u/Mr_ToDo

Seems like a silly way to try and get around it

It would probably be easier to find whatever qualified loyalists you have and just cycle them between positions you want rigged. There's got to be enough people to keep that up for a few years

You're right, it does seem like a bad attempt

What happens when you charge people for damage done even if they don't participate? Protesters prone to non violence stop protesting, the percent of the protest pool moves to favour more.... active disagreements, and without the cooling rods of calm minds in a mob they'll likely see more problems, not less

Well that, and people will try to hide their identities which will make it far easier for the real bad actors to get away with things

Indeed, but as I recall a court said that they can't overcome the peoples rights by adding copyrighted material

But even if that's a global right, you'd still have to make the argument and to a lot of people it isn't worth the time or cost of doing so

In theory if you're using some sort of streaming UDP setup then you could lose packets that aren't re-sent

But I wouldn't invest in overpriced snake oil to fix it. Change the cables, shorten the run length, avoid running close to higher voltage lines

Not that I think you'd hear it anyway, but if you put all the variables in their favour then you can technically show a setup that might have a different outcome with their hardware

Is it stupid? Hell yes, but the best lies always hold a grain of truth to them. It's the same crap we're watching in the US right now. Yes it's a steaming pile of crap but there's kernels of truth that supporters are willing to point at to pretend that they're eating corn muffins and not a cow paddy

Eh. Shit happens

I set my alarm off without any real smoke. In the oven at higher then normal heat seems to set off the detector as quickly as actual visible smoke from something burning

And even if it had been a genuine, left on the heat smoke/fire it doesn't seem like something that gets the call out billed when it's the first time

Got to wonder if it's a poorly made building that's just letting air flow too easily from the units and that's caused repeated calls. Then maybe rather then fixing the problem they just pass the bill onto the tenants(they know the cost before getting an invoice so it's obviously not the first time the landlord has done this)

But yes. There's missing information. They just might not have the most important parts

I've heard of that option for some states and it seems a bit wild to me

Repair costs are probably just fine since the worst case should be some new vehicles, but if you get hit up for other costs(medical, maybe infra damage, and things like that) I'd rather have that cost evened out with all the other insurance holders. I'd have to be pretty big to take the insurance savings as acceptable when such a big wildcard exists

Interesting. Certainly a bunch of new stuff for me. I was certainly still on the whole "nothing could eat it" line of thinking

Just a little while back I was watching a video on the bans/proposed bans of peat mining. The way it looked it made me wonder if bogs left long enough would end up with something coal like. And if their damn near negligible generation of the top layer is what it was like globally then I'd bet that we'd never keep up with coal use(millimetre a year at best vs billions of tons of coal used)

Considering that I was under the impression that this was a "sorry, there's nothing that can be done" sort of thing, it's cool to see a treatment that's already in human trials. Here's hoping it works

Interesting

My guess as to why it didn't log you out is that when they originally got access they set it to not do that

I once dealt with an infection where they had planted the remote access then tried to use the webcam to check for when the user stepped away(no camera in my case so they ended up trying it after a certain period of idle which was seen by the user who was doing other work at their desk)

Not that it really matters at this point of course, I just find it interesting to see the different behaviours they use

I guess technically you could just format the existing partitions in place. Then you'd have to combine that with not formatting the UEFI and recovery partitions, then set it to reuse those. And then if the infection was in those two places it could be an issue

A hell of a lot of assumptions to make when someone says formatted though. I'd say the odds far better favour that when they say formatted they mean deleted the partitions since that's how things normally go when you install from ISO/USB. To the point that it'd be better to ask for clarification if you think it's anything else

Because they are what they say on the tin. Risk factors

Plenty of tech has world ending possibilities. That isn't the same as saying it's going to be the outcome

I think we'd be better off if we added a bit of thinking down the line of whether it's better or worse that they keep these things in mind and post them publicly. To me it sounds a lot like product recalls or comprimise disclosures. Yes, it's bad things can happen, but not talking about it makes the whole situation worse

As to why people would invest? Besides money, sometimes having a real breakdown in risk vs reward can make a person more confident in their choice rather then less

Besides if it does go rogue it's going to be a reflection of mankind in its training and that's one of those ends that we'd really have coming

Looking it up, deleted google account users can't be reused.

I'd assume that a domain that was used for workspace could probably be reused if the domain was cancelled, but I think google services probably aren't the highest priority for domain abuse

You can not allow access to gmail from their AI services

It's not default shared, it's when you use their AI to get personalized responses that it does this

Not great, but also not what the headline is saying

I'd be interested in seeing it tested based on wanting to know exactly how the tool came to the conclusions it did. Not just the "crossed state lines" but how it thought that should be a thing worth mentioning. It's entire input to output path

AI is fun in how it can generate information but when it needs to be something a defence can analyze I'm doubting they're going to be supplying sufficient information

If GTA6 was on my buy list I'd probably be upset at the size. I tend to have a rather large collection of installed games as I rarely stick to one game until exhausting its content. PC wise(as I don't have a PS5), my largest SSD is 2TB and the decent gaming hardware only has a 1TB. Add the OS and you start to choke when adding hundreds of gigs for a single item

But for me the solution is easy. If I don't want the large games then I don't buy them

Sure, but do remember that transfers aren't the only writes it'll get. Normal software probably isn't a big deal, but if it's an OS you can get a ton of writes without ever knowing it

And if it doesn't have much in the way of spare blocks, wear levelling is going to depend on how much fee space you have too

That said, the write numbers I've seen on still working SSD's is crazy on just how high it can get without failure

Sure, but as I understand it Flocks contract has a 60 day period to remove the cameras

I wouldn't be shocked if they have language on how long the services will remain active after cancellation too. I know most commercial services I use don't let me cancel and stop services immediately(even doing it at the end of contract time needs advance notice or it's considered renewed)

I don't have nearly enough details to be outraged at this particular behaviour of Flock's. Plenty of other things to dislike them for that it doesn't seem overly worth digging deeper

It'll help, but did you read the restrictions?

1000+ members only, only new content after the feature goes live, and half the world is opt in, not out

So ya, it'll be nice for some things but I'm betting it still won't be a replacement for proper freely public facing help systems

Oh, and apparently once you opt in or are opted in, if you opt out any messages you posted while opted in will remain public unless deleted, which is an.... interesting move

If nothing else I've seen insurance companies give nothing if veering into a ditch caused you damage and there's nobody else to back you up. Animal damage is no fault, so money wise it makes sense to hit them rather then risking an unknown other outcome

In much the same way I know if it's a skunk or a bear

I don't. I know "speed bump", and "Oh fuck"

I'm guessing it's probably there for the tendency to prey on vulnerable people

Sure, for a giggle I don't see any problem. For, say, someone looking for help with life problems I can see how it could get out of hand. And I'm betting that the steady income doesn't come from the one off readings

That does sound about right

It's also amusing. "forced political disclosures"? It's AI use, if people attach political views to it that's one thing, but AI itself isn't much of a political choice. After all steam already requires DRM and 3rd party EULA disclosures and those are no different

Me? I don't really care much about AI use, but I know a lot of people do(much in the same way as how I won't buy any games with additional DRM but many other will without hesitation). So the only real problem is that there are people who want to avoid something and they want to avoid telling them so they buy it anyway

Besides, looking at game reviews on steam, I'd wager that a large number of anti-AI folk don't even look at the disclosure when buying(Soooooo many "They used Ai and I only found out after 10,000 hours of playing it, zero out of ten" reviews)

I imagine there's still some software compatibility to think about too

The connector being improved is a good thing, don't get me wrong on that, but this issue will never truly be solved unless load balancing comes back.

Or everything gets over engineered to handle the load coming from fewer points. But that seems like a stupid fix for something with an existing proven solution

Maybe power supplies could move to more active current control, but again, that's adding costs where it really shouldn't be needed

Even if you do the basic LFS install, you quickly realize just how much things can snowball when you're manually dealing with things

Last time I did that on a proper linux system it was because a library dependency was broken in the repo. Then I have to tiptoe around the system updates as it's not in the expected state