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BoydStephenSmithJr

@BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io

Born 1980-05-15 in Mena, AR
Cis White Male He/him
Liberal Democratic Socialist Idealist
Professional Haskell Programmer
Lives in Cove, AR
(24 years resident of Fayetteville, AR)

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mjg59, to random
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer avatar

The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

emory,
@emory@soc.kvet.ch avatar

it was only recently that many publishers even used unique DRM keys for media. they used to basically generate one private key blob and give the identical blob to people. now they're building systems with unique blobs that could be used to identify infringement and distribution back to an actual actor that facilitated the unlock of the original stream.

i threat model some of those systems. there are tons of ways to implement DRM and i avoid it whenever i can.

@waderoberts @mjg59 @pluralistic

LonM,
@LonM@vivaldi.net avatar

@waderoberts @mjg59 @pluralistic I always find it infuriating that publishers both pushed for artificial digital scarcity and not allowing us to re-sell our digital purchases. Pick one.

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

brucelawson, to random
@brucelawson@vivaldi.net avatar

I'm posting this photo because 35 years later, people in China and Hong Kong can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

w7voa, to random
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

US FDA advisory committee decides on a 10-1 vote that the risks of MDMA treatment outweigh the benefits for PTSD.

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Trump has threatened a 10% tariff on all imports.

Tariffs can be used strategically, but a blanket tariff is effectively just a sales tax on American consumers.

Trump's tariff tax would cost the average family an extra $1,500 year.

timbray, to China
@timbray@cosocial.ca avatar

Should be posted every year on this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKvxJ-Js3A
#china #tienanmen1989

echo_pbreyer, (edited ) to gaming German
@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social avatar

Heute Abend diskutiere ich mit
@AnjaHirschel , Rechtsanwältin Renate Schmid und -Sprecher Daniel Ondruska die EU-Initiative gegen das Computerspiele-Sterben.

Als setzen wir uns für die Rechte von Gamer*innen ein und für die gleichberechtigte Anerkennung von als modernes Kulturgut!

Schickt uns eure Fragen. Um 18:30 geht’s los im Livestream: https://patrick-breyer.de/event/webinar-stop-killing-games/

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Why Corporations Have More Rights Than People | Robert Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAIlo3upJHM&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

atomless, to random
@atomless@mastodon.social avatar

Love this from @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/03/aoi-aoi-oh/#concentrated-gains-vast-diffused-losses

atomless,
@atomless@mastodon.social avatar

@pluralistic The sad thing being, of course, that society is far more interested in finding and punishing a thousand one dollar cheaters (and the vast cost of that) than it is in prosecuting the single thousand dollar (corp) cheater.

eff, to random
@eff@mastodon.social avatar

When judges won’t stand up for public transparency in patent disputes, EFF will. We’re headed to a federal appeals court to push for access to court records.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-appeals-order-denying-public-access-patent-filings
#OpenAccess #patents

That_One_Guy, to stlouis
@That_One_Guy@mastodon.world avatar

I wouldn't normally do this but after two very bad experiences with Ed Napleton dealerships I wanted to make a PSA to people in the St. Louis, MO region:

Avoid Ed Napleton dealerships if you can. They are good at pulling a bait and switch, wasting a lot of your time in the process. With lots overflowing they are still trying to add a "pandemic market adjustment" of $2,000. I'd like to save people the time and frustration.

https://goo.gl/maps/pH8cdHnaouCGfToz9?g_st=ac

https://goo.gl/maps/YGuDhDucp2fzBNMU6?g_st=ac

w7voa, to random
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents. https://www.404media.co/google-leak-reveals-thousands-of-privacy-incidents/?

theogrin, to queer
@theogrin@chaosfem.tw avatar

"Does kink belong at #Pride " is trending again, no big surprise there.

I invite those seriously discussing this question to ask themselves whether there is any level of respectability to which we could possibly aspire, which the cishet conservative folks would possibly accept as publicly acceptable, and then consider why you're letting them define the limits.

These are, after all, people who would consider a "Let Trans Kids Grow Up" shirt as morally indefensible, who believe that a book about two male penguins raising a chick is a vile and outrageous piece of media.

To the amoral conservative guardians, throwing homeless people in jail and burning their belongings is perfectly defensible, but we, the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, are in our very existence a kink, a moral aberration.

I'm not saying genitalia should be on full public display. I am saying that if we let the busybody crowd set the rules, before long there won't be any Pride celebrations anymore.

gregggonsalves, to random
@gregggonsalves@med-mastodon.com avatar

Watching H5N1 extend its host range, now show respiratory symptoms in a human case, should concern us all. We are whistling past the graveyard, not remotely prepared for what comes next. Perhaps H5N1 will not acquire the mutations necessary to ensure efficient human-to-human transmission, but counting on good fortune is not a strategy.

revk, to random
@revk@toot.me.uk avatar

Oh wow, that is going way too far!

[not my pic]

fanf,
@fanf@mendeddrum.org avatar

@revk i think it should be reported to trading standards for being misleading https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/1169/article/7

sageofredondo,
@sageofredondo@mastodon.social avatar

@revk please file a complaint with FDA so they can act on it: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/index.cfm?action=consumer.reporting1

fsf, to freesoftware
@fsf@hostux.social avatar

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

AnarchistArt, to random
@AnarchistArt@mastodon.social avatar
eff, to random
@eff@mastodon.social avatar

Now more than ever, people must be able to hold those in power accountable and inspire others through the act of protest. Protecting your devices and digital assets before, during, and after a protest is vital. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

Mrfunkedude, to random
@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social avatar

The fact that A.I. doesn't exist, but we call all the different types of machine learning "A.I." because it's more marketable, is a perfect representation of how humanity would rather worship a lie that sells, than a boring truth.

joshuaphilll, to random
@joshuaphilll@spore.social avatar

A ceasefire is proposed, Israel undermines it, the West tries to blame Hamas.

The cycle just repeated itself, again.

But this time Biden himself announced it, then Netanyahu rejected the entire “permanent ceasefire” section. This sick cycle must end.
https://www.jphilll.com/p/israel-rejects-peace-again

nando161, to random
@nando161@theblower.au avatar

#Living #Paycheck to Paycheck being an #exploited #slave to a poor #wage...

#centrelink #welfare #poverty #homeless #classwar

Noupside, to random
@Noupside@saturation.social avatar

“I like the frosting you made for this chicken. 👍”

I love this phase with toddlers where they use words in ‘wrong’ ways that actually make a surprising amount of sense.

(It was a dill-sour cream sauce)

artemis, to random
@artemis@dice.camp avatar

Yeah, I'm really dwelling on this analogy I came up with today that your relationships with people are like gardens the two of you tend together.

It's such a helpful perspective for me both on the relationships that are thriving and the ones that are not. And on the ones that basically don't exist.

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