Comment Oh great, a fresh set of bugs & vulns to iron (Score 1) 12
Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.
Comment Want to save power? (Score 2) 20
Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.
How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.
Comment Professional unethical for-profit hackers hacked (Score 2) 56
Poetic justice.
Comment Like cocaine (Score 1) 8
the first hit is free.
Comment Re: Like mold always colonizes and corrupts any fo (Score 1) 226
how many have been hurt by porn vs all the casualties from religious wars ? Doesn't seem like they belong in the same sentence.
My statement doesn't address the gravity of the two things I mentioned. Just like the statement "Foot fetishism and pedophilia are both paraphiliae" is factually true and says nothing about which one is worse.
All I said was, if there's a new technology, the first people to use it for their particular interest are always people peddling smut and magical thinking.
Comment Like mold always colonizes and corrupts any food (Score 3, Insightful) 226
You can be certain two things always corrupt any new technology: porn and religion.
Comment This is what your AI pastor will look like (Score 1) 226
Comment Re:Gates and what he wants to say can fuck right o (Score 3, Informative) 51
He has no earned income because, like all billionaires, he's arranged to have no income in order to dodge taxes.
I'm mad at the loopholes, but I'm also mad at the fuckers who exploit the loopholes, because just because being a selfish asshole is legal doesn't make it okay to be a selfish asshole.
Comment Gates and what he wants to say can fuck right off (Score 3, Informative) 51
until he starts paying taxes like everybody else.
Fuckhead billionaires...
Comment My prediction (Score 1) 56
In 20 years, the movie Idiocracy will be fully realized.
Comment How about we do the opposite? (Score 2, Insightful) 129
Ban the dumb, lying, hallucinating, sycophantic, power-hungry insanity we have now and bring AI online only after it's proven to be reliable.
Comment Incognito windows in an AI browser (Score 4, Insightful) 28
Your privacy will be violated any which way, but you won't feel it.
Comment Re:Said another way (Score 1) 67
It's even worse: the encrypted SD card can be decrypted by anybody who owns the same device. Meaning practically, it's not encrypted at all.
Comment Said another way (Score 3, Insightful) 67
After determining the data wasn't encrypted beyond the file system level, they successfully accessed the SD card contents using the manufacturer's proprietary equipment and procedures.
the manufacturer had the decryption key.
Why does this story not make me feel all warm and fuzzy?
Comment Is this a question? (Score 4, Informative) 191
Have you seen who's in the White House? Remember: he was voted in. Twice. That only happens in a nation with a widespread case of mental retardation.
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