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oxide commented on FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security   ftc.gov/news-events/news/... · Posted by u/luu
tsimionescu · a year ago
The whole thread is related to GoDaddy's numerous breaches not affecting their bottom line or market position. So it seems lots and lots and lots of people really don't care.
oxide · a year ago
I can take my business elsewhere and do.

but do I blame the average person for not caring? The kind of person who would use GoDaddy for hosting? I find it really hard to blame them.

oxide commented on DOOM CAPTCHA   doom-captcha.vercel.app/... · Posted by u/denysvitali
TechTechTech · a year ago
Works fine on android Firefox mobile
oxide · a year ago
Game loads on firefox desktop, but is a black screen. Debug didn't show anything out of the ordinary. loads fine on Chrome though.
oxide commented on More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in   theregister.com/2024/12/3... · Posted by u/rntn
dylan604 · a year ago
All of these claims for serious fines, yet no indication of where the fine is to be paid. Fines means the gov't is getting the money, yet the person whose data was lost still gets nothing. Why does the person that was actually harmed get nothing while the gov't who did nothing gets everything?
oxide · a year ago
Even better - give the customer the $10k.
oxide commented on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla   sfchronicle.com/crime/art... · Posted by u/danso
0xcafefood · a year ago
It would probably have "disproportionate impact."

It's really the job of police forces to act on maniac drivers. And they stopped doing so in 2020 for the same reason.

oxide · a year ago
I lived in east Oakland for awhile, I'm pretty sure that driving stolen cars and torching them afterward don't give a fuck about auto insurance rates. The people who are driving like that on the 580 or @ 90th & Bancroft probably are uninsured as is.

Do you really think everyone is just insured because it's the law? If so, you're fairly naive. Try leaving the bubble you live in now and then. Oakland cops stopping responding to anything less than murder at lot sooner than 2020 lmao.

oxide commented on Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction?   americanbar.org/groups/cr... · Posted by u/cainxinth
oxide · a year ago
I always conceded that Google would have this data, I always told myself you have to trust someone eventually. There was an implicit agreement that they would go to bat if the government came knocking for it. I see now that was a naive perspective on my part. They spent years just handing it over.
oxide commented on Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program   github.com/chrxh/alien... · Posted by u/apitman
oxide · a year ago
This is a fascinating piece of software. I played with it briefly, it's quite the little evolutionary sandbox.
oxide commented on Google Pixel 9 Pro   store.google.com/us/produ... · Posted by u/ksec
PUSH_AX · a year ago
We could do anecdotes all day. Unless there is hard data on how brittle or robust these devices are it all seems a bit pointless.
oxide · a year ago
anecdotal evidence is what I usually base my purchases on, which is why I've never bought a Google device after being burned (literally) by the Nexus 6P battery issues.

you can pretend it doesn't matter, but bad word of mouth is all it takes for me.

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oxide commented on NASA Spent $450M on a Moon Rover. Now It's Canceling the Mission   nytimes.com/2024/07/17/sc... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
jefftk · a year ago
> A nonfunctional “mass simulator” will take its place. ... NASA had spent $450 million on VIPER, which is already fully assembled with its science instruments installed ... testing of the rover to make sure it would survive the shaking of a rocket launch and the harsh conditions of space has not been completed. The cancellation would save at least $84 million, as NASA would no longer need to pay to complete the tests or to operate the rover on the moon ... The agency is still planning to pay Astrobotic $323 million to [take the mass simulator to the moon].

If you've already built the rover and are paying to transport it to the moon regardless, why not skip the testing and send the rover instead of a "mass simulator"? Then if it works you have a functional rover on the moon and paying to operate it is worth it, and if it doesn't work then it's the same as if you sent something non-functional on purpose.

oxide · a year ago
Sounds like it'd still cost something to operate it, however, I agree that you might as well send something up there if you already agreed to pay for the trip.
oxide commented on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach   techcrunch.com/2024/07/12... · Posted by u/impish9208
Calvin02 · a year ago
Banks are required to maintain financial transaction records.

Is the argument that governments don't have a good reason to mandate record collection?

Why can't I ask my government to keep me safe from terrorists but also expect that companies will not just be careless with the data they collect as part of that?

oxide · a year ago
I agree. I think it's reasonable to expect companies to safeguard that information from malicious actors.

u/oxide

KarmaCake day1411November 14, 2012View Original