"This website that I and others like me decided to migrate to is much better than the place I left. That must mean everyone who decided to come here is super smart!"
I'm pretty sure I heard a story about an open source Minecraft hack client that was openly stealing discord authentication tokens, and nobody noticed for weeks because the only people who check the source code are people who plan on modifying it
Whatever you do, it's important to support app developers. Definitely don't manually set your DNS to dns.adguard.com on your phone, to block all ads in apps
Super don't use 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15 as the primary and alternative addresses for systems that don't accept URLs to DNS servers. You would block (some of) all the ads on any Internet connected device!
May as well stay on it at this point. It's absolutely hemorrhaging money, and each user seems to cost them more than they make. And without voices of reason it'll become even more of an alt-right shithole
I'm extremely skeptical of medical diagnosis AIs. Without being able to explain why it comes to a conclusion, how do we know it won't just accidentally find correlations? One example I heard of recently was an AI that was extremely good at detecting TB... based on the age of the machine that took the x-ray. Because it turns out places with older machines tend to be poorer, and poorer places tend to have more TB.
The only positive use I can think of is time saving measures. A researcher can feed a study to ChatGPT and have it write a rough first draft of the abstract. A Game Master could ask it for inspiration on the next few game sessions if they're underprepared. An internet commenter could ask it for a third example of how it could save time.
But for anything serious, until it can explain why it comes to the conclusions it comes to, and can understand when a human says "no, you're doing it wrong," I can't see it being a real force for good.
I think better communication about what federation is would help. I keep seeing folks say it's like email, but that assumes the average person understands how email works.
We should start describing it as "like if Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News could see and comment on each other's content"
I don't see how you disagreed with anything I said. What good would it do (aside from you enjoying the man's content more) for Jazza to disown his brother, rather than continue to be in his life and try to be a positive influence? Would Shad become a better person because of it? Of course not.
"Plenty of family members publicly denounce their siblings when they start the descent into shitdom." Is that good? Does it make the world a better place? Or does it only serve to improve how much you enjoy consuming their content?
"Guilty by association?" Guilty of what? This toxic mindset of suggesting that people need to cut all contact with the ones they love because of differing political opinions doesn't help anyone. I would bet my life that not one single, solitary, individual alt-right shithead has ever changed his ways because his siblings publicly decried him. All that does is push people further into their echo chambers.
+1 for ADB. Online tutorials are dead simple to follow. De-facebooking my phone and killing Bixby are the two things that made me decide not to trade this in for an old Razer Phone instead.
Disowning your siblings for different political opinions only serves to remove a positive influence from their life. No good would come from Jazza publicly dunking on his brother's beliefs.
Genuinely, what features and fixes could a TV possibly get from the internet besides applications that require an internet connection? If you're using an external device to watch your stuff, why would you need to update your TV?
It's a tag that denoted sarcasm, for comments where it isn't abundantly clear that you're joking