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- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
Obligatory Poe’s Law mention, since Lenny seems to have agreed that it’s important.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
I think the average family’s net worth is a negative number, so you’re technically right.
- Comment on Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into 5G Base Stations - IEEE Spectrum 1 month ago:
That’s hilarious. The Lemmy hive mind is definitely forming.
- Comment on Glass Antenna Turns Windows Into 5G Base Stations - IEEE Spectrum 1 month ago:
recital carrots
I don’t know why, but I read this as “rectal carrots”. Like some sort of a carrot suppository.
Brb, I’m gonna try something…
- Comment on Jony Ive confirms he’s working with Sam Altman on a secret project 1 month ago:
One year later…
Touch bars are old news. We’re replaced them with this amazing new thing called “keys”!
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 2 months ago:
This sounds like a security nightmare though. A central repository of all code and keys is a gold mine for exploitation. Don’t get me wrong, I would really want this to work, but if it was compromised it could he catastrophic.
I do think there should be regulations in place that are clearly and easily enforceable by the FTC though. I’d love to see companies be hit with fines and/or compulsory refunds if they stop supporting devices and don’t provide some path forward for customers to keep using the device. That doesn’t solve for startups that go out of business, but it would at least cover the tech giants who are doing this garbage.
- Comment on New panic alarm system at Georgia H.S. saved lives during shooting, officials say. Advocates want it nationwide. 2 months ago:
I think the way the article worded it is confusing. Every staff member wears a photo ID badge, which is pretty common at most schools. At this school, their photo ID badges have a little button on the back. When that button is pressed, it activates the system.
I’m sure the buttons have little batteries inside them, probably similar to the type of battery in a smoke alarm. These types of batteries can last for years. However, many school districts issue new photo ID badges to staff each school year, so perhaps batteries are being replaced at that time if needed.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
Yeah dude, Club Penguin Settings is a whole different app.
- Comment on BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS) 2 months ago:
take a nap while your car murders some kids
Tesla out here running real-life “trolley problem” demos.
- Comment on We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost 3 months ago:
Makes sense that it was a definitions update that caused this, and I get why that’s not something you’d want to lag behind on like you could with the agent. (Putting aside that one of the selling points of next-gen AV/EDR tools is that they’re less reliant on definitions updates compared to traditional AV.) It’s just a bit wild that there isn’t more testing in place.
It’s like we’re always walking this fine line between “security at all costs” vs “stability, convenience, etc”. By pushing definitions as quickly as possible, you improve security, but you’re taking some level of risk too. In some alternate universe, CS didn’t push definitions quickly enough, and a bunch of companies got hit with a zero-day. I’d say it’s an impossible situation sometimes, but if I had to choose between outage or data breach, I’m choosing outage every time.
- Comment on We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost 3 months ago:
The fact that they weren’t already doing staggered releases is mind-boggling. I work for a company with a minuscule fraction of CrowdStrike’s user base / value, and even we do staggered releases.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 4 months ago:
YMMV, but my local library system has a limit on the number of e-books that can be checked out at a time. Some e-books they only have 1 or 2 “copies” of, other they have 20+ “copies”. Seems dumb to me that there’s a limit, but I’m sure they’re forced to do it for a reason.
- Comment on UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created 7 months ago:
Yes it was!
- Comment on UnitedHealth Exploits an ‘Emergency’ It Created 7 months ago:
I don’t think the problem is MSPs as a whole, I think it’s cheap execs who go with the lowest bidder and the cheap MSPs who take their money to do almost nothing.
I worked for an MSP a few years ago. We used a monitoring tool, and on of our co-managed clients (a regional healthcare provider) used the same monitoring tool. When a major vulnerability in that monitoring tool was exploited, our client’s instance was hacked, and ours was not. As a good MSP we knew how to properly configure and secure the tool, while their in-house IT just installed the tool and moved on to the next thing.
TL;DR: Shitty IT people will be shitty IT people. I’ve cleaned up after a lot of incompetent internal IT departments, and an equal number of incompetent MSPs.
- Comment on Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases 10 months ago:
Not OC, but there’s definitely an AI bubble.
First of all, real “AI” doesn’t even exist yet. It’s all machine learning, which is a component of AI, but it’s not the same as AI. “AI” is really just a marketing buzzword at this point. Every company is claiming their app is “AI-powered” and most of them aren’t even close.
Secondly, “AI” seems to be where crypto was a few years ago. The bitcoin bubble popped (along with many other currencies), and so will the AI bubble. Crypto didn’t go away, nor will it, and AI isn’t going away either. However, it’s a fad right now that isn’t going to last in its current form. (This one is just my opinion.)
- Comment on Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit 10 months ago:
I described it to my dad like this: “They don’t need to listen to your conversations because they’re already able to simulate your thoughts.”
Kinda a stretch, but it worked for him.
- Comment on Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit 10 months ago:
I actually saw a video once where the argument was that phones aren’t listening. Rather, Google (and Meta and the like) have so many other data points on you that they don’t need to listen. Listening to you would be far less efficient and far less insightful than relying on their vast network of other data they have on you. Even if you don’t use a single Google product, you’re still not safe.
Reminds me of the story where Target knew a customer was pregnant before she did. They started sending her ads for pregnancy/baby products before she even knew she was pregnant, all because they had so much data on her.
In my opinion, this is way more terrifying and problematic than if they were listening to us.
- Comment on NASA has some explaining to do 10 months ago:
You’re correct. Unless you’re using WiFi on your phone that’s backed by satellite internet (Starlink, etc).
- Comment on Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves. | Soapbox 10 months ago:
I disagree with your opinion of the integration with Threads, but I agree with you that it should be up to the individual instances and/or users.
Meta is a horrible company and I want nothing to do with them, but the whole point of the fediverse is that it’s decentralized. Anyone can spin up an instance if Lemmy or Mastodon and choose what other instances they federate with. If we were to somehow ban Meta’s instances, we create a pretty sketchy precedent.
- Comment on Apple Pausing Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in U.S. Due to Patent Dispute 10 months ago:
Agreed, they probably should have been ordered to stop a while ago.
That said, Apple is the largest company in the U.S. by a number of metrics, so the fact that the government would cross them at all is kind of a surprise.
- Comment on Apple Pausing Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in U.S. Due to Patent Dispute 10 months ago:
Oof, right before the holidays too. What a blow to their sales.
I wonder if Apple will use the estimated sales losses as damages when they counter-sue the other party in the patent dispute. Apple is taking “preemptive” steps to comply with an order that is not in effect yet – perhaps it’s a long con to entangle the patent holder in a prolonged legal battle so as to devalue and acquire them.
- Comment on The Monkey's Paw - A place where you can make a wish and ruin other's 1 year ago:
That’s probably the result of Jerboa detecting that the link is to a Lemmy community and handling it gracefully. While that’s a great feature the Jerboa devs have included, it’s not how Lemmy currently functions with regard to linking to communities. Lots of apps and browsers don’t handle the URLs nicely, unfortunately.
Lemmy devs should probably implement something to natively handle URLs and “properly formatted” links in the same way. If Jerboa can do it, then it can obviously be done. Until then though, proper formatting helps unite Lemmy users across platforms.
TLDR: I get on a soapbox about cross-platform interoperability because I had a bad week at work.
- Comment on Finally I succeeded 1 year ago:
I’ve been propagating these things for years, and I had no idea they could bloom. That’s wild. Congrats!
- Comment on Google -> SquareSpace? 1 year ago:
I’m planning to switch to Cloudflare Registrar. I already use some of their other services so it makes sense, and their pricing is pretty great.