xantoxis
@xantoxis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees 5 months ago:
I know, and I’m glad of it, but look: tech companies DO fuck around. A lot. There are lots of ways to pressure individuals into cutting corners, and to pressure auditors and controllers to look the other way. The regulators might catch them, but there’s a very real possibility that a tech company fucks up REAL bad before they get shut down. They have a very long history of it.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees 5 months ago:
And who’s going to make sure these tech companies actually run a nuclear power plant responsibly? Have they ever run anything responsibly?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Nuclear-Powered Data Center for AI Derailed by Bees 5 months ago:
Unfortunately, the bees weren’t attacking Mark Zuckerberg, they were just hanging out at the build site.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 5 months ago:
I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time
- Comment on Clever, clever 5 months ago:
Is it? If ChatGPT wrote your paper, why would citations of the work of Frankie Hawkes raise any red flags unless you happened to see this specific tweet? You’d just see ChatGPT filled in some research by someone you hadn’t heard of. Whatever, turn it in. Proofreading anything you turn in is obviously a good idea, but it’s not going to reveal that you fell into a trap here.
- Comment on Eat lead 5 months ago:
This is exactly what it is. When everything you believe is made up, it’s easily to accidentally make up the wrong number and then believe that instead.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 5 months ago:
if it’s the latter, just get it in writing.
- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 5 months ago:
Maybe, I don’t know enough about him, but I will say this: Nobody fits my definition of “people who work hard” better than Euler.
- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 5 months ago:
When someone says “He’s an unbelievable genius,” I now understand that the person speaking is either a con artist or a gullible idiot. Unbelievable geniuses don’t exist, there’s just specialists, people who get lucky, people who work hard. So if you’re saying someone is such a genius, either you have no metric by which to measure genius, or you’re selling something.
“I think Cullen made the Satoshi accusation for marketing. He needed a way to get attention for his film.”
Cullen is absolutely selling something: he’s selling his documentary.
The various denials and deflections from Todd, he claims, are part of a grand and layered misdirection.
Smells 100% like bullshit. I had no take on this documentary one way or the other before, but now I’m very skeptical.
- Comment on Authorities hack cryptocurrency seed phrase 6 months ago:
I highly doubt they did anything remotely like “hacking” the seed phrase. I don’t care for cryptocurrency, but I hate cop bullshit even more, so here’s my 2 cents.
or just found it written somewhere in the house?
this one.
A seed phrase is just an encoding of a long binary number which can be used to derive the secret key. Trying all the possibilities probably isn’t possible, and I think it’s also unlikely that they found a way to weaken it. What they probably did is find it and type it in. They DID raid the dude’s house, where he was probably keeping a copy of it.
- Comment on Is setting a box outside a viable trapping strategy for felines? 6 months ago:
So what did you do with them once they were trapped? I imagine lifting that box would be putting your own life at risk, but even if you survived that you now have a feral cat to deal with.
- Comment on Couple tried to sell baby for a 6-pack of beer and $1,000 at campground, police say 6 months ago:
Are you kidding me? I’m getting 400 per baby, tops. They got greedy.