BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco. 4 days ago:
Same, I’m running homeassistant. Things that are out of the way like PC under desk get WakeOnLan from HA, or chandeliers, and grow lights for my wife’s indoor trees get smart treatment. Kitchen lights are switches, because if I’m in the kitchen I will be by the switches and opening phone to launch HA app and scroll to a smart light button would take much longer.
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 1 week ago:
The fear is because China is known to be a spy advesary, where as google and apple (operating from the USA) would really not need to spy on it’s own government. It is really no different than the Russian maintainers being kicked off the Linux kernel dev team as a security measure.
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 2 weeks ago:
To me the issue is tik-tok could be used to sideload data gathering for China, such as government officials camera or microphone use, beyond the worry of poisoning our society with propaganda. There have already been binary apps with malicious backdoors. Compared to a weather app that may harvest location, contacts, etc, but most likely verifiable content.
But that’s why I don’t install garbage apps, run GrapheneOS and Linux to try to minimize data gleaning.
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment 5 weeks ago:
Must be the cyanide on the whistle
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund 5 weeks ago:
The funny thing is they have enough money to not kiss anyones ass for their rest of their life
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 1 month ago:
Seems odd. Like going to all that trouble then not ditching all the evidence, unless he had other targets he was working on next.
- Comment on NHS hospitals gear up to get cyberattack systems back online • The Register 1 month ago:
In our case , BC Canada, our health authority is a network across the lower mainland. If I get a scan in one city my doctor can pull it up in another, so both ends of that are connecting to the internet
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 2 months ago:
It doesn’t really matter because there is not much content to train AI on in a worthwhile manner. The huge amount of content is mostly hostile retorts, and sarcastic meme banter. AI will be a mess after training on that
- Comment on Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres 2 months ago:
The AI being in charge of operating the Nuclear station would be interesring
- Comment on YouTube: Why Google Search is Falling Apart. [Mrwhosetheboss] 3 months ago:
Stract.com
- Comment on YouTube: Why Google Search is Falling Apart. [Mrwhosetheboss] 3 months ago:
Stract.com
- Comment on Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube 3 months ago:
Stract.com search engine is what Google seach was 15 years ago when algorithm was based on content, not ads.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 3 months ago:
I hope sonething better comes along because google ruined their search engine a decade ago. stract.com is probabky the closest to what google used to be.
As for chatgpt, it is not an index. It cannot refer you back to infornation it was trained on because it doesn’t build a massive indexed internet database.
It has some method of probable relations and conglomerarion of input. It is why it “hallucinates” information output, because it doesn’t “know” what is wrong or right info, it just fetches data based on probabilities of connections.
It is good at suggesting new music or movies based on your list of media you like, but it is terrible with actual factual info
- Comment on Cameras were designed to be connected to a specific server in China: South Korean military removes Chinese-made cameras at bases over security risks 4 months ago:
- Comment on Cameras were designed to be connected to a specific server in China: South Korean military removes Chinese-made cameras at bases over security risks 4 months ago:
Im surprise they installed them in the first place. First thing I did when somebody gave me TPlink Kasa smart plugs and switches was run the github code to swap the remote server lookup to 127.0.0.1
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 4 months ago:
Stract.com open search engine a guy built in his basement. It is not perfect but feels like Google used to in the late 90s, when you had real results
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 4 months ago:
Sorry I was thinking of when you have yubikey setup with PIN code for access. But yeah, I guess the attack vector is clandestine theft and replace.
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 4 months ago:
Potting Grrrr. My fancy track lighting has been potted. It sucks because absolutely no place (even China) sells the 48v LED driver with the odd body shape to bypass the internal mounting screws, and the potting means I can’t access the board to desolder a resostor or something
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 4 months ago:
Totally a non issue unless a government arrested somebody with the intent to gain their key because : "The attacks require about $11,000 worth of equipment and a sophisticated understanding of electrical and cryptographic engineering. "
- Comment on How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers 4 months ago:
Use of a VPN can be detected by ISP inspection, they then probably had other survellance on why he was VPNing out, or the Influencer had another follower that was a plant and collected a list of thr followers
- Comment on Chinese EV owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features when companies go bust 4 months ago:
That one smart home brand that went bust and nobody could turn on/off lights etc. LOL. Thankful some selfhoster types came to the rescue amd setup an alternate server. It is why I “flashed” my switches to be local hosted and never go to web, and just use homeassistant as the server
- Comment on TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled 4 months ago:
Right, but i was commenting about educating your kids about the pitfalls of social media, like you said. My adult children are teachers and they see social media is destroying kids even with education about it…their brains can’t stop even if they know the consequences, especially because it is psychologically tailored to engage them more and more
- Comment on ‘Hold them captive’: Australian billionaire boss aims to end staff going out for coffee 4 months ago:
The guy is an out of touch jerk. Sometimes the hilight of your day ia that mental break grabbing a coffee at a cafe and enjoying fresh air. And i get way more work done with WFH, because people need an actual reason to interrupt your work flow
- Comment on TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled 4 months ago:
I know some amazing parents that have super open communication and excellent teaching moments with their kids, they still fell into the social media morass…because friends (and teenage brain) are a heavy influence even with a safe supportive home
- Comment on Remote Walmart Employees Slam Company After Being Forced To Relocate To Arkansas; Several Already Quit 5 months ago:
Not sure of US law, but in Canada something like this would be considered Constructive Dismissal, so you resign and they legally owe you termination pay and severence pay based on position amd years served
- Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse 5 months ago:
People with too much time. My wife had a busy kid drop off/pickup / work schedule. If she was done work early she would park a block away from school and sleep in the car till dismissal time…some Karen came out complaining she can’t sleep in her car and needed to leave. lol
- Comment on Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? 6 months ago:
Our school had a buzzer, the office anawers the intercom, you tell them the emergency and they arrange everything. Cell phones really arent needed unless you are out on a field trip maybe
- Comment on Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? 6 months ago:
Depends how they use chatgpt, if they use it tlfor content that can be troublesome, but here its being used as a format tool. You copy some previous test and ask it to reorder the numbered questions ( to precent class before giving the AACDBA series of answers) or use to copy paste in a large test and tell it to strip out every other quesotion, renumber and replace body text with double line spacing. For stuff like that it is a godsend.
- Comment on China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement 6 months ago:
Maybe that has changed www.theregister.com/…/us_border_phone_search/
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 6 months ago:
Yep, i agree. patents are stupid, but not everyone is convinced of open sourcing everything