[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 26 points 4 months ago

I agree with your first point, but the latter two:

—GPS data that could be stored and extracted from the dealership and sold or given to the government, insurance companies, and law enforcement. —GPS data that could be sent in real time if the car has a cellular connection or hijacks the cellular connection in your phone when you connect it to the car.

Why do you think this is more likely to happen with this new regulation, when most modern cars already have a functioning GPS module for navigation and cellular connection for software updates?

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 29 points 10 months ago

Not if the site is actually GDPR compliant they are not. You are only allowed to set tracking cookies after consent has been obtained, which cannot be assumed before the visitor has made a choice.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I understand it as an attempt to get very basic, manual syntax highlighting. If all you have is white text on black background, then I do see the value of making keywords easy to spot by putting them in all caps. And this probably made sense back when SQL was first developed, but it's 2023, any dev / data scientist not using a tool that gives you syntax highlighting seriously needs to get with the times

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago

Tf are you talking about, unless being gay involves raping men, being pedo also doesn't involve raping children. Even as a cishet non-pedo you will often encounter situations where acting on some attraction you feel would be anywhere from morally questionable to straight up illegal, and most of us manage to deal with that just fine. Of course that's going to be tougher for someone whose entire experience consists of that, rather than just part of it, but nothing about being pedo forces you to become a child-raping piece of shit.

Of course psychiatric care is important, but the point the other commenter was making is that it's currently impossible to change anyone's attraction, so it's not a pathology that can be "cured" in this way. Any psychiatric care currently has to be aimed at helping people deal with being pedo without acting on it and also not developing any other psychological afflictions because of suppressing their attraction. Trying to "cure" the attraction itself would indeed be akin to gay conversion therapy: there's no scientific evidence it works, and it's going to do more harm than good.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

The described problem wasn't that the car didn't see the lines, it was the car steering into oncoming traffic when it couldn't see the lines. Lidar could potentially very well help with that, by giving the car a better model of the surroundings letting it better reconstruct the intended road path even when the lines are faded, and also see oncoming traffic better and avoid it.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago

The person formerly known as Anthony goes by Emily now, let's try and not use deadnames :)

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago

Windows: "Time for updates! Stop everything you're doing and please wait...please wait...please wait...please wait..."

How am I hearing about this all the time, but it has never happened for me? Every windows update for me so far has always gone the same, unintrusive way - when it's time to shut down the PC in the evening, I notice there's an "Install Updates and Shutdown" option next to the normal "shutdown" option, which I use if I'm not in a terrible hurry right now. Takes a little longer to shut down, next boot will also take a little longer, but that's it. I've literally never had these unwelcome interruptions I hear so frequently about.

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[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a way to verify that an app, or any package of data really, actually comes from the source you're expecting it to.

It's based on some clever math, but basically, an app developer has two very large numbers that share a certain mathematical relationship, but if you only know one of them, it's extremely hard to calculate the other one. One of those numbers (the private key) they keep securely to themselves, the other number (the public key) they publish permanently for everyone to see.

Now when the releases an app or an update to it, they put both the app and their private key into a special formula, which produces a new big number, called the "signature". Then, they publish both the app and the signature to the play store.

Now, when your app store sees an update of the app, it won't just blindly trust it, but first check that it's actually legit, so that it doesn't accidentally install a virus or something. To do that, it downloads the app and the signature, and puts them into another special function, together with the public key that was used to sign the version of the app that you currently have installed. Now the clever part is, because of the special mathematical relationship between the public key and the private key, this function can check whether the signature was in fact produced by combining the app with the private key of the developer, without actually having to know that private key. This way, it can now be sure that this app update is actually coming from the original developer - unless they have been compromised and their private key leaked.

So, technically, saying "it has the same signature" is not quite correct. The signature changes with every update. The thing that's the same and allows to install the update is the key being used to generate the signature.


This I very close to how (asymmetrically) encrypted messaging works, btw. If you have a key pair like above, you can encrypt a message with one of the keys in a way that it's only decryptable with the other one. This way you can have people send you encrypted messages without anyone else knowing the encryption key, not even the sender of the message.

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Just a stupid little build I did a while back. What are the weirdest pieces you’ve used so far in your MOCs?

(Cross-post from lemmy.world)

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Just a stupid little build I did a while back. What are the weirdest pieces you've used so far in your MOCs?

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/1503226

I don't like the concept of GWPs in general, and the threshold is ludicrously high again (220$/220€), but if you've been dying to get them, now's your chance!

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/1503226

I don't like the concept of GWPs in general, and the threshold is ludicrously high again (220$/220€), but if you've been dying to get them, now's your chance!

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I don't like the concept of GWPs in general, and the threshold is ludicrously high again (220$/220€), but if you've been dying to get them, now's your chance!

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 327 points 1 year ago

And that's precisely why so many people are calling for everyone to defederate immediately from anything facebook-owned. The only way to prevent this is to not even let them get started.

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

Hier ähnlich. Anzunehmen dass wir irgendwie davon profitieren würden wenn meine Mitarbeitenden eine Stunde länger arbeiten würden ist ein absoluter Fehlschluss

[-] hikaru755@feddit.de 54 points 1 year ago

Read up on the Paradox of Tolerance, please. "We must be better than them" is a call for total tolerance, which will inevitably lead to the disappearance of tolerance, and that cannot be allowed to happen. It is simply impossible to have a community where transphobes and trans people coexist happily together, and I'll choose the side that's not trying to hurt others (trans people, in case that wasn't clear) every day.

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