what’s actually baked into the silicon

Bitmain has actually discovered and used a vulnerability in SHA256 hash function to their own benefit before. It took months, but people eventually found out.

While the situation is concerning, it’s not like there are no eyes on what bitmain is doing. These days you can reflash the software on their machines, or eve use your own custom control boards if you wish. The guys from Braiins are doing some amazing work in this regard.

I think I’ve boycotted sony for one thing or the other for the large part of my adult life. Only backed down in 2021 and bought some shares. Time to return back to normal I guess.

In such case, the Nobel commitee shoud probably set higher standards.

So the google can spy on anyone’s phone calls without a consent (google screening), but if you want to record your own phone calls, there needs to be a mandatory warning. Makes total sense :D

edit: but at least this enables automatic call recording, not just a button, plus automatic deletion of old recordings. This is actually pretty useful.

I’ve patiently waited until the flashing guide for the roborock s8 was out, went to buy the s8 pro ultra, just to discover valetudo has dropped the support, because appearently a different version of the same robot was silently released, that would’ve been turned into a brick if I tried the installation procedure.

Now I have a dumb robot. It does like 95% of what I expect it to do, but I might at least solder an ep32 to the top buttons so that scheduling through the home assistant would be possible

AI convincing someone he’s neo from the movie Matrix, and can fly…

Pretty shocking. Although I remember people saying the exact same thing 20 years ago, except the perpetrator was somehow Pokemon.

I’m pausing the video now, because holy hell, it’s an hour long, but this is already a pretty bad start.

coffee grounds are essentially just a binder used in agar mix to harden it

Oh, yes. I forgot about the agar. Is this the same thing that’s used as a food for bacteria in a petri dish?

I remember a video where they’ve discussed the viability of 3d printed utensils. The conclusion was - don’t. For the love of our bacterial lord, don’t! It has too many pores for a life to grow in.

I consoder this a part 2 of that story.

I’m at 1:14 and already smell the bullshit, let’s continue…

5:33 and there are already 2 very close doomsday dates proposed. The religious vibes intensify…

6:31 She correctly assumes that various systems are interconnected, and will crumble if one falls down, but does not seem to account for the one strength human beings posess (we suck in all other aspects), and that’s adaptation and our ability to coordinate when immediate short term danger is under way.

6:42 Overcomplicated societies crumbling under their own weight! That’s more like my jam. Although, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

12:45 Appeal to nature, appeal to go back to the good old times.

Jesus christ, this has been a 15 minutes long setup for a logical fallacy.

Some people stuggle to learn a second language their entire lives. These badasses did it for a gig!

That sounds like a fancy speak for a Trusted Platform Module. Isn’t some kind of TPM mandatory to obtain a google certification for a new device?

I want to see this guy as an NPC in some game.

“We think that the internet is real.”

• Peter Sunde

There’s no legal solution to a technological problem. Laws are always temporary, for better or worse.

I once put my homelab rack outside of my apartment, in the hall. Then used it to catch a bastard who kept stealing my bike light, and later tried to snatch the whole bike.

you’re not going to have much luck convincing anyone.

Oh boy, how I wish you were right.

No way, I thought the thrill of browsing sketchy appstores to find the other half of the ACR phone was part of the fun.

For those out of the loop - ACR phone is a dialer app that does call recording. It’s distributed through the play store, but without the call recording part, because that would be against the ToS. Once installed, it instructs you to go find the other app that serves as an accessibility module with access to the microphone. And by that I mean ONLY your microphone. The other side of the call is recorded only as an echo of the speaker caught by your own mic.

The last time I watched the “Don’t date a robot” episode of Futurama, it was a fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg

The more shocking is that one guy who KNOWS it’s sqlite, but ain’t afraid to admit it!

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