Kissaki
@Kissaki@beehaw.org
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 13 hours ago:
Filed in 2021. That’s such a long timeframe, makes me wonder if inflation is priced in. If they appeal for three years, will it be inflation adjusted or be increased by central interest rates?
- Comment on What should computer monitoring software actually let you control? 21 hours ago:
In a work business context, the company provides and owns the devices, and for security it needs to monitor not individual person behavior but threat indication and traceability. Network traffic should be routed through a company router to restrict and monitor which device and account talks to which systems and services and to monitor indications of breach.
The logging data must not be endlessly persistend for space usage reduction, data minimization, and eventual privacy. There must not be direct unauthorized access but access must be restricted and reasons must be documented.
When the devices are company owned and the usage announced to shall be only company activities not private activities, the privacy implications are low. If individuals specific behaviors are not monitored but only their broader activities across edges with security relevance and if that information is not accessed without reason, then it’s not a significant private issue but on the other hand remains security relevant anyway.
DNS and network filtering makes sense from a security perspective. If the company can assume only work related tasks are being done they can make reasonable guesses which services or countries will be accessed or internal services may be accessed from.
Parental controls make sense and change with age, parental education, and personality and trustworthiness.
I’m not sure how useful monitoring would be beyond basic indications.
What I would like to have for my own system; I would like to control and monitor which programs can see, read or write which files, services, and network targets. I do use some stuff in that area, but I would like a more obvious, convenient, and secure framework/suite. To protect myself from bad programs (which may not be “bad” initially and for a while). Zero trust means apps should run in minimum environments and access, not inherit the whole user session context and user accessible storage.
- After just 2 days on sale, Sega’s Total War: SHOGUN 2 update has been delisted on PCdelistedgames.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo - 404 Mediawww.404media.co ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 20 comments
- Comment on I Sent an AI to My Job Interview. So Did the Company. 1 week ago:
In this one he does the goodbye loop with the AI himself, then says I love you, and asks the AI to say it back. 🤡
- Comment on I Sent an AI to My Job Interview. So Did the Company. 1 week ago:
It’s certainly not “real” interviews. But I wonder if they’re using the platforms/AI companies actually use.
- Comment on I Sent an AI to My Job Interview. So Did the Company. 1 week ago:
Hilarious. Chaotic. Absurd.
He has more interviewed by AI videos on his channel, which are quite absurd and funny.
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- Comment on Meta's Muse Is Building Dossiers on Your Friends and Family, Even If They Never Signed Up, Internal Files Reveal 1 week ago:
All my friends suddenly love playing tennis and I have to talk to the AI about it! (/s)
- Comment on Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores 1 week ago:
Broken link. Looks like you pasted the URL twice?
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- Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on What happens when you name everything Copilot 2 weeks ago:
The interactive version of this is at teybannerman.com/…/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are…
It also allowed me to use text search because how else do you find the ones you are looking for? I looked in the wrong category.
- Comment on GTA 6's $1 million billboard goes up despite protests from local police as Rockstar's real-life Miami takeover gets underway 3 weeks ago:
Referencing current times in this way is crazy. Ignorant of ICE, surveillance, violence, and prejudice criticisms.
Billboards are not the only thing projecting an image.
- Comment on Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything" 4 weeks ago:
I have been playing assassin’s creed Valhalla, which I won. It’s 80% cutscenes, transitions, and traversal. I find it incredibly irritating, disconnected, and boring.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Sorry you had to go through that.
A single company doesn’t make the norm, though. Did you get insight into other companies too?
Just recently I watched a Japanese citizen saying its a common misconception, a prejudice. That just like there’s bad companies in other countries there are these in Japan. They just use a term, a label for them.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Valve Adds "Big Art Mode" to Steam, Following Its Popularity in Third-Party Decky Loader Utility 5 weeks ago:
haha, that’ll be a long linear list with a big library
- Comment on SAGExpo 2026 Showcase 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gamer complained that he turned on his old PS3 for MGS 4 and found out that Sony had disabled his account - he lost his games due to prolonged inactivity 1 month ago:
There’s security and possible support implications, and a general concept of reducing data use and storage, but I don’t see why they should take precedence for something like this.
Overall, yes, it can’t be significantly more than a few database records sitting around. The avatar image is probably more data than the rest of the account metadata.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look 1 month ago:
I checked for price now. Not even PC yet. It costs 80 € or 100 €.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look 1 month ago:
Great cgi movie :p
- Submitted 1 month ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk 1 month ago:
it seems to me that he is almost admitting that he wiped the phone intentionally,
Seems like he’s trying to change the system, to do a public good, rather than only escape his conviction.
- Comment on US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate 1 month ago:
You call them anti imperialist while cheering for imperialist states.
- Comment on US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate 1 month ago:
What do you think is bullshit? It’s an investigation since 2010. The court document is quite extensive in their documentation.
What I didn’t like is the article title focusing on scan targets rather than successful targets. Which doesn’t seem related to govt influence.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest move to pay people to use Edge looks desperate — and an odd new Bing app is worrying too 1 month ago:
Recent email: “get a 4k € reward”; reading beyond the teaser/bait, it’s a raffle you buy into with points, which I interpreted as you won’t win anyway, so it’s just throwing the points away.
- Comment on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives 1 month ago:
21.3 percent disable automatic emergency braking outright
For HGVs and buses, the law changed to prevent drivers from deactivating them so they can driver closer to the vehicle in front.
Those changes were raised after crash inquiries which found some lorry drivers regularly switch off their AEB systems to drive closer to the vehicle in front. The regulation change will limit system deactivation to 15 minutes with automatic re-engagement after 15 minutes. - Wikipedia
I don’t know about their quality and false-positive rate in cars, and maybe car usage is simply different, but I’m sure automatic emergency braking prevents many accidents.
- Comment on U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants 1 month ago:
A security advisor at work recommends migrating to SaaS so we don’t have to manage any of the infrastructure. This makes me wonder.
These topics often get “why is it even connected to the internet” comments. This makes me wonder if they’re buying a “complete system solution” where it’s not an operator decision but a manufacturer decision, and maybe even reasonable in regards to generally being accessible and manageable, with critical systems separated within the whole-bundle system. But often, the necessary safeguards and system separation are not in place anyway. Offloading responsibility doesn’t mean it gets done well, unfortunately.