Jon_Lowtek

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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
The incentive for payment providers to improve their security is a regulation called PSD2 which directly requires strong customer authentication.
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
Not all definitions. Mine may be a bit old school, meaning publicly disgraced. Yours is more modern meaning slightly embarrassing. Both share that fame means "being spoken of" IMHO no one wants to be infamous, under the classical
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
> the most infamous security breach The XcodeGhost supply chain attack by the CIA infected a hundred million devices with malware. Quixun Zhaos chaos exploit chain took full control over iPhones from a drive by on a website and was use
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
The Guardian is citing aerosociety.com and has a link to this source, which uses direct quotes from the Chief of AI Test and Operations, USAF, at the future combat air space capabilities summit. > What I believe happened in reality You
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
> And those businesses that require ID? People can get extended validation certificates that are strongly authenticated and use that to sign their messages online. As you say: no one is signing b2b contracts using 4chan, they are using
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
> Water usage might be an issue of greater significance there (at Olympic Dam). Then you may be happy to hear that the UN report also notes water pollution by the nuclear industry, citing a publication by the Australian Radiation Prote
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
> You appear to have since edited your original comment to replace "Carbon-14" with a broader non specific "radioactive waste". i did, within minutes of posting it, and before ever knowing about your follow up respo
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
Looking at table 13 of annex b, how does the plutonium-239 emitted in the atmosphere by the reprocessing plants compare to naturally occurring atmospheric plutonium? (scnr - the comparison to cosmic rays just reminds me of the fuel industr
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation - 2016 Report to the General Assembly - Scientific Annex B
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
most radioactive waste created by coal power is filtered and ends up in barrels as well, and nuclear power also release radioactive waste into the atmosphere for everyone to breath, especially when looking at the whole cycle, including mini
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation cares, you can read about it in their 2016 Report to the General Assembly, Scientific Annex B, chapter V, including a comparison of different energy generation techn
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
It is not only possible for companies, but required for many businesses that actually need that level of trust. And we would suffer even more if people would shy away from discussing, for example, unions, or politics, because everything the
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
No one is preventing companies from building platforms that are non-anonymous. What you argue for is that the government requires them and that society marginalises those who don't use them. And that sounds a lot like your core belief
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
Water filtration is not a key enablement tech for totalitarianism, tightly controlling who says what in communication is.
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
Where i live gambling is tightly controlled and requires government id due to money laundering laws. A sad side effect is a scheme were poor people sell their identity to organisations "gambling" on their behalf, trading an intang
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
> no-one seems to take responsibility No profit oriented corporation will ever take responsibility for downsides of their business that can be pushed onto others as externalities. The answer is to force them with regulations. (This
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
> and these workers are in Texas, mind you 20% live out of state, according to https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2023-02-10/youtube-musi... > Suppose you want to live on a ranch a few hours from the of
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
Wages are not the only thing unions can negotiate about. Work flows can be negotiated, as can be work hours and many other things related on how and when the work is done. For example, and note the example is entirely made up by me, if goog
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
If they have "substantial direct and immediate control" one example: workers in this bargaining unit working on Youtube Music at Cognizant as contractors for Google have to request vacation first from Google, and only once they ag
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
the NLRB ruled Cognizant and Google as joint employers
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
It looks like union busting, when the workers filing to unionize get an RTO for what was, in practice, a remote job, and a threat that failure to show up would be seen as "job abandonment" and "voluntary termination". Th
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
Of course it is unethical. The fundamental right to data privacy means that corporations are not allowed to track and profile their users activities without consent and contract. And such consent is purpose-bound, consenting to an autocompl
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
The article doesn't mention an AV software, but a vulnerability assessment solution. Its purpose is to report known vulnerabilities and it would suck, if it did not report known vulnerabilities in system files out of fear of a downstre
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by Jon_Lowtek 3y ago
beauty of the night colors in infrared light i wish i could see
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by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
Honestly, i do not consider that "good enough". Applying updates by manually searching for them, building a boot system with a completely different tech stack, physically removing storage drives, ... i know people who couldn'
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by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
Lenovo does this for their laptops, but struggles with peripherals. Story time: A while ago Lenovo had bugs in their thunderbolt and uefi firmware, with symptoms like glitches when the devices were plugged in a lenovo ultra docking station.
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by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
Drivers that are near unobtainable except when using the preinstalled OS is a NO-GO. But it's probably something trivial. I know stories about bleeding edge wifi hardware drivers not being provided by a year old LTS Ubuntu (well du&#x2
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by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
Far more interesting IMHO is whether the vendor publishes uefi updates and other low level firmware for the device in a way that doesn't require a running ms-windows to patch it. Dare i ask for open source firmware?
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by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
sidney injecting information about the conversation state from search results into the current conversation state may be a more serious problem than you think, as such data can easily be forged and seo spammed.
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by Jon_Lowtek 4y ago
>> This user intentionally and methodically forced the model to act as antagonistic as possible to gather view. I do wonder if this is the case, if Marvin had used previous sessions still in memory, or parts of this conversation not

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