Alexstarfire
@Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
- Comment on OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says 2 days ago:
I must admit… I have no idea what that means.
- Comment on OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says 2 days ago:
Before or after the accident?
- Comment on Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids 5 days ago:
There’s a difference. If you want to do those things online, you need some way to pay. Those ways involve knowing the person is of age, not perfect but pretty good. That said, I haven’t done online gambling in quite some time so IDK how crypto facts into this. The same can’t be said about browsing the internet in general. I don’t need to provide any info to just go look at things online. I’m not changing that even if my government thinks otherwise.
Also, those laws came about before the internet. It’s a lot easier to enforce when it’s easy to show someone an ID, and that they’ll forget in the next 5 seconds. Pretty sure people would have a problem if they were forced to keep a list of people who did those things.
I’m sure you’ll say “but no one is requiring a list to be kept” and that may be true, but how would you know if they are? And that’s the problem. We’ve gotten to a point where there are very few entities we can trust with our data, government included. I don’t trust anyone with it anymore. There have been so many breaches I’d be shocked if anyone who uses the internet hasn’t had their information leaked. I don’t have much choice sometimes though. And it’s not like much of my data isn’t already out there in some form because I was on the internet back in the mid 90s.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 2 weeks ago:
Not that Google was doing stellar with their rollout, but I haven’t heard anything bad from anyone who’s actually used the service. This is one of the worst things that could have happened with their service.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 4 weeks ago:
Do people just make up numbers for what companies are worth? I don’t see how either of these are worth much of anything.
- Comment on Find out if you can run a Marathon with the extraction shooter's system requirements 2 months ago:
I know I can’t. My computer also probably can’t run the game.
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 3 months ago:
He was still right.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 4 months ago:
Nope. :( Guess I’ll never know.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 4 months ago:
What did you type?
- Comment on It's not just you: Cloudflare, and half the Internet, is down 4 months ago:
It’s weird how I’m taking a day off whenever this stuff happens.
- Comment on Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion 5 months ago:
No, but there is a recurring subscription fee.
- Comment on PNG is back! 9 months ago:
And yet, PNG has more support. If they start supporting the new spec, seems like an improvement to me.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 9 months ago:
Day 1
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 9 months ago:
Take a guess.
- Comment on Researchers create most human-like robot skin yet 9 months ago:
Reminds me of the hand from Willy Wonka.
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 10 months ago:
It’s called the power connector.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 10 months ago:
Bet this backfires on them.
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 11 months ago:
That’s so 90s.
- Comment on Is AI sexist? How artificial images are perpetuating gender bias in reality. 1 year ago:
AI is based on humans, so yes.
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 year ago:
What’s wrong with green Mario?
- Comment on Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K 1 year ago:
I’d pass even if they paid me $1k to use the phone.
- Comment on Reddit co-founder says Meta’s end to third-party fact-checking is ‘very pragmatic’ 1 year ago:
It was so untenable that they kept it going for 4 years? Maybe if conservatives lied less they wouldn’t feel like it was targeting them. Classic case of overlooking the obvious conclusion.
And community notes is hardly a replacement. It sounds like it’s little more than a popularity contest. At best you’ll get notes on things that pretty much everyone already knows is false. Better than nothing, but not great. At worse, whoever has the loudest voice dictates “truth.”
- Comment on Trakt.tv has set stricter limits for free users and raised VIP subscription prices by 100%. 1 year ago:
Well, glad I never kept up with things on that site. I found TrackSeries more convenient.
- Comment on Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company 1 year ago:
Having bad information in your dataset surely has to increase the odds of hallucinations though.
- Comment on Biological computers could use far less energy than current technology – by working more slowly 1 year ago:
To a point. They are talking about slowing down how long it takes an instruction to complete. Unless you gain a lot of efficiency with very little slow down, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. At some point in the future it may become worth doing so, but we’re no where near that point now.
- Comment on Biological computers could use far less energy than current technology – by working more slowly 1 year ago:
This is pretty non starter for most tasks. The point of computers is to be able to do things quickly, not just do them at all. Data centers are already very concerned about cost and power efficiency.
- Comment on ‘I’ve never seen anything like this:’ One of China’s most popular apps has the ability to spy on its users, say experts 1 year ago:
- Comment on 63% of companies plan to pass data breach costs to customers 1 year ago:
Yea, but usually you pay to not have it leaked, rather than the other way around.
- Comment on The next Dragon Age game might be another "reinvention", say BioWare, drawing parallels with Final Fantasy 1 year ago:
“Final” Fantasy. Ain’t nothing final about the two dozen games they got.
- Comment on MachineGames Reportedly Just Added Denuvo To Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 1 year ago:
