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Steam Machine 8 months ago

You have to set it up with the Steam client in Desktop Mode, but you can add arbitrary programs and executables as non-steam games.

As a result, I can open Spotify in the background and have it play music while I game, from the primary SteamOS interface.

I made one for roughly $100 USD from an Arduino, steel rods, some stepper motors, and some 3D printed parts.

Having an existing 3d printer is a bit “draw the rest of the owl” for this, but being able to extend and modify a device like a pen plotter is pretty nice.

Reminds me a bit of BMWs and their infamous and persistent coolant pump woes. The running joke in those circles is "replacing the entire cooling system" counts as "basic, regular maintenance". BMW makes a fantastic engine, then makes the water pump impeller out of plastic. For what feels like decades.

Interesting and novel take. Do you think making that would enable you to also make a better distributed note taking system, or do you think you need the distributed note taking system first?

Perhaps we need to make a diagram to decide.

I'd like to see some form of regulation around % of visible screens/information presented in a public space needing to be specifically useful to the population vs pure advertising.

It's frustrating to be at a train station where every wall is an ad for something, and the actual information concerning the trains themselves is either tucked away on a much smaller, much lower quality screen in the corner, or worse, not working at all.

Basically I'd like to see some solutions to the problem that I'm generally being shown ads at the expense of the public service I'm trying to use.

I ended up with a preorder for the new screen instead of getting a laptop now and the upgraded screen later. Before making that call, I explored a bit around up-cycling the original monitor into a portable display. There are apparently some boards that allow this, if that helps with your math.

I’d love to see two types of upvotes on the site. One for “thanks for answering/engaging” and another for “this answer is correct and high quality”. Not sure how you’d restrict or verify the votes, but I think the issue you’re pointing out is a result of only having one metric of engagement.

Agreed that the vetting of private people would be invasive and not a good use of resources. It would also not work for recently compromised accounts.

I’m also personally torn on how much we want giant private companies controlling more and more of the core compute infrastructure and software.

In an ideal world, the code and software itself would be automatically analyzed for malicious use cases in release and deployment pipelines, but that’s a magic hand wavy kind of ask of a huge magnitude and complexity.

The analogy I used back when I managed a team was that our workload was like a funnel. You need some amount of overhead to balance the pressure and keep things flowing. If you put too much in the funnel, things backup and spill. It's faster to leave that little gap than it is to try to use the absolute maximum volume.

As long as the government can keep a private key secure only they could make use of it.

Well, keep in mind they would have to keep it secure in perpetuity. Any leak over the lifetime of any of that hardware would be devastating to the owners. Blue Team/Defensive security is often described as needing to be lucky every time, where as Red Team/attackers just have to get lucky once.

This attack vector is in addition to just exploiting the implementation in some way, which I don't think can be handwaved away.

Something like this would show up in perimeter network/firewall logs correct? But if someone was mirroring traffic to the same cloud provider you deploy in, it would be less obvious to find out _which_ set of cloud IPs aren't actually your own.

This, on top of how frustrating it is to report the hacked account to Facebook. Several family members have had their profiles compromised, including the email and phone number updates you mentioned.

Myself and many many other people attempt to help the situation by reporting the old profile as a hacked impersonator, only to be promptly closed by Facebook, as they cite they see no rule breaking. They reach this opinion despite the profile being massively changed, from an English speaking father of two, to a woman persona now posting obvious scam links and new family photos in a different language (and country) entirely.

Even as we admit defeat on recovering the old account, often tied to a small business page, and eat the cost of starting over, the old profile still masquerades under the old name, but with reputation damaging and clearly fake content.