theherk
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- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 14 hours ago:
By denying access to resources in a primary region, one might force traffic to an alternate infrastructure with a different configuration. Or maybe by overwhelming hosts that distribute BGP configurations. By denying access to resources, sometimes you can be routed to resources with different security postures or different monitoring and alerting, thus not raising alarms. But these are just contrived examples.
Compromising devices is a wide field with many different tools and ideas, some of which are a bit off the wall and nearly all unexpected, necessarily.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
Disabling network security and edge devices to change the properties of ingress can absolutely be a component of an attack plan.
Just like overwhelming a postal sorting center could prevent a parcel containing updated documentation from reaching the receiver needing that information.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
Can be a component of it.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 4 days ago:
AI is a superset of transformers which is then a superset of LLM’s. I think I’m making the same point as you, that in the broader sense “AI” can be useful.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 4 days ago:
It also helps with tons of complex tasks in the sciences like finding new protein folding algorithms.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 5 days ago:
Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.
- Comment on Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV 1 week ago:
What year is this?
- Comment on Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository 1 week ago:
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.
Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah these comments have the three hallmarks of Lemmy:
- AI is just autocomplete mantras.
- Apple is always synonymous with bad and dumb.
- Rare pockets of really thoughtful comments.
Thanks for being at least the latter.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
Jesus. Delet this.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 3 weeks ago:
“Bad” is SN’s claim to fame. Everybody hates it. Apparently, the worse they make it, the more companies will throw money at them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, people do it both ways and you’ll even find both techniques by the pros. But anybody claiming it makes them more even I really don’t think is thinking it through. By adding the extra cut across those natural layers, you’re actually making to very small bits when the crosscut is near the layer boundary.
That’s why I think it is not only easier but superior not to add the crosscut.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 5 weeks ago:
100% understood and agreed. I don’t want to defend the bad behavior. It is out there among questioners and in the experienced community alike. Just saying it is possible to find quality help there.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 5 weeks ago:
I see this hot take often, and it isn’t entirely without merit, but it is mitigated by moderation; in some Stack communities better than others. I’ve been an active member for many years, and in my view it goes like this.
If you contribute a question without reading the rules and How to Ask a Good Question, you don’t provide minimal reproducible steps with code, post images of code, etc. you may get flamed out of town. And that may feel bad and it may be mean if the questioner didn’t know to read those. But they are there for you.
If, however, you ask a thoughtful question, give examples, show what you’ve tried, etc. you definitely can get quality, courteous help.
Doesn’t change that video killed the radio star here. The show is over.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 5 weeks ago:
It’s good enough for me.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 5 weeks ago:
What are you on about? What you said simply is not true. At least, I’ve not once heard an Apple user state they wanted to be told what they were allowed to use. You either believe that, which would be stupid, or you don’t which would be disingenuous. You pick.
It may be a scumbag company, or its users a cult, but that doesn’t stop what you said from being stupid.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 5 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with any of that. I only take issue with the quoted statement.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 5 weeks ago:
People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed.
I get that this crowd generally thinks Apple is hellspawn, in spite of also having devices made by other, also shitty corporations, but this is just a dumb thing to say. They’re just devices. Yes some of us prefer them. I didn’t switch after every mainline Android phone from G1 through Nexus and Pixel because I wanted a paternal imposition of allowed apps. Stupid fucking comment.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 5 weeks ago:
GNU / Linux :)
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 month ago:
Do they run on Windows ARM?
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 month ago:
Apple’s ARM SoC’s were some of their best work yet in my view.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 month ago:
Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.
Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows
They were replying to the comparison to Windows. What are you on about?
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 month ago:
Sure, Jan.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 month ago:
Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.
That was comparing desktop OS to mobile OS, which is why the person to which I replied pointed out this is different than macOS.
On your second point, neither is iOS a workstation, and one could just as easily say, “The only thing you’d want to install is mobile apps.” Okay but the problem isn’t the type of apps, it is the source of those apps. So either you should be able to get application / games from multiple sources or not.
If you think those initial downvotes were due to some pedantic distinction about workstation, and not because somebody indirectly implied that Microsoft and Apple were on similar footing in this regard, fine.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 month ago:
That this completely true observation has twice the downvotes than upvotes highlights this community’s views on Apple.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 1 month ago:
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 1 month ago:
Requires Windows to apply? Easily in the “nope” pile. Which is a privilege, I realize.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 1 month ago:
It is better than Recall along a few axes. It doesn’t send communications off device without specifically requesting it. It computes as required in isolated environments. And most importantly, the goal as far as we can tell is for information and toys, not for logging all the actions taken on your phone.
I’m not trying to be a fanboi here, but even if Apple Intelligence is bad… Recall is much much worse.
- Comment on Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful 1 month ago: