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OctaMurk posted:Lmao this is more cyberpunk than cyberpunk 2077 As I've said to people on Twitter talking about this, I respect their dedication to turning the world into Shadowrun but wish they'd have started with creating elves. It's such a top to bottom terrible idea it's hard to imagine how anyone supporting it could have any goal besides corporate sovereignty completely beyond the reach of nation states.
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Space Gopher posted:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/big-techs-car-obsession-is-all-about-taking-eyes-off-the-road/ quote:What’s at stake, essentially, is something even more valuable than profitability: the last unclaimed corner of consumers’ attention during their waking hours. And we all know where this is headed.
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The Lone Badger posted:They've already got attention-sensing tech to make sure your eyes are on the road, they can repurpose it so the cars will pull over if your eyes aren't watching the screen. I seem to remember Microsoft having patents involving tracking position and eye motion to figure out what ads people looking at, and speculation that this was the real driver of the xbone originally requiring the Kinect to be connected even when voice control is disabled. I wasn't expecting to find a more odious use for that tech, but I realize that was a lack of imagination on my part. Dirk the Average posted:And it's even funnier because monopolizing the attention of people on roads to serve ads has been the point of advertisement on vehicles, billboards, radios, store signs, and god knows what else for hundreds of years. It's not a new idea, and yet here we have morons trying to reinvent the wheel and selling it as a new groundbreaking innovation. People have stopped listening to the radio and many areas ban billboards.  Wonder how many people, if this tech becomes common, will end up rooting their car. And if cars will allow ads to override volume settings or the off switch. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 21:15
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CommieGIR posted:Github's new 'AI' driven coding project, Copilot, is basically stealing people's code: The thing that gets me about this is how does Microsoft not foresee it causing problems for them? There are absolutely open source projects backed by orgs with the resources to sue MS. And who knows what happens if some junior dev uses it to accidentally insert something malicious into a DoD project.
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Jul 8, 2021 15:31
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CommieGIR posted:Its worse than that, apparently some people are getting it to spit out proprietary code that is from private githubs that they host, which means they are training it on even private code. On further investigation it has also spat out working API keys. Good god, Microsoft.
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The one upside to deepfaked voices is video games allowing me to name my character again, so I can force the NPCs to address me and each other as Moistholio and Wolf Yiffenstein. I might have posted this before but that's because I think about it a lot. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Jul 15, 2021 21:00
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BiggerBoat posted:... This already happened with AOC, though it was photoshopped still images. It got debunked by a wikifeet editor who did an in depth comparison with a photoshoot where she was wearing sandals. We're talking angles of individual nails, proportion of toe segments, serious in-depth analysis. This is the world we live in and it's only gonna get dumber. If the tech is easy enough that you can generate convincing video from the average Facebook account, it wouldn't surprise me if there were paid services to distribute counter fakes. Like, someone posts revenge porn accurately depicting your micro penis so you pay this service to distribute a version with a magnum dong to muddy the waters. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 17:40 on Jul 16, 2021 |
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Motronic posted:Non-bluetooth replacement boards will be available on aliexpress before the first of these tools even make it into port. I'm putting my money on there being some physical hack that doesn't even require a replacement board, and nerdy college kids paying for beer and weed by doing it for small timer contractors and DIY randos.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:38
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Devor posted:https://twitter.com/jchervinsky/status/1421150358680788995 From the follow ups: quote:13/ Second, it'll be a huge foreign policy failure. CRUCIAL
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silence_kit posted:*follows statement with lengthy post containing a moral justification for piracy* The morality of piracy is basically irrelevant because people are going to do it, and more people do it the more annoying it is to get media legally. You could prove conclusively from first principles that it's wrong wrong wrong and it won't change jack poo poo. TheScott2K posted:Literally the only way to see the pre-1997 Star Wars trilogy in a format better than a letterboxed laserdisc is to pirate it. Until the media cartels do a better job with preservation than the pirates, they can go scream into their pillow about piracy. There are also tons of niche/cult movies that are tough to find. Like, stuff that was only ever released on tape, or as a DVD where the subtitles crap out partway through. I wish more companies would toss their single country properties onto streaming services and crowdsource the subtitles, but I have no idea what can be done about owners and creators all being defunct/dead.
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Aug 9, 2021 15:24
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withak posted:It’s the demo whose workplace provides food to help keep them at the office longer. I suspect a lot of people break the rule as a matter of routine, and landlords not only know it plan around using it to strongarm tenants into leaving when it's convenient for the landlord, and/or denying return of deposits.
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Sep 3, 2021 19:27
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There Bias Two posted:Does a car even come with a terms of service agreement that can be retroactively modified? Thinking about it, I can only see three possibilities: 1. Existing cars will need to be updated. I don't see much chance this will use the same wavelength as the remote start fob itself so you should be able to wrap aluminum foil around the relevant antenna and keep the functionality 2. Existing cars came with a built in timer that will disable the remote start, and concealed that from the user. This seems like the fastest route to losing a law suit. 3. Existing cars will be grandfathered.
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Dec 15, 2021 16:35
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KozmoNaut posted:Same, I don't have the picture all around me, so I don't need the sound all around me. I respect this perspective, but I wanna point out that even if I hadn't been reading the audiophile thread for years you'd be telling on yourself here lol.
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Jan 18, 2022 16:16
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KozmoNaut posted:Telling on myself by advising people to spend their money in a smarter way? I'm just joshing you. I read the post and thought "this person thinks hard about audio" then saw the username and went "oh." 
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Baronash posted:Just from looking up "phillips electric toothbrush," it doesn't seem to have an app or wifi/bluetooth, but it does have a pressure sensor and a timer. Folks in the twitter comments say they see an antenna in that picture though, so This plus economy of scale. If you aren't one of the heavy hitters you buy whatever's cheapest that will do the job, because the alternatives involve fabricating your own boards. You have to spread that cost across a looooot of units to get a sane final price point.
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Feb 10, 2022 17:27
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Baronash posted:For something like this, where there are significant space constraints, is that still something you just find off the shelf? Do I flip through a catalog and find ARM Cortex M0 Chipset +Speaker +Bluetooth and choose whether I want the 15mm, 20mm, or 30mm wide board? As far as I know, yes. It might affect how you design the toothbrush but I literally have a single board computer in my desk drawer that would fit in a toothbrush.
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Feb 10, 2022 17:52
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:that is way slower than a person taking orders and i wonder how it would deal with higher levels of background noise I suspect the downfall will be foreign accents, and probably also correcting mistakes. Listening to keywords is easy, but figuring out statements like "I want the burger, the number 2, not the big mac, just a regular burger. But the whole meal, with coke." requires actually understanding the syntax. If the syntax/grammar is wonky because english is the person's fourth language, all bets are off.
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knox_harrington posted:I want to know what mind control juice they're using to get bazingas thinking a Model Y is a good looking car. Do any crossovers actually look good?
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Ulta posted:If it’s true, that’s a classic case of only testing “sunny day” scenarios and/or rely on line coverage for your unit test. Code bugs are like real bugs, if you see one, there’s many more hiding. All non trivial code has bugs. If you think a codebase doesn't that means it's not tested anywhere near well enough. What's mind-blowing with this bug is that there's two loving conditions checked. They could have brute force tested all combinations because they're countable on one loving hand. If this code has unit tests and those tests didn't catch that issue, everyone involved should be forbidden from touching computers ever again. quote:portrait (n.) Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Mar 18, 2022 |
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They should go the google route, where there's multiple competing chat apps AND chat functionality built into multiple non-chat apps. You could have parallel conversations in Teams, Skype, and Excel!
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Mega Comrade posted:For me VSC is in this weird place of not being light enough as a code editor or feature rich enough as an IDE. I imagine there's devs out there where it's perfect. I've seen tons of people swear by it. But I'm a C# dev and would have to be a moron to use VSC instead of VS. But even if I'm wrong and it's a solution in search of a problem, it's still not lovely in the specific ways Teams is lovely. Electron apps are unlikely to be as lightweight as a traditional desktop program can be, but Teams has to be doing something next level dumb because holy poo poo.
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Deltasquid posted:It's money laundering using art, except tech bros think they can cut out the middle man (the artist) Yeah, and a lot of folks attempted this using art they didn't actually have rights to.
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Mister Facetious posted:This is why i bit the bullet and went with YouTube premium instead of Apple music on my iPhone; the removal of YouTube ads to go with it. I use Newpipe. It's a free, open source YouTube app without ads. And it can play with the screen off.
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Mister Facetious posted:The results also give you some of the videos multiple times, and not in a row, either. I typically google for youtubes rather than use the yt search. It produces vastly better results, which is loving bizarre to me.
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shrike82 posted:i've always wondered about the employee psychology behind that mindset - there's a divide between tech employees that buy into the "we're on a mission to change the world" tech cult and the hyper-cynical folks that are just there for the paycheck Some people are wired with a stronger conformity instinct, and cheerfully subsume their will in the company culture.
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I had to take one of those back in the day that got weirdly specific and elaborate with the psychopath thing. Like, "you see a coworker steal an item worth less than a dollar. You know she is a single mother and struggling financially. What do you do?" It psyched teenage me out and I decided it was an honesty test. I did not get the job.
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Clarste posted:Probably like lung cancer from the dust or something? Also some cops died in the towers themselves.
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HelloSailorSign posted:Quick, get a linux user in here. quote:Fun Unix prank: put files on someone's system with names that have bytes that (if interpreted as text) have newlines, spaces, invalid unicode sequences, valid but not normalized unicode codepoints, and some invisible codepoints
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Crain posted:The "Art Industry" is big gently caress nuts right now. I really want to find some articles or videos going into it but most that I can find are disguised advertising for celeb pop painters, only talking about Banksy, or still rooted in the 70-80s market. I hear that a lot of the failson wall banana type art selling for big dick prices is really a money laundering exercise. Confirm/deny?
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CommieGIR posted:Just put Ubuntu on it, don't listen to the haters. Or Mint. It's basically just Ubuntu with another layer between the user and Canonical's weird decisions.
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His Divine Shadow posted:That's why they're bad IMO. Allows akward nerds to forego even more human interaction. If interacting with minimum wage employees makes an appreciable difference to their social skills, they have bigger problems.
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Blut posted:"may perform rolling stops" I honestly can't decide which would be worse: they got regulatory approval for a plan that literally says "we're gonna break the law," or if they didn't.
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abelwingnut posted:i am not a front end dev or server side guy at all. so if not js, then what? JavaScript is intended for front end dynamic content. Just about any traditional language would be better for backend. Literally the only upside of backend JS is that JS is ubiquitous enough that devs are easy to find.
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The Twitter person isn't covered by HIPAA. It's explicitly only for healthcare providers, insurance companies, etc. And you can't violate your own privacy under the law. I assume you were joking, but a lot of people don't understand those details. Like, if I randomly find your medical file on the side of the road and post on the internet that you take boner pills and horse laxatives, I'm not violating HIPAA.
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Yeah, for a while now google has been next to useless for anything that's not on one of the major site-as-platform sites. Unless you're looking to buy something. Whether the latter is because the commerce sites have an incentive to out-optimize or that's just what Google cares about unfucking is unclear. But when I get those trash results I switch to duckduckgo or bing. Also I have a browser extension that lets me blacklist specific sites from showing up in search results. Otherwise it's loving impossible to find pictures that don't have stock image watermarks, or game walkthrough type stuff the isn't a literal copy paste of the same two sites.
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cat botherer posted:Always been surprising to me that they didn't think about metal fatigue with the Comet. That had to have been relatively well known, with how its a constant thing with any kind of metal objects undergoing large enough strain cycles. Serious question: Did they not think about it, or just fail to model exactly where, how, and when it would start to be a problem? I could imagine reinforcement being added in one problem spot creating a new problem spot, for example.
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Meaty Ore posted:I'm not in the tech sector, but isn't security part of the reason banks and government agencies run so much old computer stuff? Being more difficult to hack because nobody knows/studies/uses this stuff anymore, or something like that? It's a benefit but it's essentially never a consideration in management decisions, ime. If you're moving billions of dollars around that's plenty of incentive for a criminal to buy a book on Cobol off eBay.
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So what happens if you wrap the cell module in aluminum foil, or disconnect it entirely?
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Watching YouTubers hack scammers and return money and DNS based ad blocking won't stop stuff like youtube ads, but it will handle most other stuff. You can point your phone at one of several such public DNS services, or you can set up self-hosted ad blocking DNS like pihole on your home network, and have your phone VPN into that network. I did the latter. It's mildly irritating on occasion, but most of the time I don't even think about it. I just don't see ads, even in-app ones. There are public block lists of varying sanity on GitHub and the like. Setting everything up is fairly easy, to the point of being a decent excuse to learn Linux basics. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Jul 14, 2022 |
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