trackcharlie
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- Comment on Pornstars: "we agree" 9 months ago:
Sure, just opt away from anything that’s created by artists and you’re good.
However I was specifically positing an option outside of the sex work industry that doesn’t have a significant history of drug abuse, sexual abuse, worker abuse, and overall unhealthy precedents.
- Comment on Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln, WSJ reports 9 months ago:
At what point are these fucking conglomerates to god damn big?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 9 months ago:
Rimworld, palworld, armored core vi, ready or not, cp2077 and metro
- Comment on Pornstars: "we agree" 9 months ago:
2d means no consent necessary and no worries beyond artist mistreatment or underpayment by the publisher.
Which is a molehill compared to the mountain of issues in the actual sex work industry.
- Comment on Dude, where’s my self-driving car? The many, many missed deadlines for a fully autonomous vehicular future. 9 months ago:
Engineers at tesla do great work. Elon is a completely incompetent moron who has no fucking idea what he’s talking about, please stop using what he says as ‘gospel’ for what the company and its products can and can not do.
The literal only reason he’s CEO of tesla right now is because he fucking bought the position
- Comment on Tesla worker killed in fiery crash may be first ‘Full Self-Driving’ fatality 9 months ago:
“Drunk driver dies in tesla”
- Comment on Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform 9 months ago:
Has this “journalist” been in a coma since twitters purchase? One of the first things done was the removal of ‘elonjet’ and a plethora of elon critics
- Comment on Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi 9 months ago:
The concept of TPM has been a joke since inception.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
The irony of you indicating me as the one being pedantic is seriously hilarious.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
A tool is just that, a tool.
Just because what you consider immoral or moral individuals use it doesn’t change the inherent nature of the tool to be used for specific circumstances. You’ll also notice I didn’t put any deterministic language when describing a penetration tester, because regardless of what side of the law they’re on they’re still cybersecurity professionals, it’s just that one side happens to pay better.
A knife can be used to dissect as well as it can be used to mutilate or even vivisect. How a tool is used is determined by the user not the creator.
Complaining that a few people use the item for nefarious purposes when the majority of problematic cases are issues at the developer level for the items being affected (i.e. vehicles) is extremely short sighted. Are you going to restrict all PC’s because they can be used for network intrusion?
Are you going to limit access to the internet because the freely available information can teach anyone to create a dirty bomb?
The premise of your outlook is inherently erroneous in my opinion.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
Direct quote from flipperzero.one:
Flipper Zero Multi-tool Device for Geeks Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware, and more. It’s fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.
Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks
multi-tool for pentesters
pentesters
Pentester or penetration tester is a cybersecurity professional that can be located on red team (offence) or blue team (defence) and works to determine potential vectors for attack that need to be rectified or exploited, depending on who they’re working for and what their goals are for their employer.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
If you have experience and effective training browsing the dark web, there are several examples of your concerns already coming alive.
Bot farms have levelled up to ai farms, with various models being made as ‘specialist’ ai’s for things like credit card theft, network intrusion, malware, etc, and from when I last looked into it a few months ago they had already moved on to attempt to get all the specialists to start training general purpose ai’s.
Things are not looking particularly great and I would posit if AGI does happen in our lifetime it’s not going to be because anyone alive actually intended that to happen, but the criminals running a wide variety of specialists train a general purpose ai with intentions to use it for easy money.
I usually chirp back with ‘nothing we have now is really AI’ but I can’t seriously take that view with some of the things being tested by some criminal organizations these days and there’s not really a way to stop this from happening.
- Comment on AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ 9 months ago:
As someone with military experience, military members, especially flag officers, are not the brightest bulbs in the world and are easily awed by extremely simple tech demonstrations.
It’s already too late, make sure you’ve got your favorite food and beverages ready because several countries already have autonomous weapons being live tested in the middle east, and from my understanding of the situation, the new jets already have some hilariously incompetent AI in them (in testing, the air force contractor that was in control kept giving ethical barriers to objective completion and the ai went to kill the controller to more easily complete the objective…)
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
So, rather than hold automakers accountable for not having proper and effective security practices you focus on a tool designed for security professionals.
This take is so unbelievably brain dead I’m surprised these people are able to breathe without machine assistance
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 9 months ago:
Are you being intellectually dishonest or are you actually missing the point?
- Comment on Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages 9 months ago:
And these companies will pay a small fine and continue doing it anyway
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ 9 months ago:
Unless each one of those “A’s” stands for “ASS”, I beg to differ.
- Comment on [Politics] Have phobia, will travel 9 months ago:
This chart’s not wrong but I’d posit ‘muslims’ have been an easy go-to since 9/11.
- Comment on Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record 9 months ago:
We could have a functioning cold fusion reactor tomorrow and it’ll never see public use because the pieces of trash that run the oil industry still have an iron grip on all the politicians worldwide.
- Comment on Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes 9 months ago:
Can’t wait to see this do literally nothing to curb the problem while also insuring people using AI for legitimate research get fucked by morons that don’t understand the technology.
There are already laws against slander and revenge porn, and these images would fall under both.
- Comment on America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it. 9 months ago:
This is a ridiculous propagandist article.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Sold Out, At Least For Pre-Order 9 months ago:
I bet it was scalpers
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
Again, it’s the pursuers responsibility to prove damages.
Pro se and wait.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
Anyone know how the plugin developer responded?
Would be dope if the response was ‘Fuck you, prove it’
- Comment on Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content 9 months ago:
Then you should work on your reading comprehension.
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 9 months ago:
Air force denies actual casualty and claims it was ‘only a simulation’, still problematic, assuming it stopped at a simulation: theguardian.com/…/us-military-drone-ai-killed-ope…
You didn’t ask for it but these are the drones that pick their own targets: npr.org/…/a-u-n-report-suggests-libya-saw-the-fir…
- Comment on Veteran Videogame Analyst: Subscription growth has flattened [in video games] 10 months ago:
Gotta love when people start making shit up in order to do a ‘gotcha’. Especially when they usually don’t read any additional materials to back up their incompetent viewpoints.
I am personally against subscription models and prefer to pay for a product but I’m not going to just ignore the benefit that sub models have provided to the industry.
- Comment on Venus by Tuesday 10 months ago:
You can’t use logic with these people, they’ll try to burn you for being a witch.
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 10 months ago:
I mean he can have his opinion on this, I do personally agree, but it’s way too late to try and stop now.
We’ve already got automated drones picking targets and killing people in the middle east and last I heard the newest set of US jets has AI integrated so heavily that they can opt to kill their operator in order to perform objectives
- Comment on Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term 10 months ago:
No shit?
That’s why these companies need to be taxed heavier in order to cover basic necessities and reeducation of the workforce using UBI.
