Nothing makes me tune out of a conversation faster than if someone injects a ChatGPT response into it.
That’s bad enough, but now Apple wants to create a total surveillance device that not only listens to everything we say and uploads into their cloud, but also spits up random nonsense at random times?
Can you elaborate on buying monero at an exchange and then transferring it out? Do you mean that OP should
And would it be accurate to say that a local wallet can be maintained without a lot of system power, and can run on open source software? I assume that because any transfers that are sent to or from the wallet, are basically synchronized in the Blockchain, so there’s not a lot of data that needs to be stored on the user’s side.
To be fair, the article itself recommends it.
Probably both. Climate change raises ambient temperatures, tech companies are lazy and enjoy selling more chips for more AI data centers…
I think this comment said it best:
This is an obvious, thinly-veiled advertisement for a company’s services. It’s widely known that ad companies track you everywhere by many mechanisms. This is why we use ad blockers of all sorts. This has nothing to do with DuckDuckGo, it’s merely used as a vehicle to get clicks.
And a supplemental note from the DDG team themselves :
This title is highly misleading, implying that Google tracks DuckDuckGo searches directly, which isn’t true… please change it to be more accurate about Google analytics and other Google trackers on websites you may visit.
(copied from my response to the same post in a different community)
Well this is a Hotznplotzn post, which means OP doesn’t give a damn about data collection by American companies… or anything, really, besides reminding us China Bad
This is genuinely disturbing.
A developer was planning on sneaking data collection into a product through a sketchy terms of service. That on its own should keep the app out of any marketplace.
The subsequent claim that the developer simply forgot to include this in the TOS doesn’t get any extra sympathy from me. Funny the apology only appeared after the developer got caught with their pants down, isn’t it?
That GitHub discussion seems to confirm it. The developers shutting down their extension immediately afterwards too just reeks of suspicious activity.
The version number for the extension in my browser (1.8.8) doesn’t match the latest release that’s visible on this otherwise public repository (1.8.0)
So presumably at some point “someone” “somewhere” modified or added some files to the source code of this extension out of public view… and then “somehow” got a hold of this dev account password or whatever which was subsequently used to surreptitiously push it to the chrome webstore…
Leveraged for anything from buying a plane ticket to large scale business decisions, Agentic AI holds the promise of adapting to a wide variety of applications to improve users’ productivity and effectiveness.
These AI agents are so successful that their value is still completely abstract and speculative, with no specific use cases in sight. Just imagine the possibilities yourself, because we sure can’t.
There are web clipping tools - even open source ones - to help you with stuff like this.
Based on your other comments here, you should probably start organizing your tabs before your browser simply crashes.
Personally, I don’t believe that people should be banished from discussing things unless they agree with them already. Otherwise, there’s nothing to discuss. But if you don’t like it when people speak disagreeably about things, are you not contributing to that exact same environment?
It’s also unfair to assume that anyone who does not love everything about [product] automatically is a hater of [product]. I haven’t seen any communities devoted to only praising Firefox, but you could certainly make one of your own.
They’re already going that direction. Mozilla needs a change of heart, not just a change of income
I wondered why this was downvoted before I saw the original message in my notifications
yeah, thanks Mr/Ms obvious, you described exactly the reason of why it does not look vanilla at all, that big giant bottom ad banner
Anyway, my point is that I would assume Firefox would look different if there was evidence the user caused this banner by accidentally injecting malware into the browser within Linux.
Text fragment linking already works in the latest version of Firefox, although you’ll need to install an extension like this one to create links.
What are the chances Mozilla will actually open source the deepfake text detector, which is literally the only part of the entire Fakespot portfolio that might be worth preserving?
ETA: here’s FakeSpot failing spectacularly to identify an AI-generated book with phony, AI-generated reviews.
PieFed has a way to keep votes (more) private. From 11 months ago:
There was a widely held belief that votes should be private yet it was repeatedly pointed out that a quick visit to an Mbin instance was enough to see all the upvotes and that Lemmy admins already have a quick and easy UI for upvotes and downvotes (with predictable results).
Vote privacy may be especially important because it’s really easy for a malicious server to get set up, unbeknownst to anybody else, and just pull vote data that other servers freely provide.
This narrows the possibilities down to three four interesting options.
Some other comments have been annoyingly dismissive, but I hope you push onward to figure out what the hell this is. Because if it’s one of the first two, it’s a big deal.
I don’t watch network TV either, but if I had to put up with ads at all, it would be on the device that I watch and not vice versa.
II would appreciate Unihertz much more if they provided more than five minutes of security updates after each release. Or at least made it easier to run third-party ROMs.