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Lol. He gives chodes a bad rep. Call him what he is. A christofascist misogynist grifter.

How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) (www.eff.org)

Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from the...

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Laughing at this bullshit with my 2001 Honda Civic.

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Anyone that says it's all great is delusional or trying to exploit a market inefficiency.

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That's rather disappointing. But then again, so is the rest of reality.

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"If we take away their phones, they can't know it's all on fire!"

Yeet

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Turning of the hockey stick. Invest now.

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Be the shittymorph you wish to see in the Lemmy.

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Just throw out your name. You never call yourself by it, and they have these nifty little cards they give you to remind you of who you are and what you look like!

Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules | Black factory workers can sue Tesla collectively; trial set for October 2024. (arstechnica.com)

Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules | Black factory workers can sue Tesla collectively; trial set for October 2024.::Black factory workers can sue Tesla collectively; trial set for October 2024.

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Here's hoping the lawyers don't take the lion's share of it.

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It's me

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The wild west.

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Arrest creative cloud for prostitution. All those people are paying to get fucked.

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I'm just over here waiting for the RISC V revolution.

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

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Alternatively, I have seen the vending machines with giant screens on the front that play ads for different drinks. Perhaps they will use it for advertising decisions as well.

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As opposed to an "Apple Laptop" because fascists are weird. And perhaps he's talking about Microsoft copilot being shoved into windows 11. But this is a very generous read. By no means do I like the guy.

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity (apnews.com)

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity::Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make sense.

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Sir, kindly remember the Wadsworth Constant when browsing YouTube.

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You think people would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell lies?

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This is why we need better data laws in the US. If I want everything I've ever said on your site to disappear both instantly and forever, I should have that option.

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Be the shittymorph you wish to see in the Lemmy.

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It's shittymorph, not Dostoyevsky.

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I find 23.3° is the optimal angle, thanks.

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At least I'm safe inside my mind.

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Nah. They are just locking down a pathway for using whatever you want on a device you purchased.

“In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI (gadgettendency.com)

“In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI::Despite the fact that Nvidia is now almost the main beneficiary of the growing interest in AI, the head of the company, Jensen Huang,...

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Literally reading preprint papers daily on more efficient implementations of self attention approximations.

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I'd love to see what you look like comparatively, I mean, she's adored and turns on millions. You post jealous comments anonymously on the Internet.

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Is it tho? Being gay is liking other men. Why must those things be feminine things? Who decided? Warriors wore war paint. Now covering your face in whatever you like is for women. Pink used to be a boy's color. Lesley was a boy's name. We're all just people doing shit.

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Gonna start using "Contract Refused!" like "Uno Reverse!"

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    NegativeInf ,

    I'm pretty sure that's the reason most of these people are toxic in the first place. Projected self hatred and insecurity. Gotta learn to focus that self hate into a better mental illness.

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    I don't brag about it. I fear each winter that it will happen again. Or that we will be woefully under prepared for natural disasters when they do strike.

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    Summer will get rough soon? Didn't we have two back to back years with heat dome dominated summers and people collapsing on the concrete? I distinctly remember being told by my job not to go outside due to extreme risk of heatstroke. It's already bad. If ercot can't handle winter now, they won't be able to handle summer as AC system loads spike higher and higher.

    I have lived here for 31 years. I don't get the pride I'm supposed to have for being a native Texan. If I weren't trapped here by the economic forces pressing all Texans down, I would live somewhere with a functional government at least.

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    Right. What happens to Texas if it secedes and is subsequently hit by a substantial hurricane? Fuck those people in particular I guess. That's the general stance of our state government.

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    She's a dead fascist. The only good kind.

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    A quick search gives me .0015 kWh per card transaction, but that could be wrong.

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    I do that with save icons!

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    I use them as coasters and as a source of filters for making IR only cameras.

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    Normalize an open web without silos.

    NegativeInf ,

    He's no Tony Stark. More like a Justin Hammer but with less charisma.

    Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.” (www.ajc.com)

    Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.”::An expert witness for plaintiffs seeking to bar Georgia's touchscreen voting machines showed a crowded courtroom how he could tamper with election res

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    Huddled around a voting machine in a federal courtroom, a small crowd watched as expert witness Alex Halderman demonstrated how someone could meddle with a Georgia election within seconds.

    Halderman, a University of Michigan computer scientist, changed results of a hypothetical referendum on Sunday alcohol sales. He flipped the winner in a theoretical election between President George Washington and Benedict Arnold, the Revolutionary War general who defected to the British. He rigged the machine to print out as many ballots as he wanted.

    All he needed was a pen to reach a button inside the touchscreen, a fake $10 voter card he had programmed, or a $100 USB device that he plugged into a cord connected to a printer, rewriting the touchscreen’s code.

    Halderman delivered his presentation during an election security trial evaluating whether Georgia’s voting system is vulnerable to manipulation or programming errors. All in-person voters in Georgia make their choices on touchscreens that print out paper ballots.

    Election officials countered Halderman’s testimony with assurances that real-world elections in Georgia have never been hacked and security precautions prevent the possibility of interference.

    “All of these things worry me — just how easy these machines would be to tamper with. It’s so far from a secure system,” Halderman testified Thursday. “There are all kinds of politically motivated actors that would be eager to affect results.”

    Under questioning from attorneys defending Georgia’s Dominion voting equipment, Halderman said there’s no evidence that the vulnerabilities he showed have ever been exploited in an actual election.

    Through eight days of the trial, attorneys for the liberal-leaning Georgia voters and activists who are plaintiffs in the case have tried to convince U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg that she should order the state to prohibit further use of the voting touchscreens as the 2024 elections approach. Voters would instead fill out paper ballots by hand.

    Testimony in the case included evidence about the January 2021 breach in Coffee County, when tech experts hired by supporters of Donald Trump copied Georgia’s election software, then distributed it to conspiracy theorists across the country. The plaintiffs have also sought to prove that the secretary of state’s office hasn’t done enough to protect election security and voters’ rights.

    But State Election Board member Matt Mashburn told the judge that hacking would be difficult to pull off during an election.

    Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com

    “There are serious potentialities. Now, how practical they are to put in place is a different question,” Mashburn said Wednesday, according to a court transcript.

    Flaws in voting machines would be difficult to exploit at more than one voting machine at a time, minimizing the potential danger, he said.

    “I just didn’t think it was realistic,” Mashburn said. “Is it something you’ve got to change the whole system for? ... I just don’t believe that is very likely. It is possible, but it is not very likely.”

    Halderman testified that he discovered vulnerabilities after he was given access to a Fulton County touchscreen, called a ballot-marking device, as an expert witness in the case. He reported his findings to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, which validated the technology weaknesses in June 2022.

    Election officials have said Georgia’s voting equipment is secured by locks and seals, poll workers overseeing precincts, preelection testing and audits of paper ballots.

    Halderman said a wrongdoer, hidden behind a privacy screen at a voting precinct, wouldn’t necessarily be caught by election workers. Changing a touchscreen’s programming would take seconds or minutes but potentially create “chaos” in a major election, when it would be difficult to determine which ballots were legitimate, he said.

    It isn’t necessary to open up a voting machine or remove security seals to gain “superuser” access to a touchscreen and change its programming, Halderman testified. Any voter could bring a forged voter card, pen or USB drive loaded with malicious code to a voting machine.

    In one of Halderman’s hacks, the text on the ballot would reflect the candidate the voter picked, but the computer QR code counted by a ballot scanner would count the opposite choice. Georgia lawmakers are considering legislation that would remove QR codes from ballots.

    The vulnerabilities Halderman showed in court would only affect one voting machine at a time, but he also testified that many more votes could be changed if someone gained access to election management servers overseen by state and county election officials.

    Attorneys for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the defendant in the case, contend that the mere possibility of election tinkering doesn’t amount to a violation of voting rights protected by the U.S. Constitution, such as free speech and equal protection rights.

    “Plaintiffs have failed to produce a single shred of evidence to substantiate the supposed ‘risks’ they fear,” a court filing by the defendants states. “There is no evidence that their ballots or any ballots cast using a BMD (ballot-marking device) were not accurately counted or that any vote has been changed. ... Weighing risk is a political and not judicial decision.”

    Witnesses for the defendants this week will attempt to dispute the plaintiffs’ allegations with testimony from Georgia election officials and cybersecurity experts.

    The case will be decided by Totenberg, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, in the weeks after the trial concludes

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    A Viking on Every Hill.

    NegativeInf ,

    I use highlighters in mine for the different days of the week!

    NegativeInf ,

    If they buy it, it's FOSS bro. Fork it. But until that point, diplomatic approaches may be more effective.

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    Launches rocket fleet directly into the sun.

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    Next big trend in headline journalism.

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    What's worse is that they are folding podcasts into it. Google Podcasts at least had a nice timeline based feed of your podcasts all in one place. YouTube music, to see my podcasts? Open app, tap podcasts, under your shows, click more, then new episodes. And if you finish an episode of whatever your listening to, instead of the next in the sequence, it just starts playing random shit like an animation compilation from a podcast that I don't listen or subscribe to. YouTube Music is trash. I don't need another "Everything" app. Just fuck off and let me listen.

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    Am.. am I swiss?

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    "We have no idea what the significance of the find is, but we are leaning towards a religious or ceremonial aspect."

    NegativeInf ,

    Take whatever timeline you have and double it. Then add 6 more weeks of cram.

    NegativeInf ,

    Literally get a vibration sensor and an esp32. Push notifications for a change in sensor value. Hoorah. No one needs to start it from their phone. You physically have to move the shit around anyways.

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