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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Those aren't socialists, those are totalitarians. Totalitarians believe that the state should run everything. Not unions, not voluntary organizations. The Nazis turned the Boy Scouts (of which there were several) into the Hitler Youth, for example. Stalinism was also a totalitarian system. The experience of living under those two systems would have sucked in very similar ways, although different groups were targeted by each. Totalitarianism is bad regardless of its stated goals.

@requiem@masto.hackers.town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV78GF2PkOw Excellent example here. French railroad decided to skip some stops. A passenger who wanted one of those stops pulled the e-brake and exited the train. Engineer botched the process of resetting the brakes. Railroad was now way behind, skipped more stops. Train came to the end of the line with no brakes. Many people killed. There were a few more errors too. No air check was performed. An air check - continuity all the way to the last car - should be performed.

@beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place @sammypanda@aus.social @mattly@hachyderm.io Those things are the plague. Websites are hit by continuous scraping from a huge number of domestic IP addresses. This creates errors, causes slowdown, and is nearly impossible to block.

@tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social Auto driving is only useful if it is truly auto driving: get in the back and sleep soundly while the car gets you there, with no fear of waking up dead. We're not there yet. Phones and laptops are more or less finished products and do not need to change any more. There is nothing radically new there.

@geospacedman@mastodon.social @Cheeseness@mastodon.social @doctormo@floss.social Slavery is a whole worldview, and it requires a vast amount of hypocrisy to maintain. The slave is human enough to care for your kids and cook your dinner (you wouldn't let a chimp do that, right?) but not human enough to have any rights. From that basic contradiction you get a twisted, backward civilization that doesn't progress and eventually loses. The similar contradiction with AI is when you use it to not pay people, but expect people to buy your stuff.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @ohir@social.vivaldi.net @rootschange@kolektiva.social @scathach@stereophonic.space If there is a "you" to shut down then "you" have a problem. Why is BitTorrent still running after 25 years. It's an amoeba. It has no head to cut off. Now I tried to write an email system like that 12 years ago or so, and it worked fine, but I could not get a critical mass of users. It used the same Kademlia algorithm as BitTorrent.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @ohir@social.vivaldi.net @rootschange@kolektiva.social @scathach@stereophonic.space There are no good governments, and there never will be, although there are some especially bad ones. Signal is as good as you can get without building your own infrastructure. I built my own. It's here: https://TheUnCloud.co/ Now that thing is not comparable to Signal, BUT it has no accounts. When you close the window the content is gone. It uses WebRTC. Different use case. The right architecture is the one where there is nothing to seize.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @ohir@social.vivaldi.net @rootschange@kolektiva.social @scathach@stereophonic.space So which government is allegedly imposing this requirement? And given that Signal is a foundation, why don't they operate from somewhere else? The real reason here is phone numbers cost money, so infinite spam is not free. That and their architecture is still phone number based. WhatsApp took over precisely because it could match your contacts. Signal does that without a centralized address book. Signal is the best thing that doesn't require tech support

@corbet@social.kernel.org The feature worked as intended.

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @maxleibman@beige.party Yes, the ability to use shares as collateral for loans is a problem. That along with share buybacks should probably not be allowed. Using shares to get a loan is what enables leveraged buyouts and other corrupt schemes that often fail. Shares should be for earning a dividend. Fix the tax problem and re-anchor the stock market in the real world. How does Apple take money out of circulation? I assume their cash reserve is invested in something.

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @maxleibman@beige.party He hasn't actually hoarded a trillion dollars and taken it out of production. The amount paid for the stock is less than that (market cap is a marginal price times a total, i.e. a math error.) He does have a vast amount of resources at his disposal, but he is not just sitting on them like a dragon on his gold hoard. He is using them to do things. You may not like what he's using them for, in which case he's a bad guy to you, but he is making use of his resources.

@Npars01@mstdn.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @TimFinnerty@toot.io @pgiulan@federate.social @anneapplebaum@journa.host I've read that Russia has about half the population it should have due to all the wars and killing there. Stalin didn't care either. One thing that postwar Russia did right, given they were short of men: unconditional state child support for unmarried women. The surviving heroes had a lot of fun and Russia had a baby boom. Nations that did not do that had a lot of women emigrating. Russia wouldn't allow that.

@james_inthe_box@infosec.exchange This is like mailing someone a gun along with instructions to put it to your head and pull the trigger. How do people fall for that?

@handi@mastodon.ie Given that the LLM companies used torrented books, I am guessing all of them. Since Meta got in trouble for the books, they probably have dodgy third parties doing this stuff. Their user agents are normal Chrome ones from what I've seen. A botnet node accepts commands from a control server and initiates traffic out to the Internet. It's like a black hat VPN.

@handi@mastodon.ie @briankrebs@infosec.exchange AI scraping. It's nearly impossible to block scrapers because of these things. The other devices that host botnets are the pirate TV boxes. These usually have Android, Kodi, and a bunch of extensions for dodgy streaming services. They resell your Internet access to nefarious actors, and they may try to hack other devices inside your network.

@mo@mastodon.ml @mister_shade02X2@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @pgiulan@federate.social @anneapplebaum@journa.host Did they actually let the criminals go? Or do you just get assigned to the suicide squad shortly before your contract runs out? The Rus-Uk war has been good for the yacht industry. Mass corruption on all sides.

@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange @corduroy@aus.social @joannejacobs@aus.social How long do they take? A review I saw said they take a couple hours or more. Is that true? Does tumbling for that long wear out your clothes?

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @TheConversationUS@newsie.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Work is fake. Money is fake. Jobs are fake. It's all just a performance that doesn't generate any value. That's the problem. A lot of CEOs have crashed corporations because they basically cheated on the "pilot's license" and don't know how to run a corporation. They are still allowed to be CEOs again. There is no solution except a crisis that forces us back to the basics: on-the-job training, tests, competence, and actually generating value.

@mattblaze@federate.social Probably not. But nobody trusts the system. There should be a way to restore public trust in elections. There are likely quite a few mail-in ballots collected from nursing homes, apartment complexes, etc. and voted by other than the intended recipient. That is hard to prevent with mail-in, so less mail-in and more mark-sense would lead to more trust.

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @Kotaku@flipboard.com Now they just have to figure out how to replace their customers with AI, and they can make infinite money! Will AI also play and pay for video games?

@hamishb@mstdn.ca @Qybat@batchats.net @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Does anyone know what Glacier Deep Archive uses for storage? It's a good place to dump stuff you "might need someday."

@ngc_ollie@mastodon.bayern @weirdonwheels@social.chinwag.org Guessing people got tired of climbing in and out?

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @TheConversationUS@newsie.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange The problem is a culture where students only care about passing, not about learning. The assumption is that success in the real world is all about cheating. If you could cheat and get a pilot's license without learning how to fly the airplane, would you? Not if you're sane, because you would likely crash the plane and get killed. Why is there no similar fear among students? Because they assume the work is fake. It's all just box checking. That's the problem.

@gbargoud@masto.nyc @SuperMoosie@mastodon.au @tempusfelix@wehavecookies.social If transportation is boring then someone else should be driving so I can sleep. Hurry up and automate driving please.

@darkuncle@infosec.exchange This probably explains why FOSS makes the best development tools, but has never been able to catch up with Apple (or 1980s Xerox for that matter) in creating a GUI working environment people like to use. Making a consistent GUI does require a central approval and design process.

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz @LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt Other countries with a vast interior have not figured it out. I've heard similar complaining from Australia, for example. Europe figured it out because things are close together there. USA trains are diesel, and nobody is going to run electric rail across the USA. Maybe battery powered trains with powered track only for hill climbing would work. Until then it's diesel.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org AI should just be turned off for a couple of days every few months. Just to make sure the world still works without it.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange Social engineering of AIs is a new frontier. AIs are not reliable enough to be put in a security gatekeeper role.

@unruly@mastodon.social @petergleick@fediscience.org Erin Brockovich drink this water scene.

@A_Minion@mastodon.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @peachfront@toot.community As for the Revolutionary War, it was not a very big war. There were single battles in the Civil War with more casualties than the entire Revolution. Sure it was horrible for the people involved; wars usually are. But the British were actually reasonably civilized. They could have gone scorched earth on the civilian population, and did not. They also had at least one chance to shoot Washington in the back, and didn't do it. Maybe too civilized for their own good.

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @Kotaku@flipboard.com So far, trying to make money from AI is like trying to warm up your car interior with a hose from the tailpipe. They have not demonstrated the ability to create net value.

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com If a few spots in Asia got blown up, there would be no new smartphones or GPUs for several years. Those spots are in potential warzones - Taiwan and SK both have hostile neighbors. It's unlikely that China could keep the fabs in Taiwan going without support from ASML, which is a European company with suppliers all over the world. There should be (and probably is) a plan to airlift the fab workers, their families, and critical bits of the machines out of Taiwan or SK.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I've had people ask me to "fix their wordpress" where they had an old and unsupported version someone customized so they could not upgrade. It kept getting overwritten with spam. I just put on those two restrictions and the trouble stopped. This was a while ago so new ways in have probably grown since then.

@freezenet@noc.social There is no mainstream media. Many tubers have a larger audience than the BBC. Legacy media is trying to ban competition because they are losing and don't know how to reverse it.

@mattblaze@federate.social In California we get "day of" counts and then most of the time mail-in votes keep coming in for weeks and several races usually flip. Not saying that's cheating but it creates a loss of confidence. When Abraham Lincoln ran in 1860, he spent the day at the telegraph office, where the staff read him the returns as they came in. By the end of the day he was pretty sure he had won, and congratulations were coming in. We ought to be able to at least equal that performance today.

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @appleinsider@mastodon.social @malcolmowen@masto.social That sounds like a bad idea. If you can't afford new buy used.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange This new one is an anomaly. Most of them can be avoided by just blocking /wp-login.php and /wp-admin behind a basic-auth.

@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech @paulschoe@mastodon.world How did we get from the Dynabook and the Alto to going back to paper? The people who came up with the laptop and tablet idea had education and kids specifically in mind. They brought kids in to play with the Alto to improve the GUI. What went wrong?

@mattblaze@federate.social There should be no announcing of results until all the ballots are under lock and key. Knowing how many votes you need to fabricate makes cheating a lot easier. This stuff is mostly about restoring TRUST in the vote. Nobody trusts an election where votes just keep coming in for two weeks and the outcome changes. Yes we keep hearing about the 2020 election, but remember the other side kept questioning the 2016 election. Nobody trusts the current system. That's a problem.

@atomicker@mstdn.ca Australia is a great place for solar, yes. What do the bills look like the rest of the time? Has the per-KWh rate gone up outside of "free" time? This is what has happened in California.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Do they still have a problem with stoned tourists falling in? At one time they did.

@atomicker@mstdn.ca They want stronger action right up until they are told, ok we're taking away your car, your air conditioning, and your electric bill is going up 50%. Then they want the cost imposed on someone else.

@LunaDragofelis@void.lgbt @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz The passenger rail system was losing crazy money and the railroads wanted out of it. Amtrak loses money because it was never supposed to make money. It was supposed to make the private railroads profitable for freight, which it did. The rail system is slower than driving and more expensive than flying. Why would people use it?

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @GameDeveloperDotCom@mastodon.gamedev.place When Microsoft was convicted of monopoly, The Economist (of all things) ran a cover with a dialog box: "Are you sure you want to delete Microsoft?" The correct answer was yes. Microsoft should have been deleted then. The gaming industry is right where music and movies are: all the blood has been drained already, and there's nobody to sell the corpse to.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social You can only walk into HR like that when your lottery numbers just came up.

@merospit@infosec.exchange @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club If it's a public company there ought to be a short/put opportunity there. As well as a lawsuit opportunity. Back up your performance reviews locally.

@AAKL@infosec.exchange @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com We DO NOT KNOW how to run a society where the average person has nothing productive to do. If AI does create that situation, we are in unknown territory and the resulting trouble may well destroy the infrastructure that makes AI possible. Only one company makes the machines that produce AI processors. And it depends on suppliers all over the world. The machines do not work for long without the company's support.

@miblo@mas.to @baldur@toot.cafe I have similarly wished that quantum computing would be proven impossible so the threat to cryptography would go away. Doesn't look like that will happen. The tech is going to do whatever it will do. The best we can do is to find pro-human uses for it. AI should be doing cleaning and other unpleasant tasks.