well, the degree of that is also up to other people and how much effort they want to go through

In the end, your mental and physical health should always come before the job. Money isn’t that nice if you are stressed wreck. You should still look for other work just so you at least have some options if it ever gets too awful dealing with all the bullshit your current work forces on you. It’s probably not going to get much better and any solution regarding disabling/mitigating the current surveillance is likely temporary at best.

Just try to do it in such way your current employer doesn’t know about it, just in case they get uppity about it. So use only devices managed by yourself for it and dont talk about it with others working for same employer.

Its understandable though. Even though its also understandable the company would want to know where the trucks are, its also telling the drivers that they dont really trust them to do their job without surveillance. It should be enough that the freight gets delivered within agreed time and not too much fuel is used up in the process.

Personally i would compare the gps to office having sensors that record constantly which room you are occupying. With the ai its like having a camera constantly monitor exactly what are you doing at every given moment. And if you do anything company doesn’t like you will be punished. Not only is it insulting, its exhausting having to ceaselessly consider is everything you are doing acceptable to whatever sensible or insensible rules the corporate executives have decided.

People who want to be truckers most likely are kind of people who like working by themselves and not having to answer for every single thing they do at every moment and now even that is being taken away from them.

There must still be some way to defend oneself against oppressive authorities in such way it doesn’t cause problems to yourself. Though on second thought it might not be good idea to post detailed ideas on public spaces where those hypothetical authorities can also read them. Its like we are living in beginning of boring cyberpunk dystopia.

What if we “comply” and give them their damn records if they come demanding them.

Gigabytes of data that is just red herrings and stuff that doesn’t lead anywhere but still has to be checked. And in formatted in such way it has to be done manually and can’t be automated without even bigger effort and cost. If you give it to ai it will just start spouting nonesense or preferrably accusing obviously wrong people. It is likely not possible to make something like that, but it would be great if it was.

adventure time

I have been using tab session manager addon for this.

Here are some reasons:

• exclusivity deals, forcing them to drop from steam even after they first announced release on there. They also target crowdfunded games like phoenixpoint.

• The launcher is spyware

https://www.resetera.com/threads/developing-epic-games-launcher-appears-to-collect-your-steam-friends-play-history-up2-valve-responds-see-threadmarks.105385/

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/epic-launcher-and-privacy/123592

• and epic is owned by tencent 40%

• They not really trying to improve their launcher but instead focus on hurting steam and by extension the users.

Its like some shady guy trying to lure kids to a van by offering free candy.

The launcher is security risk for your system https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckepic/comments/1hm9mh9/epic_games_launcher_had_a_serious_security_flaw/

Even if they have fixed that specific issue, why would you believe they have fixed anything else?

Epic Games Launcher Incorrect Default Permissions Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVSS SCORE

7.8

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Epic Games Launcher. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the product installer. The product applies incorrect default permissions to a sensitive folder. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of SYSTEM.

DISCLOSURE TIMELINE

2024-07-16 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2024-12-04 - Coordinated public release of advisory
2024-12-06 - Advisory Updated

That timeline is disgusting

So in essence, its not bad because it trys to compete with steam. Its bad because they really dont try to compete and just do anti-user things. And people dont care because “yay free games I’m never going to look at again”.

If you want to see what actual competition looks like at the moment, take a look at GOG.

maybe they just wanted to take their free shot. Its not like there are any real consequences for corporations nowdays

they say unauthorised because they got caught

there is really grim intent going on with targetting ads like this for kids

If i do crime and get caught or admit it, I still have to face the law about it. Does bungie?

those dollars were not adobe’s to lose but users’ to save

i have been waiting for long time for them to add enough content to be worth buying. If they are going this route, i guess i’ll forget about getting the damn game entirely

kuluttaa nuo myös aika paljon sähköä. vettäkin kuluu jäähdytykseen, mutta en tiedä sitten mihin se vesi noissa “kuluu” kun eihän se mihinkään katoa.

https://fedi-search.com/

it wont insult you for not knowing everything, wont direct you to some other similar problem that doesnt help with your current problem, it basically doesnt ever get mad if you dont tell it to. It would be very nice if it didnt have equally bad flaws on other things.

no no, i mean people should actually start utilizing this bullshit. Anyone can start a company and with some technical knowhow you can add somekind of ai crap to it. companies dont have to make profit or anything useful so there is no pressure to do anything with it.

But if it comes to copyright law not applying to ai companies, why should some rich assholes be only ones exploiting that? It might lead to some additional legal bullshit that excludes this hypotetical kind of ai company, but that would also highlight better that the law benefits only the rich.

I have also started metaldetecting hobby. I also got the discovery 3300 since it seemed decent and cheap enough. But it seems its originally intended for american coins, which I dont think there are that many in finland. I know it still doesn’t prevent it from detecting stuff, but it makes it kind of hard to determine what it found before digging it up. It also seems some small gold trinkets could show up as iron or something. So is it even worthwhile using the discrimination mode that lets you ignore metal types, if gold can still showup as iron?

Could it be useful to write the readings down for each thing, so they could be maybe crossreferenced or are the readings it gives too chaotic for that? At least it seemed to give higher numbers if it detected something during sweeping movement and give much lower one when detecting the thing while still. So do you know if it’s precise enough that writing down those numbers could be useful later?

addition: i went to find stuff again today, and at least it seems to label pulltabs and metal bottlecaps somewhat decently. Setting the discrimination to high, up to copper, seems to give confusing results. I found some old twisted metal and some rusted metal clamps that are now more like metal x, but the detector seemed to initially say that there could be something non iron there. Didnt say that after i took out the scrap. Is there some trick or way to know when it detects something worthwhile since rusted metal seems to give all kinds of results. I wish i had something actually valuable so i could at least test how the detector reacts to it.

What does the number even mean? Amount of electromagneric radiation reflected from the object? Also, is that number compatible or convertible to use with other detectors?

Also, how does the ground balance dial work? Everything i found out about it is, that its supposed to have somekind of automatic mode when at lowest position and that is about it. The automatic mode doesnt seem to even help, so i just randomly adjust it until the pinpoint mode stops screaming constantly when trying to pinpoint something. At sand & clay or some ground under the sand area it seemed to work best at about middle or slightly left from the middle.

addition: tried messing with the ground balance dial once more while looking for stuff. The ground type was small leaf forest next to river, with a lot of forestground at the top level and i think the dirt type was one with some clay in it. I still dont understand the dial, i tried leaving it on auto-mode, but that didnt seem to work well so i put it to max which still didnt seem to work well. at the end i left it at middle, like with sand/dirt area. (i adjust it only if i need to use pinpointer, i can’t tell if it affects the regular function) I also walked through some grassy area where there are sometimes big concerts. The detector seemed to beep constantly there and with pretty high numbers. The depth was deep enough that i would have needed likely to dig somewhat deep or big hole, so i didnt feel like digging there. Not sure if it actually even detected anything or just gave false-positives. When i tried to locate the things better it didnt find them again like it does when there is something actually there. Or maybe there are big rusty pipes or cables going under there, who knows.

I mostly can’t even tell how deep something is, since guidebook doesnt describe the depth meter at all. I dont even know what units it uses. Likely not meters or centimeters, but then again it could be inches, feet, yards or whatever. It seems that if something is 15-25 cm deep it gives about 2-6, i think.

i’m kind of grateful for starfield actually. Feels like I can see bethesda as it actually is, even though it was obvious even before. Its so easy to just not care about anything they do. They can release next elderscrolls all they want, its all dead to me. Even if they manage to make it decent i still dont want to even look at it. Its going to cost 80€ or something like that most likely, so that is so much money saved for something more worthwhile too.