[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Don't fall for this horseshit. The only danger here is unchecked greed from these sociopaths.

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

AI is the new decade long FAANG tech scam. Now that Microsoft, Google, and others have planted enough curated demos in the public domain, and established their first mover advantage it is time to do what they always do.

  • Convince/bribe the government to waste billions of dollars chasing this new and mostly useless fad.
  • Convince/bribe the government to enact legislation that will make it difficult or impossible for any others to outcompete them.
  • Scare everyone into thinking that this tech could be used for enormous evil and that they are our only saviors... ya know because they are the good guys even though they are the ones that created this shit.

Big tech are basically just the new breed of MIC. Make room Lockheed Martin, et al.

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Can't wait for these to get hacked and turned against us.

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

If a hospital can't operate because some asshole was able to remotely hack it bad enough to basically shut it down, we might need to rethink how things are run.

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Seems best to do this after firing the first 2-3 levels of leadership since this whole mess was created under their watch. Maybe the next thing to do is to ask if the US government wants to so heavily depend on a company that is no longer a US entity.

Microsoft is overwhelmingly Indian contractors now. Infact much of the large legacy US tech companies have done so much offshoring I'd hardly call them US companies anymore. Are these companies really who we want to stake our national security on?

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Anything with over 100WH batteries would need airline approval before you can fly with it. This is why laptop makers rarely exceed this limit.

https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/portable-electronic-devices-with-batteries

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

redhat is just sitting right there.... waiting,

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

So just to illustrate, I went to the normal FileZilla download page and downloaded the Win64 package. Then I submitted it to VirusTotal.

https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64#close

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dbde8a4bd71bb1fbc0511cdb657dfeffdaedc513aa425f856043532a7cba6fce

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago

Kaspersky is just one piece of software to avoid. Others include:

  • Telegram
  • Avast AV
  • Anything from 360 Safe / Qihoo 360
  • Opera browser ... now owned by above
  • Zoom
  • FileZilla / UTorrent / other PUA that bundles adware and acts essentially as a trojan
[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago

ARM is limited by licensing greed. RISC-V or its successors is the future.

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 130 points 5 months ago

When you work for Apple, Apple gets to tell you what to do. Same goes for any corporate owned media outlet.

Jon Stewart has more than enough money to just quit, which he did. Most normal folks do not have this luxury so they tow the line.

Welcome to the reality that the US economic system.

No real free speech, no real agency in our economy, captive regulators that like to masquerade as populist heros but rarely actually do any real damage to sociopathic corporations.

[-] mansfield@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

So you sold your house to investors that will use it to add to this pretty obvious problem because you did not want to be bothered to wait 2-3 weeks extra to close? Thanks for doing your part to eleviate the larger problem.

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