ultratiem

ultratiem , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in toxic help forum

That’s literally what’s left of Reddit these days. Literally. Just brutal how bad the API affected them and how Reddit doesn’t give two fucks. It’s just a cess pool of ignorance.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to 196 in woag quirky ai rule

Wow I can’t believe Google is using comic sans. Yikes!

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ultratiem , 1 month ago to Technology in ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down

Yeah I stopped around the same time. But I didn’t know they were run by VK. That’s interesting.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

Oh yeah, what vast AI model has Brave developed and trained? Brave is literally powered thru Bing. Even their own “engine” is just Bing results. There is no Brave search engine and if Bing shutdown tomorrow, Brave would crumble.

Downvote all you want, Brave is basically an extension of Bing that just adds an anonymous wrapper around your query, nothing more. Even the quick results they deliver and just Bing run thru another layer.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Privacy in De-Google Your Life - Part 1 - YouTube LTT

Frat boy, incel culture over at LTT. Shocker they treat women as they do but also a shocker nothing will change 🙄

Also their damage control wreaks of “I don’t really know what I’m doing I just want all the bad press to die already.”

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in I'm really annoyed by how much Brave Search is pushing AI

Just a technical correction but it’s not Brave, it’s MS and Bing that’s shoving these AI “features” down your throat. Brave is just doing what they are told.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Privacy in iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes

It actually doesn’t seem possible as there are too many systems that need to fail for it be true. The encryption key, access to another Apple ID and Photos having access to it all.

We are finding out that it’s not the images that are restored, but the thumbnails. Which is why the images are low quality when opened. The original photos are gone but the thumbnails still survive on Apple’s servers. Likely just cached. Which of course only applies to those logged into their accounts, not on other wiped devices.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Privacy in Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection.

The real question is why people are still using that dumpster fire of a website.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Technology in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

I think it’s wild how people post “omg I just got this entire series for $299! It was on sale so I had to!” Like in 5 years, you may not even have it! Company goes under. Gets bought out. Or my personal favourite, it becomes unavailable because the owner pulled it over a legal dispute. Like so many songs off Spotify. These companies never get involved like well we got our cash too bad so sad.

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ultratiem , 1 month ago to Privacy in What is the cost of privacy?

I’ve found most to either be a) you are flagged as malicious by their system and routed thru their process to prove you are human; some you can end up locked into, b) they gate content or services. Mostly the latter but the former is becoming prominent with all the fuss about AI. I imagine they are training protection models on us.

Mostly it’s just convenience you lose, having to always add a protective layer (like temp emails, etc.) while everyone is good to go. Managing all that can be a chore too. Or seem like one.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Technology in Dell Data Breach

Wouldn’t be that much work to create codes for shippers to give out. It’s basically how tracking works. But in this case, they give the seller a code. When that code is scanned in, the shipper pulls up the associated address, and delivers it. Only the shipping place would ever know your details.

Honestly sounds like terrific b to b software to develop. Create a universal standard and we all move to not exposing our name and number and address to random strangers who do god knows what with it.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

It’s a con. There is no chip. None that works. This is Holmes 2.0. Except he may never be caught. The project will get into more “problem” and he’ll string investors along to secure himself a net positive position before letting it languish into oblivion. It’s probably one of the things that’s actually making him money.

Break down the whole thing. What am I supposed to go to McChip to get some kid with 6 weeks training to install these? If not some doctors with a 8y waiting list? How do you scale that part of the process? Doctors aren’t bountiful. And expensive.

And the elephant in the room: you can’t shove some electrodes into your midbrain and do things. The video of the guy moving the cursor around can be done now in macOS Sonoma with accessibility features. It would have been a different story if he was actually thinking about opening a photo from 3 years ago and it did that. But he was just moving a cursor around.

All he’s actually accomplished outside of lining his coffers is kill a bunch of innocent apes.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Technology in Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

Same. I ditched AZ once they added ads PV. After 2 20s back to back ads, I unfurled my Jolly Roger. Fuck ads.

ultratiem , 1 month ago to Technology in Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board

Jack Dorsey. In a life long mission to look like a pencil. Steady progress I see.

ultratiem , 2 months ago to Privacy in DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android

What?