redcalcium

joined 2 years ago
[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Imagine a racist vending machine. The face recognition system think this customer is black with 81% confidence. Let's increase the price of grape soda! Oh look, a 32 year old white woman (79% confidence). Better raise the price of diet coke!

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But back then Reddit still believed in opening up their platform, and their relation with their users was not adversarial. Their source code was even available on GitHub with an open source license! It didn't feel much different to us sending monthly donations to instance admins and Lemmy devs now on Lemmy. People genuinely didn't want Reddit to shut down back then.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 1 year ago

Which contains your account number and routing number, which allows the recipient's bank to "pull" funds from your bank account.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pretty bad for nvidia users. Want new features? Use wayland and deal with numerous annoying bugs. Don't want to deal with those annoying bugs? Stay on x11 but miss all those new cool features.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's true, Apple stole ideas so much there is a term for it among the dev community: Sherlocking .

One of the most famous sherlocking case is Apple removing FlickType citing compliance with apple store guidelines, only to launch a similar app later: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1437845736951992321

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

US citizens using their bank account to transfer fund to each other [impossible]

This is because sharing bank account and routing number is not safe for many US banks which may allow unauthorized party to pull money from the account. Banks in the rest of the world typically operate in "push" only so they don't have this issue.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Google is way ahead of you, they are a certificate authority now, so in theory they can do this right now. Take a look at any site's https certificate and a significant portion of them are now signed by Google Trust Services LLC thanks to Cloudflare using them to generate free https certificates (in addition to letsencrypt). Note that they won't ever pull this trick though because it'll irreversibly damage their reputation.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

DoH and DoT, originally developed to prevent ISP to tamper with DNS query to inject ads, now ironically used by advertisers to evade DNS-based blocking on their ads sdk and iot devices.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's too big to fail now. Advertisers hardcode it into their apps and iot devices to evade DNS adblockers for a while now.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 155 points 1 year ago (14 children)

First, there was google wallet, then came android pay, then google wallet and android pay got merged into google pay, then google pay was split into google wallet and google pay, then google pay shut down in us.

To be continued...

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