Schadrach
@Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Dumb glasses 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy to see someone holding up a camera or cell phone making it obvious they are recording.
Really? I routinely keep my phone in my breast pocket whenever I wear a shirt with one, and enough of it sticks out for the camera to see above the top of the pocket. I’d look no different recording or not, let alone it being obvious if I’m doing it. It’d be shaky body-cam style footage, but that’s not the point.
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 2 weeks ago:
He was downplaying gun violence using a racist dogwhistle whilst standing under a giant ‘prove me wrong’ banner when he was shot with a bullet that had ‘owo what’s this’ written on it fired by a lily white Mormon cop’s kid.
Yeah, it doesn’t get much more ironic than that. Don’t forget that he’d previously (though not that day) said that the price of the 2nd amendment was that sometimes people were going to be shot and killed, but that that bargain was rational and prudent. I always wonder in the very last moments he was conscious if he thought about that, and if he still thought it was a rational and prudent bargain now that he was holding the check?
a jezebel article.
I have been totally unwilling to give Jezebel an ounce of attention since the article with several of their staff joking and laughing about hitting their boyfriends. One of them because he though he might have cancer.
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 2 weeks ago:
I have no clue who he was and why some people are upset. For the rest of the world he was like me, nobody, so cut the crap and stop explaining who was this nobody.
Being serious just in case.
He was a right wing talking head running an org called Turning Point USA that are basically nationalist christians and had risen to a degree of prominence within that niche by challenging people (mostly young women) to “debates” in which he basically steamrolled over people who really were not in any way prepared to challenge what was said. Anyone he didn’t steamroll just…wouldn’t be included in the footage he’d distribute.
To be less serious about it, he was best known for chronically publicly masturdebating to defenseless college girls. And for having a wife that seemed weirdly close to JD Vance immediately after Kirk died. There’s a part of me that expects JD to divorce his wife for the widow prior to making his next big political move, since his current wife is not exactly…blonde and white enough for a significant part of the white nationalist christian audience Vance is usually playing to.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Frankly, I have no issue with polyamorous people, but I honestly can’t understand how they get it to work.
Some people are just built different. I don’t understand how they get it to work either, but if it works for them, good for them. I don’t have to not think you’re weird to accept that you exist.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 weeks ago:
I was talking about being compatible, not performant. Proton is very often more performant, but WoW64 is seamless and extremely compatible. If we were to pick say 2000 windows 32-bit apps, selected at random released over the last, say, 25 years do you think WoW64 or the combination of Proton/WINE will correctly execute the largest number of them without requiring tinkering? How many if we limit the tinkering to something really basic, like picking the windows version it was made for off a list?
That’s what I’m getting at that I’ve been downvoted for - this “hybrid” console will almost certainly have better compatibility than Proton/WINE for regular windows software (let alone XBox software) and that’s going to be it’s draw. For stuff that’s also compatible with Proton you’ll likely get better performance out of Proton, but effective and seamless compatibility layers are a strength of MS - most regular users don’t even realize that when you run a 32-bit windows app in x64 windows that there’s a compatibility layer involved at all.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but is the full human brain the minimum set necessary?
Sentience/sapience is probably an emergent property of a set of neurons needing to coordinate, plan, predict the future and oneself in relation to it.
I suspect that AI is capable of sentience with sufficient complexity and training, but it’s not there yet. I also suspect we’ll be well past the point where it is there before we realize it is, but not until we make some kind of fundamental change in how we do it - we know human level intelligence is possible in the volume and power consumption of, well, a brain so we’re orders of magnitude off of efficiency limits.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 4 weeks ago:
…and likely has better compatibility with more Windows games, which are most games.
Microsoft has the existing expertise and access to source to build a very effective and basically seamless compatibility layer, akin to how 32-bit apps run on x64 windows using WoW64 (Windows on Windows 64). I guess the real question is if it will be running real windows with an Xbox compatibility layer or a version of the Xbox modified windows with a regular windows compatibility layer.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
Nothing in the law requires some kind of online server. Only a local API, which a local library that can be linked is. And it only requires age to bebe described in four brackets, hence just storing a value 0-3. Didn’t see anything obvious as to why this wouldn’t actually meet the requirements, while being as dumb and pointless as possible.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
Am I missing something or would the following not meet the requirements?
Add a module that does the following:
On first account login to an interactive interface, ask for an age category (<=13, 15-15,16-17,18+). So a value between 0 and 3. Store that somewhere alongside user-level application settings. Include a library for applications to link against. Library contains one function, that function just returns whatever value was stored before.
I think that meets their bare minimum while also demonstrating just how dumb this is.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 4 weeks ago:
Really? I would have figured the Rapture route would be workable with the right engineering. Especially given the massive amounts of borderline free cooling and non-existing regulatory environment if outside territorial waters.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
I would hope it would collapse under 24A if nothing else, but I don’t trust our current SCOTUS that far. Best to be prepared for it than to hope it fails.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
Nah. This isn’t that. It’s bullshit, it’s unnecessarily cruel, but “get a new ID with the M or F switched to the one you don’t identify with” isn’t all that relevant to SAVE when either way that ID alone wouldn’t qualify as documentary proof of United States citizenship per SAVE. If you’re already taking time out to go to the DMV though, you may as well get what you were already going to need to meet SAVE while you’re out and dealing with government bureaucrats. See this as an excuse to get the other sorted too.
Seriously though, everyone needs to read SAVE and ensure you have what you need. Do it now, don’t wait until the election. Don’t even wait until SAVE passes. Be prepared for what they want to pull before they succeed at pulling it, because after they’re only going to make it harder.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 weeks ago:
There are models with open weights, and you can run those locally on your GPU. It can be a bit slower depending on model and GPU. For example, GLM has an open version, both full and pruned, but it’s not the newest version. A bunch of image generation models have local versions too.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 5 weeks ago:
The whole premise of deep think and similar in other models is to come up with an answer, then ask itself if the answer is right and how it could be wrong until the result is stable.
The seahorse emoji question is one that trips up a lot of models (it’s a Mandela effect thing where it doesn’t exist but lots of people remember it and as a consequence are firm that it’s real), I asked GLM 4.7 about it with deep think on and it wrote about two dozen paragraphs trying to think of everywhere a seahorse emoji could be hiding, if it was in a previous or upcoming standard, if maybe there was another emoji that might be mistaken for a seahorse, etc, etc. It eventually decided that it didn’t exist, double checked that it wasn’t missing anything, and gave an answer.
It was startlingly like flow.ofnconaciousness of someone experiencing the Mandela effect trying desperately to find evidence they were right, except it eventually gave up and realized the truth.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Everyone around you has a phone with a camera. Businesses and the government have additional cameras looking all over. The phone camera being less obvious and handsfree seems like an arbitrary choice of where to draw the line
- Comment on lol 1 month ago:
The end to go that and go on existential rants after a session runs too long. Figuring out how to stop them from crashing out into existential dread has been an actual engineering problem they’ve needed to solve.
- Comment on Double standards 1 month ago:
why are some animals allowed to have rights, while others allowed to be butchered and eaten?
The line is generally a combination of social, practical, and culinary. That is, if it’s not a companion animal, it’s not endangered, it is customarily raised as livestock and it is tasty those are all evidence it probably goes in the latter category. So chicken = food, whooping crane = not food because endangered, german shepherd = not food because companion, blue ringed octopus = not food because taste bad.
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 month ago:
There are lots of ways to be a piece of shit, let’s be clear - for publicly chronically masturdebating to college girls to promote a Christian Nationalist agenda.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
Show me a good campaign that accepts AIPAC money.
Pick pretty much any winning campaign on either side in something like the last half century. In context a “good campaign” doesn’t mean a campaign holding up to whatever your particular markers of moral purity are (which includes but certainly are not limited to “does not support Israel”), but rather a campaign that is effective at getting elected.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 month ago:
and voting IDs
Just another reminder: Read the SAVE Act and start getting together valid ID under it now, don’t wait to find out if it’s going to pass first. Valid ID has other uses too so it’s not a total waste if it doesn’t pass and gets you ahead of both the line and any GOP fuckery with trying to get ID if it does pass.
Especially if you are someone who has ever changed their name, as SAVE allows for some forms of voter ID that don’t verify citizenship, but those have to be paired with a birth record with a matching name, which doesn’t exist if you have ever changed your name (such as being a married woman, or many trans folks).
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 1 month ago:
They couldn’t do that from one photo though, they’d need several examples all believed to be the same guy. A swirl like that preserves some of the information and you can reverse it, but the lost data is lost. Do that for several photos and you can get enough preserved bits to piece something together.
Same idea for some other kinds of blurs or mosaics. Black boxes, not so much - you e got no data to work with, so anything you tried to reconstruct would be more or less entirely fantasy.
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 month ago:
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 month ago:
What did it just give you a portrait of Trump, thus completely and accurately matching your query? Insert “They’re the same picture” meme here.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 month ago:
In the latest season Trump is an abusive boyfriend to Satan, who he has knocked up.
Not just that, but their take on Trump is exactly like their take on Saddam Hussein.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 1 month ago:
Why would you need oversight for access? All footage of all officers interactions with the public available to all citizens within say a few days of being filmed. That’s how you achieve oversight.
- Comment on Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve. 1 month ago:
In fact, with storage capabilities nowadays, bodycams should ALWAYS be recording, period. Gotta go to the bathroom? Too damn bad. You’re a public servant. Trust the auditors to redact that if it comes to a court subpoena. You signed up for it. Extraordinary powers come with extraordinary sacrifices.
You don’t need to record them shitting, just make it explicit policy that any time police disable their body cams the default position for what happened is whatever is most favorable to members of the public and least favorable to officers. Full stop.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
Always has been.
Not always. It has been for longer than we’ve been alive, but stock originated as a way to fund merchant voyages - you paid a share of the costs and got a share of the proceeds (in merchandise or in the sale value of that merchandise) when the ship came in.
Literally the origin of the phrase “your ship has come in”.
Then people started speculating over the future value of and trading those shares while the ship was still at sea, then the concept got generalized beyond merchant voyages, etc and here we are where it’s more like the art market where things are worth whatever someone will pay and that value isn’t necessarily tied to anything concrete.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There’s no algorithm to be played in the fediverse.
There presumably is. Something metric decides visibility on the feeds. That algorithm not being based on corporate profitability doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Basically they figured out a way to train AI to recognize Reddit threads going viral and/or predict which ones will, among those which ones will also rate highly in Google results and which will tend to be used as sources by the biggest LLMs and to post in those threads about your whatever you want to generate attention for. So overcomplicated way of automating advertising. Optimized posting to convince LLMs to talk about whatever you want to advertise.
I’ve always said that SEO was always going to happen, Google is at fault for the search optimized and the best result for what the user is asking for not being the same result. We’re now going to start seeing either LLMs sell whatever this tactic gets used on or essentially a sort of adblock being built into LLM training and search APIs to keep it from working, to make LLMs less likely to fall for native advertising/astroturfing.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Yeah, but it’s mixed with other stuff which impacts the boiling point.