carbon emissions from the atmosphere could be financed by the OECD countries without heavily impacting their economies.

Building a thousand nuclear plants with reduced safety requirements in a remote place would not run into NIMBY problems.

Stopping emissions globally would require Chinese political will, since they emit more than all of the OECD combined.

SuddenDownpour ,

China has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_China#/media/File:Greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-gas_(5).png; they mostly pollute so much because there’s immense demand of manufactured goods in richer countries; they’ve been putting far more effort into transitioning to renewables than some Western countries; and they’re still below emissions per capita than Canada, the US, Russia, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, Iran, Israel, Germany and Japan.

If you want China to produce even less, support protectionist policies in Western countries and/or tariff reductions for products that may prove they’ve been produced with renewables.

alvvayson ,

That graph badly needs updating. They stalled between 2012 and 2016, but skyrocketed from 10 gigatons 2016 to 11 in 2021.

So no, your premise is wrong.

SuddenDownpour ,

Isn’t it possible to reduce CO2 on the long run by planned forestry management, if we reduce our own emissions enough?

Guster ,

I think that there need to be a specific tipping point/trigger when everyone and their mother direct funding towards fixing the problem.until then the majority of people won’t simply care

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

The rich and powerful have to see very direct problems that affect them. Kind of like when social conservative politicians take an anti-LGBT position, then turns out their kid is trans, so then they pivot to being pro-LGBT in rhetoric so they can keep talking to their kid.

Mog_fanatic ,

I’m genuinely curious at this point if that point even exists. Like, I’ve had legitimate conversations with multiple people and i’ve asked them “what would need to happen for you to believe in human’s causing climate change?” The answer is generally something along the lines of “I’m not sure it’s even possible for humans to have that big of an effect on the earth.”

I would imagine there are tons of people out there who think the same, people with VERY deep pockets and in equally powerful positions that would never change course on their money making machines. Literally the only way I see substantial change happening is if it becomes incredibly profitable.

jarfil ,

The tipping point was going to be “our cheap labor is dying out and profits are going down”… except now with automation it’s going to be “our robots are breaking down and we need a few more experts to fix them”, so no need to care about 99% of the population.

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