I don't think having credentials stored on the device is all that fatal. The device has to read them back, after all. What they did, however, is much worse: the credentials come from the MAC address. So they're…
In an ideal world they'd have people whose job it is to monitor upstream activity in the components used in the firmware and maintain this. Sounds like they did not have that.
tldr from my skim, the two worst things: * Probably vulnerable to CVEs that were patched in 2018 and 2021. * Generates API key to phone home based only on its own MAC address.
Some of what you've quoted highlights my own belief on some of this: Autism is also multiple things. That may provide some insight about how there is not a "single `autism gene'" and how they hedged a bunch of these…
I don't read comic books or graphic novels but it would not shock me if those are unusable on these little devices.
It may not just be about IP but also code quality. As an example, TFA calls the user mode portion "slop" in need of cleanup.
When I googled the dimensions of that it sounded a bit too big for a pocket.
I got an X3 a couple of weeks ago, they are dirt cheap and the form factor is amazing. It's so easy to leave it in the pocket and just pull it out when you have an idle moment somewhere out in public. I wasn't certain…
To be clear I agree that another reason is pretty likely. I'm just phrasing it neutrally since I don't know.. Above all I'm saying it's weird. I'm used to thinking of twitter and all the others in the same category as…
> “Don’t contradict sentences”. I can be damned sure it will sprinkle contradictions everywhere: > This wonderful feature does this, not that. As a human native English speaker, if you told me to "not contradict…
> signups are often still rejected with no explanation given That's pretty odd. When I google this, there are claims that this is to prevent spam accounts. Obviously, if you choose not to take them at their word, one…
It's common to use int3 for some of the scenarios mentioned in the article. (Like non-reachable code) This instruction is often used to trigger a break in the debugger.
That explains a lot. I would guess incompetence.
I notice the browser version is a little resource intensive. I use it on freebsd and I need to renice the browser to -10 for it to be somewhat stable. (This is an improvement because I remember 6 years ago it didn't…
Sounds like they know there is risk of crash and they need an offramp.
This readme, when it talks about all the different AI endpoints it can use, reminds me of something. I'm not an AI bro, but I've dabbled. It's kind of remarkable that all the different providers speak the same "openai…
> We have billions of Chinese phones and Windows laptops as proof of that Nothing wrong with either of these. Your snobbery is showing. By the way, normies have a negative impression of Microsoft, and also use their…
I think I saw elsewhere that the owner has been the same for 35 years or something like that. So there is no relevant transfer of ownership. Your opening statement here is pretty ridiculous I need to say. "Written…
It would appear to me that you may have some personal feelings here clouding your judgement.
That article is a few years old. https://yougov.com/en-gb/topics/brand/Meta-Brand
I'm not playing games. All I said to enter this thread was: > I don't think normies have a positive association with meta. And a bunch of you guys contested this obvious truth.
Here's what I found when I googled "polling on Mark Zuckerberg": > Roughly 54% to 70% of Americans express an unfavorable view of him > Zuckerberg is viewed negatively by both major parties. Democrats and Republicans…
I think you need to recalibrate in your own mind what using a product means. It doesn't mean you like it, or the company behind it.
Yes, the fact that they renamed from Facebook helps them buy some time before people figure it out. But they don't feel good about the company.
This is different from liking them.
I don't think having credentials stored on the device is all that fatal. The device has to read them back, after all. What they did, however, is much worse: the credentials come from the MAC address. So they're…
In an ideal world they'd have people whose job it is to monitor upstream activity in the components used in the firmware and maintain this. Sounds like they did not have that.
tldr from my skim, the two worst things: * Probably vulnerable to CVEs that were patched in 2018 and 2021. * Generates API key to phone home based only on its own MAC address.
Some of what you've quoted highlights my own belief on some of this: Autism is also multiple things. That may provide some insight about how there is not a "single `autism gene'" and how they hedged a bunch of these…
I don't read comic books or graphic novels but it would not shock me if those are unusable on these little devices.
It may not just be about IP but also code quality. As an example, TFA calls the user mode portion "slop" in need of cleanup.
When I googled the dimensions of that it sounded a bit too big for a pocket.
I got an X3 a couple of weeks ago, they are dirt cheap and the form factor is amazing. It's so easy to leave it in the pocket and just pull it out when you have an idle moment somewhere out in public. I wasn't certain…
To be clear I agree that another reason is pretty likely. I'm just phrasing it neutrally since I don't know.. Above all I'm saying it's weird. I'm used to thinking of twitter and all the others in the same category as…
> “Don’t contradict sentences”. I can be damned sure it will sprinkle contradictions everywhere: > This wonderful feature does this, not that. As a human native English speaker, if you told me to "not contradict…
> signups are often still rejected with no explanation given That's pretty odd. When I google this, there are claims that this is to prevent spam accounts. Obviously, if you choose not to take them at their word, one…
It's common to use int3 for some of the scenarios mentioned in the article. (Like non-reachable code) This instruction is often used to trigger a break in the debugger.
That explains a lot. I would guess incompetence.
I notice the browser version is a little resource intensive. I use it on freebsd and I need to renice the browser to -10 for it to be somewhat stable. (This is an improvement because I remember 6 years ago it didn't…
Sounds like they know there is risk of crash and they need an offramp.
This readme, when it talks about all the different AI endpoints it can use, reminds me of something. I'm not an AI bro, but I've dabbled. It's kind of remarkable that all the different providers speak the same "openai…
> We have billions of Chinese phones and Windows laptops as proof of that Nothing wrong with either of these. Your snobbery is showing. By the way, normies have a negative impression of Microsoft, and also use their…
I think I saw elsewhere that the owner has been the same for 35 years or something like that. So there is no relevant transfer of ownership. Your opening statement here is pretty ridiculous I need to say. "Written…
It would appear to me that you may have some personal feelings here clouding your judgement.
That article is a few years old. https://yougov.com/en-gb/topics/brand/Meta-Brand
I'm not playing games. All I said to enter this thread was: > I don't think normies have a positive association with meta. And a bunch of you guys contested this obvious truth.
Here's what I found when I googled "polling on Mark Zuckerberg": > Roughly 54% to 70% of Americans express an unfavorable view of him > Zuckerberg is viewed negatively by both major parties. Democrats and Republicans…
I think you need to recalibrate in your own mind what using a product means. It doesn't mean you like it, or the company behind it.
Yes, the fact that they renamed from Facebook helps them buy some time before people figure it out. But they don't feel good about the company.
This is different from liking them.