[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

In colonial india, the british put a bounty on cobras. Indian villagers who would have usually just killed the cobras and went on with their day now tried to catch them alive so they could then farm them for multiple bounties. This ballooned the snake populations to ridiculous levels, and then the british found out about the scheme. They then cancelled the bounty program, and the snake rearers released their animals on places they thought were far from people.

Net result: More snakes than ever before.

[-] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago

I like how bulk sales are more expensive per horndog.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago

Jesus Christ, imagine pulling off the heist of your lives, sneaking around and escaping your captors, evading recapture from terrorists and scared civilians for however long in the bombed out badlands, finally glimpsing your hope and salvation in the distance, and then getting shot down by the very soldiers you put your hopes in. Brutal.

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 7 months ago

This is not suspicious at all. Just regular business man doing business man things. Move along citizen.

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Basically title. I waited on installing F droid for a long time because my phone threw many scary warnings when I tried a long time ago. But now I have it, and I got some fossify apps, but since there is no "Editor's Picks" on F- droid I dont really know where to go from here.

What apps do you recommend I install first to remove my dependence on closed ecosystems?

What is my vulnerability surface ie, which sort of apps should I watch out for?

Are there any bad faith companies in the open source sphere?

[-] [email protected] 60 points 9 months ago

whats with the book writing thing? First I'm hearing about it.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

lmao mental image of Daniel Craig riding someone piggyback in a tuxedo and holding a silenced pistol

[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago

Bruh a single dude made this over 10 years and shipped this all by himself. And that too on a total budget of 70k. I'm just glad this wasn't just outright abandoned.

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Does anyone here use any Open-Source Workout Trackers? I've been using hevy, but their high fees, the fact that they are a company that holds my health data and has made no commitments to open source, User privacy, or fair trade practices like user data import/export has me looking around. I wanted to see if anyone had reliable open source alternatives.

Tell me your workout tracking stories here! Tell me what you liked and what you disliked.

[-] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago

Anybody got a link to "The Facebook Papers"?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Is using Voyager giving Chrome an opportunity to harvest user data? I'll take whatever you know about the Voyager dependence on chrome.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago

And the traffic doesn't go to reddit, which is exactly what we want.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The beacons are lit; Gondor calls for aid!

[-] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago

Contribute even more by closing the browser and not buying anything from this shithole of a company.

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Useful because now you'll be able to tell that something is human-generated instead of AI-generated, and content creators and people with a large public presence will now be able to police their own likeness being used by randos.

Scary both because now whistleblowers or reporters could get their cover blown because the image has metadata linking them to it; or they could strip off this metadata and get the evidence dismissed entirely as fraudulent; and also because of the possibility that any regulatory government body that enforces C2PA will also determine what is real and what is not, meaning anyone on the inside will be able to generate AI content and pass it off as real to the vast majority of the population.

Can't help but think they shortened it to C2PA instead of CCPA because of the similarity in acronyms of the latter and the big bad no-privacy country.

What do you think? Non-issue, Slightly concerning, or apocalyptic?

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