Neither this nor the blog post explains what this feature is actually supposed to do?
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Any reports from actual users of this?
Also interested in this, but haven't tried it myself.
Apparently NSF (Nano Silver Fluoride) is more commonly in non-western countries.
They have a video with some more info here: https://pt.fourthievesvinegar.org/w/9aa66b49-2ec5-497f-9f49-...
And apparently the use of NSF does have a bunch of research papers written about it: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Amol-Patil-43/publicati...
> he routinely destroys bogus claims of various companies within seconds
I watched his video on high-security shipping container locks. Jeez, two minutes long? They must be tough!
No, it was two minutes long because he bypassed ten of them, one after the other.
This one? https://youtu.be/_goIYP3FfO8
xnzakg commented on The day my smart vacuum turned against me codetiger.github.io/blog/... · Posted by u/codetiger
Phones are extremely hard to hack and getting harder. The phone hacking companies only bother targeting an extremely limited set of people because once it becomes widespread, the whole exploit chain gets patched and you have to spend millions of dollars developing a new one.
With ARM Memory Tagging Extension becoming common on phones now it's getting borderline impossible to hack them.
...or you can just give someone a "smart" device that requires then to install an app with lots of unnecessary permissions to use it.
xnzakg commented on The day my smart vacuum turned against me codetiger.github.io/blog/... · Posted by u/codetiger
The author of this article:
1. Has the technical skills to disassemble this device, trace circuit boards, design his own boards and custom software to interface with components to substantially reverse engineer this device.
2. Is totally mystified when his internet connected device stops working after he blocks its communication, and rather than try unblocking it and seeing if it works again, sends it out for repair repeatedly.
Something here doesn't add up. Tastes like bullshit to me.
> Tastes like bullshit to me.
Does it really? In my opinion, if it stops working and it's under warranty, why not send it out for repair? They did no changes to the actual device, and apparently it was working fine for a few days without network connection, so if it suddenly stops working and it's under warranty that's the manufacturer's/store's problem, not theirs. Trying to fix it/reverse engineer it takes time, and I can see someone with these kinds of skills wanting to spend it on something else than trying to figure out how the manufacturer bricked their vacuum.
In addition, _someone_ is paying for the repairs under warranty, so if enough people were to do it, hopefully it would disincentivize completely blocking devices just because they can't reach a server.
Could they, though? Signal is marketing themselves as the privacy alternative. If chat control passes, you can’t make the same guarantees as they are.
Don’t get me wrong, I am happy they are doing what they are doing. But for signal, selling out is not really an alternative.
Hasn't stopped a lot of companies from selling out and then being ran into the ground by their new owners.
My music collection is 1.2TB. Most VPS only offer 40-100GB on the cheap tiers. For now I just keep it local...
Any suggestions for storage oriented VPS that I can use for this use case and other backup/storage use cases?
Seedboxes often have TBs of storage for relatively cheap.
I am surprised to see those discussions w/o a single mention of roon. As a music lover, roon is a software I've happily paid 100 of $ for.
While not OSS, roon 1) can run on linux 2) supports large local libraries (I have > 2k albums in FLAC, and it supports much more) 3) have roon arc that allows you to listen from phone anywhere 4) has a very good system to link metadata and recommendation within your library.
The metadata support is truly wonderful, you can easily browse your music like wikipedia, can find music per composer, performer, discover related musicians, etc. I strongly recommend people serious about music to try it out.
I've happily replaced spotify with it a few years ago, and will never go back.
Roon seems great but the pricing is really steep in my opinion... Costs practically as much as a streaming service, but you still need to get your own music.
At least they have a lifetime purchase option, though it costs $830!
What we should concentrate on is agency. Does the system have its own desires and goals, and will it act on its own accord to achieve them? If a system demonstrates those things, we should accord it the benefit of the doubt that it should have some rights and responsibilities if it chooses to partake in society.
So far, no AI can pass the agency test -- they are all reactive such that they must be given a task before they will do anything. If one day, however, we wake up and find that an AI has written a book on its own initiative, we may have some deciding to do.
Isn't that just because that's what they're being trained on though?
Wonder what you would get if the training data, instead of being task based, would consist of "wanting" to do something "on someone's own initiative".
Of course then one could argue it's just following a task of "doing things on its own initiative"...