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  • Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

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  • Download a little offline Wiki for rainy days folks!

    I take connectivity for granted but shouldn’t. Batteries charged, books on the shelf, offline games and media stored locally…

  • rule

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  • Nice

    Can’t believe they let him in

  • Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry

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  • That makes you different eh? Love that. Means I could actually use it :D

  • Umbra is a Firefox ESR fork with no telemetry

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  • Congratulations!

    Tradeoff question—

    Should I expect to find some semblance of safety in sticking with the largest open source browser project I can find, given perhaps the eyeballs etc., or would you reckon not (or even perhaps the opposite, security through obscurity & Umbra is “safer” than Firefox)?

    Maybe this is so “lightly” forked it’s “just” stripping + cosmetics & the risk profile is essentially identical?

  • Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion

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  • I wonder if there’s a parallel universe where the labs instead went to the other extreme and require intelligence tests to onboard to their platforms.

    And the outcry is, not inappropriately, about how many are being denied access to the latest technologies. The policy could effectively be construed as racist, even.

    Anyway the middle ground there is pretty obvious. (Though I’m not sure how I’d design it just right, so e.g. folks without access to traditional/expensive mental healthcare might still be able to see some small benefit if it’s determined to be safe, just like maybe it could be safe for a well-adjusted individual to complain to it about their day for a couple minutes before moving on to real things. Sure I suppose it’s inherently unsafe but a proportion of the population should be making that decision for themselves.)

  • Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion

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  • I just tried this with ChatGPT three days ago and there’s a chance they have tried to make it slightly less sycophantic

    I was essentially trying to get it to tell me I was the smartest baby born in whatever year like that YouTuber—different example but it was so resistant to agreeing to me or my idea or whatever being unique/exceptional.

    Hope this is a specific direction and not random chance, A/B testing, etc.

  • racist ai

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  • Uh-oh

  • California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

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  • Fascinating.

  • Boar taint

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  • Oof yes article mentioned, disturbing

    Heads up: that YouTube thumbnail is NSFW, also a little disturbing (esp for our post-speciesism friends), poor smart little pigs

    (breaking the URL like YouTube[.]com also eliminates thumbnails]

  • Fuck Github, Microsoft has made it impossible to create an account without linking to hardware or phones

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  • I’m wondering if you could have any version of this—assuming best intentions and smartest people—which did not demand very similar countermeasures past a certain equivalent growth threshold.

    I unfortunately have to imagine Codeberg is like Lemmy and flies under the radar from spammers.

    LLMs all but guarantee a future of oppressive noise to signal ratios. I imagine IRL connections, or at least numbers saved in your phone, will become pretty important there. So then I think up in-person local-community-vibe verification schemes but they all end with dirty marketers or operators inducing members of the public to astroturf or lease their accounts…

  • Boar taint

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  • Looks like we gotta fix that redirecting BoarTaint dot com citation link [2] on Wiki

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Boar taint

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boar_taint

  • Signal Founder Moxie Marlinspike: Telegram is not private. There is nothing private about it. They've done a really amazing job of convincing the world that this is an encrypted messaging app

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  • Didn’t JUST get this way, we been smart

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty and the tables needed wiping down. The software was also attached to the time clock, so it knew who was working in the restaurant. Manna also had “help buttons” throughout the restaurant. Small signs on the buttons told customers to push them if they needed help or saw a problem. There was a button in the restroom that a customer could press if the restroom had a problem. There was a button on each trashcan. There was a button near each cash register, one in the kiddie area and so on. These buttons let customers give Manna a heads up when something went wrong.

    […]

    Or, “Jane, when you are through with this customer, please close your register. Then we will clean the women’s restroom.”

    And so on. The employees were told exactly what to do, and they did it quite happily. It was a major relief actually, because the software told them precisely what to do step by step.

    Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future – Marshall Brain

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • Walking past a Taco Bell it seems someone competent implemented the system—seems to understand people just as well as the best software I’m aware of can.

  • Just pure vibes

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  • Very interesting, how’d they enforce that?

  • Fuck the IRS

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  • Here is a longer excerpt from the opinion by Holmes:1

    It is true, as indicated in the last cited case, that every exaction of money for an act is a discouragement to the extent of the payment required, but that which in its immediacy is a discouragement may be part of an encouragement when seen in its organic connection with the whole. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.

  • Get bent, Brenda

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  • Mastercardery & Visary processes too

  • Nomenclature

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  • Clearly a rare sighting

  • /etc? Never heard of her.

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  • As a noob, those little wrappers are great.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is there a science educator who shows in a video how they hand wash dishes?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo?

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

    hey.paris /posts/appleid/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Mid-nineties ghost rizz rule

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    A seal galumphs into a bar. The bartender says ‘Grab the salmon!’

    apnews.com /article/seal-bar-new-zealand-pub-richmond-487e2a8207c9f0e69be79ac7eb8045c0
  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    I want one-finger flashlight brightness adjustment back (from iOS 17)

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    It started to stop kids vaping [pot] in school bathrooms. Then they stuck it in poor people's homes. | DEF CON Snitch Puck Talk, October 2025

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Siri, play news from... NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox. Who else?

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    Absolute bot free-for-all, wow - no more digging into spammers'/liars' comment histories

    www.theverge.com /news/679328/reddit-update-hide-comments-posts-user-profiles
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    DE; EN below

    Cash Tracking: You’ve Got a Surveillance Tool in Your Wallet

    netzpolitik.org /2025/bargeld-tracking-du-hast-ueberwachungsinstrumente-im-portemonnaie/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications

    www.icm.csic.es /en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications
  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    500 shortcuts later, today I was the last person to discover you can re-arrange the order Shortcuts appear on the Share Sheet

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Love Star Trek: Enterprise... though "Bounty" was total fan service for T'Pol+Phlox shippers

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Does the Iranian state news website block American IP addresses? irna.ir has errored out yesterday and today

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    A post for all the comments we don't see

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Screen mirroring macOS to iPad and getting this error?: "To start Sidecar, disconnect other mirroring and AirPlay sessions." Restarting WiFi/Bluetooth on both devices may fix.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    86 Billion Dollars, $3 Breakfast, Hail-Damaged Car: Buffett rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Chicago Sun Times Dec. 23 2001

    Dying boy, 15, gets wish: losing virginity

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    How they took that picture rule