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Ok but you have to balance that with the risk that your PHYSICAL item will be lost, stolen, or destroyed. What happens then?

The problem is that the security protocols required to keep cryptocurrency safe are simply untenable for any mere mortal. But hey, we keep blaming the victims… because they didn’t know the one simple trick to keep their Bitcoin safe!

My carrier has a similar “scam likely” feature but afaik that is not directly tied to stir/shaken. I’ve also signed up to have calls rejected and can see them in the carrier app.

I have reported at least a thousand different scam calls over the past two years and so my blocked number list is so large it freezes the phone for a minute or so while it loads. Still the scammers persist…

The problem with that, at least on my experience with iPhone, is you can only get the authentication signal after you’ve already hung up. The only thing I see is a small checkmark next to the “location” of the call in my recent call log. I can’t find any indication of a stir/shaken status in the active call screen.

So asking people to take the step to confirm the call is legitimate won’t work- they can’t tell until they’ve already terminated the call. It’s useless for purpose imo.

When I'm dealing with an upset customer on the phone, disarming means that we can move past the "I'm pissed at you, why can't you fix your stuff" useless conversation into the "how can we help you" much faster.

In other words, disarm means the "emotional" center of the brain can safely disengage and the logical center can take over. When someone is angry, most likely, their emotions have taken over and, once that happens, you're going to spend a lot of time dealing with emotions and not moving toward a mutual solution.

Therefore, if you look at it this way, how is the pure emotional response from the aggrieved helping them get to a sort of recompense? I would argue the short answer is that it is not helping at all, it's just pure lashing out. Which, of course, could be a rational response to the situation. However, no matter how justified the aggrieved may feel in lashing out, the act of lashing out itself doesn't actually move the needle.

If I can show compassion and empathy toward the customer, including saying the simple words "I'm sorry" I'm trying to move out of the emotional state and into a logical state where we can come to some sort of agreement on the next course of action. I'm not trying to "get out" of anything, just trying to literally disengage a part of the brain that is not doing anyone any good for either party.

To your point though the apology has to be authentic. And, yes, I do empathize with the customer's anger in the moment. I've been there myself. So I can easily put myself in their shoes. Of course, as the great philosopher Daniel Tiger says, "Saying I'm sorry is the first step, now how can I help?" [0]. So unless you just want to enrage the customer further, you need to immediately follow that apology up with action - in my case, it could be escalating to the right engineering group, finding a workaround, helping identify the root cause, whatever it could be...

Hope this helps clarify. I'm in no way trying to "pull one over" anyone. I truly want to help - which is probably why it works so well.

[0] https://pbskids.org/videos/watch/saying-im-sorry-is-the-firs...

It’s all about economics. Just apply the formula: https://youtu.be/SiB8GVMNJkE

(May not be SFW depending on where you work)

It’s so refreshing when people do this and it totally disarms most people who are angry with you.

I also find it effective when talking to people that may not be angry at me specifically, but angry at the company I work for. I may not have written the code that fucked up, but I certainly can apologize on behalf of the company and empathize with the user. I’ve found when I do this I’m able to quickly get to a solution rather than degrade further into finger pointing.

“The largest armed uprising since the Civil War” is a very different situation than murdering an unarmed tech dude in his house and covering it up as a suicide.

I’m not excusing murdering civilians either way.

Murdering a us citizen on us soil is not something any enlisted or officer would do.

Also a good point. If each gallon of gasoline is equivalent to about 33kWh of energy, I could have 1.3MWh stored in two ICE powered cars. I guess it’s harder to put out a battery fire than a gas fire?

Wow. And you can park a car that has a battery with 5x the potential energy in my garage without any additional requirements? Somewhere or another the code doesn’t add up.

Why do doctors specifically need a commercial internet service with BGP?

Phones tho have a default security model which isolates apps from each other, unlike desktop OSes where each app can read anything on the system

I wonder if the truth about sifting out synthetic training data is based on signals separate from the content itself. Signals such as the source of the data, reported author, links to/from etc.

These signals would be unavailable to a plagiarism/ai detector

This sounds like a security nightmare just waiting to happen. Nothing like embedding gigantic libraries like libicu into security critical code bases so you can do things like Unicode normalization and comparison functions on usernames.

Nothing screams intrinsic value like burning enormous amounts of energy just to find a set of bits that happen to hash to a value less than a target value.

But hey at least we proved that we won the race to find said hash before someone else!

One could argue the societal harm from social media could be directly linked to mass events such as https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-..., https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00142..., and more.

The diffuse nature of the after effects of faang engineers actions make them harder to prosecute, but potentially much more devastating than even the tragedy of two airline crashes.

In that case, they should post a searchable archive of the Enron email data set (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/) as a "webmail" interface.

Did you switch efficient with less efficient in your summary?

I find your conclusions interesting, basically you’ve listed every modern “appified” experience as unsuitable for true personal growth. I’ve felt this way for a while but never put this fine a point on it.

I just had this conversation with my grandmother today. She was describing her own grandmothers house- and how huge it was. The large bedrooms, a whole room dedicated to the telephone even! The way she described it, it was a straight up mansion.

I was curious what this house looked like, so I asked the address. Looked it up on Redfin. It was less than 2400sq ft. The house she was standing in and comparing to was twice that size.

This is all well and good but as someone who just went through a renovation, the cost of labor and materials is astronomical. Yes the land is expensive too but it’s not like it was free to get construction crews out either.

So while it is a financial asset, the cost is still tied to the cost of physically constructing the thing.

Is there some way to help someone who has been defrauded by a pig butchering / romance scam to see if the individuals involved were part of this group? My hope would be to assist them in collecting some of the funds that were taken.

When the entire point of the enterprise (sky in this case) is to enable criminals, wouldn’t the enterprise itself be part of the criminal conspiracy?

I am all for privacy, but I’m also for rule of law. If I could start an encrypted messaging company that marketed exclusively to criminals, then wouldn’t I expect to be charged as abetting the crimes committed as a result of facilitating that communication?

It’s a question of intent. Law isn’t black and white- and law recognizes that tools can be dual use. It’s not perfect but nothing is.

If you enjoy this story, read the book Dark Wire which focuses on the FBI’s infiltration of Anom, another encrypted message service. It also covers sky briefly. Fascinating story

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wir...

I can't wait to see what abomination Cory Quinn can come up with now given this new primitive! (see previous work abusing Route53 as a database: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/route-53-amazons-premier-...)

Elon’s technology first approach would be… to eliminate facial recognition?

Given that you already need government issued ID that matches the name printed on your ticket to travel on an airplane, wouldn’t the government already have the ability to track you, regardless of facial recognition?

The quote is from “sneakers” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film) which is actually a fantastic film.

That is an incredible story of successful yak shaving. I have the same experience, but ultimately my attempts end in failure as I lose interest and sight of the end goal. Kudos!

Actually with 3D printers that would be a fun elementary or middle school project

One word: “enshittification” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification