deltoidmaximus

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by deltoidmaximus 5d ago
Yes, no one is trying to fix the problem here. Otherwise we'd ban algorithmic feeds and let the client decide what they see.
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by deltoidmaximus 10d ago
This is another interesting point. iPhone's do a bunch of post processing to improve image quality. What exactly are we signing as real and not AI manipulated here? How much image processing is allowed before it isn't verified? (d
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by deltoidmaximus 12d ago
Can you actually make a Google account without a phone number these days?
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by deltoidmaximus 16d ago
I always ran it with the 2000 style theme. That said XP offered me nothing over 2000 so 2000 is what I ran on my main machine since it used less ram but did all the same things, often a bit faster. For awhile I ran XP 64-bit though, that di
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by deltoidmaximus 17d ago
I guess I'm more cynical at this point. This isn't the 1970s when a congressman freaked out that his video rental history might leak and passed a law making them private for everyone as cover. They've evolved beyond that. The
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by deltoidmaximus 17d ago
> I guess it's a good thing I don't really give a crap about Instagram in the first place, isn't it. If you were willing to upload your driver's license and passport for a mere chance at getting back an account you do
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by deltoidmaximus 18d ago
I largely don't use Windows anymore, but there is an option buried under Advanced System Settings/Properties under the hardware tab called Device Installation Settings. There you can turn this off (marked 'not recommended&#x2
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by deltoidmaximus 18d ago
LG recently was in the news for loading Microsoft's utility/driver update mechanism with crapware that auto installs (by default) when you hitch one of their monitors to a Windows PC. I fear they just haven't gotten around to
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by deltoidmaximus 18d ago
I'd love to hear more about that. I didn't think Workstation could do anything besides USB device passthrough!
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by deltoidmaximus 22d ago
Captchas are often used as tarpits. They've already decided you're a bot based on other factors so you aren't getting in until you change those factors. I've seen this happen where I'm stuck in the loop and then cha
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by deltoidmaximus 22d ago
To where, the site requesting the verification? Now it is no longer zero knowledge.
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by deltoidmaximus 22d ago
And create new requirements normalizing id verification for increasingly mundane things assuring citizens are exposed to ever more breaches.
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by deltoidmaximus 23d ago
Google made some noise awhile back about banning youtube accounts for using adblockers. I'm not sure if they went through with it but it just isn't worth the risk if you have a more important service the relies on google.
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by deltoidmaximus 25d ago
I bought Farcry 3 Blood Dragon some years ago. I seem to recall I had to install some kind of mod otherwise the game would hang on startup or had long delays because the installed version tried to communicate with some long dead Ubisoft gam
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by deltoidmaximus 1mo ago
Lots of services demand your phone number after the fact now, hoping to use the sunk cost fallacy to extort it out of you when you're in a hurry. Walmart recently deleted my phone number from my account for vague reasons but most likel
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by deltoidmaximus 1mo ago
I wouldn't even care if they blocked my anonymous account from posting or really interacting besides reading things. But of course, preventing bot actions isn't actually why I need an account so they aren't going to let you d
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by deltoidmaximus 1mo ago
That's assuming they don't just have a backdoor inserted expressly for this purpose. Now only the rich or powerful can produce an "authentic" recording of an event and the same system can be used to hunt down whistleblow
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by deltoidmaximus 1mo ago
It actually might make the new horrible world even worse. Imagine the populace getting used to a AI image detector flagging things as fake using this fairly easily defeated GUID marker system. Most people are just making memes or cat videos
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
The smartphone camera supply chain already made possible easy purchase of miniature spy camera devices of various types, they're all on Amazon. Sometimes they're pretending to be nanny cams or something but others are hidden body
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
We've already decided to do verification of users, now we can look into which groups of users should be limited or barred entirely.
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
I've seen people argue for lowering burdens of proof for particularly heinous crimes and seemingly unaware they're arguing from a position of rage and need for revenge.
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
Pretty obvious place to start. The purpose of the TPM is to prevent users from running unapproved software on the device.
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
And there's the problem that if the PIN or worse a biometric version of this becomes remotely well known you've now created an incentive for a car thief to kidnap people even if they only want the car.
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
The service can use the use the attestation feature to block passkey providers that are deemed undesirable for whatever reason. Hard not to see eventually only major providers being accepted, even things like Microsoft services requiring Mi
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
I avoid using them altogether for the same reason. I won't use them for low value accounts because it signals that I think they might be acceptable to eventually require for high value ones. And of course low value accounts have no val
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
With foresight you can get around this since you can reuse the TOTP seed values. The annoying thing is so many services don't even support TOTP. They either want their own proprietary app, still insist on SMS, some of them even try to
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
That's where the attestation feature comes in. It allows them to force you into a hostage situations by restricting passkey implementation. There's a reason that was part of the spec from the get go but a passkey transfer system w
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
I can't think of many things I'd less like to verify with Persona than NSFW reddit. They should just ban NSFW content altogether at that point.
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by deltoidmaximus 2mo ago
The frustrating part is that since so many companies collect PII under the guise of security (and then use it for advertising) it's harder to tell if this is a legal scam or illegal scam.
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by deltoidmaximus 3mo ago
I think these products were always niche for the reasons parent suggested, I recall their price and max capacity being unappealing when I was looking to make use of a drawer full of obsolete RAM. But since there were several iterations from

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