wizardbeard

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

All from the first page of results for laws preventing private ownership of nuclear weapons.

Changed my mind and took 30 seconds to spoonfeed you. Enjoy. I'm blocking your ass as to prevent the hazard to my own mental health.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2122

https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-on-the-prohibition-of-nuclear-weapons/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/832

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/669/text

https://www.acq.osd.mil/ncbdp/nm/NMHB2020rev/chapters/chapter12.html

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/npt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/non-proliferation/safeguards-to-prevent-nuclear-proliferation.aspx

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

No, we really, truly are not.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Let me be crystal fucking clear here.

You were not making a valid point.

Your hypothetical is so amazingly absurd that I did not fully believe you were being serious until I saw your response.

I'm still wondering if this isn't some sort of weird ass false flag attempt to make people who dislike Musk look like absolute raving loonies.

I tried to give you places to begin looking into things yourself so you (and anyone else as delusional as you) wouldn't be worried about something so unlikely as to be effectively impossible.

I'm not doing that work for you, I've already had to sit through countless discussions of this shit in my lifetime. Multiple nuclear engineers in the (extended) family, have met members of the regulatory orgs through them, and that's what my parents wanted me to grow up to be (I fucked off into computers though).

Beyond that, I tried to give you some stuff against Musk that's far more rooted in reality than the wildest speculation.

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But I really couldn't give a shit what you talk about. I just dislike seeing people undermining legitimate points by throwing around absurd exageration. Especially when there's plenty of legitimate criticisms and concerns out there about Musk.

Please, do go on about how he's going to somehow outsmart intelligence agencies that took out an entire country's nuclear program with a single goddamn computer virus. At this point it's just entertaining.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Are you ok? You've doubled down on nonsense. Seriously, take a breath. Look into some treatment for anxiety.

The whole danger is that AI text generation doesn't misspell, and comes across highly confidently.

There's actual research out there on spotting AI generated text. Most of it is based off tone, frequency of some specific phrases, and sentence structure.

If you're mixing this with the idea that spam emails and scamming comments are often misspelled, that's done in an attempt to avoid word filters, and also to help ensure that people who fall for them are dumb enough not to notice, making them easy marks more likely to overlook other warning signs. If they aren't trying to get you to take an action, or a coordinated push to manufacture consent, the chance of AI is low.

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Also, the statistics about internet traffic you're thinking about is about bots. That's largely scripts and web scrapers, less so automated posters making arguments multiple levels down incredibly quiet threads on low user count social media like lemmy.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Privacy in European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety

You've got a bit of misunderstanding of how bitcoin works, and they definitely aren't using the juryrigged supercomputer for unmasking. Most likely human analysts and investigators with some minor algorithmic help for analyzing tumbled transactions on the chain.

Bitcoin is inherently traceable. The entire concept of the blockchain originally was to have a distributed ledger of all transactions available and verifiable by anyone, so the banks couldn't go "no that transaction never happened".

The anonimity of being able to instantly and freely create wallets with little to no identifying info attached was a side purpose, but not a true purpose. Your wallet is effectively just a username they'd have to find a way to connect to your real identity.

All bitcoin transactions are auditable by anyone.

So most criminals use tumblers, scattering a transaction into irregular pieces that move across a shit ton of wallets before slowly making their way to the actual destination wallet.

But even those are traceable, just difficult. Over time and through seizing black market servers, intelligence agencies can build maps of what wallets match up to what. Sellers leaving donate links in forum signatures, finding the tumbler accounts from a seized market, etc. Then by using external info like knowledge of the payout amount and how many wallets its going to end up in, they can analyze the block chain ledger and connect the dots.

TL;DR- Bitcoin has always been psuedonymous, not actually anonymous, and is more easily traceable than other options by fucking design. You are only as anonymous as the distance between your real identity and your wallet address. Practice proper OpSec for shady business.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Who prevents him from buying an atomic weapon and setting it off for a meme stunt or internet points ?

You have to be joking.

Nearly every military in the world. Countless regulatory agencies. Intelligence agencies the world over. It's pretty much known that the US made stuxnet to kill one country's nuclear program. Do you seriously fucking think they wouldn't stop a single billionaire?

There's also the fact that even he's not that insane, and any other billionaire out there who wouldn't want the effects of a nuke going off to get in the way of their own shit.

If you were talking a dirty bomb, that might be within his reach. Buy some mines in third world countries, mine up some material, strap it to a conventional bomb. That's also many orders of magnitude less severe (while still horrific). Also, most mining rights in areas with worthwhile radioactive material available have already been bought up by other entities with similar financial levels of backing.

Actual nukes require quite a bit more than just an explosive and some radioactive material to build anyway, and things like nuclear material refinement facilities are quite easily visible from satelite imagery. They also require specialized hardware that is closely monitored. Sure he could pay to reverse engineer and/or get it built. Good luck keeping that secret for as long as it would take.

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The man's a living embodiment of a chode with a diamond studded piercing. There's plenty of shit to be upset at him about, or worried about, without getting anywhere close to this absurd. I sincerely hope that you weren't being serious.

If you want shock factor, talk about the slave mines his family wealth comes from, and the slave mines where we source lithium from for EV batteries. Talk about the high frequency of using child soldiers as security for said mines, in addition to the child slave labor.

Talk about the highly likely intentional killing of Twitter by Saudi Arabian government's investment into Musk as a retaliation for the Arab Spring and as a way to further control rapid information dissemination during crisises.

There's real reasons to despise him, going for such extremely ridiculous exaggerations only hurts the point you're trying to make.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Privacy in People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

Yeah, that is an important side effect of this. In their constant pursuit of higher profits, insurance companies can use this data to more accurately analyze what factors into making someone high risk.

They sure as hell won't be discounting people that don't show those traits, but it's something.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Privacy in People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

... you think they don't? You need to read the fine print again. It's not proven where it's going, but they absolutely have the right to sell your genetic information and already do.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Privacy in People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them

Full autonomous vehicles, and particularly significant levels of adoption of them are decades away. It's taken roughly 20 years for hybrid vehicles to become "big", and that's after the tech already existed. We still don't even have anywhere close to reliable full autonomous driving.

It usually is much more effective to make plans and changes based off what currently exists rather than anything that isn't absolute immediate future. No reason to say no to the good because you're busy waiting for "perfect".

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon

Additionally, there has been an option in the settings menu since Windows 10 to disable Microsoft fucking with the start menu and settings "app" like this.

I would be shocked if it doesn't also handle whatever this shit is.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon

Or literally just use the existing option in the settings menu that has been there since Windows 10 to turn this shit off.

All of this is clickbait.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

If you're not ready to switch, most of the issues and anti consumer shit with Windows can be managed through a combination of Group Policy, Registry, various settings and configurations menus, and a wee bit of PowerShell.

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

You could also disable all this shit pretty easily too, for about the same amount of effort as getting someone acclimated to a new OS.

Every single bullshit thing these articles bring up, there's simple controls built into Windows to handle. Most easily through Group Policy with a Pro license, easily bought from an OEM license seller for $20 or just spoofed.

For this bullshit in particular:
Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

The instructions to disable this are right fucking there in the article, and the sections OP copied to the description here.

And for completeness:
Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”

wizardbeard , 2 months ago to Technology in Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone

This setting exists on 10 and I've never had it re-enable itself.