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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought this was an onion article.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Don't waste time on pandering to proof of ability when actions speak louder than words. The release of your research is personally something I'm looking forward to regardless of your history or experience. I will interpret your research and evaluation with my own bias and sceptical stance. I'd rather question you afterwards if your article left questions unanswered or unclear.

Jumping the gun now and questioning you before we start just wastes both our time.

Good luck with your research!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I think you probably don't realise you hate standards and certifications. No IT person wants yet another system generating more calls and complexity. but here is iso, or a cyber insurance policy, or NIST, or acsc asking minimums with checklists and a cyber review answering them with controls.

Crazy that there's so little understanding about why it's there, that you just think it's the "IT guy" wanting those.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My brothers overpriced merc uses lighting zones and detection to turn off areas to not blind incoming traffic. Cool, but I'm sure within 5 years these extremely complex lighting arrays will fail and not be user serviceable, other than full headlight cluster replacement for $4k.

More complexity, shorter life. You'll get what you want but only because it suits the makers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What an unhinged rant. Even 30 seconds after posting I can barely understand my point. I'll leave it there unedited though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The root cause of this issue that they identify, is 100% the kind of AI that they'll build for this situation.

Old mate wants to use it to keep people on their best behaviour. The kind of subjective wording that whatever he doesn't like, is the exact reason people lie in court.

Power to that thought process through systemising it, legitimising it, is exactly part of the problem.

What's that American who said lies about the eating cats then justifying it by saying "I'd lie if it got the American public to wake up". Let me get the quote..

https://www.mediaite.com/news/remarkable-confession-jd-vance-absolutely-floors-observers-with-comment-that-hes-been-creating-stories-about-migrant-pet-eating/

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.

Yep. It's not infallible, it's intentional. Intent goes into the creation of systems and implementations. These are the kind of people that want these systems. They're justified in their own minds.

So to close the loop you linked that article and it's point was:

More than half of wrongful convictions can be traced to witnesses who lied

Don't give them reason for more ways to do so. Don't give them legitimacy. That's deterministic. It's intent. It's not failed if it worked. Your opinion on a system which is failed or fallible is not the same as the Oracle hocho who wants to be God.

They're not sharing your values, morals, ethics or compassion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I saw a sign on each street light on a bike path in my town that said "these street lights use aluminium cabling because the copper was stolen".

Your plan will work.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just asked google that exact question and it said "The current world population is 8,171,661,997"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's PKI, public key infrastructure. It's secure so it's used in many applications. Including ssh using keys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This will be able to do cross site (apps) information collection within other sites (apps) in this profile. The way this works is one of many, and complicated so: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/cross-site-tracking-lets-unpack-that/

The idea of profiles is to stop this behaviour and other behaviours through isolation. Along with other practices makes up a privacy-in-depth (layered) approach. It doesn't solve everything.

For example if you are in the same house sharing an internet connection, it is possible to say "at least one outstation in this house (IP) are interested in 'x' and therefore I should target everyone in that house because people who live together are interested in similar things". Even if you isolate, you could still teach a data hoarding company like meta you like something simply by them by necessity needing your IP to communicate.

Some people try to say 'I've got a VPS with a VPN to communicate all traffic through' but that doesn't add any privacy, your exposed VPS with its IP is an IP only for you and still all collected information about you would be able to be thumbprinted to that IP across many services (eg instagram whatsapp and Facebook). A public VPN provider in this case adds a layer of obfuscation since you can change your IP rapidly and it's an IP that's shared with other unrelated users. Which is exactly why many services like reddit are banning access from them under the guise of "oh training data leaks from VPN, and we want to sell it" bs.

Anyway it's a tough world out there to be private. I'm at an age where after 10 years without Facebook and I never had instagram, everyone knows I'm contactable via sms. It's not secure, it's barely private, but I don't really "chat" except at the pub. So that's where they ask me to visit. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

I keep asking the pets for their owners secrets but they don't tell me? I've tried pats, compliments and treats? Am I doing it wrong? How are you getting them to tell you about their owners?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I knew a Datacenter that had hundreds of ps3s for rendering fluid simulation and other such things that at the time were absolutely cutting edge tech. I believe F1 and some early 3d pixar stuff was rendered on those farms. But like all things, technology marched on. fpgpas and cuda have taken that space.

Cell definitely was heavily used by specialist/nichr industry though.

I wonder if I can find you some link to explain it better than the rumours I heard from staff that used to work in those datacentres.

Hmm hard to find commercial applications, probably individuals might have blogged otherwise here's what I'm talking about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

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