amju_wolf

amju_wolf , 2 months ago to Technology in Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100

It generates code and then you can use a call to some runtime execution API to run that code, completely separate from the neural network.

amju_wolf , 2 months ago to Privacy in 'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb

Life isn't a zero sum game where you have to optimize material wealth. Some people do things for others just because they like doing it, because they have the means to do so, or because they simply want to help others.

Sure, there are costs involved, but that's true for literally everything if you account for opportunity cost. The vast majority of people choose to waste time completely unproductively, with no objective benefits to their lives (often with objective disadvantages), so is it hard to imagine that some people aren't like that and instead choose to help/provide for others whole perhaps having some other non-material benefits like learning something or just becoming liked within a community?

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Privacy in Android phone saving metadata for screenshots

Except you aren't questioning anyone's views, you're making an argument that barely touches the subject it responds to. And doing so in a very argumentative and condescending way.

So yeah, it doesn't really belong in a civil discussion.

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Privacy in Android phone saving metadata for screenshots

A precise android version could for example be used to target you with an exploit for that version.

I agree with OP, it shouldn't behave like this because the expectation with screenshot software is that it doesn't add any metadata and if it would it should be explicit and probably opt-in.

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Privacy in Is it unnecessary to cover one's webcam on Linux?

Security is always applied in layers. If you aren't inconvenienced by it, it's a really solid layer to use. Doesn't matter how 'paranoid' you are, it's a good strategy.

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Privacy in Self hosted security cameras?

Their quality is adequate for the price and they are open enough to be used with any NVR.

If you are worried about privacy you should segment the cameras onto their own network (VLAN) or at the very least block them on the firewall from accessing the internet, which you should do anyway.

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Technology in Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out

On the contrary, it's the only comparison you can make, since they are literally the only options.

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Technology in Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out

...and there is no way to do that, currently.

amju_wolf , 3 months ago to Technology in Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out

That's not something that'd likely scale enough to bring any meaningful sum of money.

Even then it targets a tiny, tiny minority of their even current userbase, let alone if they want to approach more "average" users.

amju_wolf , 4 months ago to Privacy in Signal introduces usernames and phone number privacy.

Anything that can compute can do it. The important part is that it has an associated non-insignificant cost.

amju_wolf , 4 months ago to Technology in Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

Unfortunately not; the UK is more or less an exception because they were there very early and copied the US model.

Time has shown though that everyone wants second level domains anyway so even .uk is now open to anyone and they have the weird hold-over .co.uk and similar domains.

amju_wolf , 4 months ago to Technology in Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

Because a lot of the content on national TLDs is relevant only for people of that nation. It helps with name clashes and pushes off stuff that doesn't make sense in any of the more "global" TLDs.

And for governments, banks and other institutions there should really be some official standard where they pick a single second-level domain and use it for stuff that needs to be secure so anyone anywhere can be sure it's controlled by the correct entity and not a scammer.

amju_wolf , 4 months ago to Technology in Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

They're two separate(ish) issues.

But it's still a bad idea to use national TLDs for stuff that has nothing to do with that nation.

Granted, is ICANN wasn't just a money-grabbing machine with no forward thinking they wouldn't give nations clearly "generally desirable" gTLDs, but since they did already that doesn't mean they should be misused.

amju_wolf , 4 months ago to Technology in A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it.

I had a similar issue and in my case it ended up being some AMD crap (I think an updater or something) that probably didn't install properly or something.

IIRC I just ended up disabling the scheduled task that was running it and that was the end of it.

amju_wolf , 4 months ago to Technology in This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time

That would give random strangers (at least partial) control over what is indexed and how and you'd have to trust them all. I'm not sure that's a great idea.