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• You can’t absolve the tech companies here, they know their system is fallable (is too a word, any word can be abled as such, microsoft is not the arbiter of language,) and they pretend it’s not.

  on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18h ago

• Well sure, but did they do anything good? Nothing to outweigh the bad. I understand the Danish are not responsible for their government necessarily, just as we in the US ere are not, necessarily. Nevertheless, fuck denmark, is what a lot of people have to be saying right now, fuck denmark.

  on Probably the best country in the world in c/europe@feddit.org · 18h ago

• Their EU members spent all of their chairmanship or whatever trying to force chatcontrol down the throats of the Union.

  So, let’s not go crazy praising them.

  on Probably the best country in the world in c/europe@feddit.org · 6d ago

• Hopium.

  on Plasma and electricity convert CO₂ into methanol, butane and other useful chemicals in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• You might be the only person in the country that knows how to use semi colons then. I thought it was just when you are already breaking apart a sentence in commas and want a list within one of those comma breaks.

  on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Sounds like some Bakersfield shit.

  on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Whoa, whoa whoa, easy on the “good guys” talk in relation to nation states. Better is more like it.

  But I agree.

  on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6d ago

• Even so, they oversold the effectiveness you can be sure.

  on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• AM is cool because you can get stuff from the other side of the world if the weather is right. I never use it though.

  As to RW talk on there, I didn’t know that, but we just need to make our own talk shows. We don’t have bankrollers like they do though, and are constantly stabbing each other in the back on the whispers of the RW pretending to be us, so it’s harder.

  on [US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Because making the billion dollar contractor look bad is not how you advance from prosecuting attorney to politician or whatever.

  We have all the wrong people in charge, especially in the legal profession.

  on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• There was a black dude in detroit that got falsely accused, and despite having an alibi and it clearly not being him they tried to make it stick anyway. That was a few years back.

  on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• The companies that run this facial recognition should be the ones to pay first and foremost. The villains never pay themselves, we are paying victims from the taxes of the victims.

  on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• That and they haven’t met their hype. These LLMs can’t overcome a lot of problems like hallucinations on their own, due to the way it works. They promised exponential improvement, and haven’t delivered.

  They don’t give a fuck about the dangers of AI obviously anyone that believes that I have an exciting investment opportunity for.

  on Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• There were studies lately about all the particulate matter from tires, so it makes sense.

  on Researchers identify rubber-related chemicals in Swiss milk. The study, supported by the Food Safety authority, also suggests that dairy equipment may be an overlooked source of contamination in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026

• The tech CEO’s are playing into fears of AI, because their development didn’t meet their hype.

  There is no doubt, they don’t give a fuck and we all should know it. They believe in nothing except self advancement.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQaVIoEjOM

  Don’t believe the Hype. Yeeeeaah boooyy.

  on Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Are they idiots or are they so arrogant they think they can get away with it anyway because everything is for sale and corrupt?

  on Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games as digital games ownership lawsuit progresses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Nowadays though, they are wifi-ied. So they are ratting you out in other ways too, not just the paper markings, you can bet.

  on Your Printer is Snitching On YOU! in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• Why? Jesus Christ. Unless you are planning on taking it apart and reading it’s circuitry, don’t patronize this kind of shit.

  on I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Careful, federal crime there.

  on The new Apple Watch will use microphone and other sensors to generate AI recaps of your day - 9to5Mac in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026

• Ironically many red states have made this a very serious crime, and severely restricted the ability of groups to sign up new voters, and or established draconian penalties under rather broadly written laws to prosecute people for any mistakes in voter registrations.

  But they would never dare charge Musk I’m afraid. They might demand a bribe though idk what they have going on exactly.

  on The Hidden Dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org: Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Nevertheless I am calling it LLMs and you all should too. Because whatever computer programmers call it, the public envisions something different that llm’s are not when they hear AI.

  on A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to real people. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• I reject any name that includes intelligence. It’s not that, they don’t think, they work differently.

  Many people could make better arguments o this than I, I am not a tech guy. But basically people that know this subject in detail say that it’s not thinking, it’s not reasoning, it’s choosing the most popular response from the bank of responses it holds, and as such, will never be able to get rid of hallucinations as such.

  on A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to real people. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• The system only works with competition, but as we stopped enforcing anti trust and anti competitive laws in any meaningful way, the same company owns most of the sites, and is in a shittrust with the rest to all maximize revenue instead of competing.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• They are all now shit if you don’t pay for it. Pof, okcupid, they are garbage. They used to work while silicon valley was still in it’s growth phase, hen enshitified when they entered the maximizing revenue phase, which started perhaps a bit earlier with dating sites than other sectors like search engines.

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@beehaw.org · 12 Sep 2026

• Speak for yourselves, I knew what was up.

  on Three reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before America did in c/europe@feddit.org · 12 Sep 2026

• But also perhaps not very effective, as they only averaged 5 interactions per agent. Not so much that, even for a test project, it seems like these llm agents must not have been very good.

  Chatbots have been on dating sites for a long time I should add. Call them what you will, but llm’s shouldn’t be called AI as far as I’m concerned.

  on A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to real people. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Dating apps have been using chatbots for probably two decades now at least.

  If you aren’t getting responses, they have a chatbot chat with you a bit then trail the conversation off to keep you interested.

  Having the government run dating is just dystopian though in any case. Of course so is letting for profit companies run it apparently.

  on A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to real people. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I am curious to know if the NSA has backdoor access to signal. I bet they do.

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/europe@feddit.org · 12 Sep 2026

• A problem many aren’t aware of, in an area that shares telecommunications info, two people within that area can be identified by the state sending encrypted messages by seeing when one person sends and another instantly receives a message. It could be easy enough to obscure that I would think by working differing lag times in.

  I think it was in the intercept a few years back. I think this is it.

  https://theintercept.com/2024/05/22/whatsapp-security-vulnerability-meta-israel-palestine/

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• The houthis are quite mistaken if they think the US won’t inflitrate that kind of targeting and make it fail, especially now that they know they are trying to do it.

  on Houthis were vibecoding to fire ballistic missiles using claude code, According to Anthropic. They did test-fire a guided rocket. This field test appears to have failed: within hours, the actors returned to Claude to work out why it failed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• ‘…or just the paranoid conspiracy theorist down the street with a suspicious amount of antennas.’ Ha ha, I am going to use some version of that.

  Thanks for the tip on the 2g thing. I actually downgraded from a smart phone to a flip phone (new, old ones they said they couldn’t get to work,) and that might be a rather larger concern for me now.

  on An app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth in c/technology@piefed.social · 11 Sep 2026

• Ah thanks that answers that.

  I once read that with the right equipment or programs, if withing so many feet of someone, you can pick up audio and visual being recorded right onto a phone as they leak a bit of their rf waves. iirc.

  on An app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth in c/technology@piefed.social · 11 Sep 2026

• Oh that too. I was unclear I meant would not the smart glasses need to have bluetooth on and discoverable for the app to find it?

  Bluetooth is very insecure I’ve heard, that information is rather old though.

  on An app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth in c/technology@piefed.social · 11 Sep 2026

• Plus would it not require the phone to have an open bluetooth connection with their device marked discoverable? Or does it transmit over the same frequencies?

  on An app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses over Bluetooth in c/technology@piefed.social · 11 Sep 2026

• My phone broke and I got locked out of all my corporate accounts, from google to other emails, to those cash paying apps (that are refusing to give me another way to get my money, they are just planning on stealing it from me,) to my Amazon account.

  I tried opening a new one and they wouldn’t let me. Good riddance. I wanted to ditch those parasites anyway. Now all I need is a smart phone running graphene or something, and open source on my computers.

  on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Anazon polices their warehouse force with ruthlessly designed computer programs. It doesn’t matter why you fell behind, they fire them by computer.

  It’s not like the government is going to stop them.

  on Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and refused to give them permission to sit or use a chair and later fired them after a pregnancy-related hospitalization in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Machine guns are tools. As are jets and bombs and missiles.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026

• Oh, the government already creating a masterbaitorbase, to keep a record of every web page you considered jacking off to, is what, overblown fear?

  GTFO. The Fear is underblown and we all know it.

  on Anyone else seeing that unhinged "UK phones require digital ID or get child-locked" screenshot making the rounds? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• My data must be less worthful to them as I use ublock origin on firefox and I see almost zero ads.

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

• Thanks for the tip. But what about microphones in tv’s, in I presume microwaves, washing machines, and everything else.

  We need a way to jam up their ability to transmit the information back to Bezos’ house or whatever.

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

• Oh shit, real talk.

  [Edit, for clarity,] But without open source search engines, most are at the mercy of the oligarchy.

  on Elon Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• There are a great many cases where people have used tech to catch police in a lie, and naturally the police charge them with serious felonies for it. This goes back decades, and in shitoly jurisdictions is just in your face corruption.

  on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Don’t lead with garbage, how about that?

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• It is a politicians job to know what they are doing in fact.

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• It’s not principally they aren’t tech savy, it s that the politicians are corrupt.

  on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Executives are the biggest cheaters out there. They will only comply if it will hurt them if they don’t, and it’s won’t here, as long as the protection money is produced they don’t have to worry.

  on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Poor Latin America, so far from god, so close to the United States.

  on EU suspends Brazilian meat imports over antimicrobial rules in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026

• Really? I did just read something about meningitis but don’t recall, was totally blotto when I saw it, I think.

  on EU suspends Brazilian meat imports over antimicrobial rules in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026

• Another round of hot beef injections for his supporters. They love those.

  on EU suspends Brazilian meat imports over antimicrobial rules in c/europe@feddit.org · 6 Sep 2026

• I set firefox to clear every time I close the window. I feel that is best practice.

  on 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. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026