CyberSeeker

@CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de
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Digital signature as a means of non repudiation is exactly the way this should be done. Any official docs or releases should be signed and easily verifiable by any public official.

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When using an external TPM. Which next to no one does.

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So the article repeats, several times, “waymo relies on remote operators”. I don’t think the author knows what “self-driving” means.

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They’ve been around since 2018, and with only two weeks notice, now are saying they need $150k?! Who the fuck is their CFO, and how did their burn rate get so out of control? Shouldn’t they have started the campaign months ago if this was an expected problem?

This just fucking reeks of embezzlement; grossly mismanaging the funds charitable individuals had entrusted them with.

That’s the benefit of a custom domain, I suppose; you can always change he provider without changing your email.

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Any competitor worth their salt will match and exceed that as a signing bonus.

Linux device attacks preventable by standard security precautions

Why are you running a VPN? If you are simply shielding your internet activity from your ISP, Google won’t give a shit where you sign in from.

If you are browsing to shield your identity, you want to be fully disassociated with any non-secure browsing habits. If this is your use case, even if you are using discrete internet accounts, tracking cookies are common enough that, you would still be identifiable from your browser fingerprint. It all depends on what your risk factors are, and how much you want to spend to mitigate them.

Cost of living, yes, and if you’re a solid performer, 3% is considered good. However, this is a 5% across the board, and a large increase to entry level.

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Who cares if the code is open source, or pre-training weights are released? Virtually every Masters in CS student in 2024 is building this from scratch. The differentiator is the training dataset, or at worst, the weights after fine tuning the model.

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Original Doom was not GPU accelerated.

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BlackRock, for one, which shouldn’t make you feel any better.

NeXT was a mediocre BSD front end and a few interesting Objective-C libraries. Apple’s board of directors pretty much crawled back to Jobs hat in hand after the disasters of Sculley and Spindler.

And, specifically, Trump thinks he can get the same deal passed while he is in office. In other words, what is important to Trump now is denying Biden a bipartisan “victory” that he thinks he will be able to achieve, instead.

Or, the real sign of gentrification is that the Google Maps car drives by your neighborhood more than once every five years. Guarantee that’s not happening in the projects.

For what country?

In the US, at least, the long term average is 3.10%, including the post-1913 Great Depression and the Oil Crisis/Great Inflation of the 1970s. From 1990-2020, the average has been 2.2%, just slightly worse than the stated goal of current US economic policy, which is to maintain long term inflation at a rate of 2%.

Meaning, 3% beats inflation significantly more than half of the time, especially since 1990.

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Bingo. If, at the limit, the purpose of a generative AI is to be indistinguishable from human content, then watermarking and AI detection algorithms are absolutely useless.

The ONLY means to do this is to have creators verify their human-generated (or vetted) content at the time of publication (providing positive proof), as opposed to attempting to retroactively trying to determine if content was generated by a human (proving a negative).

Reddit is not a “big corporation”.

How big is big? They’re working on a 6.5 billion dollar valuation. Sure, that’s not S&P 500, but that’s not your mom and pop coffee shop.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/01/reddit-seeking-a-valuation-of-up-to-6point5-billion-in-ipo.html

antitrust law does not regard as illegal the mere possession of monopoly power where it is the product of superior skill, foresight, or industry

United States v. Grinnell Corp. (1966).

A market share of ninety percent "is enough to constitute a monopoly; it is doubtful whether sixty or sixty-four percent would be enough; and certainly thirty-three per cent is not.

United States v. Aluminum Co. of America (1945)

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Don’t bother with the cert if it’s not your job, but at least look into CCNA Routing and Switching. There are tons of courses available, both in person and online, as well as numerous YouTube videos on the subject.

See if your local library or community college has an adult education center that provides a course. At some point, you will need to learn subnetting, which is just math, but practice makes perfect, and your life is easier if you have it committed to memory.

Proper written work is still one of the most effective ways to do this.

The biggest mistake users will make is thinking their data is safe JUST because they have a NAS or a RAID. It’s common parlance in Systems Administration that RAID is NOT backup.

To wit— not truly understanding RAID and how it relates to capacity, parity, and especially the time required to rebuild in failed disk situation. It is a crucial mistake to use RAID 5 with greater than 2TB disks, and even that is pushing it, but RAID 5 is at least in the zeitgeist.

There are also some outside concerns such as Drive batch dates and knowing to pre-purchase spare disks well in advance that may hamper recovery.

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So if ISPs are once again Title II common carriers, how can they enforce the TikTok ban? 🤔

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Not cheaper. More likely there is budget available for National Guard resources and things like anti-terror, disaster relief, etc., as opposed to next to nothing for infrastructure improvements and staffing.

This is a full funding plan, for the rest of the fiscal year, for six out of the twelve required funding bills.

I mean, yea? Income less operating expenses is profit, so if you can lower operating costs, without compromising the service, your bar to profitability is by definition lower. This is why it is called “right sizing”.

Fta:

"I want to be clear that we still have more than enough resources," said Clancy. "We are still a reasonably sized organisation. We're still going to be able to service your needs. We're still going to be able to improve the product.

What’s worrying about this report is that it’s coming from Google itself.

Google just bought Mandiant, one of the leading cybersecurity and threat intelligence firms. Therefore, Google is one of the leading cybersecurity and threat intelligence firms.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/google-makes-second-largest-acquisition-ever-5-4-billion-for-mandiant/

It’s now expected that Google would release this kind of report, seeing as they sell this as an enterprise service.

Mandiant has previously released this type of report regularly; for instance, they were the firm that disclosed the SolarWinds hack.

Why do you think they all opposed right to repair?

And specifically, right to open repair? They’ll happily send you a $600 TPM-locked biometric sensor, because they would control the market and ROI, but won’t let you buy a $90 alternative from someone else.

Only the cyber truck. Model S and 3 refreshes are still on the legacy platform, with a lithium ion 12V.

This. They clearly overextended due to the boom in streaming during the pandemic, and are now reacting to the contraction in content consumption both here, and on YouTube.

So let’s say I ask a talented human artist the same thing.

Doesn’t this prove that a human, at some level, is storing the data of the Joker movie screenshot somewhere inside of their memory?

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There are other videos that will hash to the same value

This concept is known as ‘collision’ in cryptography. While technically true for weaker key sizes, there are entire fields of mathematics dedicated to probably ensuring collisions are cosmically unlikely. MD5 and SHA-1 have a small enough key space for collisions to be intentionally generated in a reasonable timeframe, which is why they have been deprecated for several years.

To my knowledge, SHA-2 with sufficiently large key size (2048) is still okay within the scope of modern computing, but beyond that, you’ll want to use Dilithium or Kyber CRYSTALS for quantum resistance.

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While true, it’s pretty asinine to hold companies operating in China accountable for complying with Chinese law. It sucks, but they aren’t just going to abandon the Chinese ~cash cow~ market.

Agreed, the echo chamber is real on Reddit/Lemmy. Easy to hate on Elon, but people are acting as if the old men leading most other Fortune 100 companies think any differently than he does. You can find the rare exception, but you’ll have a hard time living in modern society without your money filtering up to a bigot somewhere.

Elon just lacks the filter to keep himself from saying it.

I believe this is already the case; domain reputation is weighted pretty heavily by Gmail and others, so it will take some months before you’ve established enough rep. Following SPF/DMARC/DKIM is crucial, followed with time your domain has been registered and typical outbound volume from your domain.

You are absolutely correct— major blog hosting, image hosting, and video hosting sites are all “free” for the content creator, but YouTube by far has the largest audience and highest monetization rates of any of them.

This is just creators buying in with their wallets; it makes sense to go where the money is, even if the format sucks for the idealized content consumer.

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Source, please.

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Take that Geiger counter close to most old concrete sometime. Now think of what these old buildings are made of.

Sorry if I’m about 10 years behind Linux development, but how does Docker compare with the latest FlatPak trend in application distribution? How you have described it sounds somewhat similar, outside of also getting segmented access to data and networks.

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I wouldn’t immediately jump to that conclusion. There are plenty of legitimate business opportunities that do not imply “taking money to promote products”. In-line advertising and properly disclosed free samples are standard operating procedure for the tech industry, but they are completely above board, and by themselves do not imply bias.

Nearly every content creator’s YouTube channel About page or website will have a similar line, somewhere.