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orchestrating the change as Pride month celebrations take place

Social influencers: how to get maximum attention on your posts.

But that's not how you run a country.

And let's not forget: it's Mango Mussolini and the grey eminences behind him who put all these idiots in power.

Is the implosion of the USA already happening, or will it go out with a bang?

People living in and looking at the USA: Archive Everything

There will be a lot of work to restore normalcy.

The full report

These are all important points and it sounds like a summary of everything that is wrong in IT wonderland.

I guess the report goes into more detail, I guess they needed some nice headline to wrap it in, but - I wonder where they draw the line between "Big" and "Little" tech or why it's supposed to be a big gotcha that not only the biggest corporations employ outright evil tactics, exploit workers globally.

Just Another Brick in the Wall

the vast scale of the data imo makes most of it worthless outside of demographics ad targeting

Not when each point is matched to a unique machine (i.e. user) ID. It's not anonymous, it's "anonymized" which is just snake oil (replace your actual name with a unique ID).

Also, I find ad targeting bad enough all by itself.

I still call it stalking.

A simple whois (querying a public database) points to Prague (CZ) - and reveals the name & address of one person. Of course that most likely isn't his personal address, the guy could still live in the USA. And his last name indeed does not sound very czech, could be Russian, but I cannot be sure. Somebody in the fediverse claimed that he's a Russian asset but I haven't seen anything that would support that claim, apart from the obvious.

whois

• archive.is: Denis Petrov, Prague
• archive.today: tucows.com and lots of REDACTED
• archive.md: almost no info at all
• archive.ph: This TLD has no whois server

Is This Anal?

LiMux

Things a password cracker does before brute force guessing:

1. Dictionary attacks
2. Leaked passwords
3. Password guessing attacks
4. ...

I can't help but feel that even bad news like this just pushes the AI hype.

No, it isn't "intelligent" and won't be fo centuries to come. It's just a mirror of the internet, so course it sometimes comes up with insane bullshit. Garbage in, garbage out.

It all reminds me of the "virtual reality" hype of the '90s, which really just meant "faster graphics cards".

You wish. If that were the case they'd choose a better clone. No, Trump looking shitty and being incoherent is the best proof against any such ideas. But I'm sure nature will take care of it rather sooner than later.

They both do, but the photo chosen for Trump is really something.

I'm not savvy enough, but to me this looks like it could've been taken with a dedicated digital camera with a proper lens. OTOH esp. iPhones are pretty good at processing photos and making generally good decisions for you. Anyhow, not AI.

I saw that pic yesterday and my first thought was "that's an amazing picture. The photographer had a good eye and probably also some good luck."

Trust the online world to translate this to "only AI can be this good".

From the article:

The survey of 1,200 registered voters by Demand Progress, a progressive advocacy organization, was designed to supply some hard data for the debate.

• It defined the abundance argument by starting off with this sentence: "The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
• The populist argument was described as "The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."

A review of the book Abundance quotes:

the United States can still blaze the path to progress, but only if progressives get out of the habit of putting obstacles in their own way. “If liberals do not want Americans to turn to the false promise of strongmen,” the authors write, “they need to offer the fruits of effective government.”

(...)

Klein and Thompson rightly argue that conservative politicians aren’t the only ones who have hobbled the government’s essential role in a dynamic and innovative society. In recent decades, Democrats across the country exchanged novelty for NIMBYISM.....

Yeah I've read enough. Fuck the NYT for adding "rightly" in there.

For anybody who still needs it spelled out:

• "Populism" is meant literally here - for the 99%, against the 1%
• "Abundance" is techbro speak for even fewer regulations and even more corporate power

Not a coder but I grasped enough.

Lastly, I'd like to know where the AI got the idea from. Sounds like pizza glue.

Your new example is confusing. With or without the date?

In any case, what would be the point? "I can remember the first 4 letters of the password but not the last 20"?

This person needs to understand that they cannot outsmart a machine, at least not in this. FWIW I've been using keepassxc for I don't even remember how many years and never had a problem with it. It has the option to additionally encrypt the database with a file, so if someone steals the database and even manages to guess the password (the only one that I haven't written down anywhere) they still don't have access.

The examples above have 24 characters.
They report entropy between 119 and 120.
Completely random examples, A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and only the exclamation mark added, are above 120 across the board, up to 155.
If I add all other character blocks except extended ASCII, entropy goes up to roughly 135-155.
If I add in extended ASCII it ranges from 180 to 255, but this can cause trouble on some setups.

Personally I'd never consider such a short password for an online account.