FauxLiving
@FauxLiving@lemmy.world
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 38 minutes ago:
It makes games run worse and look horrible because devs now target dlss performance mode for 60fps on medium hardware.
That’s like saying new graphics cards make a game run worse because developers make their games targeted at new hardware.
You’re conflating two issues. DLSS uses upscaling to improve framerate the the cost of image quality.
The decision of developers is a completely different issue.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 57 minutes ago:
DLSS takes sane people and turns them crazy.
- Comment on Superconductors that operate at room temperature and no electricity loss? Harvard team of physicists map samples at millionths of a meter to correlate behavior with temp, pressure, stoichiometry, etc. 2 hours ago:
I look forward to the next LK-99
- Comment on IYKYK 2 hours ago:
I tried
MS PaintKolourPaint, as is tradition, but removing the background without layers was too much effort - Comment on IYKYK 3 hours ago:
AI can probably do better than my budget-tier GIMP skills, but here ya go
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 3 hours ago:
It is simple, it is not easy.
‘Take a picture of the entire ocean and look for ships’ is simple, but executing that plan is not.
It requires hundreds of millions of dollars of reconnaissance satellites, and an entire branch of personnel to operate and digest the information.
This is why the US operates carrier battle groups instead of just sailing their carriers everywhere with a small escort. They can’t hide, but they can pack enough offensive and defensive power into a tiny area to make most attacks infeasible.
Anyways, there’s a reason submarines exist
True, and even they’re vulnerable when they surface (if they’re moving), the v-shaped wake is also very detectable from space where satellites can detect wave heights within 3cm. It’s not easy for humans to find, but with billions of dollars to spend on computers, these kinds of things are very much within the reach of sovereign nations.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 4 hours ago:
The delay is almost assuredly to prevent live scamming. Like a grandparent picking up a random call or text and being tricked into thinking they’re a family member/bank worker/etc.
I’ll admit it’s annoying, and could be used by Google later to do more annoying shit.
Taking their explanations in good faith and looking at it from an customer security point of view, I can see this cutting back on some common scam types. This is kind of like how, when you go to rustdesk.com there’s a giant ‘YOU’RE PROBABLY GETTING SCAMMED’ banner across the top of the page:
These little steps can seems pointless or annoying to us, as most of us are probably in the upper range of tech skills, but consider the average user and it starts to make a lot more sense.
- Comment on IYKYK 4 hours ago:
He can’t keep getting away with this
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 1 day ago:
False positives are fine, you assign 1, 10, 50, 100 analysts to review hits. You only need to find it once, then the search area becomes incredibly small for each subsequent satellite pass.
I’m not saying that it is easy, just that you don’t need to have a surface ship within 15 nm in order to see it.
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 1 day ago:
While the resolution could be good, have fun looking for that spec.
Seems like an easy but tedious job. Something that a computer can do.
Object detection algorithms are incredibly fast and can learn to tell the difference between an aircraft carrier and an ocean.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 day ago:
Yes, how stupid of me for not explicitly explaining the context that everyone with basic reading comprehension can understand.
I’ll add the obvious context for everyone else who is new to the world and has issues parsing regular English sentences:
- The link and description of the post is the part at the top of the page.
- If you click the Title link it will take you to a web page (a collection of HTML documents and javascript) which contains a story.
- The story in the OP is about installing unverified apps.
- Unverified apps are installed directly from apks and not from the Play Store
- Scams often target elderly people with text messages or phone calls.
- Part of these scams involves getting access to the victim’s devices so that the scammer can leverage that access to obtain bank information and account control.
- Creating a system which prevents a scam victim from easily installing unverified apps will mitigate this attack vector.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 day ago:
I can understand this workflow being created to protect the legions of people who are tricked into installing spyware.
It doesn’t remotely affect me because I use GrapheneOS and if this is an issue for you then you’re probably someone who should look at installing GOS or Lineage.
I don’t think Google should be able to do this and it is likely part of a longer-term strategy to strangle any competition. At the same time, I can understand how this change will save a lot of grandparents from clicking a link in a text from their ‘grandchildren’ and installing spyware that’ll steal all of their bank information.
- Comment on Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement, say whistleblowers 1 day ago:
emotional contagion
If that doesn’t sum up all of social media for the past decade, I can’t think of a better term.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 day ago:
I’m here to engage with reality, and not create science fiction scenarios to worry about.
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 2 days ago:
Psh, I use GOS without Storage Scopes. I simply only take flattering photographs of my Adonis-like form (they’re swiping left anyway, smh)
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 days ago:
Industrial sites are dangerous and that’s why workers receive safety training and equipment.
These are not intended to interact with the public, they’re intended to replace manned security patrol routes. They’re protected from being a danger to the public by chain link fences and locked doors. The workers who operate them and work around them receive safety training.
In addition to the tens of thousands of dollars of proximity sensors, there’s also a giant red button on their back which shuts them down immediately:
Having robots lets the human workers not go into dangerous situations unnecessarily. Having to patrol inside of an area where halon fire suppression systems are used is inherently dangerous and is more of a common occurrence than having a random untrained and unescorted member of the public enter into a secure area and trip.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 days ago:
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 days ago:
Surprisingly no, and they also don’t have mortars or death ray eyes.
But, you wouldn’t know that reading some of the comments here.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 days ago:
how fast can it go and how much does it weigh?
letmegooglethat.com/?q=Boston+Dynamics+Spot+Speci…
I think that you’ll find you don’t enjoy when 20 kg of steel comes barrelling at your knees
What are you, a doctor or something?
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
Trump can’t veto state laws.
True, but I bet state lawmakers are even cheaper.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 days ago:
There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…
Well, yeah. The episode about robot dogs was specifically referencing these… Boston Dynamics didn’t watch Black Mirror for inspiration, it was the other way around.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 days ago:
How could that possibly happen in this case?
If you had read the article, or even just looked at the picture, you’d see that this is a security camera that walks.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
Unless they’re going to ban heating elements and stepper motors I’m not too worried.
It probably wouldn’t be too good for Bambu Lab so I wish them luck in their lobbying effort. They could buy a veto from Trump for a few hundred thousand USD in the worst case.
- Comment on The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it 2 days ago:
I still have an OG Xbox with an emulator and the SNES romset and Conker’s Bad Fur Day on another partition (I did the mod to install a larger HDD). All it took was a hacked save and a Mechwarrior game.
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
I’ve never been a big fan of the word “atomize” in any case.
Mate, I’ll have you know some of my relatives are made of atoms
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
There isn’t much there that can’t be done with PVC and bent aluminum sheeting.
Hamas famously uses water pipes for their rockets (no idea about the propellant, payload or control systems though)
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
The drone parts and control surface actuation is by far harder and I say this as someone who has a professional background in computer science and software engineering.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrzxSOtj33s
The model rocket community has this one sorted.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 2 days ago:
Weird, I use free Spotify and don’t hear adds
(SpotX)
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 days ago:
Not anymore
