How is your network handling telemetry shenanigans?
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3·1 year agoWhen they send over these time travelers, they’re not sending their best…
Lol why is Aqua Net hairspray specifically the thing that takes them down? Like other brands of hairspray don’t work? Spray paint or Elmer’s glue or maple syrup aren’t effective? You can’t just throw a bedsheet over them or hit them with a crowbar?
4·1 year agoLol I went through the exact same process.
5·1 year agoFrom the paper:
Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI.
Well yes it needs to be inaugurated first, which will not happen until January.
I interpreted “it” in the post title as referring to Linux. Firefox is “just a browser,” but Linux is not.
Damn okay well if the hackers are at that level I guess you’re just screwed.
Let’s see the hackers figure that one out!
3·1 year agoDamn great username btw 👌
4·1 year agoYeah that’s a good point about Amazon URLs. You really just need the product ID. So like Amazon produces this URL:
But I can pare that down to just this:
It’s just less visible/explicit. It’s still bad press when it gets noticed and called out like in this thread, it’s just sneakier.
For anyone who wants to take this seriously but doesn’t know what to do:
TL;DR: Chop off everything after the question mark.
Usually these trackers are at the end of the URL, after a ?. That’s called the “query string parameters” of the URL, and it’s where developers will attach extra information for the server or page. Often, those are benign and useful: It’s a token that identifies you to the server, or it’s context about what you’re trying to do. Sometimes you can eyeball the query string params and guess what they do, e.g.:
coolvideos.com/videos/5432?fullscreen=true&autoplay=true&time=12021
or
cheapshoes.com/search?query=adidas+tennis&category=womens&filter=discounted
or
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If you chopped off everything after the question mark, the URL should still work, it’d just give you a default version of that page. In these examples, there would be no privacy risk to sharing the URLs somewhere.
But query string params are also where alot of marketing/tracking bullshit goes. When you see URLs with UTM params like “utm_medium” and “utm_campaign”, that’s marketing bullshit. They can also contain info about who you are, like what OP is describing: If it’s some kind of referral link for example, then it might look like pyramidscheme.com/special-offer?associate_id=455&source=facebook. It might be esoteric too, like the “igsh” param in OP’s post (which I assume is short for “Instagram share” or something?). That WOULD be a privacy concern.
So yeah… Often you can eyeball it and figure out what (if anything) to remove… And if in doubt, try chopping off the question mark and everything following it, and see if the URL still works.
Security implications?
People working with these technologies have known this for quite awhile. It’s nice of Apple’s researchers to formalize it, but nobody is really surprised-- Least of all the companies funnelling traincars of money into the LLM furnace.
Okay but how does starting a secure shell help?
What if I’m already pretty good at Python and C? :)
How do you learn? I have some ESP32s that I’ve messed around a little bit with, and done some neat stuff…But I don’t have an electronics background at all and I often have trouble even figuring out how to power the damn things safely.
I feel like you just shout things into the void and people give you points for agreeing with you.
Lol at first I thought this was a direct criticism of the person you were replying to.
Which denominations implement idempotent baptisms?