While corporate America focuses on mainly profits, "fighting for human rights" are just empty slogan, because corporate America is already exploiting human misery for profits. For government, it's going to be "to prevent China from becoming the dominant tech power in the developing world" that's going to drive this sort of initiative, which most likely will have mixed results or fail miserably altogether. Chinese exports are already driving the non-elite consumer markets in the developing worlds.

Spokespeople for NCTA and pharmaceutical company Gilead said that they immediately paused their ad spending on X after CNN flagged their ads on the pro-Nazi account.

Alt-speak: we only care if the media report that our ad placements were next to questionable contents.

All the way. Don't settle for just chrome plating.

Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned.

It claims to be creating a new global “identity and financial network”.

Altman, who founded Open AI, which built chat bot ChatGPT, says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot. He also says this could lead to everyone being paid a universal basic income but it is not clear how.

Sure, bud, hand over our biometrics for your private fiat money, for the promise of unclear-how basic income, meanwhile with your exploiting the poors and manipulating the laws to favor yourself.

PWM saves the URL with the password record. It doesn't auto-fill username/password on a website that the user hasn't already approved, so it provides some phishing-resistance when the URL is unknown, or is just similar to the originally saved URL.

Biometrics data that can't be changed in the control of questionable corporations? No way. It's gonna be sort of like Reddit: your data is our property, and in this case, it looks like they actually give you minimally in exchange.

Whatever happens on the inside of a robotaxi is generally visible on the outside to bystanders and other motorists, The Standard notes of the AV's "fishbowl-like" design.

"While [autonomous vehicles] will likely be monitored to deter passengers having sex or using drugs in them, and to prevent violence, such surveillance may be rapidly overcome, disabled or removed," the study said. "Private [autonomous vehicles] may also be put to commercial use, as it is just a small leap to imagine Amsterdam’s Red Light District ‘on the move.’"

Convenient meetups, plus the additional benefits for certain fetishes.

But don't worry, folks, we'll take this opportunity to put even more surveillance tech in for you to keep you safe and meanwhile, perfectly maintain your privacy. 🤪

Religions adapt.

Somehow, I found the lead scientist's statement and the associated news to be click-baiting. Right, you crash something into a composite rock, and expect no ejecta from it. That's pretty freaking believable. That's like, the most basic physics you can expect from it. This is just to grab your attention so we can get more funding (which they may deserve, even if this is irritating), folks.

Yeah, this is definitely a problem with brand new services, especially when the native app isn't appealing. For example, I use Liftoff for Lemmy. Open-sourced✅ In official Appstore✅ Relatively transparent who the developer is✅ No special permission starting off✅ Relatively few downloads📛 .

When a mobile app doesn't ask for permissions, it's definitely less nerve-racking than the more permissive desktop environments where the apps don't have to be special to do considerable damages.

Speaking about Windows PC.

1. Not everybody thinks they need such security because it's their home computer.
2. Enabling device encryption necessitates the backup of the encryption key (and backup of the data files); otherwise, you may lose all the contents when things go wrong (like the key disappears after an update). People who don't understand the tech may not know where their backup keys are.
3. Windows Home encryption is a hassle since you don't have finer-grain control over the encryption, unlike Bitlocker on Windows Pro. This is the lamest scheme for Windows. You only get practical basic security with Windows Pro.
4. Enabling system drive encryption may make your system backup/recovery harder or impossible in some configurations. Figuring this out may require some technical expertise.

That's a shit post, man.

Apparently, Google has also taken to suck deez nuts.

It seems obvious because there are no obvious upsides to it. One of the scenarios in sci-fic is, the people with enhancements out-compete non-enhanced people, making it hard not to get one if you can afford it. You, of course, can never trust the likes of Musk and Zuck to put such things in your head, but would you have any viable/attractive choices when such a scenario pans out? Easy life vs. hard but free life.

An analogous example nowadays is, would you take steroids to compete as a pro athlete if you can get away with it, even with all its downsides?

True.

• Automatic patch => automatic installation of malware

• Manual patch => unpatched vulnerabilities

Screwed either way.

Here's the paper: https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2023-tunnelcrack.pdf

Some OpenVPN and Wireguard clients are impacted. See the paper.

Lemmy!

Shoppers of Dell Australia's website who were buying a computer would see an offer for a Dell display with a lower price next to a higher price with a strikethrough line. That suggested to shoppers that the price they'd pay for the monitor if they added it to their cart now would be lower than the monitor's usual cost. But it turns out the strikethrough prices weren't the typical costs. Sometimes, the lower price was actually higher than what Dell Australia typically charged.

Don't believe in ads, folks. If prices are important for you, do you own research.

RIP. Thx for the label.

Not saying this is the answer to your question, but generally, it's the hardware/software unaccounted-for states that can't easily be recovered from. So, rebooting would hopefully get it in a known "clean" state, and hopefully, not falling into that unaccounted-for state again.

Shitty, but works with some other things too. Angry, frustrated, hopeless? Sleep it off, maybe (not guaranteed) it will be better tomorrow.

Holy cow!

And definitely not standing at the back end!

That's a betrayal for pineapple pizza lovers all over the world! I think those are freaking hot peppers!

Oh, yeah, it's engaging stuffs. I've gone through:

• Oh, no, this instance defederates for safety but it stops working for days
• Oh, look, that instance is close to me and I can go faster
• Oh, crap, this instance doesn't allow downvote
• Oh, shoot, this instance doesn't work real well with this community
• Oh, look, that instance is using cloudflare
• Oh, no, this instance has trouble with this browser's extension

The good thing about all these is, one instance going down is not a problem anymore!

Not saying that it shouldn't be shut down, but it sounds suspiciously convenient. No backups?

Welcome, to the Twilight Zone...

https://www.inoreader.com is great. Love it.

You can use this tool to help. https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim When you unsubscribe, you have to unsubscribe from each account manually, though.

I think it would be hard to answer that because most everything, if not all, have some drawbacks. Also, the reason can be subjective. I hate it because I hate it.

favor

Ad partner/customer potential?

The most preferred way to engage with toxic people are to downvote the post/comment in question, report them, and block them. Trawling their history like that would make me even unhappier, voting being anonymous or not.

OK. Info added.

addy.io is a privacy-focused email service that allows you to create and manage email aliases...

There began a night, wet and dreary...

Cool computers!

Can relate.

Poor lizard, not only he's stinky and ugly, he is already having problems with eye sights. Old age?

Yes, open-sourced. SQL database. Most likely people who have gripes with lemmy.world.

When I forgot part of my my old password, I came up with a list of words that I possibly could have come up with and tried those. I eventually found it even if I was panicky the whole time. If I were you, I would list the words and try them in the order of probabilities.

Un/Fortunately, BW is implemented to rate-limit password brute-forcing. I feel you about your CAPTCHA hell, and I hate their surreal sunflower CAPTCHA (maybe to make it as repulsive as possible to the hackers?).