Cyberspirit

Paedophiles everywhere are in shambles.

Omegle was infamously known for this:
https://jezebel.com/virginia-catfish-cop-california-teen-family-murder-1849970506
 
But on top of that, omegle was basically known for creeps sending inappropriate photos/video to minors. 
 
To say shutting it down was a good thing, is an understatement. It get's lumped in with chan sites for "do not let your curiosity lead you there."
 

If I can't grab a kid and throw it on another kid and kill them both like I can do in Baldurs Gate 3 then BG3 still remains a game of the decade for me. 

How could one not trust this wonderful man? Isn't he just bursting with confidence with his rainbow colored pony paper?

The problem is that people paid real money for these phones. Illegally imported or not, the consumer likely had no part in that and simply purchased a phone from a store/private seller. These people have no phone and are now being graciously given a 30% off coupon to buy a new one. 

I feel like a lot of this house stuff has been repeated cycles of 'We're going ALL OUT, ULTRA HIGH TECH, IT'LL BE AWESOME' and then falling back when realizing 'Fuck tech, it's failing me, we're going to something simpler and less failure prone.'  It's like a series of warnings on what not to do when trying to 'Nerd' your house.

Realistically the tech's should be signing a paper that states that they aren't allowed to access data they aren't supposed to.
 
Why flip the blame on a customer who doesn't know better or God forbid they trust the repair tech not to be nosy?

It's a bad mentality to say things are conspiracies when faced with facts you don't like. 
 
I also think it's bad to respond to said facts with whataboutism. Nobody said first party repair shops were better. Although in the case of for example Apple, the employees aren't able to look at files because they are encrypted. 
 
 
I don't see this as a smear campaign at all. Rather, it's a warning to the public that even if you hand your computer in to a big store like BestBuy or Mobile Klinik, there is a high risk that someone will look at your private files.
 
 
Edit: Just to elaborate a bit more.
The reason why I brought up Apple is because they are the manufacturer with the biggest first-party repair network. THeir devices are designed so that it technicians generally won't have access to your private information.
The devices that were used to catch the prying eyes in this video were Windows computers and Android phones, and those generally don't have a large first-party repair network. Companies like Xiaomi or Samsung generally don't have dedicated stores where you can hand in your phone for repair, and Lenovo and HP don't either for their computers. So this investigation looked at what's relevant for the average consumer using the tools they had available, and that happened to be third-party repair shops (be it large chain ones or small local ones) for Android phones and Windows PCs.
Perfectly rational and logical if you ask me. No need to suspect conspiracy against third-party repair shops. 

Depending on the reason you're sending it for repair, some/all of those things may be impossible. 
It's easy to blame people for not taking enough precautions against bad actors, but ultimately the main culprit is always the bad actor himself. 

While I don't know what country your companies operate in, you cannot legally have a customer sign away their rights if they're protected by Federal, Provincial/State, or Municipal law. Just because someone signs away their rights to live when purchasing an Alpine Ski/Snowboard lift ticket doesn't automagically absolve the Alpine Mountain owners of implementing bare minimum safety standards. Just because I sign a piece of paper saying you can shoot me does not absolve you of murder. Same goes for protecting Personally Identifiable Information in jurisdictions where Privacy Laws exist.

I used to work in this field for FutureShop 13+ years ago. I can confirm 100% of the time, techs would look through photos and videos under the pretense of "needing to backup the data" before initiating a PC repair if the customer left their PC and left for the day. So many sex tapes and nudes were illegally saved by those guys... Seriously, keep that stuff on a separate external drive/NAS if you're into taking them, never leave them on a device that you might bring in for repair.

they only do it 50% of the time.... everytime...

Oh the memories 🏴‍☠️
 

 
 

very nice, very slim, unfortunately completely botched by going with nVidia instead of AMD, and a 3050 Ti at that... why?
 
 
No problemo! Enjoy~
 

 
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My dyslexia made me read that as "slime book" I think I'll buy one just for that haha.

You have very demanding needs. In your case you'll need to spend at least $6 on a pen.

Old pencil still has pressure sensitivity...

Sure, that's kind of valve's problem though. If this is only happening wit VAC then I would assume other anti-cheat methods are not detecting a false positive here... not to mention AMD's tool is (as far as I know) game agnostic and not necessarily tied to online games, meaning you could just turn it off for games where it triggers the anti-cheat. This is really only an issue because Valve autobans you if it so much as suspects you're doing something fishy, which is the wrong approach imo. They should just lock you out of online play until the "issue" is resolved. DLLs could get corrupted and fail the VAC test without you doing anything at all and it seems unfair to just ban people immediately if that happens.

Any tamper with game's DLL's is a big "no no" for anticheats for well over a decade - that's how.
 
Well, "not working" with "such small" company as Valve led them to pulling back driver and another set of "AMD drivers bad" headlines.
In other words - I would bloody well expect them to get their sh*t together because nVidia's Reflex works as intended.
And do what in the meantime? Shutdown whole of anticheat system for days/weeks? Or maybe turn off servers?
 
 
Why is it so hard for so many people to admit that AMD is not perfect?
And I am writing this from all-AMD PC right now.
 

Just if anyone would be curious, SSD usually need 1MB of DRAM to map 1GB of NAND. 
Lots of DRAM-less SSD use HBM (NVMe 1.2 spec) to cache  FTL (map of the data), they use host system RAM memory to cache small part of the FTL, as it's still faster, than getting it from NAND. But they usually use only like 32MB of host RAM for HMB, so they can cache usually around 32GB of NAND. It's enough to fool benchmarks/test, as it speeds up writes, and reads of newly written data. The old data is still in the rest of the FTL in slow NAND memory. And remember, the controller and NAND do matter, not only if the SSD have DRAM, or not.

This will do nothing, those data brokers will just go offshore by the time this law goes into effect.

but to guarantee free travel of goods tot he same standard across europe, it is important that such laws are made on a level that guarantees the rule applies across our very open borders.
 
i could bring up a lot more, and much more impactful and complicated examples, but to steer away from politics i took a very simple to understand example that is very on-topic to a tech hobby, because most of us get our parts from online stores.
 
PS; EU isnt perfect, not by a long shot. but it's not as bad as the alternative.

I'm not good with spelling but I think they misspelled 'fired'

Please look into exactly how bad the people replacing John are:
 
Jim Whitehurst, the interim CEO, was the guy who decided it was a great idea to sell Red Hat to IBM & also the guy who oversaw the sale of Tumblr to Yahoo ... but in good news he was the guy who navigated Delta out of Bankruptcy. So while he lacks any form of experience with the video game industry, he is likely the perfect choice to guide Unity through the wonderful journey it is going to have next year.
 
Roelof Botha, the new permanent chairman of Unity's board, is the principal board member that that pushed Unity to spend $4.4 billion to buy IroinSource, the Advertisement delivery platform that was at the center of the the recent install fee blunder ... the same IronSource that has been repeatedly flagged by cybersecurity providers as malicious malware. He made his way onto Unity's board by being a senior partner at Sequoia Capital, an investment firm very well known for taking over companies that are popular with consumers, running them into the ground with drastic management changes and belligerent cash grabs, then offloading the brand name for a larger corporation to use like a sock puppet lovingly crafted from the taxidermied corpse of a beloved family pet.
 
Source: go to unity's home page, click on the "about us" link, then scroll down to the section that names all of unity's top level managers & board members ... then start plugging those names into google, it is like the VIP section of a "everything wrong with the world" convention.

That's why I'd rather recommend TechYesCity with his decent coverage of older - previous gen and second hand market offerings. 🙂 
 
Btw, there are vast differences between different SE-strata people even within one country. Hungary can be a very nice place to live. And a miserable one as well, with the socioeconomic gap getting larger and larger and substantial areas are lagging behind in development, economic output and life quality.