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CerebralHawks

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  • Rumi

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  • Eh, who knows. Not everything's for everybody. Normally I'd agree with you, but I got really into this one.

    Last year we took our 8-year-old niece to see the movie in theatres. It's the sing-along version, and we instructed her to stand on her seat and sing each song. We stood up and sang, too. It was fun. Might not ever do it again and that's fine.

  • Rumi

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  • My favourite song from the movie as well.

    I'm not ashamed to admit I haven't heard of the poet. But, poetry isn't my thing, hence the inability to be ashamed of not knowing it. I do listen to some K-Pop and I have a niece who watches the movie religiously.

  • Rumi

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  • Someone once said that they all have autistic tendencies, but Zoey's character/writing really leans into it.

    There's also how every time they all say something, she's the one who says something different.

  • Rumi

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  • Everyone else acting proud to not know the Kpop Demon Hunters character and then there's me proud that the comic strip child character supports best girl.

    Like I get it if you like Zoey, she's basically an autistic icon, and I hope the next movie gives us more of her, because so many of us saw ourselves in her, but the first movie wasn't really about her. She was just there.

  • LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

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  • Clarification: Most Android users don't use custom firmware ("ROM"). OEM means the company that makes your phone. All the major ones use Google Play Services. Nothing and OnePlus might be exceptions as those are known for using custom firmware that is more private. Also, Pixel phones running GrapheneOS ostensibly do not include Google Play Services. But Pixel phones don't ship with GrapheneOS. You have to add that yourself by unlocking the bootloader (available deep in the settings, wipes the phone), and manually flashing the custom firmware (CFW or "ROM") to the phone.

  • LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices

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  • No.

    That said, the whole reason Android exists today is because Google was getting a lot of personal data from Gmail, but when they saw Andy Rubin's invention, they realised they could get a lot more personal data with a phone, so they bought Android from him.

    Android collects a lot of data (as that is its primary purpose for Google), but it doesn't upload everything you say. It — or, more accurately, Google Play Services (and possibly other services) do other underhanded things to exfiltrate your data from the device back to Google. Like if you try to use an ad blocker, it will use DNS filtering to tunnel around the ad blocker for its own uses.

    The wildest thing is, Google successfully ran an ad campaign convincing people their way was the right way and that Apple's way of doing things was wrong. That's a big part of why Apple is trying to be more like Google. They're certainly not hurting for money, but they see people willingly accepting this sort of thing, so they're realising more and more how much money they're leaving on the table. Imagine if it had gone the other way, if more people rejected Google and its data collecting practices. We'd probably be paying more for some things since we're not (also) the product, but more companies would be putting privacy first. Because that's what the consumers would be demanding. But no, we have people out there, a metric fuck ton of them, saying privacy is negotiable. So, companies are negotiating with privacy — mostly against it.

  • A question about the series fringe

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  • Ask a chatbot? Maybe something like ChatGPT might be able to help.

    I'm kind of loathe to recommend AI, but this might be a place where it could help.

    Years ago, I remembered an episode I saw at a friend's house. Not of Fringe. I didn't know what the show was. We were just watching it while other things were going on. I asked all over Reddit and no one seemed to know what it was. Years later I was watching Justified with my wife and we just happened upon the episode (season 2, episode 1). I had described it nearly perfectly, with a couple minor things slightly off. The funny thing was, it was/is cool to say you liked Justified, but none of the people trying to sell the show to others could identify that episode. Maybe they stopped with the first season? It was weird.

    Humans are a flawed bunch. It has been documented that people are afraid to answer a question they don't know they answer to. Like "I don't know" is worse than dropping the N word or the R word. Cunningham's Law is an actual thing where it's been proven that if you don't know the answer to a question, asking it will get far fewer responses than stating the incorrect answer confidently. Almost as much as people are afraid to admit what they do not know, people love "getting one over" on someone, even if it's a total stranger. Just like, "I know this thing, and rather than answer your question asked in good faith, I'm going to ignore that and come over to where you confidently stated the wrong thing, and I'm going to prove you wrong, and other people I don't know are going to see that I am better than you." Both people could have saved half their energy by the "smarter" person just answering the question in the first place. But again, state the wrong thing confidently and people will come out of the woodwork to "take you down a peg".

    An AI isn't going to have any of those problems. It's gonna look at what you said and scan a metric fuck ton of synopses and it's going to get you an answer. And some jackass is going to tell you "you're the reason RAM and SSDs cost so much now," but that same person wasn't trying to help you solve your problem, because helping you isn't the goal, taking you down, is. So, remove the human from the equation. Get your answer, and keep it moving.

    ...As for me, I watched Fringe, but I don't remember jack shit about it. It was enjoyable to watch though. There's another one people liked about as much, with that guy from LOST, who played Ben Linus up there. Nerdy guy with the glasses. I think it also dealt with other worlds. Then there were shows like The 4400. Many others I don't remember. I think The Leftovers was the best of these, by far. I wish I could help. What I will tell you is that I don't know. Because the neat thing about a logical fallacy is, once you see how it works, it's piss easy to navigate around it.

  • People Are Telling Their Darkest Thoughts to AI Without Realizing They Can Easily Become Public: a full third of all AI users admit to having told their chatbots a secret.

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  • People also use Facebook, WhatsApp, Windows, and Android.

    I think it’s a choice. Let people make it.

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    JD Vance reacts to airstrike that killed four at Iran wedding: ‘Things happen’

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  • I'm just looking at Germany as an example. I know it's wishful thinking.

    Some of us looked at Nazi Germany and said "that's something that should never happen again". Some looked at it and said "okay but how can we get away with it next time?".

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  • Nice quote. When he faces his sentence for crimes against humanity when Americans finally put all these people on trial, I hope he's reminded of it.

  • What do you think of Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy?

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  • I like Nolan for sci-fi/fantasy, but I didn't care for his Batman movies. Watched every one, they bored me. I liked the first two with Michael Keaton and the one with Val Kilmer, though I was pretty young when they came out and they left an impression. Rose coloured glasses and all that. I don't really watch them now but I remember them being good.

    DC stuff in general just bores me, though I did like last year's Superman. My problem with Superman is that only a fake green rock from a planet that does not exist (so far as we know) is his one weakness, and the film opens with him having gotten his ass kicked. Didn't love it but thought it was decent. I thought I liked Batman more, but those are boring to me, too.

  • John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'

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  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

  • Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump

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  • I disagree with everyone saying this guy should be ignored. Nah, make him famous again.

    The problem is, there are still marginalised groups supporting the fascists, and they don't realise that if they aren't next, their time will eventually come and no one will be left to fight for them.

    Anyway... Musk next.

  • GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE); GrapheneOS might skip the the whole pixel 11 series

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  • It's been a decade since I switched to iPhone for my daily driver. I still have an Android phone as backup. I had an HTC last, and a Samsung before that, so yeah, my Motorola was before that. My wife had one more recently. Actually, she had the same one I did, then used two more for some reason (habit?). They were all pretty shit phones. All before the acquisition.

    I know a guy who worked for Lenovo. Said they treated him good. As for Motorola, they kinda stopped doing phones after so many shit ones. I'm kinda glad they're back, but I wouldn't trust them, myself. As an iPhone guy who still likes Android, I'd mainly be looking at Samsung (it's what I have now, it's an old S10 that still rocks), though the Nothing 6+ or 6S or whatever it's called, in green, is VERY tempting — if I needed a phone now, it's what I would get. Even over another iPhone.

  • You're 17 and at a house party. You shit your pants. What do you do?

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  • You're 17 and at a house party. You shit your pants. What do you do?

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  • Take a shower and wash the pants in the shower. Shit is water-soluble, that is to say it can dissolve in water. I think there may be some oil in it but it soups wash out. What doesn’t go down the shower drain, move by hand to the toilet and wash your hands.

    Now you have wet pants. In the northern hemisphere it’s still summer, so they should dry relatively quickly outside. Play it off somehow. Be the guy or gal who fell in the pool.

  • Terminology

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  • It certainly fits. I’ve only heard the term, never heard it used in practice.

  • Terminology

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  • Look who coined the terms. Like the Silicon Valley stoners/hippies who came up with bit, byte, and nibble.

  • GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE); GrapheneOS might skip the the whole pixel 11 series

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  • Motorola CFW support was spotty in the past, when they were an American company. Now they are part of Lenovo (? Not sure if they still are) so maybe they do things differently now. They always had decent hardware, and their Android forks were very minimal later on (in their independent time; before they were further from AOSP) and ran pretty good for the most part. But they did not like to update their phones. Motorola phones often shipped with the Android version they would EOL on. Motorola used to be a piss-poor choice for modding back then.

    I expect better from them now, but I don't predict it.

    Also, I realise the issue is with Pixel, not Graphene. Still, I would be upset if I bought a Pixel 11 planning to de-Google it.

  • Lawmakers want to stop kids from nicknaming their Pokémon

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  • If you're wondering what the big deal is and can't (be bothered to) RTFA,

    In the Pokémon games, for example, gamers can give their Pokémon nicknames. When they battle online, they see their opponents' nicknames, communicating without messaging directly. Players often nickname for fun—expressing themselves, cracking jokes, and riffing on memes. Nicknames can also be strategic, used to intimidate, tease, or trick opponents. Either way, Pokémon nicknames qualify as "written messages" exchanged online within the meaning of the act.

    They're burying the lede here, they're not saying what kids are calling their Pokémon that is causing the uproar. If I name Pikachu (the yellow pika most commonly associated with the franchise, that uses lightning attacks) "bug zapper," that's not offensive. But if I'm naming him "Free Palestine," I can see how the powers that be might be offended. Or something like that (e.g. "8647", which is to say 86, or kick out, 47, as in the 47th United States president (the current one)).

    Anyway, I don't name them either. I remember when Final Fantasy 7 was new and some guys were giving Aerith their sister's name and then getting upset when, well, what happens at the end of Disc 1. The game is 29 years old at this point, but the remakes are still new, so it's probably not a good idea. Those of you who have been gaming a while know that changing Aerith's name to that of a loved one can be... well, not the best idea.

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
    CerebralHawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    What is an omelet? And is that what I make? If not, what DO I make?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Blue Prince is 'the result of 8 years of development, fueled by imagination and creativity' not AI says publisher

    www.pcgamer.com /games/puzzle/blue-prince-is-the-result-of-8-years-of-development-fuelled-my-imagination-and-creativity-not-ai-says-publisher/
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    What is a good reusable bottle that isn't a mould farm?