Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Today was the 9th launch of SpaceX Starship, and it case you're wondering, it still doesn't ****ing work. "Lost attitude control" and is burning up in the atmosphere as we speak, just like the last several.

This launch was the first time that they tried to reuse one of their boosters that had successfully landed in the past. It did not land successfully a second time.

ETA: Okay so, reading a little more:

The recycled booster wasn't intended to land back at the launch pad this time like it did the first time, it was just supposed to fall back into the ocean, albeit in a "controlled" manner. But it exploded before it got that far.

The Starship thingy itself was intended to release a few dummy Starlink-type objects it was carrying inside it once it got to a certain altitude. The previous two Starships were meant to do this too, but both of them exploded before they could even get that far. This one made it high enough for the SpaceX team to give it a shot, but as soon as they began the attempt the big door on the side of Starship broke and then Starship immediately lost all directional control, so it just tumbled back into the atmosphere. Just fail fail fail.

 

[Free]

Today was the 9th launch of SpaceX Starship, and it case you're wondering, it still doesn't ****ing work. "Lost attitude control" and is burning up in the atmosphere as we speak, just like the last several.

But they flew farther than the previous couple of launches, so WIN WIN. Let's got to Mars now!

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

But they flew farther than the previous couple of launches, so WIN WIN. Let's got to Mars now!

A few hours ago I browsed past the lead-up livestream before the launch, they had some SpaceX PR-simps talking very excitedly about the future, and I sweartogod one of them was talking about people going to Mars on Starship by next year.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yell In a War (@jelenawoehr.bsky.social)

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[Sid]

Sounds like they are far enough to present the president of your country a short trip into space. So he will become the first, the best and the hugest president in space ever.
Man, what an honor that would be. I predict ticker-tape parades in many major cities along the east and west coast to honor the hero.

 

[Free]

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers

Tracking code that Meta and Russia-based Yandex embed into millions of websites is de-anonymizing visitors by abusing legitimate Internet protocols, causing Chrome and other browsers to surreptitiously send unique identifiers to native apps installed on a device, researchers have discovered. Google says it's investigating the abuse, which allows Meta and Yandex to convert ephemeral web identifiers into persistent mobile app user identities.

App sandboxing prevents different apps running on your phone from communicating with each other or listening in on the activities of other apps. That means your Facebook app isn't supposed to have access to your browser history for instance, or be able to see what website you're looking at right now.. Websites, on the other hand, that interact with your phone are meant to interact only with a kind of web "pseudonym", an advertising ID that is supposed to not contain things like your name and other personally-identifying information. Buried deep in your phone's privacy settings is an option to reset this pseudonym to a new one whenever you want, if you can find the setting. (Google, being the advertising data company that actually owns and runs your Android phone, of course has baked-in access to all of this information no matter what. Same with Apple, if you use an iPhone.)

But Meta has found a way around this. Rather than the Facebook or Instagram apps communicating with the browser directly (since they can't), they instead listen to an obscure port on your phone. Meta's trackers - that are embedded in practically every website you visit - secretly ping this port, allowing the Facebook app to learn that you're visiting a particular website, and in this way your mobile browsing history is collected and added to your Meta profile as long as the Facebook process is running in the background. Meta also actively keeps this little system updated, changing protocols or switching which port is listened to in order to get around attempts by browser apps to prevent the leak.

Meta didn't answer emailed questions for this article, but provided the following statement: "We are in discussions with Google to address a potential miscommunication regarding the application of their policies. Upon becoming aware of the concerns, we decided to pause the feature while we work with Google to resolve the issue."


Yandex representatives didn't answer an email seeking comment.

lol, "feature".

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Hopefully the resolution will be blocking access to local ports from Javascript, or blocking listens on local ports without an explicit permission granted by the user.

 

[Noodles]

I wonder if it still follows if you are using a VPN.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Yes, because it's not actually going over the network, it's just passing info from the app (which has normal local app privs, so it can identify your phone and account) to the javascript.

 

[Isabeau]

What everyone has been wanting and asking for, well, since forever.

Samsung’s fridges now recognize family members by voice

So they can pull up your calendar, show off your photos, or activate custom display modes.

www.theverge.com

The Verge (@theverge.com)

Samsung’s fridges now recognize family members by voice https://buff.ly/WVdSYry

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[Essence Lumin]

Here is a clip from downdetector.com right now. Weird how Google Cloud, AWS and Cloudflare all have the same blip. Aren't they supposed to be separate?

 

[Free]

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[Noodles]

Oh no, not Dominos!

I am literally starving to death now.

 

[Essence Lumin]

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[Free]

It's a .com, so it checks out...

 

[Noodles]

You know, it occurs to me that you could set up a cloud service that provides cloud-based disc cache memory, IE "Downloaded RAM."

It would be painfully inefficient and slow though.

 

[Free]

You know, it occurs to me that you could set up a cloud service that provides cloud-based disc cache memory, IE "Downloaded RAM."

It would be painfully inefficient and slow though.

Just add AI to it, and no one will notice.

 

[Free]

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[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yeah I'll never get over techbros citing dystopian fiction as their inspiration. I half-think these guys are just liars who never read the books but just heard about the fictional tech in them, or read them when they were so young that they were oblivious to subtext and haven't touched them since.

The funny thing is that nobody else gets to do this, only techbros. Like try to imagine the CEO of Bayer telling an interviewer "Ah yes ever since I read Matheson's classic I Am Legend as a boy, I knew I was destined to run a pharmaceutical company."