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Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 14 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Increasing the weight of the car by 2x increases the road damage by 16x.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yes but you need access to the culprit's computer for the lag measurement.

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

It wasn't the lag from the employee's computer to Amazon which was being monitored.

It was the lag from the hacker to the employee. Amazon could not have monitored the hacker's computer.

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

But the infiltrator hacked the remote worker's computer.

The actual worker may have been require to use...

https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/desktop-as-a-service/

But the lag from the infiltrator to that is what was detected. There was presumably no Amazon software installed on the infiltrator's computer so how can the lag be measured?

North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago (11 children)

How did Amazon know the lag?

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location (www.tomshardware.com)
 

https://archive.is/sfYWG

If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Tax land in particular. Can't hide land easily from tax office.

The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Definitely proof reading. Especially for people who can barely write intelligibly. They can check themselves if the meaning is still correct and they will learn grammar from the process.

UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago

Looks like click-bait. It is a proposal from by one old fart in the 800 member House of Lords. Not a serious Bill.

Read this thread...

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1pnsawo/comment/nubbach/

Having said that, it is important to nip such ideas in the bud.

So 5 stars then in c/funny@sh.itjust.works
MegaThread: Australian Social Media Ban - Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

They are not banning the Fediverse because there is no central body to fine.

MegaThread: Australian Social Media Ban - Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is a game of cat and mouse which China has not solved. Look at all of these examples....

https://old.reddit.com/r/travelchina/comments/1mbck4l/what_vpn_works_well_in_china/

MegaThread: Australian Social Media Ban - Under 16 lockout/verification/ID required in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] sqgl@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If the website owners do it, then ????

I bet you most of them won't

I already know a heap of VPN servers I can't access youtube or reddit from.

IP addresses change. Your VPN server will change them (if it is any good).

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A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sqgl@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Nicholas Merrill received a hand delivered National Security Letter from the FBI in 2004, ordering him to give up data on one of his ISP customers.

Merrill opened it and read the letter while the agent waited. The first and second paragraphs told him he was hereby ordered to hand over virtually all information he possessed for one of his customers, identified by their email address, explaining that this demand was authorized by a law he’d later learn was part of the Patriot Act.

The third paragraph informed him he couldn’t tell anyone he’d even received this letter—a gag order.

He then fought a landmark, decade-plus legal battle against the FBI and the Department of Justice. As the owner of an internet service provider in the post-9/11 era, Merrill had received a secret order from the bureau to hand over data on a particular user — and he refused... and won.

After that, he spent another 15 years building and managing the Calyx Institute, a nonprofit that offers privacy tools like a snooping-resistant version of Android and a free VPN that collects no logs of its users’ activities.

Now the completely anonymous phone service. The full article is worth the read.

EDIT: Sorry I should have cross-posted. I forgot where I first saw the story: the Privacy community.

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Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f (youtu.be)
 

Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the "right to repair" law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.

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How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA (www.heise.de)
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Spanish court orders Meta to pay nearly half a billion euros in damages to media outlets (apnews.com)
 

Meta "had exercised an unfair market advantage by extracting personal data of internet users in violation of European law and using it to create more effective advertising".

That's one helluva law.

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Data stored in Canada can be subject to foreign courts, government paper warns (halifax.citynews.ca)
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Instagram and Facebook are breaking the EU’s illegal content rules (www.theverge.com)
 

facing fines of up to six percent of their annual worldwide revenue

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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory (www.bbc.co.uk)
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web (www.anildash.com)
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Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat (www.politico.eu)
 

3% may not sound much but this is on revenue, not profit.

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Chinese firm to be banned for stealing Samsung's OLED tech (www.sammobile.com)
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Identity of Australian behind 'ethical' internet horrifies customers (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by sqgl@sh.itjust.works to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Kind of funny. You've got to admire the audacity.

You have all heard of the DarkWeb. I present to you the LightWeb — not only a beacon of purity but a great investment opportunity (not).

Maybe the eSafety Commissioner should also ban people over 60 from accessing the internet.. for their own good.

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