@hansolo Well, don’t trust me then. I’m just a random person online after all! I’m not going to fight to prove something that I know happened, that would just be a pointless argument and a waste of time, I think.

@hansolo Well it is not one of the largest companies in the world, I can tell you that. You don’t really have to trust me (but why would I post it if that wasn’t true?)

Not in all cases actually, as is shown by this reply! Mastodon just defaults to including the @ of the person you are replying to, so they get a notification, but it works without!

@hansolo Well, I can’t really share more details without compromising the privacy of thousands of people who didn’t ask for anything! I don’t really know what else I can tell you? If the website does not fix it then I can disclose the vulnerability, but since there are accounts dating back to 2009 the code base must be super old and hard to fix so I’ll give them some time.

@CodenameDarlen It’s because I post on mastodon : My instance is furries.club (check my username) and that’s a Mastodon instance that works with hashtags to find posts. Instead of writing the same post multiple times, I use instead the 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓮𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 to write the post only once with hashtags and by tagging the Lemmy community so that it also gets posted there, and people who comment in one platform will also have their comment show up on the other platform.

@CodenameDarlen I’m glad I write well enough to be confused with AI but no, I haven’t even used any em dashes! 😉

@treatcover Well, you can run Mistral locally but my laptop is not powerful enough haha
Also, yeah, a small copy paste goes a long way!

@ageedizzle I plan on using https://chat.mistral.ai/ since it’s a completely different model that is open source and based in france so regulated by GDPR. If you still use ChatGPT but from somewhere else, it kinda defeats the purpose to switch away from it, in my opinion.

@Willdrick @BrianTheeBiscuiteer there’s a cool video on the subject at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5FbRfwMEuo

Basically you have to use a tool to delete your messages and then send a GDPR request to discord before deleting your account, otherwise your messages will stay and will appear as sent from “Deleted user” with no way to delete them.

#discord #privacy

@MasterBlaster If the company is in the EU, and they use AI to do facial recignition, that is actually illegal! See https://natlawreview.com/article/use-ai-recruitment-and-hiring-considerations-eu-and-us-companies

@This2ShallPass @themachinestops As an extension developper on Mozilla’s store, yes it’s definitely possible. There’s some automatic review process but what you state in your implicit data consent disclosure (that’s how they call it) is up to the developer.

However, the extension can’t access all websites unless you specifically allow it while installing. There’s an “All websites” permission, so if it’s that or if it includes some kind of sketchy site then it’s a bad sign.

Finally, just like any web page, you can always inspect an extension and check the network requests to see if it’s doing malicious stuff. If so, then you can report it.

But since mozilla accounts are free and only require a verified email, they could just create another one. It’s an endless game of whack-a-mole!

@MonkderVierte The thing is, since the code is running inside a browser extension there’s no way to interact with third party tools that aren’t part of the standard JavaScript api.

Well, I mean there’s Native Messaging https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native/_messaging but it only works for PC (Bye bye to ~70% of Android users) and I’d have to use a forked version to be able to handle messages from the browser extension, so I think that’s not the best solution for me

@MonkderVierte I’m afraid I can’t handle that from a browser extension, but good to know!

@geneva_convenience Elaborate?

@ShellMonkey Be careful, obfuscation isn’t encryption!
And no, there doesn’t need to be a publicly shared token! Take a look at how simplexchat does it!
https://simplex.chat/

@ShellMonkey That’s true, but these should also be encrypted, don’t you think?
Sure the messages could still be encrypted but from the metadata you can most of the time infer the content.

It’s a bit long, but you can read this if you’re interested
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1508081113