It’s cute how you think things will be alive.

Standing up in the face of oppression and bigotry is the point.

“Training data”

Altruism is never going to be the way to get companies to do the right thing. Instead, making the wrong thing a financial liability is.

There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.

I admit, this news has made me add a note to re-download firefox on my work machine…

Consumer PCs are almost certainly not covered entities under HIPAA, nor is Microsoft in its role as an OS provider.

Even then, if this whole thing were to result in an inappropriate disclosure by a covered entity, the organization that processes the data would be liable, not Microsoft.

That’s like blaming the building contractor because you left the door unlocked and someone came in and stole your cat.

Fun.

From the article, the linked Swagger docs : https://web.archive.org/web/20240120071238/https://mycscgo.com/api/v1/docs/static/index.html#/

And a little more detailed account : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-security-bug-in-washing-machines-can-help-college-students-in-the-us-do-free-laundry/articleshow/110277923.cms

It looks like these laundry machines are controlled by a mobile app, and requests are routed through The Internet™. The flaw appears to be the web service presumes a user is only able to gain access to their API endpoints via the mobile app, which only exposes certain functions to a user.

Once authorized, though, there’s no further checks like oauth scopes or even user roles, to prevent someone from doing a little bit of lateral movement to admin-style endpoints.

Lazy. The machine makers should be ashamed.

No lie … if they could make a chip that like … Shuts off cognition while I’m at the gym so I don’t have to experience it … I’d consider it.

I really hate working out.

Nothing. They’re behaving quite rationally.

You just have to understand that their motivation is not “successful governing” or “making the world better” but rather, “getting more money.”

When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they’re behaving quite normally.

It’s a contract.

They give you some money now, and, instead of an interest rate and a term for repayment, they get a percentage of your future income for some period of time.

Particularly shitty ones continue even if you repay the original loan amount.

I don’t know how other devs tolerate IDEs in the first place. Is not (neo)vim and CLI sufficient?

I remember mine, and my childhood best friend’s Prodigy account IDs.

Easy. You write it into the sales agreement. Sales agreements are contracts where both parties agree to do certain things in exchange for other things.

While most agreements are pretty simple, you give up money in exchange for goods, or services, it’s also easy to write “You will pay the purchase price ($…) to Tesla and also sit through our fucking FSD demo, in exchange, Tesla will deliver 1 ugly-ass car shaped like a fat roller skate,” or similar.

I’m glad I’m not the only person that doesn’t really understand the whole Thing behind Twitter / Mastodon feed thing.

The mere fact that HP is demonstrating they can do this, even if they pinky swear they won’t do it for corporate or business clients means that any business worth their salt will avoid buying HP products.

Tesla would just get up and lie to the public like that?

(Why would the human’s inebriation level matter if the vehicle is moving autonomously?)

That sub was mostly cops just repeating their own bad interpretation of the law. Terrible.

Funny how so much recent talk has emerged yet again about how companies like Microsoft want to get rid of disc drives on their next Xbox… […]

While I will freely admit that the lack of a physical drive is a huge way to drive downloaded (and licensed, revokable) content controlled by the company, it’s worth noting that physical media is really not all that great a medium for transferring things like games or movies anymore. Blu-ray discs can hold, in ideal situations, around 50GB of data. A lot of games – especially AAA games, are well beyond that. I think Spider Man 2 came in at like 85GB? The internet says Hogwarts Legacy is ~75GB on XBox.

Network connectivity, and downloading content to our devices is almost certainly going to be the way a lot of the world works going forward. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to back our content up elsewhere, or offload it to some other device.

Your right in noting that the laws and regulations need to keep up and protect consumers’ right to the content they’ve purchased.

edit: Here, I’ll bold the important part.