faintbeep

@faintbeep@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also since companies are adding AI to everything, sometimes when you think you’re just doing a digital zoom you’re actually getting AI upscaling.

  There was a court case not long ago where the prosecution wasn’t allowed to pinch-to-zoom evidence photos on an iPad for the jury, because the zoom algorithm creates new information that wasn’t there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times will I tell you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most fair thing to do, oddly, is to leave the seat in the opposite position it was when you got there; everybody flips it once, it may be before or after you use it. Fair.

  I’ll remember this one, I love it when people are actually logical about things.

  Reminds me of canal locks. The etiquette is to always close the doors after you leave, and people get angry when you don’t. But it’s infuriating because it actually creates more work for everyone. If you leave the doors closed then the next person always has to stop their boat to open them, but if you leave them open there’s a 50% chance the correct set of doors is open for the next person to sail right in. If you’re in the unlucky 50% it makes no difference, because you had to stop to empty the lock anyway and afterwards you get to sail off without closing them.

  People also think closing them saves water, which is another can of people-not-understanding-physics worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expertise⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a generation of internet debate guys who seem convinced that correlation disproves causation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Stop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The dude who owns the election server won’t be able to manipulate results in any way.

  Sure he will. He can just ignore votes for one candidate and not add them to the chain. Blockchains are only resistant to manipulation if they’re distributed and people agree on the canonical version. Even then if enough people agree to manipulate them they can, like they did with Ethereum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the Node ecosystem so demanding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole industry of bug bounty hunters making money off this trivial stuff. At work I had to fix a “bug” which could only be exploited if an attacker took control of facebook first, and even then it just meant a user could be redirected to a different website. And the company paid the clown that found the “vulnerability”.