henfredemars
@henfredemars@infosec.pub
This is a secondary account. My main account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.
- Comment on Passwords are like growing old. You feel like the best ones are already behind you. 4 days ago:
If you’re lucky, you can get away with remembering just one for your password manager. That password hasn’t changed in over 10 years.
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 5 days ago:
Because I still value human artistry and AI is not going to change that.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
Shit, I’m fucked.
- Comment on YSK that you can look yourself and your family up on unclaimed property page for every U.S. state you’ve ever lived in – often you find money you didn’t know about 1 week ago:
This is true. I had a remaining positive balance on a closed account that became unclaimed property. It wasn’t a lot, but it did belong to me.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
Are the cameras going to detect when I have a fever and then triple the cost of Tylenol?
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 1 week ago:
Perhaps it’s a fallback plan in case the universal Internet ID thing doesn’t work out. Gotta keep the masses stupid and uncoordinated.
- Comment on so i have an ultimatum... 1 week ago:
I didn’t imagine I’d be fighting for internet freedom alongside TempleOS!
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 2 weeks ago:
Say anything that pops into your mind to keep the hype train going, huh Sam?
- Comment on TBD on that 2 weeks ago:
My mom would pull them out of the sand with her hands.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
It’s great for multitasking. I’ve seen phones boot and already consume 3-4GB of RAM. Alas, that’s how much some of this software uses now, depending on your needs.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
What appears to be common sense to you is hardly common sense to the consumer. I choose to be more inclusive thinking of a person who might not necessarily know what 8 GB means. That’s a ton of Apple’s customers.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
Just to play devil’s advocate: a smartphone is definitely a computer and has no trouble competing with older laptop CPUs in benchmarks. I see this as a difference without a distinction beyond form factor.
8GB is 💯 barely serviceable. I see this is a product for a casual user only, with excellent build quality.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
The only potential concern I have is in considering how much casual PC market is left in the industry. I thought these users moved on to mobile, ergo leaving enthusiasts and professionals behind years ago as the remaining users. It might also cannibalize sales of their more powerful laptops because: who are the laptop buyers now? Where are they? Surely Apple did a market study, and they look set to completely dominate whatever’s left.
If I wasn’t going to use Linux, it would be Mac. Quite compelling despite the lower memory because are in an expensive market.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 2 weeks ago:
They’re not alone, either. I had to downgrade my Visio just to use the features that it shipped with. I’m sure this is illegal, but no one cares unless you’re rich.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 3 weeks ago:
Trust me! Pay no attention to the huge heaps of cash money.
- Comment on Day 600 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I love this game. It’s chill.
- Comment on Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure we have laws. It depends heavily on who you are whether or not they are enforced. They are more notional generalisms of what we think the law ought to be rather than what it actually is.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Definitely share your concern. Without strong review processes to ensure that every line of code follows the intent of the human developer, there’s no way of knowing what exactly is in there and the implications for the human users. And I’m not just talking about bugs. How do you know there isn’t malware?
They say it’s reviewed, but the temptation to blindly trust is there.
- Comment on Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets 3 weeks ago:
Why make it so specific? Can’t we make it illegal to benefit from material, non-public information?
This is still insider trading, which ought to be illegal.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 3 weeks ago:
Hm, good point. Perhaps the overconfidence AI might provide is even worse than knowing you don’t know.
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 3 weeks ago:
Mixed feelings about this. Let me play devils advocate and say that many Americans don’t have access to these resources at all. Having potentially inaccurate resources might be better than nothing, or is that worse?
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 3 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for distros to post a disclaimer that this software is strictly intended only for use on the moon.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: Phone CPUs can rival yesterday’s desktops.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic. Excellent news! I would expect nothing less.
- Comment on do be like that 4 weeks ago:
I can believe.
- Comment on This is the point I have reached 4 weeks ago:
Luxury bones here probably thinks you need a separate weekend and events car.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 4 weeks ago:
Wow! Thanks for sharing that data. I had no idea.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 5 weeks ago:
That social rot you smell? It’s you. You’re the social rot.
- Comment on Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile: Auto Uploads to OneDrive Raise Privacy Risks 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had my files force uploaded to OneDrive even before the slop. They don’t understand consent. Don’t use their software if you can avoid it.
- Comment on TIL: Suicide Rate in the United States Just Hit Highest Point in 75 Years 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate that it doesn’t shy away from pointing a finger at capitalism.