I feel that at best, it is an attempt to solve a "people problem" with a software fix. I have worked in IT support long enough to know that that never works. It only compounds the problem by creating even more new ones (while not actually solving the original problem).
The illusion of security will be quickly shattered as soon as scammers figure out how to work around it anyway.
Opposition to Israel has NEVER made me feel like I was in danger as a Jew.
But goddamn I feel more in danger because an apartheid state on the other side of the world is committing genocide and war and saying they’re doing it in my name.
I hate that wearing something that may identify me as Jewish may indicate support for a country I want nothing to do with.
I hate that my name makes some people think I support the government of Israel and its fascist prime minister. I am stuck with the obligation to keep disclaiming any connection or commitment to that government.
Netanyahu and his genocidal thugs lie to try to use every Jewish person in the world as a human shield for the actions of Israel
Deliberately framing criticism of Israeli actions as an attack on "the Jewish community" is something politicians in the UK do constantly
Its infuriating that its been done deliberately and cynically by so many politicians and much of the media , and I'm really sorry that you are in this position
**Why do we need to install an app to get push notifications?**
We are used to get pre-installed solutions on Google-certified devices for many services such as the browser (Chrome), the map (Google Map), keyboard (Google keyboard), camera (Google Camera), push notifications (Play Services), etc.
Our free solutions aren't pre-installed on our devices: if we want a free map, we need to install it. It works the same for the push notification service.
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@futureisfoss Thank you for the kind words but there’s scant solice in being right about this stuff and even less so in seeing your words fall on deaf ears all this time.
(Hence why I no longer speak about the problem but I’ve been working on creating one possible solution in the form of the Small Web.)
@dgar I agree. It's patently not a secret. And even then It should be plainly obvious to anyone with a fraction of a brain. Never participated in the AR scanning - there's obvious privacy implications in taking photos/video in public and uploading them to a third party. In fact, I don't think the AR scanning is even enabled for kids, which in itself is a massive red flag privacy wise.
nah. definitely not like they're implying. that kind of data gets you only coarse positioning, at best useful for verifying that your other SLAM software isn't totally bonkers, as you use the robots themselves to get *actually* fine-grained information.
like the claim that it'll help bots find places to park that are out of the way: that's the opposite of what Pokemon Go has you record, in nearly all cases.
at best they used it to build the tech that *actually* handles world modeling, which is what they're selling. the Go player data is almost completely useless to world model purchasers, except for showing those specific landmarks. great for AR tourism, worthless for robot deliveries.
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@groxx I’m really tired of this “won’t someone think of the consent forms!!!!” It’s literally public place mapping. What the fuck did you think they were going to do with “scan this location with the LiDAR on your phone”? I’m sorry these people are embarrassingly stupid
You were informed about it in the game license. I was more prone to give my location to Niantic than giving it to my cell operator, indeed. And I asserted it when the Spanish government stats used cellphone tower location (instead of Niantic or other consent-based platform) to locate people while quarantine lasted.
I was aware of the problem of recording in the inside of homes or offices, thus I had AR mode disabled and camera disabled. I was also aware Niantic wanted us to build an accurate 3d map of the world, thus rewarding 360 photos of pokestops.
lmao i remember thinking about the implications when the game first came out. like oh, they can use pokemon spawns to get people to point their cameras literally anywhere, what's that about
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“The researchers suspect that Glassworm—the name they assigned to the attack group—is using LLMs to generate these convincingly legitimate-appearing packages. “At the scale we’re now seeing, manual crafting of 151+ bespoke code changes across different codebases simply isn’t feasible,” they explained. Fellow security firm Koi, which has also been tracking the same group, said it, too, suspects the group is using AI.”
I agree that code reviews should generally be "wtf?! eval?!", but it is always good to remind people that an empty looking string is not necessarily really empty.
I agree, I had the same thought, first of all an eval function is super suspicious; "eval is evil", on the other hand what the earth is the const s doing there. And in the name of love what is the reviewer thinking about when someone does a PR with this kind of "functionality". I will check but I think that a simple SAST is going to complain about this PR. On a second thought maybe the snippet provided by the security researchers is just a non realistic example to illustrate the concept.
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How is voice quality on Pinephone? People told me they get a lot of noise when I called them, and I wondered if that's Mobian problem or PinePhone problem...
@pavel As soon I get a chance ill feed back on the latest... i recall it not being so bad, but probably not up there with most regular phones with noise cancellation
*Two women arrested in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public could face life sentence.* That is one item in a long catalog of unjustified cruel bigotry that is fueled by various religions.
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@disorderlyf (possible) joke aside, yes, it's not unthinkable; I have had, more than once, to force myself to release version 1.0.0 despite inner voices screaming "but shouldn't we do this first? And also that? And those three other things we still have no idea how to even design? We're not ready for 1.0! <wayne's world voice> We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"
I'm running Emacs 30.2, which because I remember my history, I know is secretly Emacs 1.30.2. (RMS lopped the 1. off the front some time in the 1980s.)
Firaxis has released a small patch to fix the most urgent bugs in patch 1.3.0. This includes that the AI will use less sanctions, produce GPs correctly, a range of stability improvements and other small fixes.
don't tell everybody. We labeled that semantic versioning. We all agreed on that. It's like TDD which should have been named. We really need to talk to people and get the sales person out of the way.
Tbh, I love software with higher numbers for the third section. I think of it as „maintenance“ not as „fix“ and at least for me its an indicator that devs care about stability and maturity of software.
Major version should be the shame release because you couldn't think of any solution that didn't break back compatibility so you forced a migration on all of your users.
However, this is probably the "current state" slide and semver is the "ideal state" slide.
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@scalonnec Same, very much same. Would be great if F-Droid could be part of the solution here with a flag, when known. There are one or two projects to try and trace projects and influential frameworks using slop, like open-slopware: codeberg.org/small-hack/open-s…
Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.
@aemstuz that's a big caveat, as AI is a very problematic issue regarding reliability and security. Exactly what F-Droid is supposed to provide against Play Store. I don't understand how F-Droid can slip on slop and cry about Google doing sh*t (officially) for security concerns on the same time. We're giving reasons to Google by doing this...
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