dotps1's comments

They transfer all your data passively by using 45 year old encryption with known IVs so it’s easy for the CCP firewall to siphon it all.

They just have to pretend they didn’t know what they did and it’s legal.

The only way to not leak your data is to run it locally.

It's not up to Zuckerberg.

Expensing food is tax deductible. Allowing people to buy whatever they want is taxable income.

The only companies that would allow their employees to buy whatever they want are those that aren't worried about getting audited.

For passkeys, your password manager should prompt you to save them if it supports them.

For the authenticator (TOTP), you just save a QR code where it tells you. Just google "TOTP <your password manager>" and I'm sure you will find a guide

Least amount of hassle is probably a passkey in your password manager, if it supports it.

Passkeys are the quickest way to sign in.

Don't use a passkey on your computer, otherwise you will only be able to sign in from that computer.

If you find yourself struggling with passkeys, then the "authenticator" route is next best.

This just gives you a QR code, which you can also store in your password manager and have it generate one time codes.

If you have an authenticator app on your phone, you can rescan that same QR code to have the codes both places. (password manager and authenticator app)

Personally I would do all of them.

I would make a passkey and stick it in Bitwarden so I have it with me on all my devices.

I would link my account to my authenticator app.

Then I would also register my yubikey I keep on my keychain.

I'll just share a little more here.

The scale of the outsourcing I am talking about is far greater than whatever you're imagining.

We brought teams of people from India over to the US, housed and fed them, so they could be able to work with their counterparts overseas. On the India side we found their operating infrastructure to be woefully inadequate, so we helped them build entirely new facilities with perimeter fences, proper security, the works.

After all was said and done, the skills of the people we were getting were on par with someone with no programming experience that skimmed a java book in their spare time. The code quality was abysmal at best, and this was in the days before source control was popular.

One of the other huge problems was just the time zone difference. You get into work in the morning to have a meeting with some second-shift team in India, and find out about all of the work that didn't get done because they didn't know what they were doing .. spend the time to correct them, they say they will fix it the next day .. next day comes, same issues, no progress, repeat ad nauseum.

It physically hurt to be a part of all of this.

I'm sure he was an amazing capitalist, but my experience with Tata consulting was the worst.

I worked for a division of GE during the Immelt years that outsourced large portions of IT to Tata, and was in charge of the transition.

It was a masterclass in waste and inefficiency.

Definitely one of the larger nails in the coffin of a former Fortune 5 company.

Before the ruling Apple was paying about 8B in taxes per year to Ireland.

If multinational corporations are no longer able to do a Double-Irish Dutch Sandwich anymore, it doesn't make sense to stay there.

Which means the future losses in a single year from several large multinational corporations leaving will be larger than this one payment.

To be clear, they are absolutely being fined for storing passwords in plaintext.

They chose not to mitigate the fine by following proper procedure.

I've noticed that this stretches farther than America.

For example big name retailers in the Caribbean like Massy seem to be mostly or partially owned by Save-a-lot .. but I haven't had the time to investigate this yet.

It's always been like that.

The costs involved with maintaining garbage are infinitely more than maintaining something well built.

This is why software is so lucrative.. because the true cost of the software isn't how much you pay for it .. it's "how much is it going to cost you to change to something else?"

I think the issue is more that nobody asked for it.

These tools are useful, and on a Mac if you want Rewind, you have to know you want it, go out download it, pay for it, install it yourself .. and you knew what you were getting into the whole time.

Having a tool like this planted in your device without your consent is pushing your userbase over the edge.

If they made it a separate feature you had to manually install, like Windows Sandbox or WSL .. they could have avoided shooting themselves in the foot.

Up until the recent AI boom Tesla was the #1 AI company in the world, now they are falling behind other tech leaders.

Elon is now stealing Tesla's AI lead and squandering it on his pissing match with OpenAI because he feels jealous of what they were able to accomplish, despite his attempted takeover.

Now he is even taking AI hardware earmarked for Tesla and using it instead to push his other interests

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/04/elon-musk-told-nvidia-to-shi...

Tesla's AI is about vision learning and they were way ahead in that field, and now he's deciding to focus instead on "anti-woke" chatbots.

This does not benefit Tesla in any way shape or form.

FYI - you can't be sure which side of the A/B test you are on.

I was going to dismiss your comment thinking that it wouldn't be possible to capture the amount of carbon we are emitting with trees alone .. but after running the numbers, trees seem like a pretty decent solution.

The fees are going up, but this article is mostly clickbait.. which is why they likely don't link to anything but their own website.

Pretty much all touring artists will use a P3 visa, or get a waiver.

A P3 visa is going to cost the sponsor $460. The person filling out the application will have to pay $190 (and then another $80 for biometrics if it's their first time)

I was just giving them a hard time for unprompted bragging about being perpetually inebriated on a technology forum.

No need to try and think too deeply about it.

If you type things like 'lols' and are over 20, people will know you are mentally-regressed.

Does it really matter if they know it's drugs or not?

The attackers would have to know the distributions used by the company they are targeting, that connections are open to the internet, that the company won't change their setup over the course of several years.

Everything you are saying is so far out of the realm of possibility that it makes me wonder if you follow this stuff at all.

If you had 2+ years of spare time, and these type of skills, the attacker would be far better off just trying to get a job inside the organization they are targeting.