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- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 14 hours ago:
can’t believe i’m quoting a transformers fanfic but here we are…
“Hang on,” Wheeljack said, “I’d worry about passive systems, not active. This mech wasn’t exactly enthusiastic about where he was going. I’d bet on some kind of system he wouldn’t be able to control at all—better yet, something that doesn’t rely on power or signal at all. Something he couldn’t rip out, or block by hiding—”
Hook and Scrapper had come over. “Exterior composition,” Scrapper said instantly. “I’ve thought of doing something of the sort for transport containers—stripe the cladding with varying amounts of a neutrino-scan-visible material for tracking, even underground. Megatron, if that’s the method they’ve used, we don’t have enough appropriate materials to block it. They’ll be able to locate him with satellite scanners, and they’re certainly sweeping for us already. We’ve got to dispose of him at once. Ideally, by melting him down.”
“Hey!” Ratchet stood up. “How about we don’t jump to slagging one of my patients!”
Hook stared at him as if he was insane. “What melodramatic nonsense. You’ve never even spoken to him!”
“He’s on my table, he’s my patient!” Ratchet said.
“Enough,” Megatron said. “Offer me a rational alternative, or shut up.”
Great, that wasn’t pressure or anything. “Fine, how about this: destroying him is stupid,” Ratchet said. “We still don’t know basically anything about this planet, we’ve nearly been taken down twice already, and now they know for sure we’ll be trying for the Excelsior, which means they’re going to be waiting for us there with everything they’ve got. We need intel, and he’s probably got it.” Megatron’s face didn’t change, but he kept listening, at least. “And we don’t need to cover him head to toe with palladium sheathing. We just need to make sure he doesn’t match the pattern they’re scanning for.”
“Well?” Megatron said to Scrapper.
“We’d have to isolate the material they used… but I suppose Mixmaster could analyze a panel of his frame,” Scrapper said grudgingly. “We could disguise him…”
“Except then they will find a pattern here that doesn’t match anything in their database,” Hook said.
“Yeah, but they can’t have a negative-match process,” Wheeljack put in. “They’re not energy-bound, right? They’re materials-bound. That’s why they—recycle instead of smelt down. Any one of their mechs is probably carrying a dozen old parts, and you’d get a negative match any place two patterns overlap. They probably just make sure each new mech gets at least some parts in a unique pattern, and that’s what they’ll be looking for.”
but if there’s also cameras everywhere then every time a negative match comes out then it just triggers the cameras to pick out those cars. best bet would be collectively agreeing to use one set of specific id for everyone, not a randomized id and thus unique id’s
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 2 days ago:
hardware store parts didn’t work out so well for Shinzo Abe too.
- Comment on 5/7 with rice 4 weeks ago:
i tried that and didn’t like it. also, in my heart there’s rice why no eat?
now i steam rice in tiny little bowls.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 4 weeks ago:
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(www.computerhistory.org/revolution/…/83)early generation computers fueled a demand that was being supplied by rooms and rooms of human calculators calculating and checking each other’s works for scientists, engineers, businesses, and government agencies
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(Manhattan Project, Atomic Heritage Foundation picture)they would not have died out, because they were a necessary part of the evolution of technology at their time. more importantly, they were more accurate than their human calculators. computers don’t forget to carry a number to the next digit or flip them around. barring exceptionally rare cosmic radiation events. and their technological progression fueled an ever greater need until now when tech has entered post-scarcity when it comes to calculating power.
generative AI in contrast was an offering looking for a purpose. spare gigaflops no longer needed for tech people are trying to sell by building more and more hype for calculating power. sucks to be the one who invests into it, but that’s business. sometimes investment don’t work out. if microsoft can’t hype up a demand then it is unnecessary technology.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 5 weeks ago:
not to the point of fast sloppy cursive so bad i can’t read it myself, and that’s what i get with windows after using it for years. linux apps just didn’t match up and i keep getting cranky it’s better to just stop.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 5 weeks ago:
i miss handwriting input; both english and chinese writing. yes keyboard is faster but time spent writing isn’t that wasted for me, and my posture is better when i used a drawing tablet exclusively instead of mouse and keyboard, also i’ve bullied windows handwriting recognition enough that it’s pretty much chicken scratch input.
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 3 months ago:
CultRepo’s video coming to youtube in 2027!
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
agreeing with orclev - i setup an older nvidia gpu pc on linux mint and that pc has to have all other applications closed to play minecraft when it used to handle youtube video or actual video running and maybe an antivirus scan in the background and minecraft on top fine in windows.
GPU is running (as opposed to when the driver failed to load haha) but some kind of processing is still on CPU, i tracked down the problem but the point where i figured out i need to keep up with the latest vaapi and compile it to just diagnose it i stopped and told the kids how to quit other programs first before minecraft. or bloons.
- Comment on To deter predators... 1 year ago:
- Comment on Turkish government just blocked access to YouTube after a terrorist attack - but the Vivaldi browser on my desktop still connects? 1 year ago:
It doesn’t really matter what kind of block it is. Vivaldi comes with TLS (Transport Layer Overlay), but it is not necessarily turned on if its an old install. If a fresh profile has it turned on, then all traffic leaving the browser are encrypted and cannot be tampered with. you can check if it is turned on–
go to Vivaldi://flags
- Comment on Turkish government just blocked access to YouTube after a terrorist attack - but the Vivaldi browser on my desktop still connects? 1 year ago:
Vivaldi has TLS active by default at some point for new installs. If new profiles also have that then that’s what is happening.
The browser is not using the ISP’s or the computer’s DNS settings. So DNS blocking/redirecting won’t work on it.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 1 year ago:
there’s the ole www.reddit.com/r/darknetplan/
kitschy name, but when it was established it was not even planning anything like what it is doing now.
