wuffah

@wuffah@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hose Clamp Security Gate Chain...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  “Parking: $80 daily maximum”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Form over function⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to sand them first with a rough grit or the paint won’t stick. You can also add sugar to your gas tank to make your sick piston paint job super sweet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your teenager AND your husband⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be ramen Alfredo, so you’re not quite a soup anarchist, but that’s probably for the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your teenager AND your husband⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Inversely, it’s also amazing what a lack thereof cannot achieve, for instance, redacting publicized documents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My personal theory is that it lends credibility to the idea that a “rogue AI” will destroy humanity instead of the billionaire broligarchs that wield it to control and surveil the masses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently they leave the bananas unpeeled in banana-land.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not natively that I know of, but Telegram for iOS has the option when looking at someone’s profile. However, the Windows client does not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  iOS lets you create secret chats, but as far as I know other platforms have eliminated that functionality at the request of governments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Assume the same for Telegram and pretty much any chat platform that controls your private keys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sexuality is a human right, and controlling sexuality is an authoritarian tactic to manufacture compliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandola effect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it is!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great question, and it is because it enables a chain of cryptographic controls that enable verification, tamper resistance, and secrecy while selling Bitlocker as computer security. It is technically secure, except that MS has your recovery keys and can give them to whoever they want.

  This way, they can mathematically verify:

  • Who you are and the exact unique machine you use (verification from a unique machine ID associated with your encryption keys and Windows account data)

  • Know that the data has not been altered in transit (tamper resistance hash of your data)

  • No one else knows except them (secret encryption keys only Microsoft controls, not you, Microsoft)

  Imagine what you could do with this power for every Windows machine on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a security flaw, it’s by design. Microsoft has been building this surveillance apparatus for years, and seeking government access to your computer and data with your tax dollars is a lucrative alignment of state and corporate power.

  It goes like this:

  • Force online Microsoft account creation.

  • Require TPM compliance to run Windows.

  • Encrypt the user’s data under the guise of “security”. (Encryption is safe and secure right?)

  • Link your identity, payment information, data, online activity, and encryption keys to your hardware ID.

  • Record everything you do and use that data to train an AI model with onboard tensor hardware.

  • Exfiltrate the entire model, or just query it remotely for “online services.” Or, in this case, just have MS give you the fucking recovery keys. lol

  All done “securely” with tamper resistance and mathematical verifiability that whatever is on your device is yours, and that you took that action with limited plausible deniability.

  If you think you’ve got nothing to hide, think again about the current activities of ICE, law enforcement investigations based on reproductive health data, the pornography suppression movement, age verification, and the data harvesting of dissenting speech. What’s legal today can quickly become “illegal” tomorrow. The constitution is just a piece of paper in a fancy climate controlled box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you don’t care that MS and the federal government can decrypt your data, when Bitlocker is enabled your MS account becomes cryptographically linked to your identity and machine, making it a powerful tool for surveillance, identification, and DRM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SELL SELL SELL!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is an algorithm successfully modifying the behavior of people to pre-censor sexual language?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything seems to eventually link back to class war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic alternative insight, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We went from mass surveillance to hardware confiscation real quick.

  These companies are so large that they don’t need the consumer market anymore. The consumer is now the competition. They can essentially purchase the entire planet’s output of computing hardware years in advance to force us out of the market and lease it back to us at inflated rates. All while using all that tensor compute to make everyone’s life a living digital surveillance hell.

  Forget Internet freedom, computational liberty is now at risk. Who needs all that expensive legal and technological architecture to steal your data, report on you to the government, and enforce DRM when you can only use rented and approved corporate cloud hardware?

  We need to elevate the prosecution of anti-trust to religious inquisition, and burn these companies at the stake. They’re using AI to literally enslave humanity, and it’s working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Accusation in a mirror

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey Don, youre a real class act.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just how Donald Trump’s face is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does everyone like giant, awkwardly shaped, gawdy, hand was only in lukewarm water, non-microwave, non-dishwasher safe mugs that start peeling after 3 months? Is your talking pikachu mug with a speaker and light up tail really worth all that effort when it winds up in the back of the top shelf cupboard and you go back to white ceramic after 3 weeks? How many Looney Tunes mugs from Six Flags can one person reasonably store in their home before exceeding the legal limit for dissolved lead concentration?

  Why would we invent a machine that cleans the dishes just to invent dishes that the machine cannot clean? What are we DOING with our LIVES??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has happened to me a few times⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure you yank the emergency brake as hard as you’ll can so that the car stops nice and quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a system of morality utterly based on magical thinking that begins with the dubious requirement of faith in the existence of an omnipotent creator, a laughable and absurd premise that to me at least, invalidates most of its subsequent conclusions.

  I would hazard a guess that that most Christians would say that the sins are commandments from God, a who purposely omitted the “sin of haste” for reasons that cannot be comprehended by man and that you should go read your bible. What I would recommend instead is to continue the ethical line of thinking about the harms of haste, look for real world examples, and seek out what other ethical thinkers have to say on the issue instead of trying to fit that exploration within the context of an arbitrary belief system that encourages you not to think at all.

  I find Christian “ethics” to make much more sense when understood as an autocratic system of power rather than one that is trying to grapple with what it means to be “good”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haste/Impatience should have been one of the deadly sins.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very little critical thought went in to that belief system. Its results can safely be discarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCsDell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The TPU is not for you, it’s for tech companies to surveil, train, and exfiltrate your data at every level of the stack from hardware to application in a “secure” fashion. The “features” they proscribe feel forced because they are - they exist to make it seem like you’re getting the next new thing, when really the features that you actually want (like an ad-free experience and a local Windows account) have been so enshitified to hell that they functionally no longer exist.

  • The hardware manufacturer gets to sell you extra hardware you don’t want.

  • The OS vendor runs classification on all of your pictures, documents, and software.

  • The browser vendor sees every site you visit and when, every product you buy, and every porn site you watch.

  • Then, it all gets trained into a personal model that is cryptographically tied to you that can be queried at any time by tech companies, data brokers, advertisers, and law enforcement.

  You get to ask a finders-fee-biased chatbot which product to buy. AI is the ultimate surveillance and advertising device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would a retailer turn down an additional resource that drives customers to their site?

  Amazon also rolled out a “Buy for Me” feature last year that surfaces products from other brands’ websites and lets shoppers complete purchases without leaving the Amazon app.

  Ah, that’s why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shorts are deliberately and effectively addictive. Once Google found out they could copy the TikTok paradigm without being sued, they forced it down everyone’s throat. Ever wonder why you can’t disable shorts? Because they KNOW it’s addictive. We are being farmed.

  YouTube is a vital tool for news and information. It should be NATIONALIZED, and purposefully exploitative technology like shorts should be BANNED.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my GOD thank you