Alphane Moon @ Alphane_Moon @lemmy.ml

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Their subscription service costs $24 a month? This is madness.

I am guessing this because the processing is done in the cloud? But then why the $700 price for the "AI Pin" device; what exactly does it do justify a $700 cost if processing is done in the cloud?

I was young in the 90s/2000s and it honestly felt like computing was a new stage for human progress.

I clearly wasn't the only one. There was the "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" in 1996:

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

I think the moral of all this is that fundamentally technology doesn't matter. If you don't have the public structures to reign in the oligarchs, shills and liars, you're not going to get anywhere.

Google had a privacy chief?

What exactly was he doing? Jacking off Pichai?

I wouldn't go as far as making a big deal out of it, but it is funny.

Gemini is "AI" which is good for the share price and executive bonuses. Product development does not necessarily offer such benefits.

Not happening at least for another 2 years.

With smartphones being "good enough" (even in the mid-range), they really need AI-focused marketing to try and push upgrades. Same with PCs and laptops.

I wonder if "others" under "Linux Distributions (split)" is mostly SteamOS (arch-based)?

This is more of "straw poll" as it's limited to self-reported users of gamingonlinux.com.

Interesting that Okta seems to be involved in the alleged breaches at Snowflake as previous reported in this community.

Some more context on this: Post 1, Post 2.

Kevin Beaumont, a Mastadon cybersecurity posters, reports that a tool called rapeflake was used to harvest account credentials.

I see, yes the tab bar was missing.

I admit this is something they need to work on.

What do you mean by multi-tab browsing.

I've used Firefox on Android tablets and while it does have a "phone app" UX to it, it works fine; specifically tabbed browsing is not an issue.

Guess, I will need to stop using Chrome unless I have no other option (I mostly use Firefox, but I occasionally use Chrome).

AppleTV had a web interface? I am surprised...

I think in this case, they might actually put some effort into it.

Service revenue is major (and fast growing) revenue line for them.

I hope you're right. :)

With respect to the US regulatory/judicial actions, I find it difficult to believe that they will be sufficient to nudge the criminals towards genuine self-reflection and a desire to change their behaviour. Similarly, other criminals are likely see enforcement action as more of a "risk to be managed" as opposed to a strong incentive to re-evaluate their approach to criminal schemes.

This is of course not a US only problem, albeit there are countries were consumer rights and business criminality is less socially acceptable.

I didn't interpret their argument as stating "the agency is wrong". More like "we weren't told this was wrong, we were one of the caught ... so this claim should be dismissed."

I would even go as far as saying that this is a sign of disrespect towards judicial processes.

This is a start, but the fact that they come up with this:

Executives had urged the court to dismiss the FTC's claims against them. They argued that the FTC "singled them out 'for an ‘unprecedented sanction'" when the agency had "only recently started prosecuting companies for using 'dark patterns'" under Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) and the FTC Act. They claimed that the FTC never alerted them to any wrongdoing before filing the lawsuit, so how could they have known they were violating the law?

Suggests that they are not being serious.

And I doubt the fine will be sufficient for them to re-evaluate their attitudes. What we need is full asset seizure (every last cent, home, car, everything) and to send them to do a decade as junior support personnel at a late stage Alzheimer's care facility (my dad had Alzheimer, so I am not being callous for the sake of it).

They can also do 20 years in prison with no parole if they are too good for community service.

Until there are proper incentives for executives (e.g. full asset seizure and mandatory multi-year community service in roles such as junior janitor, junior hospice care specialist, live-in support for late stage alzheimer's patients) that require them to take ownership and responsibility for their actions (or lack of thereof), this will continue.

Just look at the 2017 Equifax breach in the US:

Wikipedia background:

An Equifax internal audit in 2015 showed that there was a large backlog of vulnerabilities to patch, that Equifax wasn't following its own timescales on patching them, that IT staff did not have a comprehensive asset inventory, that Equifax didn't consider how critical an IT asset was when prioritising patches, and that the patching process worked on an 'Honour system'. The report set out actions to improve the process, but the time of the breach, two years later, many of them had not been completed.

Equifax press release states that CIO and CSO can now enjoy retirement:

As part of the company's ongoing review of the cybersecurity incident announced September 7, 2017, Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) today made personnel changes and released additional information regarding its preliminary findings about the incident.

The company announced that the Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer are retiring.

Richard Smith, the CEO under whose watch this happened, got to retire at the ripe old age of 57 and got a nice bonus of $90 M

Richard Smith, 57, is the third Equifax executive to retire under pressure following the company's massive data breach revealed earlier this month, putting the personal information of as many as 143 million people at risk.

But the CEO is still set to collect about $72 million this year alone (including nine months' worth of his $1,450,000 salary), plus another $17.9 million over the next few years. That's when the rest of Smith's stock compensation hits a few important milestones or "vests," allowing Smith to essentially put it in his bank account. Altogether, it adds up to a total potential paycheck of more than $90.1 million, according to Fortune's calculations based on Equifax securities filings.

Yeah, I can't imagine using a smartphone without a custom launcher and file explorer.

Android OS updates have been somewhat lackluster since Android 8/9. The OS and smartphones in general are increasingly becoming mature products with little true differentiation.

They will try to leverage "AI" to accelerate upgrade cycles, but we'll see how that goes.

I think US consumers will manage. As non-American I find it strange that so few Americans seem to recognize that trade isn't going to magically make the world a peaceful united place.