finitebanjo

@finitebanjo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That tracks actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The insinuation is that the USA citizens would learn and then somehow magically overthrow the world’s most powerful military.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowadays it wouldn’t surprise me if a secondary system was hidden on a chip on a router, meaning you could replace the main firmware and still be spied on, but as far as what the risk cited by US officials is then it’s probably something like being used as a sleeper device that will later be included in massive botnet attacks like the AISURU botnet well documented to be made up of compromised consumer devices.

  My money would have been on Cisco rather than TP-Link, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are bigger and worse threats than the USA out there, and it’s more beneficial to trade with the USA than to not trade with the USA. You could rationalize that the USA might be more likely to fix itself while sanctioned, make them realize their mistakes, but you would at the same time be severely lowing the West’s military capabilities in a time of eastern aggression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace the firmware on your current TPLink devices with OpenWRT, for a temporary solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh any router that lets you replace the firmware with OpenWRT is pretty good, but only if there’s been an OpenWRT firmware version made for that very specific model.

  Other than that, buy within your price range made within the last 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  FR even though I hate Republicans and this admin when I saw this headline I thought “good shit, regulate the industry.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am also trusting instance owners and software developers to implement an open source automated bot detection and filtering algorithm. I think forcing users to manually wade through and filter out threat actors we can identify with 99% certainty is nothing but a waste of their valuable time and disruption of the community and conversation we support and enable here, especially when false positives are easily rectifiable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think communism by bare definition leads there but certainly “dismantling capitalism” doesn’t have a good track record.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a real hard-on for letting bots operate freely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs will never reach human accuracy, OpenAI and Deepmind proved that in 2022 research papers that have never been refuted, they have a lot of obvious signs and are also largely incompetent due to lack of reasoning skills or memory, and require updating training sets in order to “learn” from past mistakes. They also become less capable when overconstrained as would be necessary to make them useful for a specific task.

  The reasons the Pentagon and Defence Contractors like Microsoft want it to seem like we have this capability is 1) we want our enemies to think we have this capability and 2) they need to justify their exorbitant expenses trying to make these capabilities real.

  But 1 in 100 bot getting past automated detection is not a reason not to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that Xi Jinping president for life in a single-party system is such a haaard wooorker, truly the one worker allowed to own the rights and means to production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not people agree with the list or its various forks and methods depends on the instance administrators. State and professional actors are already using tools like this to silence users and create bubbles, it’s only not available to real open source and selfhosts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s plenty feasible. Look at things like post and comment content, reports, frequency, upvote and downvote behavior, site access duration, and IP addresses and you start to see certain patterns emerge from bots and bad actors. What isn’t feasible is getting enough people in on the effort to do the work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody making posts and comments is opening themselves up to how those posts and comments are received. You think I’m some kind of bot? Who am I working for, the DNC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly the fediverse might actually prove to be more susceptible to harmful bots and psyops because we don’t have a large centralized system through which to detect bots and botnets and sort out harmful actors. There might in the future be a sort of community maintained public blacklist with thorough vetting and forks for controversial additions, but at the moment that kind of effort, that amount of work, isn’t feasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Quality over quantity. The psyops on here want to radicalize individuals into taking extreme actions, to create chaos and to become speakers to spread harmful ideologies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Emphasis on “at least”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The algorithm used to be contained to a physical location in Beijing, now it’s going to be hosted on a server or group of servers in the USA, but the Chinese still administrate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, men’s sperm takes some time between three days to two weeks as it travels up from the testees to the seminal vesicles, and before that it takes something like 72 days for sperm to be made in the testees via spermatogenesis (although this process is constant regardless of number of ejaculations), meaning that while technically a man could impregnate 9 women a day, realistically a man couldn’t because after the first few their viable sperm count would drastically falter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why they preferred him doesn’t matter, why they claim to restrict rights and freedoms of their citizens doesn’t matter, the end result is conservativism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Right Wing means Conservative, and the chinese dictatorship is extremely conservative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And CCP Military based in Beijing will still be maintaining it, they’re only moving it to a Cloud Server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok may become more right-wing as China signals approval for US sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1. It was always Right Wing, it was controlled by CCP Military.

  2. It’s still controlled by the CCP Military, they’re just migrating to a cloud server that Beijing still has full access to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Java and Bedrock edition came bundled together for me. Maybe theres a way to redeem it somewhere other than the store, but I am still pretty sure its been the way I described ever since Minecraft was purchased by Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be mistaken but I’m solidly sure the website redirects you to buy it on the Microsoft Store, which is also how it will be installed and launched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, it’s exclusively available on the Microsoft Store, which has gotten so bad lately that I refused the terms on their most recent update and haven’t had it installed on any machines since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well actually there is a long and rich history of companies that are able to operate at a loss using funds appropriated from sale of shares to investors, and this process continues so long as new investors keep buying in such that anybody selling out is covered by the new funds until enough people try to sell out that the price starts to plunge, although the collapse can be delayed by the company strategically buying back and occasionally splitting or reorganizing, meaning everyone gets their money back unless they sell too late.

  You know.

  A fucking Ponze Scheme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a modpack that graphically overhauls literally everything and Skyrim runs fine. It came out over a decade ago and made on the same engine as FO:3, it’s probably hitting the upper limits of its resource requirements if it hasn’t already.