Maybe in the surveillance era people don’t want to be surveilled when out using public land. And it could be rival hunters keeping tips to themselves. They could also suspect they might be installed by the government? Whatever the case,…
An interesting post about how Apple is treating customers by locking them out of iMessage and what it takes to get the service restored, if possible. And this is the problem with relying on centrally controlled services, and it seems…
The thing that betrays these kinds of efforts really designed to bring about identifying every internet user, is the fines per incident, usually $7,500, but these political hacks want $50,000. They’re working by state to make such a mess with…
The Linux Foundation is a captured entity, and IBM’s Red Hat isn’t much better, but the numbers seem realistic given Microsoft and Apple had admitted their AI code percentages. And it’s just not getting properly vetted. It’s looking like a…
It boggles my mind how people are playing with agentic AI which is unvetted. And many say the best opensource models you run on your own equipment come from China, not a security concern at all. I wouldn’t even try…
This is a good review of LineageOS 24, Android 17, with the only quibble being that I’d install this on a new phone, though they usually add older phones to the supported models with the exception of the Pixel and…
I’m inclined to think this is hype, but if true, it means the level of data recorded and indexed by AI systems is staggering. And if they keep this kind of detailed information for photographs, how much information are they…
You’ll have a lot more packages to replace and remove as I think they incorporating all the KDE packages to avoid future breakage. You will have to change the repo from stable to stable-testing in I commented out the…
(Headline article below) This is such a violation of our rights under the constitution in demanding we hand over our computers and give them security codes or passwords to peruse through them with no warrant or probable cause that a…
Of course she would have mental illness after being raped, abused and sodomized as a child. I’d bet the medical examination would have been incredibly invasive and the doctor picked by the defendant’s council, so I could see why she…
A lot of websites were going offline until the patches could be applied if they used a vulnerable PHP version. My WordPress Docker image was updated this morning, but looks like another will be ready in about 10 minutes. Seems…
We have had reports of FedEx, trash trucks, school buses, Amazon delivery driver’s picture capture glasses, and now USPS mail trucks, all on top of Flock, Axon and Motorola ALPR cameras. The foundation for the mark of the beast system…
