Tanoh
@Tanoh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 1 week ago:
I don’t know why, but my guess would be. Everyone involved knows it is bullshit, the people working there, management, etc… but it gives a good loophole to fire anyone that is starting to stir up something, “oh, he/she failed the polygraph.”
The people working there knows it, so they are more likely to stay in line so they can “pass” their annual test.
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 1 week ago:
In his defense, polygraph is just pseudo-science bullshit. You “fail” or “pass” depending on what the one doing it wants you to do. It is just made up.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
If they have, then good. Wasn’t sure it was doable with current google’s signing process. Highly unlikely someone hasn’t tampered with them then (far easier to target the site displaying the “correct” fingerprint).
However, my original point still stands. Just because it is open source doesn’t in itself mean that a bad actor can’t tamper with it.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 week ago:
And Signal is open source so, if it did anything weird with private keys, everyone would know
Well, no. At least not by default as you are running a compiled version of it. Someone could inject code you don’t know anything about before compilation that for example leaked your keys.
One way to be more confident no one has, would be to have predictable builds that you can recreate and then compare the file fingerprints. But I do not think that is possible, at least on android, as google holds they signature keys to apps.
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 1 week ago:
Keep in mind that not all work loads scale perfectly. You might have to add 1100 computers due to overhead and other dcaling issues. It is still pretty good though, and most of those clusters work on highly parallelised tasks, as they are very suited for it.
There are other work loads do not scale at all. Like the old joke in programming. “A project manager is someone that thinks that 9 women can have a child in one month.”
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 1 week ago:
Loads of formating for reports can be done with text only as well. Markdown or LaTeX, to name just two.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 week ago:
Gray markets are just full of stolen stuff. To think something else is just fooling yourself.
Anyway, keep using it if you want but they are not “I am so smart for finding it cheaper” but rather “I don’t mind support illegal activities”
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 week ago:
Take this blog post from Factorio a few years ago, they much rather you pirate the game than use gray markets. (Second header)
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 week ago:
More likely it is a key purchased with a stolen credit card. Do not use gray markets
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 2 weeks ago:
Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.
There is a big difference between “normal” SaaS and LLM.
In a normal SaaS you get a lot of benefit of being at scale. Going from 1000 to 10000 users is not that much harder than going from 10000 to 1000000. Once you have your scaling set up you can just add more servers and/or data centers. But most importantly, the cost per user goes waaay down.
With AI it just doesn’t scale at all, the 500000th user will most likely cost as much as the 5th. So doing a netflix/spotify/etc, I don’t think is going to work unless they can somehow make it a lot cheaper per user. OpenAI fails to turn a profit even on their most expensive tiers.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Semi-casual Factorio
Are you trying to kill him?
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 4 weeks ago:
There are even companies selling lists of IPs for all sort of behaviour and characteristics. Just adding one of those is trivial.
Though google has a lot more data and engineers so they could just create a better one themselves.
It is a constant cat and mouse game between VPN providers and other actors. A few IPs get on a list, they try to find others, repeat
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 5 weeks ago:
The companies doing them have a few hundred million reasons to skirt around the laws, so they will no doubt find a few ways. But that doesn’t mean we can’t make laws
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 1 month ago:
Same country that convinced itself that you should have one hot and one cold tap, and if you want to get proper temperatured water just fill the basin… instead of just combining them like the rest of the civilized world.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
In their defense a very tiny percentage of users even open options and of those an even smaller actually change stuff.
Maybe slighlty different for Firefox as probably more power user use it than other random programs. But basically if something is not enabled by default, it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats' 2 months ago:
IANAL, but I believe in some places you have to go after any and all forms of it, otherwise you risk losing the whole thing. I think US is one of those places.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 months ago:
There are lots of companies selling data, just one of them is a list of known VPN IP addresses. Updated every X days. Just plug that into your service and it gets a lot harder, but still not impossible, to use with a VPN.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing 2 months ago:
It will just be a few approved sites that you are allowed to visit, and just by chance those sites are the ones that pay the goverment the most! Those sites will have records in the approved DNS, that you can not change. Other DNS requests are blocked, along with everything else that isn’t approved.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 months ago:
Yes, but 1000ms latency is super bad. No service has anything even close to that high.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 months ago:
It is rejected, for now. But that could change, only really takes one massive game to do it to open the floodgates.
U don’t think it will happen, but what if GTA6 did it? They would be big enough to be able to pull it off, and most of their revenue will probably come from online anyway, so adding a base game subscription could make sense for them.
- Comment on How likely do you think game streaming as DRM is to become a thing? 2 months ago:
Very much depends on the game though. A bit of lag in strategy/city builder/etc is not really an issue. But in a competive shooter it is a huge deal.
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 2 months ago:
Levitate? Do I look like some priest? I just blink away!
Or more likely, hit blink, it bugs out and you go half a meter backwards instead… But then you can always ice block or slow fall to save the day!
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 months ago:
I liked the DLCs as well. I know why they don’t do them anymore, as online is a money printing machine. But I really liked them and wished they had done more.
The world exists, so just add a story with a bunch of missions => nice DLC. But since they make such an obscene amount of money from online it makes no sense for them to do any more.
- Comment on Does anyone have experience with Mumble? 2 months ago:
other warlock
It is always the warlocks that are the problem.
Signed, a mage
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 3 months ago:
Getting a replacement SIM from the phone company is often shockingly easy, just a tiny bit of social engineering. And then you have access to the number and everything that 2FA “protects”
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
No, but it is a far more complex problem than what the other comment made it sound like. That it is only because they cheap out on server hardware and it could be perfect if they just wasn’t cheap.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 months ago:
Not always, latency is a huge problem especially in action games.
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 4 months ago:
They also know that just a tiny tiny percentage of users will go into settings, and even less actually change something.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 4 months ago:
I used (g)Vim on windows back when I used that
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 4 months ago:
Imagine if it did get that kind of funding