fwygon

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[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 12 points 2 days ago

Agreed; when an AI is used to bring things to the attention of a qualified human handler; the two working in tandem can be pretty effective.

AI alone should never make decisions; and humans should always evaluate an AI's findings carefully before acting on them.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

We can no longer trust anything that is specifically sent to us via digital means.

Technologies like the Document Scanner and even the Photocopier will now have to encode secret data to authenticate that a real, functioning machine has digitized the document.

This can in fact, cause a great amount of trouble for people.

People will be required to never digitize themselves handwriting all letters of the alphabet; lest their handwriting be vulnerable to an AI learning it.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This. Pull judges directly from the Federal Circuit; run them for 8-10 years; then send them back to the Federal Circuit as a 'Distinguished' judge.

Supreme Court Judges should resist political pressure; but they should not be appointed for life.

Info: A 'Distinguished Judge' is a former SCOTUS justice who served their complete term and cannot be re-nominated to the Supreme Court ever again. It is a lifetime title granted when they make it to the SCOTUS and complete one term.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 24 points 6 days ago

Whoof. The burn.

Glad to see some people understand how much more problematic Trump is than anything that Harris would be doing.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

[transgirl moment]

OMGGG jhbendlvckhedjohfvajodfhvaleRDKHFILU I FUCKING WISH THIS WERE TRUE!

[/transgirl moment]

But alas, it is not true, and the schools are not providing free surgeries. But Trump sure does like to lie about shit. This is why we should NEVER EVER LET HIM WITHIN 9875093847592798728752347527093847805 MILES OF BEING IN THE OVAL OFFICE

TL;DR: Never Vote Trump. Anyone who does is foolishly ignoring his lying.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Firefox is open source. It's not going anywhere; even if Mozilla Co. goes broke and closes down the Mozilla Foundation.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Most reasonable consumers won't go for this. it's a greed play.

Give me mice that I own; not mice to rent.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disgusting. Utterly disgusting. This idea belongs in the garbage bin.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No.

It is hard to have both; but not impossible. You can still be privacy friendly without sacrificing necessary functionality.

It will require that the "provider" of such a dataset constantly scrub, sanitize and remove data that would cause privacy hazards as quickly as reasonably possible however. That in and of itself is a technical challenge; though not impossible.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ideally there's not a whole lot of data that needs to be kept.

Legitimately all that needs to be stored is a few things:

  • Location (GPS)
  • SSIDs (Wifi APs only)
  • Cell ID & MCC/MNC (Cell Towers only)

and things they MUST NOT STORE OR SHARE like:

  • IPs of contributors for longer than a few days
  • un-hashed BSSIDs (Wifi/BT)
  • MAC addresses (Wifi/BT)
  • IMEI/IMSIs (or other cellular identifiers derived from them)
  • APs that don't exist in a fixed location (Think mobile hotspot SSIDs) for longer than a fixed amount of time.
  • BT devices
  • Non-unique SSIDs or IDs that may indicate no user config took place and manufacturer did not differentiate device ID. (Things like "SETUP" with no unique number (SSIDs like"SETUP-be3fd34d" would be valid) or "[ISP]@HOME" or "[ISP]Wifi" which provide no meaningful discriminators)
[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 25 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Linux must achieve 100% compatibility. Otherwise the doubters will not shut up.

[–] fwygon@beehaw.org 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10397#issuecomment-2218346384

Looks like there's several causes.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/3766

I don't know how soon Tubular or NewPipe can fix their app; but it seems like a few simple changes will do.

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