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If you think about it, there are already tools that can do pretty convincing face swaps with few clicks and just from one low res photo at whatever angle. Long are gone the times you had to train the models for hours and had to have few hundred photos to just get “okay” fake. Once deepfake video creation becomes this simple,...

I have a family member living on my property in a separate but adjacent living space, close enough together to share my router’s wifi. She likes to let her youtube app endlessly autoplay talking head news videos at full volume due to her hearing loss, and this goes on for a few hours in the mornings. The sound through the...

When the idea of self-driving cars first started becoming mainstream, I remember a lot of debate about liability. If an accident occurs, who would be at fault? I think a lot of those questions are still unanswered....

Let’s discuss cloud storage solutions!...

Breakthrough Technique: Meta-learning for Compositionality...

I’m not in the tech community, but I have an idea for a device I want to get made (just for my own convenience; nothing commercial or for an organization). Is there an existing platform for soliciting someone to build an electronic gadget for me?

In order to get recommendations on your homepage you need to enable your Youtube history in order for videos to be “tailored for you”. This is complete BS, as recommendations were perfectly fine before, and I have never had history enabled. This is just a stunt to get people to give their personal data to google. Now I know...

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What is the best version of Firefox that I can use it in android based on security and privacy.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3549390...

Hello everyone,...

I want to love the idea of a universal messaging app, but being on a waiting list with tens of thousands of other people for months has killed my excitement for it.

This is a meta-question about the community - but seeing how many posts here are made by L4sBot, I think it’s important to know how it chooses the articles to post....

My xiaomi portable fast charger clearly charges my girlfriend’s iPhone faster than my high end android device. Doesn’t matter which port, which cable or which android phone. It starts by charging fast but as soon as I link her phone the fast charging speeds go straight to hers and mine just chargers very very slowly....

Here’s something that appears slightly unsettling to me these days....

I’m helping a friend of mine writing a long essay exposing the abusive, monopolistic and anti-consumer practices of Microsoft. First, we’ve created some sort of table of contents with the different topics we want to cover and now we’re gathering sources for each of these topics....

Hi everyone, I’m excited to announce one more release before I take a short break. I have some other stuff starting up, so I won’t be pushing out new features as fast, but I’ll still be around to manage the project. (more at the end)...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/3232301...

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1743099...

cross-posted from: exploding-heads.com/post/514910...

What purposes do you use Best Buy/Big Box electronic stores? Do you try items before you buy them in-person or online? Do you shop in-store for products? Are you a purely online shopper? I make an effort to patronize small companies, but when it comes to electronics, I frequently buy reconditioned computers and other items from...

So I have the opposite problem with a Chromebook from everyone else online, and haven’t been able to find any info …....

Why are packages labled com.person.mypackage rather than just person.mypackage

Maybe this could be a positive thing for newbies since now mastodon instances can federate with Tumblr and Threads to become more viable...

I asked this same question on Reddit and I got zero engagement, so perhaps Lemmy has people that care more about their hardware....