Buddahriffic
@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 9 hours ago:
I love mixing technology with nudity. But I have also avoided this problem because I don’t mix technology and Apple.
- Comment on Georgia police accused of beating protesters against ‘foreign influence’ bill 3 days ago:
This is about Georgia the country, not the state.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 4 days ago:
Having unenforceable or illegal clauses in a legal contract means the contract wasn’t written in good faith, which should void the whole thing. Regardless of any “if parts of this contract are deemed illegal, the rest still stands”.
It would be nice to see more proactive involvement of the legal system with this, like have some people whose job it is to challenge these consumer contracts and standardize them kinda like how some open source licenses are standardized. Modularize it, so instead of writing out the whole “limited liability” section, they could refer to an established one by name. Then each module can be the subject of study and challenge, like if a more limiting one should come with other compromises elsewhere.
I think at that point, most honest companies would just pick a standard license or contract, plus maybe a few modifications and shady ones will have more trouble hiding shit like this in the middle of pages and pages of the same boring shit you’ve read hundreds of times before if you actually do read these things before signing or clicking agree.
At this point, most contracts should probably be unenforceable because few people actually do understand what they are agreeing to, which is supposed to be one of the essential parts of a contract. So many parts should probably have an “initial here to show you agreed to this” at the very least. But I’m no fool, this is likely considered a feature rather than a bug for most of the people involved in making and enforcing these things.
- Comment on *Naruto 5 days ago:
Rock Lee only uses tae (Thai?) jutsu but is one of the few characters I’d expect an entertaining fight from if he went toe to toe with anyone in the series. He wouldn’t necessarily win, but his secret power was that everyone underestimated him, even those who knew he was strong didn’t appreciate just how strong he was until he surprised them.
It was always hilarious to watch the dynamic between Guy and Lee with Tenten and Negi helplessly watching on as the two worked each other up.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 5 days ago:
Yeah, that “if I could trust it” is pulling a lot of weight there. Like I decline fucking website cookies. Tech like that has way more invasive potential. Maybe they wouldn’t even need to advertise and could directly make you just buy things or give them free labour. You’d just need a module to make a person act like a normal happy person and then with that could potentially do anything “under the hood” without being detected. The possibilities are endless in the dystopian direction, too. Realistically, “if I could trust it” isn’t a requirement that can be met.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 days ago:
I mean, in that position I’d probably be willing to gamble with my life. Not with Musk involved, but if there was a similar opportunity without his involvement. It would be an honorable death, too, as long as it didn’t result in a halt on the research.
If I could fully trust the ones doing it, there is a certain % of death risk I’d be willing to take as a healthy person once the tech is more mature. The possibilities of such technology are endless, especially as the tech becomes more interactive rather than just observing and acting on those observations. I’m not sure if I’d want to live in the Matrix, but I’d love to at least visit it or play VR games based on that tech. Altered Carbon would be interesting, too.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 week ago:
There’s no real way to know if VPNs intended for the public are run the same as those intended for enterprise. Windows doesn’t have a lot of the same BS in their enterprise versions that are in the personal ones. Even with the same software, it could just be a checkbox that the salesperson can check for big businesses with legal teams that read and enforce contracts.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 1 week ago:
I assume this is definitely the case for free VPNs, if any of those still exist. There might be some willing to donate bandwidth and compute resources for the good of others, but I’m sure there’s more that pretend to do that but actually just sell the data or maybe just spy.
Tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if this is also the case for TOR nodes. I wonder how many entry and exit points are run by the NSA or some other government entity. Or are just monitored. If you can monitor the entry and exit points, you can determine both the source and destination, and just match them together using the middle node address.
Same thing with proxies.
Paid VPNs could go either way. On the one hand, they could make more money if they are willing to sell out their users’ privacy. On the other hand, that risks the entire thing falling apart if word gets out that it’s not private, since that’s the whole point of VPNs. I’m sure there’s some good ones out there but I’m also sure that there’s bad ones and wouldn’t be surprised if some of the ones considered good are actually bad.
Maybe ones that run in Europe would be safer bets. Their business is at least able to run there with the privacy laws. Maybe they are skirting them and haven’t been caught yet, maybe their data sales from other regions are profitable enough to support European operations without data sales, but if they are going for max greed and min risk, maybe they wouldn’t operate there. Or maybe they just run things differently in the different regions to maximize global profits.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
Though it also depends on how you define “able to”. Like I could fit a car payment in my budget but it would eat up most of my disposable income and I’m not willing to give that up, even if new cars weren’t so enshitified. I bet there’s a lot in this “technically capable but it would be a stupid financial move” group.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 week ago:
Because you can’t corner the renewables market like the oil markets have been. Also oil dependence means a constant need for oil. Solar panels or windmills are much more install and forget. So yeah, they can invest in oil alternatives, but they won’t make nearly as much money from it.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
It’s dystopic if most can only afford to rent what they always need. IMO being able to rent something you rarely need is a good thing.
I’d much rather have my car for day to day driving and rent something with more space the few times I need to move something that won’t fit in my car. Even better would be to have ride share programs to use for medium loads and reliable mass transit for trips where I don’t have much to move.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 week ago:
ROI is continued existence for some. It’s a similar reason to why the leadership of the west is so against communism and socialism: because the best path forward doesn’t include them.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 1 week ago:
If you have a little Caesars near you that does hot n readies, they generally throw out a lot of expired ones. They sit in the warmer for like 30 minutes and then would be moved to the top of the oven until someone brought them out to the dumpster. It was my job at one time, but if anyone asked me for any of the pizzas on the way, I’d give them the full stack if they wanted that much. YMMV. I wasn’t supposed to according to the owner but fuck him, he wasn’t even in the same town 98% of the time and the closing managers didn’t care (one of them even had me bring it out to someone’s trunk that they wanted to help out).
I hated that food waste.
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 1 week ago:
It might not even be written yet.
I don’t know why, but it just seems so weird that you can go back 30 years and no one would have any awareness of a lot of songs that everyone knows today. They were only up to like Mambo Number 2 or Hey I’ll Think About It! Nickelback didn’t yet exist but if they did, they’d be singing to look at this thing they are doing right now, maybe take a photograph.
Go back 100 years and no one has any awareness of entire genres of music loved by billions today. It was almost an entirely different culture with popular hits like classical music, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, or You Are My Sunshine and other songs that are considered children’s music today.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
Neither AMD nor nVidia are chip manufacturers. They just design them and send them off to TSMC or Samsung to get made.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 week ago:
I think the plausibility comes from the fact that a specialized AI chip could theoretically outperform a general purpose chip by several orders of magnitude, at least for inference. And I don’t even think it would be difficult to convert a NN design into a chip or that it would need to be made on a bleeding edge node to get that much more performance. The trade off would be that it can only do a single NN (or any NNs that single one could be adjusted to behave identically to, eg to remove a node you could just adjust the weights so that it never triggers).
So I’d say it’s more accurate to put it as “the easiest/cheapest way to do an AI device is to use a standard SoC”, but the best way would be to design a custom chip for it.
- Comment on God help us. 2 weeks ago:
It’s all an elaborate scam by a conman who likes playing cat and mouse but wonders if there is a capable cat.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 2 weeks ago:
Infrastructure should be public anyways, so instead of giving grants to private for profit companies, it would instead use that money to just fund the infrastructure.
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
I just switched from connect to Voyager yesterday. I’m liking it so far but noticing stability issues. Like it crashes out every few hours or so. Nice to have mod tools back though.
- Comment on The choice is yours 2 weeks ago:
It’s the efficient thing to do when you’re taking care of the bath water and live on the 20 stroy building. You know the saying, “If you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, you’ll need to take an extra trip to the window.”
And if you’re wondering why we don’t just use the drain, babies don’t fit down most drains. Try having a kid for a bit and you’ll see!
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 2 weeks ago:
If you tried to make one the size of the moon, it would blow up a bit past the time you got it to the size of an atomic bomb core. Or, if you did it slowly enough, it would go critical but stop being pure enough to explode.
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 2 weeks ago:
I wish they were right because it would be awesome if all religious fundies were taken somewhere else. Too bad they often aren’t good people and many, if not most, would end up being left behind. Imagine the tantrums when they realize they’ve missed the rapture. I bet we’d see a rise in Satanism that wasn’t just a front to challenge Christian bias in religious rights but instead a rebellion against a god that spurned them. And then I wonder if they’d be surprised that atheists still want nothing to do with them.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 2 weeks ago:
Fuck, that’s a great idea! I second ouRKaoS’ idea and propose we give them a $600k budget to implement it!
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s the thing, the more I want something, the less interested I am in ads. Their whole point is to sell me their product or service, not inform me if it is worth buying.
And in the meantime, Amazon is trying to sell me a monthly subscription to once in a decade purchases.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
I agree that science involves more rigor, but we’re not doing science in here, it’s just an online discussion forum. And OP qualified their comment with “I posit” and didn’t present it like an established fact.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 weeks ago:
No, people are allowed to speculate and throw out ideas they have without needing some “expert” or paper to back up what they are saying. The mistake is treating such as if it’s a fact. Sure, there’s always going to be idiots out there that will take ideas like that and run with them, but I reject the idea that we should censor those speculations and random thoughts because idiots might believe them.
The real problem are the con artists who work those idiots up into a frenzy of fear and distrust by deliberately presenting shit they can’t back up as a fact and threat to drive donations or sell snake oil to “protect” from it.
And I’d say even shit like what you said does more harm than good because it can drive those who enjoy harmless speculation but lack the confidence to push back towards the fringes because they think the mainstream wants to tell them how to think.
- Comment on Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that whole angle has me wondering if changing my own habits to gain privacy that the average person doesn’t get will just put a target on my back. If they want to spy on everyone to figure out who is a danger to the ruling class and status quo, they could eventually just start treating anyone that they can’t spy on as suspects and either use other mechanisms to break through that privacy to make sure or just criminalize that stuff.
They were trying but I think the last round of laws failed because they’d have to admit that the current commonly used encryption schemes have backdoors and wouldn’t need to be banned when the whole question of “what about business uses?” came up.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always just thought of it as derivatives describe the rate of change and integrals the total of whatever it is that has been done.
Like if we’re talking about an x that describes position in terms of t, time, dx/dt is the rate of change of position over change in time, or speed. Then ddx/dt is change in speed over change in time, or acceleration. And dddx/dt is rate of change in acceleration over change in time (iirc this is called jerk). And going the opposite way, integrating jerk gets acceleration, then speed, then back to position. But you lose information about the initial values for each along the way (eg speed doesn’t care that you started 10m away from the origin, so integrating speed will only tell you about the change in position due to speed).
- Comment on Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours 2 weeks ago:
Especially one that controls how much money you are sending to the people that made the AI.
- Comment on Political Science 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, I think I just spontaneously developed the ability to understand that language. I’m not sure which one it is, but I can tell that this translates to (roughly): “undoubtedly, close relation”.