irotsoma

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

There are tons of wallets out there with RF blocking and it's also very simple to add to an existing wallet using some aluminum foil or similar. As for the phone, you really should always require entering your pin or biometrics authentication before accessing your sensitive data like credit cards in addition to the phone needing to be unlocked. This should be done even with current tech because the scanners that thieves use have had much longer range for a long time. They don't care about following standards or RF interference laws.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

"Stop hating us for our hate of you or we'll attack you and/or your property."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've never known a kid not to have this reaction unless they've been indoctrinated to be prejudice beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Thunderbird desktop does have telemetry and can be disabled. You can always block it from connecting to those URLs, too, if you want. It shouldn't affect functionality as far as I know. Android Thunderbird doesn't have telemetry yet since it's a continuation of the K9 app. But the help saya they plan to add it as soon as they figure out the best way to allow users to opt out.

I don't know much about what it's doing with geotrust, but I assume it's something to do with certificates for the webapp portions of the application. Probably would need more info to be sure.

And I believe the detectportal URL is for checking for internet access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Unbound on the router which connects upstream with DNS over TLS. Ports 53 and 853 are NATed to the phiole and several other DNS servers like Google's are blocked so devices can't bypass the pihole very easily. This is only on my primary VLAN. Other VLANs are given the Unbound DNS by default but are allowed to bypass if they insist. I have one VLAN for guests and one for trusted devices in addition to the primary one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

They'll never understand, or never admit yo understanding, that if you put a door in a wall, everyone will exploit it. Just think of how city defense worked before flight. Every invader would go after the gate and it was much, much easier to penetrate than the rest of the wall. But in this case that gate will be totally unguarded, so anyone who figures out how to open it, will open it for everyone. And will make tools for others to use to unlock and open it easily and it will be very difficult to change it if it's the same gate with the same key used by everyone. Imagine if door locks were all the same. No one would bother locking their doors if it was that easy to unlock instantly. And that's what the real goal is. To make people stop using security.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that only works for people who are brainwashed to follow whatever the current regime is pushing regardless of how much it hurts them personally, but especially if it doesn't hurt them directly in the very short term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Wish that was possible. Unfortunately, at least in the US, most industries are consolidated into a small handful of giant corporations with tons of money so unions, much less co-ops, are impossible. I mean, even Ben and Jerry with all their money weren't able to hold off the hostile takeover of their company and slow transitioning into a crappy, overpriced product. So sad about that one since it was one of the last remaining grocery store icecream brands that didn't fall prey to shrinkflation of smaller "pints" and whipping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It could totally be used effectively if and only if they do the work to train the LLM on only very specific content. But since they think the LLM shouldn't require people to train it, and seem to believe that more content is better no matter what, this will never happen.

But of course the other issue is that either way, the LLM will still be biased based on the content provided to it for training data. If it's trained with religious content included, or some other set of content that some group believes is "wholesome" or "kid friendly", it might still end up saying some pretty messed up stuff. Like if religious content is used, telling very young girls they are property owned by men (their fathers or husbands) and need to give their body freely to them, maybe not directly, but it will be implied in much of the advice it would give since that is a pretty deeply seeded belief in most current monotheistic religions and implied in many of the texts, even if it's no longer openly practiced or legal in mainstream western societies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

If they wanted to pretend it's about adding value then having a percentage pricing doesn't exactly support that. If they were actually adding value, then people would be willing to spend more and artists could charge more and the existing percentages would mean more income. Increasing percentages means the are providing less value and need to increase their cut of that decreased revenue to continue to increase profit margins.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My Meta account got locked without explanation and support couldnt tell me why, but suspiciously right after they implemented their new policies allowing hate speech but also I had deleted all of my posts going back to 2006 not long before that and had only been using it fir groups, so it wasn't as big of an impact so wasn't worth suing them to find out why I was locked out exactly or to start a new account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

GrapheneOS is great, but this move by Google may make it difficult for Graphene to continue to offer major updates. Only time will tell. But for the short term it's a great option.

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