Tangent5280

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Minimum specs in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Tell me more, I thought TPM was hardware checked?

me_irl in c/me_irl@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You make valid points, but I still disagree with the "dont stick your head out" opinion you originally espoused.

I also disagree that social media, especially mostly anonymous social media like lemmy, is anything like work or in public. Also hard disagree on "Keeping your head down to still have access to the resources of the community when you need them the most" part - there is no social currency here, no reputation built. We didnt import the social scoring system reddit had (karma) so nobody here has any more or less access to 'community resources' than anyone else.

Also, I don't think anyone gives a shit if they get banned. Beauty of the fediverse and having no reputation - you just make another account on another instance.

I haven't really found myself disagreeing much on lemmy, so do take all this with a grain of salt. Maybe if I did, then I would have a different view.

me_irl in c/me_irl@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The entire point of social media is the social aspect. Keep to linkedin, reddit and similar trash heaps if all you want is to be a part of a hivemind.

Android will soon run Linux apps better, and that's great for Google's PC plans in c/android@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

F tier ragebait, peddle your rage elsewhere broski

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't tell if this entire thread is just people busting my balls or just shills for corpos

'Almost killed me': Squirrel attacking residents in California town, sending at least 2 to hospital in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I'd imagine you could kill a squirrel just clapping really hard, but you'd make a mess all over the place. Squirrels just don't seem to trigger a danger response.

Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I just imagine what the output of any program would be. Follow me, set yourself free!

lifespan in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe, but that's neither here nor there. We can't draw that correlation to effects of oxygen on the body via respiration.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the numbers are ridiculous - 100 out of 87000 is ~0.1% - I'm sad that this dev's project got kneecapped on release, but Steam is making things right here. An actual asshole move would be to have said nothing and done none of the things they're doing now to make up for the loss. The 24 hour visibility boost should have been a bit longer though. Somewhere between 3 and 7 days sounds better.

Either way I hope the dev team recoups their losses and more with the millions of eyes that their game gets now.

In addition to AI "Page Buddy," Firefox also Adding Google Lens, Stock Data, Tasks, Timer in c/firefox@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Be warned that if you use librewolf you will have to deal with corpo accounts asking you to verofy the account a lot more ,like having to use a phone number where you didnt have to do that before.

So many people in c/dnd_memes@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The coin is a primitive but sentient being who is only interested in eating gold. Attempting to detect it will make it dormant for an unspecified amount of time

Nerds™ in c/tumblr@lemmy.world
[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I want a shallow simulacrum of Mad Max. I want several halfhazardly welded vehicles around and I want somewhere to do burnouts with them or hang off the jutting bits and I want to be suspended with metal cables in front of a speaker array and be given a fire breathing triple necked guitar.

I also want fire and ambulance services standing by of course

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Check your android devices for an app called "Android system Safetycore" (lemmy.world)
 

People are noticing that their phones are getting an app called "Android System Safetycore" auto-installed without notice or consent. Check your phone for the same, it is likely it's a slow rollout instead of every device getting it installed all at the same time.

Google has all the same old reasons that they drone on about, but the actual reason is likely to harvest your messages data for training AI models.

Uninstalling seems to remove the application, and there aren't any malicious activity reported so far as I can see, but naturally that can change anytime.

Has anyone noticed this in their applications lists? Did straight up uninstalling them work? I've had some trouble removing systems apps in the past, but uninstalling this one seems to have worked straightaway - I don't see them in the list anymore.

URLs below for Reddit posts about the same: From 2 months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/antivirus/comments/1gpdhwz/guys_help_some_app_called_android_system/

From 2 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1idjbdi/googles_new_app_will_help_warn_you_about_nude/

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Taylor Swift on her way to her plane (lemmy.world)
 
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Alright boys, I've been converted to the light side and have installed F-Droid. Now what? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Tangent5280@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
100 comments fedilink
 

Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

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List Open Source Workout Trackers you use here. (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Tangent5280@lemmy.world to c/fitness@lemmy.world
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Does anyone here use any Open-Source Workout Trackers? I've been using hevy, but their high fees, the fact that they are a company that holds my health data and has made no commitments to open source, User privacy, or fair trade practices like user data import/export has me looking around. I wanted to see if anyone had reliable open source alternatives.

Tell me your workout tracking stories here! Tell me what you liked and what you disliked.

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I've been thinking of switching over to Voyager, but I heard that Voyager was built on elements from Chrome. As a layman what does this mean? (lemmy.world)
 

Is using Voyager giving Chrome an opportunity to harvest user data? I'll take whatever you know about the Voyager dependence on chrome.

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Piped link to Fireship's video about C2PA (piped.video)
 

Useful because now you'll be able to tell that something is human-generated instead of AI-generated, and content creators and people with a large public presence will now be able to police their own likeness being used by randos.

Scary both because now whistleblowers or reporters could get their cover blown because the image has metadata linking them to it; or they could strip off this metadata and get the evidence dismissed entirely as fraudulent; and also because of the possibility that any regulatory government body that enforces C2PA will also determine what is real and what is not, meaning anyone on the inside will be able to generate AI content and pass it off as real to the vast majority of the population.

Can't help but think they shortened it to C2PA instead of CCPA because of the similarity in acronyms of the latter and the big bad no-privacy country.

What do you think? Non-issue, Slightly concerning, or apocalyptic?

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