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New comment by ohso4 in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

ohso4 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:23:37 +0000

If you run it through originality.ai, you'll see that bits of it are his writing, some is mixed and some is just ai. This blog post everyone is discussing is also written with ai.

New comment by ohso4 in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

ohso4 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:11:39 +0000

if there's 0.00% similarity for canvas, then I think there would be some issue with the letterboxing. You shouldn't resize your tor window from 1400x900. Tor pretends it's windows, so I don't know why it would do that for the useragent.

I've always used it inside of whonix, and when I tested it, it seemed like everything was fine.

When you disable js you need to do so by setting tor to Safest.

The font list should be spoofed by tor?

Anyway, you can fix all of that just by using whonix and setting tor to safest.

New comment by ohso4 in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

ohso4 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:42:44 +0000

> Ironically, the more fine tuned and hardened your device, OS, and browser are for security and privacy, the worse your fingerprint liability becomes.

1. You could (however, I doubt the effectiveness) use something like brave which tries to randomize your fingerprint.

2. You could "blend in with the crowd" and use tor.

New comment by ohso4 in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

ohso4 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:40:23 +0000

Plugins are an issue themselves. They're used for fingerprinting too!

New comment by ohso4 in "Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting"

ohso4 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:39:17 +0000

check out https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

There really is no way to combat fingerprinting, other than using Tor on the "safest" mode. <- which disables javascript and some other stuff.

otherwise, you're fingerprintable.

also, check out https://demo.fingerprint.com/playground

New comment by ohso4 in "Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI"

ohso4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:04:50 +0000

It's a 70b model, Medium 2 was 70b.

https://xcancel.com/arthurmensch/status/1920136871461433620#...

New comment by ohso4 in "Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18"

ohso4 — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:04:32 +0000

How exactly do they think that parents can ban it? You can just ask ChatGPT to become a social companion.

New comment by ohso4 in "Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown"

ohso4 — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:54:04 +0000

> Apple’s obsession with privacy and security is the reason most of us don’t think twice to scan our faces, store bank account information or share our real-time location via our phones.

Uh do you have any freaking idea of what happens with your location data? bank account information is a matter of security. So is face ID data.

New comment by ohso4 in "GPT 4.5 level for 1% of the price"

ohso4 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:15:13 +0000

Lmarena.ai is a very accurate eval (with stylecontrol). Other benchmarks like AIME and whatever can be trained on/optimized for and therefore should not be trusted. Most ai companies do something fishy to boost their benchmark scores.

New comment by ohso4 in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

ohso4 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 02:46:07 +0000

> Users don’t pay for Chrome. There aren’t ads in Chrome. There is no direct business model for Chrome. Unlike Safari and Firefox, nobody writes checks to Chrome to make a certain search engine the default.

They track you. There IS a business model for Chrome: monetizing user data.

New comment by ohso4 in "Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)"

ohso4 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:28:27 +0000

This article is ridiculous. She is advocating for privacy on instagram?

article doesn't convince you of anything

and you cannot have privacy on social media. Don't advocate for privacy if you can't even get off of instagram.