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underlogic··on Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown
It was a backpack with my work laptop and so on. Thin.
underlogic··on Pixel Watch 3
Maybe they'll sell your heart health data to life insurance companies. You can't trust google and they can't make hardware anyway
underlogic··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
Wouldn't accept it as a gift after having several generations of Pixel phone. Half baked software. Also Apple has hammered Google on privacy and rightfully so. There's a 0 chance I'll use android handsets again regardless of the hardware.
underlogic··on Quantum Cryptography Has Everyone Scrambling
No way am I following NIST guidelines after what they pulled!

Layer them. I trust NO ONE.

underlogic··on M4 Mac Mini to Become Apple's Smallest Ever Computer with Complete Redesign
what's with this hdmi port? will it never die? huge ugly legacy connector
underlogic··on Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown
Most Macbooks same price but no membership fee at Amazon so cheaper effectively. Prime not required
underlogic··on Critical vulnerabilities in 6 AWS services disclosed at Black Hat USA
I don't get this responsible disclosure. Responsible to whom exactly? It takes leverage from security researchers who have risked their valuable time. Now the companies with lax security can dictate their pay, if any, through bounties while threatening them not to discuss their findings. It's corrupt
underlogic··on Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown
The prices aren't that much better than Amazon. I'm not signing my basic rights away for a discount on a crate of noodles. It's offensive as well. When did it become Ok to presume your customer is a criminal? Sure if you have video feed of them stealing stop them. But "random" searches when they don't like the look of your face is crossing a line.
underlogic··on Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in sharing crackdown
They searched my bag one day when I was leaving. Said the small print in the membership agreement gave them the right to search without my consent. So I turned around went to the desk and cancelled the membership. Never going back. They can keep the $5 chicken
underlogic··on 7-Eleven is reinventing its food business to be more Japanese [video]
711 food in the US is sugar saturated to a comical degree. This store will hurt you. I think there are grounds for class action. That's what happens when you track and then promote the most addictive products of the company inventory
underlogic··on Slack wants to become the 'long-term memory' for organizations
Didn't they just announce they'll delete messages older than a year for unpaid users? This is a huge red flag. You don't want a company with a business model that requires them to pull the rug on critical data if you unsubscribe. A business model of continuous threat. I'll find an alternative free self hosted platform with e2e and no AI snooping through our private issues to build profiles on the group.
underlogic··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
That's the problem. These AI features may be "free" but is there an option to disable them system wide from rummaging through all your data and building a profile in order to be helpful? If not I won't update. And I mean one tickbox not a separate switch for every app and feature like siri has making it nearly impossible to disable
underlogic··on "Confidential" 988 conversation records shared with corporations
what what what!

there'll be a body count to this news. people simply won't call

can you imagine a more outrageous preposition than data mining conversations between the suicidal their emergency councillors?

just couldn't pass up that golden intel opportunity apparently

underlogic··on Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
It happens. This is the type of revelation where heads roll and a scapegoat is very useful for the CSO, general liability of the company and PR.
underlogic··on Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
Did they *pay* him? He kind of saved them, tipped them off to a complete compromise of their security infrastructure which was not trivial to discover. Looks like he got nothing in return for "doing the right thing". How insulting is that? What is their perception of someone walking in to their offices with this essential information? I guarantee his self image and their perception are very different. They see an overly caffeinated attention seeking "nerd" just handed them a 300k exploit in exchange for a gold star and then they ran like smeg to cover their asses and take all the credit internally. He feels like superman, goes home to his basement apt, microwaves some noodles and writes a blogpost. This is a perfect example why you never, never report a 0day.
underlogic··on Some Americans have stopped tipping. Should you do the same?
It is your problem - that's your meal he's spitting in. Justified or not
underlogic··on Some Americans have stopped tipping. Should you do the same?
The Palo Alto Starbucks bathrooms are pretty nice
underlogic··on Some Americans have stopped tipping. Should you do the same?
They do have well designed clean bathrooms and buying a couple of cups of coffee you can work all day on a laptop. Much cheaper than an office without commitment although many distractions.

Is it me or does Starbucks coffee taste burnt? I prefer 711 on taste every time. They need to fix that

underlogic··on Some Americans have stopped tipping. Should you do the same?
If you stop tipping they'll spit in your food or rate you down on Uber. Once I didn't tip at a semi upscale restaurant and the waiter followed our group down the street and asked me why not quite upset. I explained the food took three hours to be served and was terrible but he already knew that, the point was embarrassment.

You have to tip. It's not really a request. That said, a custom gifting a few dollars to those working brutal menial jobs isn't such a tragedy. What we need is a mechanism where servers can be tipped directly bypassing management. Could be just a QR code badge linked to stripe fast checkout.

I imagine a waiter living off Costco hotdogs and soda standing eight hours a day holding a jug of ice water and a game face with the heat of the kitchen to his back wondering if he can make both rent and the car payments. Watching groups of businessmen and beautiful women eat $300 meals leaving half of the food uneaten. It's emasculating, cruel. There needs to be something like the tipping custom. That kind if experience can build real resentment

underlogic··on All of Microsoft's MacBook Air-beating benchmarks
It doesn't matter, Windows is insufferable. Like a giant advertisement pretending to be an operating system. They need to start again from scratch or just simply give up and ship Ubuntu
underlogic··on Stripe closed our account and refuses to migrate our data to another processor
Yes. GPT summary;

"Vinod Khosla shared a story about his persistence in closing a deal with a competitor company called Computervision. He flew overnight to meet the CEO, waited in the lobby all day, and eventually convinced the CEO to negotiate with him the next day in Chicago[1]. By 5 AM the following morning, Khosla had secured a handwritten contract after refusing to let the CEO leave until an agreement was reached[1]."

https://youtu.be/MLtw31CGTHc?feature=shared

underlogic··on Stripe closed our account and refuses to migrate our data to another processor
Just get on a plane and visit their corporate office in San Francisco and ask to speak to someone.
underlogic··on Scientists Reveal Why You Should Never Take Pebbles from the Beach
feeble-minded indeed. what are they criminalizing beach pebbles for? lot of that in the UK. I wonder if the cause is cultural, genetic or environmental. They just don't seem to be playing with a full deck over there. One non sequitur after the next. I would suggest widespread brain damage from covid, but this has been going on for decades. There's something seriously wrong in the common reasoning and logic.
underlogic··on The Keychron K11 Max
So is this paid for or not? The author seems to be struggling to say he got a free unit, worth money, meaning paid.

"few weeks after I posted my review of the K7 Max, Keychron reached out to ask if I wanted to try out the K11 Max, a compact Alice layout keyboard–and I ended up saying yes."

try out...

"Note: Keychron sent me an early review unit of the Keychron K11 Max and a travel pouch, and this piece follows my review policy"

sent me... there's a policy...

"I don’t do paid reviews (i.e., no money changes hands, there is no sponsorship, etc.)."

but...

"Keychron K11 Max Supplied by Keychron"

supplied?

So I have to conclude he was bribed with a free unit that he didn't return. So this is an ad not a review.

underlogic··on People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)
First job for all day AR glasses is to kill off this nonsense. Superimpose the rounded up price and blur the advertising out. Also add the markup so the customer knows that $2 Arizona iced tea was bought for 35c.
underlogic··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
Actually until recently I thought the voice actor for "her" was Rashida Jones
underlogic··on OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
This is bizarre. Someone hands you a contract as you're leaving a company and if you refuse to agree to whatever they dreamt up and sign the company takes back the equity you earned? That can't be legal
underlogic··on Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
Depends on the device. When they take it out of sight they'll plug it into an automated unit that just hoovers up the data and sends it to intel. They want to build a detailed profile on every traveller. Now if you wipe the device and are logged out of your accounts, they're stuck. So they leave a rootkit that relays the login info when you type it in at home later. If they take your device out of sight or plug it into any of their hardware, then it's a write off. Straight to Craigslist
underlogic··on Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode
The solution to this is simple; erase your devices before you cross an international border and carry no data storage. If the reset device was taken from you then it's been bugged go buy a replacement. Otherwise just log back in to the cloud on the other side.
underlogic··on Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense"
Long term it will help. Those bypass surgeries aren't cheap
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