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Blackmist ,

WAS THAT THE DOORBELL!!!

Blackmist ,

But prepare for a 25 year old who lives in his mom's garage in rural Indiana to try to debate you on the subject anyway.

Blackmist ,

As I understand it:

As long as the link between data and user is severed, they are compliant with GDPR. Anonymising data (proper non-reversable anonymisation, rather than pseudo-anonymisation) is as good as deleting. As long as it's not personally identifiable, it's OK.

I suspect anyone else expecting the EU to purge reddit of their comments will be equally disappointed.

Blackmist ,

None of that really seems to count for GDPR. And good luck picking any one person out of a sea of a million orphaned comments.

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

Blackmist ,

Is that the same Spez who moderated /r/jailbait?

Blackmist ,

I ran the tool and it cleared the sort by new list, but the sort by top list was still full of stuff.

Blackmist ,

https://web.archive.org/web/20031229025933/http:/bits.are.notabug.com/

Share Child Pornography

In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.

This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won't make the abuse go away. We don't arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.

Blackmist ,

They should train it on Lemmy. It'll have an unhealthy obsession with Linux, guillotines and femboys by the end of the week.

Blackmist ,

Are disks though?

I think the last time I saw storage measured in bits was a SNES cartridge.

Blackmist ,

It is.

Their complaint is legit though. Their niche is being invaded by crappy sites that pretend to do what they do, the layperson can tell no difference, and Google pushes them all to the top anyway.

Testing products is expensive and nobody is really willing to pay for somebody else to do it. Google has just made it completely unviable to survive on clicks. At this point they might as well just be generating all the content with an LLM and keep the money for themselves.

Blackmist , (edited )

As far as I know, rtings.com is a decent one for tech products.

It at least tells you what tests it does, has the results and doesn't seem to be cobbled together by an LLM from press releases.

Edit: There is also Which? magazine which is pay for and is kept alive entirely by 70 year old men like my dad who have never got round to cancelling it despite not really reading it.

Blackmist ,

Look at you, turning your nose up at a perfectly livable Mausoleum.

You can fit a family of 8 in there if you're malnourished enough!

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)

an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....

Blackmist ,

Ah, but the AI part comes in not knowing what the keywords are because it's all mangled into some neural network soup.

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

Blackmist ,

I'm going to need a source for that, as it's well below even regular consumer SSDs.

Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 (www.gizchina.com)

While flagship smartphones boast impressive features, spending $1,000 is not a prerequisite for a satisfying Android experience nowadays. If you’re in need of a new smartphone and have a budget of approximately $200, there are numerous excellent options available. Surprisingly, some of the best Android phones under $200 come...

Blackmist ,

Almost like they just threw a bunch of press releases into an AI and let it jumble them into an "article".

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?

A recent YouGov survey asked Americans what they think they should be able to get to within a 15-minute walk of their house.

Of these choices, I can currently walk to all of them from my apartment, aside from a university (no biggie, I'm not currently studying, although there is a Tafe within walking distance), a hospital, and a sports arena.

How many can you get to with a 15 minute walk from your house?

@fuck_cars

Blackmist ,

Apparently it's important that they can walk to a petrol station though.

Blackmist ,

Depends what you want.

I'm hoping it's the year of the live service graveyard though.

Blackmist ,

It was my favourite Assassin's Creed game since AC2, because it contained the least amount of Assassin's Creed.

Blackmist ,

Same with Talos Principle 2. I thought it was this year, but I just bought it late.

Blackmist ,

I realised the other day that's who Loyd Grossman sounds like.

Blackmist ,

If a chip has instructions to make certain tasks go faster, I'd say it's fair to recompile the benchmark to use them. We didn't stop adding new things after the 486.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere too. The reason being overcharging just once basically kills them, so they give it a lot of leeway and say it's 100% well before that.

Blackmist ,

We used to get it in glass bottles, and the bottles would be reused (not melted down).

Just a shame getting it that way costs about 3-4 times as much as a big four pint plastic jug from Tesco.

andrew , to Technology
@andrew@andrew.masto.host avatar

Bose introduces their new Ultra Open Earbuds. “Their cuff-like fit leaves your ears totally open so you can still hear the world around you”

https://www.bose.com/p/earbuds/bose-ultra-open-earbuds/ULT-HEADPHONEOPN.html

@technology

Blackmist ,

I guess if I liked earbuds and still wanted to hear others, I could just wear one of them...

But I don't. I like big chunky headphones, because they send a message to others, and that message is "don't talk to me".

Blackmist ,

You can do that on a normal screen though.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, but surely you'd want actual VR games, rather than just Steam Link to a big virtual screen.

Half Life Alyx is a great game, but there's no way it would ever come to this headset just because of the lack of VR controllers.

Blackmist ,

"Help, my website no longer shows up in Google!"

Blackmist ,

What hardware is it running on that takes 15 seconds? I've not actually tried it myself as I've got a poor little RPi 3, and I don't want to scare it.

Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck (www.engadget.com)

Last year, two Waymo robotaxis in Phoenix "made contact" with the same pickup truck that was in the midst of being towed, which prompted the Alphabet subsidiary to issue a recall on its vehicles' software. A "recall" in this case meant rolling out a software update after investigating the issue and determining its root cause....

Blackmist ,

This is our future isn't it? This is it. Spending our days wondering if we're going to be mown down by a clumsy Johnnycab because it was fractionally cheaper than paying somebody to drive.

Blackmist ,

I've no idea what MS are even doing with all this shit.

I'm like 95% sure I had an AI icon in the search bar yesterday, and today it's a briefcase. 🤷

Blackmist ,

My decision to ditch Prime completely is looking more justified every day. So glad they announced all this cancer before my subscription rolled over.

Fuck off Amazon.

Blackmist ,

Even webrips will often contain it.

Blackmist ,

At one point it wasn't a bad package. Next day delivery, video, music, and even unlimited photo storage backup.

All of it is now enshittified, nothing more than a gateway to get you to spend more with them.

How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data (www.troyhunt.com)

Ever hear one of those stories where as it unravels, you lean in ever closer and mutter “No way! No way! NO WAY!” This one, as far as infosec stories go, had me leaning and muttering like never before. Here goes: Last week, someone reached out to me with what

Blackmist ,

Buy code on Fiverr, get code on Fiverr.

Blackmist ,

Most home automation stuff seems to use Zigbee. Doesn't have a lot of bandwidth though, so not useful for video.

And frankly, even if you have a video, the police around here won't do shit with it unless someone has been killed.

Blackmist ,

Surprised they haven't got them based on powerline (running a slightly worse ethernet though the electric lines). That way you'd still only need the one cable, and be able to lock people into your own powerline ecosystems.

Blackmist ,

People are laughing, but it is annoying to open a Windows terminal, get a couple of steps into whatever you were doing, and find you need admin privileges for some bullshit.

Pressing up, home, "sudo " and enter is a lot quicker than opening a new command prompt in admin mode.

Blackmist ,

Better still, don't buy on Amazon. If you've seen their selling fees, you'll know why.

Blackmist ,

Whether they like it or not.

Blackmist ,

And now they owe the government $20 each in tax.

Blackmist ,

It's no way to treat a man with the diabeetus.

Blackmist ,

I wonder how long it will be before people realise they can shoot down delivery drones. Prize every time. Everyone's a winner.

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft's Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

Blackmist ,

Just your standard Amazon SEO product name.

Blackmist ,

Technically, the next step would be retrieving it from the landfill it got sent to.

Blackmist ,

Cos they ain't got no fucking money, that's why.

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

Blackmist ,

That's the neat part...

Blackmist ,

At this point I wouldn't mind them accidentally creating Skynet and killing us all in a nuclear inferno, just so we don't have to listen to any more insufferable, grifting techbros.

Max Zorin had the right idea about silicon valley.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, I agree that's a crap policy for any family that may be spread over more than one household like that.

Do they actually cut you off if you ignore them and carry on doing it anyway?

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