drwho

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I really want to laugh about this, but it marks the beginning of synthetic video and audio for political purposes. Coupled with personally tailored political ads, and this is going to be a total disaster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's a little too late. Amazon already bought One Medical, which is the only non-hospital medical provider in a lot of areas. That means they have access to all of the medical records.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Time to start cloning the git repos for safekeeping, folks. yt-dlp, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Plush rumps and proboscises?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

When I worked for a telecom company I used to get stuck working double shifts (system maintenance cycle at night) because I had seniority. Rather than go into the office or the data center I worked from my apartment when I could get away with it.

At this point in life I lived maybe fifteen minutes off the DC Beltway in NOVA. This is somewhat relevant.

So, one night I'm waiting for Sylantro patches to install and the cluster to fail back over and I saw a bunch of shadows moving at speed through the window. The odd thing blowing in the breeze at night wasn't unusual but this was a pack. Then I heard a crash upstairs and shouting in at least two languages, English being one of them. Never did find out what the other one was because it was too muffled.

I found out later that somebody living in my apartment building two or three floors up had been raided. I asked the folks I knew on the local police force, and they said it wasn't them. I kinda suspect that it was the FBI. Anyway, he worked for somebody's government and was in the States on a diplomatic visa, and he was also involved in human trafficking somehow. I never did find out specifics.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really doubt it. He's more the kind of guy to organize a DDoS on some of the bigger sites, anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The UI's a little bit sticky, possibly due to how busy lemmy.ml is right now. The set of communities is pretty thin as well, but that will probably change as time goes on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It wouldn't surprise me. The definitely have a need for their own entirely separate network.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not in California. Been trying since I moved out here, and so far both landlords (the house we rent got sold to another investor when our original landlord retired) categorically refused the solar power upgrade. Fought that battle for two years with the first landlord, about a year with the second one. Both times it came down to "shut up or move out."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think JWICS is DoD only. In theory, any TLA or FLA that handles TS material, has a SCIF and a local JWICS LAN can't be hooked into the rest of the JWICS network.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was writing code for Google Glass that implemented facial recognition. A friend of mine suffered a TBI in an automobile wreck and developed partial facial prosopagnosia as a result. I was basically writing software that would recognize faces within 15 feet of the wearer and compare it to images of their contacts in their Google account, and would throw up an AR subtitle identifying the person on a match. Not too long after I filed the developer applications and outlined my project, the Glass project flatlined.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yes. And the big G doesn't care. If they have to lie and say it's abusive and a violation of the ToS, they'll say it is. They're a megacorp, while Invidious is a small open source project.

view more: next ›