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xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware.English0·1 month agoIsn’t every app that’s not open source assumed to be spyware nowadays?
Wake me up when this sort of thing is actually illegal. Preferably punishable with jail time.
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon is testing a Buy for Me button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app.English0·1 month agoActually, this is a great idea in principle, because the inverse is possible.
We could use Amazon’s resources for search, then use a browser plug-in to replace the buy button and have it buy the product from somewhere else using an AI agent.
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Commentary by german Climate Impact Research Institute: Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climateEnglish0·2 months agoIn the decades that people have been screaming about nuclear plants “taking too long to build” stalling progress, we could have built many nuclear plants and significantly reduced emissions.
We’ve kicked the can down the road for far too long. We are well past the point of preventing the devastating impacts of climate change we were warned about 20+ years ago.
If this institute is so convinced wind and solar are the answer, I hope they also have vast amounts of lithium pre-mined or a novel approach to energy storage that isn’t so damaging.
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Upvote RSS - Generate RSS feeds from social aggregation websites like Reddit, Lemmy, and Hacker NewsEnglish0·3 months agoReddit natively supports RSS feeds as well. The major feature here is comment support IMO.
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•DeepSeek R1 Is Reportedly Running Inference On Huawei's Ascend 910C AI Chips, Showing China's Growing AI CapabilitiesEnglish0·4 months agoTraining: Creating the model
Inference: Using the model
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Senators Say TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control | You can opt out of facial recognition at airports, for now, but the TSA wants to make the invasive technology a requirementEnglish0·6 months agoI’m very pro privacy, but I’m just going to say out loud that it’s not like US state and federal governments don’t already have photos of your face that can be used to track you. The alternative is to hand over your ID, the thing the government printed after capturing and storing a picture of your face.
My pitchforks are saved for companies that track your location and interactions using facial recognition combined with social media posts. Or CCTV, of course.
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainersEnglish0·7 months agoYes, fuck Israel and fuck Russia. Not sure why I’m responding to this dumb bait, but here we are. It’s not a straw man argument when both countries are run by literal human feces
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Syncthing Android app discontinuedEnglish0·7 months agoThis is sad. Google Play should never hold this much weight in the self hosted community. For Android users dedicated to open source software, F-Droid is the target.
I don’t think SyncThing users would have much issue with the app disappearing from Google. Doing away with Google is the goal.
xodoh74984@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•hoarder: A self-hosted bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with tagging and full text searchEnglish0·7 months agoI spun this up yesterday, because it’s the first viable Google Keep replacement I’ve seen. I love the ability to archive bookmarked pages. And while the web app is clunky for notes (worse UX than Keep), the Android app is a decent replacement. The only weird thing is the option to add notes to notes so you can note while you note.
Worth mentioning that adding or changing a title is completely impossible on Android. Support for titles is included, but hidden, in the web UI, and the web UI adds unnecessary friction to editing notes.
The web UI also doesn’t support newline characters unless they’re preceded by two spaces (strict markdown formatting, like on Lemmy/Reddit), which is annoying. Markdown support is nice, but the vast majority of notes and reminders that I create only require plaintext.
I don’t see this talked about much anymore, but the day Plex added telemetry in 2017 was the day I became five-alarm desperate for an alternative. Had to wait a 2-3 years with Plex’s telemetry IP’s and domains blacklisted before Jellyfin was mature enough for me to make the change.
How Plex users can be comfortable with any telemetry is beyond me.