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zx8080··on I wish tech companies knew more about me
What a naive take. The data collected by them is not there to serve you better with music or news!

You are not their client. And never been. And will never be.

Banks, credit unions, advertisers, insurance companies and the local and federal police. That's some of their clients.

zx8080··on The Hackintosh Reborn
It's the point at which I honestly don't want any of the popular available OS/hardware for my own machine: windows is ad hell (and quality also), macos goes towards touch ui hell (and updates always break more than I would expect), linux update always break major features I use on my current laptop (sleep and hibernation), and the complexity of setting up hybrid gpu setup: i really DON'T want or need to use nvidia gpu for rendering my desktop! But there'll be no external display output without enabling nvidia gpu all-time. Sad state of the drivers quality from the top-10 tech company of today (nvidia) for the most popular professional OS (linux)! Battery life is 2h on linux (30% of the expected). Windows 10 works fine 6h on the same machine!

What to set up?

zx8080··on Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again
> robots on wheels.

Robots owners got big bucks which means power. They need ROI, not sidewalks (also, guess do they use sidewalks or cars?).

zx8080··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
For who?
zx8080··on Full Disk Encryption on Fedora with TPM2
For your own safety, don't use TPM! It's most probably like a Trojan horse.
zx8080··on Is this the new cyber normal?
> Two different security teams, one from California security company Calif (as part of OpenAI’s “Patch the Planet” program) and another from Israeli-U.S. cloud security company Wiz (they’re part of Google Cloud, apparently), both found these two Remote Code Execution (RCE) bugs in PHP.

Am I the only surprised that Google and OpenAI do not care to allow time to patch this before releasing it in the wild?

zx8080··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
Of course it should be connected! Must be! How else would a manager sell customers data in real time to anyone who wants to buy it?

It's so boring to just sell fridges, let's spy on customers and sell that data! /s

Sad world of greedy things.

The shit will go on until those who makes such decisions start going to jail regularly.

zx8080··on Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs
One of those "temporary workarounds" that live forever once added?
zx8080··on Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs
It's probably about power. Certs control is getting higher value, so control over this policy means more negotiation power with whatever states (governments) need from platforms.

It's easy to imagine something like: "give us some grant taxpayers money and we'll add your cert to our trusted list/remove theirs cert/disable cert when run on this hardware/etc."

zx8080··on Android apps running native on macOS
It's not a bug, it's PR!
zx8080··on Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action
I'm curious. That's the class action from US residents. Would this thing effectively force Verisign to overcharge those purchasing .com domains from outside of the US (while lowering the price for those inside the US)?
zx8080··on Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit
> TLS, which rejected the record with bad record mac.

Does TLS (transport layer) not have any retry logic? Could someone explain please?

zx8080··on LineageOS 24
Why would someone want android with crappy apps comparing to linux on the old laptop?
zx8080··on Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
> not helping

It does! It helps getting promotion with tokenmaxxing.

zx8080··on What mathematicians should know about the Lean Theorem Prover: reliability & AI
Beware: "This is a guest post by Thomas Hales"
zx8080··on Orkut.com
The story about stupid greedy G. managers is written by this: talk, orkut, plus, wave.
zx8080··on Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
It's because of the fear.
zx8080··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
That Chinese censorship! Oh wait..
zx8080··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Isn't both is what's happening?
zx8080··on gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer
Thanks! Edited my comment above.
zx8080··on gpuvis: GPU Trace Visualizer
Edit: dismiss my comment.

There are several links to 404 pages in credits section which makes me think this project is a total slop. Hope I'm wrong.

zx8080··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
The author just promotes his system competing with the "agents memory".
zx8080··on Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video
> expected to use a low-frame-rate camera alongside facial recognition and infrared sensors to identify people and pets around the home.

Thanks for letting us know that it's mainly the surveillance device. The advanced one.

zx8080··on Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video
Sure. It's the transcript that is stored, isn't it?
zx8080··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
Users will go use Apple. The next round of enshittification is on. As no competition with "open" anymore.

Go and vibe-code your mobile OS. Lol.

zx8080··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
That's how OKRs work!
zx8080··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
> Google does not understand the concept of a finished app

They do! They just hate it.

zx8080··on What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases
It means someone will ask 10x price for building the US lunar base.
zx8080··on There is more to code review than (automatable) detection
> I consider 99% of my "defense of the architecture" strategy to be teaching my team why the architecture is important, how to think about it, and invite they commentary on it as we own and evolve it together.

Nice way to avoid the responsibility for any team fuckup: it's not me, I only teach them, they decide themselves.

zx8080··on When did Google get so weird?
> My question is: what's the point of the AI in the search engine if it itself isn't going to use the search engine first before answering?

AI is sold well because the user either corrects it or happily accepts any answer (usually, depending if one is an expert in the question's field).

Search is not the google's area, and it is not the search they sell! They sell ads.

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