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- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 6 months ago:
Ok, if you don’t use their web site you won’t see the UX dark patterns. Trust us, they there and fit with the overall garbagefication theme. Annoy the living shit out of me. At least no more Prime Video UI and ad trainwreck.
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 6 months ago:
If you haven’t noticed, you’ve been not paying attention. I canceled Prime a while ago and they try very hard to get you back. And they try to sneak on you billed expedited shipping when over minimum gratis shipping quota. Dark patterns galore.
It would be a major pain for me to boycott them completely so I don’t, yet.
- Comment on iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air 6 months ago:
You seem to not be using open source software packaged for multiple architectures or which can be built for your binary target. Most people will be just using a browser and an office suite.
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 6 months ago:
I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.
- Comment on Need recommandations for a home server 6 months ago:
Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 7 months ago:
I use video projectors. Many of them, typically the better ones do not have any built-in smarts requiring an Internet connection.
In general, smart devices are a major security risk, and need to be firewalled off.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 7 months ago:
I’m not a power yaml user by any means, but syntax highlighting and linting pipelines do help.
- Comment on AI Has Lost Its Magic 7 months ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window 7 months ago:
Try neovim or something. Codium if you like GUIey things.
- Comment on Linux distro for selfhosting server 8 months ago:
Proxmox with Debian containers.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
The small drones do not require a long range use, since you are going to detect them only late, and need to terminate them within few seconds.
I have seen an improvised optics on a Youtube channel where a 2 kW continuous operation fiber laser had enough energy flux at 100 m or farther.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
The point of modern deep learning approaches is that they’re extremely easy on the developer skill. Decades ago realtime machine vision needed a machine vision expert, these days you throw the hardware at the problem at learning stage, and embedded devices to run the results are stupidly powerful (doesn’t even take a Jetson board), if you compare to what has been available even a decade ago.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
Realtime person detection and following it with a drone? Difficult for me, certainly, but there are enough people out there who have done it.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
There are cheap continuous operation 2 kW fiber lasers for material processing which could be enough for the flimsier slower drones.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
In terms of bucks per kill the West is doing an order of magnitude worse.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
I am aware. The 3 mm calibre difference has no impact on fabrication costs.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
I know it already does, at least in newer Lancets. Expect this in fpv type devices soon.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
These small drones attack single people and small infantry groups as well as small vehicles up to heavy armor. With laser there is the issue of portability, especially power supply. Also cheap reflective coating requires very high power densities for a kill. Apart from detection and tracking which can use fused microphone array and camera array data the time to react is very short and it has to provide high density of fire on the cheap. I’ve seen some shotgun use with very limited effectivity. Ditto nets. Maybe antidrone swarms can work, but power limits loitering time. Swarm attacks can easily overwhelm protection.
It looks like a hard problem.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
That’s what it costs in Russia and North Korea. In the EU the costs are as I cited. And there are no production capacities at the volume required. China stopped exporting the specific type of cotton used for cordite production. Nitric acid is expensive and hard to get.
You can print billions of banknotes easily. You cant do that with millions of shells.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
Tracking a moving object in realtime with video is a standard task for a machine learning engineer. You can do it on an embedded platform with ML hardware support. I don’t know what hardware newer Lancets use but they can already do it according from developer reports from Teegram channels like e.g Разработчик БПЛА.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
AI visual navigation has already been deployed in russian drones. Not yet in low-end ones.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
Dumb artillery shells are more 6000-8000 usd in the West.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
GPS jamming is widespread.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
AI guidance does not rely on remote.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
How would that anti-air against small drones look like? It is not easy.
- Comment on Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future 8 months ago:
Onboard AI guidance is not difficult.
- Comment on Sorry RDX for Reddit's EU users, you won't be able to add RDX web app (or any other PWA) to your home screen in the latest iOS update 8 months ago:
I have a hunch there is a small audiencenon Lemmy for that kind of thing.
- Comment on “In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI 9 months ago:
So a Cerebras wafer will be 10^6 faster for the same computation as now, for the same price, in just 10 years? Not after Moore scaling ended many years ago and neural hardware architecture has matured. You can sure go analog, but that’s not the same computation. And that’s the end of the line, not without true 3d integration.
- Comment on Get ready — your Google Workspace subscription is about to see an unwelcome price hike 9 months ago:
Thanks for the reminder to cancel.
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
It depends on the legislation on where the instance is hosted and/or personal liability of its operator. As a content contributor (if identifiable) you can be also personally liable. In practice you can host an instance anonymously, using bulletproof hosting and don’t care for much for such things.