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evatronic ,

I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn't make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

evatronic ,

Altruism is never going to be the way to get companies to do the right thing. Instead, making the wrong thing a financial liability is.

evatronic ,

There's an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I'm fuckwit.

evatronic ,

I admit, this news has made me add a note to re-download firefox on my work machine...

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Consumer PCs are almost certainly not covered entities under HIPAA, nor is Microsoft in its role as an OS provider.

Even then, if this whole thing were to result in an inappropriate disclosure by a covered entity, the organization that processes the data would be liable, not Microsoft.

That's like blaming the building contractor because you left the door unlocked and someone came in and stole your cat.

evatronic ,

Fun.

From the article, the linked Swagger docs : https://web.archive.org/web/20240120071238/https://mycscgo.com/api/v1/docs/static/index.html#/

And a little more detailed account : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-security-bug-in-washing-machines-can-help-college-students-in-the-us-do-free-laundry/articleshow/110277923.cms

It looks like these laundry machines are controlled by a mobile app, and requests are routed through The Internet(tm). The flaw appears to be the web service presumes a user is only able to gain access to their API endpoints via the mobile app, which only exposes certain functions to a user.

Once authorized, though, there's no further checks like oauth scopes or even user roles, to prevent someone from doing a little bit of lateral movement to admin-style endpoints.

Lazy. The machine makers should be ashamed.

evatronic ,

No lie ... if they could make a chip that like ... Shuts off cognition while I'm at the gym so I don't have to experience it ... I'd consider it.

I really hate working out.

evatronic ,

Nothing. They're behaving quite rationally.

You just have to understand that their motivation is not "successful governing" or "making the world better" but rather, "getting more money."

When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they're behaving quite normally.

evatronic ,

It's a contract.

They give you some money now, and, instead of an interest rate and a term for repayment, they get a percentage of your future income for some period of time.

Particularly shitty ones continue even if you repay the original loan amount.

evatronic ,

I remember mine, and my childhood best friend's Prodigy account IDs.

evatronic ,

Easy. You write it into the sales agreement. Sales agreements are contracts where both parties agree to do certain things in exchange for other things.

While most agreements are pretty simple, you give up money in exchange for goods, or services, it's also easy to write "You will pay the purchase price ($....) to Tesla and also sit through our fucking FSD demo, in exchange, Tesla will deliver 1 ugly-ass car shaped like a fat roller skate," or similar.

evatronic ,

I'm glad I'm not the only person that doesn't really understand the whole Thing behind Twitter / Mastodon feed thing.

HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It (www.extremetech.com)

In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In...

evatronic ,

The mere fact that HP is demonstrating they can do this, even if they pinky swear they won't do it for corporate or business clients means that any business worth their salt will avoid buying HP products.

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(Why would the human's inebriation level matter if the vehicle is moving autonomously?)

evatronic ,

Tesla would just get up and lie to the public like that?

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That sub was mostly cops just repeating their own bad interpretation of the law. Terrible.

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Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox… [...]

While I will freely admit that the lack of a physical drive is a huge way to drive downloaded (and licensed, revokable) content controlled by the company, it's worth noting that physical media is really not all that great a medium for transferring things like games or movies anymore. Blu-ray discs can hold, in ideal situations, around 50GB of data. A lot of games -- especially AAA games, are well beyond that. I think Spider Man 2 came in at like 85GB? The internet says Hogwarts Legacy is ~75GB on XBox.

Network connectivity, and downloading content to our devices is almost certainly going to be the way a lot of the world works going forward. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be able to back our content up elsewhere, or offload it to some other device.

Your right in noting that the laws and regulations need to keep up and protect consumers' right to the content they've purchased.

edit: Here, I'll bold the important part.

evatronic ,

It's an uncomfortable way to watch porn.

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Also, I wonder how that works if you’re colorblind?

It's orange, blue, and yellow fyi.

evatronic ,

Well that's what I see.

evatronic ,

Absolutely. The crawler is doing some rudimentary processing before it ever does any sort of data storage saving. That's the sort of thing that's being persisted behind the scenes, and it's almost certainly both not enough to reconstruct the web page, nor is it (realistically) human-friendly. I was going to say "readable" but it's probably some bullshit JSON or XML document full of nonsense no one wants to read.

Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue (www.cbsnews.com)

Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue::Warning lights on the Tesla vehicles are hard to read, raising the risk of a crash, according to traffic safety regulators.

evatronic ,

Recall for a font. A fucking font.

Really this is just further proof that software developers should be no where near automotive design.

Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 (www.reuters.com)

Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7::Boeing confirmed late on Monday it is withdrawing a request it made to the Federal Aviation Administration last year seeking an exemption from a safety standard for its 737 MAX 7 that is awaiting certification.

evatronic ,

They're apparently for things that are already heavily tested in prior models and haven't changed.

Like the cockpit door is the same in a bunch of planes, or something, no need to test it in every plane model, etc.

evatronic ,

That used to be Google, when they were interested in providing quality results and showing ads alongside those results, instead of just.. being an ad company.

Before that, it was Yahoo, when they were interested in providing quality results, and showing ads, instead of just being an ad company.

Before that, it was AltaVista, when they were...

...Ask Jeeves...

We'll see who's next.

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Ars wrote a decent article about it a while back. I dug it up - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/half-an-operating-system-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-os2/

It's a fun read. The tl;dr: OS/2 had lots of features Windows didn't, but IBM is notoriously bad at marketing, and failed to beat Microsoft in the public perception arena.

evatronic ,

It's a trial program, to work out the major kinks, issues, and problems before rolling it out further to other states.

It's also federal-only, meaning you still have to do your state returns. Most of the states in the trial have no state income tax, which makes it an ideal solution for taxpayers in those states.

Expect it to expand to all 50 states in the coming years, presuming Republicans don't somehow manage to legislate it into oblivion like usual.

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens (www.techspot.com)

They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens::undefined

evatronic ,

The "government backed" part is ostensibly about a government setting up the framework and like, requiring it be used for official documents.

It wouldn't be too hard to stick a private signing key on say, your driver's license / ID / passport, for instance.

It's a complex issue, though, that sits on how much you trust whoever runs the system at some point.

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

evatronic ,

It's not everywhere.

States that do vote by mail are just like you describe -- paper ballots collected and counted by computer, with the paper preserved.

evatronic ,

No. The "Contract of Carriage" that airlines create between you and them when you buy a ticket explicitly disclaims any liability for stuff like that. Delta's for domestic flights has, under "Rule 2", the following:

Delta will exercise reasonable efforts to transport you and your baggage from your origin to your destination with reasonable dispatch, but published schedules, flight times, aircraft types, seat assignments, and similar details reflected in the ticket or Delta’s published schedules are not guaranteed and form no part of this contract. Delta may substitute alternate Carriers or aircraft, change its schedules, delay or cancel flights, change seat assignments, and alter or omit stopping places shown on the ticket as required by its operations in Delta’s sole discretion. Delta’s sole liability in the event of such changes is set forth in Rule 22. Delta is not responsible or liable for making connections, failing to operate any flight according to schedule, changing the schedule or any flight, changing seat assignments or aircraft types, or revising the routings by which Delta carries the passenger from the ticketed origin to destination.

Source: https://www.delta.com/us/en/legal/contract-of-carriage-dgr (click the "plain language PDF" version)

Every airline has basically the same contract. They can do whatever the fuck they want as long as they get you from A to B. They don't even have to use a plane, or get you there on time.

evatronic ,

Shit, Comcast has a pretty decent change of charging you for the hardware even if you do return it.

evatronic ,

I hope the case results in the list of people who bought these things being forwarded to their states' authorities.

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