Posts by nagi

Cisco is a fashion retailer now, with a spring collection to prove it

Just one important info missing

Do these come with the usual (redundant ad nauseam) thinly veiled backdoor access built-in?

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

Technically...

Technically, you are unlikely to see the same face twice, but you are very likely to see similar faces only different in certain features.

Also, that's a static image. A convincingly moving one is hard to do, even without an AI-actor. See the wonky physics in a quite large number of blockbusters for reference.

Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years

Re: A good start, but ...

> * Spare parts & tools to be available at reasonable cost.

Can I add... "you can stop early IF you forfeit ALL related copyright, freely release ALL design & repair documents, and ALL used parts (besides body panels) are generic and widely available at multiple manufacturing vendors."

No custom "only for this model" batteries, screens or <insert car parts>.

Most Londoners would quit before they give up working from home

Re: Never!

> Cat!!!

Yeah, the thing I miss most from my old office was the dogs. (As the resident office dog-sitter.)

The open-concept multinat offices ban pets outright because allergies, which I understand fully, but I still miss hugging-scratching them daily. (Yes, I could get one... butI don't trust myself with a cactus, much less an animal.)

Google Chrome's upcoming crackdown on ad-blockers and other extensions still really sucks, EFF laments

Re: Mozilla, so careful

It is. The only thing Mozilla as a company cares about is fat payday for the management unfortunately. The best that could happen to it is a collapse, but Google won't let that happen, even if they have to prop the corpse up.

Re: Never mind ads, Javascript is the problem

Yeah, but unfortunately advertisers started learning and there are some solutions to actually load ads as if they were local on the server.

Re: Acceptable ads?

Yes, but they also sometimes attribute those spam clicks to click fraud and ban the advertiser.

Client-side content scanning is an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Nothing shows just how prone even Apple themselves think the tech to false positives than having a non-zero amount of 'allowable' detected material before reporting.

Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse

Re: Who is daft enough...

Unfortunately, another patent Samsung helds is about creating an ad-hoc mesh network to get around that. So in the not-so-far future it's enough if your neighbour connects theirs to the internet...

Antivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started selling it

Pitch meeting

I wonder how it went... "Norton 360 doesn't seem to waste enough resources, but we have a solution for that!"

In China, the Smart TV watches you, shares IP address, Wi-Fi SSIDs, viewing habits, and more

Re: The smart TV watches you wherever you are in the world

> Best not to plug the damn thing into the Internet.

I wish it was that easy, but IIRC Samsung got a patent for building a mesh using their TVs to provide upload capabilities even if that particular TV was never plugged in the net. Yep, you pretty much need to either get a dumb TV (which is getting more and more impossible) or jailbreak it and disable most stuff on it.

Tax working from home, says Deutsche Bank, because the economy needs that lunch money you’re not spending

Re: Tax failure to consume

Tax everyone without a car

Tax everyone not having to pay rent

Tax everyone too healthy

Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams

Try Palemoon. Still has extension support, and it's not going away.