queermunist

queermunist , 4 days ago

They about to find out the only reason people don't use Linux is because Windows is 'convenient.'

queermunist , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Pweeeze give us more money, we're soooooo far behind! 👉 👈

queermunist , 14 days ago

When is this AI tech bubble going to pop?

queermunist , 19 days ago

When Elon Musk tortures monkeys to death with brain chips it's innovation, but when China does it it's "controversial" and "concerning"

queermunist , 24 days ago

What can ByteDance access that China couldn't just buy from Alphabet or Meta or some other tech company?

queermunist , 24 days ago

The US doesn't ban selling data, though. China can buy whatever it wants just as easily as harvesting it from ByteDance.

And I'd hardly call running an entire social media enterprise "free". If it's a torjan horse, it's an entirely unnecessary one.

queermunist , 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

Uh huh, and do you think Alphabet and Meta don't do that? Do you think if China offered to buy that data they wouldn't be able to get it? Grow up.

My point is that we should be taking internet privacy seriously, not just going after foreign companies.

It's not okay when the spies are American. Until I see serious action taken against the worst offenders I'll know this is all theater.

queermunist , 24 days ago

Running a company isn't free lol

queermunist , 24 days ago

China has a massive stake in the company. It's a huge investment for them. Hardly "free"

queermunist , 24 days ago

The executive order is specifically targeting data brokerage, a practice that is shockingly unregulated. There is no federal law that oversees the collection of and sale of the most intimate details of our lives. And when data is sold to countries of concern, it can become a national security issue.

It's good the bare minimum is being implemented.... though it's weird how two months have passed without updates.

I must point out that this only concerns data being sold to Russia or China, ie, it's just security theater. I would like to see some restrictions on data being sold to anyone, including so-called US allies. Israel, in particular, collects data on American Palestinians who contact family back in Palestine and uses this to feed its AI that generates kill lists.

queermunist , 24 days ago

Assuming China doesn't have to spend literally any other money, even though countries are constantly investing in infrastructure and security and material to assist the business.

But also, literally not free. My point stands.

queermunist , 24 days ago

Not yet. There was an executive order to ban selling data to "enemies" that would include China but it hasn't been implemented.

Also I'm highly skeptical it'll work. China can just work through proxies and not buy directly.

queermunist , 28 days ago

The West is currently participating in a genocide.

queermunist , 29 days ago

I think a pass phrase is more secure than a password because you can memorize truly huge strings without worrying about ever losing it.

queermunist , 29 days ago

A password “8pmfvt3bww7t” could be remembered as “8 pandas might find vases that 3 bears will wash 7 times.

You're going to have to explain to me why the first password is more secure than the second pass phrase. The second has more characters and that's the only thing someone trying to guess is going to possibly know. There's nothing else to go off of, they don't even know they're trying to guess words in the first place. The longer string is always more secure afaik

queermunist , 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago)

Suppose you had a word list of 1,000 five letter words. Each of your passphrases is 5 words long. That means you have 1,000^5 possible combinations of passwords, which is an entropy of ~49.8 bits. Even though each passphrase is going to be 29 characters long (5 five letter words plus 4 spaces in between), the password wasn’t generated character by character.

That's a lot of supposition.

The reality is the password guesser has a string of 29 characters. All they know is ***************************** - they do not know they are guessing individual words separated by spaces, and even if they know these are words they do not know what word list is being used so they have every word that has ever existed as part of a possible list, they do not know the length of any of the individual words being used, and to top it all off they do not even know if the words have conventional spellings or are English words or anything!

So actually, you have a string of 29 characters, and they might as well be random characters as far as a password guesser can guess.

Although I will grant that pass phrases are unlikely to use unconventional characters !$#@;<> etc so you have a point there.

queermunist , 28 days ago

What you failed to demonstrate is that passwords are better than pass phrases, and that's my point. In order to crack my pass phrase you have to have tons of additional information like the fact that I use a pass phrase, what the rules are for the words in my pass phrase, the list of words I draw from for my pass phrase, etc. Your suppositions are required to beat it.

queermunist , 28 days ago

A more compact space isn't better, though, unless you're dealing with a character limit. The longer the pass phrase the stronger it is, and you can memorize some seriously long phrases.

queermunist , 1 month ago

How about the risk of dumbass managers overestimating AIs ability to save on labor costs and firing too many workers to function?

queermunist , 1 month ago

Huawei is a employee owned and communist state backed company - not very capitalist, at least by comparison.

They're being hammered with export restrictions and sanctions and federal bans and executive orders to keep that from being a viable alternative in the US, but if you're outside that might be an option.

queermunist , 1 month ago

And yet when Huawei was flush with cash (after being forced to sell off assets destroyed by US sanctions) it distributed those billions in profits back to the employees.

It's not a worker cooperative, there are problems with it like any employee owned company, but don't be so cynical.

queermunist , 2 months ago

I don't even know what LFP means so~

queermunist , 2 months ago

I would find this all extremely concerning if China didn’t regulate US platforms so heavily. For example, Tiktok has safety limitations for children in China while they have nothing at all for children in the US. It’s being used as a social/mental health weapon.

So you're saying China is better than the US because it regulates social media while the US does literally nothing for its own children.

I agree.

So! Instead of political banditry and forcing TikTok to sell to a US company we should regulate our social media companies too just like China does! Or do you really think TikTok will collect less data or exploit children less when it is owned by a US company? 😂

queermunist , 2 months ago

Also doubles as a kill list for when they decide it's time.

queermunist , 2 months ago

🤡

queermunist , 2 months ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

queermunist , 2 months ago

It's also less capable than human moderators so...

queermunist , 2 months ago

That this isn't going to work and will probably make things worse.

queermunist , 2 months ago

Legality can change, that's literally what we're talking about. It's legal now, it doesn't have to be.

Also just declare that cops don't have a right to privacy. Easy.

queermunist , 2 months ago

I'm skeptical that actually deletes it. Seems trivial for them to have backups if the plan is to sell our old content.

queermunist , 3 months ago

He doesn't want Xitter to get banned in Russia and there are no consequences for arbitrarily banning people. Pretty obviously just business.

Wish people would stop using that site.

Or someone would nationalize it.

queermunist , 3 months ago

(pst that's just capitalism)

queermunist , 3 months ago

You're right, we should nationalize all of his assets.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Because Musk curates the platform to Russia's standards. If Xitter didn't do stuff like suspening Navalny's wife, Russia might decide to go to a Chinese platform or try to develop their own.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Openly Nazi accounts already avoid getting banned so that doesn't really change anything.

Though you're right, we need to pack the Court first and undo right-wing jurisprudence.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Just think, in 1000 years your body will be long dead but you'll be forced to live on as a poster! Death is not an option. 😌

queermunist , 3 months ago

Soon: "We gotta ban these calcium batteries to protect the innocent lithium companies!"

queermunist , 3 months ago

In fact, exclusive podcasts have been performing really badly recently. That's why there have been a ton of layoffs in media - it turns out people won't voluntarily trap themselves in walled gardens.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Ok you got a loicence for that mask?

queermunist , 3 months ago

Anyone who has a toothbrush that is vulnerable to a DDoS attack deserves it.

queermunist , 3 months ago

Meanwhile tech is hemorrhaging.

Good luck Reddit! 😂

queermunist , 3 months ago

The reason you only get to vote for the “lesser of two evils” is because you don’t participate in primaries (assuming you are talking about the US system here)

Just popping in to remind you they destroyed the Iowa caucus to stop Bernie.

queermunist , 3 months ago

He "legitimately" lost after they handed Iowa to a nobody loser like Pete to render Iowa irrelevant in the future. You don't really think Pete won, do you? Sure, they gave the appearance of "cleaning up" after Iowa, but that was always the plan! Now Iowa is done as a relevant caucus state.

I voted in Iowa. Getting my caucus vote made irrelevant showed me the Democratic Party is not a viable vehicle. They'll literally throw out your votes if they don't like it.

queermunist , 4 months ago

This is the free healthcare Americans will be allowed to have. Can't wait for a hallucinating AI to diagnose me with being a dog or something🙄

queermunist , 4 months ago

Columbia Engineering senior Aniv Ray and Ph.D. student Judah Goldfeder, who helped analyze the data, noted that their results are just the beginning. "Just imagine how well this will perform once it's trained on millions instead of thousands of fingerprints," said Ray.

Or we're going to find out fingerprint analysis was junk science, just like hair analysis.

We'll still use it to convict people though.

queermunist , 4 months ago

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/12/how-the-junk-science-of-hair-analysis-keeps-people-behind-bars/

Basically, hair doesn't have enough unique characteristics to identify a person and your hair changes all the time depending on diet, age, sun exposure, etc. Lots of shit we use is unreliable: blood-spatter patterns, arson analysis, bite-mark comparisons, and now finger prints!

queermunist , 4 months ago

Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem because of the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Y’know, for the sake of comparison.

queermunist , 4 months ago

Whatever. The phrase “Christmas is cancelled” forced me to remember the fact that Christmas is literally cancelled in Bethlehem, with the articles about it often directly saying the phrase “Christmas is cancelled”

I was struck by how petty and small this whiney video is when compared to places where Christmas is literally cancelled.