slazer2au
@slazer2au@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wyden Again Warns That ‘SS7’ Telecom Flaw Lets Foreign Countries Broadly Spy On American Communications 23 hours ago:
As always. Government mandated backdoors are a gold mine for non government actors to exploit.
- Comment on Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal 4 days ago:
The payment scheme will be set up by Meta but administered by an independent third party. It will be open to people who:
had a Facebook account between November 2 2013 and December 17 2015 were present in Australia for at least 30 days during that period either installed the This is Your Digital Life app using Facebook login or were Facebook friends with an individual who installed the app.
People can check whether they are eligible on a help page on the Facebook website. The information commissioner anticipates those who are eligible will be able to submit applications “in the second quarter of 2025”.
The help page.
- Comment on 🇷🇺Russia: Foreign Tech Companies Cave to Authorities’ Pressure 4 days ago:
No shit they cave. The money they make from
the USARussia makes it worth the regulatory burden. - Comment on Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine 5 days ago:
Meh, it’s an opinion piece
- Comment on Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive? 2 weeks ago:
How do they? Because there is enough illusion of competition that anti trust investigations won’t be launched.
- Comment on Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths 2 weeks ago:
Na, dial back the length so they can churn more out faster at an ever increasing price.
- Comment on 63% of companies plan to pass data breach costs to customers 2 weeks ago:
Are the other 37% lying or did they fold because of the breaches?
- Comment on Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too 4 weeks ago:
Or US spyware?
- Comment on Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves 4 weeks ago:
Moral? I think you mean profits.
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 1 month ago:
But what about fixed addressed that consumers use?
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 1 month ago:
Ummmm, no.
You don’t use ISO or clns at all. We standardised on the DOD TCP/IP model and still teach ISO because who fucking knows why.
And before you say otherwise check your network adaptor and notice you don’t have a clns or nsap.
- Comment on Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? 3 months ago:
No. They are regurgitation machines prone to hallucinations. With the right prompt you can makke then say what you want.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 3 months ago:
If you have 30 min, this video gives a fair overview of space ninjas for a new player
- Comment on Two Point Museum announced from the devs of Two Point Hospital / Two Point Campus 4 months ago:
Well if you have a formula,ay as well reskin it every couple years.
- Comment on The 10 largest GDPR fines on Big Tech 4 months ago:
- Meta (Facebook): Fined €1.2 billion (~$1.31 billion) in May 2023
- Amazon: Fined €746 million (~$815 million) in July 2021.
- Meta (Instagram): Fined €405 million (~$443 million) in September 2021
- Meta (Instagram and Facebook): Fined a total of €390 million (~$426 million) in January 2023
- ByteDance (TikTok): Fined €345 million (~$377 million) in September 2023
- Meta (Facebook and Instagram): Fined €265 million (~$290 million) in November 2022
- Meta (WhatsApp): Fined €225 million (~$246 million) in September 2021
- Alphabet/Google (Android): Fined €50 million (~$55 million) in January 2019
- Meta (Facebook): Fined €17 million (~$18.5 million) in March 2022
- ByteDance (TikTok): Fined around €14.8 million at current exchange rates (~$16 million) in April 2023
- Comment on What video game about the Vietnam war is your favorite? 4 months ago:
Battlefield Vietnam
I know it’s old and an EA title but it has the best soundtrack outside of 1942 menu music.
- Comment on CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos 4 months ago:
From what I read they were cancelled because they gift card comp thought it was fraud with so many people accepting.
Still a terrible thing to do.
- Comment on CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos 4 months ago:
I suppose this does exemplify the corporation mindset.
Lets break several hundreds of millions of PCs around the world bringing mass transit, hospitals and airlines to a halt. Causing billions in damages to our paying customers and their customers. If we offer $10 gift cards we are cool right?
- Comment on Google’s Play Store wants to pivot from grab-and-go to an active destination 4 months ago:
Just give us the option to hide apps/games we have no interest in playing.
That will increase the user experience so much. It will also give you more metrics to use for ads and increase your advert click ratios.
Oh this person likes casual games but has put the 30 clones of “match 3 to save the family” Into the ignored category. Maybe they don’t want to see clone number 31.
- Comment on Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice 4 months ago:
The report includes a case study in which a phisher this year registered 17,562 domains over the course of an eight-hour period — roughly 38 domains per minute — using .lol domains that were all composed of random letters.
At $1.80 per domain, that’s about $28k on domains.
- Comment on Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws 4 months ago:
Drop the fine after …donating(?)… To an official in charge of dropping the fine.
- Comment on Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws 4 months ago:
But is it enforceable?
- Comment on 11 times the US government got hacked in 2023 5 months ago:
What a shitty article. 2 of those weren’t hacks, they were data leaks and another one was contractors being hacked.
- Comment on An Alternate Reality Of The Steam Deck (Anti-cheat Support!) 6 months ago:
How could expanding anti cheat help portable gaming? It will consume more cycles meaning the battery runs down faster while the game plays worse because the CPU is busy looking for cheats that aren’t running.
- Comment on Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer 7 months ago:
Something something Crysis.
- Comment on Games my toddler can watch me play 7 months ago:
Raft on peaceful mode?
They can also help by making weird suggestions on how to build your raft.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing user-controlled RAM limits for Microsoft Edge browser 8 months ago:
A lot. There are so many old corporate web based apps that only work in comparability mode in edge.
We have one customer that we provide virtual desktops for that have to run edge because that is the only browser that will work with their traffic control systems.
- Comment on Qualcomm says most Windows games should “just work” on its unannounced Arm laptops 8 months ago:
In the same way the Bethesda games ‘just works’ or the same way Microsoft patching ‘just works’
- Comment on Will Nevada Kill End-To-End Encryption Next Week? 9 months ago:
Spoiler alert. It won’t.
- Comment on How long do you think until AI writes and debugs code better than the average programmer? 1 year ago:
You do have to be careful though. Sometimes it gives functions that don’t exist.
PowerShell has a well established naming scheme of get-[function] or set-[function] so when you ask GPT to create a powershell code to set the name of a file it will use set-filename but that doesn’t exist.
I do believe that you can use LLM to assist in program creation but doubt an end user can articulate in full what they want a program to do.