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• It kind of does though because they aren’t destroying the environment, depriving people of water and electricity, and directly contributing to fascism to make their game.

  (If the comment is in good faith then we all know they aren’t using a local AI model run on solar panels for the work)

  on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Why do you say privacy and zero data retention? Has there been any proof of this? What we have learned from the last few years of investigations is companies lie and lie and lie through their teeth about anything regarding privacy.

  on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Reminds me of the Smarty Pants “vegetables don’t exist” presentation

  on Tomato rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• Wasn’t google DARPA tech that was given to PhD students for a PhD project?

  on What's a good way to index the web? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026

• People want their decisions reinforced. Humans HATE when their time is wasted. I don’t know the comment, but I can speculate.

  If you told a bunch of people that all of their hard work in isolating their TV was pretty much for nothing and it is quite possible for the TV to simply skip over the measures that they set. Then respond emotionally with “this person sounds paranoid, I did a good job, it will be good enough to protect me and my family” instead of reasoning through “would the company gain something from this that might cause them to implement this?”

  I don’t know why people choose to bury their head in the sand, but also this technology isn’t CIA/NSA spy stuff. They aren’t building a new Amazon Sidewalk-esque mesh network. It is basic, cheap, single-point WiFi repeater technology that has been around for at least a decade and a half. Cheap, easy, profitable. Cars have been shown multiple times to do all of this too…

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 10 Sep 2026

• There will almost always be a hole above it in the plastic remote housing.

  MEMs microphones are a silver or black rectangle and it has to have a small hole in the top of the package www.st.com/en/…/mems-microphones.html

  Generally you can also just put a dab of hot glue over the top of the hole and it won’t be able to hear shit, you don’t necessarily have to desolder it, but it is the most effective.

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• To the WiFi?

  You are often forced to in order to set it up at all, the damage is already done if you disconnect it or VLAN quarantine it after that.

  It doesn’t stop the TV from spying on you. GN just proved that it runs STT and records your conversations in plaintext and has the memory to store them for eternity. It also gets your location from scanning WiFi, Bluetooth, and any other devices in the band and geolocating based off of their data.

  Then if you ever sell the TV, it will dump the data if they connect it, or somebody with the same brand smart TV moved in next door, it will use that TV’s hidden SSID hotspot to jump the airgap and dump all if its (likely time and position stamped) transcribed spying data to the servers.

  Hardware fix is literally the only fix.

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• Hey hey hey,

  They stand up against unions

  They stand up against cheap, green energy

  They stand up against human rights

  They stand up against good working conditions

  They stand up against good and affordable medical care

  They stand up against required paid sick leave and maternity leave

  They stand up against regulations to not poison people or exploit people quite so much

  They stand up against anything that might slightly hurt short term profits.

  They pump tens or hundreds of billions at the government to “stand up to them”. Just always, without exception, to pommel the working class and long term into the ground and sacrifice the long term for short term superficial gains.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Do you have any concrete examples of this being enforced in practice?

  All I see:

  • our data still gets collected
  • our phones, TVs, wiretap “assistants” still spy on us and upload all of our information to personal datasets that companies can access
  • "deleting your data" as per GDPR is just a database flag/row that says the data says it is deleted
  • EU just authorized any and all companies to spy on your communications 24/7, 365 days a year
  • freedom of speech/expression doesn’t exist here any more than in America, maybe less

  Our right to privacy (freedom right pillar) is literally daily being violeted 1000 times over and the most I have ever seen happen is a slap on the wrist 0.01% of yearly revenue fine that didn’t change anything. Companies can fuck you over all they like unless you have a 10million € army of lawyers…

  Also how is it going in Germany with the Palestine protester that had been locked in solitary confinement (known torture) for 23 hours per day for the past almost year after a show trial kangaroo court where they wouldn’t allow even any independent record of the trial inside (violation of both dignity and justice pillars)

  There is precious little enforcement of many rights, so we absolutely cannot take them for granted and have to fight for them on every front.

  on Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Hopefully since the EU high density desktop/server RAM industry is pretty much nonexistent (as far as I know), they won’t tax it to hell.

  China RAM vs US RAM, they are both not EU “allies” now so there should be little reason.

  on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Oh oh oh I can do this one.

  6 USB-C port failures in my 1.75 years with the phone.

  Fuck HMD Global (then Nokia brand) and their absolute trash USB ports.

  on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• Claude directly has over 1100000 lines of direct code contribution. It has pretty much the same amount of code committed directly as the creator has.

  His entire coding history before Claude consisted of changing readmes or searching and replacing project name text or modifying a dead link to his own link.

  Suddenly in 4 months, without ever producing actual code before, he becomes a very competent coder enough to tackle mCAD, a notoriously difficult coding task that takes many many years with teams to make meaningful progress on?

  That is vibe coding.

  And his co-contributer “gianlucafiore” is exactly the same story. Has literally only made issues until LLM coding got released and then late 2025 (December) switched to making commits that he badly copied from an LLM such that some of the commits are literally one full line (as direct in-file working of the LLM wasn’t as accessible then)

  That is vibe coding.

  So the top 3 contributes are

  1. An LLM
  2. Someone that only has committed any code via an LLM
  3. Someone who has only made issues before beginning with an LLM and submits clearly generated code

  There is likely no human-made code in the entire project besides changing a couple links.

  on [AIP] Open CAD Studio in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026

• Isn’t the aurora store not updated anymore? Or is that just their fdroid store alternative?

  For FOSS programs I use Neostore which is quite good.

  on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Aug 2026

• Setup is incredibly bad. They have a very very strict set of parameters to be able to log in at all. I have pretty much given up OK it as there is no way for me to log in for the first time with default admin credentials. It simply doesn’t accept the states environment variables on docker and you get 1 attempt to log in before it gets stuck in a loop and you have to purge the image and every volume and file to get a second attempt.

  on it's been a while since i made one (or even thought about this) but here is my latest PrivacyPack list! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Aug 2026

• Do you think TSA/CBP is going to check the flash data lines to see if the MCU is scanning the flash internally?

  This isn’t a standard USB flash controller… You would need to break the casing and physically probe it to figure out that something was off as far as I can tell. It’s not like the MCU broadcasts that it is scanning to the USB port.

  You would have to be hitting the stick pretty hard, not just a normal file scan to notice the timing being slightly too long in a small portion of the scans. The bigger problem would be that the flash drive would be brand-recognizable if it ends up being mass produced that they might auto-confiscate it, and of course the default file that it searches for being known.

  on Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026