Nazo

I keep hoping to use the social networks for something else.  I'd really love to talk about games, music, etc etc.  But somehow it always turns political.  Don't follow me if you don't want to see potentially either or completely at random.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Illegal that the NSA used it.  But apparently not illegal that the companies like Meta collected it and sold it.

Maybe they're trying to solve the problem from the wrong end here...  Privacy should be fundamental, not selective.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Seems a good time for a reminder that "alkaline water" has absolutely zero health benefits.  It's just a matter of a certain sort of taste and texture.  Otherwise there are exactly zero benefits.

People get lead into ideas like that it can somehow balance their blood pH or something.  It doesn't.  If it could affect your blood pH at all you'd end up in the hospital.  Your body keeps blood pH in a very very tightly controlled range.  Alkaline water will not change this.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Yeah, how dare regulators regulate.  Rich people should be able to do anything they want unchallenged!  What could go wrong?


nostr:npub1dytx9wx3pkmxucu3qm0eplld87zvaflkq78lk24umdjyzhr7xlyqcrq8lq I was just reading about this one and it sounds pretty fascinating.  The most realistic sounding theory is two *rogue* neutron stars collided out in the middle of nowhere.  (I suppose they must have already been somewhat together when they were ejected from their galaxy then just got closer and closer over time until bam?  Must have taken forever for them to be so far out there.)


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s It's painful how much this happens.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Too bad there aren't smaller, lighter, more portable devices such that portability becomes actually reasonable.

Wait...


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Couldn't be bothered to spend $40 on a decent wall mount.  Spends hundreds on a crazy TV with ziplines and foam landers to compensate.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Yeah, if you can only get half a loaf of bread of course it makes sense just to refuse and starve instead.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw And what we're all sidestepping is the fact that when we actually took mitigations we were able to actually kill an entire strain of a disease that kills numerous people every single year.  While other strains are still out there of course, it's at least a few less people likely to actually die now.  Imagine if we killed off even more.

But yeah, masks are evil because, uh, uhm, personal freedoms or something.  (Though if you're free to not wear one you're also free to...  wear one)


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Modest is best for smartwatches and I wish more people got that.  You don't want a 10GHz processor in a smartwatch.  You'd be surprised how much could probably even be done in < 1GHz if they really optimized better.  Battery life is much more important than playing big games.


nostr:npub15x4zdwm9h6f88jpsslct9ehxffg0cnr0ejhp9t0pz60s2qx6myvsu23p3l Yeah, I keep trying to say over and over that LLMs are not AI, yet everyone is still rushing headlong right into pretending it is and all the pitfalls therein.  LLMs do not have any mechanism of trying to understand or adapt.  You can apply external constraints, but those can be bypassed pretty easily.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Oh.  I must have misunderstood something?  I thought they shut them down already in the past.

It's worth noting here that there is an open source project in the works to create an alternative free network for the WiiU and 3DS.  It still needs more work and isn't a direct drop in replacement, but it's making good progress.
https://pretendo.network/


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Ooh.  New wallpaper picker and lockscreen clocks?  How incredible!  I must have this at once!  I'm totally sold!

Lol, but seriously, I'm about 99% sure I remember there being a lot more to 14 versus 13 than just those two things that was a lot more important.  I haven't paid a lot of attention I admit since I stay a bit behind due to staying on LineageOS instead of stock, but there were real benefits to it as I recall.


nostr:npub1dytx9wx3pkmxucu3qm0eplld87zvaflkq78lk24umdjyzhr7xlyqcrq8lq Every now and then you run into one of those rare people who legitimately cares about trying to better humankind.

It's sad realizing how many today have joined antivaxxers in spreading misinformation and such, so won't even recognize the value of her work.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw All these pesky laws just don't accommodate people like Musk at all.  How is a malignant narcissist and a con artist even supposed to get by in such a system?


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Most are stupid or straight up bad, but I do have to admit the crying baby Donald Trump is funny at least.

I guess I'll say yet again what I've been saying over and over.  LLMs are not AI.  As they lack any actual understanding, they can't intelligently know what they should or should not do.  It takes external mechanisms to control the output and even then those can usually be tricked.


nostr:npub17tdadn0j58jjrekysl4ley0nlzzge58w5nuw7knncr8mk4vacfkqz3apfk LibreOffice.  I like that, while it does resemble Microsoft Office somewhat, it's far far more light and efficient.  Plus, you know, open and free.  It runs great even on an old Raspberry Pi.  (As far as I know OpenOffice is considered depreciated in favor of LibreOffice and shouldn't be used anymore btw.)

BTW Freeoffice isn't quite as free as it makes out to be.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s And thus started World War III.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw It's long past time for the "dietary supplements" loophole to be closed.  They should have to go through the same rigors and evidence requirements as any medicine or treatment would that claims to do the things they do.


nostr:npub1wjwj5r9ytyhgg7nwmy75t8xrhphw6c8kq94fuv0qdjg6g0fruffq02ue5t I do want to point out again a reminder that trying to force us to migrate FROM a Google account to get the full 1GB for a free account is definitely not helping.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Those look like extremely cheap o-rings.  The kinds you use for things like keyboard keycap dampening rather than the kinds that go into a high pressure, high performance line...


nostr:npub182sqds7al8sn3nxpks6cg995wqgz5nxd6afn5mtmjymum9xx4zdq2vq6t5 You know, I think I somehow never played the expansion.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Could we please please please, just as a society please learn to stop giving malignant narcissists platforms and amplified voices?  Please?


nostr:npub182sqds7al8sn3nxpks6cg995wqgz5nxd6afn5mtmjymum9xx4zdq2vq6t5 Man Unreal was a true classic.  It's too bad they decided to change the formula for the second and then just abandoned it entirely for only the Unreal Tournament style (and then changed even that to something no one enjoyed.  *Sigh*)


nostr:npub1lm59tkrwa65sf4asqhuchp9ygf54t2th2lqgaf6t0fuve2mwacns37f6wy Honestly I've been trying to say this for quite a long time now.  People are taught from an early age that they can basically pick and choose what to believe reality is and thus invent their own little reality to live in, then project it outwards and grow angry if anything dares challenge it.

Though ultimately I think our best long term solution is schools need to have critical thinking classes. You can't directly challenge the former, but you can at least harden people's logic ability


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Gonna be honest, I'm actually getting a little tired of Samsung pretty much dedicating itself these days to trying to compete with Apple over aesthetics and such.  Their sole focus these days seems to be on the least important parts of actually having a modern smartphone.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I mean god forbid people should be able to afford things they need to not be dead.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Uh, the WiiU uh, isn't being, uh, sold anymore...


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Of course no one was ever confused.  It was always just the principle of the thing.  They can't stand that people might recognize that an alternative could exist.


nostr:npub17tdadn0j58jjrekysl4ley0nlzzge58w5nuw7knncr8mk4vacfkqz3apfk Ok, but now do Dvorak users:

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/140/018/836/661/175/original/71302fcd9d522a75.png


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw It's always lovely to watch obscenely rich people ruin things people have relied on for more than a decade on random whimsy or ego.  Impressive job though.  Beating Facebook at spreading disinformation is a seriously hard bar to clear.  But he did it.  Congratulations I guess.  You're a testament to all of America's enemies, the spread of disease and destruction, etc.

I wonder if he's trying to apply for position as a horseman of the apocalypse.  Good luck!


nostr:npub1ntq8qqr07h3znwxcx7nttsgdgtzcheh26w2qex3npeysep6w06ls69rg38 I was surprised from the start of the pandemic how little people seemed to be able to process this fact.  Of course, that was back when at least a handful still seemed to actually care.  I'd see people with so much facial hair it just poked right out of the mask and even lifted the mask from the face a bit.  At that point the air just goes through the beard rather than the mask.  Why did this have to coincide with the yeti look being the in thing?


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 I think I miss back when smartphones were used as small, still kind of somewhat minimal devices for looking things up and etc instead of becoming giant DSLR cameras with so many lenses they look more like a bee's hive sticking out so far that they no longer even fit comfortably in one's hand or in cases.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I'm still not entirely convinced they weren't intentionally sabotaging themselves.  I don't know why, but possibly something to do with all the stocks they sold right before making that announcement.  There is literally no way they didn't realize that declaring even indie devs would suddenly find themselves paying a lot even for games they made many years ago would destroy all trust in the company and chase countless devs away permanently.

Maybe they're aiming for a big sellout?


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 Uh...  It's more like surveillance technology goes hand-in-hand with what people call "AI."  LLMs take data and incorporate it into their model to be regurgitated later and one of other things called AI processes surveillance data then """"intelligently""" decides what to do with it.  Really the fundamental issue there is the actual surveillance done in the first place not the "AI" being applied to it.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Honestly sounds like much ado about very little at least to me.  Chrome should be able to issue a patch for this and apparently Firefox and Safari already don't work with it.  Though the issue lies on the GPU, so drivers possibly should adapt for this.  It sounds like it can't get very much and it takes way too long to be effective given that it can't run its own custom code or anything.  The minimum attack vector for a very very small image was over 30 minutes...


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw It's amazing how effective placebos can be I admit.  Even if you tell people something is a placebo sometimes it still has an effect.

I just wish there wasn't a whole high-profit market built up around selling placebos marketed as not placebos.  I still think we'd be best off with some kind of official placebo products, but like they say it in the fine print.  It wouldn't work for some, but then we wouldn't have people thinking they can prevent the flu by taking vitamin C and zinc.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s I swear, if I ever find a genie I'm writing up a whole stinking contract of a wish.  It's going to be like ten pages for each wish.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s Huh.  Never saw the "Superman becomes a supervillain due to too much caffeine" arc coming.


nostr:npub18un9rr8ffghh3q6d9d0fsuncxqx3d0lxc2s3amxlle9fz8cahxas2mzn38 nostr:npub1aqkehqwg0ghfe0c3spqskyuunvrrfqf5lwmwmh96vue9t27gja3s6ym25r nostr:npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 It can be tricky with sound though.  Sound is extremely subjective.  Internal supersampling to 1MHz or what-have-you sounds great on paper and can certainly do a lot in a number of situations, but in the end, what matters is what it sounds like to one's own ears.  It's very tricky honestly.  It can come out better, worse, or no discernible difference when changing such a thing.

I'm using a hybrid-tube amp these days and the difference of swapping tubes is insane.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Has anyone yet determined the long term durability of folding screens?  Generally speaking, any folding part will eventually start to break down and eventually completely break no matter how flexible -- and they're not exactly made out of rubber anyway.  If you're using a computer *right* you use it for years and years -- it should outlast a phone if you're using it right.  Will these hold up that long?


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw The problem is that it's basically not a scientific discussion to begin with.  It should have been from the start, but at some point it became what effectively amounts to a religion.  That means no matter how much evidence you show one way or the other, people are going to believe whatever they want to believe.


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 I'm seriously confused as to why people keep insisting on treating LLMs as if they are AI.  Just because they might pass a Turing test in a most cursory of manners -- particularly given that they do it by cheating anyway.


nostr:npub14u236zuhv78m8sgznnclprmaff96v0vtm6q7ktex8ykz9pznxzhqypzq27 Funny thing:  it wasn't Mac OS they copied.  Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both copied Xerox.

Can you imagine what it must feel like to be Xerox kicking themselves so hard for creating what later made Microsoft and Apple so rich?


nostr:npub1tvq09mfthcgkj6uk9fynyttv9u8zmlpr3m6qad77552aknl6jcpqd5l6jk This is interesting if true.  Kind of curious, but the article is pay to read.  Would be nice to know for sure how they verified this.


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 I think some part of me just died inside.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s Everything has to start somewhere I guess.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw "Google's app for generating MFA codes syncs to user accounts by default. Who knew?"  They did announce this.  It was a new feature as of very recently.  It was a huge problem before because you had to jump through hoops to transfer 2FA syncs between devices.

Personally though, I do think I like the methods used in software like Aegis better.  It can save to a file I can load between devices.  Not perfect, but a better balance.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Looks pretty good.  Though I think this one has already been remade several times before no?  Still, even if so this one looks like it could be the nicest one yet.

I wonder though.  With the Unity stuff going on, how many projects like this may suddenly go on hold.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw One way or the other there will be lawsuits.

Someone said they sold a bunch of stock a week ago too?  Sounds like there may even be room for insider trading investigations and such.

Honestly, it's all a hot mess.  I really feel like something is weird about all this -- like they were trying to pull some kind of stunt and weren't concerned about the inevitable consequences for whatever reason such as if they all meant to grab a bunch of money and run off or something.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw This sounds borderline illegal.  Like contract violation type stuff.

Though it's sort of fitting from someone anti-union.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I swear it's far past time to close the "dietary supplement" loophole.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I would very much like to know why it was originally measured at less than 1.6 and yet they're reading more than 5.7.  That's orders of magnitude higher on this scale.  So much so that one or the other is wrong.  Frankly it's probably the 5.7 as that would probably wreck the battery just on its own.  As one comment said, France is likely acting on some bad information here.

This is non-ionizing radiation btw.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw "With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and dozens more this month, is no software safe?"
Of course not.  That's the nature of exploits.  And there will always be some crazy condition that breaks things.  It's impossible even to know them all.  The closest thing any software gets to being safe is just if it's not used enough for hackers to bother with it.  Someone still might hack it just for the sheer heck of it, so even that isn't a guarantee.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s That, uh, that might sound like something that I might theoretically possibly in some sort of possibility maybe do.


nostr:npub17tdadn0j58jjrekysl4ley0nlzzge58w5nuw7knncr8mk4vacfkqz3apfk I mean, if someone actually said that, yeah, it would would probably mean they are having a spell of some sort and need someone to slap them to help wake them up.  It's basically a service.  Who knows what someone having a fever dream like that might do.  They might walk straight off a cliff even!


nostr:npub17tdadn0j58jjrekysl4ley0nlzzge58w5nuw7knncr8mk4vacfkqz3apfk TPM encryption makes me so paranoid.  What if something happens that causes it to reset?  Upgrading the processor or motherboard.  Most people don't use an external module -- not all boards even support one.  I feel like it should only be used for volatiles.  I guess it's not as fast, but in the end, doesn't something more universal like Veracrypt just make more sense for stuff like whole disk encryption?


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Interesting choice of words.  Not generically "quality music."  "CD quality" music.  That means 44.1KHz @ 16-bits audio files being output by the "generator," not "will sound like Beethoven's best works."

Honestly I'd argue much of pop music might just as well be AI [sic] (you misspelled LLM) "generated" for how little uniqueness or meaningfulness it tends to have.   LLMs are great for when one has no artistic talent and just wants to produce something non-meaningful minimally.


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 Well, as you suspect it's not the whole picture, but yes, there are indeed limitations.  There is a lot of work being done to find new chemistries or even mechanisms of storing energy, sever of which do show lots of promise, but none are truly fully developed yet.  That said, markets are *VERY* slow to switch over (look how long it took to get away from NiMH.  Some things still use it!)  Ridiculously slow actually.


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 Oh it's so much worse than that.  It doesn't even truly have USB type C fully.  They limit to USB 2.0 speeds on most models for one.  Also it's worth remembering they're doing this because they were forced to.  Actually, I think that's the biggest reason they're acting like it's some great thing.  Can't have the masses realize they can be forced to not force ultra-proprietary stuff on them...


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Thank goodness they didn't run with that earlier BS from a spokesman claiming no one under 75 should get it.  Coming from the CDC, that's dumber I can even put into words.  Given that the vote to recommend boosters for virtually everyone was almost unanimous with only one person voting against it, I bet we know exactly who was that one.

BTW, a lot of people should probably look up the "Bridge" program.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s What if it's actually a black hole and feeding it just makes it larger?


nostr:npub1200ys2hzmazsqkyucvj4pyjay5qnmpu84q2hfyu82qmjxgqlzlyssgaqy2 I wish everyone had an attitude this incredibly healthy.  Most have an attitude of "I suffered, so others must suffer too."  Your attitude here is so opposite it actually benefits others.  I wish you the absolute best and then some.


nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx It only matters once it affects the rich caste.


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 Not to mention the "legal agreement" we supposedly agreed to just by using anything.  Apparently we're all supposed to have personal lawyers on retainer available on call 24/7 to read through 35 page agreements to inform us that page 17, paragraph 3 says they retain the right to sacrifice our firstborn on the first blood moon.


nostr:npub1p9kjc5uauqdfphar82xmq573tf3hnh3mcugkw3t6mjg2y76xkd3sum865w I mean they literally have in the past...


nostr:npub1p9kjc5uauqdfphar82xmq573tf3hnh3mcugkw3t6mjg2y76xkd3sum865w nostr:npub1nqy8enkxxhkwswacl9gsm0y2qqgff8974073gxs0x7plys8m8rkqs4ayuh There is no technicaly reason one couldn't easily do both.  If they've chosen not to, frankly they've been lazy.


nostr:npub1sk46xjnjvup3gw9fumww7rej90gef5ua0xxgt8czsctgx9gsy05sled83s The guy on the right definitely steals the show.


nostr:npub1p9kjc5uauqdfphar82xmq573tf3hnh3mcugkw3t6mjg2y76xkd3sum865w How much would you like to bet it pops up a warning that you're using a non-Apple-certified cable and limits charging rate to 0.5C?


nostr:npub18hdtxw4fy7wyksk5ryskdksq2w9d2fqwd5htkkazeazeh26fmz0srkkf64 I think the thing that upsets me most is that whole "opt out" thing.  The fundamental problem with opt out is you can't undo the fact that by the time you can get into the settings to click that opt out button it has already sent data.  You can try to clear data, but of course, as this says, they've already sent some of it elsewhere.  Plus there's no guarantee they actually remove it.  Of course no one in their right mind would ever opt in, so they basically just have to screw users


nostr:npub1khx67x36rsu5y2f3ruuq8crnxndmep88399l2phu50etnfcrkr6q6hgeyg nostr:npub12gpcqgax0tya60r0gyq5x5w68zqy6qheda2fw60gv8vezvhrppksa3773j And even this is rather simplified and severely cropped.

There also isn't really an actual "missing link."


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I'm still just in shock that somehow it became a thing to do subscription models for car features.  One of these days it *will* lead to harm.  A hack allowing remote disabling of a power steering module or somesuch thing will eventually happen.  The entire mechanism of being able to remote disable functions in a car is just fundamentally a bad idea.

Ngl, if I had such a vehicle, I'd disable its ability to even phone home and wire up bypasses to things like heated seats or whatever.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I feel like this sort of thing is best maybe tested before being deployed instead of after?  I mean I'm not an expert, but it just seems like it's better that way around instead.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Ok, but the key question is how are they going to enforce anything?  Because, let's be honest, Russia really doesn't care anymore.  They've already been committing actual war crimes at this point, so what's a few cyber crimes here and there?


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Am I the only one who misses when phones didn't have a huge ugly bump on the back for over-the-top cameras?  Or, for that matter, when smartphones focused on features besides just the camera to tout...


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw You still just can't beat the sheer simplicity or taste of a coffee press.  Plus the extra benefits of if you lose power for a while, as long as you can heat water (I have one of those little camp stoves for such emergencies) you can make coffee since the press itself uses no power beyond that of your hand.


nostr:npub1gfdrrw9629qxwvwaa3vwnvzhtaqu2c5m9wf6vcwjnmdnhs7hl4jsux7gg6 I'm a bit confused as to why everything says it's an iOS bug but people are apparently having to update Mac computers too.  Is MacOSX now so indistinguishable from iOS that it can have the same bugs?


nostr:npub1tvq09mfthcgkj6uk9fynyttv9u8zmlpr3m6qad77552aknl6jcpqd5l6jk I seriously don't understand why they don't get this.  Instead of fixing the fundamental reasons people first started using ad blockers so that people would just eventually start forgetting even to install them due to lack of necessity, they make things so incredibly obnoxious that we have to not only have them, but start adding custom filters for all that crap.


nostr:npub1aw2gcqz09z6lq5w5thzcadjsy8n7srs8mczkgs4c5rvjyyfh96nsg38vv5 I still can't really decide how I feel about WinAmp in retrospective.  It definitely was the de-facto player of its time.  But I find some more modern players with much cleaner, more optimal interfaces to be so much nicer now.  (Mostly Foobar2000 for me, though I really hate that it's closed source and not available on *nix platforms.)


nostr:npub16hvnfzhqqkgjt7tdwu89x50fcnfhe3fw9pyt3aj97d3uyt3296gsr2sz5u rofl, I forget how good the alt-text on this account so frequently is


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw Seems they've found a not so friendly reminder of why one should always have error handling on even the things you don't think will have an error, lol.

Bet they upgrade their harddrives too though.


nostr:npub1ywyvcvvkchy6g2udk5n79zzc78jm6nl4gqhy2jttkl7pwtszt75qrfcksd This terrifies and amazes me, lol.


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw I don't really understand this enough to really know, but is there any chance that dimagnetism-like property could still be useful for something?


nostr:npub1su4t3c2h2fl2ws6hfcnn5r7jdn87qvhvaafe5uv3hcwygxz3rjssf6a0dw rofl, of all things, just running out of HD space.  It's weird it didn't have any error handling at all though.