BCsven
@BCsven@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 3 days ago:
Firefox browser, and click immersive reader/simplified view icon next to url. No more paywall
- Comment on The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption 4 weeks ago:
This is why a government needs an actual technical expert. What UK has done is make icloud less safe for everyone, while the “criminal” activity they seem to want to be privy to will force criminals to use another method of data transfer/securing.
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections 4 weeks ago:
I use Newpipe since I’m not going to login. No ads
- Comment on Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth. 1 month ago:
So their CEO is clueless to how his API changes drove people to the fediverse?
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” 1 month ago:
Also MS, let’s add it to everything.
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 1 month ago:
It would still have happened at some point, chatgpt is not the only AI. I hate we called it AI.
- Comment on German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours 1 month ago:
I bought a new XBOX drive off amazon once. Stickers says void if opened so I didn’t open the case till I found a larger drive and was going to swap the drive in the case. The drive inside was dirty as hell. Like it spent years in a dirty factory. SMART report looked good, but the drive itself was from 2011, but the controller board was from 2017. Some retailer was grabbing old drives and swapping the control board, I assume as repair or likely to falsify drive use hours.
I reported to Amazon as seller fraud, initially they said you are way out of your return period. So I had to explain it doesn’t when I discover a seller has commited fraud, it is fraud. - Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 1 month ago:
Interesting. A lady I worked with was there. She said initially the soldiers / convoy were friendly as they were just people too, and students brought them drinks and food since they were just at a standstill forever. Until the order came to clear the protest.
- Comment on China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats 1 month ago:
Thankfully Linux OSs exist.
- Comment on Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco. 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 3 months ago:
Must be the cyanide on the whistle
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 4 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 5 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] 5 months ago:
Stract.com
- Comment on YouTube: Why Google Search is Falling Apart. [Mrwhosetheboss] 5 months ago:
Stract.com
- Comment on Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube 5 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 5 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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