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  • Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

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  • AWS Adds support for nested virtualization

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  • FYI, nested virtualization has been available on GCP for at least 3 years. You have to create the instance via CLI or terraform with the parameter added. Its been awhile, but I don't think there is the option to enable it in the GCP console.

  • Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

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  • Yet being able to uncover what they did after the fact seems hella sketchy.

    Not really if you know how this kind of computing/information technology works.

    A file consists of the data itself, and a pointer to the data location on the storage device or index record. When the computer wants to retrieve the data, it looks at the index to get the data location, then goes to that location to get the data. This is how the majority of computers/devices work. When a file is "deleted" the index is usually the only thing that goes away, not the data itself. Over the course of time, the data is eventually overwritten as its in areas marked as "free space". So other new files will occupy some or all of that space changing it to hold the new file data.

    If you want to get rid of the data itself, that is usually considered "purge" where the data is intentionally overwritten with something else to make the data irretrievable.

    What the Google engineers were able to do was essentially go through all the areas marked as "free space" across dozens (hundreds?) of cloud servers that hold customer Nest camera data and try to find any parts that hadn't been overwritten yet by new data. This is probably part of why it took so long to produce the video. Its like sorting through a giant dumpster to find an accidentally discarded wedding ring.

  • Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

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  • And the NEST camera apparently has some sort of free tier that saves a short amount (the last few hours) of video by default, so NEST users shouldn't be surprised at all that their video feed is sent to the cloud as its one of the features of the subscription-less model.

  • Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?

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  • I covered both in my post. One explicit one implicit.

  • Cardinal Cupich says feds stopped priests, demanded citizenship proof

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  • Did he think priest were exempt os something?

    I'm not sure the priest thought this, but I'm sure many (most?) MAGA do. Remember, MAGA thinks ICE only bothers "MS-13/V3nuzualianG@ng!!/VicousMurderers/WhiteWomanRapists".

    I'm sure there are MAGA reading this thinking "why is ICE going after the church?!"

  • Even more Star Trek wash party

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  • It was an invasive species.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Even more Star Trek wash party

  • Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?

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  • I'll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.

    They'll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they're skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.

    Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don't care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There's just no way they can support that.

  • Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage

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  • This is a pretty decent article and answered some of the exact questions I had when I heard about the recovered video.

    or a cloud service that offers end-to-end encryption, which means not even the provider can access your footage.

    That's not what "end-to-end encryption" means. End-to-end encryption means only the sender and receiver have the ability to decrypt the message. The definition the author provided would be a match for "Zero-Knowledge Encryption" instead.

  • Pumping the bubble now, pay later

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  • I'm not sure how much you follow the history of IT, but this has happened at least 3 times in history, and it has always swung back to local processing. What has always been the force that brought local computing back is that compute power gets cheap. RAM and GPU costs are pushing the distributed (cloud) model right now.

  • Answers below

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  • Wasn't she born this way?

  • The WHOLE system? Do you promise?

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  • Too criminal to fail?

  • Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine

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  • Moderna also has a vaccine production facility in Canada. So maybe a family vacation north might be a good idea this year.

  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • If the invited GOP governors were allowed a +1, I would have liked to have seen each Republican governor bring a Democratic governor as their +1 thereby meeting the original mandate of having all governors present.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • Its only a problem if you want to run AI. If you don't want AI locally or cloud based, then no need to spend the money on the high end 32GB model (for AI purposes) or paying for a cloud subscription. No one is required to get the 32GB model if they don't want it.

  • GOP senator says she went from ‘I don’t care’ to ‘I see what the big deal is’ after reviewing unredacted Epstein files

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  • Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

    The cynic in me thinks she ignored pages and pages of trump named referenced crimes and saw Clinton's name at least once, so now she's wants to make political hay only against Clinton.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • yea, i’m surprised, 32GB is goddamn ridiculous for anything, let alone for a shitty hp branded autocorrect

    32GB is actually considered the bare minimum for most of the common locally run LLM models. Most folks don't run a locally run LLM. They use a cloud service, so they don't need a huge pile of RAM locally. However, more privacy focused or heavy users with cost concerns might choose to run an LLM locally so they're not paying per token. With regards to locally run LLMs, this would be comparable to renting car when you need it vs buying one outright. If you only need a car once a year, renting is clearly the better choice. If you're driving to work everyday then clearly buying the car yourself is a better deal overall.

    You are perfectly fine not liking AI, but you're also out-of-touch if you think 32GB is too big for anything. Lots of other use cases need 32GB or more and have nothing to do with AI.

    I agree with your frustration with subscription laptops. I hope people don't use it.

  • TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms

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  • I can almost guarantee you that nobody under the age of 30 gives a singly flying fuck about having an antenna on a television. They’re probably watching more than half their media on their phone or tablet anyway.

    ...and...

    if you asked a kid in their twenties if they even knew what an antenna for a television was they’d probably go “what the fuck are you even talking about?”

    I'm not sure that's accurate. Gen Z and younger are apparently re-embracing OTA TV.

    "The study found that younger viewers now over-index on digital antenna usage compared to their older (50+ year-old) counterparts (23% and 15%, respectively). " source

    I'm much older but OTA TV is still a nearly daily use in our house even if the same content is available on various streaming services. DVR means skipping commecials while also getting a much better image quality than highly compressed streaming.

    We found OTA TV is a great compliment to streaming. There's no need to pay a cable/satellite subscription, you don't have to constantly worry about that bill going up year over year or a local channel being blacked out because of contract disputes. There's no "service" to have to worry about going out.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • What is surprising about this? LLMs are giant memory consumers.

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Video: When A Barn Owl And Great Horned Owl Meet

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

    hackaday.com /2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/
  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs