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  • Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

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  • "Our end-to-end attacks simply measure the rendering time per frame of the graphical operations… to determine whether the pixel was white or non-white.”

    This is a prime example of something that is so simple, yet elegant, and brilliant. Fantastically cool and scary.

  • Nearly 50% of Gen Z Say They’re Too Burnt Out to Work

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  • I feel like naming generations has done some harm. This isn't like, a "Gen z" thing, it's a young people thing, it's a "people who are the future of humanity" problem. The future of humanity is one in which people cannot psychologically handle the life they're expected to/forced to lead. That is a lot more serious. It's not like, just some cultural issue with Gen Z like the debate about ankle socks

  • What's the weirdest hobby you've heard of?

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  • Depending on the social media in question, I'm not sure there's much difference! I may be misinformed about the state of Tiktok and Instagram though, as I don't use them myself. It's just my observations from seeing others on them

  • What's the weirdest hobby you've heard of?

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  • This is definitely not true. Gooning usually means like multiple continuous hours of masturbation, usually with the purpose of entering some kind of zoned-out trance state. I think it is somewhat niche, as I'm pretty sure most people just masturbate for 5-15 minutes, just looking at porn but not by any means "entranced" by it. The term gooning has gotten so popular because the activity itself has gotten more popular. Personally I attribute it to people's strong need to dissociate from the world in a way that isn't expensive, and that isn't so harmful that you can't do it really frequently. It used to be that drugs would fill that void for the populace, but now people need more drugs to cope than they used to, and they can't afford it anyways. Plus drugs fuck with your ability to stay employed, etc.

    Another major contributor to it, imo, is the deluge of horny-bait content on Tiktok and Instagram. Even things that aren't trying to market an onlyfans still are gonna feature people doing forced cleavage jiggles and whatnot. Sex sells, there's nothing new there, but nowadays it's almost like you NEED sex to sell. Basically anybody who is into vtubers or modern anime is an example of someone that just can't really engage with something unless there's constantly some ass or titties on screen, or some kind of horny undertone or subtext at the very least.

    Ultimately I think gooning is a better form of "indulgence" and dissociation than the alternatives, but its popularity is a sad sign of the times. All humans like to turn their brain off once in awhile, but if a large subset of the population is basically crying out to have their brain off every day for hours at a time, and for it to be in every form of media and relaxation, I can only see that as a sad situation.

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • For sure, I'm not saying Trump actually debates anyone. It's just that his specific way of being obnoxious and combative is so much more effective at goading people into engaging with him.

  • Vance humiliated over 'obvious' plan to 'take out' Trump's kids for his own ambition

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  • This is a good example of why I don't think Vance will be able to supplant Trump. Trump is a master troll, he does a way better job of baiting people to keep engaging with him. You have to be the right kind of frustrating. Vance is just irksome, but not in a way that baits you or makes you wish you could try your hand at debating with him. Trump manages to make it so enticing to keep talking to him. He makes it feel like you might be able to get a good own in on him if you just try. But Vance is such a tryhard and just reads as this annoying little fly that you can just swat away

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    How astroturfed is Lemmy?

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  • Probably not at all, it's just that humans have a wide variety of beliefs

  • Lasagnaius

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  • Drunken Noodlius

  • Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch

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  • Yeah it really sucks. I was in the middle of developing an Android game and now I don't really want to. Luckily I'm working with Unreal so I can just build it for desktop distribution anyways. But still, ugh.

  • Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch

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  • How does this even matter if phone manufacturers block apps that aren't approved by them? Forgive my ignorance, never done much mobile dev stuff

  • I'm running now

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  • I think the most comforting way to take it is that when someone thinks "i could throw this drink and kill that guy" it's more of their mind being vigilant about dangerous opportunities, and not necessarily an endorsement of those possibilities. Kind of like how if you've ever picked up a really sharp kitchen knife you might think "it would be so easy to kill myself with this", that's not necessarily a "suicidal thought" but just the mind raising an alarm about a possibility + it's actually out of concern for not dying that my brain raises the thought. So arguably this thought crossing people's mind is actually out of an abundance of concern for safety. The morbid joking about it is probably after the fact, non-intuitive, and for almost all humans totally not thought in earnest.

  • I'm running now

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  • I've normally never shied away from dark humor or a fucked up joke but something about the innocence of that man just going about his day really makes me hate even joking about it. I'm not hating on you for posting this, but this just really hits a bad note for me. Downvoted, no hard feelings

  • American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

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  • All things have devolved into reproducing whatever hyperreality the individual seeks to reaffirm

  • Fascists really getting sloppy

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  • Them reposting it definitely constitutes propaganda, but I think it's important not to just call it AI when it isn't. And anyways, the best propaganda isn't blatant falsehoods. Everyone working themselves up into a furor thinking that this is AI just makes us look like a bunch of morons who will believe anything that suits their worldviews. Isn't that exactly what we supposedly look down on the other side for? Or is it okay to embrace all their values and techniques, until both sides just become mirror images of each other?

    Truth is a critically important thing. We must never put truth to the side in favor of merely feeling right. When you put your wishes and feelings over truth, that creates the cracks by which a movement becomes corrupted and deranged.

  • Fascists really getting sloppy

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  • Fascists really getting sloppy

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  • If you zoom in on it you can see she's gripping it with her thumb in front and her fingers in back to stabilize it. Picture holding a sign and a pinch grip between your thumb and fingers as you walk. Then raise your hand and hold it up. Your thumb will be facing out and your fingers will be facing the same direction as your back. That's what she's doing here.

  • Fascists really getting sloppy

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  • Oh God can we not just call everything we dislike AI? This isn't AI. Look at the street view pics. And her hand makes sense - just zoom in on it. She's clutching the sign with her thumb in front and four fingers behind, probably because that's how she was carrying it before raising it. The wall is constantly being repainted, the door looks exactly like that. The line on the cardboard is due to the seam in the cardboard - haven't you ever written on cardboard before? Are you kidding me? We KNOW people out there support ICE. You think an ICE worker sat around to make this image? If you want to accuse them of faking this, you'd have an easier time saying they just sent their own employee out there to hold the sign up.

    Fuck, it looks like the average /pol/ thread in here. I remember when they were looking at stills from the Charlie Kirk assassination video and saying that his ring switched hands and that it's proof that it's AI generated and he's actually still out there alive somewhere. Be better than that. Get your heads out of your asses, and remember: the more you WANT something to be true, the more wary you should be to believe evidence of it, because you're biased.

  • Lasers made muon beams, no massive accelerator needed

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  • Wow, super cool! So I take it they're not good for medical imaging? Either go right through too easily to cast a shadow or harmful in some way? The truck scanner stuff is cool though, albeit a bit surveillancey. I'm sure archaeologists would love to have portable muon tomography though! I wonder what else this will end up being used for... Seems like there's surely lots of possibilities left.

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    Not a hint of resistance left

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  • Are some people just built different that they can do this? Is there any medical research on the physiological ramifications of insertions this large? It doesn't even seem physically possible, yet there it is.