QuadratureSurfer

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years

The list of apps that were found to have this malware:

• AirFS
• Astro Explorer
• Amber
• CryptoPulsing
• Brain Matrix

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Bangladesh social media censorship leads to over 7000% increase in VPN usage

Hopefully people adopting VPNs en masse will start pressuring services to better support VPN traffic.

Maybe even lemmy.world will one day officially allow posts/comments from those behind a VPN.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users

GrayJay has also been very quick to push updates. I haven’t had any issues watching YouTube videos on there. Hopefully more content creators will continue to spread out across multiple services so that there’s better competition with YouTube.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Senators Expose Car Companies’ Terrible Data Privacy Practices.

Yeah, I saw a report that Mozilla published on this last year: …mozilla.org/…/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-pr…

Either way, it’s still good that some senators are getting involved and putting some pressure on them.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

The source code for GrayJay is available if you’re concerned or want to work on a non-mobile app/service yourself, but otherwise I don’t know of anything that combines the services like that.

gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to programmer_humor in I swear I check them often enough!

A fun Easter egg on Chromium browsers is that, when you get to 100 tabs, the number just turns into a smiley face.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

Grayjay has been useful for that. I still follow people on YouTube, but if they setup a channel anywhere else I can switch my feed to draw from those sources instead.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian

Requiring solar is good for certain regions, but it might be better to make this more generic for any renewables especially because there are areas that don’t get a lot of sun.

For instance, California requires all newly constructed homes to have solar installed, but that wouldn’t work too well for places that are mostly cloudy throughout the year, or for places like Alaska.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Google to Block Entrust Certificates in Chrome Starting November 2024

In case anyone else is curious:

Why is Chrome taking action?

Certification Authorities (CAs) serve a privileged and trusted role on the Internet that underpin encrypted connections between browsers and websites. With this tremendous responsibility comes an expectation of adhering to reasonable and consensus-driven security and compliance expectations, including those defined by the CA/Browser TLS Baseline Requirements.

Over the past six years, we have observed a pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incident reports. When these factors are considered in aggregate and considered against the inherent risk each publicly-trusted CA poses to the Internet ecosystem, it is our opinion that Chrome’s continued trust in Entrust is no longer justified.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town

If you live in El Salvador you can pay your taxes in bitcoin… that makes it a “real currency” according to your test.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in MSI warranty claim database was publicly accessible via Google

Source video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeE_gLl3j94

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Gemini AI platform caught scanning Google Drive files without user permission

I would much rather users on here not manipulate titles to make it sound worse than what the actual article is claiming. It’s intentionally misleading.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to technology in Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central

There’s more to “AI” than just ChatGPT…

I think you’re mixing up what AI actually means here, you would probably like this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIpdiQrFDU

But in brief, what about DLSS? The ML models for that get improved with every driver update.

STT models like whisper that are great at transcribing/translating.

Object recognition models for drones to keep the camera centered on you and for object avoidance.

ML models for finding new cures.

Models in astronomy for finding planets… Etc.

You’re trying to tell me that everything “AI” is trash and not getting better?

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to videos in Great catch

I thought the same for a second, but it does link to this: gvid.tv/v/UR5kgL1P.mp4

My Lemmy app (Voyager) just doesn’t support linking to a video like this apparently.

QuadratureSurfer , 1 month ago to videos in The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads

If it’s hard to post images on Lemmy… Maybe use a better app?

Voyager works really well for this. I’m most others should work as well.