Tangent5280

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[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Only works in tiny countries with a monoculture. In which case it becomes irrelevant.

I can honestly say with some confidence that I can narrow down the set of countries that you might be from, just from this one comment of yours. No one who has lived in any kind of diverse-culture environment could espouse a brain dead take like this.

Also, when your government mandates something like this, you can be sure its not going to be your language that is being forced on you.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Carry around a candle in one of those old timey holders like Scrooge Mcduck

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sure several engineers from google itself might be contributors to some of them, fortunately.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not youtube ads, sadly, if they are blocking based on domain names. For YouTube, you can use pipepipe, which do block ads as far as I have seen.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It can be exchanged for goods and services

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Now that the cats out of the bag they need to move fast and secure anything that can be used against them. Hence the doubling down?

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Challenge countries? LMAO, no. Maybe one of them, some particularly daft cunt, might delude himself into saying or doing some shit that attracts the attention of some state actor, and then either "kill himself" or just "pass away".

Serious state actors can point a districts worth of people into the sole interest of murder. Most of these people don't even know what they're doing or why. Just entire machinery solely for killing one dude, and this dude doesn't even have a nuke or two to launch if things go sideways? Training exercise. More likely it's going to be their own government.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I am a baby with an 800 credit score. I undersigned my parents home mortgage so they'd get a good rate. The bank knows I'm a reliable lender.

Googoogaagaa

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yep, just read an article on this. And I didn't read about any palliative care medicine, more because of animal meds - basically cattle treated with meds are, after they are no longer useful, sometimes abandoned instead of being killed humanely, meaning they die soonafter in public and urban locations, the carrion birds eat these corpses and the toxins accumulate in their bodies.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yo are you still in aforementioned relationship hell?

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but without actually knowing what kind of hardware the servers are running, what kind of software too, and what their service backend looks like we can't say whether it is going to be higher or lower.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AHA - I think I know what you're talking about, ranger. Careful where you carry it though, these are turbulent times and you wouldn't want to be mistaken for someone with ill intent.

 

People are noticing that their phones are getting an app called "Android System Safetycore" auto-installed without notice or consent. Check your phone for the same, it is likely it's a slow rollout instead of every device getting it installed all at the same time.

Google has all the same old reasons that they drone on about, but the actual reason is likely to harvest your messages data for training AI models.

Uninstalling seems to remove the application, and there aren't any malicious activity reported so far as I can see, but naturally that can change anytime.

Has anyone noticed this in their applications lists? Did straight up uninstalling them work? I've had some trouble removing systems apps in the past, but uninstalling this one seems to have worked straightaway - I don't see them in the list anymore.

URLs below for Reddit posts about the same: From 2 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1gpdhwz/guys_help_some_app_called_android_system/

From 2 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1idjbdi/googles_new_app_will_help_warn_you_about_nude/

 
 

Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

 

Does anyone here use any Open-Source Workout Trackers? I've been using hevy, but their high fees, the fact that they are a company that holds my health data and has made no commitments to open source, User privacy, or fair trade practices like user data import/export has me looking around. I wanted to see if anyone had reliable open source alternatives.

Tell me your workout tracking stories here! Tell me what you liked and what you disliked.

 

Is using Voyager giving Chrome an opportunity to harvest user data? I'll take whatever you know about the Voyager dependence on chrome.

 

Useful because now you'll be able to tell that something is human-generated instead of AI-generated, and content creators and people with a large public presence will now be able to police their own likeness being used by randos.

Scary both because now whistleblowers or reporters could get their cover blown because the image has metadata linking them to it; or they could strip off this metadata and get the evidence dismissed entirely as fraudulent; and also because of the possibility that any regulatory government body that enforces C2PA will also determine what is real and what is not, meaning anyone on the inside will be able to generate AI content and pass it off as real to the vast majority of the population.

Can't help but think they shortened it to C2PA instead of CCPA because of the similarity in acronyms of the latter and the big bad no-privacy country.

What do you think? Non-issue, Slightly concerning, or apocalyptic?

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