According to the article, attackers used automated scanning software, which strongly implies they brute-forced cameras connected to the Internet with default or weak credentials. That has nothing to do with whether or not the service is based in the cloud.

This is a known problem with popular brands of security cameras sold in Vietnam, that the default configuration has an admin password of “admin” or “12345” accessible from the public Internet. They’re basically sold insecure, and rely on customers to consciously adopt a custom configuration to be secure.

Although, in order to be publicly accessible, one would imagine that they’ve had to configure their firewall to let outside signals to the devices themselves. Or maybe some kind of ddns setup.

Either way, it doesn’t have anything to do with the cloud, and the parent comment is basically right about that.

There was a very, very brief moment from about 2005 to 2011 or so where there was money to be made directly by artists on iTunes or the other music stores where the tracks were like 99 cents each.

But people stopped buying as soon as Spotify became popular, and now any artist that wants to release on Spotify without a label still doesn’t make much money.

Every security mechanism is also a potential denial of service vector.

It’s not even soldered, they’ve gone further than that. They literally print the memory and storage onto the system on a chip, as part of the fabrication process. No amount of soldering skill will be able to remove and replace that memory/storage, because it’s on the chip itself.

When I share a google doc, it’s not only over a email service of the same vendor, it’s just a link I can send anywhere.

Well you’re sending a link to a Google hosted service. The other side necessarily needs to interact with a Google service in order to make sense of that link, and, if they so choose, make edits directly in that Google service or export with Google’s export functionality. If you send that link, a Microsoft Office user won’t simply be able to open it in Microsoft Word (and even if Microsoft implements that functionality it would require Microsoft to actively maintain an API key with the Google service).

If you’re sharing a calendar entry between the current big 3 (Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar), it sends an email to the other. From the users perspective, a Google user never has to interact with Apple’s servers, or a Microsoft server (whether a local Exchange server or a cloud-based 365 one), because everything necessary comes to that users own server through a federated messaging service (email). You just send an invite to user@domain and it just works, but the protocols all simply assume that user@domain is an email address and that sending email to that address will cause the other user’s email service to process and process that calendar invite for that user.

He did sell the stock, like $23 billion worth. He entered the agreement to buy Twitter to show that he had another use for that cash, so that Tesla investors didn’t get spooked and sell off when they see the biggest shareholder selling (along with the downward price pressure that comes from selling a significant percentage of a company’s stock).

There was some speculation at the time that he entered the agreement with Twitter with no intention to close, just to cover his desire to cash out of Tesla at its high. Then the courts actually held him to that.

Yes. The iPhone to MMS connection has filesize limits that basically make sending video horribly compressed, and even still images are visibly limited in quality.

And then message reactions aren’t directly supported in MMS, so it becomes a clunky communications experience between iPhone and Android texting.

There’s also delivery confirmation, read receipts, and other indicators in an iMessage chat that aren’t supported in MMS.

The color of the bubble is a subtle UI indicator of what features are supported in the chat.

it’s using SMS so it can cost people money to send messages

This is basically the historical and cultural reason why the US uses SMS and MMS: basically every phone plan has unlimited SMS before smartphones became popular, so any smartphone OS needed to seamlessly support it for adoption. Apple successfully bridged that SMS interface into a proprietary messaging protocol and app even while maintaining backwards compatibility with SMS and MMS, but not the new standard that came out after the iPhone.

Is there a legitimate reason for it not being reverse-engineered yet?

The actual protocol isn’t a secret. It’s that the authentication of the device relies on a hardware key, and that key is fully locked down by Apple (as it also secures the user’s biometric logins, keyring, financial information in Apple Wallet, etc.).

Faking competence to raise money, though, is fraud

Do you really believe that the typical murderer serves less time than the typical securities fraudster?

Yeah but the punchline literally was aged out of existence 10 years ago, when Apple stopped charging for OS (upgrade or otherwise).

The “light truck” segment is in comparison to the big semis or tractor trailers, which are medium or heavy duty trucks, and often require a commercial driver’s license to operate.

For example, the typical school bus or fire truck is classified as a medium duty truck.

Heavy duty trucks generally include things like cement mixers or dump trucks.

that will cost billions.

Cost whom billions?

No, most computer sales are way down this year compared to last year.

IDC shows Apple’s sales are down 23% year over year this most recent quarter (Q3 2023), worse than the overall market of down 7.6%.

But in Q2 2023, the last quarter before that, Apple was the only manufacturer to show an increase, up 10.3% when the overall market was down 13.4%.

In Q1 2023, Apple’s shipments dropped 40.5%, while the market as a whole dropped 29%.

Q4 2022, Apple was down 2.1% while the industry as a whole was down 28.1%

If I were at a computer I’d be able to pull these things up more comprehensively, but you get the point. Apple is in a weird position because they released a big change right in the middle of the pandemic when demand for computers was already through the roof, but they’re still in the same basic boat as everyone else, with the booms of 2021 to 2022 giving less demand for upgrades so soon afterward.

I think by painting it as a bunch of buzzwords people were reading into the comment as either an endorsement that the items in the list were the same, which isn’t what I meant. I’m just trying to give a description of the various buzzwords I remember being thrown around by a combination of scammers, hucksters, cargo cultists simply mimicking the latest trends without understanding them, and actual legitimate business models, without actually giving my views on which ones actually delivered on the hype, which ones overpromised, or which ones totally fizzed out (or are going to).

A list of business fads in the tech world, from what I remember:

• Personal computers
• Multimedia
• Networks: Internet, E-mail, World Wide Web, all the stupid names for it like cyberspace, information superhighway.
• Web 2.0: AJAX and the long tail, user generated content, democratized information exchange and discovery without gatekeepers
• Social Media
• The Cloud
• Mobile Apps
• Blockchain, cryptocurrency, decentralized finance, smart contracts, Web 3.0, NFTs
• VR, AR, XR
• Generative AI, LLMs, GANs, Deep Learning, etc.

You have to be creeping up on 20MPH and still in a heavy forward lean for the system to hard fail like that.

Wait so this particular failure mode occurs if you’re in a forward lean when it approaches its top speed? And as soon as it isn’t able to push hard enough to offset the lean the front dips so that it catches the edge and the rider flips off of it?

If simply exceeding the top speed leads to catastrophic failure, and there’s literally no way to safely engineer in a speed limiter, that’s an inherently dangerous design.

I think the Supreme Court decided this issue in Bush v. Gore, and it’s been controversial ever since.

Of course i cant just browse porn all day, but clicking a random picture onnreddit with boobs?

We should be able to look at a little porn at work.