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Comment · 4 days ago
If you had them on camera doing it and proof they did it knowingly and willingly, then you could.

Discovery forces evidence to be turned over, but only if it exists and you know about it. Does the evidence exist?

It did in Swartz’s case, unfortunately for him. We don’t excuse an individual just because it’s harder to hold a corporation accountable. States have immense power over corps old and new, btw, it’s a failure of the people to not demand that be exercised, but this whole discussion is a non sequitur already.

Comment · 4 days ago
What if they get blocked from the network and repeatedly change accounts, IPs and then MACs repeatedly to get around progressively escalating blocks from the network admins?

What if they hide a laptop in a wiring closet and then try to come back for it while covering up their face to hide from a camera inside of it?

What if they run from the police who try to stop them?

In any case, we don't have to have quibble over shades of gray, it's all in the well-documented write ups and court docs. Mens rea is easily established here.

Comment · 4 days ago
Comment · 4 days ago
Cautiously optimistic for them. Sigma faces some steep competition against Canon/Sony/Nikon but might be able to find a niche like Fuji has with price on one hand and lens+color fans on the other.

No IBIS is rough, because its definitely a useful thing - the R6 III has 8.5 stops for $2.7k, same price as the FP2 with an EVF. At $2.2k, the partial stacked sensor might reduce the jello effect, might not. It's an interesting tradeoff and it'll come down to whether the AF is good enough to make the 20 fps it shoots at usable. For example, if you shoot 30 fps but the AF doesn't work, 28/30 shots being blurry is a waste. The flagship cameras can get 60-90% keep rates if you do your part, so I'm curious what Sigma's system can pull off outside of a studio.

I think the biggest problem with a minimalist ILC is that a commodity body stops making sense bc once you throw in even a few decent lenses and the usual other spend on memory and lights, you're outside of the budget range. You don't _have_ to have Art lenses and nice gear - one of my favorite fun lenses is a $150 lensbaby experiment, but the gap between a decently rounded Canon kit and a Sigma kit closes in price and widens in capability fast once you get started, at least gear-wise.

Comment · 4 days ago
$2.2k retail and 20 fps AF could work with the right lens and light, if the AF pans out to be at least partly as good as Canon & Sony.

Sigma's entire differentiator is quality at price for clear tradeoffs, and their lenses often succeed, curious if this might. Tough market, though.

Comment · 5 days ago
Luckily absolute performance still exists, it's just that we've normalized shipping less efficient software slopped out because there'll probably be new silicon in a few years so it doesn't matter.

Commodity hardware is plenty powerful and can be taken advantage of should prices signal efficiency is important again.

Comment · 11 days ago
I think the conclusion is more like mandating home and business web access is proxied at a national level and most other protocols disallowed. Use of VPNs without a VPN tax stamp and key escrow is prima facie evidence of violation of the Counter-Terrorism and Security act. Use of non-standard protocols is assumed to be criminal intent. Check with your approved internet provider for how to access the Internet safely.
Comment · 17 days ago
Internal vs external.

The midlife crisis is probably better described as a change or unease in the self and not knowing why you get out of bed in the morning anymore and that entire adventure, whereas this anomie is the social environment you're moored to breaking down.

Comment · 17 days ago
Comment · 19 days ago
>Passkeys work and make my life better.

Not the concern, it's whether it's worth the time and energy to expand passkeys as the default and getting normies using them. Some people will always surrender and say they have nothing to hide, so be it. I'm more thinking about the practical rough edges that user bases will cut themselves on once you expand past the extremely-online.

From my experience, it's a nonstarter. The expectation that normies will understand and maintain a password manager layer to store their digital keys in and understand that concepts end such as sharing passwords or logging in on a new device without fully bootstrapping the password manager is just too far.

I think sometime after Q-Day when the dust settles and we've had to reissue all the keys today, we'll have a better answer on whether the specter of remote attestation is truly manifesting and in any event I bet there'll probably be an updated passkey concept by then.

Comment · 19 days ago
If you believe some of the emerging comments out there - try "Danfoss CVE" - you'll see that some of the suspects are 15-20 year old controllers like the Danfoss SM800 (EOS 2021) and SC355 (EOS 2016).

Why don't they just--- no margin. But there were CVEs-- no margin.

The laptop class doesn't always grok that the shift-work labor class has nothing in terms of luxuries like security reviews and gear replaced on cycles and other basics taken for granted.

But I'd setup Tailscale and-- would you, the grocery store manager running on 3% margin, really? What if you're part of a chain and it's centrally controlled elsewhere, like all the other decade-old tech you use but have to call and wait for a dispatched tech to handle?

Secure-by-default laws will eventually help, but there's always going to be groaning infrastructure particularly in commodity industries, and we still haven't onboarded most of the disaffected men to the Internet that will commit innumerable more hacks and disruptions.

Comment · 19 days ago
But you’re going to adopt a platform that meets the needs across your enterprise, so the capability is often there even if one situation may only call for monitoring.

Further, once you have hundreds or thousands of devices, “just call someone to turn it up/down/off” doesn’t scale.

Comment · 19 days ago
>Why does it require a photograph of the employee's face every 3 minutes in order to determine if they're completing their work? Why does that make any sense at all?

AI image analysis, gives managers a Statuspage-like dashboard of labor engagement. Green across the board, boss.

It seems like a faceless attempt to prune back WFH like you said. Even if it wasn't, nothing activates organizational levels of manager antibodies like open defiance by workers. She was cooked.

Comment · 19 days ago
Dropbox had basically no competition at the time as the idea of cloud files was barely in the market.

Meanwhile, home routers with meshing and security and built-in cloud management planes with easy apps are already cheap.

What would your pitch be when mom & dad would probably just stumble on Amazon Eero or Netgear Orbi? Someone already brought fire back to the home market, you can't differentiate if you're just putting up a site and a device, unless you hit some absurd low-$ cost in an already low-margin industry.

You'd be better off looking for a niche or industry where the edges are sharp, the tooling is bad or inconsistent, and there's no clear winner.

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