vk6flab
@vk6flab@lemmy.radio
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 3 days ago:
AFAIK Google owns the vast majority of advertising online and is the one making all the money.
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- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 week ago:
… and anyone else who should not have access to your data.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 week ago:
And now you know why you should encrypt your data on any cloud provider.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 1 week ago:
Perhaps we should treat our politicians like athletes and expect a top performance free of doping.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 1 week ago:
How about drug testing all the politicians every week?
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 2 weeks ago:
I wonder … will it be another case of “Too Big To Fail” … or will it be … “Let The Market Decide”?
I’m guessing the answer depends on how many medals the CEO of Oracle can bestow upon the Orange.
Me … cynical … no … just been here for a while.
- Comment on Samsung smart fridges have started displaying ads 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that if you set your DNS to AdGuard a lot of this nonsense would go away.
Another alternative is to remove the internet access from your fridge.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 4 weeks ago:
I’ll add it to the list:
- AI is Assumed Intelligence.
- AI is autocorrect on steroids.
- AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator.
- AI is a classic case of Gell-Mann amnesia.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 4 weeks ago:
What you’re describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.
If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you’re the subject matter expert.
What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?
Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.
Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 5 weeks ago:
Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 5 weeks ago:
I’m guessing that the answer to that is … as soon as openai collapses … hopefully.
- Comment on 220-ton flywheel generator in Germany 5 weeks ago:
The article explains precisely what it is and why … it’s even written in English.
- Comment on Gaming Laptop with Linux Preinstalled and 32GB+ RAM? 5 weeks ago:
What is your budget?
What size do you want?
What screen resolution?
Which GPU?
And if you want warranty, which country are you in?
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 1 month ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me... 1 month ago:
None of the above.
ARABIA POTTERY, Finland. 1960s RUSKA
Absolutely indestructible. Drop it on the tiles, cracks the tiles.
You can have it in any colour, as long as it’s Brown.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 1 month ago:
That’s interesting, since my list of addresses contains numerous ones that don’t exist and nobody here has ever used.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 1 month ago:
Interesting.
I see a list of email addresses.
- Comment on haveibeenpwned alternatives / data? 1 month ago:
I am not sure what you are talking about.
I have a domain registered and can see exactly which addresses have been compromised by what, without payment.
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 1 month ago:
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 1 month ago:
You don’t think that 3,028 people holding 99% of global wealth is extreme?
- Comment on Billionaires are extremists 1 month ago:
That’s an interesting observation.
Given the 3,028 billionaires among the 8 billion people on Earth, that’s the definition of extreme.
Those 3,028 people, or 0.000036% of the global population, hold more than 99% of all wealth.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
I’ve been washing clothes for many decades and although I was also taught to turn some clothes inside out, I’ve never noticed any difference if I didn’t and these days I’ll often wash with them oriented normally, mainly because that’s how I prefer to hang them in the cupboard or fold them into drawers and turning them when wet or after taking them off the line or out of the drier makes the whole process even more tedious than it already is.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It means your coffee pod machine just came online and the coffee is currently spewing from the spout … probably.
- Comment on Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life? 2 months ago:
In Australia:
- Comment on If you eat free range eggs, you're probably ingesting trace amounts of rooster cum 2 months ago:
… and your point is?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Unlikely.
You underestimate the size of the Universe. There’s 8 billion people on Earth, there’s about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and between 100 billion to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s likely not about tennis, unless the CEO is a dick, it’s about an excuse to meet you and evaluate how you are as a human being.
Unless there’s a specific dress code requirement, I’d arrive in comfortable clothes, smart casual, clean and with a smile on my face.
When you’re asked about your lack of racket I’d point out that not only have you never played, you didn’t think it would be prudent to spend money on gear you know nothing about.
Remember, this is about people, not about hitting a tennis ball.
- Comment on I wonder if it would be possible to force the AI crawlers to mine crypto 2 months ago:
This seems at first glance at least potentially doable.
Create a website with content that’s only rendered with JavaScript and embed a miner.
Your challenge is to get the work product back, but you might be able to create dynamically generated URLs that show up in your logs as the work result.
You’d have to find a way to chunk the work and make it such that the work required is enough to be valuable to you, but not so costly as to stop the crawlers from using your site.
I suspect that in order for this to actually happen you’d have to have a significant infrastructure to deal with the crawler load, which you could instead be using to do the actual work.
Ultimately I suspect that this is the software equivalent of a perpetual motion machine, cute in theory, physically impossible.
Good luck!
- Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps 2 months ago:
The comments here seem to be missing a salient point.
In order to determine if a user is under 16, you need to determine that for every single user … including you!
This means that your personal data will be harvested in order to determine if you are over 16 or not.