obelisk_complex

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[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

With the number of school shootings here, I think it'd only take weeks.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Explain just what the hell you think "on-site and by hand" means, please.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm always a little shocked when people ask me if my product is on Amazon. I never even considered it because I've known what they are for so long; it's been a bit of a wakeup call that most people still have no idea how fucking awful Amazon is. It sucks struggling with market visibility, selling just from my own website, but it beats the hell out of being bullied like this until I'm big enough to have my product stolen and copied by Amazon Basics.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I said

For most of my lifetime, date breaches had to be carried out on-site and by hand.

Explain how that means only "emails and USB jump drives". That might be hard, because it doesn't.

As well, you might be thinking of the Black Monday stock market crash, because I don't remember any high-profile hack to exfiltrate data from the Dow Jones. Amongst the only early remote data breaches I am aware of is the German guys who got into the DoD's network and sold the data to the KGB, in the mid-80s, because it was only the military and some universities who had the internet back then.

Remote data breaches have only really been a thing since the 2000s, because like I said, computers were less common and the internet was almost non-existent before that point. The spread of both computers and the internet made it a lot easier. If you're having trouble with the maths, that means I don't in fact have to be "well over 80 years old".

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is not intended as an excuse for corporate laziness by any means, but: For most of my lifetime, data breaches had to be carried out by on-site and by hand. The advent of computers, and then the internet, made this crap a lot easier. So, y'know, it's a pretty short timeline relative to a human lifespan to be having data breaches in the first place.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hey, we don't know that this happened in Scotland.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 133 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Aw. That's quite sweet; this sheep was at the end of its life and slowly losing what understanding it had of the world, and these two innocent children kept it company and gave it unconditional love the whole time.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 14 points 4 days ago

So elegant! This is too valuable for GitHub, sell this directly to the Saudi government.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Here ya go: https://www.jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617/

Edit: Ah, sold privately, as in directly between individuals? I'm not sure about that, but they totally could. They can track the location of the car; if it starts getting parked at a different house regularly, for example, it'd be easy to tell it'd been sold.

[–] obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 56 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I wanted a Tesla, until about seven or eight years ago when they switched off features after some dude bought his Tesla used, because only the original owner had paid for the features.

I knew this is what it would turn into. Fuck Tesla, and fuck Musk.