RandoCalrandian

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in YouTube extension for FF to manage subscriptions privately?

The way I solved this problem is by using an https://invidious.io/ instance.

Logins are easy to create, so you can have one for each subscription set you want to create

Private by default, so not even the fingerprint scripts are monitoring you

And the subscriptions page lists just your subscriptions in order of most recently released, nothing else shoved in

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

It’s the signal metadata that they want to keep associated with an identity

They still can fulfill government requests for who is talking to who and how often

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account

We’ll make it AI trained on all the “best” citizens, fully automatic!

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account

Can’t have those things being used unregulated or unmonitored

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

They would have to vett all the closed source systems like iMessage to prove this

Which they won’t do, so it’s all down to the cops getting caught

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Intel Management Engine (ME) explained | disabling the potential backdoor

But without someone forcing that, for consumer hardware they will just "disable" (read: not mention) the ME, because there are entities (the ones that should be enforcing secure consumer hardware) that very much enjoy the ME being there for them to take advantage of on consumer hardware.

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Linux in I tried, I really did

Git gud scrub

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

Tabby

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

glad to see i'm not the only one who see's exactly how this tech will be used.

Now they won't even need to create political ads, they can generate the most manipulative and effective ones with AI for the highest bidder!

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI

I find it immensely useful.

I run copilot-equivalent things locally for code autocomplete and suggestions. It's about even in terms of language specific snippets in terms of productivity gains there.

I've run my resume through it to have it inject HR buzzwords into all my bullet points, and i think it looks much better as a result. (The AI is way more flattering about my work that I am, myself). For something like ChatGPT specifically, i hand it my resume along with job listings and have it rate my fit, give explanations as to why, and highlight areas the company would like to know about, which makes writing cover letters trivial.

Nvidia has an AI feature that guesses and fills in frames, making it so a game only needs to generate about 30fps to get the user equivalent of 120fps, drastically improving performance on both low and high end machines even adding in the cost of running the neural net.

You're limiting your view of "AI" into what enters the news cycle, and like most things in the news cycle, they're almost completely off the mark and more focused on the doom and gloom aspects.

My future career is perfectly gears towards integrating AI into people's normal workflow so people can work with the accelerating affects of technology, instead of feeling replaced by it.

All that being said, jobs like screenwriters have good reason to be worried. Even a bad AI can make a better script that 80% of what comes out of hollywood these days.

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to Privacy in Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream

Google "Cambridge Analytica"

That was an org that trump paid to do what facebook has been doing on their own for over a decade to push politicians that help prop up it's business.

"Amusingly", people were all up in arms about election interference and bypassing election advertising rules all up until they realized their own preferred politicians had been doing the same thing extensively even back in the obama era.

People got real quiet about it after that, but facebook is quite clearly the greatest election manipulation machine ever created or conceived by mankind. Other social networks are close behind.

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to politics in Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”

You’re trotting out Biden as an example of “decent president” in a thread about blatant political corruption and the willingness of politicians to sell Americans out for money?

Bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for him

RandoCalrandian , 4 months ago to privacy in FBI Overstepped Authority in Warrantless Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules

So what are the odds this ruling even slows down the agency’s blatant abuses of power?
Any bets?

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in Microsoft Edge's latest AI tool sends open websites to Microsoft - gHacks Tech News

Might be a good opportunity to drop some toxic games at the same time

Have you heard of our lord and savior, Factorio?

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in Microsoft Edge's latest AI tool sends open websites to Microsoft - gHacks Tech News

Same.

Even for gaming, switching all my desktops to Linux was a breeze.

It’s mobile im struggling with