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ageedizzle

@ ageedizzle @piefed.ca

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  • Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?”

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  • I think the reason why people decided to go with Bluesky is because it’s easier to sign up for. Most people on here are pretty technically inclined, so its hard for them to understand, but the process of picking a server to make an account on is complicated enough to screen out a sizeable fraction of potential users (then waiting for your application for that server to be approved creates an other hurdle for certain people). 

  • A gentleman does not downvote.

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  • What got you banned specifically? Just curious

  • A gentleman does not downvote.

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  • Readers can think for themselves  

  • I'm building an anti AI thing for my personal project. Please provide some phrases you think should trigger ai safeguards

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  • Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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  • Interesting thank you. The integrated drivers thing would make it difficult to hack but I guess its always possible to crack the smoke alarm and replace the drivers, if someone really wanted to get their hands dirty 

  • Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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  • Interesting. I’ve never heard of a piezoelectric buzzer before. This is the answer I was looking for. Thanks! 

  • Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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  • Linking to Reddit on Lemmy is blasphemy. (But thanks for the link lol its informative) 

  • An Ontario woman will head to court in March after the City of Burlington fined her for letting her garden grow wild.

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  • Obviously there are limits, like if you're actively harming people such as in the example you gave. But so long as you aren’t harming anyone I don’t see why you shouldn’t be able to do what you like with the land you own (such as, for example, letting the plants grow freely). 

  • Would it be possible to hack a smoke detector to make it play a little jingle?

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  • You can also make hard drive heads play music.

    How does this work?

  • How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy?

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  • Yeah. The OS based biometric model of verification definitely has some advantages over a service-by-service form of verification (so long as it's done in a way that doesn't make it easier to fingerprint based on device). The biggest concern I'd have though would be what this might do to niche operating systems, like Linux distros or Graphene OS. Will they be forced to enable age verification as well, and if so will they have the means to do that?

    The comparison to credit card verification is interesting though and intuitively it seems like it would make it easier for niche operating systems to manage these requirements, since they could largely outsource that functionality (in the same way most websites outsource the handling of credit card information). This model still might make it easier for governments to profile people though. I'd be interested to hear what a privacy expert has to say about the viability or tradeoffs with a model like that.

  • Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?

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  • Nice

  • An Ontario woman will head to court in March after the City of Burlington fined her for letting her garden grow wild.

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  • What’s the point of owning property if you can’t even do what you want with it? 

  • Will China be able to poach scientists from the West?

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  • The university of Toronto has been scoping up some good American researchers in the humanities with the munk school. Not sure what the situation is with the sciences though

  • Will China be able to poach scientists from the West?

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  • Hopefully Canada and Europe can capitalize on this moment and scoop up some US based researchers during this brain drain. It would be a shame if researchers felt the need to go to China instead

  • Blue light filters don’t work

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  • Even if they don't work they still feel a lot easier on the eyes

  • Complaining about headlines using "X blasts/slams Y" gives boomer.

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  • Judging by the comments here this truly is an unpopular opinion.

  • Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?

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  • Ah okay that makes sense. Too bad the drivers are closed source that might be the cause of a lot of these issues

  • Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?

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  • Nice. Which model is it? 

  • Do you prefer XMPP or Matrix powered apps as a discord alternative?

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  • Yeah the self-hosting thing is new, its really clunky and they dont encourage you not to use it. I think (?) they may have even discontinued it.

    Its odd to me that Signal is supposedly the gold standard yet it breaks all these privacy 101 rules. Such as requiring you hand over your phone number to a central authority, not really allowing you to self host, and not posting an official app on fdroid. I’ve heard that portions of its official repo are not even open source (though I haven't verified this for myself). XMPP sounds like the better choice to be honest.