The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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I didn’t know it but Cambodia finally got YouTube premium a couple of months ago (it was only offered to me just today). I had their algo trained pretty well to not show excessive ads but it was a pain sometimes. If they ever showed me an ad that couldn’t be skipped after 5 seconds, I’d shut down YouTube instantly with Ctrl-W and wouldn’t open it again for 24 hours. I don’ t know if I was kidding myself but it seemed to be pretty effective; initially YT was really insistent about shoving them down my throat but it rarely happens now (maybe once a month) that I get an unskippable ad and have to do something else that night for entertainment.
Anyway, I’ve got premium now so that’s a game I no longer have to play.
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I don’t know if this is Microsoft being their normal tone deaf selves or it’s just me but this rubs me up the wrong way:
Time to get to work? I have several bosses and you aren’t one of them. In fact, you’re supposed to work for me biatch.
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The fact that the machine has you back-talking it . . . and you treating it like a surly boss suggests that the machine may be winning the battle. ;-)
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The AI is grooming Hog?
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
The AI is grooming Hog?
Has to break him down to get to his kid.
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Lob to get $2.5B and the victims 42 cents apiece.
Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit over tracking people using 'incognito mode'
The class-action lawsuit said Google misled users into believing that it wouldn't track their internet activities while using 'incognito mode.' Terms of the settlement weren't disclosed.
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Got my bluesky invite today after being on the waiting list for months. I guess the date is no accident and there was some planned expansion of access starting on New years day. They had just under three million users at NYE and I wonder how many they added today.
Anyway, if you have Bluesky and are interested in tech news, I found this feed to be really good:
Tech by Flipboard by @bsky.flipboard.com
Curated by Flipboard's state of the art topics recommendation system.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Lob to get $2.5B and the victims 42 cents apiece.
That’s all they deserve for using google!
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E-mail Is Making Us Miserable
In an attempt to work more effectively, we’ve accidentally deployed an inhumane way to collaborate.
Their recommendation? To “suggest that organizations make a concerted effort to cut down on email traffic.”
Yeah, fucking great. By the time that message has been corporatized, the reason for it will be lost and it will turn into a directive to use Teams instead of email.
I can manage email. I can ignore it while I’m busy, find stuff again when I need it and easily include people as necessary in any decisions.
I can’t manage a dozen fucking Teams channels going off like a pinball machine where, if you don’t respond immediately, people think you are goofing off, where adding people is an ordeal involving decisions about how much history to share and you can never fucking find which of the five related discussions had the text you need to look at a week later.
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Already happening at my workplace with Teams positioning itself as the continuous meeting IS the project management. Very painful already.
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https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-russia-tested-hack-proof-quantum-communication-link
Don’t know what the implications are unless the NSA were able to hack the existing comms via some unknown back door.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-russia-tested-hack-proof-quantum-communication-link
Don’t know what the implications are unless the NSA were able to hack the existing comms via some unknown back door.
Besides the obvious realtime link for defense cooperation and losing the benefit of NSA hacking either cracking comms or force slower secure methods, it could also mean some new cryptocurrency to dethrone the dollar.
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@Kilemall interesting.
When I was porting some Bitcoin elliptic curve cryptography code to JavaScript back in 2017 I got curious about the origins of the cryptography it uses. Turns out the elliptic curve Bitcoin addresses use (secp256k1) has a bunch of constants that no one knows the origin of other than they literally came from the NSA (I’m not making that up). The crypto anarchists fucking hate it when you point that out.
The US government owns Bitcoin as far as I’m concerned or at least has a back door to get the private key for any public address (which amounts to the same thing). Quantum computing will probably eventually be able to trivially crack secp256k1 even without a backdoor anyway.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall interesting.
When I was porting some Bitcoin elliptic curve cryptography code to JavaScript back in 2017 I got curious about the origins of the cryptography it uses. Turns out the elliptic curve Bitcoin addresses use (secp256k1) has a bunch of constants that no one knows the origin of other than they literally came from the NSA (I’m not making that up). The crypto anarchists fucking hate it when you point that out.
The US government owns Bitcoin as far as I’m concerned or at least has a back door to get the private key for any public address (which amounts to the same thing). Quantum computing will probably eventually be able to trivially crack secp256k1 even without a backdoor anyway.
Right. I figured something like that was in the works, nations do not give up currency power readily. Part of why my answer when you initially asked about bitcoin was government action.
I am foolish about one thing, I keep forgetting to make money off the suckers when the fundamentals are wrong but greed and emotion is high.
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Will be very interesting to see if this is turns out to be any good or not.
Midjourney Leaps into AI Video Creation - Decrypt
AI image generator MidJourney will begin video model training in the coming days and expects to release a final product in a few months.
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Still a way to go for video I think. The videos won’t be much longer than a GIF for a while because of the processing power needed and you really need control in video to “direct” what happens.
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Kohler's Newest Bidet Finally Brings Alexa and Google to Your Butt
It's one of the many new connected bathroom fixtures the company is debuting at CES 2024.
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FINALLY! I have been waiting for this for YEARS!!!
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“Alexa, wash my dirty ass. No, harder. Much harder”
And future generations will wonder why SkyNet tried to take us out…
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
“Alexa, wash my dirty ass. No, harder. Much harder”
And future generations will wonder why SkyNet tried to take us out…
Do you really think Skynet couldn’t take us out? I mean currently we are a culture where people’s lives are ruined because they got “raped” in the metaverse.
