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I've actually personally witnessed a scam like this 4-5 years ago, minus the ai, with an individual pretending to be someone's grandson. Their basic ruse was that they'd been on vacation in Mexico and had gotten arrested because some friends they were riding with had marijuana and needed bail money wired. Call quality was bad, but understandable. Call came in to the business line of a u-store storage locker company. I played along, which I found quite amusing in retrospect.

@randahl This guy was instrumental in getting the British government onboard with the Zionist movement.

"...it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."

A hundred years on and that whole preserving the rights of non-Jews thing isn't going so well and it started with him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

@arstechnica I recall earlier in the pandemic there was a man who had gotten vaccinated a ton, for fraud purposes. He'd get people legitimate proof of vaccination cards by filling out the forms using their names and actually getting vaccinated.

@foone @jwz @cstross Please tell me you are at least opting for LS-240.

@arstechnica This is "You can't fix that bug, we're using it to spy on people" thing, isn't it?

@foone Any idea where the temperature sensor is on the board? Does your board have an actively cooled chipset? I have an X570 and it runs hot enough to require active cooling via a small fan.

@arstechnica And you better believe that the spammers are training up Captcha defeat AI's on data sets in order to enable automatic fake-person account creation at scale.

These are fairly simple data sets to train on and and they don't even have to be right anywhere like 100%, just often enough to create enough account in little enough time as to be exploitable.

@foone Like the gaming world doesn't have enough problems with preservation of art already.

@foone Or the per install fees which seem insane for a number of reasons, not least of which is that most developers get $ for a title once, but people can download and install over and over for years.

@foone Are the revised terms any less regressive in trying to milk strapped Indie developers?

@mntmn All joking aside, I really should see about getting a new cable modem. Current one is only Docsis 3.0 I think and we get like 30-35 mbit down speeds. That used to be a lot. These days, it is trying to suck through a thin straw.

@mntmn I'm envious. You must be on ISDN.

@mntmn I'm downloading a 48.12 GB game patch and it is going to take another like 6 hours and I'm just hoping the patcher doesn't get interupted midway through.

This feels strangely familiar to the experience of downloading shareware games over x-modem from BBSes in the 90's.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

@mntmn This is really cool. 16 GB is so much more viable for a wide range of uses.

@mntmn Amazingly how craptacular games can still end up being when they have as narrow hardware target like a PS5.

@mntmn What, you can't run Starfield via some sort of emulation layer on a Reform yet? :)

@mntmn If you are looking for an alternative, I've only had one crash to desktop running Starfield on my PC. Amazingly smooth experience.

@arstechnica Some countries built systems to detect new variants and track their spread while they were still at comparatively low levels of concentration. Denmark at one point was sequencing almost half their hospitalized cases.

We dismantled those system and are largely flying blind and unable to react in an ongoing pandemic where the pathogen is clearly learning new tricks due to (among other things), public health's utter failure to limit rates of infection.

@arstechnica It isn't just parts consolidation and organic looking external appearances, either. One of the big benefits of additive manufacturing versus subtractive machining is that the parts can be hollow and internally latticed for strength.