Septimaeus
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- Comment on Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months 4 hours ago:
Hey, that’s awesome. I hope one day all the energy and brain power currently funneled into surveillance/marketing/control will be applied to problems like this. It’s the kind of common-good problem most engineers would prefer to work on anyway.
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 12 hours ago:
Pro tip: many that ship with an SD inside will have the factory firmware and device-specific keys still recoverable on the card (secure erase is too slow for production I guess) so before turning the device on for the first time, remove the card and image it for maximum chance of recovering the FW intact.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 14 hours ago:
lol dude I acknowledged it was too obscure and paid the due explanation. They’ll refund your ticket at the door.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 day ago:
νίκη!
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 4 days ago:
Oh for sure. I was just answering in case you wanted to know.
Future versions of AI tools will likely use routing to do a variety of tasks more efficiently and accurately. But until then? It’s a jinn to those who would wish away every single chore they lack the patience to comprehend including, unfortunately, information security.
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 4 days ago:
While “routing” of prompts between specialist models and traditional APIs does offer more efficient and reliable outputs, it also A. requires more elbow grease than one massive generalist model, and B. doesn’t help you avoid paying API licensing fees by obfuscating their outputs into the blackbox weights of your proprietary model
- Comment on There are few things more satisfying than finding a use for that thing you stored away ten years ago "in case" you ever had a need for it. 4 days ago:
One in your hand is worth two in my bush?
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 1 week ago:
lol and with that you’re a better friend to the begonia’s than I
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 1 week ago:
AI including LLMs are forevermore just tools in my mind. And we wouldn’t have OSHA/BMAS/HSE/etc if idiots didn’t do idiot things with tools. BUT some idiots are spared from their own idiocy only by lack of permission.
From who? Depends. Sometimes they need permission from authority: “god told me to!” Sometimes they need it from the mob: “I thought I was on a tour!” And sometimes any fucking body will do: “dare me to do it!”
And THAT in my mind is the danger truly unique to these tools, that they mimic a permission-giver better than any we’ve made. They’re perfect for activating this specific category of idiot and (likely) unparalleled ease-of-use scales that danger to large numbers.
As to whether these idiots wouldn’t have just found permission elsewhere, who knows, but surely some kind of training prereq is warranted, right? That’s common with potentially dangerous tools. Or am I overthinking it?
- Comment on Dear Faith II 1 week ago:
Ah the heady experience of a virgin clown-sighting. We all remember. Bring on the rainbows, Little Bobby Tables.
- Comment on Dear Faith I 2 weeks ago:
Wait but… is that actually a thing in Kenya? I only have heard first hand accounts of school systems in a handful of countries in Africa (not Kenya, mostly west side) but consistently I’ve been shocked by either the severity of punishment for basically any form of failure or dishonor or for the prevalence of fear as the administrative motivator-of-choice. (One was just a few months ago I think in c/offmychest where a high schooler was describing their beatings for tardiness, bad grades, and other minor infractions. I think I commented on it.) Maybe she’s for real?
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 2 weeks ago:
Unless fully rewritten to the form of bully pulpit, this would still have been considered explicitly dictatorial, erratic and unhinged behavior from a leader, so I assume you just mean “what if dems were more action less talk” and I’m with you.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 2 weeks ago:
lol these statuses always read like trembling balled up fists on a fat angry toddler
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 2 weeks ago:
My guess was backseat of car. Parent has lab supplies back there, including a few 10-pack boxes of these, which also work as an improvised distraction/toy just like rare earth magnets or monkeys in a barrel. Unfortunately they weren’t checking rear view mirror because work it’s stressful, so kid put quite a few down without their knowledge. They didn’t even notice until day 2 migration to large intestine and rectum. This parent is overworked and under-appreciated and I’m so glad I’m not responsible for children.
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 2 weeks ago:
Wherever their parent left them unattended, presumably.
- Comment on Want to Know If Glassholes Are Using Smart Glasses Near You? There's an App for That 2 weeks ago:
The local EMP is easy to make. (But it absolutely will indiscriminately brick stuff nearby that isn’t shielded, not just your intended target’s glasses, and while making/having it is probably a gray area, using it to destroy property is not.)
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 2 weeks ago:
Children eat weird stuff
- Comment on “Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement” 3 weeks ago:
Red Bull gives you diiiiiiiiiiiiicccckk…
- Comment on “Glide Ratio Optimization in the Olympic Ski Jump via Cosmetic Penis Enlargement” 3 weeks ago:
Tuck and strap queen this bout bout to get real
- Comment on Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says 3 weeks ago:
I suspect the user above you doesn’t care about that technicality. They’re just blaming victims for not being as virtuous as we are, which is small.
- Comment on Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours 4 weeks ago:
Adding to the above, one of the challenges of GD is how to know whether the global optimum reported by the function isn’t just one of its many imposters (local optima). That’s the “big picture” he’s talking about. Working with Elon was a dead end.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 4 weeks ago:
But is LTO next? Is AI coming for my tapes??
- Comment on British soldiers to get new AI radios, headsets and tablets 5 weeks ago:
Finally, the era of vibe command has arrived. WCGW?
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 5 weeks ago:
Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol
I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 5 weeks ago:
LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?
Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.
Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.
Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 5 weeks ago:
I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.
The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.
Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 5 weeks ago:
Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 5 weeks ago:
Mount one of these in your rear window? Neon style LED wall art script saying “chill”
Real answer: double tap a light (beams, brakes, or hazards) because most things you would say to them are two beat’s long:
- “Thank you”
- ”Sorry”
- “My bad”
- ”Go on”
- ”Nice drift”
- ”You drunk?”
- Comment on How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE 1 month ago:
Hmm, my RC400L only pings when IMSI catchers are detected. I think Flock camera alerts are still mostly driven by community gis databases.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 2 months ago:
You are the Winter in my Summer, Sonor
