Em Adespoton

Is that last 10% all about DRM and anti-cheat?

I support an interim ban on global thermonuclear war, too. And on time travelling flowerpots.

People need to follow this up with dumping tariffed goods into Boston Harbor.

I remember 1995 well… the year the Internet was sold to entrepreneurs.

I remember dialling in to an internet connected mainframe on a 300 baud modem. Elm for checking email, gopher for gopher sites, ftp for file transfer. IRC and usenet newsgroups.

It all tracks perfectly with “rules for thee but not for me.”

That’s a great list of global media for me to ensure I’m watching.

This sure doesn’t sound like “fleeing”:

Stephen Miller … has listed his Arlington home for $3.75 million — just two years after buying it for $2.875 million.

That sounds more like flipping.

I mean… he’s trying to make almost a million dollars on the place; if he were fleeing, they would have already left and be trying to sell below market value to recover losses where they could.

Of course, other people with legally purchased homes are being grabbed off the street by masked men and thrown out of the country… on his orders.

Interesting; no ICEBlock in the international app stores I have access to, either.

I thought most developers knew to publish apps in stores of countries that would have no issues with the content?

And US citizens need to get familiar with having to look outside their own borders to get access to free speech-forward software.

Oh, the experiment isn’t over yet. They’ve just dispensed with the original hypothesis and re-written the lab notes to favor the desired results.

Unfortunately, companies are being bombarded with AI- generated CVs at a massive scale, and so have turned to AI filters to filter out all the slop. This has resulted in filtering out a lot of qualified people as well. But in an employer’s market, that doesn’t really matter to them.

Once you get past the filter, everything is mostly business as usual; many hiring managers are probably even unaware that their HR department uses AI filters.

I’m insulted they thought I didn’t know what a LUHN check is.

Of course, my current credit cards don’t even have a magnetic stripe, so the original purpose for the check digits is history. Still useful for other situations where the number might get garbled though.

The other thing useful about credit cards is that the first set of digits refer to the issuer, not your account. Once you strip off the issuer code and the check digit, there’s much less that’s unique to your card.

It all really started to fall apart after Taligent foundered.

Yeah; that’s passkeys in action. It’s your Android phone setting up the passkeys vault that’s doing the face capturing, not LinkedIn. LinkedIn is showing you the QR code as a means of using passkeys for verification.

You’re not using the app are you?

Avoid the app at all costs. Use the web site. I can log in there with nothing but a username and password.

The stuff you’re describing sounds like it’s setting up a passkey and tying it to Windows Hello via a face scan.

None of that is needed, but even if you use passkeys (which you should), you don’t have to do a local face scan to unlock it; you can use a password or (better) a token such as a YubiKey.

In all these cases though, LinkedIn isn’t doing a face scan; that’s just your designated way to unlock your locally stored passkeys.

What is LinkedIn requiring of you exactly?

Years ago I uploaded an extremely low-res image of my face to LinkedIn and it’s never asked me for more.

In most situations, getting that designation provides extra funding and legal protection. However, all of that is managed by the federal executive on behalf of Congress… and these days that could result in added risk.

On the plus side, I believe it means that every work submitted to the LoC also goes to IA, which is indeed a good thing. Sure beats the lawsuits they had to endure following COVID.

Am I the only one who misread the title to say that DDG was now hiding AI-generated images in your search results?

As in, they’re sneaking them in?

Those circumstances include immediate threats to national security and situations where a person is in danger of death or serious injury.

Well I see a problem there. It doesn’t specify the cause of the danger or the reason the person is in danger in the first place.

EFF missed a fun opportunity to call the Rayhunter “DeCSS”.

This isn’t leaving tech… it’s leaving corporate employment.

Still great options, but I was expecting something more like: pivot to a different role in your existing company and then find another non-corporate use for those skills, or get your apprenticeship in the trades, or become a bus driver.