Buelldozer
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- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 4 days ago:
I wonder if I could port Petsci Robots to it.
- Comment on The Great Firewall: Massive data leak reveals the inner workings of China's censorship regime 6 days ago:
The GFW is about logging, mining, and controlling Internet traffic and data but your comment is about phone calls. These two things are only loosely related.
The article purports that the GFW is able to track electronic documents so closely that it can tie them to an actual individual. Assuming that’s true it positively refutes the notion that the GFW is “futile”. If the article and data leak are accurate then we also have proof that the GFW has the capability to detect many kinds of VPN and potentially decrypt the data streams. That is not “futile”, it’s scary AF.
Specific to phone calls you and your Aunties can chatter about whatever you like but there’s a strong possibility that those calls are being recorded, transcribed, and reviewed by automated systems for potential real world action. We know that the American NSA has this capability so it’s a near certainty that the Chinese Government does as well.
- Comment on The Great Firewall: Massive data leak reveals the inner workings of China's censorship regime 6 days ago:
But I’m not seeing any of this in the guts of the article.
It’s a 3 part series so presumably that kind of content will be coming in either Parts 2 or 3.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I’m glad the lawsuits didn’t kill them but what Kahle tried to do with “Open Library” and “Project 78” was truly insane. Admirable but insane. They absolutely had to know right from the outset that the Media Companies weren’t going to allow it to continue post-COVID.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 1 week ago:
Reolink for the cameras and deny them internet access. You can tell them to record to internal SD Card and / or setup an NVR like Frigate. If you don’t want “roll your own” headaches and have the money for it then use gear from Ubiquiti and UniFi Protect.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 1 week ago:
Which means they have to run and maintain servers.
I’d bet money that it works just like similar devices from Reolink. Local recording to SD Card or NVR. If you want cloud recording then you’re paying a monthly subscription.
This device from Aldi is at a very low pricepoint but it’s specs are garbage. 480p recording? In 2025? C’mon…
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
This is why Home Assistant exists.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 4 weeks ago:
First one to build the unconnected EV where the purchaser has admin rights (and no one else), wins the race.
Here in the United States you can already build new or convert existing gasoline vehicles to be “unconnected” and in every way except possibly the battery management doing it with an EV would actually be easier.
It does cost money and take some time but probably less of both than you may think.
- Comment on AI medical tools found to downplay symptoms of women, ethnic minorities 1 month ago:
Imagine a hallucination engine being developed globally by white men in China on data gathered by white men in India.
Wait…what?
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 month ago:
MFA is the biggest hurdle. I literally could not do my job without it.
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 1 month ago:
I want Roku to fuck all the way off with that plan.
- Comment on Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube 2 months ago:
Why does it have to be one or the other? I both read books and watch YT videos nearly every day.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
Yep, and every one of them already complies with age verification laws so as new laws are added they’re going to comply with those as well. There are very few web admins / sysops / site operators out there who are willing, or even able, to buck these kinds of national laws.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
Many fediverse hosts will make an effort to stay open by shifting their servers to countries that are out of reach of verification and law enforcement but that will only last so long.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
Why do you assume that the old school forums are going to get exempted? They are going to get on the bus or get run over by it just like everywhere else. Government has already proven that they can, and will, regulate those forums.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
The folks who build tracking / id systems would maybe need an afternoon to go from your Lemmy username to your home address. They’d need five more minutes to know your underwear size, your license plate number, and where you slept last night.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
decentralized apps, fediverse
Those apps and / or the fediverse itself would get sued into the ground and shut down one app or server at a time. There’s nothing stopping any Governments authorities from going after servers inside their borders and there’s nothing stopping them from “harmonizing” identity verification restrictions among other countries. They’ve already done it once with Intellectual Property law.
This push to de-anonymize the Internet isn’t new either. Microsoft started this back in the oughts with their Passport / Digital-ID program. Google and Meta, along with others, long ago launched their own versions and why you can sign into so many websites with a Google or Facebook account.
It’s generally referred to as IdP and now that the Internet has been fully corporatized, with minor holdouts, you can bet your bippy that the days of anonymous access are ending.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 3 months ago:
You made me do this, capitalism.
This is a problem with Government not an economic system.
- Comment on I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them 3 months ago:
Blocking vpns is tricky in a western society because so many companies cannot function without them.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
You can blame Reagan for a lot of things but not this and frankly even if it somehow was all his fault the Clinton Administration could have undone it.
The economy was already in trouble by the end of Lyndon Johnson’s final term in 1969. The Nixon Administration implemented some large changes trying to fix it but was unsuccessful. The Carter Administration also tried with very limited success. It wasn’t until the 1st Rise of Tech in the 80s during the Reagan Administration that things managed to get moving again. The Clinton Administration caught a lucky break with the 2nd Rise of Tech in the 90s so the streak got extended to right about 2001.
The amusing part is that Johnson, Nixon, and Carter bear no blame for the economic woes while Reagan and Clinton deserve no credit for the economic successes. They just happened to be the guy in the Oval when things happened.
Its a good chunk of the reason that everyone from Wall Street to the US Federal Government is trying so damn hard to make AI happen. They want a 3rd Rise of Tech, or something like it, in order to re-float the economy.
- Comment on The Prototype: One Step Closer To Fusion Power 4 months ago:
Helion is saying 2028 for their first 50MW plant.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 4 months ago:
For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)
I maintain several multi-wan commercial setups and they don’t have this problem. I obviously don’t know what your setup is but I’d guess something is wrong with how its handling flows / connections. Once a connection is established between your edge and an internet resource that flow should remain “stuck” to whatever wan port it started with and it sounds like that isn’t happening.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 months ago:
With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.
It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.
We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Streaming Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Streaming Platforms for their own games.
This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of that same industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.
Steam and GOG will end up pushed out of the market or they will also become Streaming Platforms, just ones that cater to a different set of players.
- Comment on A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections 4 months ago:
Fascists can create
We really need to get over this idea that it’s only “fascists” using AI to push their ideology. In 2025 you’d be hard pressed to find any National Government, Political Party, or Ideologically based group who is not using a metric fuckton of AI bots to distribute AIGen content in an attempt to sway elections and opinions. The IPIE report on this makes it quite plain that at least 80% of elections worldwide had problems with this in 2024.
At this point blaming this solely on “Fascists” is wilful blindness and only demonstrates that someone is living in a bubble of single-sided information.
- Comment on Russian Internet users are unable to access the open Internet 4 months ago:
Unfortunately it’s not a country with very safe windows.
Even the TCP sliding windows aren’t safe!
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 4 months ago:
This is a couple days delayed response, apologies for that I’ve been pretty busy.
With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don’t expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it’s almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.
It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don’t lend themselves well to this, yet, but it’s blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.
We’ve already reached the end of “Console Exclusive” games and I think what comes next is “Platform Exclusive” games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Platforms for their own games.
This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there’s no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of the entertainment industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 4 months ago:
There’s also the fact that the majority of Iran’s nuclear facilities were built before UHPC was available!
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 4 months ago:
Why? The kinds of UHPC being discussed in the article weren’t available even in the United States until the year 2000 but most of Iran’s nuclear facilities were built between 1974 and 2005. Even their primary enrichment facility in Fordow, which was struck with MOPs, was started no earlier than the mid-2000s as it was still unfinished in 2009.
Basically the majority of Iran’s facilities, even their major ones, are too old to have the kind of concrete being discussed in the article.
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 4 months ago:
Likely no one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next generation of consoles is the last one.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 4 months ago:
A lot of masks only work in the visible light spectrum. It’s entirely possible to “radar” images and remove them.