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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do most people stay in centralized social media platforms when the Fediverse exists?
7·1 year agoBecause all their friends stay. So to get them to switch, you’d need everyone thay know to switch, which would need everyone they know to switch…
… soon, you need to organize a switch between millions of people, which really isn’t happening.
So the only people on fedi are those ok with keeping multiple profiles, and even then just the ones that value the technical aspects over quantity of content: mostly tech nerds and people with strong feelings about politics.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
431·1 year agoBut when China steals all their (arguably not copywrite-able) work…
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
15·1 year agoTLDR:
They found debugging commands that can be used to access the memory of the device over USB. This is as much a backdoor as any device that runs unsigned firmware
Unless you store secret files on your Bluetooth dongle, you shouldn’t have to worry about this.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"?
7·1 year agoIf it’s not running on the cloud, I can always just stay on an old version. If it’s open source, that old version can be maintained and updated indefinitely.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Economically, how can concerned Americans prepare for the worst?
35·1 year agoSave money and get to know your neighbors.
Trump probably won’t cause total collapse, so a basement full of beans is unlikely to be useful, but anyone relying on welfare or part of a minority group will need support. Savings will help with that, and could come in handy if you yourself get fired, either because of discrimination or economic recession.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How are the prices of eggs impacting your life?
21·1 year agoNot at all. Eggs were never a significant experience to begin with.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds
1·1 year agoUse unidentifiable backgrounds or remove them in post. I’d suggest small patches of sand, dirt or grass, walls, etc. Avoid anything that can be found on a map like mountains (and other large scale topography), buildings, power lines, etc.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why does the ban on TikTok matter to so many people?
9·1 year agoI don’t think tiktok is worse then any other large platform. All platforms have brain rot, all platforms have dumb challenges and all platforms do a lot of spying.
I’d hope this is just a freakout about someone else spying, but It feels like an excuse to start banning a whole bunch of stuff for flimsy reasons.
… and as for the spying itself, I would be far more worried about my local government getting that data then China. I don’t live anywhere near China, what are going to do? Sell me stuff? like google does?
Go talk to the mods, but perhaps consider not posting stuff like this:
… There’s an important distinction between someone with pedophilia and a child molester …
But, to be honest being banned from hexbear is probably a good thing. That place is a shithole.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you rate Donald Trump's *actual* chances of getting more than two full terms as U.S. president?
61·1 year ago1/3
He’s already shown he’s willing to interfere with and straight up ignore the results of an electron. He’s also willing to use the army as his personal goon squad, and has has support from the other branches. He’s also perfectly capable of spinning a narrative that the election was “stolen”
On the other hand, properly executing a coup is hard, and also old: It’s entirely possible he dies in office. (of natural causes or otherwise)
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Are the drones/UAPs in New Jersey an actual problem or are they just mass hysteria?
62·1 year ago90% mass hysteria, 10% random people flying drones for fun.
Most videos I’ve seen are people misidentifying airplanes as drones, and even if they are drones… they sell those on Amazon.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you deal with the inexorable march of time?
3·1 year agoIt’s never too early to do that thing you always wanted to do. Sure, you only get 5000 weeks at most, but that’s plenty if you make good use of them.
Or a complier that tells me when I mispell a variable in an assignment or use the wrong type for something.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Where to find empty vapes? I want to harvest a battery
2·2 years agoOn the ground, near bus stops, parking lots, gas stations, anywhere people use them.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?
35·2 years agoI mostly see tankies as an authoritarian (far right?) group pretending to be far left. Or at least that’s how they brand it, even though they openly advocate for government confiscation of all property.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?
76·2 years agoAll the tankie (far “left”) shit. It’s all either bad faith arguments (trolling), blatant propaganda or people who never bothered to fact check the propaganda.
They also create an inordinate amount of communities, had to use the “block instance” button a lot.
NSFW stuff also gets annoying after a while, but that seems less prevalent. (Just had to block one instance to get 99%)
Looking at my block list, the AI images and niece music stuff also got added at some point.
Does your car lock up outside of cell coverage? I’m not suggesting removing the radios themselves, just the antennas. To the car, it will just always be out of range.
The antenna used for talking to the keys might cause trouble, but those are either inherently short range inductive systems or are receivable using a 20$ RTL SDR to verify it’s not sending anything else.
Should be quite easy to remove any WiFi/cellular/satellite antennas from the car’s computer. (Might be trace/chip antennas, so make sure to get those). If you’re extra paranoid, get the GPS antenna too, so it can’t simply record data indefinitely.
Might take a few hours to go through the car to make sure you get everything, but you won’t be limited to super old cars.



Block user/community/instance.
Report if advocating for violence.
There’s really isn’t enough time to argue with everyone, and these people are probably used to being argued with, and might even take it as evidence of some big conspiracy. – If you want to make changes in the word, there are more productive ways then arguing on obscure forums.