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- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 2 months ago:
Harder on the corporate side, but this has been an issue in the warehouses.
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 2 months ago:
If they arrest someone to gain access to their key, they don’t need this attack to use their key. They can just use their key.
- Comment on YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel 2 months ago:
One thing the article doesn’t make very clear is that for 2FA the PIN requirement comes from the site itself. If the site requires User Verification, the PIN is required. If not, it is not prompted even if set and this attack is possible. The response to the site just says they knew it.
It is different for Passkeys. They are stored on the device and physically locked behind the PIN, but this is just an attack on 2FA where the username and password are known.
It also seems limited in scope to the targeted site and not that everything else protected by that key. That limits how useful this is in general, which is another reason it is sort of nation-state level or an extremely targeted attack.
- Comment on Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection & Proof of Their Scam 2 months ago:
Amazon is notorious for combining stock, “the seller” often doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 2 months ago:
I think this is the crux of the article. In the past most people have considered photographic evidence to be very convincing. Sure, you could be removed from a photo of Stalin, and later people could do photoshop (with varying realism), now it’s a few words to make changes that many people believe without hesitation. Soon it will happen to video too, very soon.
- Comment on Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government 3 months ago:
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
- Comment on Game developers are still feeling the pull of last-generation consoles 3 months ago:
I think they gave people time to get over the hype and they saw that what they had was good enough. Especially once inflation hit and they had less extra money.
- Comment on Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games 3 months ago:
The game Overlord on the NES had the best intro music of the generation, IMO.
I really enjoyed the game StarTropics too. It had near tie in stuff with physical media (anti-piracy, but it was neat), and I enjoyed the music and story. The second StarTropics had graphics that blew my mind, everything just looked so smooth.
- Comment on Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years 3 months ago:
Amazon sold at a loss, but I don’t imagine the employees or suppliers and their employees feel like being paid was a waste.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 months ago:
I don’t think any of those really apply.
She didn’t have experience with it, but she was good with computers. When she realized what she was looking at, she made the famous exclamation. Not all that different than people posting stuff to Linux in the wild threads.
Fsn is what was up on the screen, so that’s what she used. Probably easier than figuring out how to get to the command line on an unfamiliar system.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 months ago:
Mess with the best, die like the rest.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 months ago:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise
That these were a thing is… wild.
- Comment on What's the worst hacking scene from any movie or show? 4 months ago:
Every community with that name needs to include a bit about FSN in its sidebar.
- Comment on Has Facebook Stopped Trying? 4 months ago:
Really great article, and thanks for posting the text of it.
Facebook is weird for me because it triggers my FOMO, but then if I use it all I see are a ton of random things with the most toxic people in the world living in the comments.
And similarly I just realized why my friends on instagram use stories and not posts, because for the most part stories is the only place I see content from people I know anymore (and again the FOMO).
I really relate to the sentence at the end, “there are people there but they don’t know why and most of what they are seeing is scammy or weird.”
- Comment on Riven | Official Launch Trailer | Available June 25th 5 months ago:
IMO most of the lore is in the physical novels and later games that go more into story. Myst and Riven sort of drop you into an existing universe without explaining much and then you can learn some through bits and pieces as you go.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
That combination works in Brave to search the forum, I’m surprised it doesn’t in Searx.
- Comment on I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide? 6 months ago:
Galaxy Watch, the original Pixel Watch and the Apple Watch have no charging contacts. It’s really the way to go.
The contacts have been an issue forever, like I remember it messing up a Fitbit a decade ago. Really crazy that it’s still a problem.
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 6 months ago:
With that kind of leadership we should be thankful he can’t run for president, or he’d end up voted in.
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 6 months ago:
Before his Twitter addiction it was much easier to think of him as a rich genius like you see in comic books, mostly since nobody knew what he was thinking. He’s also managed a celebrity-like persona that someone like robot Mark Zuckerberg could never pull off. That and money will always get hangers on.
- Comment on Mola the Fucktress 6 months ago:
No, but only because Pompeii has that too.
- Comment on I created this yesterday 6 months ago:
Nah, I’d say at least six days of work there.
- Comment on Boredom births creativity 6 months ago:
Section 702 says swearing on the internet is suspicious and worthy of intelligence targeting.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
It’s slower, actually.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
On iOS, hitting vol up, vol down, hold power for a second will instantly lock down and also no danger of accidentally calling 911 or whatever.
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine 7 months ago:
That’s an awful lot to say over “one person suggested” which it seems most people including the authors took to mean agreement.
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine 7 months ago:
Well shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
The CEO of Onerep had founded multiple brokers.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The Mozilla Corporation does not accept monetary donations, those go to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. This is a common misunderstanding.
Mozilla Location Services is currently run by the Corporation.
- Comment on Great question Michael 8 months ago:
Yes, Copilot is their AI product line. The naming is awkward because the word itself sounds kind of weird, but in general it would be AI for Use Case. That’s how most of their products are named now.
They have something like a dozen Purview products and eight or more Defender products.
- Comment on Great question Michael 8 months ago:
They do, but I think Google is worse about it because it’s all random back and forth. Most of Microsoft’s recent changes have been renaming Office something or Azure something to Microsoft something. Often the product name itself hasn’t changed, or when it does it’s usually grouping a bunch of products with separate names under one product line with related functionality (Defender didn’t rename, but it also absorbed a lot, Purview and Entra were new absorbed a lot of other product names).