If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.

Arguably if the speed was increased it might get results, but I think it’d just be more likely that they’d burn some of their stupid amounts of money on more security and stuff like popemobile booths.

At the end of the day the US populace can’t provide meaningful resistance to the full might of our military industrial complex, if things were to ever get that far. And I don’t think that our currenr administration would have any issues misusing our military for protection of these assholes.

So we have to organize. If we truly want to overwhelm the military, we’d need to overwhelm them with literal piles of bodies.

If we want to attempt less bloodshed and lives lost, which I would hope most people would want, than we still need to organize and put up a strong front while turning their “allies on the ground” to our side. That means that yes, we need to start doing more concentrated effort to turn our asshole republican neighbors instead of just shunning them. Start sharing techniques and talking points for slowly turning folks, build up your tolerance so you can spend time in their presence slowly dropping the seeds because changing people’s minds takes time.

On the other end, start pulling normal people currently just voting Democrat into more action like showing up to city council votes, into community service and support organizations, and make sure that we’re broadcasting these public goods well and with good branding. Increase engagement across the board.

Do like the “best” Christian groups do and just do unimpeachable good loudly while quietly wearing the affiliation on your sleeve to draw people in, then turn them when they already see you as a good person doing good things.

None of these techniques are new, especially in the Christian church. We just need to fight the feelings of hopelessness, isolation, and the “well your idea of better isn’t my exact idea of better” purity test bullshit you see from people online who for example won’t be satisfied until the end of capitalism entirely… so that we present a united front as a force for general good.

You think the issues with your health insurance is Obamacare? Whatever brother we’re here to help. Eventually down the line we’ll start steering you right once we’ve built that relationship. You’re homeschooling your kids to avoid the woke, but need assistance in a subject you can’t teach them? We’re here to help. Eventually we’ll start steering you right.

It’s exhausting, time consuming work. But it does work for changing hearts and minds.

Organize. Lone vigilantes carrying out incredibly sporadic assassinations against poor target choices isn’t going to make things better.

The Nepalese didn’t overthrow their government by a couple of folks shooting a couple of folks spread out over months.

He cancelled one event? Holy shit the world is healed!

You aren’t wrong that these people are cowards.

But Luigi didn’t change health insurance. It pushed one bad move from a former United Healthcare exec back but didn’t stop it, and now there’s proposed kickbacks for AI companies whenever their AI denies medicare or medicaid coverage.

There is so damn much broken and I understand the sheer desperation, but lone vigilantes carrying out sporadic and infrequent assassinations with poor target choices are not going to cause long term positive change.

I significantly doubt killing Charlie Kirk of all people is going to effect change. At least, it’s not going to be positive change.

The right is emboldened greatly by every situation like this. Yes, they’ve just been looking for an excuse and would be horrible anyway, but this accelerates things by giving them more definitive cover.

They’re already making shit up about evidence of “trans and leftist stuff” carved into the bullets or casings (tabloids and the WSJ have run with this) when there’s no actual proof.

Turning Point USA will stumble for a bit while they find a new talking head capable of carrying their bullshit platform, but there’s a glut of right wing influencers (and people willing to play one for money) that will fill the gap.

Also, he was shot in front of his kids. They’re already fucked up enough having him as a dad without seeing him catch a bullet in front of them and die.

Look, I’ve got no tears to shed for this balloon headed ass. But this is not a victory. Even if you support the idea of using violence to achieve change, this was a piss poor target.

This company has illegally installed their cameras in more than one town, then tried to sell the local police force on them.

They have lawyers on staff that they use to coach local politicians on how to hold the votes to establish contracts with them in ways that aren’t technically illegal, but ensure that no community opposition has a way to have their voices heard.

You can find a lot of these sprts of stories by searching online. In local subreddits, ones dedicated to talking about flock, and local news.

Benn Jordan has a good 40 minute video giving an overview of these systems, how they work, what they track, and why they are a problem. He highlights some cases where families were held at gunpoint by police due to failures of these systems. He also experiments with defeating the AI that reads plates.

Louis Rossman is currently leading a campaign against their installation where he lives in Austin, Texas right now. Has a number of videos on it.

Overview before the Austin City Council vote: https://youtu.be/4RM09nKczVs

Call for people to show up at the Austin City Council session to discuss the potential contract with Flock, and showing how difficult it is to find this sort of stuff and be involved with your local government: https://youtu.be/g4vL1ERdZ9Y

Call to action 2: https://youtu.be/hDOmYqlwxD4

Austin City Council reschedules the vote (in a questionably illegal fashion) with less than 24 hours notice when they realize they kicked the hornet’s nest: https://youtu.be/iscDYp6dtl8

Minor followup during the wait for the revised time, at two of the three parks with 90% of reported car break ins these cameras are meant to deter: https://youtu.be/2QbtDWrlPpc

Climbing down from the trees was the begining of the end.

Glad I only have two of their “dumb” switches then.

Built in… I think 2021? Maybe 2020? Would have been October-ish. It was right as nVidia’s 3000 series came out and no one was able to get ahold of them, or any other GPUs, at MSRP.

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (came with CPU cooler)
• Mobo: Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS ATX AM4
• RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws V 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
• OS and games that need fast loading drive: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2
• Drive for everything else: WD_BLACK 2 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM
• Also misc USB 3.0 drives, around 20TB total for media, emulation, backups, old games where load speed doesn’t matter, etc.
• GPU: Asus DUAL EVO OC GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (Tried to hit a sweet spot on price vs power, and then find the best performing card of that type. But mostly this was just snatching up whatever I could grab at MSRP. No one was getting GPUs when I built it, but I lucked out with an alert from NewEgg)
• Tower: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower (came with two fans)
• PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3
• Additional fans: Two Noctua A14 PWM chromax 82.52 CFM 140 mm

Use case when built: Gaming at 1080p with settings maxed out (or close), pimping old game graphics using reshade, running a home virtual server lab for learning, never having to close out of applications or browser tabs to ensure other programs had enough speed. Programming using RAM hungry IDEs (Jetbrains and VSCode).

Use case now: Mostly the same, but gaming at 1440p (upgraded my monitors) with high frame rates requires bumping down settings at times. Don’t play too many recent AAA games either, so it’s mostly fine for my needs, but the GPU is finally starting to show its age. Thankfully my eyes are pretty “console-ified” so with variable refresh rate I don’t usually notice framerate until it drops below 30. Little less use of the virtual homelab stuff. Still program at home occasionally, but again, not as often anymore. Use as a lazy man’s media server to share media folders to Kodi across the house.

Does anyone know if KDE is any better with this?

But that’s exactly my point. You can’t rely on that.

The rest of this is a rambling attempt to back up my point.

We wouldn’t have car accidents if everyone drove and maintained their vehicles properly.

People, including software devs, make mistakes. They end up with deadlines, ridiculous shit expectations and decrees from management, any of a countless number of reasons why any piece of software might not be designed as it should have been. And something as ridiculously back-end as password hashing functionality isn’t liable to be seen by nearly anyone. Besides the other members of my team I warned about this system, no one else in tge company knew of these flaws and quirks.

From unfortunate experience, if someone can confidently bullshit to the regulatory auditors, incredibly few of the auditors have the skills to truly verify claims about whether something is actually compliant or not. Actually safe or not. So many cybersecurity “professionals” I’ve encountered in my career are glorified run buttons for premade vuln scanners, unable to even check the mitigating factors in the enterprise systems they are responsible for the security of.

This wasn’t some in-house hacked together program, it was a piece of software created by a very large company in the financial technologies space, with a double digit number of corporations as customers just for this specific heinously insecure piece of software they sold. For decades.

I did my part and reported it to their security contact. Nothing happened. Beyond internal discussion with some of my teammates, I’ve not spoken about it until after the software was deprecated not only for my company, but globally.

I can’t really emphasize how big this system was for having these babby’s first software project level oversights. Financial transactions were initiated by this system.

Given that, and many of the other just absurdly insane things I’ve seen from professional, million dollar contract type pieces of software, in my decade plus in the industry… There’s how things should work. The theoretical ideal. And then there’s the actually implemented garbage we actually have to deal with.

would still hash to the same fixed length even if the password were 1000 characters long

That’s a big assumption. At one point at work we had a system (thankfully dead now) for accessing customer data that limited passwords to a max of 8 characters, only supported three non-alphanumeric characters in those passwords, and shipped a .net dll with every desktop client install that had both the password encryption and decryption function in it and accessible to anyone who loaded the dll. If you had user table access and that dll, you owned the whole system.

Fucking clown show.

Then they finally allowed longer passwords on the software side, but it was causing problems on the DB side. Because different length passwords hashed to different length hashes. Not one to one, but something like 1-4 in 14 out, 4-12 in 23 out, 12-15 in 36 out. Some sort of pattern like that. That was fun to troubleshoot.

Point is, you can’t guarantee hash length in unaffected by password length.

Of course. Funnel all that info to Peter fucking Thiel’s Palantir surveillance company that also has contracts with international law enforcement.

There couldn’t possibly be any problems with funnelling every bit of panopticon into a single billionaire super lobbiest’s hands. Especially one that has openly stated that he doesn’t believe in the continuation of the human race. Who is the closest thing to a real life vampire, regularly getting blood transfusions from healthy young “blood boys” in a hare brained attempt to prolong his own life at all costs.

I find it a massive failure of society as a whole that this fucking charlatan wasn’t laughed out of society in the 2010s when he was doing interviews about the “blood boy” bullshit and all the other crackpot shit he was doing to prolong his life. Absolute fucking ghoul. The people in power value money more than sense.

We are so far away from a paperclip maximizer scenario that I can’t take anyone concerned about that seriously.

We have nothing even approaching true reasoning, despite all the misuse going on that would indicate otherwise.

Alignment? Takeoff? None of our current technologies under the AI moniker come anywhere remotely close to any reason for concern, and most signs point to us rapidly approaching a wall with our current approaches.

Each new version from the top companies in the space right now has less and less advancement in capability compared to the last, with costs growing at a pace where “exponentially” doesn’t feel like an adequate descriptor.

There’s probably lateral improvements to be made, but outside of taping multiple tools together there’s not much evidence for any more large breakthroughs in capability.

I can understand where they’re coming from, but the examples given seem particularly… minor?

Not sure if it’s my privilege showing, or the article author chose examples to make this seem goofy.

Unfortunately not real. Frodo’s “pixels” don’t match up with the distinct LCD pixel grid of the calculator.

Edit: and if I remember right, the pixels on these only did on/off, no shades of grey.

Welcome to The WSJ’s breakdown of a CEO’s 55 hour “workweek”:

NUT

You absolutely can and should regardless.

It’s good enough for corporate (with multiple other lines of defense).