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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • but I doubt they would be broadcasting the headline unless they thought they had a way to make the math, math.

    Bro, Elmo runs SpaceX and Tesla has been talking for over a decade about how FSD is right around the corner, and it’s still pretty much trash.

    Don’t assume these chuds have actually thought shit through just because they are making publicity around it. Silicon Valley is notorious for lying about capabilities to get investor money, and has been for as long as I can remember. If I had a dollar for every full of shit promise I’ve heard out of these dipshits I could pay for healthcare…



  • To me, the very goal of interoperability is not to force you into creating multiple accounts. Big Monopolies have managed to convince people that they need one account on each platform. This was done, on purpose, for purely unethical reasons in order to keep users captive

    Goddamn, what a shit take.the big monopolies are trying to get you to sign up to each service using their accounts as the authentication IdP for other platforms. Having a central account to funnel data back to the mother ship is exactly why a lot of us DON’T want a single account. Hell, I have multiple Lemmy accounts for segregating what content I see.

    Not sure I care any more about this dudetake when his base premise is so far off line.



  • Agreed. I finally got around to setting up a system in a mostly isolated subnet to play with agentic coding recently, and I was reasonably surprised at how not awful the result was. Still won’t trust the fuck to spit out anything without supervision.

    All I wanted was to make a debug version of a FOSS app I use because the official app is lacking basic features. It took a few attempts, but it solved my issues and spat out an answer that was the minimum viable patch (after instructing it to do so and not edit a dozen unnecessary files) that looks reasonable. I never got into android apps, but I understand the syntax well enough to know it didn’t do anything horribly out of pocket.




  • Chrome’s handling is barely more secure. A compromised device will have a much easier time reading Chrome’s encrypted store than scanning your RAM to find passwords.

    Regardless, they’re still loading them into memory in plain text, and knowing this exists, is going to be an easier task to grab than dealing with the encrypted store chromium uses. At least chromium uses the in built credential api to try to protect the secrets, the fact edge doesn’t is an egregious security hole.

    I don’t disagree that users need to have to enter a password to view their stored passwords, but you’re hand waving a massive and intentional decrease in security on Edge’s part. No matter how easy it is to get out of another browser, this is a violation of basic secure development practices. Security is only as strong as the weakest link, and edge is determined to not even close one of the easiest links in the chain.


  • True, but there’s a big fucking difference between handing over the keys without being asked, and doing basic fucking due diligence and not loading all your passwords in plain text into memory by default.

    (@iglou@programming.dev ) I can’t defend MicroSlop because that mentality is pants on head stupid and is directly in opposition to any statement that they care about security. Because, again, they made their browser behave this way for no real reason besides blowing smoke up our ass. Chromium handles passwords properly, MicroSlop chose to do it insecurely and is hiding behind the dumbest defense. Because their OS has more holes than Swiss cheese and they refuse to plug a basic security hole that they put there intentionally.







  • The AI Mode pill in the Chrome 147 omnibox is a cloud-backed Search Generative Experience surface - every query the user types into it is sent over the network to Google’s servers for processing by Google’s hosted models. The on-device Nano model is not invoked by the AI Mode UI flow at all. They are entirely separate code paths - the most visible AI affordance in the browser does not use the local model the user has been silently given, and the features that do use the local model (Help-Me-Write in <textarea>, tab-group AI suggestions, smart paste, page summary) are buried in textarea-context menus and tab-group right-click menus that the average user will discover, on average, never.

    What a double kick to the dick. First, they silently download 4gb to your disk, and they still fucking send your shit to their cloud AI.