FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@eater whatsapp (signal by meta)

signal is just a conspiracy by big telephone to get extremely online people to actually tell their friends their phone numbers

#wikifinds “This article is about the motorcycle. For the synthesizer, see Yamaha DX100 (synthesizer).”

what is a girl? a hopeful little pile of dreams

clever move of Google here to release a product that does the same thing that another company is currently in the middle of multiple lawsuits because they made a product do it

https://g.co/bard/share/594c4369fac8

GEE I WONDER IF GOOGLE BARD GENERATES COPYRIGHTED IMAGES

god i love midi as a medium for distributing music. every playback is an arrangement: unless the author wrote the piece for the specific device you have, it won't sound exactly the same, and that's cool! interesting things can happen. sometimes bad, sometimes wonderful.

i'm reading about how occlusion culling works in godot and it doesn't reflect the state of the art. rather than just computing a hierarchical z-buffer and performing culling on the GPU, it requires you to setup extra occluder geometry and rasterizes it on the CPU using embree. that requires a lot of extra effort compared to the HZB solution, and makes it impossible to use raytraced geometry as occluders.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/3d/occlusion_culling.html

Incredible reporting by Swiss media looking at Spyhide, a stalkerware made in Iran, which we exposed last year as a phone spyware operation snooping on tens of thousands of unknowing victims. NZZ speaks with a victim to explore the human cost of phone spyware.

via @maia

https://www.nzz.ch/gesellschaft/wenn-der-schatz-auf-handy-mitliest-wie-eine-schweizerin-von-ihrem-partner-mit-iranischer-spyware-ausspioniert-wurde-ld.1775351

Spyhide had victims all over the world, including in the United States, tens of thousands with no knowledge their phones were spying on them.

After @maia uncovered the secretive Spyhide operation, the Iranian developers rebranded as Oospy in a last-minute attempt to save the spyware operation. The spyware makers used PayPal accounts to make money from paying customers. PayPal was notified, those accounts were shut down, and Oospy dropped offline — for good.

"Won't it be amazing what tech we'll have in the future?"

It's amazing what tech we have NOW. It's just all unaffordable, inequitable, locked behind a never-ending subscription, built to fail, and/or data mining and advertising disguised as a product.

The tech isn't the problem, and the next round of advancements isn't going to free us.

Important discovery related to LongCovid: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 virus can reassemble into "zombie" complexes (XenoAMP-dsDNA) and induce a major and sustained immune response, affecting healthy, uninfected cells, not seen with common cold coronaviruses

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300644120