Kent Walker suggested that this initiative would stifle innovation and deny people access to the “best digital tools.”
Perhaps in specific scientific or engineering situations the “best digital tools” may be needed, but isn’t that just a tiny fraction of the European userbase? How many office workers need bleeding edge tools to make a quarterly report or send an email?
It was probably a law written expecting the use case to be temporary power perhaps for an event or temporary maintenece need. The drafters of that law likely didn’t think someone would blatantly skirt the spirit of the law by simple placing the generators on trailers as a permanent fixture.
In short, the state needs to update its laws to remove this loophole.
TP-Link
I hope its not one of the 32 TP-Link cameras that have unpatched auth flaws allowing malicious actors to reset the admin credentials in them.. This is a local exploit, so you’re probably okay, but these exploits could be used in concert with others to compromise your security/privacy.
Yet being able to uncover what they did after the fact seems hella sketchy.
Not really if you know how this kind of computing/information technology works.
A file consists of the data itself, and a pointer to the data location on the storage device or index record. When the computer wants to retrieve the data, it looks at the index to get the data location, then goes to that location to get the data. This is how the majority of computers/devices work. When a file is “deleted” the index is usually the only thing that goes away, not the data itself. Over the course of time, the data is eventually overwritten as its in areas marked as “free space”. So other new files will occupy some or all of that space changing it to hold the new file data.
If you want to get rid of the data itself, that is usually considered “purge” where the data is intentionally overwritten with something else to make the data irretrievable.
What the Google engineers were able to do was essentially go through all the areas marked as “free space” across dozens (hundreds?) of cloud servers that hold customer Nest camera data and try to find any parts that hadn’t been overwritten yet by new data. This is probably part of why it took so long to produce the video. Its like sorting through a giant dumpster to find an accidentally discarded wedding ring.
And the NEST camera apparently has some sort of free tier that saves a short amount (the last few hours) of video by default, so NEST users shouldn’t be surprised at all that their video feed is sent to the cloud as its one of the features of the subscription-less model.
Did he think priest were exempt os something?
I’m not sure the priest thought this, but I’m sure many (most?) MAGA do. Remember, MAGA thinks ICE only bothers “MS-13/V3nuzualianG@ng!!/VicousMurderers/WhiteWomanRapists”.
I’m sure there are MAGA reading this thinking “why is ICE going after the church?!”
This is a pretty decent article and answered some of the exact questions I had when I heard about the recovered video.
or a cloud service that offers end-to-end encryption, which means not even the provider can access your footage.
That’s not what “end-to-end encryption” means. End-to-end encryption means only the sender and receiver have the ability to decrypt the message. The definition the author provided would be a match for “Zero-Knowledge Encryption” instead.
Moderna also has a vaccine production facility in Canada. So maybe a family vacation north might be a good idea this year.
If the invited GOP governors were allowed a +1, I would have liked to have seen each Republican governor bring a Democratic governor as their +1 thereby meeting the original mandate of having all governors present.
Its only a problem if you want to run AI. If you don’t want AI locally or cloud based, then no need to spend the money on the high end 32GB model (for AI purposes) or paying for a cloud subscription. No one is required to get the 32GB model if they don’t want it.
yea, i’m surprised, 32GB is goddamn ridiculous for anything, let alone for a shitty hp branded autocorrect
32GB is actually considered the bare minimum for most of the common locally run LLM models. Most folks don’t run a locally run LLM. They use a cloud service, so they don’t need a huge pile of RAM locally. However, more privacy focused or heavy users with cost concerns might choose to run an LLM locally so they’re not paying per token. With regards to locally run LLMs, this would be comparable to renting car when you need it vs buying one outright. If you only need a car once a year, renting is clearly the better choice. If you’re driving to work everyday then clearly buying the car yourself is a better deal overall.
You are perfectly fine not liking AI, but you’re also out-of-touch if you think 32GB is too big for anything. Lots of other use cases need 32GB or more and have nothing to do with AI.
I agree with your frustration with subscription laptops. I hope people don’t use it.
I can almost guarantee you that nobody under the age of 30 gives a singly flying fuck about having an antenna on a television. They’re probably watching more than half their media on their phone or tablet anyway.
…and…
if you asked a kid in their twenties if they even knew what an antenna for a television was they’d probably go “what the fuck are you even talking about?”
I’m not sure that’s accurate. Gen Z and younger are apparently re-embracing OTA TV.
"The study found that younger viewers now over-index on digital antenna usage compared to their older (50+ year-old) counterparts (23% and 15%, respectively). " source
I’m much older but OTA TV is still a nearly daily use in our house even if the same content is available on various streaming services. DVR means skipping commecials while also getting a much better image quality than highly compressed streaming.
We found OTA TV is a great compliment to streaming. There’s no need to pay a cable/satellite subscription, you don’t have to constantly worry about that bill going up year over year or a local channel being blacked out because of contract disputes. There’s no “service” to have to worry about going out.
What is surprising about this? LLMs are giant memory consumers.
TVs, game consoles
Lets say the theft is successful of a TV or game console. The thief likely wants cash, not consumer electronics. So they need a way to convert stolen goods into cash. Any TV worth money worth bothering with is also very large and fragile which is a problem for offloading it. Sure, there’s craigslist and facebook marketplace, but there aren’t many that will buy a TV off of those because of the likelihood something is already wrong with it, and TVs just aren’t that expensive new. Many consoles also have a theft reporting function that will block or limit how the console can be used. I imagine this also make theft of a console a high risk, low reward path.
I’m very glad to hear that! Thank you for correcting me on this.
China is successfully preparing Russia as a vassal state of China. Putin and Kim Jong-Un will be sitting next to each other as equals at the kids table at a meeting in China in the years ahead.
For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.
I have a handful of the original Raspberry Pi A and B models that have analog audio built in (with 3.5mm jack) and they’re still in use today because of that built in analog audio out. Also honorable mention to the original Pi Zero which had the logic (but not the header pins) for NTSC out. I have a couple of those in use too because of their NTSC out capabilities.
The byline at the bottom of the article jumped out at me:
This is a professional journalist and doctor of microbiology. She has spent many many years in education and practice to reach her level of knowledge and ability. Then some editor says “hey I need 1500 words in a story we want you to write covering dudes injecting their junk for cosmetics and athletic performance enhancement. Can you have it done by Tuesday?”. I can just imagine her eyerolling as she accepted the task. Dr. Beth Mole, don’t worry. We still respect your credentials and achievements and understand you just have to pay the bills too.
If the text messages of Agent Exum show deep remorse for the killing or immense anger with the system that put him in the position he needed to kill then I think that would reflect well on Agent Exum.
If instead it shows him making jokes about the victim or boasting about the killing then, yes, Agent Exum’s reputation will be further sullied.
The government is telegraphing what the tone of his text messages are even before they are being released.
He got an authentic girlfriend experience. Girlfriends don’t like being treated like sexual objects and having their values dismissed by their mate.