mansfield

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[–] mansfield 28 points 1 month ago

Don't fall for this horseshit. The only danger here is unchecked greed from these sociopaths.

[–] mansfield 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI is the new decade long FAANG tech scam. Now that Microsoft, Google, and others have planted enough curated demos in the public domain, and established their first mover advantage it is time to do what they always do.

  • Convince/bribe the government to waste billions of dollars chasing this new and mostly useless fad.
  • Convince/bribe the government to enact legislation that will make it difficult or impossible for any others to outcompete them.
  • Scare everyone into thinking that this tech could be used for enormous evil and that they are our only saviors... ya know because they are the good guys even though they are the ones that created this shit.

Big tech are basically just the new breed of MIC. Make room Lockheed Martin, et al.

[–] mansfield 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

[–] mansfield 28 points 1 month ago (7 children)

If a hospital can't operate because some asshole was able to remotely hack it bad enough to basically shut it down, we might need to rethink how things are run.

[–] mansfield 19 points 1 month ago

Seems best to do this after firing the first 2-3 levels of leadership since this whole mess was created under their watch. Maybe the next thing to do is to ask if the US government wants to so heavily depend on a company that is no longer a US entity.

Microsoft is overwhelmingly Indian contractors now. Infact much of the large legacy US tech companies have done so much offshoring I'd hardly call them US companies anymore. Are these companies really who we want to stake our national security on?

[–] mansfield 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This stuff is literally a bullshit(1) machine. How can you fix it without making something else entirely?

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[–] mansfield 33 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Anything with over 100WH batteries would need airline approval before you can fly with it. This is why laptop makers rarely exceed this limit.

https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-electronic-devices-with-batteries

[–] mansfield 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My impression is that on M(n) silicon Parallels is the most polished virtualization experience on Mac you can get now. Virtualbox lives under the shadow of Oracle which is not a place you want to be.

[–] mansfield 11 points 2 months ago

The initial pin that most folks have to enter is needed to decrypt the partition with user data. This is not 100% foolproof for keeping LEOs out since there are many known, and likely more unknown, ways to brute force these but it is still the best option.

[–] mansfield 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it is not.

Last year, security analysts at Microsoft identified mysterious code linked to communications systems in Guam, the US territory in the Pacific with a massive strategic air base.

is currently pointing to:

hxxps://clicks[.]trx-hub[.]com/xid/esimedia_t58ukgmjkf95_theindependent?q=http%3A%2F%2Fgo.redirectingat.com%2F%3Fid%3D44681X1458326%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2023%252F07%252F29%252Fus%252Fpolitics%252Fchina-malware-us-military-bases-taiwan.html%253Fsmid%253Durl-share%26sref%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fchina-hackers-fbi-wray-infrastructure-b2531182.html&p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fchina-hackers-fbi-wray-infrastructure-b2531182.html&article_id=2531182&author=Josh+Marcus&tag=FBI%2CHackers%2Cinfrastructure%2CChristopher+Wray%2CMicrosoft&section=World&category=Americas&sub_category=&updated_time=2024-04-18T23%3A19%3A22.000Z&utm_campaign=news-body&utm_term=B-1&utm_content=&utm_medium=mobile&ref=ground.news&utm_source=ground.news&fbclid=&gclid=

[–] mansfield 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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