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by autoexec 9d ago
Having hardcoded credentials is a sign of total incompetence. In this case at least it wasn't a password, but an API key which can be used to request credentials (stored in plaintext) which look like they'd get you access Flock&#x
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by autoexec 9d ago
Having hardcoded credentials is a sign of total incompetence. In this case at least it wasn't a password, but an API key which can be used to request credentials (stored in plaintext) which look like they'd get you access Flock&#x
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by autoexec 10d ago
I agree, lots of alternatives to the specific one you suggested exist and would probably be better.
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by autoexec 10d ago
Last I heard McDonald's and Taco Bell were trialing AI again at a limited number of stores. It's the kind of job AI should be really good at and many fast food companies are using call center workers currently. They really want
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by autoexec 10d ago
I'm not buying it and nobody should. It's just a marketing ploy, and most importantly a way to keep the AI bubble afloat. The fact is that AI is incapable of living up to the hype and AI companies can't keep promising that an
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by autoexec 10d ago
Right now AI hasn't even managed to replace all the human workers taking orders at the fast food drive thru. That's a job often performed by literal children and companies are still waiting for AI to get good enough for even that.
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by autoexec 10d ago
AI is perfect for tasks if you don't care about them being done correctly. Many companies just don't care about providing effective customer service and really don't want to provide it at all.
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by autoexec 10d ago
The paper lists the mental health conditions as "anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorders, self-harm, acute stress reaction and other". I'm surprised that multiple people went into the ER to seek treatme
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by autoexec 10d ago
"Ads are useful, they help you lie to and manipulate customers" Information is useful, but that's not what ads are for. No one is interested in giving consumers honest and accurate information about their products without lie
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by autoexec 10d ago
The NSA has probably already forced Apple to hand the keys over to them.
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by autoexec 10d ago
If they airdrop it to you that typically requires you to have an iphone or a mac and airdrop users are able to be identified and tracked so the photo could still be linked to your device. The EU forced apple to use Wi-Fi Aware though, so un
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by autoexec 10d ago
It's interesting to see how people behave so differently when it's covert. When they can't see the person behind the camera it's as if becomes less real to them. I've seen videos of people screaming at someone for f
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by autoexec 11d ago
It always seems to keep me, a normal human, locked out of any site that uses it.
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by autoexec 11d ago
I'd have a lot less of a problem with AI if everything that went into their training was public domain and made easily available to anyone for any use. It'd feel less like AI companies were just stealing the work of others and cha
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by autoexec 11d ago
They wouldn't be paying for the content, just the bandwidth. Like buying a linux OS on a CD ROM was about the cost of media not profiting off of the software.
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by autoexec 11d ago
I've personally been using the Wayback Machine more often because I increasingly find myself being blocked from websites who are trying to keep out scrapers even though I'm just a regular person with JS disabled (along with a bunc
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by autoexec 11d ago
> Consumers, fundamentally, care about two things: * Price * Features Consumers also care about accessibility. It doesn't matter to me if product X is amazing and affordable if I can't find it in any store anywhere near me or i
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by autoexec 11d ago
> Now with LLMs, they won't gain attention and all knowledge would be stuck in LLMs but there would be no knowledge base to train the LLMs on so... It's even worse, the internet is getting filled with AI generated slop. All tha
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by autoexec 11d ago
From that same link: "Two-party consent laws apply to private conversations where participants have a reasonable expectation of privacy." You have no reasonable expectation of privacy when you are in public or can be clearly heard
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by autoexec 11d ago
> the stuff about smart speakers specifically is still a dumb conspiracy theory We know for certain that they do listen to us even when they shouldn't and send that data https://www.techradar.com/news/your-smar
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by autoexec 11d ago
> The law states that you cannot photograph of film people without their consent, even in the street What country do you live in? This is almost certainty not true in the US
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by autoexec 11d ago
Cell phones are so useful that I'm not surprised that people are willing to bug themselves and their homes with them, but wearables offer so much less while being just as invasive. I suspect that people will take the bait anyway. I don
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by autoexec 11d ago
Kind of. You still need an account/iphone to set it up. It will still send data via wifi if it can, and you'll be tracked over bluetooth even if you keep in in "airplane mode". I'm not sure how easily you get data
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by autoexec 11d ago
I can't bring myself to send a corporation a constant stream of extremely personal data when I know they absolutely will sell/leak all of it along with the countless assumptions they'll make about me using that same data. It&
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by autoexec 11d ago
Random existing Windows bugs breaking things, third party software breaking things on install/uninstall, and bloat causing problems are very different from Microsoft forcing an update that introduces new flaws in windows and breaks Win
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by autoexec 11d ago
Look for yourself. The very first line of their policy is "Signal is designed to never collect or store any sensitive information" At one point in the distant past that was actually true! They used to brag about how many times the
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by autoexec 11d ago
> I heard an add for a car a few days ago on NPR that was literally just "it has 30+ inches of screens!" But perhaps the story is more about consumers who just want new, exciting things like weird door handles and 30 inches of
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by autoexec 12d ago
> Privacy is only hard because comoanies are not telling/asking tgeir customers before sharing their data. If customers had to log into some website (collecting their data) and then explicitly allow data one company collected on the
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by autoexec 12d ago
> Free products will always abuse your privacy This ignores that fact that products that cost several thousands of dollars, even tens of thousands, also abuse your privacy. Pretty much always too. It also ignores the fact that local&#x2F
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by autoexec 12d ago
> My thought was to write legislation that gives 20% of my generated ad revenue to me the customer as legal tender All companies now raise their prices by 20% or more depending on how much data they collect. Let's just make surveill

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