Vorticity
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- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 weeks ago:
If I had to guess, the reason for the lack of a phone requirement is that, if the army required everyone to have phones, the army would need to pay for them, too. I’m sure the army loves spending money on things like that.
- Comment on OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity 1 month ago:
Can you recommend some models to try?
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
It’s pretty amazing to me that a company hasanagednto become so reviled that Walmart is the better and more ethical option.
- Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship 2 months ago:
Whether they have wifi on ship or not isn’t the issue. Sometimes, when a ship goes into an operation, they will turn off all signals except passive or directed signals so that they can’t easily be detected. Having a communications signal that isn’t under the control of the ship’s officers is a huge security risk during operations.
Someone is going to be court martialed over this.
- Comment on W Earth 3 months ago:
- Comment on NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s 3 months ago:
Video tape isn’t really that durable over time. Most of the info I can find comes from digitization services, but they are fairly consistent in saying that, for tapes that are stored in “normal” conditions, you can expect 10-25% degradation in 20 years. These tapes are 40 years old. They have likely degraded significantly already and may fall apart when played.
- Comment on Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns 4 months ago:
There are places a skinny naked person can hide things. What do we do about that?
- Comment on ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later 4 months ago:
I don’t think they really query one another. Maybe they do though?
- Comment on ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later 4 months ago:
I wonder how undergrads would do on the same exams given unlimited time and internet access but with LLMs blocked. That’s essentially what the LLMs have.
- Comment on 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later 5 months ago:
I wonder how this compares the the number of businesses that existed in 2013 that no longer exist. I wonder for two reasons:
- Is 38% similar to the typical rate of failure for businesses and other ventures?
- How much of the 38% can be explained by closure of high-risk businesses like restaurants?
Something else that could explain a lot of it is webpages that were always intended to be ephemeral. Political campaign websites for instance.
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 6 months ago:
May I ask what service you switched to? I’m tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don’t need them in Spotify.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 6 months ago:
The name comes from the name of the person who first proposed the Julian Calendar, Julius Caesar.
- Comment on Beautiful 7 months ago:
the nose is maybe strangely small, lips are a little off-putting
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
I’m fairly sure that the admins of lemmy.world said that we could expect a big spike in active users after the upgrade to 1.19 due to a change in how active users are calculated. I can’t seem to find the post now, though.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
I generally agree with you but that is still a fuzzy line to draw that is likely very dependent on circumstances. The devil is in the details.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
I still disagree that there is a clear line. Yes, it is obvious that photo grain is different from making you look like a human head on a shark’s body. The problem is somewhere in the middle. Determining where that line is drawn is going to be difficult and is only going to become more difficult as this technology advances.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
Add to that the fact that our brains run software that doesn’t even try to faithfully store images and you have part of the reason that photos are, currently, more reliable than eye witnesses. That may be changing though.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
Yeah, you’re right. It still scares me somewhat, though. What happens when courts fall behind and continue to rely on photo evidence after photo evidence becomes easy for anyone to fake. What happens when the courts finally do realize that photos are unreliable?
I don’t think this change can or should be stopped. It is just worrisome and thought should be put into how to mitigate the problems it will inevitably cause
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
It’s not just the sensors though. The software used to convert what the sensors saw into an image makes decisions. Those decisions are sometimes simple and sometimes complex. Sometimes they are the result of machine learning and might already be considered to be AI. This is just another step in the direction of less faithfulness in photos.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
I disagree. Current cameras that we consider to not use AI still manipulate images beyond just attempting to approximate the scene. They may not allow easy face swapping but they still don’t faithfully represent the scene much of the time.
Also, I don’t even think it is clear where we can draw a line between “normal” algorithms and “AI” algorithms. What level of machine learning is required before we consider an alrogitm to be AI?
Simple non-AI algorithms and generative AI are on a spectrum of comlexity. They aren’t discrete from one another such that they can be easily categorized.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
A Polaroid is the best representation that can be made of a scene on Polaroid photo film. The lens, the paper, and other factors will always make the representation, to a degree, not real. That was the Samsung exec’s point. It’s a little disingenuous, though. The discussion shouldn’t be about “real” vs “fake” it should be about “faithful” vs “misleading”.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
The statement that “There is no such thing as a real picture” isn’t wrong. It kind of missed the point though. It’s true that, even when a photo attempts to make the most faithful representation possible, it can only approximate what it sees. The sensors used all have flaws and idiosyncracies and software that processes the images makes different decisions in different situations to give a good image. Trying to draw a line between a “real” picture and a “fake” picture is like trying to define where the beach ends and where the ocean begins. The line can be drawn in many places for many reasons.
That said, the editing that the S24 is going to allow may be going a little far in the direction of “fake” from the sounds of things. I’m not sure if that is good or bad but it does scare me that photos can’t really be relied upon to give an accurate representation of a scene anymore. Everyone having access to ti’s kind of AI is going to make it tremendously difficult to distinguish between realistic and misleading images.
- Comment on Work placement rewards om 2044 10 months ago:
Outdoors for a week VS 10 extra minutes in the scream box. The ability to scream in private is very valuable it seems.
- Comment on Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online - VnExpress International 10 months ago:
So, just an FYI, I bought Eufy cameras because I believed their marketing bullshit about being secure and end-to-end encrypted. About two months later they changed how they describe their security and quietly modified their privacy policy. Turns out they’re not really end-to-end encrypted and it is possible to gain access to the streams sometimes.
My recommendation, after doing my research is not to buy anything that is able to be viewed remotely. Buy something that stores the video locally, in your home. If possible, buy and install wired cameras.
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to stop the FCC from updating data-breach notification rules 11 months ago:
The Republican party cares about us and our families. They’re protecting us from this obvious overreach. We, as Chinese hackers, have a right to remain anonymous and undetected. We have a right to use the information that we find and it only harms us when consumers are notified that we have their information. Stand up for your rights! Vote Republican!
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 11 months ago:
I’m guessing it’s in the terms and conditions when you buy the vehicle. In which case I’d say that Tesla is within their rights. If you don’t like the terms, don’t buy the car.
- Comment on Free returns disappearing from retailers | The era of free returns — an essential part of the rise of online shopping — is ending 11 months ago:
I do buy some items without free returns but I will NEVER buy things like clothes or shoes without free returns or an option to take them to a physical store for free. There is a reason that brick and mortar stores have changing rooms.
There is a reason that, back in the day, mail-order clothing companies like L.L. Bean had ridiculously good return policies. They wouldn’t have gotten any business without them.
- Comment on Blueberry milkshakes 1 year ago:
- Comment on Kid's going places 1 year ago:
Something tells me that you don’t work in science. The process for getting science funding isn’t simple and weeds out useless studies pretty quickly. On average, calls for proposals have about a 15% success rate. So, 15 in every 100 proposals get funded. They are funded after being vetted for usefulness, feasibility, novelty, cost, and other factors.
Since studies are well-vetted before getting funded, studies that sound like they’re simple or useless based on headlines normally make a lot of sense when you read the research results.
