TeamAssimilation

@TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s his secret, captain. He doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A guy from work (millennial) has smartphone, tablet, and gaming consoles, but no computers at home. He works in IT tech support, and is really good, but the only computer he uses is the one at work. WTF.

  I suspect that from time to time, he does need things only a proper computer can do, but he simply uses the work computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you post here if you haven’t had social media accounts since 2021?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I think most of USA is on recreational drugs, legal, illegal, or “prescription”. That shouldn’t matter as much compared to his other actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is systemic, it didn’t start with Trump. He’s just way more flagrant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was clear since such a big and supposedly effective intelligence apparatus failed to stop or warn about the Hamas attack that gave Israel pretext to go full ethnic cleaning and warmongering.

  They knew, they allowed it, and paid a modest price in Israeli casualties to kickstart their plan. Also, Ukraine was attracting all the war funding, they couldn’t risk USA reducing their military allowance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Link for the lazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why producers see prequels as a safe haven, they nearly always end up trashing decades-old canon, instead of adding to it.

  Enterprise was one of the exceptions, it fit nicely with established canon, and added to it gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except blue isn’t scary anymore after the Andorians. I can only fathom that they thought brown Klingons look like black Klingons and people will think that’s racist.

  Oh how I wish people stopped separating humans in races and just stopped thinking in races and colors at all.

  “There is only one race: the human race” - Robert Sobukwe, South African anti-apartheid activist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto has just made more evident how finance wizards are simply adept at saying something is incredibly valuable, and getting people to believe them. Tesla has no reason to be so valuable. SpaceX I’d agree, but Tesla has been overtaken at every aspect by other companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be funny it it weren’t so sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are like the most superficial layer of propaganda. The real danger of propaganda is that it doesn’t look like it, it looks like other regular people making you support their interests without you realizing it.

  Do you like engines? Do you dislike electric vehicles? Do you like guns? If so, when and where did those ideas come from? You weren’t born with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the real problem is, people don’t know how to manage their emotions, and they end up swaying them left and right.

  Stop thinking with with your gut, take a pause to analyze your body response to emotions. Are you sweating? Are you afraid or is it actually warm? If you’re afraid, what specifically do you fear? Etc.

  Propaganda, echo chambers, peer pressure, and even vicious cycles of self-pity, anger, sadness…will have a weaker hold on you.

  Feel, but don’t forget to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plex is more polished, but I love Jellyfin’s subtitle search; it blows Plex’s socks away.

  Also, Jellyfin doesn’t nag me every effing time to enable DRM in Firefox for some unfathomable reason.

  But Plex definitely wins on performance, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Take HomeAssistant for example: you’re free to use it self-hosted, but as soon as you want to expose it securely through the Internet, there’s need from infrastructure that has costs, both materials and labor. In HomeAssistant’s case, it’s NabuCasa that does it, costs money, and helps fund the work of Home Assistant developers.

  Having things free (libre) and open source is a blessing, but we have become entitled to have work of very specialized people for free. That’s not always feasible.

  Another example, Zabbix, is totally open source and free, they only charge for support and training if you ask for them. It has worked for them for many years, but if they start to struggle with funding, I’d understand if they charged for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also assumes the masses behave rationally, which they won’t ever.

  We’ll just get the cheapest shit with the limited information we are given, unless it is life-or-death, where we will pay any price out of fear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a brain as complex as ours, they’re social, and they’re believed to be really smart.

  If they’re actually dumb, very dumb, I swear to god I will buy a single non-dolphin-free tuna can out of spite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

  They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.

  They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.

  I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.

  My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.

  • Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
  • In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to get two unanswered things.
  • Two line breaks
  • In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.

  That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Aren’t we inventive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.

  The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess they will start teaching vtubing in high school then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH Apple is closed mainly because it makes them boatloads of money, not because of security. It could still be open and responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t blame him, they had that bias because we’re friends, and I would be perfect if not for my excessive modesty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all deserve better than this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I got from the article as well. Jesus, buy a previous gen GPU and fiddle a bit with your graphic settings, it’s just games, not life or death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do spiders poop ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adult mayflies don’t, they don’t even have a digestive system or even mouth. They just reproduce and die.