kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on A Mysterious PS3 Emulator Has Arrived On Android | Retro Dodo 3 days ago:
That Github issue… Wow, dude got smote by the Github gods.
Seems like the repo will probably get deleted next?
- Comment on Nomenclature 4 days ago:
Gotta zoom in to see Mt. Ev
- Comment on NSA is the only government instution that actually listens to you 5 days ago:
instution
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 1 week ago:
I appreciate the reply! And I’m sure I’m missing something, but… Why can’t you just lie about the model you used?
- Comment on Doom NPCs with Zero-Knowledge Proofs 1 week ago:
Isn’t this still subject to the same problem, where a system can lie about its inference chain by returning a plausible chain which wasn’t the actual chain used for the conclusion? (I’m thinking from the perspective of a consumer sending an API request, not the service provider directly accessing the model.)
Also:
Any time I see a highly technical post talking about AI and/or crypto, I imagine a skilled accountant living in the middle of mob territory. They may not be directly involved in any scams themselves, but they gotta know that their neighbors are crooked and a lot of their customers are gonna use their services in nefarious ways.
- Comment on Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies. 1 week ago:
Article had a lot of good content on the complexity of defining and evaluating “critical thinking” but only a couple surface-level things about AI.
- Comment on Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies. 1 week ago:
So, I used to be a huge fan of this podcast, The Pessimists Archive, which catalogued all the times when people freaked out over stuff that seems silly today.
But the thing is: We’ve also failed to freak out sufficiently over some pretty important stuff, and people who were mocked at the time have later been proven to be right.
And then there’s also the paradox of risk management: Taking a risk seriously and working to mitigate it often makes the risk not materialize, making it look like the risk mitigation was a wasted effort.
All that is to say: You really should take each case on its own merits.
- Comment on Is Social Media Doing You Dirty? Apply the CUE Test. 1 week ago:
Reflecting on my previous experience with Reddit, Lemmy passes this test with flying colors.
On Reddit, I felt like I was gasping for air while being trampled by an army of trolls and dodging endless sponsored/astroturfed content. Lemmy feels like everyone is genuine. We might not all agree on the details, but I feel like we share 99% of the same basic moral framework and we’re trying to be good.
I do worry that it’s just because of its niche status and the barriers to entry. If Lemmy really pops off, it might be like the September that never ended.
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 week ago:
I hate this timeline.
- Comment on Might be fun idk 1 week ago:
Might as well. There’s not much football in a football broadcast to begin with.
- Comment on Eyes 2 weeks ago:
“I barreleye caught it!”
- Comment on Brother HL-2280DW, what are you doing? 2 weeks ago:
Had to check that this is, indeed, a Brother. Well done.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
IIRC, even a faint T line is a positive result.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 1 month ago:
Meh. TechDirt is great for privacy stuff, but market analysis isn’t their wheelhouse.
I think Vision Pro pretty much accomplished what Apple wanted from it.
Tech press kept comparing it to “the iPhone moment”, but that’s ridiculous. It’s a dev kit.
A dev kit with the best hardware, at a lower price than the second-best, and a more mature OS than anything else out there.
We’ll have to see how it evolves from here, but it’s a perfectly fine first step. Not everything is for you.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
ITT:
People saying “They already use every other bit of data they can access, why do you naive optimists think they wouldn’t use the most obvious one?”
vs.
People saying “They already use every other bit of data they can access, why do you naive optimists think they would need to use the most expensive one?”
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 1 month ago:
If you get the washer, don’t slack on safety. That shit’ll mess you up in a millisecond.
- Comment on I could be friendly... *for money*! 1 month ago:
Remember when this was the meaning of “emotional labor”? Rather than “relationships require effort”?
- Comment on Deny, Defend, Depose: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Slaying Highlights Widespread Rage at Healthcare Industry 2 months ago:
Black lines matter
^/s^
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 2 months ago:
vigilance
Vigilance is like, not drinking the water that comes out of a nuclear reactor.
What we’re talking about here is letting everyone run their own reactor and dump the waste into the street.
You don’t gain vigilance, you lose all habitable public space.
- Comment on US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year 2 months ago:
It’s not gold, it’s Australium.
- Comment on punchable babies 2 months ago:
My inner monologue deciding whether to be a pedant about “monolog”
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 2 months ago:
I’ve been stewing on making an “unpopular opinion” post about how neckbeards ruined the internet by demanding everything be “free” (meaning ad-supported) and then using ad blockers (meaning the normies had to pick up the slack).
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
Lemmy does not understand that people are leaving X cuz of Nazis, not cuz it’s a centralized corpo platform.
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 3 months ago:
People getting put on the no-fly list cuz of racial profiling, I guess?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
They’re all towers. But the buttons are all pretty shallow with very light actuation force required.
And they all happen to be situated such that the corner which has the button is the corner furthest away from the desk, so when she jumps up onto the PC as a platform to get ready to jump onto the desk, her feet are all grouped up right in that corner.
And you can imagine that if she’s crouched down ready to jump, and I put my arm out to prevent her from jumping from the tower to the desk, that’s a lot of pressure all applied to her little toe beans.
It’s an unfortunate coincidence. But that experience, together with seeing this Mac Mini design, has made me wonder why we tend to put a button with such drastic effects right out in the open like this.
- Comment on Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess 3 months ago:
Go for it!
- Comment on Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess 3 months ago:
There’s a lot of potential here.
lemmy_check: crowdsourced fact-checking
lemmy_see: spot to compare pics of arbitrary stuff (lemmy see your favorite mug)
lemmy_know: ad-hoc polls, recommendations or requests for how-tos (lemmy know how you season your mac and cheese)
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
I’ll just stick with covering it up. Without fail, if I leave it uncovered my cat will press it. She’s even held it long enough for a forced shutdown twice that I can think of.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Yes, but even pushing it will bring up a prompt, which is annoying. And also my cat has held it down long enough to force a shutdown on my media server before, as well as on my wife’s PC during Overwatch.
- Comment on Nine trillion dollar investment in 'Super-AI' isn't that much, says SoftBank CEO. 3 months ago:
This is the dumbest timeline.
