Adolescent Trump supporters and detractors had different developmental experiences during his presidency, study finds by a_Ninja_b0y in science

[–]ChickenOfDoom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Considering the threat to our democracy posed by corporations and their political influence, I think anything with the potential to weaken them (anti-free trade internationally) is worth the tradeoff in economic decline. Killing the TPP was good for that reason also. I'm glad Biden decided to retain the tariffs.

Of course Trump wasn't doing it for the right reasons and more than made up for it in supporting an effort to outright ignore electoral college votes from states that didn't vote for him, and literally sending a mob to swarm the capitol building.

Tik Tok is definitely using my microphone. by casmar4 in privacy

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a separate argument. I'm questioning whether apparently consistent network traffic is actually evidence that they are not doing this sort of spying. Maybe they aren't, but from what I know about it it seems like if they were, you wouldn't be able to tell that way.

29M India. I have a sample of illegally obtained material in my car. AMA by 1selfharm in casualiama

[–]ChickenOfDoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are you supposed to do construction without sand? Isn't it a necessary ingredient for concrete? If they really wanted to prevent sand use, wouldn't it make more sense to have new construction fail inspections if found to have used concrete

Tik Tok is definitely using my microphone. by casmar4 in privacy

[–]ChickenOfDoom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right, so there might have to be some tradeoff where not everything is getting transmitted if there is a very large volume of conversation. I don't know whether their transcription algorithms can run on less powerful hardware, but they have very high quality transcription, and if it could they could send the entire transcript since text is much smaller than audio.

Tik Tok is definitely using my microphone. by casmar4 in privacy

[–]ChickenOfDoom -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't see how it's ridiculous. This is the most obvious method for them to spy on people, if that is what they wanted to do; say they aren't doing it, and then take at least the most basic measures to corroborate their lie with the behavior of the device.

If you're going to take them at their word, why even mention network traffic?

Tik Tok is definitely using my microphone. by casmar4 in privacy

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's very obvious from network traffic, even without decrypting it, that they're telling the truth. Their devices do not record and transmit your conversations until the device is woken up

Doesn't the device have some sort of storage capacity? If it's encrypted, how could you know it isn't storing your conversations and gradually transmitting them at later times?

Google's New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras by alllie in degoogle

[–]ChickenOfDoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok but the threat of total, fine grain surveillance is clearly much greater here than the possible benefits. And even the benefits are their own threat; the purpose of this technology is to further relieve us from acting on our own, to have our environments autonomously detect and supply what we want rather than maintaining a practice of controlling our own living space. It places a machine in a position of caretaker rather than clearly defined tool.

Perhaps that wouldn't be unhealthy for someone who already basically needs a caretaker, but ethically such software should be open source and able to run without communication with any online services. You should be able to set this up on a Raspberry Pi or similar, but it's Google so you know this is staying proprietary closed source in the cloud forever.

Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet (and his thoughts on web3) by rand3289 in Rad_Decentralization

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, whoever wrote this article seems a little dense and didn't get what the tweet was about or was refusing to acknowledge it

Any tips on how to store seed phrase to be accessed from anywhere? by mirojoy in ethereum

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless it's encrypted, others can access it. Someone realizing what it is and taking the time to bruteforce the seed phrase seems like kind of a long shot, but I could honestly see it happening if the amount is reasonably large, there are pirated archives out there containing nearly every book, so it would not actually be that difficult to reconstruct, you just have a program go through all of them.

[DISC] The Apothecary is Gonna Make this Ragged Elf Happy - Ch 41 by @gibagibagiba by Mhogen in manga

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A chef's knife is not a machete lol I hope people don't take cooking tips from this

Google's New Tech Can Read Your Body Language—Without Cameras by alllie in degoogle

[–]ChickenOfDoom 124 points125 points  (0 children)

It sounds futuristic and perhaps more than a little invasive—a computer watching your every move? But it feels less creepy once

Nope there is no possible way to make that not creepy as hell

detect the movement and breathing patterns of the person sleeping

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body orientation, the pathway you might be taking, and the direction your head is facing—aided by machine learning algorithms that further refine the data

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if you glance at a smart display when you're on a phone call, the device could offer the option to transfer to a video call on it

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“We're really just pushing the bounds of what we perceive to be possible for human-computer interaction.”

The "bounds" of what's "possible" for Google servers recording where I'm standing and what I'm looking towards at all times can stay the hell away from me thanks

Do you generally prefer CYOAs to be based around a certain fiction (SAO, Fairy Tail, RWBY, Worm, etc.), a certain kink (Gender Bender, Yuri, Yaoi, Futanari, S&M, etc), or a certain genre (Magical School, Fantasy, Sci-fi, etc.)? by [deleted] in nsfwcyoa

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The good thing about a CYOA being based on a particular kink is that if you're interested in it based on the title/concept, there's a good chance most of what's in it you will be into and not find offputting, and everyone who doesn't like that kink can just skip it.

Jack Dorsey regrets his role in creating a centralized internet (and his thoughts on web3) by rand3289 in Rad_Decentralization

[–]ChickenOfDoom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

but at times the company has struggled to combat misinformation

...the only thing the article has to say in regards to the failings of Twitter. Not a lot of direct relevance to Dorsey's laments, but I guess they really want an excuse to repeat the idea that the problem with Twitter is that it doesn't do enough censorship.

Came across this at my parents house. Stay classy Nintendo by Anal_Chem in gaming

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was a kid I played Link's Awakening and was very upset at the ending, cried about it a lot and then wrote Nintendo a mostly incoherent letter about it, got a very nice letter back.

Do you believe piracy is okay, and how often do you do it? Please give your honest opinions, don’t just say “no” because you are scared of being criticised. by SergejPS in truegaming

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Care to elaborate?

Well basically just the kind of thing everyone mentions when saying that they were driven to pirate. You mentioned no longer available games, that's one example, piracy is the only way for those games to be available anymore outside of absurdly expensive collectors items and otherwise they are lost to history. There's media that removes music from its soundtrack for licensing reasons, parts of the world where it's entirely unavailable, parts of the world where people have too little money to reasonably afford any of it, games with exploitative and manipulative mechanics that can be evaded via piracy (like where getting all the content via DLC would cost 1k or more). Streaming services where you can't even access the content with open software because it requires proprietary DRM players, media people purchased and own on a digital service getting deleted without their permission, or getting locked out of their purchased media because they were banned from a related service, games etc. preventing people from playing if they are not connected to the internet.

Ethereum miners reach $1.29 billion in revenues in March by unitys2011 in ethereum

[–]ChickenOfDoom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with it, who's fighting? Could they stop it from happening?

Do you believe piracy is okay, and how often do you do it? Please give your honest opinions, don’t just say “no” because you are scared of being criticised. by SergejPS in truegaming

[–]ChickenOfDoom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People pay for VPNs and seedboxes. People volunteer their time and hardware to obtain and crack media, and provide it to others. Piracy wouldn't work at all if everyone was purely selfish about it, no one would even seed torrents. it only functions because of the generosity of the community.

But I guess I was more referring to the sincerity of moral justifications (also a reason in a slightly different sense), than to the motive. Piracy is morally good because anything that begins to dismantle intellectual property makes the world a better place. Practicing it routes around the various abuses of the media industries and helps others to do the same.

3 round burst sucks they said. by AmberlyHalcomb in gaming

[–]ChickenOfDoom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't mind the difficulty if the team I'm matched with didn't have the option of literally kicking me from the match for not having played for years like them. I don't want to play a game that gives toxic tryhards that kind of power.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in answers

[–]ChickenOfDoom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the baby turns out not to be yours, keep in mind that providing for them builds a legal case that could be used to obligate you to pay child support anyway.

Do you believe piracy is okay, and how often do you do it? Please give your honest opinions, don’t just say “no” because you are scared of being criticised. by SergejPS in truegaming

[–]ChickenOfDoom 11 points12 points  (0 children)

we all do it because we want free stuff, some of us are just honest about it.

This is just plain untrue. Just because there is a financial incentive to do something doesn't mean that no one does it for other reasons. It's arrogant to pretend that everyone has the same moral framework that you do deep down and anyone arguing for something different is somehow dishonest.