ConstipatedWatson

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Cameras with stronger security will become more and more important, though on a theoretical level, they could be cracked or forged, but I suppose it's the usual cat and mouse game

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

True, sooner or later there might be ways to make sure that a picture or video are digitally signed and probably it would be very hard to crack, but theoretically a fake video might still pass for real (though it would require a lot of resources to make that happen)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Right, but anyone would like to not be in a video implying them in a crime, but I was wondering what would happen if fake videos of said person were to appear implicating a crime that actually did not take place

 

If AI and deep fakes can listen to a video or audio of a person and then are able to successfully reproduce such person, what does this entail for trials?

It used to be that recording audio or video would give strong information which often would weigh more than witnesses, but soon enough perfect forgery could enter the courtroom just as it's doing in social media (where you're not sworn to tell the truth, though the consequences are real)

I know fake information is a problem everywhere, but I started wondering what will happen when it creeps in testimonies.

How will we defend ourselves, while still using real videos or audios as proof? Or are we just doomed?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

... And also Eternity is uber cool!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

How does the old saying go?

Ah, yes: "This is funny because it is true"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm always amazed how this gibberish song managed to become popular outside of Italy and, aided by memes and frequent resharing, still being known today!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Question: how do you update extensions?

I'm curious because I normally just update Firefox when it notifies me and normally reboot my machine once a day and I notice I never ever have seen ads with uBlock Origin + Firefox, not even on my phone.

Doesn't uBlock Origin update automatically?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Even if they did so, isn't Firefox entirely open source? At least their work could be forked (though I agree if they don't have the resources, hardly anyone else could make it)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

An old meme, with a beautiful new spin.

I'm lovin' it!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Crap, every day I see signs of how AI is polluting reality, when it could and should only be used to improve humanity.

Also, I'm starting to believe AI is effectively going to destroy or resize several jobs. For example, a friend of mine told me it asked ChatGPT to write several lines of code and it did so, maybe 85% correctly. He went through the whole code and could find mistakes and correct them. Anyhow, long story short, it would have taken his a lot of time to write them himself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I think it's an imperfect movie with a great premise and cast. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot when it came out and I've rewatched it once, but I haven't felt it so memorable or quotable. Still, it was pleasant

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Brouhaha is its twin brother!

 

Lots of superheroes are "children of the atom" in the sense that they derive powers from some sort of radioactivity (think Spiderman or Hulk or even Daredevil) while others are just born with powers without explanation (X-Men, Thor, Superman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman).

Who is a superhero that is somehow grounded in reality, meaning that they could "potentially" make sense (either their origin story is believable, even if it has some obvious gap to make a super power happen, or their power is somehow limited or constructed in a "reasonable" way).

I guess with these restrictions, Batman would be OK since he's got no superpowers, but he's insanely rich and therefore can both train himself and have access to sophisticated gadgets, but can you think of less obvious ones (even if they're minor characters)?

Thanks for reading this!

Edit: thanks for all the answers and apologies for the slow replies. I've had a couple of complicated days. I'll now go through answering you. Several people made me realize I hadn't been precise in what I meant and helped with their answers. I was looking for superheroes or superpowers that are somehow "believable" in that they're either constructed in an unexpected way or in a way that you could almost accept as plausible

 

Since a few days I've not been able to see my up votes. If I go to my profile, I see the sum total of my comments and of my posts, but next to them I see two zeros.

This seemed to coincide with the Lemmy.World update.

I logged out and back in more than once, but it doesn't change this issue.

Has this happened to anyone else? If so, how did you fix it?

Thanks anyways for reading this

 

I unfortunately live in a very polluted area, one where air quality apps mark in red and recommend that I never get out of my lair.

When it rains enough the air quality becomes more bearable and here comes the question: where does pollution go when it rains hard? Does it get pushed to the ground and stays there? Does it get embedded in the water (so instead of breathing it, I get to drink it later in the tap water)?

I'm curious to know where it gets dispersed or stuck (to possibly avoid it)

 

Vorrei evitare di rendere almeno questo mio post una pubblicità con questo o quell'operatore, quindi anonimizzerò le varie compagnie (ma voi sentitevi liberi di fare ciò che vogliate).

Ho varie storie brutte di operatori mobili italiani

(1) Nel 2019 decido di cambiare dall'operatore A con cui ero da tre anni, all'operatore Z per vedere come mi sarei trovato. Il contratto che avevo con A durava due anni e dopo ero libero di cambiare, dato che erano quasi tre anni, passo a Z senza farmi problemi. Qualche mese dopo, nell'ultimo estratto conto della Banca Popolare di Vincenza (prima di essere assorbita da Banca Intesa) trovo 50 euro trattenuti dalla Cattiva A senza ragione. Non me ne sarei accorto perché la mia carta di credito stava venendo chiusa prima del passaggio e non mi hanno notificato niente

(2) Siamo nel 2023. Mia madre aveva un contratto con A (sempre loro) da ormai da 11 anni. Contratto bruttino (pagava 13 euro al mese per 10 GB di dati e telefonate illimitate), ma a lei andava bene così perché poteva comprare biglietti dell'autobus con SMS e non voleva cambiare. Mia madre mi chiama e mi dice che nel 2022 ha speso 500 euro di telefono. Ora 13x12 = 156 e anche pagando 2 euro di biglietti del bus, non saremmo arrivati che a poco più di 200. Vado nel negozio di A dove scopro che è stata passata ad un contratto a 20 euro al mese (con tutto illimitato) senza nessuna notifica e che ha mille servizi attivati, ad esempio un ottimo 2 euro al mese "contro i virus". Cerco di farglieli disattivare sul posto, ma mi viene detto che devo chiamare. Dopo aver lottato al telefono, dico a mia mamma che d'ora in poi torna a comprarsi biglietti dell'autobus di carta e la passiamo a Z. Le spese adesso sono controllate. Nel frattempo A continua a mandare messaggi dicendo "torna da noi a 6 euro al mese per tutto illimitato". Ma come, fino a due mesi prima ne volevate 20?

(3) Siamo nel 2023. Un mio collega normalmente molto attento e preciso, mi racconta che per ragioni che non ha capito, il pagamento automatico non ha funzionato un mese, e la compagnia B non gli ha detto nulla. Dopo qualche mese gli arriva una lettera che dice che deve pagare 150 euro al posto di 10 da una compagnia di recupero crediti. Non ha ricevuto nessuna notifica riguardo al mancato pagamento l'anno prima e tutti i mesi del 2022 sono stati pagati, tranne uno. Ha fatto varie telefonate, ma non è servito a nulla. Gli hanno fatto scrivere da un avvocato, chiedendone 250 e minacciandolo di andare in tribunale. Non mi ha dato tutti i dettagli, ma mi ha detto che per chiudere la cosa (per sfinimento) ha pagato 250 euro.

(4) Si sprecano le storie di altri miei amici che hanno subito continue rimodulazioni di prezzo e tentativi di attivare questo o quel servizio inutili che costano un sacco. Sono cose che leggo costantemente online, ma sento anche direttamente.

E voi?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Are any of these features already existing (and can be activated, but I didn't see how)?

(1) Making the sub-lemmy in the header have a different color so the user can visually spot the topic before reading the title

(2) Moving the header road footer, so see the topic/sub-lemmy after the title of the post

(3) removing the exclamation mark in the sub-lemmy header across the app. Since it's present in all sub-lemmy's it is a bit a nuisance

(4) change the size of the sub-lemmy names in the list of subscribed sub-lemmy's

(5) write in user's points in the about tab

(6) graying out titles of posts already read

(7) search through posts you only upvoted (but not saved). This may be a Lemmy feature request and not just Liftoff though as I've seen this lacking from all other apps I tried

Thanks for making a really awesome app!

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