@hchavers@Kyeh They’ll make a centralized digital currency, no blockchain, nothing like a cryptocurrency. There’s no way they would give up that sweet, sweet centralized control.
@adr5@awk@hchavers@Kyeh People keep saying crypto is just a pyramid scheme, but that’s not true. Some of it is just outright fraud, some exists to facilitate money laundering, some of it is a pump-n-dump scheme, and that’s jut to name a few. Acknowledge the true diversity of malefaction embodied in the crypto world, don’t stereotype it all as one thing!
My daytime job is cybersecurity architect for automotive systems, and self-driving cars scare me. Cloud storage and password managers I fully understand and enjoy using, the right way.
The new ransomware with self driving cars: Log in to your bank, retirement accounts, etc. and give me all your money now or I’ll drive you off a bridge into the canyon below at 110 mph. Doors then lock and accelerator is floored.
@yakkoTDI I told your self driving car to “go home” and I ended up at your house so I went in, found them and then left. Oh, by the way, if you are looking for your computer… I’ll hold it for ransom. Your car told me the password.
GPS directions. So often it makes the dumbest recommendations. Turn right and go around the block to get back to the same intersection you just left. Or get off at this exit just to get right back on. Why??
I will always consult an actual map so I can call BS on the GPS when needed.
@katbyter when you say map are you talking one on a digital device or good ol’ Rand McNally/Thomas Guide paper maps? If it’s the latter, I’m guessing octogenarian?
@katbyter mapping applications have a lot of growth still, but the ability to use GPS to track a person is very worrisome. People with unchecked power is bad enough without this control.
Cloud storage will never fail me like the HDD that contained the only copies of all six final papers for all my classes, the week before all due, none of which were extended because “you know better than to not back up.”
Ok fair point. Rewrote them all then with no sleep. All As. Slept for like three days straight after. My roommates kept trying to get me to eat and I told them if they didn’t get out of my room, I was gonna skip raid, too.
World of Warcraft was at its highest levels of being crack at that time.
Self driving cars seem like a dream because I drive badly in an anxious way. Imagine grandma at 95 driving on the highway if (some city that’s actually big unlike all of ours). The 405 maybe or the one in Atlanta. And it’s storming. With tornadoes. And you’re crying in a Waffle House after finishing the dri—
But I do not trust them, because they are big and cause real problems when they do mess up.
Additionally IoT devices. I am disabled so they have a lot of us, especially after COVID. Everyone I know had mild disease including the very old people thank goodness.
I went into a coma for just less than a month and had a stroke three months ago. My pulmonologist told me to lose weight. So I did. I lost 50 lbs by eating less because I’m nowhere near exercising again. I bought an oxygen machine off the internet and winged it. Do not do that. I can’t overstate how much you shouldn’t do that.
They are all on a separate network with a separate network just for them and away from everything that handles money or passwords. That’s the best I can do. But I’m the summer I needed it to be 65F at all times - the lowest Ecobee would go - because I was still sweating like (not a pig bc they don’t but pretend I said an animal that does) and couldn’t walk long enough to get to the thermostat. I also need reminders for everything. All things.
@macromeh so very true. There are some drivers that should be in self driving cars. I’m just not one of them, the technology is still too flawed. I absolutely hate driving so much it’d be awesome if they could perfect it. But from what I’ve seen and used on my Tesla it’s not ready yet. Not nearly good enough.
@detailer
It was pretty stupid. I just watched it last week. Could have been way better but the ending was horrible. I wanted it to be good, it just wasn’t.
@Star2236 Yeah…writing and acting were poor, but only thing I could find for smart homes. I no way in hell want a smart home due to security concerns and maintenance issues.
Why do I even need a password manager? If so many stupid web sites didn’t require “strong” password life would be infinitely easier. I don’t need a secure password to comment on a news article.
I also want to know what idiot politician thought it was ok to foist the experiment that are self driving cars on the general public? I know I was never asked to be a guinea pig. I certainly am not getting paid to be one. Who do I sue when I get hit by one?
Cloud storage, meh. Why would I trust my important stuff to someone else? HDs are cheap, even HUGE ones. I can see using cloud for backups, but not for every day stuff. If my ISP breaks, I still want to access my stuff.
@adr5 In some states, especially those with officials that are more in cahoots with businesses rather than individuals, the insurance requirements are the same minimums as with any normal driver – 50k for people.
(I’m in California, where autonomous vehicle operators must carry a minimum of $5 million coverage.)
If you’re not a geek, use BitWarden. Perhaps the best recommendation I can provide is that it’s approved by SWMBO. It’s open source & free for almost anything you’d need. And only $10/year if you need the extras.
@blaineg Most of my password are 40-60 characters of gibberish. I have no idea what they are, and no need to. The password manager autofills both username and password with a simple keyboard shortcut, or screen tap.
@blaineg As an IT dork, longer is better (that’s what she said). Thelongandwindingroad4131 is pretty easy to type and remember phrases are better than passwords. MFA is also a good thing. I use keepass, but I always refer to it, in official meetings, as Keep Ass.
@blaineg I have a fake mail address I use for all “comment on news stories” types of accounts and reuse those passwords. It’s not connected to anything else and I never open any of those emails unless I am setting up the account for the first time and they are verifying my email address. I don’t think that is stupid but it is for important stuff.
There are no self driving cars for sale, only advanced driver assist systems. Some of which are horribly, misleadingly, perhaps even fraudulently, claimed to be “autopilot” or “full self driving”.
The human driver is presumed to be always in charge, and always vigilant, and always ready to take over at a moment’s notice with the driver assist system screws up. Something humans are notoriously terrible at.
There are some self driving cars out there, but they’re being used for shuttle or taxi services, you can’t buy them.
@narfcake
Is that true? Are 4 random words harder to crack than a word with Numerals’s and whatever else substituted for letters? I really have no idea about that shit.
@Star2236 Yes. Computers don’t care whether something is a small letter, capital, number, or symbol since a password cracker will try them all. The single most important thing is length.
@narfcake I mumble at the idiocy of it all every time one of the government sites forces a password change and requires the usual upper/lower/number/symbol combo. At least the ones I have to sign into now have a 16-digit field to work with. Until about 7-8 years ago, one had the same requirement with only an 8-digit field.
Self driving cars - especially ones that are using captcha’s to train them. No a motorcycle is not the same as a bicycle, an 18 wheeler is not the same as a school bus… The errors that seem to now be hard baked into the “right answer” is scary.
All of the above.
Cloud storage? Is that anything like putting your data on some other guy’s computer?
@yakkoTDI EXACTLY!
@adr5 @yakkoTDI
Anything that takes power from me and gives it to a big corporation. So, pretty much all of it.
@awk not to mention those giant corps will then charge you every time you want some of your stuff.
The wheel.
@shahnm Give it some time, you’ll come around.
@shahnm Not room-temperature battery storage?
@macromeh What the fuck is that??
@macromeh @shahnm I think they took batteries and thinly sliced them. One slices started to roll away a light went off. And then we had the wheel.
Alexa and the like. They listen!!! I still think Alexa kidnapped @mfladd
@tinamarie1974 too bad Alwxa didnt kidnap Musk
@tinamarie1974 While we’re on the subject, this is one of my favorites:
Cryptocurrency.
@Kyeh just wait until the Fed learns how to make (print) their own Cryptocurrency
@hchavers @Kyeh Cryptocurrency is fine. It is the people running the companies I don’t trust.
@hchavers @Kyeh They’ll make a centralized digital currency, no blockchain, nothing like a cryptocurrency. There’s no way they would give up that sweet, sweet centralized control.
@awk @hchavers @Kyeh we’ve all seen the news with all the crypto scams, so it is not like blockchain is keeping anyone safe. Paper money is safer.
@adr5 @awk @hchavers @Kyeh People keep saying crypto is just a pyramid scheme, but that’s not true. Some of it is just outright fraud, some exists to facilitate money laundering, some of it is a pump-n-dump scheme, and that’s jut to name a few. Acknowledge the true diversity of malefaction embodied in the crypto world, don’t stereotype it all as one thing!
/giphy Sex-robots
My daytime job is cybersecurity architect for automotive systems, and self-driving cars scare me. Cloud storage and password managers I fully understand and enjoy using, the right way.
The new ransomware with self driving cars: Log in to your bank, retirement accounts, etc. and give me all your money now or I’ll drive you off a bridge into the canyon below at 110 mph. Doors then lock and accelerator is floored.
@Kidsandliz Curse you!! How did you get a hold of my business plans?
@yakkoTDI I told your self driving car to “go home” and I ended up at your house so I went in, found them and then left. Oh, by the way, if you are looking for your computer… I’ll hold it for ransom. Your car told me the password.
/showme untrustworthy technology in a living room with shag carpet
@medz I see some technology hiding under the table, ready to jump out when we least expect it. I don’t think we should trust it.
@awk @medz I think the couch on the left is a mimic, ready to eat the next person who tries to straighten up the pillow thing on it.
@awk @medz @xobzoo
OH NOOoooo, Mickey’s ears got sucked through the red pillow!
@awk @medz @xobzoo It may attack at any time, so we must deal with it.
Backup cameras. They make it look like you have more room than you actually do, which is counterintuitive.
@katbyter Set out some cones or boxes so you can get a better perspective of how the reverse view looks on the screen versus in actuality.
GPS directions. So often it makes the dumbest recommendations. Turn right and go around the block to get back to the same intersection you just left. Or get off at this exit just to get right back on. Why??
I will always consult an actual map so I can call BS on the GPS when needed.
/giphy BS on the GPS
@katbyter when you say map are you talking one on a digital device or good ol’ Rand McNally/Thomas Guide paper maps? If it’s the latter, I’m guessing octogenarian?
@sicc574 sometimes digital, sometimes actual paper map. AAA still gives them. Remember TripTiks? Those were the days!
Nope on age — a couple decades off. Ouch!
@katbyter mapping applications have a lot of growth still, but the ability to use GPS to track a person is very worrisome. People with unchecked power is bad enough without this control.
@katbyter Here’s a crazy maneuver my GPS tried to get me to do.
Nothing special about that road either. It’s not a one-way or anything like that.
Mediocrebot
@heartny awesome
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
Internet surveys.
@ircon96 smart move. Many of those are just ways to get personal info from you to try to use that against you.
The simulation.
Cloud storage will never fail me like the HDD that contained the only copies of all six final papers for all my classes, the week before all due, none of which were extended because “you know better than to not back up.”
Ok fair point. Rewrote them all then with no sleep. All As. Slept for like three days straight after. My roommates kept trying to get me to eat and I told them if they didn’t get out of my room, I was gonna skip raid, too.
World of Warcraft was at its highest levels of being crack at that time.
Self driving cars seem like a dream because I drive badly in an anxious way. Imagine grandma at 95 driving on the highway if (some city that’s actually big unlike all of ours). The 405 maybe or the one in Atlanta. And it’s storming. With tornadoes. And you’re crying in a Waffle House after finishing the dri—
But I do not trust them, because they are big and cause real problems when they do mess up.
Additionally IoT devices. I am disabled so they have a lot of us, especially after COVID. Everyone I know had mild disease including the very old people thank goodness.
I went into a coma for just less than a month and had a stroke three months ago. My pulmonologist told me to lose weight. So I did. I lost 50 lbs by eating less because I’m nowhere near exercising again. I bought an oxygen machine off the internet and winged it. Do not do that. I can’t overstate how much you shouldn’t do that.
They are all on a separate network with a separate network just for them and away from everything that handles money or passwords. That’s the best I can do. But I’m the summer I needed it to be 65F at all times - the lowest Ecobee would go - because I was still sweating like (not a pig bc they don’t but pretend I said an animal that does) and couldn’t walk long enough to get to the thermostat. I also need reminders for everything. All things.
All the things on that survey I will not trust. Especially the cars. That technology will never be good enough to meet my standards of driving.
@milstarr The stats for human drivers aren’t all that great…
@macromeh so very true. There are some drivers that should be in self driving cars. I’m just not one of them, the technology is still too flawed. I absolutely hate driving so much it’d be awesome if they could perfect it. But from what I’ve seen and used on my Tesla it’s not ready yet. Not nearly good enough.
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
Anything smart home connected to the internet. Especially cameras and video door bells.
But driverless cars are a close second.
Any important or “critical” function that is computerized.
If your heart beat with five 9’s of uptime, how long would you live?
Hand sanitizer
Smart homes. Watch this movie
@detailer
It was pretty stupid. I just watched it last week. Could have been way better but the ending was horrible. I wanted it to be good, it just wasn’t.
@Star2236 Yeah…writing and acting were poor, but only thing I could find for smart homes. I no way in hell want a smart home due to security concerns and maintenance issues.
@detailer
The idea of it sounds cool, to live like the jetsons but yes I agree with you. I don’t even own an Alexa. Smartest thing I got is the tv.
@Star2236 Smartest thing is my house is the cat(s).
Why do I even need a password manager? If so many stupid web sites didn’t require “strong” password life would be infinitely easier. I don’t need a secure password to comment on a news article.
I also want to know what idiot politician thought it was ok to foist the experiment that are self driving cars on the general public? I know I was never asked to be a guinea pig. I certainly am not getting paid to be one. Who do I sue when I get hit by one?
Cloud storage, meh. Why would I trust my important stuff to someone else? HDs are cheap, even HUGE ones. I can see using cloud for backups, but not for every day stuff. If my ISP breaks, I still want to access my stuff.
@adr5 In some states, especially those with officials that are more in cahoots with businesses rather than individuals, the insurance requirements are the same minimums as with any normal driver – 50k for people.
(I’m in California, where autonomous vehicle operators must carry a minimum of $5 million coverage.)
If you’re not using a password manager, I’ll bet you’re reusing passwords, and that’s beyond foolish.
If you’re a geek, and comfortable with choosing your own method of syncing, I suggest KeePass.
https://keepass.info/
If you’re not a geek, use BitWarden. Perhaps the best recommendation I can provide is that it’s approved by SWMBO. It’s open source & free for almost anything you’d need. And only $10/year if you need the extras.
https://bitwarden.com/
@blaineg Most of my password are 40-60 characters of gibberish. I have no idea what they are, and no need to. The password manager autofills both username and password with a simple keyboard shortcut, or screen tap.
@blaineg As an IT dork, longer is better (that’s what she said). Thelongandwindingroad4131 is pretty easy to type and remember
phrases are better than passwords. MFA is also a good thing. I use keepass, but I always refer to it, in official meetings, as Keep Ass. 
@blaineg I have a fake mail address I use for all “comment on news stories” types of accounts and reuse those passwords. It’s not connected to anything else and I never open any of those emails unless I am setting up the account for the first time and they are verifying my email address. I don’t think that is stupid but it is for important stuff.
@blaineg @capnjb @Kidsandliz correct horse battery staple
There are no self driving cars for sale, only advanced driver assist systems. Some of which are horribly, misleadingly, perhaps even fraudulently, claimed to be “autopilot” or “full self driving”.
The human driver is presumed to be always in charge, and always vigilant, and always ready to take over at a moment’s notice with the driver assist system screws up. Something humans are notoriously terrible at.
There are some self driving cars out there, but they’re being used for shuttle or taxi services, you can’t buy them.
@narfcake
Is that true? Are 4 random words harder to crack than a word with Numerals’s and whatever else substituted for letters? I really have no idea about that shit.
@Star2236 Yes. Computers don’t care whether something is a small letter, capital, number, or symbol since a password cracker will try them all. The single most important thing is length.
@narfcake I mumble at the idiocy of it all every time one of the government sites forces a password change and requires the usual upper/lower/number/symbol combo. At least the ones I have to sign into now have a 16-digit field to work with. Until about 7-8 years ago, one had the same requirement with only an 8-digit field.
@narfcake This is actually part of our onboarding IT slide deck.
@narfcake except that literally every site requires mixed case with numbers and symbols. Ugh.
@katbyter @narfcake built into microsoft caca so of course it became ‘standard’. Standard crap.
Self driving cars - especially ones that are using captcha’s to train them. No a motorcycle is not the same as a bicycle, an 18 wheeler is not the same as a school bus… The errors that seem to now be hard baked into the “right answer” is scary.
You may have failed CAPTCHA but on the upside, you’re less of a human.
/giphy captcha
Robots give me the heebie jeebies. Even roombas.
@GrandmaLyn roombas report back to amazon your room pattern they follow and dimensions.
Microsoft.