cypherpunks , 6 days ago to Technology in 17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web

/r/shittyaskreddit wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual 🙄

cypherpunks , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to 196 in Police Bluetooth advertising packets rule

yeah, they aren't very active, but (presumably due to federation bugs) there is more there than your instance is showing you: from my perspective the most recent post on the mander community is from one month ago and the lemmy.ml community has three posts including one that isn't from a mod.

you might be able to pull those posts into your instance by searching for their permalinks there (which you can find from the fediverse icons on each post in the web view of those communities on another instance).

cypherpunks , 7 days ago to 196 in Police Bluetooth advertising packets rule

I’d love a community here on lemmy for Meshtastic.

There are two:

• /c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
• /c/meshtastic@lemmy.ml

cypherpunks , 8 days ago to Technology in Meta will train AI with data from European users

screenshot of notification from facebook found in article, but with the word "if" highlighted in the sentence "If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward." and three red question marks added under it

If your objection is honored, it will be applied going forward

cypherpunks OP , 9 days ago to Privacy in This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message

Indeed, the only thing WhatsApp-specific in this story is that WhatsApp engineers are the ones pointing out this attack vector and saying someone should maybe do something about it. A lot of the replies here don't seem to understand that this vulnerability applies equally to almost all messaging apps - hardly any of them even pad their messages to a fixed size, much less send cover traffic and/or delay messages. 😦

cypherpunks , 10 days ago to Technology in DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK]

spiderman pointing at spiderman meme template with the spidermen labeled "bing" and "duckduckgo, qwant, ecosia, startpage, chatgpt internet search"

cypherpunks , 25 days ago to Technology in Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA)

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/evaluating-the-impact-of-tunnelvision

cypherpunks OP Mod , 1 month ago to Memes in A helpful graphic about writing alt text

Color can provide useful context. For example, in the case of this image, imagine if in a thread about it there was some discussion of the ripeness of the yuzu fruit.

cypherpunks , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord

Mattermost isn't e2ee, but if the server is run by someone competent and they're allowed to see everything anyway (eg it's all group chat, and they're in all the groups) then e2ee isn't as important as it would be otherwise as it is only protecting against the server being compromised (a scenario which, if you're using web-based solutions which do have e2ee, also leads to circumvention of it).

If you're OK with not having e2ee, I would recommend Zulip over Mattermost. Mattermost is nice too though.

edit: oops, i see you also want DMs... Mattermost and Zulip both have them, but without e2ee. 😢

I could write a book about problems with Matrix, but if you want something relatively easy and full featured with (optional, and non-forward-secret) e2ee then it is probably your best bet today.

cypherpunks Mod , 1 month ago to Memes in Americans be like

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cypherpunks Mod , 1 month ago to Memes in Americans be like

Tell me you didn't click either link in my comment without telling me you didn't click either link

cypherpunks Mod , 1 month ago to Memes in Americans be like

https://news.uga.edu/how-social-media-posts-could-affect-credit-scores/ (via)

cypherpunks Mod , 1 month ago to Memes in Americans be like

FICO is just one of a multitude of scoring systems which impact people's lives in the US today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_credit_scoring_systems_in_the_United_States

You and your friends' social media activity, among numerous other things, can absolutely affect your ability to get a loan, a job, a rental contract, etc.

cypherpunks , 1 month ago to 196 in rule (traditional)

The basis of this joke is the Simplified-vs-Traditional character sets for Chinese languages, but, there actually is a thing called Basic English which is sometimes called Simple English and which is used on the Simple English Wikipedia.

cypherpunks , 1 month ago to 196 in Nice to see Google being honest for once

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