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Democracy Matters :verified:I'm sure Oz is selling a supplement that's just as good as Medicaid...Dr. Oz Won’t Commit To Protecting Medicaid <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-protecting-medicaid-senate-hearing-1235296719/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dr-oz-protecting-medicaid-senate-hearing-1235296719/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DrOz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrOz</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnakeOil</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medicaid</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EndTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndTrump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EndMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EndMusk</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DonaldKrasnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldKrasnov</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansOwnThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicansOwnThis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPKakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOPKakistocracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GOPWeirdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOPWeirdos</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoRepublicansEverAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoRepublicansEverAgain</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

StjepEver notice how most of the "look at what amazing things genAI can do" clips are only a few seconds long?That's because, if they were any longer, you'd see how the AI starts "hallucinating" and making very obvious and embarrassing mistakes.Most of the longer clips and animations you see, have been extensively edited or re-worked by trained design professionals.<a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a>

Anthony<blockquote>DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large-language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million — a much smaller expense than the one called for by Western counterparts. These developments have stoked concerns about the amount of money big tech companies have been investing in AI models and data centers, and raised alarm that the U.S. is not leading the sector as much as previously believed. </blockquote>The "Western counterparts" are claiming training a model might take years and billions of dollars. This has always been a hyped-up grift, with snake oil salesmen and con artists being showered with money and power. It's really quite amazing how profoundly unintelligent "the market" is in practice. The sad reality is that the US could lead in this field (1), if we'd stop routinely putting narcissists and con artists in charge and showering them with praise even when they fail. From <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnakeOil</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=hype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hype</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=grift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grift</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=marketcapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarketCapitalism</a> (1) Putting aside whether we should, which is an important question.

Van SiceIf each person using AI had to give up their own drinking water, and their own electricity, in an equivalent measure as their query required, would people still use it for what are, at the end of the day, trivial things, or would they put their backs into it and just do it themselves?<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a>

Bob Cardboard...and here's just one with a pithy 'up yours' message to Mastergroove maker Tom Evans Audio added to the start.Watching it through really does show that its a well-designed but very ordinary device and quite a dated design, nothing exotic at all. If I'm able to follow it, it isn't bleeding edge. In fact I'd go so far as to say this design would barely compete with anything post mid-90s. £25 flipping k<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnakeOil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToRepair</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Spartacus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spartacus</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hVe_spuJQI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hVe_spuJQI</a>

Manuel 'HonkHase' AtugMaximal unseriös! 🔥🔥🔥Und wieder (m)ein Warnhinweis vor unseriösen möchtegern Hackern, die Betroffene - und vor allem betroffene kritische Infrastrukturen gefährden und öffentlich anprangern, statt im Sinne der Hackerethik ein Responsible Disclosure vorzunehmen.Ich schäme mich dafür und stellvertretend entschuldige ich mich im Namen der Sicherheitsforschenden Community bei Securitas Group und allen anderen...<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snakeoil</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/KRITIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KRITIS</a>

Joshua HollandWhat makes this so funny/dumb is that ivermectin was developed by Merck and the medical establishment hated it so much that they gave the guys who discovered it a Nobel Prize in Medicine. It's FDA-approved for treating various parasites and worms.Hydroxychloroquine, introduced by Sterling Drug, is on the WHO list of essential medications for treating malaria.Both are sold by Big Pharma around the world under various brand names. They just don't do shit for Covid. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RFKJr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pharma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pharma</a>

Erik van Straten<a href="https://mastodon.nl/@ellent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ellent</a> : wow, that's a lot of snake oil in the FB article that The Verge refers to.*THE* problem with consumers losing access to their phone (stolen, forgotten in the subway, dropped in the toilet etc.) is typically that *ALL* secrets are gone - except a screen unlock code, while *possibly* the user may remember the password of their iCloud or Google account (or may have access to a rescue code).B.t.w., passkey synchronisation suffers from the same problem: asking people to remember one or more additional *strong* passwords is doomed to fail in too many cases; fortunately black magic comes to the rescue.From <a href="https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://engineering.fb.com/2024/10/22/security/ipls-privacy-preserving-storage-for-your-whatsapp-contacts/</a>: ❞ But losing your phone could mean losing your contact list as well. Traditionally, WhatsApp has lacked the ability to store your contact list in a way that can be easily and automatically restored in the event you lose it. [...] If you lose your phone, your contact list can be restored on a newly registered device. [...] Certain events [...] trigger the creation of a new cryptographic keypair that is associated with your phone number. ❝So al the military grade encryption, HSM's and Cloudflare supervision eventually depends on a PHONE NUMBER - with, in modern computer terms, a VERY limited number of possible combinations of digits.And all that apart from the fact that phone numbers may be spoofed and "SIM-swapping" attacks happen to be a lot easier than most people are aware of.What could possibly go wrong?P.S. Of course I may be totally mistaken, for example because additional protections are in place. However, I do not see them mentioned in the FB article.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatsApp</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AddressBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AddressBook</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Contacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Contacts</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Cloudflare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HSM</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/SnakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnakeOil</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MilitaryGradeEncryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MilitaryGradeEncryption</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WriteOnceReadMany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WriteOnceReadMany</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BlockChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlockChain</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transparency</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Passkeys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Passkeys</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Synchronisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Synchronisation</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/E2EE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#E2EE</a>

DocCheetumMalady Monday Do you have Nervous Diseases? We have A Cure For What Ails You! (Requires time travel to the late 1800's where it is sold by all druggists.)<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tabletopgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tabletopgames</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boardgames</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/victorianMedicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#victorianMedicine</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/snakeOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeOil</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/kickstarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kickstarter</a>

65dBnoiseVery fine people. On both sides.Credit: Jimmy Kimmel Live<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BS</a>

aproitz<a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@randahl</a> Yes, the silvertongued Devil <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Donald</a> is talking again to the Crowd, hoping that enough <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fools</a> will buy his <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Waggon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Waggon</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Snakeoil</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nomoretrumpemissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nomoretrumpemissions</a>

Brian SlettenThere is an inexhaustible supply of natural stupidity.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ns</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a>

Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:Ok, "Bug Bite Thing" is a US$10 suction tool (featured on Shark Tank in 2019) that purports to "remove the insect saliva/venom and eliminate the itching, stinging, and swelling". Sawyer sells its own version (also marketed for snake bites), probably there are other copycats. Lots of people (including patients of mine) swear by this technique, but my instincts say it can't possibly work -- that <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mosquito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mosquito</a> saliva and <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/hymenoptera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hymenoptera</a> venom are absorbed too fast, and can't just be sucked back out through the epidermis. But maybe it does help? I can't find anyone who's studied its efficacy. I can't even find any background science to tell me if it might be feasible. I'd love to come up with a small efficacy study -- except I don't want to administer bug bites on purpose! <a href="https://mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rebeccawatson</a> wanna volunteer? 😁🦟💪🏼<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/medmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medmastodon</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/clinicalresearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clinicalresearch</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/citizenscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#citizenscience</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/snakeoil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snakeoil</a>

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