Trying to stop kids from using drugs on school property is “stupid shit”?

It’s not surveilling children, it’s surveilling the byproducts of vaping.

…so kids can freely vape in school buildings during school hours?

people share phone numbers to people they personally know.

This is about Signal having the phone numbers. I don’t think anybody “personally knows” Signal…

Yup. My bank was even “translating” passwords to PINs behind the scene specifically so your password for the website would be the same as your password on the telephone.

I was wondering why 1 year was in the red category, but then I realized that that time could decrease quite a bit over time with technological advances

EDIT: typo

Figured as much. I thought that was just “standard”, but even “standard” can be a lot to expect lol

Passwords can be leaked, mostly by bad security on server side.

Wouldn’t this be solved by storing only hashed passwords?

That sounds legit. If your GPS location is on at all times (assuming this is on your cellphone), then they’ve got enough geolocation data to associate you to your partner.

And if it’s off? Your SIM card is acting like a GPS (though a less-accurate one than your phone). Do you trust your mobile service provider to not be selling this data? (And this would be even more of a factor if they’re also your partner’s service provider, and/or your ISP)

Exactly. They definitely could, but there’d also be potential legal issues, and it’d just be much more expensive to analyze sound data.

If it’s done on each device, then their battery power would suck, and performance would decline. Sure, they could do that, but I imagine most phone manufacturers would rather sell more phones and make money from app companies (Meta, Google) who pay to have their apps pre-installed on the phone. Or Samsung and Apple, who have their own ecosystems for mining data like Google does.

If they were instead just uploading audio to central servers (which could mitigate legal issues due to “anonymizing” the data), then they’d be paying for the computational power to analyze all that data.

Again, completely possible, and likely in use with things like Alexa and Google Home. But on our phones (and laptops for that matter), they have so many other cheaper ways to get probably the same quality of information.

I think “the microphones are listening when they’re off” is still a conspiracy theory at this point. It’s not really needed to get enough information.

Are there any ways that Google could find out that you’re interacting together?

• Do you share an IP address/router?
• Do you watch YouTube videos in that language?
• Do you use any messaging apps where you speak that language with other people, but also speak with your partner?
• Do you access any Google services (with a Keyboard for that language installed) that your partner also accesses?
• Do you use location services that could pinpoint both of your locations to the same street address?
• Does your partner interact with any of the people you’re learning that language with? (E.g., Social media friends, "Contact"s, live in the same geographic region)
• Is your device on the same network as your partner’s*? (Wi-Fi or Bluetooth)

I’m not saying these are all ways that Google uses, but I believe that each of them are ways that Google would be able to associate that language to your partner.

Who would have thought.

It’s impossible to “of think”.

The guy who’s likely to become Canada’s next PM wants to do this too.

That’s exactly what an LLM would say…

Not anymore, they tampered with it

… you never actually turn off your phone, huh? Haha

I didn’t assign blame to the website, or to anything. I just said that viewing sexual material can be harmful to children.

I’m pretty sure that viewing pornography can be harmful to young children.

Not all “minors”, but some people forget that the phrase includes both 17 year olds and 4 year olds in some states…

You don’t like the Piped bot?

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=eR7D6Fx0fTQ

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

I don’t know why the discourse about AI has become so philosophical.

When I’m playing a single-player game and I say “the AI opponents know I’m hiding behind cover, so they threw a grenade!”, I don’t mean that the video game gained sentence and discovered the best thing to do to win against me.

When playing a stealth game, we say “The enemy can’t see you if you’re behind cover”, not “The enemy has been programmed to not take any action the player character when said player character is identified as being granted the Cover status”.

I think the LLM won here. If you’re being accusational and outright saying its previous statement is a lie, you’ve already made up your mind. The chatbot knows it can’t change your mind, so it suggests changing the topic.

It’s not a spokesperson/bot for Microsoft, not a lawyer. So it knows when it should shut itself off.

Every person should have a tracking implant and anyone should be able to access it.

In that case, I would guess that you’re a man, and one who has never had a stalker.

At the dawn of civilization? Lol

Prostitutes, the world’s oldest profession, could be argued to be paying for convenience.

People also probably paid for cooked meals pretty early in civilization.

Invenda Wallet allows consumers to browse, select and pay for products leisurely and privately

I never would’ve questioned that using a vending machine with cash would be anything but private until reading that line.

(Well, the article was first…but if it wasn’t for the article, that line is sketchy as all hell)

First of all, using Facebook isn’t private.

Beyond that, I’m tentatively glad about this. With the amount of harmful health misinformation that was being shared on Facebook and other social media, I’m glad whenever the content hosts take reasonable actions to remove things that are potentially dangerous.

You know those people who want send one text, but they use the enter key as punctuation so it arrives as 37 texts?

You know

Something like

This?

Maybe

Well

For some people

It’s not this bad

But I’m sure we all have that

ONE

Person

Who does something like this.

AI can summarize all those text messages and tell you wtf they actually want in one single message and one single notification! (Hypothetically, lol)

Even then, any public comments you make are, you know… public.

As they should be.

Public comments is how you can find patterns of sketchy user behaviour.

I’m not familiar with the laws of Ireland, but considering that article you linked, I guess I’m that specific instance, the answer is “No”.

They still have freedom of expression.

Freedom of expression generally doesn’t mean you can say anything without limitation

Yeah. Deleting accounts, easy enough. Boycotting, much less-so.

I feel like Amazon would be easier than MS and Google, wouldn’t it?

I do like that thirth party reassurance

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Wow, I couldn’t read a thing without the extension! Works perfectly!

Haha

Or friends who’ve decided that their “one app” for messaging is Instagram? I think something like that is a possibility.

Lmao…gotta love finding the commercial in the highlight reel