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toastal , 9 hours ago (edited 6 hours ago) to Privacy in Is pixel 4a too old for a new phone?

Pixel 4a was one of the last in the Google lineup with a headphone jack (5a being last). The OEM lost its way after that. This enough to not recommend their devices as far as I am concerned.

toastal , 9 hours ago to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register

The social contract? Tf. The social contract still required attribution in almost all cases for creative work unless explicitlf stated otherwise—especially in the case of comercial products like ChatGPT—so I don’t know where this joker is getting his ideas.

toastal , 9 hours ago to Privacy in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register

Which is why I boycott as hard as I can every service this evil corporation provides (migrate your MS GitHub project away now so I can delete this account too)

toastal , 3 days ago to Memes in Hey there both good

Have you seen new gamers try to navigate 3D spaces? 2D is much more accessible to a lot of folks.

toastal , 7 days ago to Privacy in ‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app

You have to proxy their socket. It’s dumb, & Signal is bad. Using FSM is bad for privacy & limits to only Android/iOS primary devices is a slap-in-the-face for users wish to bleak out of the duopoly owned by two ad companies.

toastal , 8 days ago to Privacy in ‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app

Yet the Molly fork supports UnifiedPush so I can reuse my connection with mf XMPP server to deliver notification from a server I control. Folks have asked for UnifiedPush or MQTT as an alternative to having multiple persistent socket connections open on your device, but Signal doesn’t seem to care.

toastal , 12 days ago to Privacy in Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers

I think the parent is distinguishing between messages & the attachments as they are stored differently & often in different places in many systems. But I agree with you in assuming that the goal would ultimately be to then start scanning messages too.

Imagine governments used something like SHA1 that has conflicts & now you have collision potential--you could even fabricate attachments that could cause a collision to get someone throw in jail since all you have to rely on is the file hashes. If you can’t scan the actually content & you are just using hashes, then you also don’t prevent new content that those in power deem ‘bad’ from being flagged either which doesn’t really stop the proliferation of the ‘bad thing’ just specific known ‘bad things’. If I were implementing clients, I would start adding random bits to the metadata so the hashes always change.

The only way this system even works is if there are centralized points the governments/corporations can control. Chalk this up as another point for supporting decentralization & lightweight self-hosting since it would be impossible to have oversight over such a system if anyone can spin up a personal server in their bedroom.

toastal , 14 days ago to Memes in me whenever hbomberguy uploads a new video

He’s the perfect size—they shouldn’t make YouTubers bigger than that

toastal , 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to Privacy in De-googling and privacy on Sony xperia

Yup. That is the tradoff. I’m willing to accept that one.

toastal , 17 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

The appeal would be with a limited albeit large set of characters, items, & rules, you can have effectively an infinite set of outcomes due to the dice rolls of teammates but also champions/heroes chosen on team. It is almost impossible to see the same game twice unlike. There is skill expression & build mechanics that allow a player to outplay or recover matchups & adjust to the state of the game on the fly. With every game starting over at zero, you don’t get invested in building a specific character, but in mastering the gameplay which can go from micro mechanics to macro. I think a lot of folks liked it coincidentally at a time with better broadband for communications for this style of game, developers doing frequent patches to force meta shakeups & e-sports + streaming also taking off. But also a sunk cost fallacy of having invested the time to git gud not bothering to learn any game too similar.

toastal , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

I just had a nice cup of Thai white tea, which induced the opposite of rage 🍵

toastal , 17 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

💯

toastal , 18 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

It’s not the standard tho. Every style guide says this is an error it with the optional exception of single-character capital letters …such as Oakland A’s.

toastal , 18 days ago to Memes in Never forget what they took from us...

The rage-inducing MOBA’s what? Real cliffhanger at the end of this meme.

toastal , 19 days ago to Privacy in De-googling and privacy on Sony xperia

I have an Xperia 5 III.

All the Sony Xperia phones consistently & eventually make it to LineageOS mainline (so LineageOS for microG support too), but these ROMs don’t tend to come until near then end of a device’s 2 year warranty. I would assume that this is when they get cheap/used enough that developers can get their hands on them. Sony provides all the tools to unlock so it isn’t difficult or locked behind some centralized server for unlock keys. However, the nice cameras the come with… well you need their proprietary app unfortunately or the camera becomes a plenty bad device with the default LineageOS software.

On the plus side you get to support the only brand still shipping flagships with microSD, a headphone jack, and the ability to unlock bootloader (bonus the the 5s are <6" screens which is rough to find smaller phones now). Google Pixels won’t get you a headphone jack or microSD & Asus Zenfones don’t have unlockable bootloaders.