RememberTheApollo
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- Comment on OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it 8 months ago:
What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there? Going to hand the keys to defense and the internet to it? What could go wrong…
- Comment on ‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded 8 months ago:
Digitally watermark the image for identification purposes. Hash the hardware, MAC ID, IP address, of the creator and have that inserted via steganography or similar means. Just like printers use a MIC for documents printed on that printer, AI generated imagery should do the same at this point. It’s not perfect and probably has some undesirable consequences, but it’s better than nothing when trying to track down deepfake creators.
- Comment on US disrupts Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated home, small business routers: DOJ 8 months ago:
This network of hundreds of Ubiquiti Edge OS routers infected with Moobot malware was controlled by GRU Military Unit 26165, also tracked as APT28, Fancy Bear, and Sednit.
Was curious what equipment the net was run on, looks like Ubiquiti Edge.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
This is how you lose. I only use FF. I will not if they enshittify with AI.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 9 months ago:
They could. But they won’t.
- Comment on Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses 9 months ago:
Even a broken clock…
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 9 months ago:
You think these clowns are going to build anything? They’re just leeches trying to make money by doing nothing other than letting computers run.
- Comment on Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record 9 months ago:
If only it were leaps and bounds closer and not just a few inches.
- Comment on These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump 9 months ago:
Yep. And that’s fine where I live because a lot of holes still run on oil heat, gas if you’re lucky.
Love to get a full heat pump system, but last quote we got was ~$30k before a $5k rebate from the state. Way out of our range. Would take a lot of years to get that back in savings vs the oil heat we have now. I really don’t like oil for a lot of reasons, environmental being own of them.
- Comment on J&J, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb spend billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D — Senate report points to greed and ‘patent thickets’ as key reasons for high prices 9 months ago:
Efficiency of capitalism is moving profits from the bottom to the top while expending the least amount of capital on products and employees.
The only people who treat capitalism like some sort of “fixer” for something like government are sycophants and the same ones that completely ignore privatization fucking over government (and the taxpayer) wirh cost overruns and wealthy executives.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 9 months ago:
Then miners would siphon off renewable energy and other more polluting sources would be used to power the remainder.
They’re not gonna build more green power supply just to help out crypto miners.
- Comment on US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text 9 months ago:
As many times as it’s come out that some service stored passwords as plaintext you’d think people would learn. People should be fired for this, unfortunately it would probably be the wrong ones.
- Comment on US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text 9 months ago:
Let’s clarify this title a little. White hat hacker found a way to see the poorly secured database containing said info. It hasn’t been stolen or found on the web, so it wasn’t “leaked” publicly in the sense that it was deliberately made available.
- Comment on Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says 9 months ago:
Let’s underfund critical security to stoke xenophobia to stri up more nationalism and feed the MIC even more money. Oh, and don’t forget to buy a personal arsenal for Doomsday!
- Comment on Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says 9 months ago:
Could we not tie critical infrastructure to the open web? I know it’s great to have these systems communicating with each other, but damn…hire some extra humans to throw the important switches and push the right buttons air gapped from the web so that some malicious actor can’t cause massive damage from halfway around the world via a few lines of code.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 9 months ago:
You can find TS NSFW images pretty easily. I searched to find some and see what the hubbub was all about and frankly it’s just the same old porn stills. It doesn’t matter that it has TS’s face on it. I guess some people get off on that sort of fantasy, but I was not impressed, but then that sort of stuff really doesn’t do much for me anyway.
- Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters 9 months ago:
I’m sure they’ll expend the effort to track the offenders down and slap them on the wrist.
- Comment on "tHeRe'$ n0 rEpL@CeMeNt FoR dIsPlaCeMeNt!!!1!!!1!!“ 9 months ago:
Reactionary Car Guys: look at the performance numbers on this ICE car! Fast! Acceleration! Wow!
EV proceeds to beat all those metrics
Reactionary Car Guys: Performance doesn’t matter!
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
Windows 11? Ads. New outlook program? Ads. Old outlook iOS app? Now injecting ads there too.
Ads are a cancer on the internet.
- Comment on 'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return 9 months ago:
Nice letter.
You coming in today or what?
- Comment on Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting 9 months ago:
A multinational company lost HK$200 million (US$25.6 million) in a scam after employees at its Hong Kong branch were fooled by deepfake technology, with one incident involving a digitally recreated version of its chief financial officer ordering money transfers in a video conference call, police said.
Everyone present on the video calls except the victim was a fake representation of real people. The scammers applied deepfake technology to turn publicly available video and other footage into convincing versions of the meeting’s participants.
Police said they were highlighting the case as it was the first of its kind in Hong Kong and involved a large sum. They did not reveal details about the company or the employees involved.
- Comment on Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint 9 months ago:
Ask the people at the counter if there’s any place you should avoid. You’re a foreigner in an unfamiliar place in the case of this article.
- Comment on Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint 9 months ago:
My point was the that labeling certain areas as “bad” can create problems, even if it’s an area known for carjacking tourists. What defines a “bad” area? Petty theft? Drug arrests? Violent crime? Homelessness? How much crime does it take to be labeled “bad”? Unfortunately a lot of those areas are tied to poverty, and all too often poverty is tied to minorities. So say we start labeling areas, now traffic is reduced and maybe it even starts impacting local businesses because people are now checking the box that says “avoid bad areas” and routes people around a place that maybe got drive thru traffic at the coffee shops or gas stations.
You can easily see how difficult this is a policy to make. I’m not dismissing the problems these people encountered, but implementing this in popular guidance apps isn’t going to be easy.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Thanks, I’ll give it a shot.
(Yep, it’s the former Reddit app)
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
Thanks for the rec, but unfortunately I’m on iOS.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 9 months ago:
I loved RSS feeds. But I’ve given up on them. And it would seem so have many of the sites I used to frequent. I read RSS offline, so right there I have a problem as the vast majority of RSS apps expect an internet connection. Sites used to write content in such a manner that it was easily readable in RSS, now they don’t. The decline in popularity of RSS has meant that after I get comfortable with an app it stops being updated and no longer works as the developer decides it’s not worth keeping up. Sites make RSS feeds harder to find, if they even have one.
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- Comment on Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs 9 months ago:
Cutting to profitability. A tired and true way to make the books look good.
(Not a typo)
- Comment on Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint 9 months ago:
Yeah, but if you start labeling neighborhoods as “bad” on a mapping program you have a different set of problems.
People need to be aware of their surroundings and not cluelessly follow programs like this.
- Comment on The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case 9 months ago:
You don’t say…