Anyone know what the ATC uses is?

So, like, here I am, on my phone, playing games and browsing the internet. Sometimes my connection is a little slow, but that’s just the nature of things because sometimes it just takes a tiny bit longer to get a response and sometimes my phone just runs a little slow.

What I don’t know is that my phone is infected with malware. And that malware lets other people access whatever internet I have access to; and that whatever those other people are doing looks like it’s coming from my IP address and my device. I am the unwitting exit node for an unscrupulous VPN service (or driving similar).

Someone working in the White House has an infected phone and doesn’t know it. They are at the White House most days, work late afternoon to around midnight.

If the person in charge of the botnet knew the phone of a White House worked was compromised, they could use that access to appear as a legitimate user and bypass security protocols, have accounts and passwords compromised, and have their data scraped and stolen.

I would assume most normal people working in the White House have their phones regularly checked for malware, or use special phones for government work. However, higher ups in the Trump White House have routinely violated and ignored security protocols; they could abuse their power to use their own personal phones and to ignore security checks.

Given that the times the node was used are so consistent, I think it’s unlikely that there are two infected phones involved.

Given that this happened on most days in October, it’s unlikely to be Trump or anyone who regularly travels with him, because he spends a lot of time not at the White House. There was no exit node activity on two Thursdays, one Friday and one Monday; activity was recorded every other day in October. Meaning this isn’t someone who comes into the office M-F with weekends off; days off seem to be somewhat rare for this person, and don’t occur on normal weekends. I have no idea who the person is, but security should probably make more of an effort to re-secure all phones permitted on the premises.

There were reports a year or so ago, of Musk acting as a message carrier between Trump and Putin.

It’s worse having to dig through a bunch of garbage to find the cable you want

Eh. I coil them up in type-sorted ziplocs with labels, and put them in function-sorted drawers (audio, tv/media, PC interior, phone, etc). Doesn’t take long to find anything.

When I left reddit, I asked for accounts on both tildes and kbin. Except tildes was onboarding people in batches, so I’d been active on kbin for like a week before I could create my tildes account, and I just never got momentum over there because of it

Lmao, isn’t that Zuckerberg’s motto - Move fast, break things.

You don’t negotiate with terrorists, Nazis, or billionaires.

In one of the threads I ran across, he was accused of having several alt accounts. I would suspect at least a couple of them will remain open.

Because they’re getting pushback from towns, but can still use the air.

“We’ve got to tighten up the policy and make sure everyone is aligned and then turn [the Los Angeles camera system] back on,” [Flock co-founder and CEO Garrett] Langley said.

Sucks to be you, then, doesn’t it.

“The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. “A car drives by, we take a picture. It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That’s what the technology is – it’s actually not that complicated, it’s pretty simple.”

Sure. Just the license plate. Which is why the ACLU says that you collect “make, model and color of a car, other identifiers like scratches and dents, and anything else they can see.” It can include items “such as trailers, toolboxes, bumper stickers, or bike racks.” That’s why your cameras have audio detection hardware. That’s why your cameras are on biking trails, where no cars will be found.

Then using data analysis like that in Finding Paul Revere reveals a bunch of information about your habits, your friendships, and your associations. But, sure, you have nothing to lose :/

[Flock] run what it calls convoy analysis to flag vehicles that keep turning up near each other.

There’s an interesting article written back when it was revealed that the post office was recording the envelopes of every piece of mail it handles and what kind of data they could extrapolate from it. [If you’ve mailed a letter at the counter in the past few years, you’ll know that they bug you if you haven’t put a return address on the envelope.] Anyway, it’s called “Finding Paul Revere” and I found it an interesting read.

We can do better!

Rehires them to better train their AI. They’ll be back out again shortly. :/

See, what I see is that Ford intends to keep using AI, they’re just temporarily using experienced humans to train the AI to be better at it’s job before getting rid of the humans again.

Honestly, fingers and movement have been two of the telling signs of AI photos and video for a long time. Just like they’ve used captchas to crowd-source house numbers for their maps, and vehicle information and street infrastructure for their attempts at self-driving vehicles, they’re now crowd-sourcing data for AI images and video.

Plus they’ll get geo-information on your location, and video of your immediate area - like the inside of your house. They’ve had code that processes images and gives feedback on the people in the photo, their likely income and interests, and suggests ads targeted to those people. With geo-location, fingerprinting your phone, and now pictures of the inside of your house, they’re really dialing in on their surveillance and ad databases.

Not saying that the opportunity to build facial ID banks isn’t a bonus. But don’t discount the opportunity to spy inside everyone’s homes, and to improve their ability to literally generate their own version of reality - or to produce “evidence” disproving your reality to everyone else.

A lot of sidewalks in major cities don’t have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc. And suddenly you’re being asked to give up one piece of space that’s supposedly reserved for you, to yet another ‘move fast, break things, get permission later’ techbro “innovation” that no one’s asked for.

There’s no regulation over them, no standards that they have to follow or how to behave, no way for the public to specifically identify a robot when they encounter it in public (like, say, your robot ran into my car or whatever).

I’d only allow them if each robot carried a certain amount of insurance, was registered and had some kind of license plate, had turn signals (I don’t know if they do, the ones I saw didn’t), had limited operating hours and locations, were forced to move aside for humans, etc - basically make them the absolute lowest priority thing on the streets and sidewalks. Streets, bike lanes, sidewalks, subways, etc, were each built for specific forms of human movement. If techbros want to introduce a new type of system, they should be forced to build their own infrastructure to support it (no idea what that looks like for delivery robots), instead of just blatantly overloading already-stressed public infrastructure.

While [Grok] didn’t develop a MechaHitler DJ personality, it did behave about how you’d expect from an AI model trained primarily on tweets and the opinions of Elon Musk. It apparently hallucinated advertising agreements with “xAI sponsors” and “crypto sponsors,” failed to separate its internal reasoning from its external DJ output, issued an identical weather report every 3 minutes, and got obsessed with UFOs.

Lmao

two high-capacity water connections were not being properly monitored. One had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and another was not tied to a billing account.

Yeah, you don’t just “accidentally” install an “extra” water pipeline like that.

Waymo spokesperson Julia Ilina wrote: “We deeply value our partnership with first responders and our shared commitment to safety. Their ongoing feedback has been instrumental in driving impactful improvements to the Waymo service.” […] The company says it has conducted in-person training for more than 35,000 emergency responders across the country.

Instead of adapting Waymo to the needs of humans and emergency services, let’s just tell them how they need to change to fit us instead!

reflect long-simmering and sometimes vocal frustrations expressed by city leaders since at least late last year. Since autonomous vehicle operations are regulated in California and Texas by state rather than city officials, local first-responder departments and those who represent them can generally only request that developers like Waymo make specific changes to their operations.

Sounds like they don’t really value those relationships like they claim to.

to connect […] with Waymo operators to move the vehicle, […] it had taken up to three minutes to connect with a remote agent in the past. They reiterated that Waymos don’t always respond well to hand signals, especially ones from police mounted on motorcycles. Waymo declined to attend the meeting […] the Waymo spokesperson, said the company has "already had the substantive conversations this moment calls for,” and said the company has answered questions from city officials.

Translation: we’re tired of listening to you, get out of our way and let our cars run free!

“We will keep working with Austin’s leadership and first-responder community, because ongoing collaboration is how we build the trust this city deserves and make Austin’s streets safer,” she wrote.

Lol, that’s not at all what you’re doing. Are you taking Republican lessons in lying, double-speak, and aggressive non-listening?

By 1963, the amount of soybean and cottonseed oil claimed to exist in a single facility by Allied exceeded all the soybean and cottonseed oil in the country.

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