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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bazzite Linux founder releases statement asking GPD to cease using their name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be my first thought too. Pointing to the wrong discord server (rant: Please, please, DO NOT use discord for technical support, the search is lousy, it’s impossible to track single issues, especially over multiple days, and it’s too busy to monitor regularly. Use a ticketing system, or a forum. /rant) and claiming to have sent hardware all sounds like they’ve not done adaquate due diligence and think they’re working with bazzite, but are actually talking to scammers impersonating them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is definitely a good way to go; not only does it decouple the AI generated assets from the game, but in doing so lets you get a picture of how important they are to your players. It might be that everyone grabs the DLC despite it being AI generated, or it might be that a large chunk avoid it because of that. That would be useful information for your next game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn't identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.

  Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Destroying the encryption key tends to be the only reliable way to put the data beyond use. Physical destruction techniques like the obe in the article have been tried before, and iften leave the data intact, just destroying the driver side of the chips. It's not easy to retrieve the data, but a sufficiently determined and resourced oppinent can do it.

  Obviously, there's no reason not to do both, for added certainty, but if the encryption protocols used in proper FDE are compromised, we have a lot more to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does seem like it would be simpler and more reliable to use full disk encryption to encrypt the data before it's written, and just destroy the key if you want to nuke the data.