designatedhacker

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

John Wayne toilet paper. Rough, tough, and doesn't take shit off of anyone.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You saying they might have an unexpected dangling pointer?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (11 children)

They're also adding a lot more incompatible text formatting and shit to keep Android incomplete with their real chat protocol. Gotta keep those teens bullying Android users. Also E2E encryption would be nice, but the EU didn't force them to do that.

Still great because MMS is garbage and ruins photo and video quality.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

If we're talking about the neural lace from the Culture Sci-Fi series, hell yeah. It's all nanotech that could be installed and removed in a non-invasive way. You get a lot more control over your body, enhanced cognition, mental backups so you're really hard to kill permanently, comms, all the knowledge, VR more real than reality, control a robot as an extension of your body, etc.

They were still vulnerable to remote takeover in extreme and unusual situations. I think an EMP like thing would switch them off.

Realistically would I let somebody put something running binaries written in C and ad supported apps in my head? Not happening.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Ok now we know why their alignment team quit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

The fingerprinting I'm talking about gets encoded in the screen recording too. Subtle pixel changes here or there over the entire length of the video. It'll be lossy when it's transcoded, but over the whole video it's there enough times it won't matter. Even scaling to lower quality won't fix it and then it'll also be lower quality.

It'll be like DRM, there will be people trying to remove it like anything else. They'll break one thing and another will come along. There would still be a black market, but most people can get an unrestricted copy in exchange for money so there's one less reason to pirate.

Unless you're actually pointing a camera at the screen, then OK, you do you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (10 children)

They could offer a way to download a copy and steganographically tag it to hell with your id so that they know if you distribute it. You can "loan it out" by letting friends stream off your Plex or whatever. If you start selling that streaming service or it shows up in torrents, it has your ID on it.

Boom, you own it forever and you're incentivized not to over share.

Or you know sell DRM free versions and let people do whatever, but that probably has a snowballs chance in hell.

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

I got curious. It's at least partially the government regulation thing. They've been working on standards that get inforced soon around data privacy and updates to software. So they can roll their own Chinese version of the software with in-country servers, privacy compliance, surveillance compliance, etc. or pay Baidu/Tencent.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chines-mandatory-standards-vehicle-cybersecurity-icv-data-%E6%8C%AF%E5%BC%BA-%E7%84%A6-qupec

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This coincides with Kia/Hyundai announcing the same thing. Either they need Baidu tech to compete with BYD in the Chinese market because it's just that good or locally desirable. Or the countries regulators require it. Given they all announced this at the auto show at the same time, seems too coordinated for competing car companies.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wow that's literally the whole article in the headline.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Exactly. They really sealed the deal when they sent a push message to get people to call Congress and stop the ban. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/24093308/tiktok-congress-ban-push-notification

"TikTok can be used to influence our citizens politically" * TikTok proves it true immediately on a personal level for legislators * "See!"

Couldn't have found a better way to put gas on that fire. You're supposed to ~bribe~ lobby when they start talking shit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Exactly BYD is their biggest problem. Also they can't claim higher build quality so you'd really pay more for just the brand.

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