Older Gen Z, Reddit API issues.

“Cat software, dog hardware”

This right here - plenty of good android phones out there that don’t need contract financing.

Especially now that Motorola is gonna partner with GrapheneOS.

If Apple didn’t keep treating smaller developers like shit, maybe you would have more options for applications that respected your privacy and weren’t as monetized.

Consider moving away from the abusive platform and then your options for privacy and security will expand. Maybe look for a phone with GrapheneOS support (previously only Pixels, but Motorola models will come with support soon) for complete control and customization.

Reading about the ELIZA effect as well is a good way to understand how those who embrace “social norms” can be enamored by machine-generated statements without questioning them at all…

There’s more nuance than that, I’d reckon.

Especially when you see blatant misinformation and reports take a few days to process (in my experience). My instance disables downvotes, but I have a “lurker” lemmy account on another instance to see things like defederated communities from my home instance and if people are downvoting those completely detached from reality.

TAY coming back from the grave.

The wireless communication protocol will still be able to be intercepted. A physical port for data transfer will probably be too dangerous to the subject and prone to contamination (and infection).

Yeah, but the issue is intent and actual usage. I don’t want to fuck up my neck by always looking down at a 30deg angle, so I do try to view things on my phone more level with my face. I avoid pointing it directly at people, but I can’t change how others would interpret that.

Shoot, I should 3d print one for mine. I don’t use my camera for much anyway, and better protection from impacts would be nice.

Green light!

Nothing personal, but those glasses are going to come off your face and straight onto the asphalt when I get the notification.

Don’t buy meta shit.

Hmm… I wonder if there’s any solid way to detect a camera lens being in active focus or use. This app works by parsing Bluetooth traffic, but a person locally recording on their phone wouldn’t have such a trail. Is there any reliable way to detect a camera lens reading exposed light?

“I solve practical problems!”

“Don’t do meta, kids.”

Higher education =/= tech literacy, as any enterprise IT worker can tell you.

To a degree, it already is business as usual for these firms (look at their underinvestment in IT infrastructure). The issue for the self-hosting community is that not enough of the population is technologically literate enough to understand the risks of using these platforms (insert any Meta/Bytedance/Microsoft/Amazon platform here), and the critical mass of users will remain perpetually vulnerable.

With that being said, for those with the literacy required, self-hosting is a secure breath of fresh air.

Transparency increases trust, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.

Lemmy is addictive in the same way that attending a routine community center event is addictive - you’re happy to come back and see old and new faces, and contribute towards keeping the conversations going.

If you want to set up a new event (instance/community), you can do it yourself, in your own environment, without external pressure.

I would call Facebook, Reddit, IG, etc… more like a casino. You pull constant refreshes for dopamine hits, are fed a stream of ads and content that ostracises you if you don’t stay with the current trends, and have no control over your personal data or any works you create.

We’re slowly snowballing some of them here, luckily :)