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Submission + - Website Exposes Tesla Owners' Personal Data (newsweek.com)

hcs_$reboot writes: A website known as "Dogequest" has allegedly published personal details of Tesla owners across the United States, sparking concerns over privacy and security.

The site, which appears in the wake of anti-Elon Musk protests across the country, displays names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as its cursor.

The website's operators claim they will only remove Tesla owners' information if they provide proof that they have sold their vehicles.

The emergence of Dogequest coincides with a series of attacks on Tesla properties, including arson incidents at Tesla service centers and showrooms. These actions appear to be part of a broader protest movement against Musk's ties to President Donald Trump

Submission + - Tekken 8's 'Colorblind' Mode Is Causing Migraines, Vertigo, and Debate (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Modern fighting games have come quite a long way from their origins in providing accessibility options. Street Fighter 6 has audio cues that can convey distance, height, health, and other crucial data to visually impaired players. King of Fighters 15 allows for setting the contrast levels between player characters and background. Competitors like BrolyLegs and numerous hardware hackers have taken the seemingly inhospitable genre even further. Tekken 8, due later this month, seems to aim even higher, offering a number of color vision options in its settings. This includes an unofficially monikered "colorblind mode," with black-and-white and detail-diminished backgrounds and characters' flattened shapes filled in with either horizontal or vertical striped lines. But what started out as excitement in the fighting game and accessibility communities about this offering has shifted into warnings about the potential for migraines, vertigo, or even seizures.

You can see the mode in action in the Windows demo or in a YouTube video shared by Gatterall—which, of course, you should not view if you believe yourself susceptible to issues with strobing images. Gatterall's enthusiasm for Tekken 8's take on colorblind accessibility ("Literally no game has done this") drew comment from Katsuhiro Harada, head of the Tekken games for developer and publisher Bandai Namco, on X (formerly Twitter). Harada stated that he had developed and tested "an accessibility version" of Tekken 7, which was never shipped or sold. Harada states that those "studies" made it into Tekken 8.

Not everybody in game accessibility circles was excited to see the new offerings, especially when it was shared directly with them by excited followers. Morgan Baker, game-accessibility lead at Electronic Arts, asked followers to "Please stop tagging me in the Tekken 8 'colorblind' stripe filters." The scenes had "already induced an aura migraine," Baker wrote, and she could not "afford to get another one right now." Accessibility consultant Ian Hamilton reposted a number of people citing migraines, nausea, or seizure concerns while also decrying the general nature of colorblind "filters" as an engineering-based approach to a broader design challenge. He added in the thread that shipping a game that contained a potentially seizure-inducing mode could result in people inadvertently discovering their susceptibility, similar to an infamous 1997 episode of the Pokemon TV series. Baker and Hamilton also noted problems with such videos automatically playing on sites like X/Twitter.

Submission + - Does TikTok Censor Content Critical of China? CNN Investigates (cnn.com)

destinyland writes: CNN anchor Jake Tapper interviewed TikTok's head of public policy last year, asking if they censored content critical of the Chinese party. "We do not censor content on behalf of any government," the spokesperson answered.

But this week CNN reviewed data the total number of hashtags on both Instagram and on TikTok for topics that might be embarrassing to the Chinese government — and found stark differences.

— Hashtag #Uyghurs appears in 10.4X more posts on Instagram than on TikTok.
— Hashtag #Tiananmen (referencing the 1989 pro-democracy protests) is 153 more likely to appear on Instagram than on TikTok.

"So yes, the content exists on TikTok, but there's far less of it on TikTok than on other social media apps," CNN's Tapper says. "And that seems very convenient for the Chinese Communist Party."

Comment Re:Not picking sides here... (Score 1) 326

To this day Trump still has not conceded.

Biden's approval ratings among registered voters has hit a record low. According to a recent Quinnipiac poll, just 33% percent of voters said they liked the job he was doing, and 59% disapproved.

And yet we're supposed to believe Biden got 81M+ votes in the 2020 election, making him more popular than every prior US presidential candidate in history? Come on.

Comment Re:Fauci + China = Bioweapon (Score 1) 162

why didn't Trump fire Fauci

I'm pretty sure Trump was wanting to do so, as soon as his second term was secured. He was openly disagreeing with Dr. Fauci and even re-tweeting "Fire Fauci" messages.

It's a common courtesy for a standing President facing re-election to wait on potentially controversial changes until after re-election so that the voters have had a chance to decide whether or not they really agree with the ideas.

So a better question might be: if you wanted Trump to fire Fauci, why didn't you vote for Trump?

Comment Re:What is really needed (Score 3, Insightful) 73

It shows that gas prices went up steadily during the Bush years, crashed with the financial crises at the end, rose back up during the Obama years then went back down before Trump was elected, and went up and down again during the Trump years. Most of that had to do with supply and demand, not presidents.

Uhh, as you just outlined, gas prices seem to have EVERYTHING to do with presidential elections ever since Bush. Election year? gas prices down. Not an election year? gas prices up.

Trump was kind of an exception to the rule, in that gas prices didn't exactly go up a lot during his non-election years.

Comment Re:strace and debuggers (Score 2) 58

Bug reports on commercial software tend to go into a black hole and you never hear anything back from them..

Boy, ain't that the truth! I think it has to do with lawyers. In the commercial world, the company wants to avoid admitting they have a problem because they don't want people suing them for failing to deliver a perfect product. You paid good money for this product, it should be perfect, right?

In the Free/Open Source world, you likely didn't pay jack for the software to begin with and the authors disclaim all liability, so there is no reason to deny or keep secret the existence of any bugs. It just is what it is, so bring on the bug reports!

Comment Re:Did they really? (Score 2) 90

Just went over the report https://www.azsenaterepublican... and you're full of it. The report points to areas of concern but does absolutely not provide any evidence of fraud.

BS. Did you make it down to Volume 3, starting on page 5, where they start breaking down thousands and thousands of questionable ballots?

By the official certified 2020 election results, Biden only won Arizona by 10,457 votes. There are WELL over that many votes that were found to be potentially fraudulent in Cyber Ninja's report.

23,344 mail in ballots came from people that had moved and no one with the same last name remained at the address. If Maricopa County's election had been run properly, those people who moved would have been removed from the mail-in ballot list and these ballots would not have been sent out, only to be voted by who knows who.

That issue alone would be sufficient to throw the AZ election. But there were MANY more problems highlighted in Cyber Ninja's report, and still a few more in EchoMail's and CyFIR's reports.

If they got the votes for the audit they should be able to get far more votes if they actually had proper proof. Of course as I already went over they don't which is exactly why you're seeing inaction.

One of the big problems that the Cyber Ninja's auditors came up against was that they need to do voter canvassing in order to definitively prove that the election was thrown. But the Biden administration threw a monkey wrench at that idea, claiming that would be considered "voter intimidation" and threatening DOJ action if they tried to do it.

That smacks of dishonesty on the part of the Biden admin if you ask me, but it is what it is. We don't know if we're really seeing inaction or not yet -- it's still possible AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich may end up pressing charges.

Wikipedia has moderators that monitor for bad edits and on controversial pages like that that get good traffic they are typically found within minutes. I mean if it was as bad as what you seem to be implying no one would ever use it.

You've been on Slashdot long enough that you should realize moderation can be easily gamed. Yet people still visit. Even I use Wikipedia from time to time, as what alternative is there? Whatever I read though, I always treat with a healthy dose of skepticism as there is just way too much baloney and propaganda on the Internet these days.

Comment Re: THAT's where you draw the line?? (Score 0) 90

I'll never get tired of posting this image of Andrew Clyde shitting his pants over the "tourists" he talked about.

Is he shitting his pants over the tourists? Or is he shitting his pants over the masked man in front of him pulling a gun on said tourists? Because the political fall out from having your own protective detail firing upon your electoral base would be a sure-fire fubar.

Comment Re:Did they really? (Score 2) 90

Fake news rom the lakes of the sources I provided huh? Especially from Reuters, that's a bold claim.

Reuters, AP, New York Times -- these are central to the fake news system. They put their version of reality out there, and then ALL of the other smaller news rooms around the country carbon copy what they said without doing any research of their own. If you want to subvert and control the narrative, all you gotta do is buy out a few of these top level "news" generators and boom, you've got your own personal propaganda network.

There used to be a YouTube video where someone took snippets of local newscasters around the country giving the nightly "local" news. Every stinkin' local newscaster was saying the same thing, sometimes down to the exact same words and sentences in lockstep. Of course, it's long deleted now, since the 1% who own 99% of everything don't want people getting privy to their machinations.

Point me then to where you're getting your information from.

The AZ audit report itself. Not filtered through the fake news media, but from the auditors themselves as given to the AZ senate. If you can't find it on YouTube (since they love to delete stuff that goes against their desired narrative), look for it on Rumble or OANN. Or maybe even on the AZ gov't's own website.

Furthermore, if they were likely fraudulent why has no action been taken?

That's a good question. Everybody is expecting AZ Attorney General Mark Brnovich to press charges against the people who deleted election data off of the EMS just before turning it over to the AZ forensic audit (a clear violation of election data retention laws), but so far, all he's done is sent some letters and released a dumb nun-chuck video. A lot of people are worried maybe he's been bought off.

The Republicans in the state have the numbers to act on this if it was actually a problem.

No, that's not really true -- the AZ legislature just barely had the votes to do the forensic audit. Maybe you mean the AZ voters themselves? What can the voters do about having their election defrauded? Do a local version of Jan 6th and end up rotting in jail? No thanks.

There are plenty of RINO's in gov't working against honest elections. Pretty much all but one of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is Republican in name, but none of them seem to be honest at all because they're the ones who enabled this election fraud to happen, then did everything they could to impair the forensic audit from moving forward.

If some how this Wikipedia entry is compromised then point me to information that is not.

Some how? You do realize, anybody can modify Wikipedia articles at any time, right? You don't even need to be an elite computer hacker or a billionaire to subvert a Wikipedia article.

Comment Re:Did they really? (Score 2) 90

No, that is not true. The Republican funded audit confirmed Biden's win https://www.usatoday.com/story... https://www.theguardian.com/co... https://www.reuters.com/world/... . In fact, they found that Biden won by a slightly larger margin.

You're using fake news media as your sources. That's a major fail right there.

Secondly, the audit found that Biden "won" by a slightly larger margin -- but only when counting ALL the ballots that were handed to them. That includes many ballots that were found to be very likely FRAUDULENT.

I agree, that's why it's so great that is not at all happening to any meaningful degree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . If there's no problem then we don't need to implement more obstacles for people to get over to vote.

Once again, you use a source of information that is likely propaganda.

Go watch the ACTUAL Arizona audit report as given by the auditors to the AZ senate. And don't just click off as soon as you hear Biden "won" by a larger margin -- listen to the entire report. You're missing the story if you do that, which is likely what all the MSM fake news reporters did. They heard what they WANTED to hear and then just skipped out for lunch, never to return.

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