• SwizzleStick@lemmy.zip
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    27 days ago

    I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)

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      The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can’t even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.

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        I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software

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        Years ago, I’d laugh at this.

        Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.

        On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.

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    Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?

    Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.

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      It’s weird that people used to be concerened with covering their laptop camera, but people don’t care about their phone camera.

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            You can’t guess correctly someone’s shoe size and leg length using an accelerometer. There are factors that drastically change the results.

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              Enough data over time I bet you could. Get a couple drop recordings, arm swing, common heights of beds/desks/chairs, you could find it.

              Would it be automated or easy? Hell no. But you can do it. We’ve discovered more with less

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                Everyone’s bodies are all different in unique ways. Also some might have a limp, or crutches, prosthetics, different size feet, wider feet, extremely small feet(while being tall). There would never be enough data. Unless you were there in person measuring.

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                  Well, you have angle of tge thigh and speed and time between strides, giving us stride length assuming their phone is in their pocket, which would be easy to tell. Then you have foot on floor over time and speed, which would give you appoximate shoe length depending on their foot fall. But you could guess that based on axis bounce/force. You could probably guess their weight and gender too.

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              Samsung health can track some crazy metrics from just the Galaxy watch. I wouldn’t be surprised what else they can accurately estimate. Pic of the data from a recent run.

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    Fortunately, browsers have safeguards against this sort of thing (activating the camera without user interaction)

    …right?

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      Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.

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      In my experience people click accept without reading or thinking, and usually remember this setting which they may have already done previously.

      In any case all my cameras have physical blockers

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    It’s a fucking joke and so many of you are being smug with “not me!”

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    My camera has a cover 😂😂😂 I hope you like your screens pitch black because it’s the only thing you will see

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    Does the person on the other end get a notification or do they just remain oblivious to their boss spying on them?

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      No usually you do not get an immediate notification, but you can indeed see it by constantly checking you small camera window in the corner of the meeting. But you have to stay focused.

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    Is this legit? Brave’s AI summary claims that Teams indeed gives this option to the host. However, it points to a Teams documentation page that does not mention such feature.

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        Holy shit.

        He’s at -22 right now, and you at +41.

        He obviously isn’t trusting the AI, he’s asking here to verify it since he couldn’t find any first-hand information to contradict it.

        Lemmy is already getting to be more fucking toxic than reddit. JFC.

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          Lemmy is better than Reddit in every way. This means the platform itself is better, but it also uplifts all users. This leads to better posts, better comments and better voting behavior. It also enhances the innate abilities of Lemmy users to be toxic as hell.

          So what I’m trying to say is suck it bitch.

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            lol. Yup. We aren’t the cream of the crop here like some egos would have themselves believe.

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          Counter point: Lemmy has always been more toxic.

          I’ve never seen a group (as a whole) that’s less capable of accepting that there are things they don’t know, or other viewpoints.

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          Arguably people don’t like the USE of AI regardless of whether the user thinks it’s trustworthy.

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            Yeah, it’s a scary word.

            I get the hate for it, especially around resource use, and it’s overuse everywhere. But it’s still the early days and it’s certainly going to evolve. I imagine if people were as environmentally conscious in the 60s, they’d be up in arms about rooms full of hot glowing tubes doing arithmetic. Eventually, though, they got to be far less resource intensive.

            Also the AI response is default behavior in Brave search…and many other searches. For me, Brave has probably been the best of the bunch, but that’s not exactly a high bar.

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              It’s also the pure insistent annoyance of a tool being inserted into everything we use in daily life which spits misinformation, plagerizes real human work, and is being pushed by big tech to such a degree for no apparent reason. Furthermore it’s intent, from tech’s point of view, is to cut labor, which it doesn’t do. What it does is allow for layoffs of well paid labor and rehire at a lower pay as AI jockeys who just clean up the mess after it.

              The hate is grounded on a lot of factors which the “worst it will ever be” argument completely misses the point on.

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        I don’t blindly trust AI responses. However, that was way too concerning not to ask about it, considering that I work from home and that we use Teams.

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            Have you done a brave search recently? It automatically tries to answer.

            It’s actually been surprisingly good for me. Better than Google, at least. But it’s not a choice on his part, it’s default behavior.

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      Beyond the other answers stating that this isn’t real:

      Teams doesn’t do one off charges for functionality like this. All functionality is managed by licensing, managed through your workplace’s Azure tenant. Don’t have the license, don’t have the feature. Need the feature? Time to work with Microsoft billing to get you a new license (or additional one) and then your IT team to have the license applied to your account.

      There aren’t usually any upsells displayed to end users. In our environment we’ve only seen a rare “this functionality is not available on your license, go complain to your admin” type message, but usually it just doesn’t display unavailable options.

      On top of all that, Microsoft is dumb, but not this dumb. Last thing their team of lawyers would want is for them to be involved in some sort of “involuntary pornography” case or something.