MrPoopyButthole
@MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 1 month ago:
That’s some scary stuff
- Comment on Everyone who reads this was at some point(s) in their life seconds away from death, without realising it. 2 months ago:
If they did not die, then they were not seconds away from it.
- Comment on It's a story for the ages 2 months ago:
To be fair, she was more of a counselor to him than Troi.
Another pointless argument is that because some people associate the length of a friendship with the strength of a friendship, and she has known him for over 500 years (time travel shenanigans), so their bond is for some reason stronger.
- Comment on This CAPTCHA is unfair! 2 months ago:
Haha! The Odo pick is perfect.
- Comment on Pac-Man is the Square in Flatland. The player is the Sphere from Spaceland who can see through the walls. 3 months ago:
Flatlanders can only see other flatlanders in a single dimension: a line. All flatlanders would look similar, no matter what shape they were, however from different angles the line that represents them would change length with some shapes and not others. A sphere is one of the shapes where the line would stay at a constant length.
- Comment on U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp 3 months ago:
How can they get away with this? Does Isreal not give a shit about international relations?
- Comment on Chronobiologist and Nobel Laureate in Medicine Michael Rosbash: ‘Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than electric lighting at night’ 6 months ago:
I don’t buy it. Indoor type people look way younger than their outdoor peer group in their 40s and 50s
- Comment on No matter what cat litter you buy, It's all the same shit. 6 months ago:
I pay huge amounts for this organic clumping litter made out of grass that neutralizes all smells and there is nothing you can say that will make me side with your opinion.
- Comment on I mean it was only Tuvix 7 months ago:
Now do the doctor as mini me!
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I used to love Golden Eye! I bought a gaming laptop a few months ago, but I’ve hardly used it. I think my inner child is deceased. Now I just wake, work (from home), re-watch Star Trek, look at memes, sleep, repeat.
- Comment on Also a bunch of masked ancient aliens to boot 7 months ago:
- Comment on Ransomware 7 months ago:
I think you’re taking this a bit too seriously. Risa is a community for shit posting and jokes. We are allowed to make fun of ourselves here.
- Comment on Ransomware 7 months ago:
I think MudMan is correctly pointing out that to travel any slower than light speed through space causes time dilation since space is actually space-time.
There is a trade-off between how fast you travel proportional to the speed of light and how much time a stationary observer percieves to have passed compared to you who is travelling.
When you travel faster than the speed of light, all time and causality breaks down. This is not the case with how the writers of Star Trek wrote warp drive mechanics, this is our best understanding of the actual universe. Einsteins theory of relativity.
Fun fact: Light itself (or its quantized unit: the photon) travels at the speed of light and therefore experiences no time. If a photon is emitted from a star across the universe and travels millions of light years before eventually being absorbed by your eye, from our stationary reference point, the light has been travelling for millions of years, but for the photon it was instantaneous. Zero time passed for the photon. This is the idea of time dilation.
- Comment on Ransomware 7 months ago:
Hey now, that’s way too much actual science theory for a sci-fi franchise 😁
- Comment on Ransomware 7 months ago:
This is a double episode from Voyager where they come across another federation starship, the Equinox.
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- Comment on Questions on backing up to S3 Glacier Deep Archive. 7 months ago:
That class of storage is very expensive to get your data back. Buying a drive will be cheaper.
- Comment on Lower Decks, lotta details 7 months ago:
The dude is a legend. I’ll always remember the smile on his face when the interview coordinator read my comment out loud “Quark is the best character in DS9”.
- Comment on New SSH Vulnerability - Schneier on Security 7 months ago:
The countermeasure to the attacks we describe in this paper is well known: implementations should validate signatures before sending them. OpenSSH, the most common SSH implementation we observed in this data, implements this countermeasure because it uses OpenSSL to generate signatures, and OpenSSL has included countermeasures against RSA fault attacks since 2001.
- Comment on Cardassian Psycho 7 months ago:
Lets see Sisko’s combadge
- Comment on The Crossover No One Asked For or Remembered 7 months ago:
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- Comment on Cope 7 months ago:
I’d just like to remind you that you’re responsible for giving internet strangers like me uncontrollable laughs, warm fuzzy feelings, and a sense of community. Thank you for that. I’m sending my love and appreciation to you in hope that it helps you weather the storm in this difficult time for you 💙
- Comment on The government probably has super advanced AI at this very moment that we won't see for decades 7 months ago:
The NSA buys most of their zero days. It’s no wonder why they have libraries full of them. Finding exploits is a bit different to developing stuff too.
I agree that they have the vast amounts of training data that they could put to use. I would not be surprised if they had a quantum computer that has broken RSA lower bit ranges by now. This was proven in academic circles to be possible and just needed scaling up. The same is true for using wireless emitting devices to see through walls.
I’m almost certain that they have full access into Tor now. I read a while ago that they monopolized many exit nodes. Snowden and others must be using multiple methods to conceal their true locations.
But do they have a self improving AI? I don’t think so. OpenAIs main goal is to create a GPT knowledgeable enough that it can help them improve their own models, AKA reaching the singularity - but with human intervention to prevent a run away effect. Transformer based models are not going to give us AGI. Once the researchers figure out what’s really needed then govt will adopt and scale it. Until then it’s just fancy closed source private versions of what is currently available.
- Comment on In a different timeline 7 months ago:
I laughed so hard I nearly choked 🤣
- Comment on The aliens in the delta quadrant are free, you can transport them directly to your quarters 7 months ago:
Skully’s looking pretty hot…
- Comment on The government probably has super advanced AI at this very moment that we won't see for decades 7 months ago:
Sure, it’s likely government has better software than what the public has access to, but not by that much. Some NSA software has leaked before and it’s just “good” not mind bending. The best stuff often gets created by university groups collaborating with other universities. Government scavenges from these groups. Their research is published in journals before it reaches classified status. Of course there are some military groups and other directly funded groups but what they make is a small percentage of the best stuff.
- Comment on I need some recommendations 7 months ago:
There are some watch guides out there (but I haven’t verified any myself, sorry!). If you do watch TNG, VOY, DS9, ENT there are many junk episodes that could be skipped. I’ve seen them all so I just skip manually when I see one of them start.
- Comment on The origin of the O'Brien must suffer episodes 7 months ago:
To reveal why would be a spoiler IMO