henfredemars

@henfredemars@infosec.pub

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henfredemars,

This would be great campaign material for other parties. You see this? This is a kid who was forced to have a baby by your legislature. Vote them out!

henfredemars,

Eww…

henfredemars,

I’ve been watching educational videos about the efficiency of different turbocharger geometries. It’s a fascinating area because it depends heavily on how you define efficiency.

I drive a 12 year-old Corolla. I don’t know how to change my own spark plugs.

Floating Island Garden (lemmy.world)

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we’re experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats....

henfredemars,

The rain makes the scene particularly beautiful.

henfredemars,

My brother had some Dragon Ball Z fighting game on Wii where many bosses were beatable and then the next scene shows you getting your ass handed to you.

The game didn’t make you lose. It just kind of ignored if you won for story purposes.

henfredemars, (edited )

Drawing political districts is a task for politicians

Ah, so he is a complete moron. I suppose next he’ll say that the presidential candidates will count their own votes?

henfredemars,

Millennials attempting to kill the food industry by buying less of it. Economists baffled.

henfredemars,

I’m naïve. Where does the money go?

henfredemars,

I see. Thank you.

henfredemars,

I really loved the bikes in the Philippines. I was shocked how efficiently they could move people.

henfredemars,

Had this conversation with my wife the other day. She said she’d keep the dog. Though it would still be weird.

henfredemars,

They voted all the leadership positions for the Uvalde police back in, so voters collectively approved of their actions.

henfredemars,

My wife is next to me, holding me in her arms while she sleeps. I am excited for her to wake up naturally and then we will go get bagels from our favorite bagel place.

henfredemars,

Is that even legal? How far could this go? Could I overnight a pallet of bricks? I don’t think I need to provide a return address.

henfredemars, (edited )

If you legitimately felt threatened by that dog then you aren’t ready to be a police officer. Might I suggest a career in retail?

henfredemars,

I’m amused that it’s even called Twitter in the URL. It used to be so much better.

henfredemars,

I understand the frustration, but I can’t help but feel that their anger is misdirected. Do we really think video games are promoting violence?

[…] playing the game led the teenager to research and then later purchase the gun hours after his 18th birthday.

I’m getting a sense that there are other steps that could have been taken to prevent this tragedy aside from this video game that features guns.

henfredemars,

Accountable for what actions exactly? Depicting a photorealistic gun in a video game?

Note: not the downvote. Just want to understand.

henfredemars,

I’m not sure I understand. When was the last time a video game was used to go on a killing spree?

The same argument can be used in one context and be wrong, yet used in another context and be right.

The object in the argument matters. For example, the argument that punishment reduces undesirable behavior. This could be true in criminal justice, but it’s absolutely not true when applied to early child development. It just teaches them to be scared of you if the child isn’t old enough to understand.

There might be an association between guns and violence. Is that even true for video games?

henfredemars,

Those arguments were weak then and they are no better now after years of research trying to test whether video games cause violent behavior. I don’t think there’s a need to revisit the same argument — unless of course new information or context that changes things has been found.

henfredemars,

Allow me to introduce you to positive and negative zero courtesy of floating point arithmetic.

henfredemars,

Is this what it feels like to be having a stroke?

henfredemars,

Oddly relevant. I suspect my washer ate one of my jeans.

henfredemars,

To keep it super simple, think of a Google Play system update as halfway between an OS update and an app update. It’s a system service update if you will.

It contains more modular parts of the operating system that can be updated without specific knowledge of your exact device hardware. It’s an approach Google uses to push bug fixes and feature updates to you faster than your vendor and even if your vendor no longer supports your device.

henfredemars,

That depends on how conclusive you need your proof to be.

For example, you could run your phone software in an emulator and prove that your emulated microphone isn’t being accessed except when it should, because all attempts to access hardware are provided by your emulator. You would simply detect if this happens.

You could debug the kernel on device to detect request to access the microphone hardware and correlate this data with user activities to show that it’s quite unlikely you’re being monitored.

Perhaps you could insert physical probes into a real physical device to detect whether the application processor wakes up to service that data when you are speaking. If it doesn’t wake up, then you can reasonably argue that the data must not be getting stored or processed.

In general, irrefutable proof will be difficult to acquire. As far as we know, most phones don’t listen to the microphone and record audio while the screen is locked. They have a coprocessor that does this but it wouldn’t have the memory to record more than a second or two and is used mainly for hotword detection.

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