dbread @dbread@qoto.org

"Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse":

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/tv-industrys-ads-tracking-obsession-is-turning-your-living-room-into-a-store/

This IoT device has a link to their jobs landing page written out on the PCB. Up until today I didn't understand why they had chosen that specific location.

I get it now. Glitching was high on your threat analysis. That's a pretty intriguing way of trying to stop it actually.

(System bootloader only possible to get to with that IC seeing the "right" voltage levels)

Ok, this thing is pretty badass. #pine64

Unpopular opinion: the only rule for having a Wikipedia page about a topic should be : "Would someone in the world ever look for information about this topic on Wikipedia?"

The reason why some zealots try to remove "non-notable enough" pages is because they think it is a badge of honor to be on Wikipedia.

The reason why it is a badge of honor is because some zealots spend their time removing pages considered "non-notable enough".

https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/microsoft-copilot-studio-exploit-leaks-sensitive-cloud-data

go to the cloud they said
itll be fine they said

ceci n'est pas une pipe

@tante honestly the best hope i currently have is that google keeps funding them just to point their finger and say something like SEE THERE IS NOT JUST CHROMIUM

The whole AI thing has me endlessly confused. Half the market is crashing because investors didn't see any signs of payoff in the quarterly earnings report, but I'm so lost as to what exactly they were expecting to see. Did they just not pay any attention at all to what these companies were actually doing with AI?

Were they expecting exponential Instagram usage growth as a result of Meta making it so you can have a conversation with the search bar? Or maybe everyone was going to buy 10 new Windows licenses in celebration of Microsoft announcing they want to install AI powered spyware on everyone's computer? Or was Google going to sell more ads by replacing all the search results with reddit shitposts. Either I'm missing something or everyone's 2 remaining brain cells are just really busy fighting to death for 3rd place.