Comment on Boffins convert typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Article also uses the term “eggheads”.

  To go from keystroke sounds to actual letters, the eggheads recorded a person typing on a 16-inch 2021 MacBook Pro using a phone placed 17cm away and processed the sounds to get signatures of the keystrokes.

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• Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s The Register - think the Financial Times for IT but in the style of The Sun/any other British tabloid. They do it for the lulz, if you will - don’t get too hung up on the headlines as the content is top quality.

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It can be. Being a boffin, I’m not offended. Up to the individual if they choose to be offended.

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still shitty journalism to refer to researchers publishing their research in that way.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Meh, I wear such labels as badges of honor. I sacrificed a bit along the way to develop knowledge, skills, competence - I’ve earned it. Thanks for acknowledging it.

      I also see such things in a humorous light. I mean us “boffins” can be such boffins at times. We can over-focus, get caught up on perfectionism, etc, etc. If’n ya can’t laugh at your own foibles, well, I don’t know what to say.

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• jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe a US/UK divide? At least in the UK boffin is relatively inoffensive depending on how it’s used. Eg if I build a fusion reactor in my garden my neighbour might say “wow, look at what this boffin did!” and it would be a complement where boffin is a stand in for a word like genius, only with a tounge in cheek touch of jealousy.

  Thinking about it I would say that ‘nerd’ is typically putting someone down for their intelligence or interests, whereas boffin is a light insult while identifying the ‘boffin’ as being smarter than yourself.

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