SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 day ago:
I have heard it repeated several times. It’s based on how virtual assistants are allowed to listen over your mic for keywords, applications like Facebook requesting full microphone access, and people with stories of getting ads for things after having a conversation about the same.
The third could be a form of recency bias; I just learned about this, and now I see it everywhere. Also, it’s easy to know who is in your circle, and items you recently searched could be advertised to your friends. I saw this by getting sudden ads for handguns after getting an Amazon link from my gun crazy friend.
- Comment on I appreciate CR calling it 'training' 2 weeks ago:
Connect won’t let me edit my last post. I can’t get the edit icon to appear.
- Comment on I appreciate CR calling it 'training' 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anotha one 5 weeks ago:
Subscribed.
Keep on making!
- Comment on Claw machine deckbuilder Dungeon Clawler arrives November 21 and it's going to grab you 1 month ago:
My older teenage son got into the game pretty hard for a month or two on beta or whatever and got me to play.
The mechanics are fun. I’d like to see more story.
- Comment on As a word of caution for those buying physical used games on Bluray, check the disc for holes. 1 month ago:
25-35 hours. I’m about to cross the temple of the ancients.
In my opinion, it’s acceptable to possess a ROM in this situation. Just remember up use a VPN for protection.
- Comment on Let's go on a new adventure! 2 months ago:
It’s actually been good so far, but I couldn’t pass up the meme when I saw this image.
Also, I will be surprised if there is no tournament.
- Submitted 2 months ago to animemes@ani.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Badgers 2 months ago:
Ugh. Searats again? Didn’t we just send them packing one book ago?
- Comment on Bruce Schneier: China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor 2 months ago:
Pretty sure the dangers of backdoors were explicitly outlined the 1980’s documentary, “War Games.”
- Comment on Glass Reflection talks about Fall 2024 season. 2 months ago:
First time watching this person.
They only finished watching 2 anime this season.
Dungeon People (I liked it) Ramen Akuneko (I didn’t watch)
They recommended Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian and Bye Bye Earth, along with Yatagarasu, Slime, and Spice and wolf.
They feel that most people only watch 5-6 shows, so it’s fine.
Since they watched 9 shows this spring it gives them credibility.
There is some discussion about how one feels about their favorite shows.
My first impression of this influencer is that they are experiencing changes in taste.
My rant is that everyone slept on dead dead demons dededede destruction. Same reason. My cred is that I probably watched 45 shows this year.
Also, my taste is shit.
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 3 months ago:
I’m in govt IT and looking to prevent this feature.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 3 months ago:
Out of the criticisms I have of Vance, I do have to say that he wears the Trump uniform better than Trump himself.
- Comment on Fall 2024 3 months ago:
Thanks! I completely missed this thread somehow.
On a positive side, the Lemmy community in general does seem to be growing!
- Comment on Fall 2024 3 months ago:
If it’s good, I’ll love it. I rarely drop anime.
- Submitted 3 months ago to anime@ani.social | 4 comments
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I was thinking more of having a dedicated border device, and limiting the number of neighbors. You would also have to trust you neighbors to run software that self assembles a network, especially in a crowded area.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 3 months ago:
Not sure exactly what I would do with it either. It’s not meant for illegal activity, but I can see it being used they way. Properly secured it could be another dark web.
I thought about it needing some kind of border protocol to manage locations and routes. One would need to come up with an address and probably a certificate.
Regarding physical connections, I would say it’s easiest to use wireless. I personally wouldn’t want to advertise that my location is my network, so like the onion network I would like it to route away and double back.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 3 months ago:
I know this isn’t what is being asked, but has any of us considered a crowd network where independent users mesh? I would say that I would not want the mesh to meet the www due to endpoint abuse, but to have an independent can/man could be pretty rad.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 3 months ago:
This may be rude, but we talked about this elsewhere in this thread.
- Comment on Has anyone ever seen a "10A" USB-C cable and can tell what their purpose is? 3 months ago:
The spec is too use 4 of 24 pins each for power and another 4 for ground. What if you used 16 pins for power? One could even be reckless enough to use 22 pins for power If the ground isn’t tied together, but that means you have to take a moment to sense ground.
Maybe you will see 8.5a at the device, but 10a at the source with the cable heating up…
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 3 months ago:
That’s a good point. I’m guessing my numbers might refer more to cloud providers than individuals with smaller data sets.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 3 months ago:
I was using a pretty broad brush. Some of the figures were higher, some were lower, but it many were consistently around .3. Feel free to take it with a grain of salt. Even if I’m over by 50%, it is still a large number.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 3 months ago:
I’m not 100% down with these numbers. The verge has a breakdown of energy usage for generation and training, and you could argue that demand is responsible for training.
I would also argue that energy usage would be directly related to water usage. Unless there is passive cooling unrelated to the energy generation, the evaporation would be directly related to the energy cost.
I didn’t collect sources while I was coming this, but I found that it takes about .3 KWH to generate an AI image - about the same as fully charging a smartphone. 1kwh is ~860 kCal (one Calorie = kCal = 1000 calories) 1 image is ~282 Calories 1 Calorie heats 1 liter of water 1 degree It takes ~540 Calories to vaporise 1 liter 2 images vaporize a liter of water There are ~30k liters in an 18 foot above ground pool with 4ft of water. There were 15 billion images generated daily in May 2024 As of August 2023, people have generated almost 15.5 billion AI-generated images, and each day sees approximately 34 million new AI-generated images. 17 million liters vaporized daily, about 500 swimming pools This put my numbers at ~250k swimming pools vaporized so far.
- Comment on Albedo and Ainz (by Pai) 4 months ago:
Ainz, huh huh huh, I know you’re in there. You don’t have any reason to be in there anyway. Why don’t you come on out and play a little. You CRUNCH know you CRUNCH need me CRUNCH. HERE’S ALBEDO!
- Comment on Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction • DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION - Episode 13 discussion 4 months ago:
I’m watching this and am continuously concerned for the cast. We know it gets much darker.
- Comment on Are all FRU for a particular Lenovo Marketing part number? 4 months ago:
You should not have any issues. Worst case scenario is that one is slower than the other and will cause the faster one to step down, but unless one is significantly slower, you should have no issues.
Generally, in the past 10 years at least, mixed memory on dual channel configuration has not been an issue.
- Comment on NAS OS with a web UI 5 months ago:
I’m using truenas for my homebrew setup. I need to buy 2 more drives and start planning on rebalancing my setup, but this is how it looks right now.
- Comment on Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen Season II • Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World Season 2 - Episode 2 discussion 5 months ago:
Episode 1 felt like Sword Art and I hated it. Episode 2 feels like a romcom and it was better.
Iska, the leading male character, could be replaced by a magic kumquat and/or pez dispenser. No motives and little emotion coming through. I would like to know why he set the prisoner free. Maybe he could be less ambivalent about his time in prison.
Alice, the leading female character, has a bit more substance to her. Why does she seem so detached from her role? As royalty, she would have a structured life, but she seems to be more of a bored teenager.
Otherwise, the animation is good. The supporting characters are more like classmates than fellow soldiers.
- Comment on Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines 5 months ago:
