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helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

It is theoreticaly possible, but praticaly speaking it would be near impossible.

To acomplish this, you need to get 51% of the population (who actually vote) to all vote for one person. However, with FPTP, you get one choice on the ballot. Is the average voter going to risk their vote on a 3rd party, or vote for who they belive to be the "lesser evil" of the two that have a shot at winning?

Even if you do manage to get 51%, there's the electoral collage. Never forget, our democracy has built in the ability to overwrite the presidential vote.

Your first hurdle is getting any one to name an independent candidate.

Edit: adjusted some wording to be better.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. (mullvad.net)

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop...

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Not too sure about the middle part, but the end was pointing out that baby pictures of little Sally playing in the tub are not okay to share or take in the first place.

Its a common enough situation where Ma is going through the baby album with your bride-to-be or a total stranger (mother-in-law) and there's a bunch of photos of under-dressed children that would definetny make the wrong crowd happy to have.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Hey, you. You’re finally awake.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Good people is the only requirement...if they are in the part of your cricle that overlaps, good for them. If not....

Privacy friendly art home alert system? (kbin.run)

Our garage flooded last night (not the first time) and so I want to install some water sensors in the garage and basement. There's dumb ones that look similar to a smoke detector, but all they do is make noise, which I'm willing to bet I won't hear since I can barely hear the smoke detector in the kitchen when I'm upstairs....

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

You should probably get a louder smoke decetor if you can barely hear it upstairs.

I'm going to go with the DIY approach;

For the water sensor, I'd look into the possibility of linking the basement alarm to a speaker upstairs. I've no idea what kind of alarm you're looking at or what the electronics are like. Theoreticaly, you can jump off the audio signal just before it reaches the speaker. Send the audio signal through an amp (located close* to the alarm, preferably where it won't get wet) and connect it to a speaker upstairs.

I would never try to mess with a smoke detector I rely on, but a water sensor...buy two and have fun.

*the amp is to overcome voltage drop in the new cable, I doubt that the sensor electronics will be capable of driving a seperate speaker with at least 30 ft of cable between it.

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Parents: you need to read lots of book in your free time to get smart and go to collage.

~~~ Many years later ~~~

Me: I would like to attend university next year. I will pursue an education in literature to achieve my goal of becoming a published author.

Parents: you will not! There is no success as an author, I will not support you going to to school for such a waste.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

I know...college is a joke for a lot of careers.

I made up this situation pointing out the opposing stereotypes of books and authors.

Reads lots of books = smart person who has lots of potential in life.

Writes lots of books = bum who can barley pay rent.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Yeah, the first time was for the joke. Second time must have been umm autocorrect.

I am defiantly not making things up to excuse my poor spelling...what can I say? I made a double oops 0ops.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Music streaming has proven this for years now, all the major brands have massive collections that make its super easy to pay and listen to just about anything.

Early Netflix proved this when everything was readily available for an affordable pricre.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It'll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube's history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Would a compromise be to simply archive them but not make them freely availible until they enter public domain.

For more current book; if they are out of print then they can be made availbe for limited loan, like any other digital library.
If a digital copy is avalible for purchase from the original publisher/author, than its not fair game. Unless they come to an agreement, perhaps add supported for freely accessing a book otherwise available for purchase.

If they got rid of the download option, it would make it much more difficult to just use a DRM stripping tool (a friend told me about these terrible pirating tools, I certently don't know how to use then).
A lot of digital libraies have a dedicated app that you can only view content from. Utilize whatever anti-screen capture systems banks and Netflix use to protect from simply taking screen shots. Make is easier to access the books legitimatly than it is to pirate them.

Lastly, don't just make everything freely availible next time there's a world crisis.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Yes the data is valuable for research. You and I may not understand any of it, but its useful to someone.
As for repairing from a distance, that thing has been traveling for 46 years and gone far. For reference, it passed Neptune back in 1989.

It would take many years for a new probe to reach those distances, so if it can be repaired, it shall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2

Hypothetically, lets say it only takes 30 years for a new probe with updated tech to reach where Voyager 2 is now. If V2 died today, thats half of someone's career spent waiting for the new probe to arrive. Multiply that by everyone using the probe for research and you have a ton of wasted potential.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Remote software repairs are definatly good, pretty cool and worth bragging about. If you have to do a physical repair, you're probably better off just sending a new probe [citation needed], but as I said the time investment is huge.

It is a legitimate question, however the way it was asked has a negative vibe, intentional or not. You pretty much gave a good option and bad option and said "pick one" - generally when that's asked, we assume the asker assumes the negative is true (it's hard to explain). To me, it could be interpreted as "just curious, I assume this probe is only taking pretty pictures, so why do you bother repairing it?".

Personally, I've been trying to avoid jumping to those types of conclusions, but its not easy.
Text has no tone, and phrases sometimes have a secondary tonal meanings that people will insert. "Just curious....was it you that didn't refill the coffee machine this morning?"

helpImTrappedOnline ,

A lot of sailors died that night.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

t pick up where you left off and finish it for you.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

From what I saw,

MS Recall is a 24/7 AI monitor system that captures everything you look at and saves it for later. They didn't even do the bare minimum for protecting the data, it was just dumped in an unencytped folder where anyone get wholesale access to the data. All trust has been lost.

Apple is using AI as a tool to improve specific tasks/features that a user invokes. Things like assistant queries and the new calculator. They have said some promising things in regards to privacy, specificly with the use of ChatGPT - any inquiry sent to ChatGPT will ask the user permission first and obscure their IP. This shows they care enough to try, they have not lost our trust - but we remain skeptical.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

I dont even own a dishwasher but I watched the whole thing!

helpImTrappedOnline ,

It would depend on how long the joke goes on and to what extreme.
"5 minutes super confused, until I look at my phone" = okay
"An elaborate prank where she changed all the dates that lasts 20 minutes = okay
"A day of being told my family died, world ended, etc" = not okay.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

The way I see it, if they're too young to have scocial media, they're too young to be on scocial media.

It's real odd when you consider how society is now okay with parents posting pictures of our children openly for the world to see. Yet when the kids start sharing pictures of them selves to friends it's super dangerous for them.

The sad part is now private photos are at risk with all the cloud minning and "AI" crap. The idea that no matter how much I lock down my privacy, simply sending a picture of my kid to their grandma, who will save it to her auto-cloud phone gallary, is still going to feed that picture to the collective is sickening.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

Welp, I guess my ipad is finnaly losing support.
Let's see what I'll be missing in the next few updates:

checks notes over the last 7 years

Pretty much nothing that affects me.

The iPad is in such an odd space; it has the body of a Lamborghini, the engine of a racecar and the interior of a 2001 used car.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

I really hate that this was the only reason Armadillos won the stupid mob vote.

No one (from chat and what I've seen) actually cares about the armadillo. They only wanted to wolves to be more viable hunting partners in survival.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

Probably.
I'll be surprised if they don't finally stop this noncense this year or next with all the negative feedback it got last year.

Just give us the new features without threatening us with other features "lost forever".

That being said, I will always give credit where credit is due - for a game fullly released in 2011, the fact we have gotten significant free anual updates for the past 13 years is insane. Unlike the other major 2011 release (Skyrim) that seems to only update to break mods for fun.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Yup, they could have just made wolf armor follow the same system as horse armor. But they had to add an all new system to further complicate the game.

They did add a bunch of wolf variants, like cats have, so that's cool.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

Seems like you're some kind of purest...go back to the Alpha versions? Which, they actually make really easy.

Personally I like features that provide a new purpose and build off of existing systems. Horse armor is a a natural progression for protecting your horse. Its mirrors the player armor system with materials (leather to diamond). Wolf armor breaks the mold, it could mimic player/horse armor in mechanics and material progression, but instead it comes from armodillo scales with seemingly no way to upgrade. They even copied the ability to dye the armor - they probably copy pasted the code for leather and made a new redundant item.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

This raises an excellent point not considered. This goes for all texts as well if the other person uses the "your phone" app. Discord, matrix, signal, telegram etc are all compromised by this existing on a system.

Will my browser's "private mode" be respected or it is going to store every inappropriate thing I search?

Are password managers safe? How about bank security questions? How often are those actaully obfuscated. The last 4 digits of social security numbers are usually unobfuscated, which is also what a lot of intuitions (stupidly) use to verify your ID over the phone. What if I want to look at the PDF of my tax documents?

What if my HR manager has this enabled and starts viewing PDFs containing private information about employees, payroll data, finances and whatever else is sellable on the dark web.

How about govermnet data? Sure maybe the pentagon IT staff will completely block it, but what about local gov committee ABC that's collecting voter information?

That type of data is valuable enough that it will be targeted regardless of what protection MS attempts. Based on the fact they didnt bother encytping the data from the start, my faith is low.

The implications of this are insane.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

"MKBHD takes out another company" /s

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

This isn't new at all. Apple has been consistent with long term updates for a while.

iPhones have been getting at least 5 major annual updates sense the iPhone 4. The average is 6 updates.

If anything, it gets to a point where the old hardware can barley handle the newer OS.

This is the equivalent of them promising to be called Apple in 5 years - it changes absolutly nothing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history

Edit: thinking about it, this gives them an excuse to reduce the number of years they support phones. Instead of 6-7, can we now expect that to become only 5 years?

This could be a huge loss disguised as a win

helpImTrappedOnline ,

I think the main issue (amongst the tech community) was that they did this with out making it known to users (patch notes don't count - especially with autoupdates, who reads them?) the device just started getting slower.

If there was an option that was presented to users once the device got below 80% battery health to slow down the system to make daily batter life longer, then that would be an actually welcome feature.
The problem was Apple just went a did it, and to a normal non-technical user, that means their phone is dying and they need to upgrade.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Because in the world of auto updates, patch notes aren't presented to users, and the average user isn't seeking them out to read them. They essentially just wake up to a new OS.

A what's new pop up or something would be more effective.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

Pop up

"Hi, you're battery is getting old. Would you like to enable a mode that slows down your phone to preserve battery life, Yes or No."

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

Am I just missing it, or is there no list of of these infected apps on the posted article or the reference the article links to.
To me, that is the most important information.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Well, I did miss that, I was skimming for something like a large list or table.
That still leaves 86/90+ unlisted.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

It is not free (which is the main goal of this list) or open source.

https://alternativeto.net/software/winrar/about/

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

I know, it loses on a technicality.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

My bad. It's lose, as in "not win".
In this case, "it does not earn a place on the list due to a technicality". The technicality, being an infinite free trial does not truly count in the spirit of being free.

Google's "Manifest V2" Chrome extension phaseout next month is expected to impact the original uBlock Origin extension, which still uses the V2 framework and has 37 million users (www.theregister.com)

The new MV3 architecture reflects Google's avowed desire to make browser extensions more performant, private, and secure. But the internet giant's attempt to do so has been bitterly contested by makers of privacy-protecting and content-blocking extensions, who have argued that the Chocolate Factory's new software architecture...

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Yup and a significant portion of those ads are definatly not school appropriate... From the mobile game ads that show a mostly naked lady, alcohol, soft-porn (chatbot type stuff), jump scares and whatever other crap google exempts from their "guidelines" for a quick buck.

The only (official) way to have all kid firendly ads is to use YouTube Kids, which also blocks all the usefull educational videos for anyone older than 4.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

IE is the best!

Unrelated, would you mind taking a few facebook quizzes and how's your bank accound doing?

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Local elections are still significant and will have impact on your area. These are the people allocate funds in your city - could be the difference in roads getting fixed or yet another pet project no one asked for.

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

Funny thing is, in a way our employers already do our taxes, they send everything to the IRS.
We just have to manually input the same data into forms to send to the IRS.
If you get it wrong they'll know and can fine you.
That being said, individuals filing their own taxes does have its place, people have multiple jobs, children, houses, debt, bank intrest earned etc. An employeer should't have to keep track of all that. The individual should just be able to collect all the approiate forms and send them in, not have to transfer info from form w4 to form 1090.

Private tax filing companies like Turbo Tax have heavily lobbied with campaign contributions bribes.

Any attempt to fix the system was blocked. The silver linning (if you can call it that) was they had to make a free version availbe to low income individuals.

However that "free" version is completely burried and not advertised anywhere. They'd rather you use the free version of TurboTax which only free for the basic person with a job, house and maybe a kid. Anything more will cost (my info is a bit outdated and skewed, I'm not really looking at the exact service).

Then it's filled the dark patterns and scare tatics to get you to pay up every step of the way.

Welcome to land of freedom and the illusion of taxation with representation.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Not sure about the future of WSL, but WSA (android) has been discontinued.

It's not really a suprise seeing as they partnered with Amazon for the app store, no side load support and as far as I know they didn't really mention it anywhere in the actuall OS, so few knew about it.

(Oh and when I tried it, getting it to work for just one app took way more effort than it should have)

Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...

helpImTrappedOnline ,

I didn't follow it closely either, in fact this is the first I've heard about ex employees confirming and an album of screen shots.

However, I am hesitant to accept screenshots as proof of anything - this is a company of artistic tech nerds, I'm sure 70% of the staff could make a convincing screenshot and 30% of them will know to make the metadata match.

As for ex employees speaking up, it's all hearsay. It could be true, but it could also not. There's no reliable way to determine that with out substantial evidence backing them.

I would accept it if someone took them to the courts and won - unfortually thats a huge finaical burdern for an individual, so that's unlikely to happen.

Alternatively if the labor board started issuing fines for crimes, that'd be a clear indicator something bad was happening.

In this case, I am sticking with inoocent until proven guilty.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

The problem is the repuational damage, and subsequently financial damage to the brand.
A not ingsificant number of people unsubscribed and stoped watch watching their videos.
More importantly sponsors could stop sponsoring them because they don't the association - just as we've seen LMG drop sponsors over the years.

If they just settled this quietly, the assumption would be the settlement was an admittion of guilt.

Assuming the allagations are false, the defimation suit is a legimate response - for a business model that relys on sponsors and reputation, having that damaged is a big deal financially.

In realty, there is nothing to gain to from pursing the case - a business going after an individual is a horrible idea for PR and the individual isn't going to have the money to make up the cost anyways.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Nothing will.
They want to see LTT fail because they made a few bad mistakes.
These are the same people on the relationship forms who say "break up" at the slightest negative.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

You mean the ones that failed multiple model years because the ribbon was too short?

helpImTrappedOnline , (edited )

The headline/title needs to be extended to include the rest of the sentence

"and then sent them to a minor"

Yes, this sicko needs to be punished.
Any attempt to make him the victim of " the big bad government" is manipulative at best.

Edit: made the quote bigger for better visibility.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Simulated crimes aren't crimes.

If they were, any one who's played games is fucked. I'm confident everyone who has played went on a total ramapage murdering the townfolk, pillaging their houses and blowing everything up....in Minecraft.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Sure is. I report the ones I come across as clickbait or missleading title, explaining the parts left out...such as this one where those 7 words change the story completely.

Whoever made that headline should feel ashamed for victimizing a grommer.

helpImTrappedOnline ,

Basically if I want to create ...
(I'll use a different example for obvious reasons, but I'm sure you could apply it to the topic)

... "an image of a miniature denium airjet with Taylor Swift's face on the side of it", the AI generators can despite no such thing existing in the training data.
It may take multiple attempts and effort with the text prompt to get exactly what you're looking for, but you could eventually get a convincing image.

AI takes loads of preexisting data on airplanes, T.Swift, and denium to combine it all into something new.

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