Greg

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[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe she meant PDF level intelligence

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Or when 2 legs fall off?

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What would be really cool is if also started streaming both cameras and the microphone. And changed your background image to be pro Trump.

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

The missile probably has better range too

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (15 children)

GrapheneOS has a secret pin feature that wipes the phone when entered. So if someone takes your phone and demands your pin you can destroy the contents of the phone. GrapheneOS works on Pixel phones, given they are an activist, I wonder if this is what happened ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

I've been thinking about how to respond to this post for 5 mins now...

[โ€“] Greg@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I reenact all of the stupid things I said during the day at 3am. Does that count?

 

I'm going to a cabaret show tonight and I wanted to get in costume. I tried to make some fake cigarettes but now I'm worried I'll these will make me look like a perverted vampire. What's the consensus team?

 

The arguments I've heard about tracking etc are misguided and don't understand the actual risks.

Firstly, posts on the fediverse are already likely being consumed by advertising platforms like Facebook & Google. It would be trivial for big tech companies to setup relays that act as scrapers.

Secondly, the value in platform's tracking individuals is for advertising. There is no mechanism for these platforms to identify you browsing the we if your instance federated with threads. Your instance won't share cookie sessions etc with threads. It doesn't increase your exposure.

Thirdly, these platforms have the know how to deal with spam and they will be incentivised to share that tech with other federated instances.

Don't get me wrong, Facebook is an evil company. But I haven't heard a decent argument as to why them joining the fediverse is a bad thing. We always have the option to defederate in the future.

Change my mind.