designatedhacker

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah. Surprisingly realistic hair and everything else looks pretty normal then THE EYES.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You think these bots are streaming movies and music? 73% of Internet traffic is not bots. It's all YouTube, Netflix, Insta, TikTok, Spotify, etc media consumption. 73% of login traffic may be bots, but it's a teeny drop of global traffic.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (7 children)

The headline stat is a misinterpretation of the study which was done by Arkose Labs which "provides businesses with lasting bot prevention and account security by sapping the financial motivations of cybercriminals."

That's pretty vague but skimming it sounds like they prevent automated account creation and takeover. The stat comes from the companies they have access to (who need bot protection enough to pay for it), and 76% of activity on the login/account creation was malicious. That makes a lot more sense. All the various hacks and credential leaks result in bots banging in stolen credentials on high value sites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You need an encrypted cloud copy. 3-2-1 backup with duply to wasabi (AWS bucket-like). Otherwise you're hosed if you have a fire/tornado/theft/etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Daemon and Freedom(TM) by Daniel Suarez is sort of in this ballpark. Also Kill Decision by him is maybe a bit closer to the movie you saw.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

It's more like "Why are you smoking cigarettes, stop buying cigarettes." It's addictive, well marketed and cool, and totally avoidable with some self discipline.

I wouldn't joke about people with an actual illness by telling them to toughen up, but we're not talking about that.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Why not get a phone that can take, send, and receive pictures and video. It would also have maps, GPS, encrypted messaging, streaming music, audiobooks, e-books, home automation apps, ride hailing, food ordering, decent browser, etc.

Then, stay with me here, don't install social media apps. The lengths people go to so they can avoid social media when it is extremely avoidable is crazy to me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

There are far fewer hurricanes. You also get a couple days warning on most weather events. I take your point though, between waking up to seeing a related push message and seeing this meme I had forgotten about it.

At least it appears nobody died, only 5 injured.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They wrote up a whole thing about it. It was linked in the article.

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/90559

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Also going 69 MPH? Nice.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why let you have your memories at all? Each day you remember the doctored history of a happy employee. You're excited for another day of peak productivity with a short break for your favorite meal (the only food you're aware of): Soylent green. Hey where's Steve today... who's Steve... better get back to work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beer warmer!? Yeah the bad thing is you're about to ruin a beer.

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