Amju Wolf
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It’s funny because I watch zero NSFW content on Reddit or Lemmy.
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Have way better sources for that, you know 😏
Wouldn’t be surprised if it also did automatic scans for CSAM or some other BS like that. The article’s conclusion is really funny, too:
In any case, it’s nice to see Google delivering some new safety features in its Messages app. Hopefully the company publishes documentation on how Android System SafetyCore works so other messaging apps can implement their own version of Sensitive Content Warnings. Google Messages is popular, but there are certainly other messaging platforms that could benefit from this tool.
They are quite the optimitsts. Oh and yes please, put the spyware in more apps! We aren’t tracked enough!
Seems to have been a bug and they reverted the bans.
Seems you’re right. I tried a few subs when the original comment was posted and they didn’t work but now they seem to be back.
To be fair, it’s still a good thing to remember that it takes like one press of a button to kill a shitton of communities a lot of people care about.
To be fair I don’t think that many people go to Reddit for porn. With Tumblr it seemed almost exclusive. But it’s still an odd move.
Huh? Do you have a source for that?
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNNEnglish
2·11 months agoThat’s just the reality of doing business on the Internet.
That’s just not true. You can absolutely get by on the internet remaining pretty much anonymous, as it is. Very few services need (and verify) your personal data; when they do it’s basically always when it’s government-mandated, and it’s for things that have a “physical” equivalent.
i.e. creating a bank account online requires your actual ID, but so it would if you tried to do it “offline” in a physical bank (and you largely have a choice on whether or not you do it online).
Then you have stuff like online shopping and such where most people probably use their actual personal information but you don’t have to and it’s generally not checked.
This is an unprecedented change, where suddenly for access to a free service someone needs to ask for and validate some very private details. And it fucking sucks.
While Australia’s new legislation is ham-fisted and poorly thought out, the intent isn’t wrong and there’s broad consensus for it (77% approval in Australia). We need to do something about the uncontrolled exploitation, manipulation and endangerment of minors by social media services.
That’s the issue though; I agree that something needs to be done, but you need to do it more or less correctly on the first try or you’ll probably make it even worse.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Tech companies put on notice as Australia passes world-first social media ban for under-16s | CNN
4·11 months agoSomeone still needs to create that digital token from your ID, which means someone’s still using and storing your data, and potentially selling it or having it leaked.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browserEnglish
2·1 year agoWho would realistically buy Chrome that wouldn’t degrade the consumer experience?
Hopefully noone, so it would lead into more fragmentation in the browser space, which is a good things.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browserEnglish
3·1 year agoThe manifest v3 changes primary give a lot of security and privacy changes that stop extensions from doing a lot of questionable things in the background on all your page you visit. But that does stop ad blockers from doing a lot of what they currently do - blocking in page elements and modifying the pages you visit.
It also killed a lot of other genuinely useful extensions.
And if security is their main concern they should have spent resources on making sure the extensions they themselves redistribute are safe, not on killing a huge chunk of extensions. Sorry but you’ll have a very hard time convincing anyone that getting rid of ad blockers wasn’t their primary motive.
But it does not block them from blocking page requests so ad blockers like ublockorigin lite can still function in a more limited capacity to block ads.
It completely changed how they do this, and made it way less effective and more limited. All completely unnecessary from a security standpoint.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•BlueSky has been knocked offline by an exodus from TwitterEnglish
1·1 year ago…and that’s how it still works.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worriedEnglish
2·1 year agoThat sounds very illegal, yeah. You can’t advertise a price and then charge something different. It doesn’t matter that the person didn’t notice it. At that point you might not have price tags at all (which is also illegal, just FYI).
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100English
10·2 years agoIt generates code and then you can use a call to some runtime execution API to run that code, completely separate from the neural network.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-outEnglish
2·2 years agoOn the contrary, it’s the only comparison you can make, since they are literally the only options.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-outEnglish
14·2 years ago…and there is no way to do that, currently.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out
12·2 years agoThat’s not something that’d likely scale enough to bring any meaningful sum of money.
Even then it targets a tiny, tiny minority of their even current userbase, let alone if they want to approach more “average” users.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
7·2 years agoThey’re two separate(ish) issues.
But it’s still a bad idea to use national TLDs for stuff that has nothing to do with that nation.
Granted, is ICANN wasn’t just a money-grabbing machine with no forward thinking they wouldn’t give nations clearly “generally desirable” gTLDs, but since they did already that doesn’t mean they should be misused.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it.
7·2 years agoI had a similar issue and in my case it ended up being some AMD crap (I think an updater or something) that probably didn’t install properly or something.
IIRC I just ended up disabling the scheduled task that was running it and that was the end of it.
Amju Wolf@pawb.socialto
Technology@beehaw.org•This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
7·2 years agoThat would give random strangers (at least partial) control over what is indexed and how and you’d have to trust them all. I’m not sure that’s a great idea.

This is the way. (At least for a server)