socphoenix

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[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 2 points 10 months ago

This was a few drives ago but there was a point in time when most places were giving me digital copies of tax documents which I could upload to tax prep software but things like TurboTax didn’t have an auto import. So you’d need to download them then re-upload them to the correct service. Now they do it automatically so the only thing that would match that now now is receipts for expenses/donations and what not that I need to keep track of for manual entry.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I started encrypting once I moved to having a decent number of solid state drives as the tech can theoretically leave blocks unerased once they go bad. Before that my primary risk factor was at end of life recycling which I usually did early so I wasn’t overly concerned about tax documents/passwords etc being left as I’d use dd to write over the platters prior to recycling.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

True, but why are we making food contraband in the first place? That seems incredibly unnecessary

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 4 points 11 months ago

I really miss Ubuntu from around that era, was by far the easiest thing to get up and running!

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Vista was what pushed me to Linux originally, and I still haven’t gone back!

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

I mostly understand how these fuses prevent say downgrading firmware, but could t a Chinese firm looking to clone one of these also just clone the number of blow. Fuses equally trivially if the goal is just an also working device with stock firmware?

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The security researcher, LimitedResults, coordinated disclosure with Espressif on their advisory and details of the exploit. The attack works against eFuse, a one-time programmable memory where data can be burned to the device.

By burning a payload into the device’s eFuse, no software update can ever reset the fuse and the chip must be physically replaced or the device discarded. A key risk is that the attack does not fully replace the firmware, so the device may appear to work as normal.

Why does a random esp32 chip need efuses in the first place??

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We bought ours when it first came out after several terrible windows laptops. It still runs like new and there’s hasn’t been any need to consider upgrading (m1 air in our case). The biggest complaint is once or twice a year I need a usb c to an adapter for an old device or something.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because phones are still not able to shoot as well as a professional camera, never mind the skills needed to frame or light the scene correctly.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How does it increase earning potential? Best case it would flood the market with shit and result in less income due to either dilution of spending amongst thousands of idiots using “ai” or destroy the need for a market in the first place. If everything is ai why would I pay the “artist” instead of just going to stablediffusion or something similar?

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

Many states have little to no rules on storage. You also don’t really need a license to buy one just to carry it concealed in public (some states don’t even require this step). Of the states that have storage laws like my own, I’m unaware of any that require you to prove safe storage though. The laws only offer a punishment after the fact when something bad happens.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is everything is a massive chain so as one goes, so goes them all so to speak. I have Kroger, Albertsons, and Walmart as my only choices for grocery store. I don’t see any chance that if Kroger does this Albertsons (assuming the proposed Kroger Albertsons merger fails) and Walmart don’t do the same.

Tl;dr it doesn’t need to benefit the customer if the customer has no real choice in where they shop

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