evatronic

evatronic , 13 days ago to Technology in Finally a useful feature (no)

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

evatronic , 29 days ago to Technology in Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin

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

evatronic , 1 month ago to Technology in Mozilla is adding tab grouping, vertical tabs, profile management, and local AI features to Firefox

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

evatronic , 1 month ago to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Two students find security bug that could let millions do laundry for free

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students

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 , 3 months ago to Technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

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

evatronic , 3 months ago to Technology in Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America

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 , 3 months ago to Technology in Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests

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

evatronic , 3 months ago to Technology in HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It

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.

evatronic , 4 months ago to Technology in Doctors Concerned About Neuralink's First Patient

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

evatronic , 4 months ago to Technology in Doctors Concerned About Neuralink's First Patient

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