Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms.
I met with so many interesting people on chat in the early 2000s and have met with many offline as well. Multiple times I've travelled 6+ hours to participate in chat meetups with 20-50 others from the same chatroom.
Those were different times: Over 4 years, I've never received a d*ckpic or was target of stalking, harassment, abuse or scam.
People were genuinely interested in each other, chat was not about building a personal brand and anonymity didn't make commenters psychos.
I'm not sure if ignorance was bliss, or times changed so much, but as an adult, I feel online communication has became a battlefield where I need to protect my sanity every time I interact with it.
Rage bait, fake news, ads, bot farms, lies in a never ending flood.
I wouldn't let my children to even try to live the same, uncontrolled online life I had.
> Myspace and early Facebook were already a downgrade to classic chatrooms.
They were not a downgrade, they just worked the other way. With classic chatrooms (or a random vBulletin forums, if you wish) you would meet somebody online, then you would become friends over time and then you meet them in real life. I did that too.
With early Facebook, you would meet somebody at a party, have fun together, and decide to become friends on Facebook, not much different from exchanging phone numbers, but somehow better.
> With classic chatrooms (or a random vBulletin forums, if you wish) you would meet somebody online, then you would become friends over time and then you meet them in real life. I did that too.
And it was usually themed around a specific hobby or activity, which would naturally turn into offline, real-world activity. almost as if it was a conduit to connecting real people with real interests, who would seek out communities based around their interests, connect, and then eventually go and do those interests.
I was heavily into a few growing up, all of which revolved around real-world activities, which the forum members all actively participated in. One, in particular that really stuck with me for years, was tennis. The forum I was on had monthly meetups for my region (NYC metro area) and dozens of people would show up, engage, and enjoy each other's presence and participation. There was also a travel section, so if I was traveling to another country or part of the US, I'd be easily able to tap into that region's meetup and get a chance to hit some balls whenever I was on the road. Lovely.
What was nice is that genuine communities were formed, and people actually and actively policed their own communities not as a power trip (hey Spez!) but rather in earnest to ensure their communities were welcoming and that whoever was interested in that topic/activity could participate.
Man I miss the days when forums were hopping. They all really had their own "character," too, often informed by whatever interest group they were catering to.
It feels like by including everything on one site, Reddit et al just end up as a bland "soup." But they're so useful by the sheer mass of population that they end up drowning out everything else.
I think the heat dissipation relative to volume of the ISS is way lower than these satellites, yet that already needs sizable thermal radiators to cool:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/150004
GPUs are also very power hungry, I need about 2 square meter of solar panels on my room to feed a single RTX 5090 during summer. How many do you want to send up in a single satellite?
What about the data link? Real world Starlink speeds are capping around 300 Mbps. I understand that is a shared link with plenty of peers but what is a realistic bandwidth between these satellites and some fixed, earth receiving stations?
That was a Salesforce instance with largely public data, rather than something owned and operated by Google itself. It's a bit like saying you stole from me, but instead of my apartment you broke into my off-site storage with Uhaul. Technically correct, but different implications on the integrity of my apartment security.
It was a social engineering attack that leveraged the device OAuth flow, where the device gaining access to the resource server (in this case the Salesforce API) is separate from the device that grants the authorization.
The hackers called employees/contractors at Google (& lots of other large companies) with user access to the company's Salesforce instance and tricked them into authorizing API access for the hackers' machine.
It's the same as loading Apple TV on your Roku despite not having a subscription and then calling your neighbor who does have an account and tricking them into entering the 5 digit code at link.apple.com
Continuing with your analogy, they didn't break into the off-site storage unit so much as they tricked someone into giving them a key.
There's no security vulnerability in Google/Salesforce or your apartment/storage per se, but a lapse in security training for employees/contractors can be the functional equivalent to a zero-day vulnerability.
There's no vulnerability per se, but I think the Salesforce UI is pretty confusing in this case. It looks like a login page, but actually if you fill it in, you're granting an attacker access.
Disclosure: I work at Google, but don't have much knowledge about this case.
Since Monday numerous customers in Hungary are getting charged by Apple Pay without any reason. It looks that settled past trnsactions are booked again by error. Even blocking your debit card does not prevent the transactions.
More coverage in Hungarian:
https://telex.hu/techtud/2024/06/28/apple-bank-mnb-bankszove...
I always cry on the inside when I see those beautifully designed, symmetrical, detailed sets taken apart and tossed together to form the next ninja castle or whatever, but after all Lego is to be taken apart and my 6-8-9 year olds have no remorse in doing so.
I don't want to be rude, but given the average quality of material produced by big consulting companies I have encountered over my career, I'm not that surprised that GPT4 beats them.
The problem with VPNs is the exit node and not the act of using a VPN in itself. You will also be fine if you VPN to a clean IP, which is why corporate VPNs aren't generally affected. The problem is that for better or worse, public VPN exit nodes have a history of abusive activity and are blocked as a result.
Those were different times: Over 4 years, I've never received a d*ckpic or was target of stalking, harassment, abuse or scam. People were genuinely interested in each other, chat was not about building a personal brand and anonymity didn't make commenters psychos.
I'm not sure if ignorance was bliss, or times changed so much, but as an adult, I feel online communication has became a battlefield where I need to protect my sanity every time I interact with it. Rage bait, fake news, ads, bot farms, lies in a never ending flood. I wouldn't let my children to even try to live the same, uncontrolled online life I had.