The real term is synthetic data
The real term is synthetic data
Another reason right to repair is needed
Being paid is a kind of attention/validation. The things he’s selling are “branding” stuff that feed into his cult of personality. It’s probably more of a narcissist thing than a money thing.
Those went up in price after the initial sale afaik
If you are at the point where you are having to worry about government or corporate entities setting traps at the local library? You… kind of already lost.
What about just a blackmailer assuming anyone booting an OS from a public computer has something to hide? And then they have write access and there’s no defense, and it doesn’t have to be everywhere because people seeking privacy this way will have to be picking new locations each time. An attack like that wouldn’t have to be targeted at a particular person.
Isn’t it risky plugging usb drives into untrusted machines?
Wouldn’t this lead to snowblindness? It gets way brighter in the winter
I bet it was something like the hardware id instead but she misspoke
Dunno, not sure there’s a way to conclusively pick an amount that’s “fair” since any metrics for that are arbitrary. Just going by productivity vs wages and the premise that what people were paid in 1979 was what they “should” be paid given that ratio, you could say 3x, but there’s a lot of assumptions there. To me the bigger story seems to be the ongoing trend of how capital keeps accumulating capital, and the share of the pie owned by regular people continues to decrease regardless of their contributions, and what that might mean for our future.
This does seem to be adjusting for inflation; according to one of the sources they cited:
From 1979 to 2020, net productivity rose 61.8%, while the hourly pay of typical workers grew far slower—increasing only 17.5% over four decades (after adjusting for inflation).
That said I think there’s some problems with how inflation is calculated, and the implications of the distribution of total ownership of wealth isn’t really mitigated by increasing affordability of consumer goods.
I know that’s how it works in the US, but the lawsuit is in Japan, which you always hear about having stricter copyright laws. Not really sure how this one will play out though.
IIRC it spammed websites with traffic, didn’t conceal your IP at all, and some people got arrested for using it to make some websites go down for a very brief period. Basically a way to use people who didn’t know what they were doing as cannon fodder
Having an edgy opinion
I once wrote and sold some extremely shitty software, most of the effort was in the testing and support “departments”, which were merged as I just had my (fortunately mostly very patient) customers work through the bugs with me.
I think people saying that stuff are serious about advocating for political violence. I can’t imagine how it wouldn’t make things worse. Violence is a core element of fascist ideology, there’s clear utility in using the attention it brings for recruiting, the trauma it inflicts for hazing, the experience for training. I remember when I saw a particular famous clip of a nazi speaking in public and being punched in the face by a masked assailant, I had never even heard his name before then, but after that clip was all over the internet that changed for a lot of people, and it definitely didn’t get him to shut up. Maybe there’s situations where people need to be defended, or there is need for someone acting as a bouncer, but I suspect in many cases it’s some combination of useful idiots giving them what they want, or extremists on the other side who share their goals of agitating for armed revolution giving them what they want.
Could you elaborate? Does HOA mean something different in other countries?
Home owner’s association; when you buy a house and it is part of a HOA, you have to sign a contract to join the HOA as a requirement of buying, which means you have to pay dues and abide by the rules of the organization, and you have to require the next buyer to also join in order to sell your house.
Even while it was happening much of the response was to try to pretend it wasn’t happening
The detail that negative reviews warning of the danger kept getting removed or edited is really sinister
sort of