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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Every once in a while security researchers would discover sophisticated exploits that would allow malwares to take over your computer via multimedia files, but those are actually rarely exploited in the wild by run off the mill malwares.

Unless you're an important person being targeted by hackers and three letter agencies, your biggest source of threat is running infected programs from untrusted sources, e.g. cracks downloaded from random torrents or warez sites, shady sites serving ads that trick you to run some executables, etc.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (7 children)

How do you sanitize ai prompts? With more prompts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Lemmy has a lot more contributors and eyes digging into its codebase now compared to 2021 so I think this is very unlikely to happen.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (16 children)

I may not agree with the devs political view, but I think their work developing lemmy is excellent and made me subscribe to monthly donation on opencollective. Lemmy is an open source project where the devs have absolutely no say over how the software being used, as evidenced by so many lemmy instances defederating from lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. Their political belief won't affect other instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Future historians will have a lot of trouble identifying fake ai news when studying our current era.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If we fire all developers and allow AIs to program themselves, the AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.

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

Eradication? If anything, streaming services turn the sex dial to 11 for a while now. It's as if they won't greenlight a new show unless it has a certain amount of sex and nudity scenes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Does this mean Roblox is becoming this generation's Second Life now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Then why does tidal for the same price as spotify with way less users pay four times as much to the artists than spotify?

I wonder why too. Spotify takes a 30% cut, but even if Tidal takes 0% cuts, how come it can pays 4x as much to artists? There must be more to the math to make it check out.

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

If you download apps from fdroid, at the very least you can be sure that the binary is 100% generated from the provided source code, the devs can't pull a switcheroo like submitting an altered version of app (e.g. inserting malware) that doesn't match the published source code.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I'm more concerned with Mozilla spending its meager resources to chase some fads instead of focusing on improving firefox.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Google does that a lot with their own web properties. I remember Google Meet didn't support background replacement on Firefox, but switching Firefox's user agent to Chrome suddenly fixed it.

 

The window is still not found though.

 

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