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The exploit was always there, you just didn't know about it, but attackers might have. The only thing that changed is that you're now aware that there's a vulnerability.
Re:I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @04:10PM (#46438038)
Try doing it without any sort of data connection, where the phone can't ask the carrier to deprovision the esim.
Re:Apple M5 chip on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:56AM (#45603015)
Base M4 was already slightly outperforming the M2 Max in CPU. GPU-wise it's nowhere near close.
Re:The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:16PM (#45485792)
The fascist government won't need you to enable tracking, they can have the corporation that makes your OS silently gather it and give it to them, or simply have the phone carrier do it, again silently to the one carrying the device.

We're already all carrying a tracking device with us, willingly.

Re:AI Is Different on Saturday August 16, 2025 @05:59AM (#44921863)
Once computers and AIs can approach even a small fraction of the our capacity then sure, only cameras is fine, it's a shame that our suite of camera data processing equipment is so far beyond our understanding that we don't even have models of how it might work at its core.

Even at that point, why would you possibly use only cameras though, when you can get far better data by using multiple complementary systems? Humans still crash plenty often, in large part because of how limited our "camera" system can be.

Amazon has a big one too. I also know of a popular one called Aptoide.
Re:A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That's a Problem on Saturday August 02, 2025 @03:06PM (#44770414)
In what way is not being social a successful strategy for reproduction nowadays?
Re:More Women Than Expected Are Genetically Men on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:23PM (#44713082)
If anything chromossomes would be the key determinant of sex, not gender. But even that's not how we attribute sex: biologically sex is attributed by the capacity to generate small or big gamete, which means that someone who doesn't produce either type, such as a child or elderly person has no sex.
Re:More Women Than Expected Are Genetically Men on Monday July 28, 2025 @01:16PM (#44712968)
Having and X or Y (or even multiple of each, as some people do, XXY and XYY are real, even single X or Y too) is binary, what's not binary is how it doesn't perfectly correlate with the sex (not even getting into gender here) that the person in question belongs to.
Re:Why the $25,000 car is going extinct on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:51AM (#44424084)
Not just SE Asia: In Europe I can go buy a Dacia Sandero for 14k€ right now (about $16500) and that includes 23% VAT.
Re:Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170 on Monday June 16, 2025 @02:27PM (#44292102)
I hate to sound preachy so I apologize if I'm coming off like that but if someone's relationship with the internet is so bad that being put in a situation where being forced to stay off it is seen as a positive, perhaps the whole relationship should be taken a hard look at?
Re:Shortest times between train stations in Europe on Saturday December 28, 2024 @02:49PM (#42533941)
Even if it did prevent 10% of suicides by train, it stands to reason that a huge portion of those 10% would simply become suicides by jumping off a bridge.
Re:Shortest times between train stations in Europe on Saturday December 28, 2024 @02:36PM (#42533807)
Taking a fast train is significantly faster than driving. On short and medium trips they're even competitive with flying, if you factor the time it takes to get to/from the airport and associated lead time associated with airports vs showing within 5-10 minutes of departure right at the city centre.
Re:Shortest times between train stations in Europe on Saturday December 28, 2024 @02:30PM (#42533759)
These are trains with sleeping cabins and actual beds you sleep in. It's better than many hostels.
Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? on Saturday December 28, 2024 @10:57AM (#42531888)
You're effectively saying that the owner of this LLM isn't allowed to say or in this case not say something according to their wishes because somehow their work, the LLM, needs to have the speech that you want rather than the speech that their owner wants. You're effectively asking for more restrictions on speech and on what private entities do.
When someone recommends me an album or artist I "take a look" at it: I listen to it. Though now that I think about it, I wouldn't say that in my other languages.
Re:New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) on Saturday October 19, 2024 @07:02AM (#41887122)
I'm not an SME but I would imagine that if there's some sort of very large scale pattern in Mersenne primes then finding that might lead to the discovery of some currently unknown emergent property. Of course this argument is likely unfalsifiable, as it can scale infinitely if there's an infinite amount of them, though we don't even know whether they are a finite set or not.
Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @04:12PM (#41863340)
I always found it funny how ip bans seemed to be so popular despite being apparently completely ineffective until I realized this was mostly a US thing. In my country (2 of them that I've lived in, in fact) ISPs always assign the client a dynamic address from their very large pools every time I reconnect. This was as true back in the 28.8kb dial up days as it is in the 10gbit FTTH days we live in. Having a static IP address here has always been a service you have to pay for.

I remember this being hilarious when idiots would ip ban me back on the IRC days: "oh no, I have to press the reconnect button!"

Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:53PM (#41863137)
Until they get jailbroken that is. There is no such as a perfectly secure platform in which the user has complete physical control over it.
Re:We Outsmarted CSGO Cheaters with IdentityLogger on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @03:49PM (#41863103)
Because at the end of the day the game is running on the user's machine, a machine in which the user has full access to every part of the execution and the software developer does not. You can only get around that by streaming the game instead of running it on the client side and even then an aimbot or some type of automation would be possible nowadays.
Re:Meta Movie Gen on Saturday October 05, 2024 @07:13AM (#41749094)
> Getting actors to act exactly how you want was never a solved problem.

As a choreographer myself, that's not necessarily a problem but rather a feature: it depends on how the director creates. Often you want what's unique to the performer, you don't want them to do something that's exactly like what you envisioned but whatever their interpretation/vision of it is, the "imperfectness" is what makes it interesting and rich.

Re:Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:34PM (#41606101)
They might just split and sell off the cpu and gpu divisions and keep the rest of Intel's (very wide) portfolio. Of particular interest might be the Intel foundries.
Airbus seems to be doing just fine, including their final assembly lines in the US.
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @05:11AM (#41498798)
I don't understand this. Why not trying the "shady battery" for cheap before buying a whole new phone? Even if you somehow don't trust their batteries, I see s10e batteries on ebay for ~10€. Just buy one of those and have them install it?

Every device I've ever wanted to keep after its battery started degrading (mostly laptops, but has happened with a phone too) I've either ordered one from ebay and replaced myself or went to a cheap local shop.

OE batteries aren't magical.

Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:41AM (#41447088)
You would make Heisenberg roll in his grave!
Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @10:59AM (#41446563)
> rarely produce any good outcomes

That's the nature of research.

Re:Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo on Sunday June 16, 2024 @06:20PM (#40700595)
In my experience it's almost always shadows. I can't be sure of course, but I've definitively noticed a correlation: both shadows from overpasses or shadows from semis, this happens more often when the sun is low too.

It never happens at night though, which in my mind makes the shadows hypothesis weaker.

Re:Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:30AM (#40688818)
While I agree that Tesla is nowhere close to having an actually autonomous driving system, I think that Tesla did invest more into research and probably collected more data than anyone else on the market. This amount of research has to have some results, even if they don't have a product yet.
Oh you mean the disguised nvidia shield?
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