I got a new car recently and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that onstar would still call the emergency services in a crash even if I didn't pay for it. I asked for clarification and the salesperson was like, "No, that would be ridiculous. Monstrous even. We'll give you the freebie if the crash detectors go off. You can also press the SOS button for free. You don't have to pay for that."

this was fun, I worked my way through most of it today, apart from the stuff I couldn't understand cause it was too academic codey :D

It was that and a guy I follow on youtube did a post-lastpass rundown describing it and I was like rad! I was under the impression that it was some complex thing you had to host yourself, and not just like, 1password with some frills sanded off

yay im glad i helped (i assume)

ya i ended up going with bitwardens free option and i'm quite pleased with it so far :> also it picks up passwords for android apps as well as webpages which is nice!

I've used 1password for over a decade and it has never let me down. Worth it even if it's a bit pricey

I have this exact setup (with KeePassXC) and I have no complaints.

i swapped from lastpass to bitwarden a while ago

I use KeePassDX on my phone with the database synced using Syncthing to my laptop where I use kpcli. Though, unless you also prefer to live inside a terminal, you're probably better off with KeePassXC for more features and support for newer database format/algorithms.

it's definitely more work but i've gone all open source on my password management and use a keepass database i share between computers using syncthing. keepass also has a mobile app that i believe lets you sync the database from a pc but i haven't tried that out yet

anyway if you don't mind some extra effort and feel technically savvy enough i thought i'd just throw it out there as an option

1password!

https://1password.com/sign-up/

it's $3/mo or $5/mo when billing is shared with up to 5 people. (BTW, none of the 5 people can see one anothers passwords unless they explicitly choose to share.)

Can't go wrong with 1password tbh

i just use the one built-in to firefox. i'm fairly confident mozilla is far away from doing something shitty with peoples' passwords.

the screen resolution was also that of the first gen ipad. they've since renamed the project to PixelSense, presumably because you can sense each pixel

this video was put on youtube one month before the iphone came out

yes actually, i made a version of it my final year in college using infrared laser pointers and a webcam for a tech expo the department i had a job at was holding

i had the impression this was going to be a consumer public thing. ultimately all the problems they show in the video were solved by just making better phones, so this didn't have a leg to stand on.

clarification: i meant it would be purchased by businesses and used largely by members of the public, not actually purchased by consumers

i've never seen this before. they boast about this sort of shit to the media as if it matters to consumers but really theyre just selling this to the us military for like 10000% markup right??

yes

I think reactionary internet culture is a symptom of a larger cultural illness and trying to point to a specific law or regulation as a fix for internet psychos is doomed to fail

Also what's to stop these companies from moving their operations to some other far right ruled nation? Moreover, who in the american government is going to be the one that tries to regulate social media? How much of the Democratic party's money comes from big tech donations?

help now i can't stop making paperclips

Ehhh, white supremacists were some of the earliest adopters of the internet. The problems with Parler, Gab, etc. aren't new. I don't think removing Section 230 will help anyone.

This person is arguing we should get rid of automated moderation is stone-cold stupid. There's more evils to be moderated than just nazis. Why should we subject humans to child pornography when we have automated tools that can identify a broad class of child pornography? And what's to stop the "good-faith human moderators" from being bad? Employing automated moderation is a necessary step of good-faith measures.

This person acknowledges that ISPs, etc. should still be seen as service providers, but the reality is that Twitter, etc. are practically utilities for common people nowadays. The common citizen doesn't have the ability to call a press conference or send mass mailings on a whim (like Trump does).

I think the root of this evil lies in the engagement and marketing algorithms that big sites use. It's like the Paperclip game about an AI that optimizes paperclip production (at the cost of everything else) https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html

I almost feel like I'm missing some big parts of the argument here

yeah definitely! I think something like that would ultimately be way too physical for me... but then teaching is honestly too physical for me because you're supposed to stand up when you're talking to the class and I can't stand up all day :/

i agree. the problem is in our current system a job like that is rough on your body and you don't get the support you need to manage the damage as you age because it's considered less skilled and well at least in the us the medical system is just fucked in general

Also most of the bedrock technology that everything is based off was developed by NASA, the US Military, CERN, universities and the Soviet Union, not free market competition.

god being a plumber or electrician sounds amazing tbh, you get to work with your hands, fixing stuff for people, and yet I could definitely turn it all off when I get home