crimsontech

I'll pick my poison thanks and choose Chinese surveillance.

Assuming they won’t trade or sell it back to the US or whoever?

Not everyone has a device that can use lidar to map the face so it can’t be a requirement.

Kids have been defeating these smile and close your eyes things using photo mode in video games to control a character to perform the actions.

I didn't know about this, I'm on my laptop right now running macos and just tapped the trackpad with two fingers and it zoomed in. Usually I'm using a mouse and keyboard, I'll have to figure out how to do this with a keyboard shortcut.

Thanks!

This is about the Digital Markets Act, its not the EU saying it isn't secure enough, they are saying users should be able to choose to use the same functionality but with different AI providers.

Compliance with DMA would have Apple hand over system-wide access to AI features to third parties, which could compromise user privacy and security.

Siri AI has the capability to read your screen and access a lot of personal stuff. I don't blame Apple for not wanting to open this up to allow any model to access it. It seems Apple proposed a number of solutions which were denied.

While I can appreciate the reason for the DMA, people don't have to buy Apple devices, they can buy any type of phone they want and just use the ecosystems provided by these phones.

An apple foldable phone would be the first phone I bought apple care for.

This is a pet hate of mine. My whole family has iPhones but only my wife and daughters cables break because they use the phones while they are plugged in. The cable gets bent sharply where it joins the connector causing it to break.

I'm not sure if the newer braided cables are better or not as they don't have them.

I have never needed to replace mine as when the phone is plugged in and charging I don't use it.

I don't think it was meant to be hostile. It is a pattern I always find myself repeating personally. I think they just recognised it as something they do themselves.

If I feel like I have too many things to do, I can end up installing all sorts of todo list apps instead of doing the things. When I feel like a need a nap, I look up optimal nap times, end up reading stuff and then realising I missed the window I could have had a nap in.

I've set up vimwiki and loads of other note taking type apps (or knowledge management apps as they are often called now) and I export my notes from one system into another, and forget to use it.

But then they have something to write about as their first post.

Totally agree, I took a very well paying job with a company doing what I enjoy doing, but the attitude of the company was very much to extract as much money from the clients as possible. We had three hour monthly call where everyone would take turns to explain how they had upsold or otherwise made money for the company that month, someone from each call would get a token award for it.

I hated it, and wrote my resignation during one of these meetings without even having a solid plan of what I would do next.

A company can make money and provide a good service and experience for clients at the same time.

Same thing happened to me and I feel very blessed to get paid to do work that I would do for free as a hobby.

People around you can "smell" your passion and sometimes it energizes your team as well.

When hiring I always look for this, if someone is passionate about the work it often means they will put the effort in to be good at it, and it raises the team in a lot of ways.

I usually respond with AI;DR so they don’t expect a response.

It doesn't move while you work, its just the lock screen and when you log in.

Do you really respect your recipients so little that you can't be bothered to share your own thoughts?

I might as well get an AI to call my own mother on mother's day.

One of the first copilot adverts I saw had a woman using it to write a speech for her daughters graduation, with speaker prompts instructing the woman to look at her daughter at one point in the speech.

Such a personal and important moment in both their lives, I was shocked that they even put it out and thought it was OK.

What next? "Too busy negotiating a critical business deal to attend the birth of your first child? Have copilot attend and email you a summary of it later."

Found the video: https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224

The signs also seem to take priority over GPS, I was on a road with a 50mph speed limit tonight and the car read something it thought was a 20mph speed limit sign. I have the beeps disabled but it still displays the red 20mph sign on the dash to let me know it thinks I'm breaking the law.

This is pretty cool looking, I like it, it must be really heavy though.

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I used work on foundations for warehouses, huge concrete blocks as anchor points and this is exactly how we got the bubbles out, we had a huge metal vibrator they call them high-frequency concrete pokers.

They generally do care, but not enough to change what they do or to do without something they use, like social media.

So many people I know say “I only use Signal to talk to you”, it’s like I’m the awkward one for not using Facebook.

Wow, I was just saying to a friend that I couldn’t understand people risking their jobs to steal stationery or toilet rolls from the workplace.

I guess if it’s your moral obligation to steal from the workplace it reframes it somewhat.

I have tried to explain this so many times to people. You could just scrape out the lint from the lighting port with a tooth pick. The fragile part was the easily replaceable cable. Now the fragile part is in the iPhone itself.

This happened to me recently at work, I just ignored the request, but I was tempted to feed it to copilot and just send them the response.

Does it? I haven't used the case since I bought them and don't feel like I'm missing anything.

I remember getting some questionable quality books from amazon which didn't match up to the usual standard of a publisher. No Starch Press called this out in the past saying amazon sell counterfieght books. https://x.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202

I'm not sure what actually happens, but I mostly stopped buying paperbacks on Amazon a good while ago, and if I do, and I'm unhappy with the quality I'll return it.

In the UK all mobile phones default to no adult content on the mobile networks, if you want to access adult content you need to request it with the mobile network provider. They could have gone the same route with consumer internet access. Most ISP supplied routers support content blocking, it could have been turned on by default with a simple update pushed by the ISP.

Kids here in the UK get educated about online safety in school, schools have sessions for parents covering this stuff too. My own kids have had age appropriate internet access all their lives, its not been difficult to control it, we have had the tools and knowledge for years.

This stuff really isn't about child safety in my opinion.

I use a Cytrence Kiwi myself, really handy bit of kit, I just wish it could do higher resolution, even if it meant dropping the frame rate.

I also have a PiKVM with the switch for network level access which works really well too.

I love this, I block sites during certain times to stop me wasting time but I might add this too.

I've done a huge number of hours on sentry duty (unmedicated) and the the hour would either pass by in an instant and I wouldn't even realise it, or it would seem to drag on for hours.

One thing I certainly couldn't do was pay attention to nothing happening for an hour just incase something happened.

My rice cooker does the same, but my microwave beeps a harsh tone until I open the door, which is very annoying.

The rice cooker gives me a notification and requires nothing from me.

The microwave sounds an alarm that requires me to attend to it like an emergency.

Finally, someone is trying to tackle the huge taskbar problem in Windows 11!

I like this idea, I wouldn't buy one but I always want more vertical space on a laptop screen.

I stopped buying them when I saw users posting on reddit that they were logging in to their systems and seeing other peoples camera feeds and networks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ubiquiti-user...

Was it worth it? Yes, it is terrible, shoddy, insecure code, but he proved out a viable business with just a few hundred dollars of investment.

Was it worth it to put all his customers at risk like that?

He is honestly lucky, the "hackers" could have done much worse, it would have been much more profitable for them to go after his customers via his software than to demand money from him had they been financially motivated.

Third, the hacker has been trying to inject XSS attacks into app

Now he's hiring a developer to shore it up.

So this is an ongoing attack? He should probably also hire some incident response and get some security consultancy.