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• Yes, but make no mistakes and don’t hallucinate anymore.

  on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• I was just following orders AI.

  on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Oh well, police solved crimes before they could retroactively surveil a person for months/years.

  on Probes into Toronto’s shooter-for-hire network thwarted by impenetrable phone, police source says in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3d ago

• I’m on Signal, if someone wants to reach me they can find me there.

  I’m okay with not being instantly available to dozens of people.

  on Should i give up on signal? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5d ago

• CachyOS

  

  Arch

  on CachyOS & Arch's Heated Rivalry in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• That’s fair, you’re right that there’s more nuance to it and it may be as you say. I just wanted to provide a layman’s explanation for future readers.

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Self-reflection?

  Quick, get out of now while you’re still normal.

  on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026

• Seems odd that he made a new ad account and bypassed the spending limits.

  At max, unless you’re being invoiced by Google and have a line of credit, you can spend around $500/day. It’s a lot of money, but it would still take months to hit $100,000.

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• They’re trying to say that losing a contract dispute doesn’t make you liable for ‘all’ of the legal fees, just your own.

  In some situations the plaintiff can also have the defendant be required to pay their legal fees, this just isn’t one of them.

  on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• If they’re seeing the code on the camera end it is very likely that the low confidence detections are not sent. The reason that you’d run local segmentation and detection is to reduce the amount of data being sent back. If they wanted maximum data from these devices they’d simply send the video and archive/process it all on the server end.

  Image segmentation/classification models give false positives, it’s unavoidable. It isn’t evidence of anything other than the fallibility of computer vision technology.

  I’m not saying that they’re not collecting other information about vehicles. We know that they also collect bluetooth identifiers and tire pressure monitoring sensors and other visual data about the car.

  Only that the information in the article only shows that they’re doing segmentation and classification on the camera end. They don’t need “plausible deniability” as the original comment implies, there is nothing illegal about what they’re doing or anything that would leave them open to liability. (Obviously it’s creepy, immoral, and eroding personal freedoms… but I was only speaking of things that the Justice system cares about.)

  on Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Except, now, we’re not even doing that. Everybody is just shutting up, and fucking off to accept it all.

  Well, there have been a few men of action.

  on Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• We tricked ourselves into hacking ourselves.

  on PasteSwitch: The official HBO Max verified Reddit account got hacked for 48 hours to push 108 ClickFix ads tricking Mac and Windows users into hacking themselves. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026

• It helps when you’re both sides of the negotiation.

  on Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026

• Just start talking to yourself like you’re on Bluetooth. “Hold on, this person is trying to talk to me, one sec”

  on ‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026

• I’m pretty sure this is a crime, you can’t ‘oopsie, it wasn’t me it was my computer’ your way out of a cybercrime.

  on AI agents being tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on another service, say researchers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• as though using Signal means the authorities can’t read your messages.

  Nobody who understands the topic thinks this.

  Signal exists to prevent the contents from being read off the wire and from having the capability of compelling Signal’s parent company from turning over stored messages.

  It doesn’t exist to hand hold you so you don’t get phished, or prevent you from running it on a vendor phone full of spyware. You’re responsible for making sure your hardware is secure and that you’re not socially engineered.

  on German police read Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp messages without breaking encryption in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I think the glasses are different because they are not as easily spotted as other video recording devices.

  That’s not true at all, we’ve had cheap tiny hidden bodyworn recording devices for a long time.

  Instead of glasses how about a cross: blackpointsecurity.com/…/black-cross-necklace-hid…

  Or maybe in a pen in your pocket: blackpointsecurity.com/…/mini-spy-full-hd-pen-rec…

  on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026

• You could make the same argument about the glasses, I guess

  on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026

• I didn’t realize this was such a polarizing topic, I’ll have to reflect on that.

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026

• Yes, that is true.

  But the source of murders is always a person, not the tool.

  Just to be clear, I’m not making some kind of anti-gun control argument. I’m just explaining why that metaphor is flawed.

  The problem at a murder scene isn’t the gun, it’s the person who used it. Nobody is mad at the gun, or worried that it will suddenly murder again.

  Much like here. The problem isn’t AI, the problem is the people who are choosing to deploy AI in this way.

  It’s the people

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• AI as it stands is a symbol of Capitalism and the problems it embodies.

  I know and agree.

  I’m only saying that promoting that symbol is damaging in other ways, such as to the sciences.

  Some people may be expressing an opinion with that type of nuance (and I do agree with it) but, what appears to be the large majority of social media users on this topic don’t make that distinction and those people attack the sciences/non-LLM uses of the technology.

  Yes, overuse of local water and power supplies is damaging, the replacement of workers is causing all kinds of economic issues, the ability for AI to enable mass surveilance and authoritarians is an urgent problem that needs to be addressed AND ALSO the people trying to fight against it are causing collateral damage to other important aspects of society, an example being that it’s making ML/AI a less popular major which will result in less researchers/slower advancement.

  It’s important to point out that there have been several advances in AI that have significantly reduced the computation requirements. So, whatever the demand for AI will ultimately be, it will require an order of magnitude less datacenters because of this kind of research.

  The source of the problems here are the people making the decision to deploy the technology in this way and their outsized influence on the government that should be regulating their actions.

  AI is just the current topic. Outsourcing was another huge topic in the Clinton era. After that we had the post-crash bailout and the mass acquisition of housing by large capital funds in order to control the rental/real estate markets.

  All of these things caused massive economic issues for the vast majority of people and were entirely done because the people that benefitted were able to influence the government and prevent their regulation.

  This isn’t an AI problem. It’s a power, influence and corruption problem. AI’s destructive deployment is just the current symptom.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Nothing to jack off on

  Oh you sweet summer child 😂

  I was thinking things like skimming credit card numbers or some creep hearing you give you phone number to the clerk and stalking you.

  Video is different, but the ability to record 24/7 has all kinds of criminal possibilities.

  on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026

• This is a real problem, I already see it with CS students.

  AI is useful in some limited scenarios, the problem is that when you’re learning CS all of the scenarios that you’re given as exercises are almost trivial to solve and fall within AI’s capability to do for you. That completely handicaps a student in ways they don’t even understand until much later.

  It isn’t until they get into more complex projects, where AI flounders, that they recognize that they have rarely had to troubleshoot an issue so they don’t have the mental framework to do so. They’re not comfortable with the tools, and they haven’t internalized the methodology so they hit a brick wall.

  If you’re a student now, avoid it at all costs. It’s easier to use AI, of course, but facing the difficulty and overcoming it is probably the most important part of learning anything.

  on Study: Generative AI Is Eroding the Development Pathway for Software Developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Pervert watches to complement the pervert glasses.

  on Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026

• It’s nice to find someone on the same wavelength :P

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026

• Yes of course there are a large number of people that criticise any use of generative AI, whether it’s for good or bad. But this doesn’t mean that every criticism involving AI is a criticism of the use of AI, rather than a criticism of the way that it is being used by the person using it. You would have to be extremely inept to make that mistake of comprehension.

  I can tell you, as someone who is against the capitalist orgy of datacenters while also understanding the world changing implications of neural networks, that the loudest people/bots in the anti-AI conversation do not recognize such nuance.

  There is very much a real push by some people in this space to label any use of AI technology as evil. That’s a dangerous meme to spread on social media. How many future ML scientists and researchers are we losing because people swap out of the field due to this misdirected hatred being pushed in social media?

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Which isn’t illegal.

  What is illegal is when a person makes the decision to use a tool immorally, i.e. to murder. The problem in that scenario is the person, not the tool.

  If you could magically cause every gun to disappear, there would still be murder because it’s the people who are doing the murder.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Your problem is with capitalism, not AI.

  Blaming a field of machine learning because some rich assholes are exploiting it demonstrates a failure to diagnose the issue.

  AI isn’t building data centers, a human being made that decision.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• We need a way to jam up their ability to transmit the information back to Bezos’ house or whatever.

  Lucky for us, there’s ultrasonic acoustic jamming. Science: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S2667295223000272

  It’s pretty short range and only affects some kinds of microphones (the most common kind/MEMS) but it’s doable.

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• If you want to know all some of the ways your audio can be spied on.

  Benn Jordan on audio spying: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEC6PM97IRI

  He, surprisingly, did another: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ynZ3lMQJc

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• It’s also possible to see what’s on a monitor’s display through processing the EM emissions called Van Eck phreaking.

  There’s an entire spectrum of similar attacks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)

  I’ve heard you can use a chip bag to the same effect.

  Anything light/thin enough to resonate at vocal frequencies that can reflect a laser (without altering polarization) will work.

  I do remember an experiment, using a chip bag, where university researchers were able to extract audio from a video of a chip bag. I believe they were mapping the intensity of the various specular highlights on the bag and playing the audible frequencies. It was muddied and choppy but intelligible.

  Even further, your location and time of recording can be roughly estimated based on audio recordings. It’s called Electrical Network Frequency analysis. I forget the specifics, but it had something to do with the frequency change of the power grid (the hum of which can be picked up in some audio recordings, or inadvertently captured as noise from the audio equipment). They can take the recording, determine how the frequency shifted during the recording (corresponding to grid conditions at the time of recording) and compare them to historical data from various utility monitoring stations looking for matches. wiki: en.wikipedia.org/…/Electrical_network_frequency_a…

  on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• Probably in the way as every single online source/influencer/social media user.

  on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• No. None of your network traffic is private and you can assume it’s being read.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street#Usage

  theintercept.com/…/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-h…

  theintercept.com/…/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/

  propublica.org/…/a-trail-of-evidence-leading-to-a…

  Things like HTTPS (web traffic) are backed by certificate authorities which could be compromised. Your cellular radio traffic is encrypted, with keys controlled by the phone company which has the same problem. It’s been shown in several cases (like the Snowden leaks) that ISPs and tech companies cooperate with the NSA.

  That being said, well implemented encryption using sufficiently large keys allows you to communicate over networks even if they are compromised. All of this is only secure as the endpoints. All of the encryption in world doesn’t help you if an adversary has root access to a device in the conversation.

  I can’t tell you that you should trust Signal, I’m just a screenname on the Internet. However, if you look at the people who have the authority to directly ask intelligence services about their collection capabilities… those people use Signal.

  on are phone calls private? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 Sep 2026

• Even privatebjets emit a transponder signal. I wonder how hard it would be to sniff this out of the air. Maybe some of our HAM friends would know.

  It’s called ADS-B, en.wikipedia.org/…/Automatic_Dependent_Surveillan…

  There are websites that will let you view the data across the world. You can use a cheap software defined radio and open source software to listen to and decode local traffic.

  More to the topic are websites such as Elonjet which, tracks jets owned or associated with Elon Musk: grndcntrl.net/falconlanding This is all done with public information (Elon has already tried to kill the site, and he banned the owner from Twitter, of course).

  on Flock bans Journalist from Convention, Journalist use their tools against them. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 3 Sep 2026

• You tax strike for political purposes.

  I tax strike because I’m broke af.

  We are not the same

  on Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• This is a pretty standard tactic of offering your service at a rate that nobody can match in order to ensure that no competition can enter the market.

  In 2-3 years those free accounts will turn into paid accounts and all of the other fun ‘upgrades’ brought by enshittification.

  on Adobe to offer free access to AI tools in Saudi Arabia in $4 billion deal in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• It looks like grey goo and skynet are competing to see who will be the next apocalypse.

  on Researchers show off tiny, completely silent drones powered by sound in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026