Adrian Cochrane @alcinnz@floss.social

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/11/stadia-launch-dev-the-biggest-concern-with-stadia-is-that-it-might-not-exist/

Helllll yes. As I said before, Google's incompetence might just save us from their hegemony.

"The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, #Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to turn Alexa into an omnipresent companion that actively shapes and orchestrates your life. This will require Alexa to get to know you better than ever before."

https://qrius.com/amazons-roadmap-for-alexa-just-may-be-the-scariest-thing-big-tech-is-doing

The ultimate goal of #SurveillanceCapitalism is manipulation of human behavior to profitable ends.

"In my experience, prayers are not a very effective concurrency primitive."

– Robert Lord

When using an array as a dependency on useEffect, is there any way of knowing which indexes were changed?

Anyone from the #React Community that can answer this?

Uhm, didn't see that coming (totally did):

The Wire messenger changed ownership in July, didn't really notify anyone as per their own privacy policy, and now belongs to a US entity called "Wire Group Holdings":

https://www.zefix.ch/de/search/entity/list/firm/1116851

Not sure how I feel about that (totally do).

@theruran
I think, from a security standpoint, firmwares should not be updatable from the userland or adminland and should be done via USB. If one can update the firmware from userland, why not expose it all to the kernel? It is already that complex.

there' s this author, she wrote an alternative take on A Hacker' s Manifesto

It was about how choices in selecting what to represent formally has political implications

What was her name ?

I' d like to quote her and I can' t remember

She used to be here on the fediverse too

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I totally get that researchers who play ball in the current structure get paid -- well -- for this but if even Intel can't even keep track of what bugs and vulns their stuff has, then how are *we* supposed to manage?

Most of my business revolves around small-medium businesses who despite my repeated encouragement, continue to run things "In The Clowd" because "easy, secure" and they neglect options like https://packet.net/ & others where you can have bare metal.

Oh, yeah, and this stuff isn't new. Not at all:

"23 YEARS OF SOFTWARE SIDE CHANNEL ATTACKS"
- https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=UNoP3qVyU8w

"CPU bugs" - https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/

Which has lead us, finally, to this:

"LEAK FULL ROOT PASSWORD HASH IN SECONDS"
- https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=zaTxBZXE9pQ

NB that could be your private ssh key (unless you're running latest OpenSSH 8.1 which alleviates it).

That can't be fixed unless OpenSSH people *know* about those bugs. So, Full Disclosure Intel. Or ARM8/POWER9.

So, fairbnb's website integrates facebook's messenger to act as a "customer care" chat.

Please, don't.

There is nothing "ethical" in allowing a surveillance giant to capture and process personal data.

For example:

Intel, please show me, for a given CPU, how to tell if it's vulnerable or not. Like we expect for a car, with broken seat belt or airbags.

Where I paste in the h/w cpu id and get told, your firmware is up to date and you are covered against all published vulns.

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz (3200.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x406f1 Family=0x6 Model=0x4f Stepping=1

Where is that? Does it even exist?

Ahaha JSTOR is trying to sell me a three-page review of a 1991 book for $43.95. Not the book mind you, just the dusty 3-page review. ROFL.

I caught up on my #blog / #phlog today. Wrote three short, inconsequential posts, each of which is still a good bit longer than will fit in a toot on my instance. It's good to be able to follow up with what other people are writing on #gopher .

https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog
gopher://jfm.carcosa.net/1/blog/

RT @evgenymorozov@twitter.com

Technology will save us from everything - except technology itself. This is where the tautologies and euphemisms of late capitalism fall apart, revealing that "technology" here has the same rhetorical and legitimizing function that the "free market" had a few decades earlier. https://twitter.com/RomainDoutriaux/status/1194580222441598976

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/evgenymorozov/status/1194582642047488000

I, an experienced sysadmin, have tried several times to install #wallabag, and have failed every time. I'm pretty sure they don't actually want people to self-host.