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elias_griffin , 4 days ago

Canva is on the traditional corp Extend, Embrace, Extinguish mission to snuff Digital Content Design that is local only and has no AI. Canva bought Affinity Design Suite, which was the reaction of the non-corp creative world to not have to Adobe Creative Cloud, may it burn.

I believe we are in the era of "the great rug pull" of consumer empowered technology, moving to corp empowered technology stack, with them in control at all levels.

elias_griffin , 19 hours ago

12 upvotes, twelve, a 6:1 ratio, for "sticking up for Canva" from GHOSTai Media

@Ghostalmedia

I’m from space!

359 Posts 3.94K Comments

Absurd bot numbers. Please don't anyone thinks the above is a real person with a real opinion, I certainly don't. You ("They" when I'm talking to the aware reader of this post) are a paid influencer, bot, AI, group account, etc. The internet is dead because of insanely stupid posts and accounts like this one. Every real designer I know would not touch Canva with a 10ft pole and the Affinity buyout stinks.

Go back to space!

elias_griffin , 9 days ago

[REVERSAL OF FORTUNE]

• "Please enter your public confidence score"
• ..
• "Score not accepted, sending code to last lawsuit device"
• ..
• "Your corporate charter cannot be found. This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred. Please try making another Business."

elias_griffin , 11 days ago

When you find out you were only good because you drank the trillion dollar brand Kool-Aid.

Here is female founder's LinkedIn background image, web search result top 20, with that thing on.

https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5616AQEGTRY3gObKdg/profile-displaybackgroundimage-shrink_200_800/0/1700176960650?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=GoILNFlkyeka_159L39sV2nlT57Phcz9ngiMCGm6eQ8

Demographic is..I mean was?

Here is an awkward photo of both Founders:
https://images.fastcompany.net/image/upload/w_596,c_limit,q_auto:best,f_auto/wp-cms/uploads/2020/09/i-Bethany-and-Imran.jpg

elias_griffin , 11 days ago

Quote from the subtitle of the article

and you can’t stop it.

Don't ever let life-deprived, perspective-bubble wearing, uncompassiontate, power hungry manipulators, "News" people, tell you what you can and cannot do. Doesn't even pass the smell test.

My advice, if a Media Outlet tries to Groom you to think that nothing you do matters, don't ever read it again.

elias_griffin , 11 days ago

I don't care what the implication was, I didn't read past the slight/insult to my character, morality and intelligence. Who is some MSM empty suit tank to play cognitive narrative shaping with me, absolutely zero.

elias_griffin , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

So proud of you NetBSD, this is why I sponsor you, slam dunk for the future. I'm working on a NetBSD hardening script and Rice as we speak, great OS with some fantastically valuable niche applications and I think, a new broad approach I'm cooking up, a University Edition. I did hardening for all the other BSD, I saved the best for last!

[EDIT 5/16/2024 15:04 GMT -7] NetBSD got Odin lang support yesterday. That totally seals the NetBSD deal for me if I can come up with something cool for my workstation with Odin.

If you would like to vote on whether, or by what year, AI will be in the Linux Kernel on Infosec.space:

https://infosec.space/@wravoc/112441828127082611

elias_griffin OP , 17 days ago

Thank you for adding this, erm, maybe a bit "insider" info, as I always wondered how easy and reliable it was to map MAC to Manufacturer on mobile devices. Given what you say, the IETF tracking database could technically contain, or used as metadta, for another system to identify all device models.

Yeah, and what is that MAC generation scheme Apple/Android uses from a Security standpoint, what conditions make it regenerate and how often? How easy is it to map a "new" random MAC against a Model again when it re-enters the network and fingerprints itself again.

Lots to think about it.

elias_griffin OP , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

I can appreciate your re-iterating of the fundamentals of extremely easy to understand tech, but instead of basic thinking, you just repeating the already presented text which anyone can read hopefully, I presented a case for how it could be used that meets all technical specifications and is therefore possible. Likely even, given big tech track record.

This pheneomena of using tech "not as in the manual" is common. In fact, the Apache web server team was not sure it would work and the Internet adopted a series of HTTP patches as a whole unlike they intended.

don’t have any network capability themselves

That is just wrong and I can't understand how you came to that conclusion. I also invite you to think of it as a network, because it is using Bluetooth in a network?

elias_griffin OP , 16 days ago

This network tracks items specifically built on this protocol

Wrong. It tracks all Bluetooth devices, but provides more functionality if the protocol is used by owned device + tracking device.

you’ll already know where the user is since you own the fucking network.

Strange comment, who owns what network that is valid here in this context? This network works across Apple and Android Bluetooth Low Energy, no one owns that network.

Because the “worldwide tracking network” that already works is called the cellular network

Wrong. Although you obviously get all sorts of data to use from LTE/CDMA/etc from a phone, you need to catch it in between a tower handoff which records the movement speed and it's not accurate. Really only accurate if you use three towers, high power, in close range of the device, but that is Nation State level phreaking. BLE will be able to use every device in the vicinity and would be trackable down to inches, just like the AirTag and what these devices are meant for.

I suggest

Comical

elias_griffin OP , 15 days ago

I've been doing everything in computers for 25+ years and have worked in SCI Government NOCs, including the network stack for every OS. Your text is so wierd, I think maybe you didn't watch the IETF video did you? The networking isn't between AirTags, where did you get that? So wierd The phones use Bluetooth Networking to connect to Bluetooth tracking devices.

So, when the phone senses a tracker and tries to get it's status, whom it's tracking, etc, via the new protocol, you are saying it doesn't use Bluetooth networking? And that if it does, it stays on the phone and does't proliferate to other devices using Network Protocols?

I'm sorry, but please watch the whole presentation.

So in this Verge article where it says Apple and Android have integrated it into the "Find My Devices" networks for both platforms, it is somehow not using a network?

If I were you, I would not start social media posts with your job experience if you didn't read or watch any instructional material before you post, just to value your own career.

I mean, that's why I posted it, to hack the technicals details, take nothing for granted, and not assume anything.

elias_griffin , 27 days ago

Best breadcrumb from article:

I wanted to understand: what kind of human spends their days exploiting our dumbest impulses for traffic and profit? Who the hell are these [SEO/Google] people making money off of everyone else’s misery?

elias_griffin , 5 months ago

Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a "person".

elias_griffin , 6 months ago

Mozilla Foundation fronts Mozilla Corporation which is for-profit and brings in nearly a Billion in revenue.

Don't donate, do harden it.