In all seriousness, yes. My wife was basically forced to take the first buyout due to the commute (remember they also removed most remote work). We have been getting paid still.
That being said, I don't have much faith it'll continue as long as they promised.
In theory you can write scripts with Selenium to do anything a regular user would do. Most bots have limits but it's always possible to basically write scripts that virtually click buttons, write content, post content, etc.
Is that actually true? I'm not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.
This article is super thorough which I appreciate. I will say, though, it feels a bit biased towards two concepts:
That men are being pushed into these situations
That age verification is the only solution
I can understand that some people might be getting more extreme content in order to fulfill the dopamine hit. But most of these men went onto chatrooms and requested CP. That's a big leap to go from "18+ teen" porn on Pornhub and then hop into a chatroom on some other site to seek out underage porn. It's not like Pornhub pushed them into that chatroom or even - as far as I understand - offered a chatroom.
I also don't see how age verification will do anything to stop this. The article seemed a bit tech illiterate. The whole point of illegal forms of porn is that they're illegal. They're hosted on the darkweb or shared behind forums and chatrooms. They're not hosted (I think) on platforms like Pornhub. So how does age verification resolve this issue if the illegal websites won't comply? Not to mention, now the only legal sources of porn are behind some form of ID restriction which is going to make a lot of people who want to remain anonymous seek out alternative websites.
I don't believe Pornhub has likely been entirely innocent. Any website which allows users to upload media experiences this kind of corruption. I'm sure Google Drive has had countless zip folders of questionable material uploaded to it. As has, probably, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and - yes - Lemmy instances. What are we going to do? Require people use a driver's license for every online account so we can track who is uploading the illegal content? Who is responsible for validating IDs in that situation? Is a UK ID valid for a website hosted in the US?
As for the last section related to children seeking out content of teens their own age, I think age verification makes more sense there. But, again, it would require some massive overhaul of centralized IDs and tracking people across the web to stop it. It would effectively end the web as we know it.
It seems like - to me - the best thing we can do is educate people on why some porn is ok and why other porn is not. I think we should encourage others to report the illegal stuff when they see it. I just don't think age verification will be effective. It'll either work and make the internet inaccessible. Or it'll be easy to bypass and just make everything less usable.
TBF if you want, you can have a bastion server which is solely whitelisted by IP to stream your content from your local server. It's obviously a pivot point for hackers, but it's the level of effort that 99% of hackers would ignore unless they really wanted to target
you. And if you're that high value of a target, you probably shouldn't be opening any ports on your network, which brings us back to your original solution.
I, too, don't expose things to the public because I cannot afford the more safe/obfuscated solutions. But I do think there are reasonable measures that can be taken to expose your content to a wider audience if you wanted.
Holy shit the article is far less tame than the title. They provided several ways to run commands as root and they can be generated as an over-the-air HTTP call. As per the article, if you buy the Jooki domain, it's very likely you can control every single Jooki on the market. You can make the speaker do whatever you'd like. Pretty scary stuff. One has to wonder what nerds can do with that kind of tech: turn speakers into a low quality mic? Use them as bots for a DDoS attack? Just start blasting heavy metal music? Or just brick every device?
It's pretty wild what the devs have done here. I can excuse executing commands as root from a file on the SD card. It's not exactly safe or smart but it's also not the most dangerous thing to assume only people with access to the device would do that. Hardly a worry for most parents as long as you're not especially reckless. But to allow OTA root level commands to be run? That's a horrible design. At least setup a user that can only execute a few pre-designed scripts. Don't just give them carte blanch to run havoc on your hardware.
Just another reminder that every wifi enabled device is likely a ticking timebomb. Especially low quality devices meant for kids. Baby monitors, speakers, etc. have a history of being built cheaply and poorly. That's why I bought non-wifi baby monitors for my family.
In a world where space is usually the cheapest and most available hardware on a PC, I tend to agree. That being said, it's the kind of solution that comes from engineers who put the onus on the hardware to make up for their shitty software. Engineers like me.
In all seriousness, yes. My wife was basically forced to take the first buyout due to the commute (remember they also removed most remote work). We have been getting paid still.
That being said, I don't have much faith it'll continue as long as they promised.