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circuscritic ,

The value of the items was either high enough to meet whatever internal threshold they have for opening an investigation or they were already aware of organized tool theft rings in the area.

That, or they were bored and said "Fuck it, let's do it".

circuscritic ,

No kidding. When I read that, my first thought was, "He's clearly at least above the median intelligence of his fellow Arizona GOP reps, if not in the top 10% of their entire conference"

Anyone who read the article AND has experience with the Arizona GOP, probably thought the same thing.

The Arizona GOP collects some of the dumbest people alive.

circuscritic ,

There's a lot more to sovereign monetary policy than currency exchange rates, such as the capital controls being exercised here

circuscritic ,

The major problems isn't Windows 11 usability, although those issues due exist. UI and workflow issues can typically get addressed, or mitigated, by 3rd party tools.

The real concerns are the exponential increases in spyware, such as the AI recovery tool that records all user interactions, or the native advertising inside of the system itself e.g. Start Menu ads.

If native AI data collection and advertising is baked into all nooks and crannies of the system, the ability of users to mitigate those threats becomes extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible to completely resolve.

circuscritic ,

Even if you trust that one feature will actually be disabled, that was just one example.

Do you really believe you can disable and remove all of the numerous data collection and spyware components that are baked into all aspects of the OS?

I'm not saying no one should use Windows 11, but they should be honest with themselves about the trade-off they're accepting.

circuscritic ,

An appropriate SDR, or a prefab kit you can buy online.

Relay attacks on keyless systems are nothing new, plenty of documentation and articles you can use to read up on the specifics.

circuscritic ,

Now hear me out, do you think that might have something to do with their market share relative to ALL other cars on the road?

When a KIA gets stolen, the owner will likely get it back, although probably a lot more worse for wear.

Thieves using relay attacks are most likely part of, or connected to, professional auto theft groups e.g. chop shops, overseas car markets, etc.

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You know what doesn't convince people to rethink how they view America, or empire?

Arbitrarily inserting comments like that into topics where they're disconnected and off topic.

Wait a minute...are you a DoD contractor whose mission it is to make any critic of America look whiney and detached from reality?

circuscritic ,

It's wrong precisely because Taiwan is a client state...

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Because it went from being a novel decentralized payment method, into a speculative asset, and finally a Wall Street commodity.

Yes, I know there are projects where that core ethos is still relatively intact, but those aren't what come to mind whenever people publicly discusses "crypto".

circuscritic ,

They know it has. Think of this like when a porn studio uploads their own films to a torrent site, and then goes after people who download them.

Except, in this case, everyone involved are terrible human beings. So... while I will never cheer for Sony Music, I will happily root against all the AI/tech companies they go after for scraping their catalogues.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e2ac164a-fcfb-4765-96a7-ceb9eaba0383.jpeg

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Awesome. Truly spectacular.

Generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.

Google is entirely dependent on advertising sales. Ad revenue subsidizes literally everything else, from Android development to whichever 8-12 products and services they launch and subsequently cancel each year.

Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it's default user interface.

So, like I said: Awesome.

circuscritic , (edited )

Learn what? This was the intended outcome: layoffs without severance or unemployment.*

*Unemployment benefits aren't totally off the table due to the companies changing of job requirements, but that's going to depend on local laws and individual employee circumstances.

circuscritic , (edited )

Short sighted for who? Executive compensation is tied to stock performance via options. If their actions boost the stock price in the short term, what do they care about the companies performance at a future date after they've cashed out?

We're currently in the extraction phase of our neoliberal economic system's lifecycle and it's only downhill from here.

circuscritic ,

Anyone who's name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise...

Additionally, he's also probably had at least one of his former boytoy lover's killed and he's just generally an awful human being who's entire goal is immiserate everyone he doesn't intend on sharing his doomsday bunker with.

circuscritic ,

It was a better UI and user experience then Android by the time it launched....but by the time it launched the smartphone market had already exploded and the app developer marketplace had already matured into a profitable sector. There was no incentive to attract enough developers to build out a similar ecosystem on the late to the party Windows Phone

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You're looking at it wrong. This is a scheme to collect mass amounts of biometric data. What's the end goal? No idea, but I doubt it'll be to the benefit of mankind.

circuscritic ,

Even if you believe that, and trust the people running these scanning stations, synthetic images generated from biometric hashes are still a thing, such as with Masquerade.

circuscritic ,

Odd. I see no mention that these were American trained troops, but I do see an intentional attempt to shift blame elsewhere.

https://theintercept.com/2024/04/25/burkina-faso-military-massacre-civilians/

circuscritic ,

This isn't a problem that can be solved with a technical solution that isn't itself extremely dystopian in nature.

This is a problem that requires legislation and criminal liability, or genuine punitive civil liability that pierces the corporate legal shields.

Don't hold your breath for a serious solution to present itself.

circuscritic ,

No, I'm a free speech absolutist when it comes to private citizens. Be they communists, Nazis, Democrats, trolls, assholes or furries, the government should have no role in regulating their speech outside of reasonable exceptions i.e. yelling fire in a crowded theater, threats of physical violence, etc.

My moral conviction on relative free speech absolutism ends at the articles of incorporation, or other nakedly profit driven speech e.g. market manipulation.

So if the trolls and ban evaders are acting on behalf of a company, or for profit driven interests, their speech should be regulated. If they're just assholes or trolls, that's a problem for the website and mod teams.

circuscritic ,

Maneuverability is much less of a factor now as BVR engagements and stealth have taken over.

But, yeah, in general a pilot that isn't subject to physical constraints can absolutely out maneuver a human by a wide margin.

The future generation will resemble a Protoss Carrier sans the blimp appearance. Human controllers in 5th and 6th gen airframes who direct multiple AI wingman, or AI swarms.

circuscritic ,

I refuse to believe that any data they harvest from gig workers will come close to covering their overhead costs, much less generate a profit.

I absolutely believe that the founders will make out like bandits before this is either acquired by a bigger dumber company, or shuttered.

circuscritic ,

Use Droidify or Neo Store. Both are in F-Droid repo, and both are better IMO.

circuscritic ,

So...a repo manager asks to notify you of updates, and check for them in the background...and that requires an essay long screed?

FYI I have battery optimizations enabled, and notifications disabled. App works great.

But whatever, I genuinely give no shits if you use it, or don't.

circuscritic ,

Required means not optional... which both are....

Also, it's not unusual for a repo manager to request the ability to check for background updates, or send notifications....which again, are both optional.

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Standard Notes is not a replacement word processor, unless you're exclusively using Google Docs for notes.

It's also already freemium, and the free tier includes E2EE syncing.

circuscritic ,

You might want to start with a lease, with the option to buy out, or trade-in, after the original terms are up.

circuscritic ,

...also because they're the highest earning tier of the upper middle class, and Cessna's are an extremely common manufacture with a lot of relatively low cost options.

Most of their customers are probably upper middle class types, very small regional airlines, and people who run charter businesses.

I'd assume that between the professional pilots, and the hobbyists, you'll find the former has lower crash rates.

It'd be more surprising if their was a lot of garbage men, or teachers, who crash Cessna's, or any plane.

circuscritic ,

No, yes, maybe, but probably not.

Also, only do this if it's a passion project for learning, because the odds that it works out the gate, and doesn't require multiple repurchases, are very slim.

The odds that you never quite get it to work right, or at all, very high.

If you're sure you want to do this, start by reading the technical documentation to get a grasp of which parts might, or should, work together, and how. Do this before making any purchases.

If that doesn't sound appealing, then buy an "digital signage" or "enterprise/business class" TV, or find a dumb consumer TV, new or used.

circuscritic ,

I have a mix of smart and dumb TV's.

All of them show me the same number of ads: zero.

All of them have the same level of access to networks (LAN/WAN): none.

Worst offender is a legacy Roku that keeps up it's direct connect WiFi broadcast, but it's on its own isolated VLAN.

circuscritic ,

I have both paid and accounts with Proton and I have no idea what you're talking about.

Yes, they make it clear they offer suite of services, and notify you of new services being launched, but my screen isn't saturated, and my workflow isn't negatively impacted.

...and they are nothing like Google in terms of self promotion, to say nothing of Google's business practices.

circuscritic ,

VPNs don't prevent tracking, especially when you're logging into services.

They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I'm guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.

circuscritic ,

That... actually sounds pretty plausible.

circuscritic ,

....so, trust the hosting provider to not log...and that you won't screw up any config or update, and make sure to use anonymous payments, and...and...etc.

circuscritic , (edited )

The topic in question here is not about government abuse of data, it's corporate abuses, but okay, let's set that aside.

You've said that it's safer to roll your own VPN using a VPS service precisely because you can't trust any VPN providers, or auditing organizations.

But you're now saying that you can trust a hosting provider based solely on which jurisdiction they reside in.

You're just arbitrarily picking which companies to trust with your connection traffic, but with added complexity, and significantly reduced egress locations for your traffic, which itself dramatically impacts any privacy benefits you were looking to achieve.

circuscritic ,

I've never complimented, or defended Steve Jobs before, because he was a grade A piece of shit...but, Steve Jobs transformed technology precisely because he was a phenomenal salesman, with a great eye for technical talent.

Just because he wasn't an engineer, doesn't change the fact that he forged Apple into what it became, and that absolutely contributed to modern technology - for better, and worse.

circuscritic ,

Moving goalpost?

You said he didn't contribute to technology, so I pointed out that he's responsible for Apple becoming what it became, which itself transformed technology.

Now, you're saying he shouldn't get technical credit for...making the iPhone?

Okay...I never said he should...but it you want to go down that path, he was very hands-on with in the design processes for two of their most pivotal products: the iMac and iPod.

Again, he was a grade-A douche bag, who died a fucking hilariously stupid death, but that doesn't erase, or override his impact.

circuscritic ,

It has nothing to do with congratulating.

You made a false statement, and then moved the goalpost (motte and bailey) when I pointed it out.

Simple as that.

circuscritic , (edited )

The irony here is that you're a cliche anti-Apple fanboy, and I don't even use Apple products.

So blinded by your dork rage, that you missed the entire point of this little comment thread.

What's even funnier, is that you also unintentionally proved mine.

circuscritic , (edited )

What part of AI don't you understand?

If you can't trust AI medical startups operating out of Silicon Valley with pictures of your genitals, well...THEN WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

I mean, to be fair, it also looks like they might be partially financially backed by a foreign authoritarian regime, and they usually have pretty good AI models....so...

circuscritic ,

Yes, I agree. AI is magic and everyone should submit pictures of their genitals.

Hell, I've started converting my dick pics into ASCII art and having ChatGPT diagnose me for STI's.

AI BABY WOOOOOO HOOOOO

circuscritic ,

Honestly, you're better off getting an Nvidia Shield TV, or another premium Google certified Android TV box.

But if you're deadset against that, then get a used Chromebox off eBay for like $20-40. Just make sure whatever model you get is firmware flashable and supports user installed Linux. Search "Chromebox Linux HTPC", there's plenty of resources available.

circuscritic ,

...that's not what a Pyramid scheme is.

circuscritic ,

Stock market overvaluation and general economy shitfuckery doesn't make it a pyramid scheme, which is a very specific type of financial crime.

Pyramid schemes involve organizations that can only survive with a constant flow of new investors because they don't actually make any money from whatever the business is supposed to be doing i.e. selling goods and services to consumers.

Microsoft brings in significant revenue from selling it's products to end users, which means it's not a pyramid scheme.

circuscritic , (edited )

....No.... you're using very specific financial crimes as a catch-all description for financial engineering.

Words have meaning. You might as well say Microsoft is a bank robber, because that's also a financial crime of sorts.

circuscritic ,

No, please do not start adding electrical components to furniture en mass.

If you do, I give it 1, maybe 2 generations, until furniture is partially subsidized by tech companies and it becomes niche to NOT have a "smart couch".

circuscritic , (edited )

There's so much wrong with your understanding here...so I'll just point out that you're talking about Twitter as if it's still a public company, it's not.

Also, Twitter was never profitable, and it was likely never going to be profitable. But there's a big difference between their losses and projections before Musk, and after.

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