remotelove

@remotelove@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, was I using the correct lingo for hundred year old methane powered shit gushers? I had no idea. Lol!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shamone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The weird part is that it still looks like The Rock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  use spent oil reservoirs

  Ok, that lead to some giggles thinking about some company drilling in the future thinking they were about to hit a strangely untapped oil field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could probably map resonance artifacts, but you have to isolate layers that were printed at the same speed and direction. However, the second you tighten a belt or screw, that pattern will change and I am not sure how consistent resonance patterns would be on a bed slinger. (The quantity and density of printed plastic may change the resonant characteristics of the entire printer. This may be less of an issue on a core xy.)

  Thinking waaay outside the box… In some cases, I have seen extruder gear marks on the filament create artifacts on a print. Every gear pattern should be unique, but measurable differences would probably be micron or sub-micron.

  Maybe you could map the surface of textured beds as I seriously doubt that those patterns would be consistent and more prone to randomness from the factory.

  There are a ton of conditions that could generate unique artifacts on a print, now that I think of it. Hell, even a printers PID tuning can leave visible errors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.

  All it will take is oneinvestigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.

  Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.

  TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.

  Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.

  The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)

  Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.

  I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes at the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The popularity of Roblox among parents is going to skyrocket along with the players average age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rough draft NAS is complete!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fan is good, but the orientation seems like it would struggle pushing air between the drives. Maybe a push-pull setup with a second fan?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  (For others reading this, this is a perfect followup to my comment here explaining the “why”, while this is an excellent view into the “how” and picks up the bits I dropped about Ohms Law.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pin pitch is pin size and/or spacing. With physical plugs, you start to hit limitations with how small the wires can get while still being durable enough to withstand plugging/unplugging hundreds of times.

  Drop losses. (I am keeping this at an ELI5 [more like ELI15, TBH] level and ignoring some important stuff) Every electronic component generates heat from the power it uses. More power used usually means more heat. Heat requires physical space and lots material to dissipate correctly. Depending on the materials used to “sink” (move; direct; channel) heat, you may need a significant amount of material to dissipate the heat correctly. So, you can use more efficient materials to reduce the amount of power that is converted to heat or improve how heat is transferred away from the component. (If you are starting to sense that there is a heat/power feedback loop here, it’s because there can be.) Since a bit of power is converted to heat, you can increase the power to your device to compensate but this, in turn, generates more heat that must be dissipated.

  In short, if your device runs on 9v and draws a ton of power, you need to calculate how much of that power is going to be wasted as heat. You can Google Ohms Law if you would like, but you can usually measure a “voltage drop” across any component. A resistor, which resists electrical current, will “drop” voltage in a circuit because some of the current (measured in amperage) is converted to heat.

  I kinda smashed a few things related to efficiency and thermodynamics in a couple of paragraphs, but I think I coved the basics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missed it by that much!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  o

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t go for your weekly dopamine sprays? It’s totally the new thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corederella⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the shoe fits… turn everyone in a 500ft radius into Hulk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So one arm of Google is making the slop and the other is trying to avoid it? Neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My general attitude is similar to yours. Let OP figure out that the reporting and blocking is basically just creating more noise that has to gets filtered out and bot supply is basically infinite.

  “It’s a learning experience.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck with that, I suppose. Botnets can have thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of infected hosts that will endlessly scan everything on the interwebs. Many of those infected hosts are behind NAT’s and your abuse form would be the equivalent of reporting an entire region for a single scan.

  But hey! Change the world, amirite?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That comment is pure gold and I am archiving it for future use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's really not okay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look for basic errors. All of the R’s seem to have similar issues but aren’t quite the same. An example: Image

  This same problem happens across more of the text.

  The pull cord for a lamp should end at a lamp, not a circle on the ceiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked into that and the only question I really have is how geographically distributed the samples were. Other than that, It was an oversampled study, so <50% of the people were the control, of sorts. I don’t fully understand how the sampling worked, but there is a substantial chart at the bottom of the study that shows the full distribution of responses. Even with under 1000 people, it seems legit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a place for that. It’s called 4chan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In this study, we conducted a survey (n = 742) including a representative U.S. sample and an oversample of gender minorities, racial minorities, and disabled individuals to examine how demographic factors shape AI attitudes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I only see CIA, where CCP??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tankiejerk is also acceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been using 6ghz for about a year or so now and I found it to be quite fast. MLO can be super weird sometimes and seems to get confused, but it works. (It’s probably just a driver I haven’t updated.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China claims big advances in classical and quantum computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They claim big advances on a lot of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Internet would be great if it wasn’t for all the other computers attached to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment

  In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)

  Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)

  Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.

  Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward

  Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.

  (Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There seems to hundreds of studies on that and there seems to be a fairly uniform “Yes” and “More than you would guess”, etc.

  Here is one: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/ADR-220062

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Lunch Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people’s TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.

  If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Lunch Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.

  Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Lunch Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Lunch Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems to be from the TikToks, so no. Not real.