Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)R

refalo

@ refalo @programming.dev

Posts
2
Comments
387
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • Meta discontinues end-to-end encryption on Instagram

    Jump

  • If they did, it's still entirely possible to use your own e2ee for messages between friends on any app just by using an encrypted keyboard app on your phone (like KryptEY).

  • Age verification is the new digital ID

    Jump

  • it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you

  • Firefox’s new AI ‘Smart Window’ (only in beta builds so far) surprises reviewer by unexpectedly handing browsing history to 3rd party hosted models

    Jump

  • assuming it actually listens to you. in the past people have had settings randomly turn back on.

  • Lutris is AI slop now

    Jump

  • Alright nerds, who can guess what this RegEx matches?

    Jump

  • URLs can have newlines too

  • LTT does another Linux Challenge

    Jump

  • I think your own statements here are pretty elitist.

    "As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding."

  • archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog (and more)

    Jump

  • Maybe a better question might be why all the upvotes. Perhaps that already answers one of your questions.

  • How Japan Protects Children Online — Without Mass ID Checks

    Jump

  • it doesn't

  • The banality of surveillance | On an internet where everything is tracked, our privacy is maintained mainly because our data is too boring and time consuming to sort through. But AIs don't get bored.

    Jump

  • I think the article fails to take several critical factors into consideration.

    • The complexity of dealing with such large amounts of information will keep increasing forever as the amount of information also grows
    • AI struggles with conflicting information and mistakes, which happen a lot especially when humans are involved, so eventually you will have lots of "garbage in garbage out" issues causing problems
    • The data one might be able to track will continuously be challenged or removed on legal/compliance bases over time, reducing its availability

    For example: Yes the NSA might want our chatbot logs, but after enough people realize they might be/are getting them, people will stop feeding it as much, or introduce noise on purpose. It's not a perfect vacuum of constant reliable information forever. We are already seeing that AI models learning from web results are getting caught up in their own slop making themselves dumber. And the sheer volume of information relative to the computing power necessary to process everything will also become a problem if they keep trying to process every single thing.

  • LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision

    Jump

  • No it can't. This story keeps getting posted all over the internet.

    Not only is it wrong, and not only do the researchers refuse to show their work (citing possible "misuse"), but it entirely depends on what kind of OPSEC failures the user happens to make.

  • AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)

    Jump

  • No it can't... all this paper talks about is correlating OPSEC failures which any human can do and not related to the name you use.

    They don't even publish their exact methodology, like prompts or other tools "for safety." So their findings are literally just "trust me bro."

  • Firefox’s AI Kill Switch is a Trap: How Mozilla Made AI Your Problem

    Jump

  • I swear people will never be happy no matter what.

    No AI features? Get with the times man.

    AI features? High treason.

    Opt-out? Not good enough.

    Opt-in? Nobody will use it.

    Can't please everyone I guess.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I wonder if you need to explicitly prompt it to check if a function really exists before suggesting it? Think about how a human brain works... we are constantly evaluating whether or not things are really true based on info in our heads... but we are not telling the models to do the same thing and instead they just yolo some shit that is confidently-wrong (not unlike many humans, admittedly).

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Why?

  • Movim - A GPL, federated E2EE Text Chat & Video Call platform (w/ screenshare!) using XMPP just launched a new funding campaign to accelerate development of Discord-like features!

    Jump

  • So you're saying people shouldn't want nice features?

  • Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers

    Jump

  • How are they able to auto-play audio even when my browser is set to block that?

  • Car (lack of) privacy, and what to do about it. Let's talk about this?

    Jump

  • IMO The problem isn't so much getting them to know about it, the problem is getting them to care.

  • How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

    Jump

  • So 1 month becomes... 2 years?

  • Is it technically possible to support Arabic usernames?

    Jump

  • yes