bonton89

I actually think AI is going to wreak economic havoc, usher in whole new levels of surveillance capability to completely crush effective political dissent and launder copyright away from small entities to large powerful ones. For your average person, it will be a net loss.

But banning open models won't prevent any of that, it will just make the effects worse and leave people even more helpless to understand or tackle them. And it will remove much of the actual utility AI can provide individuals leaving us with nothing but braindead corpospeak models that refuse to tell you how to sue a corporation and won't even let you generate anything might run afoul of a large entities copyright. Literally worse than doing nothing would be consolidating this mess all under lobotomized corporate control.

Because corporations and state level actors have huge monetary power and/or monopolies on violence and can do everything some guy in basement can do as well.

Aren't bluetooth and wifi typically on the same module these days?

The worst interference problem I've heard of is how USB 3.0 uses 2.4ghz and therefore can cause problems with devices connected with it.

Unfortunately, most people wouldn't care enough to put up with any extra friction, and eventually you'd be against the tide and increasingly locked out of interacting with modern society.

I mean, people apparently willingly upload pictures of their driver's license to facebook already.

I guess mac address tracking is better than the facial recognition method K-Mart was using.

Reminds me of the guy who created rolling traffic jams on google maps by pushing around a wheelbarrow full of phones.

btrfs has checksums as well.

The lack of 3D paravirtual devices is a real sore spot in kvm. To my knowledge, virgl still isn't quite there but is all there is so far in this space. VMware has the best implementation IMO and everything else is a step down.

Paying will at best temporarily stop ads, until the company wants more money and brings them back. Which we've already seen. And it will not stop aggressive user tracking at all. In fact, it will make the later worse for you on the individual level as it requires doxing yourself to pay and sorts you into the "has money" bucket which makes you a juicier target.

I've always seen these called inline couplers but only in the context of RJ45 and RJ11 for some reason.

I still use some tech subs but I used to dumbscroll the main page for inane things to laugh at. What was on there changed over time and it was well past the high point, but maybe a year or six months ago I just couldn't do it. The stuff you describe was always part of the /r/all mix but now that is all there is. There's nothing fun on there anymore, at all.

lemmy is probably to left leaning for my taste but at least the main page still has lots inane and funny things as well as more of a tech focus.

Some of them just detect your IP and dump you in an endless loop. Sort of like a captcha shadow ban. I suppose they might let you through after 30 loops or something, but only a bot would last that long.

They should just ask you for money to prove you're human. If robots could be duped into buying useless crap off the internet they wouldn't care about humans in the first place.

Yes, no more offline mode shuffle and dealing with saves getting out of sync.

Definitely agree on the all over the place metrics for AMD. This is somewhat complicated by the chipset. The x570 chipset actually used like 7-8 extra watts over the x470 by itself because the repurposed i/o die turned into a chipset was the idle power using part of the CPU.

Different motherboards and settings are sort of a hidden factor in this in general it seems.

In the US I'd just assume that app was hoovering up everything they could, selling it to data brokers and then giving me a small cut back.

I'm quite often waiting in line for self checkout. In theory people with only a few items go through, in practice people will sometimes go crazy with it. And of course some customers can be quite slow or get hung up so it isn't really predictable.

Drives me nuts to wait to take care of myself. I think they should give you a scanner gun you walk around the store with, then I can just leave.

You can probably figure out most people's default phone number by googling their name and going to one of those crappy white pages sites. Then try to login/do a password reset to their services and compare the masked phone number to the ones on the site. No advanced hacking or special channels required.

The trouble with compartmentalizing with a separate phone is that the company with your money probably also sold your secret phone number (that they only required for security) so it will probably also show up on that whitepages site.

I prefer TOTP for privacy and control reasons, but I think you're overselling the disadvantages of SMS here. If you have to find and pay an inside guy to do SIM swaps, they'll be limited in the number they can do before getting caught so it really will only be suitable to do targeted attacks on targets you're pretty sure have something worth stealing.

There was a DND that talked about how sim swaps used to be a cakewalk over the phone social engineering exercise but were now kind of expensive to pull off and required a man in a physical location, with T-mobile remaining the easiest target. The black hat guy they were talking to said his first steps were finding a target worth swapping, usually some one that bragged a lot about bitcoin or some other crypto currency on twitter. And getting the phone number was usually really easy to do with a combination of OSINT and abusing the fact services will give you a partially masked phone number when you try to login.

Extremely rich, maybe. But since the value of a person's data goes up with their income just having the ability to pay extra won't save you.

Could you briefly explain the process and any hang ups you have to deal with?

They'll sell the data to potential employers so they can avoid hiring people that may have expensive diseases to treat.

They're more like predators. First they start peaking in your windows and photographing you on your way to work which is already creepy, but that's never enough. Eventually they'll break into your house and start riffling through your underwear drawer and looking through your trash. And they'll just keep escalating.

Always use a fake name, like we taught kids to do on the internet in the 1990s!

It looks like the best method only found 11. It looks like 17 is the total amount of cameras they found using all methods. Pretty crap really. The advanced lens detector was the most effective and only found a third of them.

The only method I can think of that might work is one of those media sniffing dogs the cops have, which is super impractical obviously.

How do you reliably find cameras?

Even Star Trek had a World War 3 that destroyed most of the human population before rationality finally prevailed.

Capitalists increasingly want to sell you, or rather all info they have about you, to anyone that will pay for it. And they'll happily sell or just give it to law enforcement as well as people who want to sell you stuff.

Is the Windows store popular now? Aside from Microsoft dog fooding I didn't get the impression it was very much used even after all these years.

If you bought a Rift before facebook purchased them I wouldn't call it boiling the frog, more like being stabbed in the back. Not much to do there but sell your device but I guess most people probably hoped things would turn out differently than they did. This is one of the most infuriating parts of America now, if you hate a company and never want to interact with them some merger comes along and throws you into being their customer again against your will.

Of course, OP owns a Quest 3 so its more cut and dry there.