Comment Re:Easier fix... (Score 2) 54
If you assume just SMS then sure.
But very few people use SMS any more. Most users are using RCS, iMessage or other messaging services which are significantly harder to fake.
Comment No tech? (Score 2) 199
It's not "no tech", a tractor is by very definition a piece of technology. It's just a deliberately simpler piece of technology, and which does not implement intentionally user hostile features.
Some tech is genuinely beneficial for the user, but anything designed solely for the manufacturer's benefit at the expense of the paying customer is abhorrent. You bought the device, it should be yours to do with as you please, it shouldn't do anything to artificially restrict you.
Comment Re:Capitalism wins again. (Score 1) 199
Capitalism is nothing to do with a free market, it's about profit. The goal of any company in a capitalist system is to eliminate competition so that profits can be increased at the expense of customers.
The free market, and regulations to enforce it are mechanisms to curb the damaging effects of pure capitalism.
Comment Re:Stupid is as stupid does (Score 2) 191
If the EU switches to open source, it will be the best thing Trump has done. Literally.
Its like software patents. Its not the patents that are good, but the incentive to work around them.
Comment Re:Comment Subject: (Score 1) 54
Depends on the sophistication and determination of the attacker...
You can quite easily see relationships between people based on social media, you can correlate this with known numbers. Similarly a lot of people disclose their phone numbers via email signatures so if you have multiple people from the same company with disclosed numbers you stand a reasonable chance that they will be in each other's contacts.
Comment Re:Easier fix... (Score 2) 54
Which is why he said "TEXT FIRST"...
I'm largely the same, i never answer unexpected calls not just because of scams but because it's extremely inconvenient as a call forces me to stop whatever i'm doing immediately.
A legitimate caller will text or email first to arrange a mutually convenient time for a call.
Comment Inevitable (Score 1) 50
Computers didn't start with apps. At first they ran 'programs' with no OS at all. Having computation evolve around the statistical inference model of LLMs is just the next step in that progression.
It also happens to be a wet dream for tech company leaders. An OS that runs on buzzwords? That will attract humongous financing until some engineers find a way to make something that actually resembles the premise; at which point the tech lead gets saluted as a visionary by their fellow millionaires
Comment Re:Why are you defending Trump's bullshit it's qui (Score 1) 130
He manipulated the election with the help of AI and gerrymandering maps preventing 17 millions democrat voters to vote. Somebody ran the numbers to figure out how much voters suppression there was. In 2024 17 million democrat people tried to vote and couldn't.
How could a citizen just not be able to vote?
Gerrymandering doesn't prevent anyone from voting, at most it can make their vote not count towards the overall result because of the electoral college system, but this time around trump won the popular vote too.
How did the sitting democrat president allow 17 million of his party's supported be prevented from voting?
Submission + - Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing (science.org) 3
schwit1 writes: By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases
Comment Re:Windows? (Score 4, Informative) 90
AMD graphics are stable if you use the open source drivers, but if you need their closed drivers for whatever reason (eg opencl) then they are extremely unstable and much worse than nvidia.
Of course if you're going to arm then apple is currently about the best option.
Submission + - Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are (futurism.com) 1
JoeyRox writes: New research out of Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology found that the types of Wi-Fi routers we all have in our homes come with a major privacy vulnerability that can be used to identify any human body that comes within their range.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
The study, flagged by Gizmodo, used machine learning systems to identify individuals with an accuracy rate of 99.5 percent. To do so, the researchers exploited a vulnerability in a process known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), which was introduced to allow routers to focus Wi-Fi signals on connected devices, as opposed to the older approach, which is to blanket an entire area in coverage.
While BFI is great for network connectivity, it has a major downsides for privacy. For starters, devices connected to a router using beamforming need to send constant feedback in order to be found. As routers send out and receive network feedback, the signal is inevitably impacted by real world factors like pets, walls, and people.
Making matters worse is the fact that this data is basically wide open for anyone to grab — not only is that feedback data unencrypted, it can also be accessed without ever connecting directly to the router.
Comment Re:The real killer for Visio (Score 1) 66
Or just get a usb air mouse remote. There's plenty available.
Comment Re:The real killer for Visio (Score 1) 66
Why build your own? There are plenty of available set top boxes on the market complete with remote controls and a variety of different software, everything from the cheap chinese android boxes running kodi to the apple tv, and all of them are better than the crapware bundled with any tv set.
Submission + - I found a second vote.gov -- and it's registered to the White House
As_I_Please writes: The Drey Dossier reports that the National Design Studio, an office created by executive order and which reports only to the White House, has been building copies of federal agency websites like vote.gov, passports.gov, login.gov and others.
What [the National Design Studio] is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure. Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.
Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents, and he is right about that. It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on. The infrastructure outlasts him. Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites, the vendors, the data, and the hardware, sealed and waiting.
NDS Infrastructure Map — my live working github map of every National Design Studio subdomain I have found, filterable by status, registrant, and parent domain. If you want to retrace this investigation or watch new subdomains appear in real time, start here.
Comment How about an ability to disable AI being presented (Score 1) 52
I would so love to be able to make it so Meta stops shoving AI in my face. I don't want it and if they can't pay for the compute resources, then I am not going to help them justify the expense.
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