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8 megs of RAM? I didn't know they brought back the Macintosh II.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1ea7fe9b-36a4-4fa7-9944-37848d5ea339.jpeg

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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On the flip side, search for "mom run" or "parent run" on Instagram to see the kids whose parents have decided to parade in front of thousands of people online. Usually moms posting their little girls in leotards and swimsuits for their mostly mostly adult male followers... 🤢🤮

But don't worry, Meta isn't complicit, if you search "child model" they give you a scary child abuse warning message.

Someone else on Lemmy pointed this out a while back, and after seeing it for myself that firmly solidified my decision to stay the fuck away from anything Meta does.

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Here's a real screenshot from Instagram.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8ffa78b2-7400-4948-9093-a8d20319eaef.jpeg

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Yeah...

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Run as in "mom runs this account".

"Mom managed" also gets results.

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The problem with posting pictures of kids in closed groups is that pervs will just join those groups because they have what they're looking for. You're basically making it easier for them.

It's not that parents are afraid of their kids being part of a training set, though that is a bad thing in and of itself. It's more about all of these AI undressing app ads that are showing up on every social media site, showing just how much of a wild-west situation things currently are, and that this brand of sexual exploitation is in-demand.

Predators are already automating the process so that certain Instagram models get the AI undressing treatment as soon as they upload an exploitable pic. Pretty trivial to do at scale with Instaloader, GroundingDINO, SAM, and SD. Those pics are hosted outside of Instagram where victims have no power to undo the damage. Kids will get sexually exploited in this process, incidentally or intentionally.

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Wait till y'all hear about cell towers.

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Writing all those aliases probably helped him learn pacman.

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The only real use for Google's VPN was as an extra layer of security when connected to an untrusted network or open WiFi.

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Nobody is unaware of that. It's just that before Musk took over, the checkmark meant something completely different. What it means today is potentially embarrassing enough for people to want to hide it. Now they can't.

Before Musk the checkmark meant "This user's identity has been verified and they are notable enough to need that verification".

Today it means "This user pays for Twitter".

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Anyone arguing "Discord has more users" on here can just be reminded that Reddit / Twitter has more users than their fediverse alternatives, and yet here they are on Lemmy, and probably Mastodon too.

A better world is possible.

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

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I understand people's desire for a headphone port, but I really don't understand the hate for devices that don't have one. It would be one thing if they vendor-locked Bluetooth headphones so you had to use theirs, but it really just seems like a common sense move in a world where Bluetooth reigns supreme.

As long as a USB-C adapter still provides the same functionality, I really don't see anyone's choices being taken away. If it is one less physical port on the device that helps streamline the hardware, I'm all for it too.

And if it is a dealbreaker, you don't have to buy a fairphone.

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Most Bluetooth headphones are encrypted with a key shared only by the headphones and the host device. Not sure why you think they aren't private. Maybe really cheap or really old headphones might not be so secure, but the vast majority of Bluetooth headphones in use today absolutely are.

Charging and audio quality are legitimate concerns, but again, you still have a headphone port... It's just part of the USB-C port on the bottom of your phone. A $5 adapter completely absolves you of having to use Bluetooth.

I really don't see how needing an adapter is a big enough deal to care about the way people here seem to.

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I can't change my phone while using the adapter

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d934b704-1acb-4c6a-b019-0d1cb7eda5cf.jpeg

Why should I need an adapter for something that used to come standard?

The same reason you needed a new charging cable every time the USB standard changes: because technology standards change over time.

If anything, audio adapters have been a thing for decades longer than cell phones have existed. This is not a new development at all.

What about a micro-SD card?

My phone has an completely excessive 512GB of storage, and I can use USB drives (including micro SD adapters) if I really want to save something to external storage.

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Piracy websites should add a copy of the U.S. Constitution to their websites. Just slap a "/constitution.html" on the site.

Then, if the MPA succeeds, we can talk about how the U.S. Government is blocking access to hundreds/thousands of copies of the Constitution online.

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Beeper isn't a Discord client.

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Kinda nice that Google Fi gives you global roaming at no extra charge. Too bad it hardly ever works and text messaging is a shitshow.

Still used a travel esim on my last trip just to be able to reliably use my phone.

Probably dropping them soon because text message reliability is already a joke at home with them...

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Fool me once, shame on me, but teach a man to fool me and I'll be fooled for the rest of my life.

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There's a distinct difference between quotation and plagiarism. A search engine does the former, LLMs do the latter.

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[citation needed]

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The differences between human and machine-generated text overlap support the image of LLMs as more "arrangers" than "creators" of text.

So plagiarism...

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Oh wow, people complaining that forcing enshittified Windows updates breaks their workflow are also complaining about constantly having to shell out money to continue receiving security updates? What hypocrites! /s

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Only use the original macro for dunking on Crowder.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d971833c-b975-4d76-b6a6-bb45b9f1e73c.jpeg

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You should read about what Roe v. Wade was about before you say stuff like this. Medical privacy was foundational to abortion rights in the USA. Codifying it into our constitution would have been a good idea.

https://www.reproductiverights.org/sites/crr.civicactions.net/files/documents/roeprivacy_0.pdf

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Whatever ethical concerns you have about abortion, the only way to enforce anti-abortion laws is to strip women of their medical privacy. If you want privacy rights, you need to stand for abortion rights. If you stand against abortion rights, you stand against the right to privacy.

Because at the end of the day, the difference between an elective abortion and a medically necessary abortion are the details discussed between a woman and her doctor. The only way the government gets to draw a line on what is or isn't allowed is if they get to be an obligate part of that conversation.

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This is the way.

I just keep one huge checklist that I document everything I ever pack to and start by checking off everything I'm not taking on my current trip. Then the rest of the list is enough to make sure I am properly packed.

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A reminder that the recurring joke in this movie is that Walter is always right, maybe with the exception of thinking Mr. Lebowski faking his disability, but for everything else he never really slips. As The Dude says, "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole".

Smokey was over the line, and this is a league game, so the results matter.

If you care about any of the things in this meme, and you're urging people to vote against Biden, you're going to have a bad time if you get your way.

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Yeah man, Bunny Lebowski actually was kidnapped and that was her toe. Great movie, forgot about that part though. /s

Walter may be a moron, but he's right about most of the things that actually matter to the plot.

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fwiw, OP wrote the article himself and then spammed it to lots of different instances. Definitely worth blocking this spammer.

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I can't wait to turn that shit off.

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Still turning that shit off, and not buying corpo tracking devices.

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Oh well in that case I'll just make no effort to disable any privacy compromising feature ever since it doesn't matter anyway. /s

Stop telling me stuff I already know like it has anything to do with my intent to turn this feature off.

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Mr. moneybags over here with his house...

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Your browser?

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

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Me, testifying to the AI judge: "Your honor I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am I am"

AI Judge: "You are you are you are you are you are you..."

Me: Escapes from courthouse while the LLM is stuck in a loop

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Bad keming.

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

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I think the best option is to not be paranoid as a user.

Yeah, just never be a dissident, or a whistleblower, or an activist, or a member of a vulnerable marginalized group. Remember, if you obey there's no reason to fear being spied on.

I really don't think you understand how serious this kind of backdoor is. It puts certain people in real danger.

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If you, as a regular user, get this paranoid about using computers, maybe you should evaluate your priorities.

"Regular user" seems to be a strange counter to all the people I just listed that would be affected here. I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about the people whose privacy and security is extremely important in this context.

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That's only the case because it was caught fast. That was lucky.

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You mean a meme community doesn't like humorlessness in the comments? Color me surprised.

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So you think tracking her down with forensic methods that objectively exist is farfetched, but accessing the print logs of every printer in America to figure out which one printed the document is realistic?

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I bought a fully spec'd System76 laptop. Does that count?

I also give some money to KDE from time to time, so I know that counts.

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It looks like you can just ship the pen to them and request a repair or replacement. Maybe just ignore whatever the customer support rep said and follow this instead: https://www.franklin-christoph.com/pages/warranty

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This is for finding yourself in and opting out of data brokers, and finding leaked credentials. They can't do anything about doxxing or defamation by a malcious party.

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It's always funny to me when people defend something by saying that it's "not that bad", because that still acknowledges that it is bad.

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Oh please, half the time on most computers after installing stock Windows you'll need to install the NIC drivers from a USB stick because you can't download drivers locally without a NIC. With Linux, it pretty works out the gate. Significant driver issues haven't been a real issue with Linux in about a decade.

Nvidia drivers are especially weird to use as an example. Since the advent of AI, Nvidia Linux support has vastly improved since most AI use cases require Linux. It's enterprise-ready at this point.

As for the games that don't work well - the binaries were only built for Windows, so Linux has to jump through hoops to run them. That's not Linux's fault, it's the fault of the game developers. Thanks to the FOSS community those hoops are only getting easier to jump through. Most of the games that don't work at all depend on some sort of horrific anti-cheat rootkit that any tech literate person should consider a dealbreaker even if they use Windows as a daily driver.

And the games that do work, which is most of the games on Steam at this point, perform better on Linux than Windows on the same hardware because they don't have to deal with the bloat of a Windows OS.

I guess if you can accept ads crammed into every nook and cranny of the OS, constantly fighting with Edge over your choice of browser, reduced battery life and system performace due to OS bloat, having every single aspect of your computing experience built around corporate profits rather than user experience, and buying a computer every few years because of planned obsolescence you could settle with a bad OS like Windows.

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$10,200,000,000 net worth when he died in 2011.

It would take Woz 4 million years to make that much on what Apple currently pays him

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