- mingus88The power outage probably knocked out the infra those operators needed to control the cars.
- I’m old enough to remember when blogs were bad news for the culture at the time, which was forums, IRC and static sites (you know, with under construction banners)
It seems the prevailing pattern is that removing barriers to entry means things get worse. In 2025 there are no barriers left and everyone is online all the time. It’s the end stage of the internet we loved.
In fact the barriers have been destroyed so utterly that we are awash in AI generated content now. The dead internet theory is real. Why are we still here?
- What’s to prevent one party from forwarding said email chain to any other account on Gmail?
Like most issues of privacy, you can be absolutely perfect but all it takes is any of your contacts to make a common mistake and you are toast.
If a system can only be secure if every participant acts perfectly, and goes through all the hoops required to host their own private infra securely, well, that seems inherently insecure to me.
Email was designed for a different age. All the bolt-on improvements have not fundamentally changed this.
- I kinda disagree. This was luck. A dev on an unrelated project happened upon it and was diligent enough to dig in. A single change to any number of variables would have meant disaster.
I worked at a company that got red teamed. The pen testers were inside the network and were only found by a random employee who happened to be running little snitch and got a weird pop-up
Nobody celebrated the fact that the intrusion was detected. It was pure luck, too late, and the entire infosec leadership was fired as a result.
Like this xv issue, none of the usual systems meant to detect this attack seemed to work, and it was only due to the diligence of a single person unrelated to the project was it not a complete show.
- Seems ironic. Perhaps we should celebrate AI as the accelerator of capitalism’s ultimate unworkable demise
We aren’t getting regulations on AI. The military industrial complex includes the tech industry now. It’s an existential race to beat China.
The sad reality is that for all of our potential futures, we aren’t getting the Star Trek post scarcity utopia. Our onboard ship computers aren’t generating Earl Grey, hot, they are generating trillionaires on one hand and poverty on the other.
- Yeah AI is taking a lot of damage when the actual problem is capitalism
- Shouldn't you put those things you keep repeating into CLAUDE.md?
- The editors of the AI clips haven’t figured out yet that you can just train a second LLM to act as editor
They are the labor equivalent of the factory manager that is dutifully working for the bosses that are working to close the factory.
- It’s pretty awesome as steganography
I have shelves of sheet music and nobody would bat an eye at something like this buried in there
- It’s 2025. You can deploy a camera anywhere you want. This article is a perfect example.
I’m instantly suspicious when I see a random phone charger plugged in a common area.
AR glasses are perpetually just around the corner. Everyone will be streaming video all the time.
- Sounds like a USB kill style device. Something you can easily plug in and blow the circuit
https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/usb-kill-v4/
> When plugged in power is taken from the USB power lines, multiplied, and discharged into the data lines, typically disabling an unprotected device.
- I was in the market for my kid who is going through a hipster phase
A review of one unit said that it didn’t honor the cutout tab so if you accidentally pressed record with any tape you would dub over your music
I shopped for a while and came to the conclusion that these are mostly kitsch.
- IMO no 3rd party app is worth using on those devices.
My parents pay over $300/mo for an Xfinity bundle. It includes everything (phone, internet, and all streaming services on one bill)
The paramount+ app on the Xfinity box took TEN MINUTES to load a show. This is after crashing three times back to the logo.
Xfinity warns that it’s a 3P app and they aren’t responsible for it but it should be criminal to take the money and subject elderly people to this under spec hardware. Even live sports will pause and stutter.
- Invest in your local community.
One sliver of optimism I have is that this era of social media rot can finally come to and end if enough people lose trust with online content.
Media has been compromised. Your neighbors are not AI and are probably not part of a billionaires influence campaign
- It is useful. I use AI daily.
The issue is that is it even more useful to bad actors. Our society has been based on a certain level of trust.
I remember a world where photographic evidence was good enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. We can’t even trust video any longer. Or even that the voice on the other end of the phone is a family member
- I suspect you are right, but I’m not alone in walking away from this trend.
They lost me as a longtime customer after too many price hikes and low programming quality.
Netflix shows are “have it on in the background” quality whereas HBO has released some of the best TV of all time. This merger has enshittification written all over it.
- Yubikey Bio exists. It’s $100 though so, whether it not it’s worth integrating into MacOS vs a first party keyboard is going to be subjective
- The pocket sold out worldwide and made headlines everywhere. Sounds like a success to me.
It’s not for me either but fashion is as fashion does.
- TouchID is biometric so these are not equivalent authentication methods.
As a watch user i will also say that the Bluetooth wake is unreliable enough to make this a poor replacement. Frustrating, even.
- You don’t have to look very hard to see an enormous number of people expressing discontent at the latter.
To speak to your examples, the right to repair, farmers vs John Deere, the exodus from X to Bluesky, the rise of alternative messaging platforms, the outright murder of CEOs on the street and the beatification of the primary suspect on social media…just to scratch the surface
These are all headlines straight from HN and the fact that you even know about them is the difference.
The fundamental difference is while we both lack any real power to change this, under an actual dictatorship people get jailed or worse for that expression.
Let’s touch base on this again when Dictatorship from big capital means Disney puts me in prison for dissent against the mouse and then offers me clemency if I go to the front lines in their next special military operation.