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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
It's cute to see commenters answering the question while the article is also doing that work. Anyway, honest question: who the hell is "domainregistry.com"? They claim they've been "accredited since 1996". I&#x
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I've got a crazy bizarre idea. Why don't you contact Amazon customer service and ask them about it? You can describe the cards and give them the numbers and then tell them why you believe they've been tampered. I mean it&#x27
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
> what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire tl;dw: A well-intentioned surveillance state may, in fact, love the beings they are surveilling. They may fa
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Speaking of botched LLM summaries, my bank has been doing this to me for several months now. Instead of the transaction info which is strictly defined and uniformly formatted, they've attempted to give "friendly names" to eac
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Usually, I restrict any extension to be "click to activate" and that works just fine. There is often no need to have anything running on every domain and every website. So it does ultimately become a whitelisting situation of my
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Tantamount to malware, considering how it has been legally exiled from 3 platforms, especially Google's own extension store! Good luck trusting that supply chain, man!
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
If someone is going in to a situation where they know there are armed riot police, armed federal agents, armed and agitated protestors, and several people have already been unalived, I would call them nothing but "suicidal" to car
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I had Smart Features enabled for years. Years! They worked okay. They put good accurate stuff on my calendar and so there was useful work being done by the AI in background. Unfortunately, in the past few months, Gemini AI really started sh
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Jabber was big with the "federated, decentralized" crowd. I recall several colleagues who established Jabber addresses and advertised them, sometimes as their only IM address. XMPP was more than Gtalk, but I think that Gtalk was t
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Churches used to be the only source of welfare support for American citizens (and in other nations) until the New Deal. One of the central tenets of the New Deal was that, in a pluralistic society, under disestablishmentarianism, it was u
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
ICQ was not only proprietary, but it was centralized and server-based, even though the messaging part was peer-to-peer. Even in those heady early days of the mid-90s, it was recognized that many end-users were behind NAT and firewalls and o
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Abortion was legal, but wasn't it sort of extraordinarily dangerous ? I mean, particularly a surgical abortion would have been, at that time. For millennia there had been instructions and recipes for making abortifacient concoctions,
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I am sorry -- what in the world do your comments on "infrastructure and defense", and those four links, have to do with garments?
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
What about the trillions of dangerous and live viruses that are cultured in order to make vaccines in the first place? Would those be harmful if they escaped into the wild? Or what about if they were ... deliberately released somehow? Are t
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
It should be a crime to accuse someone who is innocent of any intent to cause harm, and a crime to manufacture evidence to that effect, because basically you could never prove that Alice infected Bob, let alone with malicious intent. It is
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Isn't it ironic that many world cultures wear garments that Westerners mock and belittle as feminine "dresses"? I mean, even kilts for Scotsmen? It is very interesting to learn that the evolution of Roman Catholic vestments f
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I must protest that this kind of announcement belies the stupidity of proprietary chat protocols. Remember when IRC was king, and basically, anyone could write an IRC client? Anyone could write a MUD client, or even a Telnet client. Those a
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Well, spam is no big deal, and any scam that comes via email should not affect anyone who is educated and prepared for them. Of course, with a well-known email address, you could run a higher risk of credential stuffing, and an account take
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
They are not being marked as "Suspicious" but they are showing an infobox that explains they could not be scanned at all. You could click "Seems Safe" on these messages, but they are not scanned by Google, and they a
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
There is no way, no possible way that Google prohibits the use of multiple accounts. They do not. They cannot. I just asked Gemini and I checked the actual TOS. It does not, in any way, prohibit these uses. In fact, this is plainly eviden
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I was visiting a girlfriend once, and she was in the process of moving in the same city. There was a telephone bill on top of her dresser, and I noticed that she had noted "butt-rape fee" next to one of the line items there. Now s
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
It was interesting to me finding out how many "urban farms" are nestled in our own cityscape, and how many of those "farms" are actually selling their produce, meats, and even livestock. Until very recently (like 6 decad
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I don't think y'all understand why I have separate Google accounts. I use them for different purposes. They are "role accounts" for projects I am doing, such as geneaology and astronomy. In order to use YouTube sanely, a
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Step zero. Never disclose your email address to anyone. This is very easy and straightforward. I operate 6 Gmail accounts, and three are "alts" where I've basically never given the address out to anyone at all, and they recei
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Yes, my Gmail inbox is full of regular senders being flagged as "possibly unsafe" and I need to click a button "Looks Safe" to accept them. They are not being spamboxed, but they are definitely flagged. Even official com
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
What makes you think I'm not a lawyer? The point is that we're not in court, we're in a pseudonymous open forum on the Internet, where everyone has a stinky opinion, where actual attorneys are posting disclaimers that they ar
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
I once worked for an ISP where our routers and servers were co-located at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. So I would visit the machine room on occasion to go fix things with the SunOS 4 systems we had. For a while, I considered requesti
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
Look, just because an LLM thing is named "agent" doesn't mean it is "legally an agent". If I were an attorney in court, I would argue that a "mechanical or automatic agent" cannot truly be a personal agent
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by B1FIDO 9mo ago
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