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- Comment on We Hunted Hidden Police Signals at the DNC 2 months ago:
What a read
This paragraph stood out to me, but the whole article is pretty distopian. It’s good to be aware of what intelligence is being gathered, and when wanted, used against us.
In one instance that Schwindt and Bromberger shared with WIRED, local police used software from Latent Wireless to locate a suspect in an office building knowing only the MAC address of the employee’s device. In another case, a robber connected to a Wi-Fi network at a local coffee shop before committing a crime. Police identified the MAC address of his device through the coffee shop’s router logs and eventually tracked him down by detecting the signal from that device as they drove around.
- Comment on Navy warship production hits 25-year low, falls behind China: report 2 months ago:
I fully agree, companies whine and complain that they can’t find any skilled labor without ever acknowledging that it’s their job to train and take risks on the newbies. Instead they just want the perfect candidate for their specialized position to be gift wrapped and at “market rate” and desperate enough to go through multiple interview stages.
Even in my job, I’ve asked over and over for them to hire a junior/apprentice that I can train up from the beginning on our complex system and work, but they just want to hire short term contractors instead. We end spending the same amount of time training them as a junior, but then 6-12 months later when their contract is up, they go off somewhere else and we have to do it all over again and never build on our foundations.
I was hired as a contractor, and stuck through until I was an employee, and I’m now 5 years in, but it was not easy. It was essentially a two year paid interview.
And most don’t make it that way. If I was hired as a real employee as a junior, and able to train my way up with the masters of my company, who knows where I’d be and how not-delayed and not-over-budget our project would be.
When I talk to business about it, they moan how employees and contractors come from different budgets and the stock market favors contractors so their hands are tied, and I call bullshit on that. It’s bad business and the solution is obvious - train up the workforce you want to have.
It’s like buying a good pair of boots once, or buying cheap boots every year.
- Comment on Navy warship production hits 25-year low, falls behind China: report 2 months ago:
To reach across the divide for a handshake:
This is something Biden and many progressives have been pushing for,
Free community college/trade schools: whitehouse.gov/…/readout-of-white-house-meeting-o…
Advanced manufacturing training and jobs in the US: whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administ…
And even pushing paid apprenticeships: whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs…
And specifically in shipbuilding and getting the workforce where it needs, both in private ships and the military, the admin is moving in the right direction, opening new shipbuilding yards, getting people to train up, and putting in ship orders whitehouse.gov/…/fact-sheet-white-house-announces…
Getting more manufacturing back in the US, becoming more self sufficient, and having dignified employment are all my goals as a progressive too, and I’m really happy there’s movement from the current administration in their areas (despite complaints in other areas)
(I used all Whitehouse links as a from-the-horses mouth source, but there are plenty of articles about each)
- Comment on Dishwashing 2 months ago:
Technically… yes
- Comment on Bang 3 months ago:
Barq’s bang barq’s lol
- Comment on Suddenly fading out of existence 4 months ago:
It stems from a conflict of need and want from what I understand.
The need for a national id and the refusal of the citizens for a national id. There was a lot of controversy about the SSN because it could be used as an id and the people didn’t want that being so privacy conscious, so they made the numbering system simple and that card fragile to show and dissuade that it isn’t a good id to get the SS passed.
But of course, there’s still a want/need for some kind of unified id across the nation - so it was used anyway
And thus we have a terrible id system: flimsy, deterministic, and mostly-unchangable
If you know the social security number of someone born in your hospital in the same day, it’s likely your ssn’s are right next to each other and could be guessed
At this point, I don’t think there would be much resistance to a national id, and it would be great for an update that is both securely random, and changeable so that leaking your SSN isn’t such a crazy risk, having it in a laminated card with a chip and electronic signature even better.
- Comment on Life By You devs spent “a month in purgatory” prior to closure, says laid-off designer, despite their sim-like exceeding Paradox's expectations 4 months ago:
Killed two weeks before launch? That makes no sense
What a sucker punch to that entire team.
I’d rather something to release than for nothing to ever come out, or if it’s not up to snuff for the publisher, for the team to go indie (like this one tried to) and still release it rather than having it be forever undercooked in a vault somewhere.
- Comment on Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
In a way, yes.
Historically, the US fought a war to not be the UK. There was an earnest attempt to enshrine freedoms to privacy and thought from the beginning of this governments creation. With the ability to enforce free thoughts through explicitly allowing speech and weapons, along with the ability to reject search and intrusion from the state (outside of due process)
I think it’s important for people to be able to be private and to have secrets. People act differently when there’s trust that they are not observed and will not be observed.
I think it’s cruel to confine the human experience to only being in the “observed” state of mind.
Being able to secretly meet people, and go places without others knowing, and have private conversations, and to own and make things secretly is important to me. They don’t have to be nefarious or even embarrassing, a person on principle can just want something to be private, rational or not that should be allowed by default.
If I went on a hike alone to clear my mind, and then stumbled into a tracking camera on the trail, my mood would be changed. I would feel compelled to play a performative role and manage my appearance and actions and regulate what I say and do in a way that I wasn’t before that feeling of privacy was broken. Even more so if I knew that camera was live reporting with ai identification and analysis to the government.
This privacy is already barely existing anymore, I feel compelled to oppose any new invasion of privacy and to make attempts to carve out new privacy where I can.
- Comment on Flock Safety's solar-powered cameras could make surveillance more widespread | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
The crazed goal to turn all of America into a high security prison.
No need to ask questions that a person could invoke their rights on when you can pay our capital overloads our own tax money for records instead.
What websites, what locations, what friends, what we buy, and everything else you could care to ask.
Soon we’ll have sensors installed on our toilets to make sure anyone with a dollar can know what we eat and what medicines we take and how regular we are.
Land of the free
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
What an apt comparison
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 6 months ago:
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As of April 11, there were 65 Mercedes autonomous vehicles available for sale in California, Fortune has learned through an open records request submitted to the state’s DMV. One of those has since been sold, which marks the first sale of an autonomous Mercedes in California, according to the DMV. Mercedes would not confirm sales numbers. Select Mercedes dealerships in Nevada are also offering the cars with the new technology, known as “level 3” autonomous driving. …
Drivers can activate Mercedes’s technology, called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on spec ific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven’t been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states.
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U.S. customers can buy a yearly subscription of Drive Pilot in 2024 EQS sedans and S-Class car models for $2,500.
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Mercedes is also working on developing level 4 capabilities. The automaker’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer expects that level 4 autonomous technology will be available to consumers by 2030, Automotive News reported.
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- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 6 months ago:
Agreed
I feel like coordination with a professional sports coach would be a good start, the players are already accustomed to many tests, the team doctor would probably be interested in gut biome v performance, and it’s a pre-selected pool of young, healthy, athletic people with at least semi-controlled diet.
- Comment on There may be an existing solution to the chronic disease crisis, but a disabled patient seems to be the only person motivated enough to try to obtain it. And they've been failing going at it alone. 6 months ago:
Reading the site, it’s interesting, but there are too many unknowns for me to get exited. Dosing, storage, pricing, delivery, effects, side effects all still seem unknown or not well understood.
Getting directly mailed a bag a poop after paying someone through zelle is a pretty wild thought.
Maybe FMT is a good idea, but it’s still too unknown for me to accept it.
Regarding regulation, potentially it could follow the path of supplements which seems to be immune from the FDA, FDA doesn’t regulate multivitamins nor yogurt.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It reads a little condescending imo
- Comment on Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue 7 months ago:
Thanks!
I’ve been wanting to move off of discord for a while
Discords been showing signs of Skype-ification for a while, and the ads seal the deal.
I imagine the same feeling for a number of others too, I’ll be convincing my friends to switch.
Fuck ads in my chat.
- Comment on Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue 7 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Discord to Start Showing Ads for Gamers to Boost Revenue 7 months ago:
Is there a fediverse-like equivalent alternative to Discord?
Is there a chat app that can be self hosted, but interact with a web of other instances, and has web, mobile, and app interfaces?
Something with dm, group, voice chat, screen sharing capabilities?
- Comment on Bethesda Gives A Small Update On The Elder Scrolls 6 7 months ago:
I don’t even care anymore
I don’t trust them with games