jonne
@jonne@infosec.pub
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:
Over 18, but still young enough to not be predestined to become like the other billionaires I guess.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I used to run it for a while (it might actually still be running, I’d need to check my VPS and delete it if it is), but I feel like RSS readers kind of got overtaken by Reddit (and Lemmy). I tried going back to it again a few times, but the lack of comments felt off after having experienced Reddit.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, of course, but it feels like it’s never part of the conversation, even among people whose opinions I respect and are, for example, super critical of AI and talking about enshittification and other issues in the online sphere, they never seem to take the step to check out Linux, or get off Twitter or whatever.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, very disappointed by RMS’ creepiness (the Epstein stuff isn’t the only thing), but he was 100% right about software freedom.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 weeks ago:
I can see Microsoft moving to the same sort of thinking as well. Apple already made Mac OS users jump through hoops when you want to install something from the internet or even through a third party package manager like homebrew.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 weeks ago:
And the open source movement is such a blind spot to the ‘left’ as well, even though technology freedom is critical if you want to be able to organise any type of resistance in the digital space.
Lemmy users largely get it, obviously, but centre left people will happily let themselves get locked into the Apple/Google walled gardens even though you’re just giving that company a ridiculous amount of power over you.
- Comment on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, you could probably use them that way, but there’s no indication that they were planning on doing that. One of those devices is only ~$3000, so if you want to spam all of New York and the upside is a bunch of people sending you their life savings it’s not exactly an investment that’s out of reach for your average crime syndicate.
- Comment on NYC Telecom Raid: What's Up with Those Weird SIM Banks? 5 weeks ago:
This looks like the gear normally used by gangs that do text spam scams, what makes this exactly out of the range for a run of the mill criminal syndicate? Unless they have some other information that they’re not sharing?
- Comment on be gay, do crimes (in space) 5 weeks ago:
Distinction without a difference. If you’re wearing the space diaper you’re basically experiencing everything there is about space.
- Comment on Trump says ‘bad things’ will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base 5 weeks ago:
Yep, and I don’t know how he’s planning on getting the Taliban to give that base back.
- Comment on Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, maybe the exploitation is what it’s really about, no matter how much it would cost them in actual dollars.
- Comment on Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 5 weeks ago:
The fact that the employers are on board with the plan definitely makes me suspicious. Maybe they made the 100k tax deductable so it doesn’t actually cost them anything or something like that?
- Comment on Trump signs proclamation imposing $100K annual fee for H-1B visa applications 5 weeks ago:
The H1-B visa was bastardised from a program targeting speciality workers to just importing workers to undercut local ones (as since your visa is tied to your employer, your bargaining options are limited).
Charging $100k/year wouldn’t be the change I’d make personally but would probably help with the excesses (I’d personally just abolish it, or mandate a minimum wage of 200k/y, or only allow it for unionised locations).
The thing I worry about with this change is that employers would still exploit the workers and pay them like $40k even if they have to hand $100k to the government for that privilege.
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
Yeah, I personally noticed when there was this whole Thai cave saga, but I’m sure there were signs for decades before that.
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
He’s really done a great job at dispelling this image he had of being done kind of genius in the last couple of years.
- Comment on Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless? 2 months ago:
Or do something about the root causes of crime. Sure, there’s like a minority of sociopaths that will choose a life of crime no matter what, but the majority of it can be avoided by stuff like investments in education, jobs with good pay and safe third places for youth. But all those things are woke and it can take years for the benefits to show, so governments aren’t doing those things.
- Comment on leading ai company 2 months ago:
Not to mention, the app is just the thing that calls the API to the server that runs the actual models, it’s not a reflection on how quickly you’re improving those models. In fact, there should be little reason to push a new app update once you’ve built it.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 2 months ago:
Oof, yeah, that’s definitely something that will need to be looked at when cryotech starts being a thing.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 months ago:
Also, once you finish your filesystem, don’t murder your wife or otherwise people will stop using it.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 months ago:
There’s also ways to support ext3-4 on windows as well. And FUSE is also very interesting as it shows you what kind of esoteric stuff can be mapped onto a fake file system.
- Comment on Coordinated network amplifies child sex abuse on X, researchers warn 2 months ago:
Presumably the other ones are still working themselves through the courts.
- Comment on Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 2 months ago:
If the billionaires want the Chinese model for us, it’s only fair they fall under that same model.
- Comment on California slave labor: Jailed pre-trial detainees work for private firm—for nothing 2 months ago:
Yep, they should have standing to sue for constitutional violations. It’s slavery even by the standards laid out by the constitution.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 2 months ago:
Except those prompts are retained by OpenAI, and you don’t know who’s got access to that. They’ve had chats leak before.
- Comment on Trump to build huge $200mn ballroom at White House 2 months ago:
I’m just thinking there’s no way he’d build something like that if he wasn’t sure he’d still be President past his term.
- Comment on I didn't know that they have something in common... 3 months ago:
In guessing it’s an allusion on the former only.
- Comment on Pensioner robbed of $1,338 is taking NAB to court for millions 3 months ago:
I see, interesting. Thanks for doing the research.
- Comment on Pensioner robbed of $1,338 is taking NAB to court for millions 3 months ago:
Is this math based on any logic within the law? Typically you should just sue for the damages you sustained + costs, I don’t see how the fact that the bank has a lot of money would change that, unless there’s some kind of law prescribing this?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You need compact explosives to effectively deliver by drone. The attacks you mentioned will typically use the homemade stuff that use fertiliser and is less compact (which is easier to deliver by van, as shown by Breivik and the guy that did the Oklahoma bombing).
- Comment on Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler 3 months ago:
Is he even trying to escape them? He’s been pretty clear about his opinions on Jews and the like.