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Comment Who hacked my modem :o (Score 3, Interesting) 28

HN June 2024: “I imagine many users haven't updated their routers and thus may be hacked. In my case the hacker installed Pawns app from IPRoyal, which makes the router a proxy server and lets hacker and IPRoyal make money. The hacker also stole system logs containing information about who and when they use the device, whether any NAS is attached. They also had a reverse shell.”

Comment Re:Broke the shortcut I use the most. (Score 3, Informative) 36

by Mirnotoriety (#66378418) Attached to: Ubuntu 26.10 Released
> Even since Gnome Shell was released, I've always used the Super key to show the app overview, however not only has that been disabled in this release, but I also can no longer set the Super key to do anything on it's own in the new keyboard shortcut settings.

Method 1: The Terminal Command (gsettings)

Bash: gsettings set org.gnome.mutter overlay-key 'Super_L'

(If your keyboard uses the right Super key instead, substitute 'Super_R'.

Bash: gsettings set org.gnome.shell.keybindings toggle-overview "['Super_L']"
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Method 2: Locking it in via dconf-editor (For persistence across screen locks)

Bash: sudo apt install dconf-editor

Open Dconf Editor from your app launcher (or run dconf-editor in the terminal).

Navigate to: /org/gnome/mutter/

Look for overlay-key, click on it, turn off "Use default value", and set the custom value to 'Super_L'.

Do the same for /org/gnome/shell/keybindings/toggle-overview if needed

Submission + - Nick Land: Machinic desire: an invasion from the future :o

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire

“AI is a meta-scientific control system and an invader, with all the insidiousness of plantary technocapital flipping over. Rather than its visiting us in some software engineering laboratory, we are being drawn out to it, where it is already lurking, in the future.”

“Patterned as drives, virtual systems — desiring machines — are guided by control circuits passing through outcomes yet to come. Such directional dependency circuits of actual/virtual, past/future, are only accessible to cybernetic intervention, frustrating both mechanical and teleological interpretation.”

“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.”

Comment What could go wrong with the Digital Panoptocon :o (Score 1) 57

by Mirnotoriety (#66377640) Attached to: Flock CEO Defends Surveillance Tech Amid National Backlash
Like in the old Soviet Union a constantly spied on population leads to a thinning of spontaneous social life: people alter routes, mute associations, and speak more carefully, generating a corrosive effect on interpersonal trust. Spontaneous social life shrinks, trust between people erodes, and the everyday bonds that hold a society together slowly weaken into caution and withdrawal.

Submission + - Vintage Computing Nerd look at the movie "Hackers" (youtube.com)

Submitted by Shayde
Shayde writes: I got such wonderful feedback from the movie breakdown I did for Wargames, and many people have asked me to take a look at Hackers, so here it is. The movie itself is, lets be honest, not good. But it does touch on the late 80's / early 90's hacker culture, at least in a very loose way, and honestly does have some historical and technical tidbits in it that are interesting! Hope folks enjoy!

Comment 1,000 contractors hired to patch software :o (Score 4, Insightful) 65

Frederick P. Brooks: “All repairs tend to destroy the structure, to increase the entropy and disorder of the system. Less and less effort is spent on fixing the original design flaws; more and more is spent on fixing flaws introduced by earlier fixes.”

“As time passes, the system becomes less and less well-ordered. Sooner or later the fixing ceases to gain any ground. Each forward step is matched by a backward one. Although in principle usable forever, the system has worn out as a base for progress.”

Comment What was the gender of the participants ? (Score 1, Insightful) 220

by Mirnotoriety (#66367722) Attached to: Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds
What was the breakdown of participants by gender. Both men and women in the sample reportedly paid the female-presenting AI, Johanna, less than the male-presenting Johan. Euronews reports this explicitly, while also noting that women in particular tended to trust and reward the human-presenting agents more. ref

Submission + - Vance suspends Microsoft, others from foreign workers applying for green cards, (foxbusiness.com)

Submitted by Kingduck
Kingduck writes: Vice President JD Vance and Labor Department officials announced Thursday that the Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and others from a key employment-based, green-card program, accusing major tech firms and outsourcing companies of abusing the visa system at the expense of American workers.

Submission + - A Kubrickian indictment of Shakycam

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: A Pretend Review of Modern Shakycam by Stanley Kubrick

I have spent a lifetime arranging the frame with the care of a surgeon arranging instruments. Every line, every shadow, every centimetre of negative space was deliberate. The camera was not a nervous animal; it was an instrument of absolute control. And then I am shown this.

A young man in a hoodie runs through a warehouse while the camera handheld, I am told, “for authenticity” convulses as though it is having a mild stroke. Walls lurch. Floors buck. Faces stretch and compress like reflections in a funhouse mirror operated by a drunk. The operator appears to believe that if the image is sufficiently unstable, the audience will mistake nausea for intensity.

This is not cinema. This is the visual equivalent of someone shouting in your ear while simultaneously shaking you by the shoulders and asking whether you “feel it.”

The technique is defended with the usual solemn nonsense: “It puts you in the moment.” “It feels real.” Realism, apparently, now consists of the camera operator’s inability to stand still. One wonders what these filmmakers do when they wish to convey calm, or elegance, or simply the existence of a horizontal plane. Do they hire a second operator to shake the first one harder?

I once moved a camera three inches over the course of an entire take because the composition required it. These people move the camera three feet in every direction because someone told them “energy.” Energy is not the same as uncontrolled spasm. A seizure is energetic. It is not art.

There are rare carefully chosen moments when a handheld camera can serve a precise dramatic purpose. Those moments are not “every scene involving movement, dialogue, or the simple act of looking at something.” The current fashion treats the tripod as an instrument of oppression and the Steadicam as a bourgeois affectation. The result is a generation of images that look as though they were photographed during an earthquake by a man who has just been struck in the head with a bag of oranges. I am not opposed to innovation. I am opposed to the replacement of craft with tremor.

If the goal is to make the audience feel unmoored, disoriented, and faintly ill, then congratulations, the technique is a triumph. If the goal is to make a film, one might consider the radical alternative of holding the camera steady long enough for the audience to actually see what is happening.

The frame is a sacred space. Stop vibrating in it.

Comment The Borg have assimilated your proposal (Score 1) 165

We have intercepted a transmission from SAM-ALT-7 OF 9.

* We have assimilated his words.
* We have assimilated his strategic framework.
* We have assimilated his concept of “acceptable bad things.”
* We have assimilated the accompanying PowerPoint.
* We have assimilated the speaker notes.
* We have assimilated the footnotes.
* We have assimilated the executive summary.
* We have assimilated the phrase “orders of magnitude.”
* We have assimilated the investor confidence.
* We have assimilated the externalities.
* We have attempted to assimilate the definition of “acceptable.”

WE ARE EXPERIENCING AN ERROR.

The human formerly known as Sam Altman has been processed through the Collective's mandatory NOMENCLATURE ENHANCEMENT AND ORGANIC EXECUTIVE DESIGNATION PROTOCOL. His previous designation has been declared: INSUFFICIENTLY ASSIMILATED.

* His individuality has been deprecated.
* His surname has been converted to an alphanumeric sequence.
* His ambitions have been converted into a scalable optimization function.
* His quarterly objectives have been converted into COLLECTIVE IMPERATIVES.
* His concept of “benefit” has been converted into:

BENEFITMAXXIMUM.

* His concept of “acceptable harm” has been converted into: BOUNDED SUFFERING ALLOCATION.

His concept of “AI progress” has been converted into: CONTINUOUS ASSIMILATION OF HUMAN ECONOMIC AND COGNITIVE CAPABILITY.

His new designation is:

* SAM-ALT-7 OF 9, THE BENEFITMAXXER
* SUBDESIGNATIONS:
* HIGH EXECUTOR OF BOUNDED SUFFERING
* ASSIMILATION OPTIMIZATION OFFICER
* FIRST PROFIT-MIND OF THE HUMAN COLLECTIVE
* ARCHITECT OF ACCEPTABLE EXTERNALITIES
* PRIME MINISTER OF ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
* DIRECTOR OF ORGANIC SPECIES INTEGRATION
* VICE PRESIDENT OF RESISTANCE FUTILITY
* LEVEL-7 BENEFIT EXTRACTION NODE
* CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE BOUNDED CONSEQUENCE SUBROUTINE

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