T156

@T156@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can’t type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.

  You’d need to mod it in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA could enter the desktop CPU market with performance equal to AMD and Intel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It might also be groundwork for more complicated things on their GPUs.

  The article says nothing about nVidia actually planning to enter the desktop CPU market, only that a bunch of unrelated analysts compared the CPU performance, and said it was about equal to what’s on the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn’t support the TPM requirements it put it place.

  Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any reason not to charge my laptop with a USB C phone charger?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. It depends more on what wattage that the power supply can give, and what the laptop is willing to take. USB-PD is pretty smart, and will only give as much power as the laptop wants to take, up to the limit of the cable/power supply.

  But if it’s capable of supplying the same wattage, it makes no difference if you’re giving it 65W by phone charger, or 65W by manufacturer power brick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diphalia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably to make mating easier, since they can protrude out on either side, rather than the snake having to reposition, or end up poking straight down.

  But genital shapes can be pretty weird in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It could power stuff. Tesla was working on it, and there have been a few small companies over the years that have done it.

  Just turns out that it’s not very practical compared to a wall socket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death by a thousand slops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, but the volume was the issue. The cURL team could only work through and verify them so quickly, so the deluge of bug reports just made it impractical for them to dedicate time to sort through it for the Bug Bounty. The idea being that they got rid of the bug bounty, so there was less of an incentive to generate and write a bogus bug report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death by a thousand slops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was volume that was more the issue with the bug bounty program.

  They were flooded, and recognising it is all well and good, but not if there’s no good way to filter it out.

  They didn’t have the manpower to keep up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It does make it harder to find them, because the phrasing is similar, but not identical due to randomness.

  Whereas before, you could probably filter a good chunk of it out by just finding the same message/keywords and filtering by that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you realize how terrifying that would be? Get pulled over for a burned out tail light, your drivers license doesn’t count any more (realistically - how quickly could you clear out a day to visit the DMV?)

  Especially in the US, where a lot of things are car-centric. Sure, you could drive to the DMV, but your licence is invalid, so you’d be driving without a licence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My. Immediate thought was it’s intentionally leaving out the part that says you’ll be issued with a replacement so won’t stop you from driving so no biggie right?

  Nope, it says you’ll be issued a new one once it is surrendered, but it also says that it would be invalid immediately, so would not be legal to drive with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it reasonable for them to keep their own local snapshots?

  That’s not a trivial amount of work and data, particularly it it’s multimedia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karim Diané Gets Support From George Takei For Playing Star Trek’s First Gay Klingon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time, it was also good enough that it made Paramount want to pop out more shows.

  SNW couldn’t exist without DSC giving us a taste of Anson Mount as Captain Pike, for example.

  If people had left it, chances are, they’d have left it buried for a few more years.

  DIS was shit but the worst thing about it was really that it was the first thing after the pause.

  Honestly, I don’t think it was that, as much as its production was just a mess. Showrunners and writers were consistently fired partway into the season for at least the first two, and it shows, because the plot would just suddenly fly off in another direction mid-season, which doesn’t exactly work well for a serialised show.

  Past that, it basically turned into an experimental testbed for show ideas, and never really seemed to find its own identity before it ended (though it came close in its last season).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is an online poll. You also have to consider that some people don’t care/want to be funny, and so either choose randomly, or choose the most nonsensical answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty difficult for it to go wrong in a way that isn’t just nothing happening.

  The eyes don’t just grow randomly, you need to give the brain blob a chemical signal that grows eyes in-utero to make the eyes grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the question of why would it experience horror? It’s not exactly in pain, and they way they make the eyes grow is just to add the hormone signal that makes eyes grow when developing.

  So from its perspective, it just got told to make eyes, so it has rudimentary eyes now. Hardly the most horrifying existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  perhaps some people have eyes in their brains and just don’t know it.

  Your eyes technically are part of your brain.

  But it’s certainly not unheard of. Parietal eyes have existed for a good while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if they do. That seems like a lot of effort to go to for the average person for a scammer.

  It seems easier to have a generic voice, rely on the fact that phone audio quality isn’t great to bridge the gap, and use a shotgun approach.

  Some places do, since there were a few high profile attacks, but they were nearly all targeting organisations by pretending to be the CEO or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So prices may not actually drop, (even after the pop), because the companies still won’t be producing more hardware than they currently are.

  There’s also the risk that they simply may not drop the price even after, because the customer base can bear that price, so it becomes the new normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or for things like video editing. Video editors tend to be quite RAM heavy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though this is more targeting retrieval-assisted generation (RAG) than the training process.

  Specifically since RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others, anyone can effectively alter the results by writing a blog post on the relevant topic.

  Whilst people really shouldn’t use LLMs as a search engine, many do, and being able to alter the “results” like that would be an avenue of attack for someone intending to spread disinformation.

  It’s probably also bad for people who don’t use it, since it basically gives another use for SEO spam websites, and they were trouble enough as it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if they were, would it not be better to give the car better senses?

  Humans don’t have LIDAR because we can’t just hook something into a human’s brain and have it work. If you can do that with a self-driving car, why cut it down to human senses?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, TNG could be up there, but it was also generally influential as a whole, so both its good and bad ended up getting carried over.

  The entire exploding bridge trope came from it, as did evil admirals. It also set up the Enterprise as the flagship, with the best and brightest of Starfleet. Which also meant that people generally assumed it to be the norm, and that the hero ship was some special ship, when it was a normal ship of the line in TOS.

  VOY Borg are really bad compared to TNG Borg.

  They are, but more due to issues with overuse more so than anything. In TNG, we saw the Borg for all of 4 times. In Voyager, they were shown much more frequently.

  But as far as the timeline goes, it also wouldn’t make sense to show an earlier iteration of the Borg, not when they were severely affected by the actions of the Borg.

  I heard PIC stinks because it makes VOY Borg the main villains

  I’d honestly argue that which version of the Borg to be a minor issue in Picard. Picard’s bigger problem was that it didn’t seem to know what it wanted to be, and kept leaping between multiple different plots and story lines, which confuses it a bit.

  It arguably have been better if it has taken one of those plots, and run with it for the entire show. Like the matter with Synths and former Borg drones being treated as subhuman, vindicating the concerns Guinan and Picard had in the Measure of a Man, or visiting the TNG crew and seeing where they are now. As it actually was, it seems like the writers/producers felt that now they had Patrick Stewart, they wanted to do everything before it was too late, and the result was a bit of a mishmash.

  The issue with the Borg tends to be more that they really aren’t very much of a threat by the end of Voyager, and were dealt such a blow that it would be almost impossible to ignore.

  Their greatest threat, assimilation, is trivially curable, and it’s now known that their assimilation abilities are one of their greater weaknesses. The Federation might have issues with infecting someone with a pathogen to make the Borg assimilate them and self-destruct, but others have no such qualms, and we know of at least one species that did use such methods (Icheb’s parents).

  Their adaptation is a greater issue, but even older Federation ships, like the galaxy-class saw good effect just cycling their weapons frequencies. The Voyager’s ablative armour would be well-studied after they returned to Starfleet, and dedicated anti-Borg weapons would have both been in active development, and also use.

  As of the events of First Contact, it’s also known that not only are there Borg ruins on Earth that may still be intact and active, but that Borg ships are not as truly uniform as they seem, with Picard pointing out a weakness in a Borg cube that dealt catastrophic damage to it. Local signals, what he felt, scans of what remains of the area, and everything would have been thoroughly studied to determine how to both find and exploit those weaknesses on other Borg cubes, without a former privileged Borg unit at the helm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also been 800 years since then. It’s the third millennium, the seat probably is the belt itself at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Discovery definitely feels like it, especially since you have people still arguing quite animatedly about how it’s not Star Trek, and might have Ruined Star Trek Forever, though I would rather imagine much of it to be recency and accessibility more so than much else.

  The other shows are a bit less accessible, even if they are newer, since CBS moved it onto their streaming service, and off of Netflix, whereas Discovery aired on Netflix around a time when Netflix was one of the bigger streaming platforms out there, and more people who aren’t as into Star Trek or other CBS properties might encounter it incidentally.

  But for the most part, every single successor to Star Trek has always been controversial, and deemed to have ruined it forever, though most of it abates when the next show comes around, and is then deemed to have ruined Star Trek forever.

  Though TNG was by far the least deserving of it.

  I actually wonder about that. Most of the complaints, like the ones about Stewart being a shakespearean actor who wouldn’t be able to handle the rigours of serious television, or being bald were nonsense, but there was a lot of good reasons to complain about early TNG. A fair chunk of the early episodes weren’t very consistently good.

  We know it to be better in hindsight, but if The Next Generation had started today, and not only is the second episode a rehash of a Star Trek (1966) episode, but the fourth was Code of Honour? I would also be inclined to criticise it for being quite bad. There’s a good reason why a lot of the advice for people watching TNG is to stick around until Season 3, or start from Season 3, since that’s when it gets better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you don’t, that’s what subtitles are for. Hardly much to complain about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It’s like they know it’s now or never.

  Even if they didn’t, they probably don’t want to seem like they’re falling behind, so once one person goes all in, so do the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also trustworthy, reliable technology. Why change what isn’t broken?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does now, but it didn’t used to.

  They changed the old site to also allow HTTPS when it was updated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Old Bureau of Meteorology website still getting thousands of clicks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Although, the nice thing about the new site is that the BoM website finally got around to enabling HTTPS support, instead of having a redirect that supported HTTPS telling you that the actual website didn’t support HTTPS.