Max Headroom @Joel@qoto.org

people dont realise what food insecurity does to your psyche for the rest of your fucking life like the amount of mental load that comes from non stop inventory and assessment of what you have & like trying to stretch out not eating even when you have enough

#infosecurity

The FBI infiltrated a major ransomware group called Hive and obtained its decryption keys.

.... The FBI’s work helped affected parties avoid paying $130 million. Afterward American law enforcement worked with international partners to seize Hive’s servers and take down its website.

--today at Scientific American

In this whole thread, I haven't even talked about how many openly racist police officers there are. I haven't even addressed qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, corruption, genocidally violent tactics, racist sentencing laws, or any of that.

I just talked about one way a "non-racist" person who becomes a police officer is incentivized to contribute to violent racism that destroys Black lives at a horrific scale.

@maniajack Start with talkingpointsmemo.com -- and there are a number of good commentators at even the Big Journalism orgs that don't do excellent coverage.

Those who follow the NY Times' relentlessly woeful political reporting are used to case studies in normalizing extremists and false balance. They are surely unsurprised to learn that the author of this "analysis" (read: opinion) is one of the orgs' most reliable normalizers and false balancers. Most of this piece does the latter, with some hedge language proving the writer knows better.

It's going to get scary.

[Credit to the TLDR newsletter]

"Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University were able to create full-body images of subjects using simple Wi-Fi routers. The technology could revolutionize healthcare, security, gaming, imaging, and many other industries. However, it could present many privacy issues as the technology can monitor people's movements through walls without their knowledge or consent. The technique involves analyzing the amplitude and phase of Wi-Fi signals to find interference and then using AI algorithms to produce an image."

Pastis is on fire with this one

Thirteen years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.

WaPo has an Opinion piece today written by Marc A. Thiessen entitled, “As the March for Life Returns, We Owe Brett Kavanaugh A Debt of Gratitude”. No, I won’t read that. Won’t add to their clicks. Or feed garbage to my brain.

So here's my (silly?) idea: a regulatory requirement for #IoT / smart-appliance vendors to provide either:

a). models physically without the smart functionality but with other performance metrics on-par with their smart models;

or

b). a reliable, verifiable, physical way of disabling smart functionality in their smart-devices.

I want to be able to buy a damn refrigerator without worrying about it joining a botnet! Just ain't cool.

I do wonder if this makes any sense!

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I remember trying to buy a TV that does not have "smart" functionality a few years ago. It was a chore. Today it seems nigh-impossible.

And not just TVs: ovens; refrigerators; dishwashers — all have "smart" options. In fact, it seems that more and more the available non-smart models are only the simpler ones, less performant in ways that are not related to any smart functionality missing.

My non-smart TV was available only with lower resolutions than "smart" models of the same brand.

#IoT

Reverse engineering a Neural Network's clever solution to Binary Addition

https://cprimozic.net/blog/reverse-engineering-a-small-neural-network/