BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 week ago:
ICE was created by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support. 90-9 in the senate and 42 Yeas came from Dems.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 1 week ago:
That’s exactly where I also put down the controller, haha. All pantheons and platinum (and path of pain - which I think might be an achievement?) was enough. All bindings is just a little more masochism than I can handle!
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 weeks ago:
It took me three tries before I really got into Hollow Knight, but when it clicked, it clicked. Kind of like Dark Souls. Started that one as well a couple times and petered out, but on the next playthrough, it became one of my favorite games.
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 2 weeks ago:
Yours is probably in better shape than mine. The 13 and 14 series specifically had a design flaw in the microcode that overvolts them. They slowly burn out over time, and the damage is irreversible.
Earlier processors aren’t affected. It’s specific to this series. But the only “fix” is a microcode patch that nerfs performance, so I’d rather just ride it out and switch to AMD.
- Comment on The US government could get even more Intel stock if the company ends up losing control of its chip manufacturing business 2 weeks ago:
My 13700K is still going strong for now, but it sucks to know it’s probably on a timer. I’m definitely jumping ship for AMD in my next rebuild.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 2 weeks ago:
Ask ChatGPT how to make some bomb chicken, but don’t be surprised when law enforcement shows up at your house.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Both they and Google are getting sued over kids who committed suicide, whose parents should have been monitoring them and getting them mental health treatment. If the courts decide that LLM companies bear legal and financial responsibility for user actions, then of course they’re going to do this.
The only privacy is local. And actually, given Microsoft, local and Linux-based.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
Operating system sold separately. Some assembly required.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
Is there a plausible way they actually ban the use of VPNs? Like, they can make it illegal on paper, but even in China, which has long had strict restrictions on internet use, I’ve heard that VPN use is widespread.
It just all seems like performative whack-a-mole to me. The only people who can control what a kid sees online are their parents or guardians. A child is not buying themselves a laptop or an iPad.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
Cat ears and butt stuff. Might as well save them some CPU cycles.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s like complaining that a hammer isn’t good at turning a screw. There’s a whole trend of Chess content creators featuring games against ChatGPT where it forgets the position or plays illegal moves, and it just doesn’t mean anything. ChatGPT was never designed or intended to be able to evaluate a chess position, and incidentally, we do have computer programs that do exactly that and have been better than any human player since the 1990s. So what is even the point?
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 3 weeks ago:
Integers are days in Excel, no? So I think 2+2= 12:00 AM Jan 5, 1900.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
I assume the top-level takeaway is that we’re all getting pushed to Linux, but just on slightly varying timelines. :)
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 4 weeks ago:
Particularly apt given that may of the biggest problems with social media are problems of capitalism. Social media platforms have found it most profitable to monetize conflict and division, the low self-esteem of teenagers, lies and misinformation, envy over the curated simulacrum of a life presented by a parasocial figure.
These things drive engagement. Engagement drives clicks. Clicks drive ad revenue. Revenue pleases shareholders. And all that feeds back into a system that trades negativity in the real world for positivity on a balance sheet.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
It’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever install, so the statement was accurate but incomplete.
- Comment on X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers 5 weeks ago:
But maybe it will hallucinate ads for non-existent products, like Dr. Zhivago’s Peanut Butter Enema Cannon, which could be fun.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe Jim was just in a really good mood after all his hair spontaneously grew back. /s
- Comment on OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners 5 weeks ago:
It’s going to help you reflect on that situation!
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 month ago:
Completely agree. The whole tone and setting changed. SC:BW went for gritty realism. Obviously, there’s a suspension of disbelief when you’ve got psionic aliens, but it felt like three scrappy factions barely surviving in the endless dark of space.
SC2 went full Warcraft. Ancient gods, portals to other worlds, all the same kitschy fantasy elements that are fine in the campy context of WC but really clashed with the established character of the SC universe. I get that they wanted to raise the stakes in the sequel, but I really disagreed with how they went about it.
And Kerrigan should have stayed evil. That’s my “Han shot first” of the franchise.
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 1 month ago:
Possibly, yes. There are models that will run on consumer-grade GPUs that you might already have or might have purchased anyway, where you might say there’s no incremental cost. But the issue is that the performance will be limited. The models are forgetful and prone to getting stuck in loops of repeated phrases.
So if instead you custom-build a workstation with two 5090s or a Pro 6000 or something that pushes you up to the 100 GB VRAM tier, then absolutely, just as you said you’ll be spending thousands of dollars that probably won’t pay back relative to renting cloud GPU time.
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 1 month ago:
Yes, Ollama or a range of other backends (Ooba, Kobold, etc.) can run LLMs locally. Huggingface has a huge number of models suited to different tasks like coding, storywriting, general purpose, and so on. If you run both the backend and frontend locally, then no one monetizes your data.
The part I’d argue that the previous poster is glazing over a little bit is performance. Unless you have an enterprise-grade GPU cluster sitting in your basement, you’re going to make compromises on speed and/or quality relative to the giant models that run on commercial services.
- Comment on Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter • Koujo Denka no Katei Kyoushi - Episode 5 discussion 1 month ago:
Lydia does seem the type to crash out hard. Excited to see just how big a fire and/or shitstorm she causes.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 month ago:
Yes, that’s it. A lot of AV systems are dependent on high resolution 3d maps of an area so they can precisely locate themselves in space. So they may perform relatively well in that defined space but would not be able to do so outside it.
Level 5 is functionally a human driver. You as a human could be driving off road, in an environment you’ve never been in before. Maybe it’s raining and muddy. Maybe there are unknown hazards within this novel geography, flooding, fallen trees, etc.
A Level 5 AV system would be able to perform equivalently to a human in those conditions. Again, it’s science fiction at this point, but essentially the end goes of vehicle automation is a system that can respond to novel and unpredictable circumstances in the same way a human driver would in that scenario. It’s really not defined much better than that end goal - because it’s not possible with current technology, it doesn’t correspond to a specific set of sensors or software system. It’s a performance-based, long-term goal.
This is why it’s so irresponsible for Tesla to continue to market their system as “Full self driving.” It is nowhere near as adaptable or capable as a human driver. They pretend or insinuate that they have a system equivalent to SAE Level 5 when the entire industry is a decade minimum away from such a system.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 1 month ago:
Well, the Obama administration had published initial guidance on testing and safety for automated vehicles in September 2016, which was pre-regulatory but a prelude to potential regulation. Trump trashed it as one of the first things he did taking office for his first term. I was working in the AV industry at the time.
That turned everything into the wild west for a couple of years, up until an automated Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018. After that, most AV companies scaled public testing way back, and deployed extremely conservative versions of their software. If you look at news articles from that time, there’s a lot of criticism of how, e.g., Waymos would just grind to a halt in the middle of intersections, as companies would rather take flak for blocking traffic than running over people.
But not Tesla. While other companies dialed back their ambitions, Tesla was ripping Lidar sensors off its vehicles and sending them back out on public roads in droves. They also continued to market the technology - first as “Autopilot” and later as “Full Self Driving” - in ways that vastly overstated its capabilities. To be clear, Full Self Driving, or Level 5 Automation in the SAE framework, is science fiction at this point, the idea of a computer system functionally indistinguishable from a capable human driver.
Part of the blame probably also lies with Biden, whose DOT had the opportunity to address this and didn’t during his term. But it was Trump who initially trashed the safety framework, and Telsa that concealed and mismarketed the limitations of its technology.
- Comment on Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds 1 month ago:
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 1 month ago:
I mean, download xtts2 and feed a six-second clip of Mark Hamill’s voice into it. Altman isn’t wrong that it’s extremely easy these days and a massive security hole.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 1 month ago:
Only until you hit your data cap!
- Comment on 'The Next Level': Ex-KADOKAWA Chairman Says Generative AI and Short Anime Will Drive Japanese Content Forward - Anime Corner 2 months ago:
Every time I’m watching a low budget anime with terrible CGI, I think, wow, if only we could add AI into the mix too.
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 2 months ago:
Aw, c’mon. There are a lot more reasons not to buy a Tesla than just this.
- Comment on Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 2 discussion 2 months ago:
Holy shit that was dark.
