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RememberTheApollo

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  • Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say

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  • Yep. People act like they’re suddenly safe because they switch IP addresses. All those addresses are logged and can be traced by history. Heck, even VPNs can be rendered useless if they keep logs and are subpoenaed, or you forget to log out of services that communicate automatically your IP address when you switch to a VPN. Just takes a little more effort to link the VPN traffic.

    People don’t understand that the only thing between them and legal trouble is the willingness of the system to expend the effort to track them down, not that there’s any real security in the easiest methods people use to avoid detection.

  • NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

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  • Flying hypodermic needle.

  • A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years

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  • Oh, good. So whenever some fool tosses a phone out of a car to get crushed on the roadway, shoots one because TikTok, or otherwise mangles a phone, we now have a potential for radioactive material to be spread around?

  • The tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. But it keeps laying off humans

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  • Is this not exactly what people said would happen? Is this not exactly the point of AI? Aside from the fact that layoffs have been going on for a year or more, of course.

  • A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural...

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  • That would be helpful, however knowing people they’d unplug their shared car battery and save it because “me first.”

  • AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says

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  • From some other planet? I think you’re the only one who read that into what I said.

  • AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says

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  • And a gun is pieces of metal put together by humans? Not sure what your point is, but it’s all about how you use the tool.

  • AI-powered misinformation is the world's biggest short-term threat, Davos report says

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  • AI could exacerbate all of this. Misinformation, panic, xenophobia, rising fascism, etc.

  • 10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science

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  • Yes, but according to the quote it seems that production of wafer scale is “more difficult”, even if it can be done with some regularity. Difficulty doesn’t mean impossible, it could simply mean a higher failure rate.

  • A mother used her EV to power her son’s dialysis machine amid storms and a blackout | Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging can be life-saving, especially in times of power cuts and natural...

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  • Maybe. But you gotta factor in maintenance and replacement costs. There’s a reason consolidation happens, and that’s because it’s cheaper to maintain one big thing with fewer people than to keep a system operational that has lot and lots of little parts.

    I agree with you, a distributed system with more failsafes and backups seems like a far better idea for infrastructure continuity and security, but business doesn’t see it that way.

  • "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"

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  • It doesn’t matter what you want. What matters is if corporations can extract $ from you, gain an efficiency, or cut their workforce using it.

    That’s what the drive for AI is all about.

  • Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication

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  • Because in event of a product change all wrenches can be updated immediately via network with all new codes and torques instead of someone having to go through each tool and upload new specs or swap memory cards manually.

    It may not make much sense to us, but for a manufacturer it saves time and reduces the number of bodies needed to do the tech work. That’s $.

  • Google Wrapped 2023 | Everything Toxic Google Did in the last 12 months.

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  • Seconded. I hate that information these days revolves around someone getting views or being spoon fed at their pace via video. I can read a list or a summary in a minute or two.

  • PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.

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  • So they’re taking shows away from people who have already purchased them and moving the shows to other services in order to try to make potential customers subscribe to more services?

    Fuck those guys, especially for ripping off people who already paid for the content.

    Here we go again. Instead of being forced to subscribe to shitty bundles of cable channels in order to get the channel you do want, we’re being forced to subscribe to multiple shitty services to get the shows we want.

    This industry is a one-trick pony. Literally giving the worst service they can to force people to subscribe to more services.

  • [OC] This knockoff iPhone 12 Pro Max has what appears to be a thin lead bar under the battery.

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  • I’ve used lead quite a bit for various things. It’s “soft” for a metal, but it is nothing like clay and is not “squishy”. It is relatively easily bent and will take a rubber hammer to easily form to shapes. I really can’t think of a material one would encounter in daily use that is comparable to the malleability of lead. So “very soft”, yes, but it is metal.

  • Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

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  • There is no requirement to mention “both sides”. I did not agree to such a condition, that’s your own criteria to make yourself correct. Have at it.

  • Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

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  • Are we not, though? I’m pretty cynical, but even from a pragmatic standpoint we are incredibly destructive despite us telling ourselves how great we are with our technological advancements.

  • Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

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  • I’m thinking that maybe you missed my point, which is exactly what you said.

    First point: Free speech only applies to government retaliation, but that’s on thin ice. Like I said. Not sure what needed clarification, maybe my more sarcastic take on it made it less clear.

    Second point: The point is that people aren’t really falling into echo chambers and having the lack of awareness to remove themselves from it, the point is they don’t want to leave the safety of their rage-bait fed herd and face criticisms of their narrative and/or worldview. Sure, someone who views a controversial or fringe subject will probably be fed more by algorithms, and the fault not only lies in that algorithm that wants to profit off clicks but the person that actively excludes any factual evidence to the contrary. Nobody thinks they’re the bad guy, and they don’t want to be told so.

  • Free speech can’t flourish online — Social media is an outrage machine, not a forum for sharing ideas and getting at the truth

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  • People tend to reflect and post the outrage media they subscribe to, then look for echo chambers to reinforce those views. Reasonable opponents get exhausted and leave - and yes, IMO that’s what makes them reasonable, the ability to understand what they’re up against and quit a battle that cannot be won.

    Also IMO the “gentleman’s agreement” we had, in the US at least, that free speech was somewhat honored most places including your job or online decades ago is dead. It’s quite clear that even the government isn’t too keen on the 1st amendment depending on who is in charge, much less corporations who will terminate people for speech conflicting with corporate agendas, and absolutely not petty or controlling forum moderators.

    People that yell “muh freedum of speech!1!1!” the loudest are often the ones doing their best to force some hateful subjects or outright lies into other’s faces, then they get upset and claim they’re being attacked or bring up some other victim complex when they get “cancelled.”