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by amatecha 2y ago
I read that. It doesn't actually explain how the server can tell me the Eiffel Tower is in my photo without knowing it's telling me that. It glosses over the mechanism by which it can tell me what's in my photo without the
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by amatecha 2y ago
I'm just refuting what the person I responded to said, because apparently these services have hashes for more than just "the worst of the worst stuff" or whatever.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I do this with a catchall domain as well. Indeed, I've had people ask if I work for their company -- too funny! So far the only company that has illegally added me to a mailing list I didn't sign up for is H&M (the clo
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by amatecha 2y ago
Could have said that at one point about Twitter or Reddit.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Oh yeah? I know a few ppl who are on fediverse but aren't comfortable sharing their account, interestingly. Also, yeah, for now it's mostly techie/geeky/academic types who are on Mastodon, with a good slice of artistic
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by amatecha 2y ago
I know the admin of my server and all moderators personally. I'm not sure what your point is. The people who run services you use can mess with your stuff - in WoW a GM stole items from my guild's guild bank using the account of
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by amatecha 2y ago
fyi mastodon.social is by far the biggest (almost sole) source of spam, thus more and more servers are "limiting" it (as opposed to outright blocking/defederating) so people only see posts from users they explicitly follow fr
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by amatecha 2y ago
Maybe. You'll frequently find many stores/communities/services saying "hotmail/yahoo/___ users, we haven't been getting your emails" because those services aren't quite as big as Gmail and are g
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by amatecha 2y ago
Mastodon/ActivityPub is not Twitter. It's not millions of people in one stadium. It's more like dozens of rooms in a big mansion. (sorry, the analogy isn't perfect) ... You don't just walk into the room with a bu
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by amatecha 2y ago
You didn't really set up a completely separate server that can exist without Bluesky's central servers (because that's not possible), so it's not a fair comparison. No, Mastodon was not designed to keep out anybody non-t
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by amatecha 2y ago
Mastodon is absolutely not dead, and will outlast both Twitter and Bluesky as far as I can tell -- as someone who has been an early adopter in every single social media platform (or precursor thereof) since the mid-90's. Why? There i
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by amatecha 2y ago
Oh, if that's the case, they really could have explained that better. The language used in Apple's article doesn't explain that the server cannot know the query or result (it implies as such, but doesn't make this clear
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by amatecha 2y ago
The server must know what it's matching at some point, to be able to generate a response: > The server identifies the relevant shard based on the index in the client query and uses HE to compute the embedding similarity in this encr
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by amatecha 2y ago
"It only has hashes for the worst of the worst stuff out there." [citation needed] I know someone whose MS account was permabanned because they had photos of their own kid in the bathtub. I mean, I guess the person could have bee
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yup, this is their way of injecting the "phone home" element via an innocuous rationale, "location matching". The global index will of course also match against other markers they deem worthy of matching, even if they d
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by amatecha 2y ago
Think about it this way: for people who turn off any & everything that phones home (aka anyone who is frustrated by this new "feature"), the chances of them having turned on something like that upon install is almost nil.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Literally all Apple needed to do was not have it enabled by default. Sending stuff over the network without asking is why trust in Apple is reduced further and further.
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by amatecha 2y ago
Completely, 100% agreed: > the only way to guarantee computing privacy is to not send data off the device. > It ought to be up to the individual user to decide their own tolerance for the risk of privacy violations. [...] By enabling
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by amatecha 2y ago
same. finally got realforce R2 and I'm good. There might be something better for me, but I've spent enough time and money searching for the perfect combination of form-factor, switches, keycaps, materials, etc.
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by amatecha 2y ago
So awesome! Been waiting for this for a while. There aren't a lot of people out there dedicating their efforts to open source hardware, and I've been really impressed at how well MNT Research has done thus far. Can't wait
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by amatecha 2y ago
this is awesome - thank you! I look forward to trying it! I wonder if you could apply for some funding from https://nlnet.nl/ ?
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by amatecha 2y ago
Kinda nitpicking, but why is "SIM" allcaps here but not on the source article? It's a "sim" (short for "simulator"), not a SIM card for a cellular phone :'D
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by amatecha 2y ago
For sure, I remember that. I remember that even the most popular, non-techie kids got on ICQ, though it was probably more around 1999 by that point, but every kid that had a computer at home had an ICQ account (though how often they could
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by amatecha 2y ago
Following this thread all I see is you aggressively asserting a certain viewpoint, with no substantiation. I have no stake in the game but if you're going to come out swinging with aggressive naysaying but zero substantiation, all I&#
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by amatecha 2y ago
I wonder about that too, was it just only transmitting an unmodulated carrier at the time (minus 22 hours lol)? Or is the signal quality too poor to discern any modulation? Or something else? >_>
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by amatecha 2y ago
Rad. I was pretty stoked when I received signals from Australia and New Zealand ~12000km away, and later from the International Space Station (actually technically much closer lol). I can't imagine how damn cool it would be to pick u
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by amatecha 2y ago
Interestingly that naming scheme is debunked on the adjacently-linked wikipedia page on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio#Hertz%E...
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by amatecha 2y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for your contribution to making this stuff possible :) fist bump
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yup, $50 is definitely a lot when the whole computer was $150! Whatever it came with from the person I got the machine from on Craigslist, that's what it's generally staying with until I have to replace something - especially as
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by amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, I knew someone who opted to have their dementia-suffering parent live with them until the end. That was tough, but... surely better than being left alone in a hospice/etc. as you mention. Unfortunately, yeah, you'll see th

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