Eximius
@Eximius@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI contributes to inflating global debt, already approaching $346 trillion or 310% of GDP 4 days ago:
Kinda correct. Money is only useful in trading. You should never store wealth in moneys (because inflationary fiscal policy that only fucks up the lower class)
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 4 days ago:
Vaguely agree with the sentiment here.
Every single person I know who had helicopter parents ended up… a bit odd… in a bad way.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 6 days ago:
Applicability is in the eye of the beholder… of bureaucracy.
It is not really enforceable what people grow in their nook with led lights, or what they produce with metal lathes and metalworking tools, or what they mix up with common chemicals, and yet!
With EURion, printers/scanners that are capable of somewhat convincing replica go into the “definitely need to do this thing” money bracket I guess.
Printer instructions are also usually quite convoluted (don’t event know if anybody really knows the actual format), but definitely it’s not the actual document being sent to a printer (except last decade printers), just the actual dithered inkjet patterns, though I am heavily guesstimating. And yet, from inkjet patterns, the printer knows to crash, presumably, though I dont know, the knowledge of currency steganography seems spotty…
There is a semi-infinite amount of processing that can be done on the slicing machine, so detecting gun-like item is wildly possible. Making your own slicer is the same as making your own photoshop (or hacking it). I definitely don’t see 3d printers having enough horses to figure out a non-watermarked-model produced geocode to have gunlike things. But! We forget! With legislation, everything is possible. Probably will require any decent (especially things like metal) 3d printer to have an ISIC specifically programmed to rebuild a model from geocode and do analysis :D (Honestly, completely easy with current technology, MNIST 99.99% accuracy fits into 10k transistors or so)
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 6 days ago:
Additional note: Since 2003, image editors such as Adobe Photoshop CS or PaintShop Pro 8 refuse to print banknotes. According to Wired.com, the banknote detection code in these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies such as Adobe as a binary module.[13]
Everybody with Photoshop / Paintshop pro literally has an unexplained (likely uninvestigated) government binary blob that might be a backdoor :D
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 6 days ago:
Ever heard of the EURion constellation?
This is the same, just an additional dimension.
“Markus Kuhn, who uncovered the pattern on the 10-euro banknote in early 2002 while experimenting with a Xerox colour photocopier that refused to reproduce banknotes.[2] The pattern has never been mentioned officially; Kuhn named it the EURion constellation as it resembled the astronomical Orion constellation, and EUR is the ISO 4217 designation of the euro currency.[3]”
It would seem governments always poke into corporations for debatable “safety”. Even if they don’t say it.
You can of course build your own printer from stepper motors and belts. Good luck, see you in a year. Also 3d printing in general has improved lightyears, so it’s becoming a decent-sized corpo thing => tools becoming scrutinized by government vogons.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
Oh sorry… I guess I was projecting…
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
I mean… That’s their job… But yes!
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
Lots of holiday deals, fair regional pricing, massive open-source contributions, hanging back from making era-defining, envelope-pushing games to just make the gaming industry on PC better.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 3 weeks ago:
No. No no no. It is still being developed, with exponentially increasing resources. You downloading the model adds at least 1 but probably 10 increment to the “downloads” and repo watches CEOs 100% use to validate their insane echo chamber. And you’re literally paying for it all if you live in US and they built a data center in your neighborhood and your electricity bill 4x increased! Or if you ever want to upgrade to ddr5, and ever need more storage space! Or in many other myriad of ways!
Generally, you’re right, it’s just the left over tools from the gold rush, why not use them if they’re useful! No point in throwing them away. It’s good that your honest with yourself and will never validate the wild amounts of cosmically ironical cancer-inducing data centers they (I hope only Musk) are operating, by upgrading your local model distilled by your unfavorite AI cloud company that is negative profit for 5 years and somehow still alive
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 3 weeks ago:
Are you perchance ignoring the petawatt-hours that was needed to train and distil your local AI model?
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
In some sense, you are doing the same by believing the whole group is against you, and therefore going less into a discussion and just swinging anger.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
I was in support of you, but I think in general it’s much better for the long version of your comment, it makes people less emotionally charged into judging :)
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 2 months ago:
Not sure why you got so much hate, friend. You’re even technically correct.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 3 months ago:
There is nothing short of non-fascistic government-forced bankcrupcy sell off that will actually make it cheap, so… I feel it is a pipe dream
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 3 months ago:
It is sad and mystically abysmally ironic that all the books written about dystopias are seemingly being read as manuals
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 5 months ago:
There is definitely an amount of valid secrecy in positions of power, half of politics would collapse if they couldnt corroborate their eggs in order in their coop. With regards to authority that defines what should be publicly auditable, it’s rather a chicken and egg situation.
Before I hatch any more puns, generally politician’s privacy at work, or anything related to their position << civilian privacy should be definitely the case
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 6 months ago:
SecureErase would overwrite the whole drive (potentially multiple times). So if the ssd was close to dead, it might have just triggered it.
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 6 months ago:
I think the healthy approach is to let it play out, and stop “meddling” as usual with the “free” market. Everybody’s observing free market karma at play. Let it happen, as much as it will. All those intel mbas deserve it completely.
- Comment on Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world 6 months ago:
Making more walled gardens would probably only polarize society more, not help it. But the emotion is understandable.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 months ago:
Refer to other comment. They don’t see “VPN traffic”, they see encrypted tunnels between two ports to some offshore vps. At best, they see a header saying “openvpn”. The article is alluding to the country wanting to crack down on encrypted tunnels (because you cannot discriminate VPNs from them).
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 months ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 6 months ago:
if the LGBTQ+ games were not sexual in nature (why does it not say?), then that is quite damning and I approve of this conspiracy theory.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 6 months ago:
Since fiat currencies are not connected to gold… no problem?
- Comment on Facts and minds 7 months ago:
Somehow beautiful. Calling out bullshit, but also agreeing.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 8 months ago:
I wouldn’t define flipping coins as decision making. Especially when it comes to blanket governmental policy that has the potential to kill (or severely disable) millions of people.
You seem to not want any people to teach you anything. And are somehow completely dejected at such perceived actions.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 8 months ago:
LLM does no decision making. At all. It spouts (as you say) bullshit. If there is enough training data for “Trump is divine”, the LLM will predict that Trump is divine, with no second thought (no first thought either). And it’s not even great to use as a language-based database.
Please don’t even consider LLMs as “AI”.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 8 months ago:
Your argument becomes idiotic once you understand the actual technology. The AI bullshit machine’s agenda is “give nice answer” (“factual” is not an idea that has neural center in the AI brain), and “make reader happy”. The human “bullshit” machine, has many agendas, but it would have not got so far if it was spouting just happy bullshit (but I guess America is a becoming a very special case).
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 8 months ago:
Correct. You’re right, without context (or as you put it - living under a rock) one comes to the wrong conclusion.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 8 months ago:
Since this sublemmy doesn’t ave any requirement for the title to be the same as the source, can we actually have a correct title: “Microsoft abides to laws in EU and does <…>”.
The title makes it appear as if it’s out of charity and goodness of their corporate heart. (Lie)
- Comment on We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃 9 months ago:
Teflon is just as poisonous as any plastic above breakdown temperature (260C). I.e.: not really.
There is no eternal item in the human mortal coil.
They could start throwing out steel slag into rivers from the factories, you know. Which is the analogue.
