FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint 6 days ago:
Isn’t this the same one that has been found to be about as secure as a wet paper bag within hours of release? You can simply edit a text file in the apps data to remove the pin and face unlock lol
- Comment on Amazon won’t release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore 6 days ago:
If your point of buying it was to install non Amazon apps, you’re why Amazon are making this change.
Fire sticks are primarily for Amazon services.
- Comment on Amazon is ending support for older Kindles and Kindle Fires 1 week ago:
You might want to have a quick think about what you just said because it’s definitely wrong lol. Books, like all physical media, have an end of life. Books especially are easily destroyed or lost.
- Comment on EFF is Leaving Twitter 1 week ago:
It costs nothing to post on X, and Musk has done more for user rights than Twitter ever did - in fact Twitter actively suppressed user rights at a massive scale, and was basically a government propaganda tool. The EFFs statement reads like the usual anti-musk far left virtue signalling. There’s literally zero reason to stop posting on X if their goals are what they say they are.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 2 weeks ago:
AI is replacing search engines. AI doesn’t show up in search engines lol.
- Comment on LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really a secret, pretty much all social sites do this - and most sites to an extent. You know those “Adblock detected” messages you get on sites? Yeh they’re doing the same thing.
There’s nothing wrong with doing it. Unless they’re selling the data against your consent, which the authors have no evidence of, and LinkedIn deny doing so, there’s no issue here.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 2 weeks ago:
🤣 you really used articles using search engine rankings to try and discredit AI 🤦
Nothing you posted there is proof that people don’t want or use AI. AI is in use almost everywhere now.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 weeks ago:
Where’s your proof?
My evidence would be that absolutely massive and widespread adoption of all things AI. Yours would be……?
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 weeks ago:
No one is “worshipping tech bros” 🤣. Most people like what AI is bringing to the world. It makes lots of jobs infinitely easier. It opens new doors for people, doors that previously were locked shut with a million padlocks and booby traps.
Like I said, the only cult like behaviour is from people like you.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 weeks ago:
The only “cult” around AI is the anti-AI cult. The rest of us just acknowledge the reality that AI is now an everyday tool to use, and it’s revolutionising the world at a break-neck pace. It’s turning entire industries on their heads, doing in minutes for a handful of dollars what a year ago took 300 people millions of dollars to do.
The genie is out of the bottle, and it’s not going back in ever again. The genie is only going to get more powerful by leaps and bounds. The anti-AI crowd are going to be left behind, unemployed, and even worse for them - unemployable.
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 3 weeks ago:
AI can already create cgi that’s better than most Hollywood slop. AI created movies are an inevitability, and they’re going to revolutionise the industry in a great way for everyone apart from Hollywood.
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 4 weeks ago:
Who h party is in government in the UK? Australia?
- Comment on Microsoft May Remove Windows 11 Online Login Requirement 4 weeks ago:
Good for those living in submarines I guess. Never been an issue for anyone I know.
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 4 weeks ago:
Apple have been at the forefront of keeping people private for a long time, don’t know what you’ve been doing.
- Comment on Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update 4 weeks ago:
I would much rather my phone simply tell every service and website that I am over 18 than have to provide proof to every one of those sites and services.
This is pretty much the best way that we could hope for age verification to be done, and unfortunately left wing governments around the world are adamant on bringing in age verification to everything to make controlling their citizens easier.
- Comment on Breaking Down the New Stupid Ageist Californian Law that Requires Age Verification at OS account setup 1 month ago:
Whoever made that website needs to never design another thing in their life.
- Comment on Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools 1 month ago:
No it didn’t lol.
- Comment on Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools 1 month ago:
He over hired during Covid, like every other tech company. AI is just an easy scapegoat to use to fire people now. Block still has more employees than pre-COVID after this cutting of 40% of the workforce.
Dorsey also has a history of over hiring. Twitter losing over half its employees when musk fired them and it not missing a beat is evidence of that.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 2 months ago:
Windows computers have been encrypting drives for years.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 2 months ago:
These are all basically “if your machine is always compromised, they can also get around these other security measures” type exploits though, which are irrelevant.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 2 months ago:
Good thing windows encrypts your disk too.
- Comment on Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do 2 months ago:
Tl;dr - if you’ve used the computer in the last few years, you’re fine.
If you haven’t, then it on and run Windows update and/or update everything in the windows store by June.
If you do none of that…… doesn’t really matter, your computer will still work as expected.
- Comment on The Amount of New Solar Power Production Capacity China Is Manufacturing Is Legitimately Mind-Blowing 2 months ago:
Here in Australia we’re at pretty much record, all time high energy costs lol. The more renewables we add to the grid, the higher our bills go…the opposite of what we’ve been told will happen.
- Comment on Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades 2 months ago:
How many years do you think are in a decade?
- Comment on Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades 2 months ago:
Who thought that the warranty of anything meant the end of it? No one. It just means that you’re on your own from then on if they have issues or die.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 3 months ago:
It’s definitely not for that, actually.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 3 months ago:
You can still create local accounts just by clicking in some of the other options during initial setup.
- Comment on UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors 3 months ago:
The UK government must be getting scared that the Australian government is going to overtake them in how authoritarian they are, so are going hard to maintain their lead.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 3 months ago:
computers can be gotten for free
Computers that don’t already have windows activated, that can’t work with an un-activated windows? Non-activated windows 1
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 3 months ago:
It wasn’t a big deal because I don’t use Windows 11. My login is offline.
Wait wait wait…do you think that you can’t log in to windows 11 computers without being online?