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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot the /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, an impact study is made before such type of laws are made:

  • if this law is enacted, how much will it cost to the manufacturers to update their factory settings?
  • how many users will get stuck when losing the unique ID of the device, what are the recovery procedures, how costly is it to end users?
  • how many users will be protected by the measure and what cost for society does it represent?
  • how many users will set a dumb password anyhow and what is the cost for society?

  I’d be curious to see the impact study, as many of those are actually botched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the early 90’s when fiber connection was being developed in research centers.

  Researchers had found a way to transmit all of a country’s phone calls’ bandwidth through a simple fiber cable. Then, they wondered: what could we use this for?

  This was a few years before the explosion of the internet…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What prevents you from revoking your payment mandate at your bank?

  In Europe at least, your bank must honor this request and there’s nothing your debtor can do about except spending 1000’s to recover at most 3 months of payments with the current legal apparatus in Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At CES, everything was AI, even when it wasn’t⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The product advertises its AI, the person who implemented the feature was hired as a data scientist, and the technical solution is called logistic regression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this means we can invade truth social or reddit/conservative and they won’t be allowed to ban their contradictory?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI beats human sleuth at finding problematic images in research papers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As commonly said: the product advertises it’s new AI feature. The job posting of the person who implemented it was ‘data scientist’, and the technique used is called logistic regression.

  Well, in this context, it’s more image comparison or some other simple technique not even relying on a training dataset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At one of my clients, a large institution, they go further: you’re not allowed to use the local browser’s password manager. And still have to abide by the usual password rules: rotate every 3 months, complex passwords, etc.

  As a result, users store a plain text file on their desktop (some go as far as printing it), that conveniently allows them to retrieve their passwords.

  Too much security kills security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto is very useful in defective economies such as South America to compensate the flaws of a crumbling financial system. It’s also, sadly, useful for money laundering.

  Fir these 2 uses, it should stay functional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, we’ve had autonomous trains for 3 decades now, and without ‘AI’ to make things murky. Automation in airplanes and industry is also very advanced. The key to success is not in the software, but rather in overall system design.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When the fine for littering and the cost of repair or recycling is higher than what you can recoup from this sort of lost property, it’s a win win for the police.