Someone was DMing people pictures of a woman with a typical “Hi I’m Nicole, lets chat” type of message. At first people were sharing the dm’s to laugh at the obvious scam, and it was an achievement if you a) got a message at all and b) got a new photo. However we soon realized there were many too many different similar “webcam” style pictures to be some random lady a scammer/troll pulled of facebook or something.

Supposeldy, people started digging and found a live stream, and that led to other issues with a flood of random people asking her about Lemmy (not sure if that part is true).

Anyway, we started to suspect it was some disgruntled ex or crazy viewer sending the messages who was either screenshoting a live stream or a hacked webcam.

Admins decided clear out all posts about her to stop the attention so people would leave the actual lady alone and discourge anything similar.

That was my first though too. The whole point is to stop sending them our data. But like someone else said, it doesn’t need to be real. Maybe we start reporting there’s a shit ton ram on Jupitor ripe for assimilation.

Meanwhile in windows;

“I found you some some bing searches, a sponserned appstore recommendation, 3 news-slop articles, ane the weather for Reading, Berkshire. Are you happy?”

It solves a few problems podcasters have,

1. ambiant noice; the typical “podcast/radio” microphones are designed to reject pretty much everything besides what is in front of them, and are very good at it (within limits you may not hear the hvac system but you’ll hear a door slam). The closer the microphone is the source(person), the less you have to turn up the volume. When you turn up a microphone’s volume, it’s going to turn up the volume of everything the microphone has captured; background noise, traffic, electrical interfernace, etc. The less you have turn up all the extra crap, the better the sound will be.

2. multiple people in close promiximity. People sound different, one person might be soft spoken and the other might be loud. In order to hear the quiet person you need to crank their microphone up. If the two people shared a microphone, you’d have to find a balance between loud enough and too loud; ultimately that would lead to a viewer constantly having to adjust their volume depending on who’s speaking or paying an editor to do that.

3. if the microphones are farther away, the loud person’s voice will get picked up by other people’s mic and will cause strange sounding effects from that person getting picked up by multiple microphones.

4. consider the primary purpose of a podcast; people talking for a long period of time. Sound quality has to take priority. A news interview gets away with reduced sound quality because it’s for a short period of time, often less than a minute. But if they had us listening to that bad audio for an hour, most people would tune out.

5. a lot of the problems I mentioned above could be fixed, or at least mitigated, with some audio editing before the episode is published. However, that doesn’t help a live podcast. It also takes a long time, a 1 hour podcast with bad audio could take a day to go through it all; you have to reduce the background noice, balance everyone’s audio, figure out how to make the softspoken person sound good without altering voice too while removing the background noise that’s sometimes just as loud as them. It’s even harder if eveyone is using 1 shared microphone, you end having to make edits everytime the speaker changes or accepting an infeiror product to save time. It’s a hell of alot easier(and cheaper) to just get sound quality right from the start. With that, you might only have spend a little time to make some minor adjustments.

Was it archived by flashpoint? I know their focus was games, but they did have some videos too.

If it makes you feel better, they were off my list a long time before the ceo crap.

It was the fact they make you pay to use a 3rd party calandar app. Even microslop allows that. (At the time, I didn’t see email service was locked down too. I hadn’t gotten that far lol.)

The ceo just made sure I never consider buying their service.

noai.duckduckgo.com

Lol great buisness plan, force schools to find alternatives and act suprised when students continue to use those alternatives into their adult life.

Don’t forget to have a speaker playing a loud constant noise that can be heard across the neighbor hood.

Well there were conversations that AI should be public… Publicly bailed out by taxpayers with a negative return on investment.

Speculation to your question, for monitoring and control.

For monitoring, log temperatures and send error message if it gets too high. Data could be used if any legal question come up about food spoilage.

For control, I’m guessing there’s times you want to shut it off or enable/disable defrost. Easier to do that at a computer than have controls that are either a pain inthe ass to get to, or too easy for some moron to mess with.

That being said, it should be on a local network and have no access to the internet. However a chain store would probably want the data sent to HQ, so the computer would need to be on the network.

Enough of the clickbait titles please. We’re here to escape the mainstream bullshit. If an article is intresting enough, at least come with up a short synopsis so we know what the topic is. “I got Targeted - frankwiles.com (software dev almost gets phished by fake project offer)”

That being said, thank you for sharing it. This is an intresting read, the lengths hackers/scammers go to trick people. It wasn’t some “hollywood” crack the code bullshit, they came up with a plossible story and tried to get the guy to run malicious code. It reinforceses that the user is the weakest link, no matter how smart or careful we are. Security isn’t just about preventing yourself from getting hacked, minmizing damage and having a recovery options for when you fuckup is important too.