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Monument , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What stupid thing have you done bc of a movie?

I took a running leap in a wide open living room, realized I was going to fall, stuck out my hand, and that’s why I’m ‘double-jointed’ in my right thumb. (That and being hyper mobile. But it didn’t pop out of joint before that.)

Monument , 6 months ago to news in The Race to Find What’s Making America’s Dogs Sick

My wife and I got super concerned about this when we first heard about it a few weeks ago. We even called our vet to double check that our dogs were up on their vaccinations. Our dogs go to daycare 1-2x a week, and it’s not as if the doggie daycare is just them. It’s common for them to interact with dozens of dogs a week.

And then we realized that both our dogs probably already faced this down in the spring. They both went through a period of sneezing, followed by random eye goopiness for a few weeks. We even took our older dog to the vet to make sure she didn’t have pinkeye. They thought she did, and gave us a cream to use until symptoms cleared, so when our younger dog came down with the same eye goo, we just used that until he was cleared up.

The headlines are way scarier than the “huh, that’s odd” reality of it.

Monument , 7 months ago to news in Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago

There’s got to be a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor that applies to politics:

Always attribute to malice that which cannot be more easily explained by incompetence.

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in Google caught placing big-brand ads on hardcore porn sites, report says

I can’t say if I’d be swayed into a purchasing decision by a porn site ad for collars from a pet store or rope from a hardware store. But I would absolutely respect the hell out of them for it. (Actually, if a hardware store made a “build this!” style ad where you made some sort of kink hardware from a pick list and free plans, I might actually go for it, because I like crafts and kink.)

Can you imagine the opportunities for novelty beds? Not just the newfangled memory foam ones or the adjustable base ones, but the ones with the slits and divots and cutouts for pillows that promise to solve all the problems with side sleepers and intense cuddlers? I don’t need any of that but I’d definitely be more receptive to one if I saw something interesting being done with them.

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

Do they make wireless extension cords?

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout

The person you replied to said they cannot afford a house.

That means they do not own the building in which they live. In most apartment situations, it’s impossible to make infrastructure changes to the building.

Even if a person owns their home, they aren’t just “making a hole” and insulating it. Most home owners don’t know what’s in their walls, how to tell if a wall is safe to drill into, and even fewer know how to properly seal up those holes so they don’t wind up with water ingress when the cheap caulk they slathered on gets ruined by temperatures, the sun, or pests.
Much less that it’s also not merely ‘a cord’ unless you’re fine with being handicapped by slow charging. Installing faster chargers is beyond the scope of most home tinkerers - so that’s even more cost to set up.

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill.

I mean. They put out all the disclaimers, collect the data anyway, and if they get sued they bury the person suing in paper, or if the person looks like they might wind up effecting a ruling that changes the legal interpretation in a way that is disadvantageous to the company, they settle out of court.

That way the courts never change the interpretation of the laws in a way that harms them, and bought politicians won’t do that. Plus a company that can legally record you can also just freely share those recordings with the police, so politicians aren’t going to impede that.

Things will get very funny in a few years when “AI” gets cheap enough that all those recordings wind up processed, tagged, and automatically shared with law enforcement or marketers.
It’s only a matter of time before saying “I want pizza” in the privacy of your own home results in a text from a national pizza chain.

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

I wasn’t sure if the first boring, low-effort comment was going to call me an Apple fanboy, or comment on the Facebook account I haven’t posted to since 2016, but it looks like Facebook won.

Your combative, yet somehow insubstantial comment reminds me of the same hollow, thoughtless comments that made Reddit so easy to abandon once they’d shown their hand.

But I didn’t have friends on Reddit. When I got to know people there, we moved our interaction off the site, to other services, or we became IRL friends. (One of them even moved across the country and married me!)

And that’s sort of the difference, right? What made Reddit easy to walk away from doesn’t hold for Facebook. The friends I’ve added on Facebook are still on the platform. They still share tidbits about their life that they may not want to individually message every single person they know, they still send me messages, and they still invite me to gatherings. I’ll deign to log in with email accounts that are not tied to my identity for them. I get significantly more satisfaction out of those interactions than I do from sparring with people who write as if their entire ability to relate to others is restricted to cheap jabs.

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

I’ve been noticing a lot of ‘interesting’ behavior with data-hungry websites when I use more privacy-focused measures lately.

Gmail logs me out of Safari at least weekly now for no apparent reason, other than to inconvenience me.
Gmail also refuses to deliver any emails forwarded through hide my email. They simply do not arrive, not even to spam. I had to start using another email service for hide my email. (Additionally, every email I get from Apple gets tagged with a phishing warning, which is just petty and funny.)
Facebook sends an email every time I log in (once or twice a month) to tell me that Firefox is suspicious because I use ad-blockers and private windows.

Monument , 7 months ago to technology in Safety and Research were Sacrificed for Profit under Altman

I just saw a headline that he’s going to work for Microsoft now.

My employer heavily uses Microsoft, and I’m in IT.

Since June, Microsoft eliminated all their training staff - the folks who show others how to use their software, reclassified their customer experience staff to eliminate the role - these folks met with customers to solicit product feedback and find out what people actually want, made unilateral and poorly communicated changes to security policies that impact hundreds of our users, turned on beta (preview) features for end users without testing - in some cases rendering software inoperable in our environment, and is disabling or limiting features that work(ed) in software covered under our enterprise license end is encouraging people to purchase entirely new software systems from Microsoft to regain the lost functionality.

Honestly, if he was fired for pursuing profits over quality, then he’ll fit right in.

Monument , 7 months ago to asklemmy in Imagine if the movie "Her" (2013) was real and people could fall in love with an AI, would you be weirded out by someone if they did that and especially if it was someone you knew?

Depends, I guess. I feel that our capacity to be horrible outweighs our ability to handle it well.

The movie’s AI is a fully present consciousness that exerts its own willpower. The movie also doesn’t have microtransactions, subscriptions, or as far as I can tell, even a cost to buy the AI.
That seems fine. Sweet, even.

But I think the first hurdle is whether or not an AI is more a partner than base sexual entertainment. And next (especially under capitalism), are those capable of harnessing the resources to create a general AI also willing to release it for free, or would interaction be transactional?
If it’s transactional, then there’s intent - was it built for love, or was that part an accident? If it was built for love and there’s transactions, there’s easy potential for abuse. (Although abusive to which party, I couldn’t say.)

And if, say, the AI springs forth from a FOSS project, who makes sure things stay “on the level” when folks tweak the dataset?
A personalized set of training data from a now-deceased spouse is very different than hacked social media data, or other types of tweaks bad actors could make.

Monument , 7 months ago to news in City of Marion refuses to turn over records following newsroom raid that should be publicly available

I’m not trying to reveal too much about myself here, but the mechanism in my area is the same as the mechanism for any government-owned devices.

The device is copied by a digital forensics expert. If the device is also the subject of a discovery request, it is retained until two years after litigation has completed.

The copied data is analyzed by a FOIA coordinator that gives all the relevant information to the person who initiated the FOIA request.

I advise people to never conduct work on personal devices because the policy we work under explicitly states that personal devices will be subject to legal holds and FOIA if used for official business.

Monument , 8 months ago to news in How Biden is continuing to cancel student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling

This article helped to explain what Biden is doing to forgive student loans.

Monument , 8 months ago to android in Flipper Zero can now spam Android, Windows users with Bluetooth alerts

I mean, it sucks for everyone that can’t or don’t want to run homebrew OS’s.

The “One” link I shared above indicates the behavior became standard in Android 8 and iOS 11. They were released in August and September 2017, respectively.

Monument , 8 months ago to android in Flipper Zero can now spam Android, Windows users with Bluetooth alerts

Looks like that’s an ineffective approach.

I commented elsewhere with an explanation and a bit of speculation. I did later confirm that even ‘disabling’ Bluetooth doesn’t stop the attack.

The attack method works even when Bluetooth has been disabled using airplane mode from the control panel, which may surprise you. In which case, you’ll be shocked to discover that disabling Bluetooth this way, erm, doesn’t. Instead, you’d need to disable it directly from your device settings or run your iPhone in Lockdown Mode to prevent these advertising pop-ups from being received.
Source

Assuming similar on Android, it’s possible, but not that easy toggle everyone knows about.