atrielienz

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The short answer is there's a good chunk of Americans on some form of Medicaid (regardless of what name it wears) and in exchange for healthcare provided by the government, they give access of their medical PII to the government because the government is their healthcare insurance provider.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

There shouldn't need to be a better way. There are lots of places where using a MIG cart is legal to download games you have already purchased from the physical cartridge.

It's bullshit that they have somehow normalized the idea that they have the right to do this to paying customers in the first place.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

They're targeting actual creators rather than AI Slop though. Lots of creators have been talking about this.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Here's a question. I'm gonna preface it with some details. One of the things I used to do for the US Navy was the development of security briefs. To write a brief it's essentially you pulling information from several sources (some of which might be classified in some way) to provide detail for the purposes of briefing a person or people about mission parameters.

Collating that data is important and it's got to be not only correct but also up to date and ready in a timely manner. I'm sure ChatGPT or similar could do that to a degree (minus the bit about it being completely correct).

There are people sitting in degree programs as we speak who are using ChatGPT or another LLM to take shortcuts in not just learning but doing course work. Those people are in degree programs for counter intelligence degrees and similar. Those people may inadvertently put information into these models that is classified. I would bet it has already happened.

The same can be said for trade secrets. There's lots of companies out there building code bases that are considered trade secrets or deal with trade secrets protected info.

Are you suggesting that they use such tools in the arsenal to make their output faster? What happens when they do that and the results are collected by whatever model they use and put back into the training data?

Do you admit that there are dangers here that people may not be aware of or even cognizant they may one day work in a field where this could be problematic? I wonder this all the time because people only seem to be thinking about the here and now of how quickly something can be done and not the consequences of doing it quickly or more "efficiently" using an LLM and I wonder why people don't think about it the other way around.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Cars do have that in what amounts to a TCU or Telematics Control Unit. The main problem here isn't whether or not cars have that technology. It's about the relevant government agency forcing companies like Tesla (and other automakers) to produce that data not just when there's a crash, but as a matter of course.

I have a lot of questions about why Tesla's are allowed on public roads when some of the models haven't been crash tested. I have a lot of questions about why a company wouldn't hand over data in the event of a crash without the requirement of a court order. I don't necessarily agree that cars should be able to track us (if I buy it I own it and nobody should have that kind of data without my say so). But since we already have cars that do phone this data home, local, state, and federal government should have access to it. Especially when insurance companies are happy to use it to place blame in the event of a crash so they don't have to pay out an insurance policy.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. That clip.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They already argued once in court that this was detailed in the TOS. Dunno if the appeal will do anything, but Google isn't exactly hurting for the money.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He may well have done but the only clip I have seen is the one where someone asks about it while he's streaming games and he responded to that person with misinformation.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They'll likely appeal.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yes. I have two of them.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

For those who don't know, this streamer is only tangentially related to the stop killing games petition because he made a comment about it being BS because he misinterpreted what it was supposed to do. He used his misinterpretation to spread false information about this petition leading to it not getting the support it initially should have.

When the guy behind the petition made a statement saying he didn't think the petition was going to get enough signatures in part because of the misinformation being spread about it, PirateSoftware doubled down on his false claims and all of this lead to people doing the research they should have done in the first place and deciding to support the petition after all.

What we should probably be learning from this is that we should do our own research, and find out things instead of taking the word of random people online.

Edit: electric has brought to my attention that it wasn't just one clip, but in fact a whole video dedicated to spreading misinformation that was made by Thor from PirateSoftware. Just wanted to be clear about that.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the case of my fully updated pixel 9 pro XL, Gemini was installed from the factory. I uninstalled it and installed Google Assistant. It has not re-installed itself for me, and further, I would recommend that if you don't use Gemini, you uninstall it.

This may change once the July patch hits but. As of right now it's not currently installed.

 

"According to the research published by Hackmosphere, the technique works by avoiding the conventional execution path where applications call Windows API functions through libraries like kernel32.dll, which then forwards requests to ntdll.dll before making the actual system call to the kernel."

Additional Information:

https://www.hackmosphere.fr/bypass-windows-defender-antivirus-2025-part-1/

https://www.hackmosphere.fr/bypass-windows-defender-antivirus-2025-part-2/

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Sweeping Cyber Security Order (www.theregister.com)
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The sweeping directive, signed Thursday, covers a range of topics including securing federal communications networks against foreign snoops, issuing tougher sanctions for ransomware gangs, requiring software providers to develop more secure products, and using AI to boost America's cyber defense capabilities, among others.

 

"The uBlock Origin Lite add-on was also accused of collecting user data and running afoul of privacy concerns, which is one of the big reasons why people switch over to the Firefox browser in the first place. Hill [the developer] responded: “It takes only a few seconds for anyone who has even basic understanding of JavaScript to see the raised issues make no sense.”"

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Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

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