sodality2

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by sodality2 17d ago
This was my home gas station for 4 years so I may be biased, but it is fine. Symptomatic of a deeper car-centric problem, sure.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code(wired.com)
11 points by sodality2 29d ago|0 comments
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by sodality2 5mo ago
Side channels that enable intended behavior, versus a flat-out bug like the above, though the line can often be muddied by perspective. An example that comes to mind that I've seen is an anonymous app that allows for blocking users; yo
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by sodality2 5mo ago
I'm not sure I'd use "compromise" at all - these (or the ones I have) are purposefully designed with zero authentication or pairing, the ones that use apps are already "compromised" in the sense that I can walk
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by sodality2 5mo ago
Yep, here they admitted there were local revolutionary war re-enactors who were falsely flagged (although thankfully they didn't let it get past the first flag).
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by sodality2 5mo ago
This is a very common pattern; my university pushed through a ZeroEyes AI camera/open carry weapon detection contract within 2 weeks of a shooting at a nearby school, even though it’s trivial to bypass by hiding it; it’s most probabl
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by sodality2 6mo ago
> That means the lock-in isn’t just product strategy. It’s also architecture. > And that omission isn’t some harmless simplification. It’s the entire trick. It isn't just once. It's—twice. ;)
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by sodality2 6mo ago
I too am in this episode.
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by sodality2 7mo ago
No conspiracy necessary. The CIA bought the rights to the 1954 film Animal Farm, modified the ending to fit propagandist ends, and it went undiscovered for four decades. The original Top Gun was intended to recover the image of the US Navy
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by sodality2 7mo ago
Is there any evidence that going outside the scope of the agreement would amount to anything more than a contract violation? Are we really to expect that Anthropic general counsel sits at the API gates allowing or blocking requests? More ge
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by sodality2 7mo ago
https://dontgetflocked.com/
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by sodality2 7mo ago
Hm true, I wrote off Chrome OS altogether, does it provide enough customizability that MacOS/Linux does? You mention dev containers which is already way beyond my perception of its capabilities (and the general public, I think )
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by sodality2 7mo ago
Yeah, the optimization is going to make or break it. I've heard people say that 8GB on their Air's with M chips are sufficient, but I do wonder if it will still be true now with MacOS - maybe we'll get a cleanup/performa
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by sodality2 7mo ago
I expect the customer of this product is not worried about repairability: to them, it's just an iPad with a keyboard. You're also citing 3x higher costs, so they're really not comparable. The lack of upgradability is directly
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by sodality2 7mo ago
iPads are pretty common in education for the drawing capabilities. You can take notes by typing for most things, but when you get diagram/math heavy, you just cannot beat the pencil. I think it's probably pretty poor value of th
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by sodality2 7mo ago
Crazy good market segmentation by Apple here - it's pretty easy for college students to justify this plus an iPad, and still have to upgrade to a "real" laptop post-grad. Personally this looks really compelling for students -
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by sodality2 7mo ago
If only the average open source project got this level of scrutiny actually checking for vulnerabilities. I get that you don't want your private chats leaked by slopcode, but this was a few dozen lines of scaffolding in large software
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by sodality2 8mo ago
I have to warn you, it does get annoying when you plug in your power-only cable and it still nags you with the question. But it does work as intended!
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by sodality2 8mo ago
Might as well give a recommendation then: I've been using hashcards [0] for a few weeks now and have enjoyed its simplicity and the fact that it all stays forever in raw markdown files and versioned git. A simple justfile has also been
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by sodality2 8mo ago
How do you deal with the opposite, software that you forget to update but contains vulnerabilities discovered/exploited later?
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by sodality2 8mo ago
I've brought my kindle to even the most strict of technology-banned lectures (with punishments like dropping a letter grade after one violation, and failing you after two), and never have they given me a problem when asked. They realiz
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by sodality2 8mo ago
You would be better off pirating all of your music and buying just one piece of merch from an artist. These rogue foreign licensing agencies provide no real value, and in fact are functionally illegal and unrecognized outside of Ukraine. It
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by sodality2 9mo ago
The solution is to learn content that you actually use with some regularity in your life outside of the testing! If you're doing this for education, the payoff might be the exam; if you're doing it to learn things without some par
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by sodality2 9mo ago
I definitely think there's something to be said for nuance; my county is one of the worst in my state for penetration [0] but according to their transparency log avoids many of the common criticisms of Flock, like data sharing, immigra
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by sodality2 9mo ago
It's definitely a push and pull; more are adopting it, but more are pushing back. The total amount is definitely still rising, though, but so is awareness. There's Eugene and Springfield, OR; Cambridge, MA; a few in TX; Denver and
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by sodality2 9mo ago
I can opt out of that, by not carrying a phone. I cannot opt out of public surveillance. Plus at least the gap between police -> tech companies typically adds some resistance, maybe a warrant, etc. With ALPR's police have immediate
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by sodality2 9mo ago
It’s so awesome to see more people making things to fight back against ALPRs. Deflock movements are gaining traction across the country and genuinely making progress at suspension or cancellation of contracts.
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by sodality2 9mo ago
Not too harsh at all! I just wanted to fill the gap between "man, those cameras seem to be everywhere" and "XX% of people are surveilled on the average commute". It's true that this is not a particularly ambitious p
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by sodality2 9mo ago
Thanks, pushed a fix for the home page!
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by sodality2 9mo ago
I don't model daily paths as in 'coffee before work, then groceries on the way home'; I do straight shots from residences to each of these amenities. I don't know of a better way to do it than this; any more complicated

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