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Tetsuo ,

I care, what do you think I could do ?

Israël is backed up by the most powerful country in the world both politically and militarily.

Many people do care, it's just not something they can fix.

We can donate to lessen the suffering but at the end of the day, one dude in the Whitehouse could probably get a cease fire in minutes if they really wanted to.

Tetsuo ,

I disagree, I think Apple will do this feature with privacy/security in mind which Microsoft didn't do.

I absolutely don't like Apple but I think it's undeniable that they try to keep their OS secure. It's still a golden prison but at least it takes privacy fairly seriously.

Microsoft didn't seem to think about the challenges of that feature and it looks like a draft from an intern after a 1 hour meeting.

Obviously, something that scan a user screen has some implications that are hard to miss.

So yeah it's easy to point at people and say they are fanboys. But in this case the fanboys would be probably right in the sense that Apple already did better than Microsoft when it comes to privacy.

At the end of the day both are businesses that you shouldn't trust with your data but I would trust a lot more Apple than Microsoft for doing this right.

Tetsuo ,

There were a lot of people making the case that anybody who can open your computer because they have your password (abusive partners included) could then have a lot of access to your activity.

Isn't this true for any process with elevated privileges on your computer?

The valorant anticheat could just as well get all your data without you ever knowing it.

At the very least it's better to have that feature in a secure setup rather than the Microsoft approach where it seems like an afterthought at best.

You know I'd rather people be on Linux where you can check what is going on rather than blindly trusting Microsoft (or Apple) that they only do what they tell me they do on my system.

I'm just saying that it's not good to immediately assume what Apple will do will be as bad as Microsoft. They could take a bad idea and make it a slightly less bad idea.

Also security and privacy has very little value for the average consumer so it's naive to think the feature won't be used and useful to many people.

Most people give willingly their data to social networks so these kind of feature and their effect on privacy seems a bit pointless to me. If you don't like that kind of feature maybe a closed sourced system is not for you after all.

It's like people are worried about leaking data on what they do on their Windows computer all the while they already sent a ton of telemetry to Microsoft for years. Nvidia will happily scan all the apps you start for troubleshooting purposes.

Every little bit helps but I really think using windows and asking for your privacy to be respected is strange.

Windows 11 was already a privacy nightmare before this feature was tested.

Tetsuo ,

If you do self host I suggest reading carefully the Gmail guidelines for mails. They are the leaders in the field and they dictate the level of security required.

DNS forward and reverse, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, ARC, DANE, bounce signature etc. Email is indeed a very complicated thing to host. I work on emails system all day and and I wouldn't host my own mail.

Even worse I'm hoping email disappear and another technology takes it place. Emails are unreliable and outdated, they need to go.

Tetsuo ,

I would have voted for the Pirate Party if there was a ballot for them.

Didn't print it beforehand so I couldn't.

Last time I printed my own ballot they just didn't count it and my vote was considered invalid. Even though I had the exact size required by regulations...

Tetsuo ,

It affects secrecy a bit but you still have to take at least two different ballots into the voting booth. Obviously you are bringing your own ballot and taking one already printed so it's not really a secret.

Also there was taped garbage bags in the voting booth so that people can throw away their discarded ballots but that's also a great way to show what every else has been voting before me...

I still think our voting system is quite ok but there are definitely flaws.

Discord: Have you lost access to your email? no worries, just regain access to it! (lemmy.world)

I would have expected them to ask me to message them, in order to resolve the issue of not having access to my old email. Instead, they assume that I still have access to it, by simply contacting my email provider!...

Tetsuo ,

If there is one thing I secure as much as possible it's my main email address.

If you think about it that's the most important account of all.

If you lose it, every account using this mail as recovery is also pwned.

I understand this is frustrating but I agree with others that there is not much else discord could do.

Tetsuo ,

Technically you probably could. But it might be frowned upon to be complicit in a DDoS attack.

Tetsuo ,

As far as I know there isn't any scenario where drinking wine is healthy and I say that as a french guy. Alcool being healthy or good overall for your health is a myth no matter the amount. You might gain some on some aspect but overall it will never be better than good food and a glass of water.

Yes, this is boring but science is pretty clear about it and we obviously had this debate many times here.

Just because we make a lot of quality wine and good food doesn't make everything healthy.

I think a long time ago kids were getting a bit of wine at school lunch so we are not an example here. We have a wine lobby that tried very hard to reinforce the idea that a "little glass" of wine is good and that without excess it's fine. Truthfully no amount of alcool is healthy. I still drink a beer here and there but alcool will never be healthy and I know it.

Tetsuo ,

Exactly. Even drinking a ml of alcool will hurt you it's just that the damage is so small you can't measure it.

Tetsuo , (edited )

I don't think so.

If they only relied on the sensor it would constantly turn on and off which is something I have never seen on that kind of faucets.
I think there is always a delay before shutting down but sometimes that delay is set so low that it feels like you need to constantly activate the sensor.

Edit: clarification: What I meant is that if you just move once your hand in front of the sensor it should remain ON longer than just the time your hand was detected. I have never seen a sensor that literally activates only to the millisecond when something is moving. Even just to prevent false activation for half a second you kind of need a delay in there. If not you could have a 100ms activation that doesn't even have the time to let the water out by opening the faucet and you create unnecessary wear on the valve system. My point being it never really makes sense in engineering to have a button or sensor direct output used. Usually you have mechanisms to prevent "bouncing" and so on.
But I'm no plumber so it is just assumptions.

Tetsuo ,

Let's just hope it's not both.

Tetsuo ,

Big AI trying very hard to hide the truth about glue in pizza.

Tetsuo , (edited )

Apple definitely has that kind of practices too.

Louis Rossman probably has a 40+ MN long rant on this somewhere on his channel.

Edit: Only a 20+ Mn long rant...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV4_mLw2BGM&t=1

Tetsuo ,

Zabbix still remains a good choice imo. It works fine with Grafana et now the Zabbix-grafana plugin is officially supported by Grafana.

Zabbix without Grafana is pretty weak in term of visualization.

Tetsuo ,

We don't have many big fast food chains here in France.

But MacDo seem to be indeed the only one trying to be decent.

The staff is still very much underpaid/overworked but at least they try to reduce their waste and improve the quality of the food.

Still a soulless corporation but it seems they are actually doing things pretty well.

Tetsuo ,

I suppose there is a security system to prevent just presenting a pic to the cam. But I agree that we shouldn't trust it.

In any case, biometrics are bad to authenticate people.
What's the point of a key you can't replace/change...

What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! (www.ecosia.org)

Ecosia is a search engine that aggregates search results from multiple other search engines. The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide. With over 200 million trees planted so far, Ecosia have learned to be fully transparent about their projects, and financials which are available right on that...

Tetsuo ,

You should probably not call all reforestation as bullshit projects just based on a John Oliver video.

There is this interesting blog post on Ecosia :

https://cariki.co.uk/blogs/the-green-road/is-ecosia-legit-or-fake#:~:text=Ecosia%20donates%20roughly%2059%25%20of,using%20their%20transparent%20financial%20reporting.

I understand this is just a blog but there is good sources in there.
Ecosia looks like a serious initiative and the fact that they got a B corp rating in Germany is impressive.

Tetsuo ,

Fuck this.

There will be literally ads everywhere soon.

Ads in the street, on TV, on the radio, in magazines, on the internet, in games (including in VR)...

It's a nightmare it will be completely impossible to go through one minute of your life without being sold something.

It's not really something new but it saddens me because gaming was one of the few space that was mostly spared by advertisers.
One of the last place you could get out of your reality for a little while.

Now this is over. Just like Netflix people will go up in arms against ads and then still get Free2Play games showing ads and normalize that practice.

Tetsuo ,

The EU can't even pay for fediverse servers?

(•_•)

Tetsuo ,

Why using crypto for the donations?
Why XMR in particular?

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I've enjoyed Mark Rober's videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn't sitting right with me...

Tetsuo ,

Also a 5mn ad break to sell his kit felt much too long.

It's like 1/3 of the video.

Tetsuo ,

I think these are not blocked by default by sponsor block because it's an ad for the creator's products.

But anyway it's far too long.

Felt like a LTT video...

Tetsuo ,

Great acting honestly.

Conan was probably suffering a lot from that last dab...
Even the host seemed a bit concerned by the amount of sauce on the last wings.

One of the best episodes for sure.

Tetsuo ,

This guy birds.

Tetsuo ,

That but grabbing both legs.

Jumping very high beforehand is recommended.

Tetsuo ,

Why not both ?

I'm sure a thin layer of gravel will soften the landing.

Tetsuo ,

And then some hacker will get into that wallet and empty it.

The presidency will act all shocked at the news pretending they did everything to secure it...

Tetsuo ,

At this point I think he was on a vaccine IV.

Tetsuo ,

I understand it as placebo effect.

He got a shot, felt better overall and then just kept going.

Tetsuo ,

And that's a bad thing ?

Tetsuo ,

I work on email systems everyday.

Please don't let this protocol survive.

Forget emails that is functionally a terrible communication tool.

You never know if it will be received by the recipient. There is always false positive false negative classification in spam.

SMTP is an outdated protocol that needs to die.

Tetsuo ,

It sounds like your problem is with the way providers handle email and not email itself.

No. Providers handle mail this way because they have no choice to do so.

You are stuck between two major Issues.

On one hand you can have your anti-spam very lenient and receive pretty much everything. But if you do you will get more phishing and malware ridden mails. So the users will be exposed to one of the most dangerous vector of infection.

On the other hand you can have a super aggressive spam filter but some mail will be dropped. Whether an email notifications or the contract of the year for a business. It's no matter. It might never be delivered.

And since we have to block millions of spam mail everyday we have to block them silently because if you respond to certain malicious SMTP server online they will just spam you.

In reality businesses are used to email so that's what is commonly used.

But it's far too unreliable to communicate with clients of that business. You can't just have an important contract sent as an attachment by mail with some chance that it will be silently dropped at some point.

The simple fact that you can send an information to someone by email and it might be silently dropped without you ever being aware of it should IMO have led to the conclusion that it should never be used for anything remotely critical.

If it's important it shouldn't be an email. The reality is millions of dollars worth of business conducted solely through email conversations. And also a very lucrative business of spam.

Even businesses are often spammers or as they may call it "gray mail".

No email providers will guarantee you a 0% fault spam filtering.

Not Gmail either.

As much as I hate Gmail, at least they are pushing for everyone being required to use SPF and DKIM. That alone will eliminate a huge portion of the spam problem.

It's a good thing Gmail does that but it helps only their users right now (since February's changes). If your business communicates with thousands of small domains on small providers it will take another decade for every SMTP server to fix their s***. And even then there will still be spam.

What's the difference between a spammer going through all the hoops of creating a mail domain and a new business ?

Not much. Both mynewlegitEmailDomain.com and SpammerWho UnderstandsDNS.com are essentially the same for a spam filter.

They both would have "legit DNS records" but would both have trouble sending mail to Gmail at first.

Because Gmail cannot know if you are a spammer that setup a new disposable domain or a serious actor in email that just wants to communicate with you.

Truthfully Email is a terrible protocol that cannot be fixed with yet another layer of duct tape. You will never have any guarantee your mail is delivered. There is plenty of communication systems that's will tell you it's delivered or not.

Tetsuo ,

By dropping silently I meant really litteraly. If you answer to SMTP commands, you are not silent. You essentially say a spammer server that you are a valid target and that they can go on.

It's not even a question if spammer buy domains to spam.
It's well known and the reason why commercial products provides a feature to filter too fresh domains.

There are procedures to "warm-up" an IP if you are a large provider and if you don't do it and attempt to send a lot of mails to Gmail this will not work. It's not just about DNS records. You could have donne everything perfectly DNS wise and still be blocked by Gmail servers.

You should take a look at the requirements of Gmail for large providers. As far as I recall Gmail does check FcrDNS since last month. On top of more requirements for authentication.

Still you can't just buy an IP, a server, set MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, ARC?, FcrDNS and expect large amounts of mail to go through right away.

And again, any communication method will have a spam problem

The major issue here is that anybody can send any email to whoever. Most communication apps won't let you do that certainly not like emails.

You can't open WhatsApp and start spamming the whole world.
You basically can only do that with phone calls and emails ?

So no, SMTP/IMF has rotten foundations. No matter how many (optional) protocol you add on top, it will always be such an hassle to maintain and there will be always people who can't afford that much effort.

Small businesses having to set that up just to reach Gmail is a big problem that they usually externalize with Outlook365 and so on.

Again, Gmail calls the shots because they are the leader. But on paper my fully unauthenticated mail from Barack.obama is perfectly RFC compliant and legit. These protocols that are essential are optional at the end of the day. They became virtually mandatory because of the spam issue and Gmail pushing in the (right) direction because they have leverage.

SMTP on its own is trash.

Tetsuo ,

Basically, price surges on the menu when in high demand. So if you would go take out some Wendy's during some holiday or a very busy time the prices would be higher than usual.

Obviously, I agree with others that Wendy's will probably do that sneakily and not with huge price difference but the concept is disgusting especially when it comes to food imo.

Tetsuo ,

Hates dictatorship unless he is the dictator.

Tetsuo ,

Yes going to the moon is very easy.

Can't believe they failed that task.

Tetsuo ,

Who do we git blame ?

Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal (tuta.com)

The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption...

Tetsuo ,

For once, it seems like the right people were involved in this resolution.

What the court says is a pretty standard opinion in cybersecurity, you can't have "safe backdoors".
We could have had some lobbying bullshit like the usual but this time the common sense won.

Tetsuo ,

They remembered their old moto for a split second.

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....

Tetsuo ,

Honestly, I think only trial and error will let us get a proper autonomous car.

And I still think autonomous cars will save many more lives than it endangered once it become reliable.

But for now this is bound to happen...

To be clear, they still are responsible of these car and the safety of others. They didn't test properly.

They should be trying every edge case they can think about.

A large screen on the side of a truck ? What if a car is displayed on it ? Would the car sensor notice the difference?

A farmer dropped a hay bale on the road ? It got flattened by rain ?
Does the car understand that this might not be safe to drive on or to brake on ?

There is hundreds of unique situations that they should be trying before an autonomous car gets even close to a public road.

But even if you try everything there will be mistakes and fatalities.

Tetsuo ,

Honestly, I'm pragmatic, if less people die in accidents involving autonomous car, then yes.

The thing is we shouldn't be trusting the manufacturers for these stats. It has to be reported by a government agency or something.

Similarly Autonomous car software should have to be certified by an independent organization before being deployed.
Same thing for updates to the software.
Otherwise we would get deadly updates from time to time.

If we deploy and handle autonomous car with the same safety approach as in aviation I'm sure this transition can be done fairly safely.

Tetsuo ,

Honestly slowing down too much can easily create an accident that didn't exist in the first place.

Not every situation can be handled by slowing down.

If that's the default behavior on high speed road this could be deadly for the car behind you.

Tetsuo ,

US only :(

Tetsuo ,

Also considering the apparent toxicity of certain Blizzard employees it's probably a good opportunity to "purge" the Kotic gang and his following.

Tetsuo ,

Jesse McCree ?

It's not like it was only managers that were dirty.

Surely there was a management enabling it but it seemed widespread at Blizzard.

Now for the 99% others that lost their job for no reasons. That's another story.

Tetsuo ,

Also was it Y shaped ?

Tetsuo ,

Interesting.
I got to have a peculiar list activated in Ublock that breaks tracking of watched videos.

Thanks for the feedback.

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