Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

@HeartyBeast@kbin.social cover

HeartyBeast

@HeartyBeast@kbin.social

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)

- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China's Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....

HeartyBeast ,

I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.

HeartyBeast ,

To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments

HeartyBeast ,

However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.

There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated

HeartyBeast ,

Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.

HeartyBeast ,

Nice tip. Thank you. I was similarly confused

HeartyBeast ,

Could you give som examples of where it’s desirable ?

HeartyBeast ,

You should definitely spend time trawling through Oxfam shops for books, if this annoys you.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

HeartyBeast ,

You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest

HeartyBeast ,

Running your own VPN in that situation is a good use-case agreed - assuming you trust yourself :)

HeartyBeast ,

Thanks for the smile this morning 🙂

HeartyBeast ,

Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.

HeartyBeast ,

That sounds as if the register for .ar should be out of a job

HeartyBeast ,

Yes, that is mildly infuriating. Someone deliberately going to additional trouble to increase the a kind of microplastics in the environment and make it harder for the poor folks in the recycling plants.

Get over yourself

HeartyBeast ,

If you are running it through Home Assistant- or indeed Apple HomeKit - it’s all local - no data collection

HeartyBeast ,

The casing is the ‘more’

Has anyone here noticed how reddit has gotten more racist against Indians in the last few months (lemmy.world)

It's something I've seen slowly starting to emerge over the course of the last year or so. Maybe even longer. There's accounts that post stories to designed to shock people into thinking India is a terrible place. Like I get it. India does have issues. And it does have issues with sexual violence as well. But its a shame those...

HeartyBeast ,

Parties. Pretty sure the Hamas October action constituted a war crime too

HeartyBeast ,

I await to see how you justify the apparently indiscriminate massacres of 1,139 people - 695 Israeli civilians (including 36 children), and 71 foreign nationals. Let’s set aside the possibility of rapes and sexual assault as they can’t be absolutely verified.

In what way do you believe they were proportional?

HeartyBeast ,

Yes. My claim wasn’t that Israel isn’t committing war crimes. It clearly is. Possibly genocide too. However, I’m of the opinion that the Hamas attack was a war crime too - hence parties

I hope that’s helpful

HeartyBeast ,

You’re projecting here, I think. I’ve been pretty clear on my position. You haven’t said why you think the Oct 7 attack doesn’t constrain war crime by Hamas.

HeartyBeast ,

Fair point to the extent that Palestine isn't a state, Hamas can never commit a war-crime. So that's OK then.

HeartyBeast ,

If you read back through this thread, you'll see that in no way shape of form have I defended the atrocities carried out by Israel. That doesn't mean that Hamas' actions on Oct 7 weren't also an atrocity. "Yeh, but that was 5 months ago" doesn't feel like suitable rebuttle. No you don't use genocide as a response to attrocity, but that doesn't mean the original massacre wasn't a atrocity.

I think you should should avoid using "lol" in these kinds of discussions.

HeartyBeast ,

it uses AI to bypass it, way faster than any human can do it

Welp, that’s a fatal flaw

HeartyBeast ,

Were Nazis allowed to deliberately ‘run rampant’ on Twitter pre-Elon? That’s a hot take.

Musk’s buying Twitter had nothing to do with it being ‘monetised’ as far as I see. Musk just offered such a stupidly large amount that the board had to say ‘OK, sure.’

HeartyBeast ,

Just a quick reminder that Twitter was banning 10s of thousands of accounts of extremists that breached its terms of service, including a certain ex president of the US. It was imperfect, but ‘running rampant’ is a stretch

HeartyBeast ,

If your concern is privacy, do you have a particular problem with Apple Maps?

HeartyBeast ,

If your concern is privacy, do you have a particular problem with Apple Maps?

HeartyBeast ,

Fair enough.

HeartyBeast ,

The two things are orthogonal

HeartyBeast ,

So, what are the **specific ** privacy problems with Apple Maps?

HeartyBeast ,

Go on ….

HeartyBeast ,

Fly, you fools!

HeartyBeast ,

It’s the deep vein thrombosis that gets ya

HeartyBeast ,

“You will present multiple views on any subject… here is a list of subjects on which you hold fixed views”.

I just don’t understand how the author of this prompt continues to function

HeartyBeast ,

Thanks. I hadn’t really thought of creating prompts like that but that’s a nifty idea

HeartyBeast ,

Quite a good demonstration of the limitations of deep-fake AI. You just know after a minute or two that this. isn’t Ryan Gosling, or if it is - that he is being held hostage

HeartyBeast ,

Can’t believe it’s not called ‘sinister’

HeartyBeast ,

You're right - Apple Music is cool

HeartyBeast ,

If you're Apple users Music isn't too shabby

HeartyBeast ,

If you search for @potus he comes up and you can select Follow. Content should then show in the ‘Microblog’ stream. Might take a while to start flowing, though

HeartyBeast ,

Blow into the end of the cable too

HeartyBeast ,

You talking about MS authenticator? In what way is that proprietary or spyware?

HeartyBeast ,

Ah. Thanks

HeartyBeast ,

Depends on the subreddit

HeartyBeast ,

? Bought a new recently seems pretty scratch-proof. Who gave you this info?

HeartyBeast ,

Make?

HeartyBeast ,

Oof https://www.subaruoutback.org/threads/what-is-it-with-the-paint-on-the-22-23-models.552746/

Can you walk me through debouncing please

The other day, @tifriis posted an awesome article about Zigbee network performance and it brought attention to something I was unaware of, which is that my devices aren't supposed to shout all day, everyday about doing mostly nothing. I immediately followed the advice in the article and tried to debounce everything. But then...

HeartyBeast ,

You know what would be useful? A link to the article you’re referring to. I’m guessing https://smarthomescene.com/guides/how-to-build-a-stable-and-robust-zigbee-network/

  • but that doesn’t contain the word ‘debouncing’, so >shrug<
HeartyBeast ,

Yeh, clearly the only reason I might have a differing opinion is because I'm being paid by Threads. Sheesh

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines
    •