Korkki
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‘The more I see of what you call civilisation, the more highly I think of what you call savagery.’
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
The difference is that the most under invested real economy promises little to no profits because of saturation, while these techbros are always ready to promise the moon from the sky. Nothing gets done and less flashy industries stay uncompetitive.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
All of these silicon valley startups just shriek very loudly that there is too much capital and not enough real economy to invest that money into.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
Then you need method of power transmission, usually microwaves or lasers, both come with energy losses. With microwaves you need a reliever and those can get about the size of a solar farm.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
The man with golden gun only had a ground based “laser” powered by “solar energy”. Die another day had an actual “burning ants with a magnifying glass” tier orbital solar deathray.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 1 week ago:
Ofc they can’t google, meta and Microsoft are the three pillars of US intelligence gathering network.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You mean in term of internet archives mission and where it can do the most good? I would agree.
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 3 weeks ago:
The info-sphere today is already a highly delusional place and news can be often contradictory, even from day to day especially by outlets like BCC who is more focused on setting global narratives, not being a reporter of facts as best understood at the moment. No wonder AI would be confused, most readers are confused when navigating every statement made by experts or anonymous officials on every subject. Seems like this study really measured an AI models ability to vomit out the same text in different words and avoiding using any outside context be it accurate or hallucination.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 5 weeks ago:
The only issue I see here is that Sony will be getting greedy.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 1 month ago:
Yeah there was some Radio Free Asia money connection with the open whisper system that now is Signal.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 1 month ago:
Of course I don’t have any concrete proof. If there was concrete proof we shouldn’t be having this conversion. My main issue is that it’s centralized and that’s a huge black box. People obsess with this “but it’s protocol open source” like headless chickens when that’s not the issue. Open source is like the step one when it comes to private and secure messaging. It just comes down to if you trust the devs and those doing the hosting. When it’s central all of that thrust rests on that one group and their hosting service not fucking you over even if they can or can not read the encrypted messages themselves. I’m not concerned signal keeping people’s dickpicks private here in that that even whatsapp is as good as any.
I see I made the mistake of coming to an obvious fangirl meeting to have an serious discussion about security merits.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 1 month ago:
Even if we assume that man in the middle attack is impossible with signal. Intelligence agencies care more about metadata anyway. Remember that getting meaning from terabytes of daily messages hasn’t really been viable way to mass spy anybody until very recently, since you needed humans to read them individually to get any wider sense of chat logs. if they know who talked to who and when. With those they can social graphs and get a list of suspects when everybody is tied to an identifiable phone number. Yeah they won’t directly get incriminating chat of somebody ordering drugs, but they can go nab the dealer and their associates with that info. Or they can have a group of key activists followed if they know that when messages between these people spike just before a protest happens.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 1 month ago:
Central servers basically. Funded by ex-meta people and endorsements from western governments (general “if it’s popular then it’s compromised” suspicion). Also it requires your phone number gathers things like contact info from the phone, even if one assumes the messages are secure. basically could be seen as relinquishing a list of potential associates…
I don’t think Signal is unsecure, in a sense. it’s just secure for nobodies or anybody who want to use it in non western countries against governments hostile to the west or being designated to regime change targets. I however don’t think it’s much more secure than whatsapp for an high profile pro-Palestine activist for example. It’s a privacy tool for some and honeypot for others depending how they relate to US security state and western governments.
- Comment on Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets 1 month ago:
I’m still convinced that Signal is an NSA honeypot.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 month ago:
look at the bright side. EA couldn’t get any worse anyway. If it dies because of this then this event might be seen as a boon to humanity.
- Comment on Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home 1 month ago:
Brain drain from USA
What’s left after that? Much of american economy as I understand it is based on being able to constantly suck up the capital and scientist from around the world to the Usa.
- Comment on TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal 1 month ago:
So does this affect only US Tiktok users or is it the whole global Tiktok outside of China that will be sucked up by US?
- Comment on The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it 1 month ago:
Anonymity is dangerous because it let’s the little people think they can have have ideas and talk about them freely and possibly not face any consequences for it.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 2 months ago:
I hope whatever platform you end up using also provides other formats than mp3. Like ogg is superior replacement, or flac for lossless.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
Haven’t you heard wallstreet needs AI to be “good” or 75% of the tech companies + Nvidia take a nosedive we’ll get a another -08 recession,
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
You write essay with AI your learning suffers.
One of these papers that are basically “water is wet, researches discover”.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 2 months ago:
So they have to give away search data?
Is there an antitrust on android or appstore ongoing?
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 months ago:
That’s basically giving it away. I guess they can very well expect to make the money back in volume.
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 2 months ago:
Imagine the possibilities for piracy and secure messaging (provided that the birds don’t snitch on you).
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
No big corporation or state institution handling vast amounts of customer data will not allow this. Also really bad for regular consumer too. Microsoft servers will become treasure trove for hackers.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Just saying that those who are most obsessive about policing morality or sexuality of others are often just hypocritical/ in denial themselves.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
christians have been…
A few closeted and bitter homosexuals in denial have been…
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 2 months ago:
Take note that there are lobbies pushing for these. Security state, police and religious fanatics wanting morality policing, also politicians who re afraid of popular upheaval.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 months ago:
I’m on Lemmy, am I not?
It CAN be fixed, the question if the will is there.
While and improvement Lemmy is far from perfect. The upvote-downvote sytem of reddit alone encourages group think and self censorship. It doesn’t really help that much that we can go circlejerk in some other instance if we get hated on or banned by mods. We are still encouraged to keep in line to keep the bubble intact.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 2 months ago:
The dream was that social media would help revitalize the public sphere and support the kind of constructive political dialogue that your paper deems “vital to democratic life.” That largely hasn’t happened.
Their idea is basically that people need to be told the same things to what to believe in so that democracy can work as it’s supposed to and social media is disrupting that with all the conspiracy shit, flame wars and polarization of opinions. The issue is that this common idea is fermented by the boomer generation. They grew up in really quite anomalous post war world when there was first time in human history basically monolithic mass media that people watched it AND had high trust in AND the system provided more for the masses more than it does now. Those then lead to to high societal inclusion and high social cohesion that again fed into the prosperity. Now we have fragmented information sphere and things are shit are shit, political center is hated by most and radicalism is once again rising.
However so called democracy or collective decision making in general itself does not rely on people not believing in crazy shit, not being fed the best possible validated information, or god forbid having unorthodox ideas of their own or developing factionalism or totally different reading on reality. It helps make it smoother and avoids violence, but that “smoothness of process” that boomers have come to expect is also why society in wider terms is politically stagnant and rotting. People seem to live in different realities, because in a sense we are, because our economic realities can be so different and decoupled form the mainstream narrative. It never didn’t have to get this bad, but social media only a venting mechanism not the reason for the growing divides. The division in society and the general anguish is real IRL, it just takes forms of all kinds of irrational and counterproductive forms online. The problem isn’t really that people are factional and can’t agree with each other, it’s that nobody can no longer agree with the monolithic unpopular political center that is holding on to power for dear life.
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 2 months ago:
It of course won’t happen, but if Intel went poof next monday then what would happen to the x86 ecosystem. It’s basically co-owned by AMD and Intel. As I recall the sharing partnership that these two have basically prevents neither guy from selling their patents/license to third parties. Would we just be left with AMD monopoly with intel’s corpse hanging from it, until X86 finally croaks? Do these CPU licensing agreements prevent just wholesale acquisition of Intel?
