bonton89

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by bonton89 3y ago
I actually think AI is going to wreak economic havoc, usher in whole new levels of surveillance capability to completely crush effective political dissent and launder copyright away from small entities to large powerful ones. For your avera
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by bonton89 3y ago
Because corporations and state level actors have huge monetary power and/or monopolies on violence and can do everything some guy in basement can do as well.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Aren't bluetooth and wifi typically on the same module these days? The worst interference problem I've heard of is how USB 3.0 uses 2.4ghz and therefore can cause problems with devices connected with it.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Unfortunately, most people wouldn't care enough to put up with any extra friction, and eventually you'd be against the tide and increasingly locked out of interacting with modern society. I mean, people apparently willingly upload
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by bonton89 3y ago
I guess mac address tracking is better than the facial recognition method K-Mart was using.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Reminds me of the guy who created rolling traffic jams on google maps by pushing around a wheelbarrow full of phones.
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by bonton89 3y ago
btrfs has checksums as well.
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by bonton89 3y ago
The lack of 3D paravirtual devices is a real sore spot in kvm. To my knowledge, virgl still isn't quite there but is all there is so far in this space. VMware has the best implementation IMO and everything else is a step down.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Paying will at best temporarily stop ads, until the company wants more money and brings them back. Which we've already seen. And it will not stop aggressive user tracking at all. In fact, it will make the later worse for you on the ind
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by bonton89 3y ago
I've always seen these called inline couplers but only in the context of RJ45 and RJ11 for some reason.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I still use some tech subs but I used to dumbscroll the main page for inane things to laugh at. What was on there changed over time and it was well past the high point, but maybe a year or six months ago I just couldn't do it. The stuf
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by bonton89 3y ago
Some of them just detect your IP and dump you in an endless loop. Sort of like a captcha shadow ban. I suppose they might let you through after 30 loops or something, but only a bot would last that long.
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by bonton89 3y ago
They should just ask you for money to prove you're human. If robots could be duped into buying useless crap off the internet they wouldn't care about humans in the first place.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Yes, no more offline mode shuffle and dealing with saves getting out of sync.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Definitely agree on the all over the place metrics for AMD. This is somewhat complicated by the chipset. The x570 chipset actually used like 7-8 extra watts over the x470 by itself because the repurposed i/o die turned into a chipset w
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by bonton89 3y ago
In the US I'd just assume that app was hoovering up everything they could, selling it to data brokers and then giving me a small cut back.
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by bonton89 3y ago
I'm quite often waiting in line for self checkout. In theory people with only a few items go through, in practice people will sometimes go crazy with it. And of course some customers can be quite slow or get hung up so it isn't re
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by bonton89 3y ago
You can probably figure out most people's default phone number by googling their name and going to one of those crappy white pages sites. Then try to login/do a password reset to their services and compare the masked phone number
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by bonton89 3y ago
I prefer TOTP for privacy and control reasons, but I think you're overselling the disadvantages of SMS here. If you have to find and pay an inside guy to do SIM swaps, they'll be limited in the number they can do before getting ca
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by bonton89 3y ago
Extremely rich, maybe. But since the value of a person's data goes up with their income just having the ability to pay extra won't save you.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Could you briefly explain the process and any hang ups you have to deal with?
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by bonton89 3y ago
They'll sell the data to potential employers so they can avoid hiring people that may have expensive diseases to treat.
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by bonton89 3y ago
They're more like predators. First they start peaking in your windows and photographing you on your way to work which is already creepy, but that's never enough. Eventually they'll break into your house and start riffling thr
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by bonton89 3y ago
Always use a fake name, like we taught kids to do on the internet in the 1990s!
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by bonton89 3y ago
It looks like the best method only found 11. It looks like 17 is the total amount of cameras they found using all methods. Pretty crap really. The advanced lens detector was the most effective and only found a third of them. The only method
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by bonton89 3y ago
How do you reliably find cameras?
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by bonton89 3y ago
Even Star Trek had a World War 3 that destroyed most of the human population before rationality finally prevailed.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Capitalists increasingly want to sell you, or rather all info they have about you, to anyone that will pay for it. And they'll happily sell or just give it to law enforcement as well as people who want to sell you stuff.
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by bonton89 3y ago
Is the Windows store popular now? Aside from Microsoft dog fooding I didn't get the impression it was very much used even after all these years.
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by bonton89 3y ago
If you bought a Rift before facebook purchased them I wouldn't call it boiling the frog, more like being stabbed in the back. Not much to do there but sell your device but I guess most people probably hoped things would turn out differ

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