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Zetta

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  • Senator Mark Kelly says he will 'seriously consider' running for president

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  • You're getting downvoted, but I agree. Sadly, I don't think a woman will win the presidential election in the U.S. for at least another decade or two. Too many sexists, and subconscious misogyny

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • Broadly speaking, yes, and it'll keep going until they run out of money. However, I think there is a very small chance that one of the companies is able to make a breakthrough probably with a different kind of architecture than our current LLMs that does get us to models that make genuine discoveries and breakthroughs.

    Very unlikely though.

  • Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead

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  • I'm pretty sure the massive buildout is for training new models not for compute power for end users. Their justification is they need more compute to get the superhuman level intelligence AIs that they have been claiming. So if that pans out their probably gonna be fine, but seems unlikely that'll pan out how they want it to

  • Anna's Archive Quietly 'Releases' Millions of Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback * TorrentFreak

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  • More people should use the anonymous internet using tools like I2P and Tor. Hopefully that'll be a silver lining with all the governments around the world cracking down on freedom of speech and increasing censorship.

  • Discord/Twitch/Kick/Snapchat age verifier: age verifies your account automatically as an adult on any website using k-id

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  • The details on how it works from the website for those reading this chain.

    "how does this work

    k-id, the age verification provider discord uses doesn't store or send your face to the server. instead, it sends a bunch of metadata about your face and general process details. while this is good for your privacy (well, considering some other providers send actual videos of your face to their servers), its also bad for them, because we can just send legitimate looking metadata to their servers and they have no way to tell its not legitimate. while this was easy in the past, k-id's partner for face verification (faceassure) has made this significantly harder to achieve after amplitudes k-id verifier was released, (which doesn't work anymore because of it.)

    with discord's decision of making the age verification requirement global, we decided to look into it again to see if we can bypass the new checks. step 1: encrypted_payload and auth_tag

    the first thing we noticed that the old implementation doesn't send when comparing a legitimate request payload with a generated one, is its missing encrypted_payload, auth_tag, timestamp and iv in the body.

    looking at the code, this appears to be a simple AES-GCM cipher with the key being nonce + timestamp + transaction_id, derived using HKDF (sha256). we can easily replicate this and also create the missing parameters in our generated output. step 2: prediction data

    heres where it kind of gets tricky, even after perfectly replicating the encryption, our verification attempt still doesn't succeed, so they must also be doing checks on the actual payload.

    after some trial and error, we narrowed the checked part to the prediction arrays, which are outputs, primaryOutputs and raws.

    turns out, both outputs and primaryOutputs are generated from raws. basically, the raw numbers are mapped to age outputs, and then the outliers get removed with z-score (once for primaryOutputs and twice for outputs).

    there is also some other differences:

    XScaledShiftAmt and yScaledShiftAmt in predictions are not random but rather can be one of two values It is checked that the media name (camera) matches one of your media devices in the array of devices It is checked if the states completion times match the state timeline

    with all of that done, we can officially verify our age as an adult. all of this code is open source and available on github, so you can actually see how we do this exactly."

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Same here, been hating on Discord from day one since you are the product with free services.

  • I love pie

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  • I do a significant amount of computing on my desktop, but yeah, social media, and by that I mean only Lemmy. I really only use on my phone when I'm away from my computer.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • No just voice channels, I'm glad they have them but it was completely missing from their marketing on the website. Just says "text channels done right" and there isn't a single line about voice support

    Edit, found a reddit post from about a month ago which is copied below. So it looks like it barely supports voice so far.

    "Apparently The voice chat feature has been brought back in stoat

    It only works in the desktop version though. Mobile devices you're going to have to wait a bit longer though.

    Otherwise the quality of it is really really good but you will experience a massive delay in your voice being sent through the voice medium. It's about 800 millisecond delay even with the fastest speeds. But at least it's something. "

    GitHub issue on the topic

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • No VOIP? That's the only reason I ever use discord, when my friends force me to so I can talk while we play games. Guess teamspeak is still king

  • Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond

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  • The point is the need for more and more data storage is never going to stop.

  • Its probably our only chance

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  • You're completely right, but it is still better than the current option by most measures for sane people.

  • U.S. Dealers In Full Panic Mode After Canada Green-Lights Chinese Cars

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  • Obviously a lot of us here don't like Tesla for good reason, but you're wrong on this front. They did a lot of lobbying in like every state to try and remove restrictions on car companies needing to sell through dealerships. They did a lot of good in that singular aspect.

  • Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance

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  • "oh great, competition in a market with no competition. Horrible."

    Intel has already been making discrete GPUs for two generations and they are very cheap and aren't the most performant but fantastic for the price.

    I'd rather a non-US player enter the market like moorethreads, but because of us capitalist assholes, handicapping China competition for a long time they aren't going to be able to make cards that are up to our performance standards till the 2030s probably

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    The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel

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  • Gotta be as bad as america in some aspects

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • The original comment said Google, instead of Bezos, I have no idea why they edited their comment to this. Maybe they are thinking of Microsoft, who recently handed over encryption keys, but they don't make phones anymore, lol.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • As another said, a Pixel with Graphene OS is likely the most secure device you can have, even against an Apple product. Cellebrite, the software a lot of governments use to break into these phones can't get into a Pixel device before first unlock with Graphene OS. I believe a number of Apple products are the same thing as they can't be accessed before first unlock or lockdown mode, but your data is more secure in the hands of an open source developer than a massive capitalist company.

    Also, a notable feature of GrapheneOS is automatic reboots after no use for any arbitrary time value you want, so your phone will always be in a "before first unlock" state if some steals it like the government. They also have lockdown mode as well, not sure how that works technically on Android beyond disabling biometrics.

  • Comcast keeps losing customers despite price guarantee and unlimited data

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  • Im pretty into self hosting and have a number of public facing services like 4get and SearXNG, those two don't use that much data. Also host immich for myself and family to replace Google Photos. Some of the bigger data hogs.

    Archive warrior - I run a Docker container that constantly scrapes, compresses, and uploads whatever data the internet archive team wants most. I've had it running for a couple years now and they've had me scraping Telegram. That does a couple hundred gigs a month.

    I2P Router - The invisible internet project, it's sort of like Tor, but in my opinion more secure and better because it uses garlic routing instead of more centralized servers. Although it's way less popular than Tor and seems most people use it for torrenting. Either way, I recently started hosting a router because governments around the world are cracking down on freedom of speech and censoriship, and increasing their surveillance powers. So I want to support the network and help it grow, this by itself does ~1TB of upload and download a month. Everyone in the world should start pivoting to more secure and decentralized internet solutions like this. Fuck the government.

    Linux ISOs torrents - I love Linux, what can I say?

    Backup server - I have an off-site Raspberry Pi backup server at my friend's house that I do nightly backups of my important data to. So just depending on how much I've built up since the last backup that can be modest in size.

    Otherwise we have a sort of high bandwidth household with video content consumption.

  • China bans hidden car door handles, which can trap people after crashes

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  • Well, I guess they saw this legislation coming and are already trying to comply.

  • AMD say the Steam Machine is "on track" for an early 2026 release

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  • I'm pretty sure they likely did what they did with the steam LCD, which was order an absolutely insane amount of units that they had stock for years. The semi-custom AMD chip they're using likely needed a minimum order of millions of units.