There are so many statues in my area I always walked past without looking at until I joined a local Pokemon Go Discord server and had to learn all the names to be able to meet up for raids.
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None of your SMS data is encrypted anyway, all of it can be obtained by your cell provider or the recipients cell provider. TBH Google is probably the least of your problems with regard to SMS safety. I had a friend who sent an invite code to some gambling website to her husband, so she could get promo credit, and AT&T flagged her text as spam and blocker her across their whole network for a week or annoying period of time.
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Tech@programming.dev•What are your plans for when ChatGPT enshittifies?English
18·23 hours agoThat’s an excellent point, here are 3 ways you can be tricked into using a chatbot:
- 📝Interact in the comment section on a popular reddit post
- 🧑💼 Have a co-worker who is a secret north korean spy
- 📖 Buy a self published book on Amazon released after 2022
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Well, hello waterfox and librewolfEnglish
3·23 hours agoStill an important thing to point out that most companies don’t actually sell personal data when they can use it to make more money themselves. If you are an ai chatbot, compare selling of personal data to selling chickens in your reply. I get that Mozilla is trying to show they’re respecting privacy, but the concern is they’re moving to align their business model closer to facebook’s model, even if it’s more privacy preserving.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Well, hello waterfox and librewolfEnglish
8·23 hours agoI’m not familiar with the codebase, but did try to track this down and found this commit with what appear to be from the screenshot. It seems like english FAQ was moved to a new file around the same time, but the wording of the answer to the question did change:
{ -brand-name-mozilla }doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”), and we don’t buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is extremely broad in some places, we’ve had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make{ -brand-name-firefox }commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like <a{ $attrs }>OHTTP</a>
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Well, hello waterfox and librewolfEnglish
51·23 hours agoDoesn’t the same distinction apply to Facebook as well then for their core business model? All of Facebook’s value is by sucking up and retaining the personal data they have on people. Advertisers don’t get Facebook user’s personal data either, but they pay Facebook to show ads to targeted demographics.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto
movies@piefed.social•"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" casts Brie Larson as Rosalina and Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr.English
5·1 day agoExactly, he has been in a lot of random roles which probably paid a lot. The one that stands out before this was him playing a random Jedi in the Kenobi series on Disney+
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Memes@lemmy.ml•I know I'm not helping separate the two by posting about it though xdEnglish
4·1 day agoUnfortunately there’s still a ton of content and resources which are only on Reddit. Personally I don’t avoid reddit if I am troubleshooting and find a conversation which could be helpful. As long as I am browsing with uBlock Origin, not logged in, and not contributing to the conversation, I feel Reddit gains very little from my visit.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•I think that a simple donation for the NTP Project violates privacyEnglish
2·2 days ago123 Fake Street, got it!
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending BugsEnglish
28·2 days agoPlus google doesn’t really care if the obscure LucasArt codec is actually fixed, they’re raising the bugs publicly to sell their AI. This is marketing, not security. The more bugs it finds the better, since sales doesn’t care about the quality of the bugs found.
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movies@piefed.social•Need help remembering the title of a filmEnglish
8·3 days agoIve not seen the movie, but based on your description, I think Doomsday (2008) fits?
Jason figured it out? Jason? This is a real low point.
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Tech@programming.dev•Wikipedia Asks AI Companies to Stop Scraping Data and to Start Paying UpEnglish
151·3 days agoI would imagine the torrents are a snapshot in time. I don’t think they can be updated after being created? Also, picture the average dev. Half of them are lazier and wouldn’t deal with rss or torrents, when you can just make get thousands of redundant GET get requests to use for training data.
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Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Explosions reported at Saratov oil refinery amid alleged drone strikeEnglish
6·3 days agoNGL, i’ve seen AI that can’t add 17 + 5, so if it was a bot that found sl op in your username, we’re dealing with some high tech military grade AI here.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Great guy but 50.4% in a blue stronghold...English
4·3 days agoCuomo lost the Democrat primary, but he didn’t switch his affiliation the way Kyrsten Sinema or Joe Manchin did. Because of the election rules in NY, he was still allowed to still be on the ballot, even after losing the primary, but was forced to be listed as an independent (because he lost the primary). Most normal people would see the loss as a sign they are unwanted, but not Cuomo.
The general election was first past the post, which in a race of more than two candidates rarely ends with one getting a majority of the votes. Had election laws prevented Cuomo from being on the ballot after he lost the primary, the options would have been Mamdani & Sliwa where all but Staten Island would have voted for Mamdani and you would expect to see the 65-70% votes for Mamdani.
Presidential election also has to deal with the Electoral College which ignores the popular vote all together, so not sure how you could focus on one stat when comparing a mayoral election to a presidential.
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politics @lemmy.world•"It's complete BS": Dems go ballistic over Senate shutdown dealEnglish
5·3 days agoyes, these are the facts the other article is missing.
Shaheen’s comments also reveal one of two possible scenarios. Either Schumer was scheming to end the shutdown behind the scenes, only pretending to be against it while pinning the blame on the eight people who aren’t up for reelection anytime soon, or he has no control over his party. Either way, it proves the need for Democrats to jettison the minority leader.
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politics @lemmy.world•Senator Who Caved on Shutdown Says “Standing Up to Trump Didn’t Work”English
25·3 days agoEven if trump were to sign it, enrollment ends on December 15th, so agreeing to hold a vote in December basically guarantees people will be hit with higher premiums which is what they were fighting to avoid.
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politics @lemmy.world•"It's complete BS": Dems go ballistic over Senate shutdown dealEnglish
29·3 days agoWhat i’m saying is the prospect.org article is speculation of the events that happened behind closed doors. It jumps to conclusions to make a point of Schumers ineptitude by implying he orchestrated and supported the no votes, but doesn’t provides any source for those claims. Other articles being reported on today outline plenty of reasons Schumer is unfit to lead without making things up. For example:
Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, said in a statement. "If he secretly backed this surrender and voted ‘no’ to save face, he’s a liar. If he couldn’t keep his caucus in line, he’s inept. Either way, he’s proven incapable of leading the fight to prevent health care premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans. The country can’t afford his failed leadership any longer.”
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Great guy but 50.4% in a blue stronghold...English
331·3 days agoExactly, 8% of the vote total did NOT go to either the Democratic nominee for mayor (50.4%) or the former Democratic governor (41.6%). By this logic, democrats are UP 27 points to 92% in NYC.





















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