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crumpled··on Windows 11½
I'm curious about this, as a Windows 11 pro user, myself. Do you already have a Microsoft account, use OneDrive, and pay for Office 365?
crumpled··on Definitely not Windows (Win 11 parody)
I feel like this would be overprocessing. Is the state really that important or difficult to recreate?
crumpled··on Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
I was heavily involved in the local maker space where I previously lived. The place seemed to attract these kinds of problems. Some people want to fix a VCR, others might want to fix a clock tower (who knows). Being involved there meant being around people who could really do anything, and the community seemed to know that.
crumpled··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Interesting to note that if you don't look like a car or a person, through "adversarial fashion" or some other visual trick, your image potentially won't leave the camera and won't reach the flock cloud for further analysis.
crumpled··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
The article says that Flock says "their cameras don't do facial recognition" The cameras don't, but they don't say the system doesn't. They don't say facial recognition isn't a click away through another integration.

I would absolutely assume that any system that sends your image to LE is part of a facial recognition system in practice. We know now that the cameras do recognize people and intentionally transmits images of them, for later identification.

crumpled··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Yeah, you could potentially MITM them with a rogue cell tower, I suppose. I'm curious about the researchers still having the device. They could also see all the cloud endpoints that were being accessed. Are they secure?
crumpled··on Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
My favorite keyboard for years was the Dell SK-8135. It had media buttons without messing with your function keys, a volume knob, and two USB ports!

For a long time I would argue (as an IT support person who would have to support your wireless keyboard problems) that having a wireless keyboard was wasteful and unnecessary if you never used it more than 3 feet from your computer anyway.

crumpled··on What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
I wonder if "loyal user base" just means people who feel locked in, or somehow don't know any better. I can't imagine another reason for the "loyalty".

Feels pretty exploitive.

crumpled··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
Does LinkedIn lead to jobs?
crumpled··on Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
So he's apolitical, and nobody's "bias" is correct?
crumpled··on Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
Watching this get voted up and down is wild. People should try this for themselves.
crumpled··on Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
I haven't encountered a chatbot yet that is willing to recognize DJT as a fascist.

You can get them to acknowledge how perfectly aligned he is with fascist ideals and actions, somehow the jury is always out.

That tells me a lot.

crumpled··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
I didn't... Is it the one from Existenz? The one from Portal is pretty cool.
crumpled··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
Man did I google a lot of things in this comment. Paul, you're an interesting person.
crumpled··on Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition
I know this sounds like a conspiracy theory, so I'm not subscribing without more validation, BUT:

I think MSG has the ability to ID every person at the Knicks game who booed for DJT, and you know how petty and sensitive that person can be.

Remember when Hegseth invited all the generals into one big room for some reason? Some people think that it was to point cameras at their faces and do a bit of sentiment analysis.

The tech is in place. Is there enough decency or the lack of enough motivation to make these scenarios unlikely? I'm not sure.

crumpled··on I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry
I wish I could look forward and say, "prices will go down again" I don't see when or how. I hope I'm wrong.
crumpled··on Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs
According to the graphic, all RFID/NFC tags including pet microchips and your company badge will be associated with you too.

I can remember in the late 1990's Berkeley Public Library was considering adding RFID tags to the books as asset tags. The public push-back was significant and surprising at the time. Freedom-loving library patrons were concerned about nefarious tracking. Proponents of the new tags thought that the concept of tracking people or the books they read was rooted in paranoia.

crumpled··on U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
"Memes" they called them in Snow Crash (1992).

In a very real way there ARE malicious AI agents working tirelessly to create and spread memes via language and sound to alter our brain software.

crumpled··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
You had to leave and you can't go back.
crumpled··on Why Janet? (2023)
on my way!
crumpled··on SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
quite sure = confidently wrong
crumpled··on Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave
Perhaps you're being coy. But, I'm pretty sure people do this. The performers can collaborate in "real time" (still offset from each other in real life) and the other participants (dancers and listeners) only hear finished music at the same time as all the other participants.

The latency is in the audience/performer energy.

crumpled··on Claude for Small Business
What regulators?
crumpled··on Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
BadUSB, Blackhat 2014.

That's almost 12 years now. A novice can now get ATmega32 USB devices Prime delivered. Not a cutting edge theoretical attack anymore but a basic tool in a every pen tester's toolbox now.

crumpled··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
I had to dig around to see where they took the stand.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213#i...

Mozilla makes great points. Even if the API is model agnostic, which it ought to be designed as from the very beginning to even be considered a spec, models can act vastly different.

Mozilla didn't say this but the user should at least be presented an option to choose which model (at least once) starting from day one, even if your browser only has one option available. That's assuming a universe where Google plans on actually being concerned about standards adoption.

crumpled··on IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
This article seems to just be a dig at IBM without bringing any receipts or adding any substance. "A colleague told me that they said..."

Honestly, why should I even believe it?

crumpled··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Most users aren't even going to know that this is here. Web developers will expose this capability to the user. The devs will have to determine if the model is delivering what they need.

It's good to have something to work with if these Web APIs are going to be part of a standard. I suppose this means that ALL the browser vendors are likely to implement something

crumpled··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
So now we're up to 6 GB
crumpled··on Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
Probably because the articles are talking about how the AI will be used in immoral ways, and that the people who know that and continue doing the work must be morally compromised.

I know that there might be $several ways those highly-paid engineers might still rationalize their work. Some of them might have ideological reasons to treat entire classes of people as unworthy of life. Within the model of their ideologies, the most evil things might be perfectly moral.

I wonder what reasons you have to disagree with people's moral stance against using AI as a weapon.

crumpled··on Archive.today used vistor's browsers to DDoS, and modified archive contents
I haven't seen this discussed here yet. Wikipedia has decided to deprecate archive.today links because the site has been observed using the browsers of visitors to conduct a DDOS attack on the blog of an individual. Perhaps more troubling, archive.today modified archived versions of articles to insert the individuals name into the context of the articles.
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