Tangent5280

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Most people's earliest memories are at around 3 or 4 years of age, which correlates with the age kids start asking "why" for everything. Kids start asking why when they become self-aware. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well, what'd you come up with?

Time to get serious. in c/books@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Corruption fetishists in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Damn bro, thanks for the lore.

You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey, what camera do you use? My phone is showing its age and I was thinking of getting a secondhand pixel, but I've also been looking at cameras to stand in for the phone camera.

I was thinking I should go for beginner friendly and small.

Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just thinking that. We should check whether these scientists are all just three NileReds in a trench coat.

Nothing is wrong in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

eh? what do you mean get flagged? like IP theft?

Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

They fold it real slow so the quantum state takes up 10% of their phone time

TIL the queen was once the weakest piece in chess until the 15th century, when her powers expanded during a time of rising female monarchs in Europe — changing the game’s pace forever. in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Actually, it draws out the beginning of every game, leading to more variety in the mid and endgames. By the time any of your pieces limp their way into the enemies pieces the rest of the board will also have arranged itself into chaos.

Don't kink shame Oklahoma City. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
40K IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

For the Emperor!

Two foreign nationals charged with stalking a Los Angeles artist who criticized Xi Jinping in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is this a pop culture reference?

Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe is vacationing in United Kingdom

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Check your android devices for an app called "Android system Safetycore" (lemmy.world)
 

People are noticing that their phones are getting an app called "Android System Safetycore" auto-installed without notice or consent. Check your phone for the same, it is likely it's a slow rollout instead of every device getting it installed all at the same time.

Google has all the same old reasons that they drone on about, but the actual reason is likely to harvest your messages data for training AI models.

Uninstalling seems to remove the application, and there aren't any malicious activity reported so far as I can see, but naturally that can change anytime.

Has anyone noticed this in their applications lists? Did straight up uninstalling them work? I've had some trouble removing systems apps in the past, but uninstalling this one seems to have worked straightaway - I don't see them in the list anymore.

URLs below for Reddit posts about the same: From 2 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1gpdhwz/guys_help_some_app_called_android_system/

From 2 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1idjbdi/googles_new_app_will_help_warn_you_about_nude/

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Taylor Swift on her way to her plane (lemmy.world)
 
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List Open Source Workout Trackers you use here. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Tangent5280@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world
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Does anyone here use any Open-Source Workout Trackers? I've been using hevy, but their high fees, the fact that they are a company that holds my health data and has made no commitments to open source, User privacy, or fair trade practices like user data import/export has me looking around. I wanted to see if anyone had reliable open source alternatives.

Tell me your workout tracking stories here! Tell me what you liked and what you disliked.

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Piped link to Fireship's video about C2PA (piped.video)
 

Useful because now you'll be able to tell that something is human-generated instead of AI-generated, and content creators and people with a large public presence will now be able to police their own likeness being used by randos.

Scary both because now whistleblowers or reporters could get their cover blown because the image has metadata linking them to it; or they could strip off this metadata and get the evidence dismissed entirely as fraudulent; and also because of the possibility that any regulatory government body that enforces C2PA will also determine what is real and what is not, meaning anyone on the inside will be able to generate AI content and pass it off as real to the vast majority of the population.

Can't help but think they shortened it to C2PA instead of CCPA because of the similarity in acronyms of the latter and the big bad no-privacy country.

What do you think? Non-issue, Slightly concerning, or apocalyptic?

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