duncesplayed

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[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

LocalSend. It’s exactly like Apple Airdrop

This may be super-nitpicky (and I lose LocalSend and use it a lot), but there is one difference between LocalSend and Airdrop. LocalSend requires network connectivity (and requires the devices to be on the same network), whereas Airdrop can work without any network connection (using Bluetooth).

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I recently discovered that he believes it's theft if you watch one of his videos with an adblocker. Just out of spite, sometimes I put one of his videos on in the background (muted) with an adblocker.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 3 points 4 months ago

Something something broken arms

Edit: Wow, thank you for the gold, kind stranger!

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 16 points 4 months ago

To be honest I'm more concerned by language-humor. Like not even saying what kind of humour, just any type of humour at all. Jokes are for adults only!

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 4 months ago

"But you already have a queen on the board"

"Have you heard of a sex act called 'the ladder mate'? You're the bottom bitch"

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah during the reddit exodus, people were recommending to overwrite your comment with garbage before deleting it. This (probably) forces them to restore your comment from backup. But realistically they were always going to harvest the comments stored in backup anyway, so I don't think it caused them any more work.

If anything, this probably just makes reddit's/SO's partnership more valuable because your comments are now exclusive to reddit's/SO's backend, and other companies can't scrape it.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

According to here, Vermont and Utah do not have any titled players. At least Oregon has a FM.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why the quotes?

If you ever see quotation marks in a headline, it simply means they're attributing the word/phrase to a particular source. In this case, they're saying that the word "security" was used verbatim in the intranet document. Scare quotes are never used in journalism, so they're not implying anything by putting the word in quotation marks. They're simply saying that they're not paraphrasing.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Heads up for anyone (like me) who isn't already familiar with SimpleX, unfortunately its name makes it impossible to search for unless you already know what it is. I was only able to track it down after a couple frustrating minutes after I added "linux" into the search on a lark.

Anyway it's a chat protocol

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 5 months ago

If you pump out enough research papers, maybe Microsoft won't move you over to the Office team.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 5 months ago

Reminds me a little of the old Jonathan Shapiro research OSes (Coyotos, EROS, CapROS), though toned down a little bit. The EROS family was about eliminating the filesystem entirely at the OS level since you can simulate files with capabilities anyway. Serenum seems to be toning that down a little and effectively having file- or directory-level capabilities, which I think is sensible if you're going to have a capability-based OS, since they end up being a bit more user-visible as an OS.

He's got the same problem every research OS has: zero software. He's probably smart to ditch the idea of hardware entirely and just fix on one hardware platform.

I wish him luck selling his computer systems, but I doubt he's going to do very well. What would a customer do with one of these? Edit files? And then...edit them again? I guess you can show off how inconvenient it is to edit things due to its security.

I just mean it's a bit optimistic to try and fund this by selling it. I understand he doesn't have a research grant, but it's clearly just a research OS.

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 7 points 6 months ago

To be fair, it's the newest rule change, so some older players may think it some new-fangled whipper snapper thing. We've only had about 150 years to get used to it.

 

It feels like we have a new privacy threat that's emerged in the past few years, and this year especially. I kind of think of the privacy threats over the past few decades as happening in waves of:

  1. First we were concerned about governments spying on us. The way we fought back (and continue to fight back) was through encrypted and secure protocols.
  2. Then we were concerned about corporations (Big Tech) taking our data and selling it to advertisers to target us with ads, or otherwise manipulate us. This is still a hard battle being fought, but we're fighting it mostly by avoiding Big Tech ("De-Googling", switching from social media to communities, etc.).
  3. Now we're in a new wave. Big Tech is now building massive GPTs (ChatGPT, Google Bard, etc.) and it's all trained on our data. Our reddit posts and Stack Overflow posts and maybe even our Mastodon or Lemmy posts! Unlike with #2, avoiding Big Tech doesn't help, since they can access our posts no matter where we post them.

So for that third one...what do we do? Anything that's online is fair game to be used to train the new crop of GPTs. Is this a battle that you personally care a lot about, or are you okay with GPTs being trained on stuff you've provided? If you do care, do you think there's any reasonable way we can fight back? Can we poison their training data somehow?

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