beams_of_light

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by beams_of_light 8d ago
We need to keep our surveillance of the surveillance state broad. There’s a lot of focus on Flock right now (rightfully so), but they are merely a single player in the privatized surveillance state architecture. Palantir, Anduril, telcos, a
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by beams_of_light 22d ago
This. It’s not even worth discussing.
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by beams_of_light 1mo ago
Sad, isn’t it? I saw this coming many years ago, as I’m sure many of you did. We create so much metadata in our lives, both physically and digitally evident, that our past and future behaviors can be observed at a level of detail only previ
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by beams_of_light 1mo ago
I think most of us who have lived through many presidents understood that there was a decency required of the holder of the office that acted as the only true limit on their corruption. It's confounding that so many people in the US ca
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by beams_of_light 2mo ago
xAI is no David.
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by beams_of_light 4mo ago
Don’t know, but religions created to reign in the masses probably don’t explain it. There were many religions before the Abrahamic ones.
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by beams_of_light 4mo ago
I have a camera, on my phone. I just want to be able to sync my pictures and videos to my own device, not cloud storage. This is becoming especially prudent in these times of nearly monthly major breaches exposing personal data stored in th
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by beams_of_light 4mo ago
I strongly prefer not to have my personal data stored on other people’s computers.
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by beams_of_light 5mo ago
What truly are humanity’s energy needs, though? Do we need Facebook? Do we need Instagram? Do we need deepfakes and AI music?
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by beams_of_light 5mo ago
This cuts to the heart of it for me. I will not install Meta or LinkedIn apps on my phone because they have been found to be very intrusive.
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by beams_of_light 10mo ago
This is a problem I have yet to see schools tackle. A kid in junior high school has no mental context for the Russian Revolution of 1917, for instance. Having them read Animal Farm is a pointless waste of time.
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by beams_of_light 11mo ago
This and the other accounts critical of COP30 were created very recently. The one above you, 3 hours ago. Interesting.
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by beams_of_light 1y ago
Or perhaps anything left of fascist evil is considered controversial? We can each play this game.
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by beams_of_light 1y ago
It's interesting that they call out NVIDIA specifically as an enabler. MAGA going to war against NVIDIA now?
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by beams_of_light 1y ago
That's an odd, fundamentally disconnected mechanism that, I think, would have devastating impacts for Main St.
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by beams_of_light 1y ago
I assure you that the fantasy of this being a band-aid rip-off moment will turn sour when the sore becomes infected and you're living through a depression.
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
dei.gov redirects to waste.gov. It's a PHP site with only a password entry form.
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
I watched that last year. It's very interesting research and seems effective not just for Alzheimers but for treatment of addiction as well. I'm seriously counting on this treatment for any family members who may end up being diag
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
Things like this are useless, in my mind, because hackers are always going to innovate and find ways around protection mechanisms. Today's "locked down" IoT device could easily become tomorrow's "vulnerable to an ea
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hijacking#Public_incidents A long-term tactic of our adversaries is to capture network traffic for later decryption. The secrets in the mass of packets China assumedly has in storage,
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
That's correct.
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Ask HN: How to Deal with IT Gatekeepers?
1 points by beams_of_light 2y ago|6 comments
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
Sadly, if we call could just care about each other a little more, this country would be a true shining city on a hill.
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
How would one even work toward positive results with leadership doing things like this? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-white-house-...
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Eudaemons(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by beams_of_light 2y ago|0 comments
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PyWinAssistant [video](youtube.com)
2 points by beams_of_light 2y ago|0 comments
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by beams_of_light 2y ago
"Alright Mom, here's what you have to do..."
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by beams_of_light 3y ago
Not in this case.
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by beams_of_light 3y ago
Encrypted data still has to be decrypted in order to be presented. These “hacks” would have gotten decrypted data regardless of whether it was encrypted at rest and in flight.
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by beams_of_light 3y ago
Something happened to me within the last couple of years that has me questioning my cognitive abilities as well. Have you found any mitigating factors for the spiral? I’ve become a lot more aware of the subconscious things that used to be m

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