The Verge’s Podcast has a reoccurring segment now called “Brendan Carr is a Dummy” with all these stupid moves on his part.

Gotta pump the bubble somehow and show “universal AI usage”. Facebook did something similar like 10 years ago with inflating views for video content to get publishers to pivot to video on Facebook’s platform by juicing the numbers.

We sent a SYN-ACK packet and YOU acknowledged it, confirming you are not spoofing YOUR IP address. Now WE share the same sequence number. Most sites do not tell you this is happening.

Doesn’t seem to be anything new here than what’s we already know:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint
• https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Just with a more ominous tone. Is it any wonder people are afraid of technology?

I always read it for the articles

FWIW, if you suspect your machine has been compromised, the binaries for common tools like ps and top shouldn’t be relied upon since those probably were tampered with to hide the malicious program from the output. At that point, you’d probably want to check each running process manually under /proc/.

My thoughts exactly, can’t weigh an opinion on the quality unless I see it for myself.

On the bright side, they’re unlikely to see a penny from it, and have incurred lawyer costs and time.

They don’t even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that’s the final humiliation.

that’s why I’m so fucking confused

lol this was a plot of a Futurama episode

Noto Sans Mono for me

Why would a 302 temporary redirects for engramma.dev → app.engramma.dev be classified as “Social engineering content”?

Another situation is multi-episode releases. I remember first encountering this with LOST where the 2h season finale would be listed as two separate episodes, which for a season finale wasn’t too annoying. More recently, later seasons of The Good Place would air two episodes at a time, and that always caused a mess as well that required manual intervention sometimes.

And if you comply with unjust laws, then it’s way harder to challenge them in the courts.

This is one of the most sensible comments in the thread. The law is the problem. This is something which should have been self regulated by websites themselves, but Meta lobbied for laws like this so they wouldn’t have to police it. The law making this mandatory for everyone when this should be a parental control is the issue.

IMO the benefit and curse is you could fork it, maintain it, patch it yourself, etc if you wanted, but then its a full time job keeping it up to date with changes. As others have pointed out, this is a decisive change, so a fork probably wouldn’t be a solo project, but the bifurcation in development would be a large impact, slowing development in other fixes and features.

So that means everyone is either bi or ace?

It’s probably more likely that straight people don’t even exist. Everyone is a little bit gay.

Well the author is cited as AFP and had many articles posted today, so seems like it’s this newswire service? This seems like it’s written as a transcript for a segment on NPR. It could be that if it was written by an AI, that it was trained on those transcripts from news segments? Also possibly this was an actual audio segment and that was lost as it was posted to this news website. If you read transcripts of segments that aired on NPR, they feel the same way. It makes more sense when you hear the segment and the multiple speakers and interviews, but without that context, it reads oddly.