Neverclear
@Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 2 days ago:
Hey there decentralized digital currency systems, you wanna… centralize?
- Comment on Starbucks sued for slave labor 5 days ago:
International Rights Advocates has sued Starbucks on behalf of eight Brazilian plaintiffs who were trafficked and forced into modern day slavery on coffee plantations that supply a major percentage of Starbucks’ coffee imports.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
iPXE maybe? But there’s a lot of implementation details you would have to figure out. Two that come to mind are:
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A mobile device from which you can selectively provide an image for booting
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A physical intrusion detection system for your home machine that you can also read remotely
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- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 1 week ago:
You seem to spend a lot of energy questioning people’s intentions, inventing reasons to question whether people’s intentions toward you are genuine. Some do deserve to be questioned, no doubt. It just seems draining, and for what goal?
Do you aim to be the sole determiner of truth? To never be duped again? To sharpen your skills as an investigator?
How much more creative energy could you put into the world by taking people at their word in all but the highest risk cases?
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 1 week ago:
What weighs more: the cost of taking people at their word, or the effort it takes to interpret the subtext of every interaction?
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 2 weeks ago:
What would Altman gain from overstating the environmental impact of his own company?
What if power consumption is not so much limited by the software’s appetite, but rather by the hardware’s capabilities?
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 weeks ago:
Min Reqs: 233 MHz Processor, 64MB RAM, 1.5 GB Storage… it could probably run on your car key fob.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
Jesus’ deity is pretty famously rejected by the Jewish faith.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 2 weeks ago:
slays
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 2 weeks ago:
I’m so over this two party circle jerk.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 4 weeks ago:
I believe it would be darker than mere loopholes. Corporations would probably both protect their own IP and steal each others’ IP through militant means. Like, Cyberpunk 2077 could become reality.
- Comment on I should wash my hair. 4 weeks ago:
All those times the kids at school called me butt-face… look who’s complimenting me now. Ha, suckers.
- Comment on Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption 4 weeks ago:
XOR cleartext once with a key you get ciphertext. XOR the ciphertext with the same key you get the original ciphertext. At its core this is the way the old DES cipher works.
A bit of useful trivia: If you XOR any number with itself, you get all zeros. You can see this in practice when an assembly programmer XOR’s a register with itself to clear it out.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 5 weeks ago:
It’s the only way to prevent the Goobacks from taking our jobs!!!
- Comment on How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmoud Khalil's case different? 5 weeks ago:
This special prison in Louisiana that does not need to follow normal laws… Is it protected by normal laws?
- Comment on Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought 5 weeks ago:
This reminds me of learning a shortcut in math class but also knowing that the lesson didn’t cover that particular method. So, I use the shortcut to get the answer on a multiple choice question, but I use method from the lesson when asked to show my work. (e.g. Pascal’s Pyramid vs Binomial Expansion).
It might not seem like a shortcut for us, but something about this LLM’s training makes it easier to use heuristics. That’s actually a pretty big deal for a machine to choose fuzzy logic over algorithms when it knows that the teacher wants it to use the algorithm.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 1 month ago:
Yeah, but this reminds me of a line from game of thrones:
“If you’re a famous smuggler, you’re doing it wrong.”
- Comment on Sketchy social media post gives BlackBerry fans hope for the return of the smartphone brand 1 month ago:
(Pixel Only) grapheneos.org
(Stripped down Android, Pixel Only) pixelbuilds.org
- Comment on Aptly named 1 month ago:
The sample size was
- Comment on The Tesla protests are getting bigger — and rowdier 2 months ago:
Yeah just like thousands of civil servants are “embarrased” of losing their jobs. Just like judges are “embarrased” that the executive branch is ignoring their rulings. Just like millions of Ukrainians are “embarrased” of losing their home. Get over your fucking self… we are at war.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 2 months ago:
Wait til you hear about radio astronomy:
The brightest discrete radio source is the Sun (Figure 1.10), but the Sun is much less dominant than it is in visible light. The radio sky is dark even when the Sun is up because atmospheric molecules and dust particles don’t scatter radio waves whose wavelengths are much larger than these particles. Most radio observations can be made day or night. Clouds are also nearly transparent at wavelengths λ>2λ>2 cm, so long-wavelength radio observations can be made even when the sky is overcast.
- Comment on Trump openly shmoozing russian oligarchs 2 months ago:
They never said that we should revolt, rather, proposed what would happen if we didn’t.
- Comment on NASA supercomputer reveals strange spiral structure at the edge of our solar system 2 months ago:
It’s like… this cloud
- Comment on Tech Workers Can Still Fight Silicon Valley’s Overlords 2 months ago:
Lol, no, it wouldn’t.
- Comment on Dont worry everyone, this is just an example. Rick Astley has not given us up. 2 months ago:
Modder documentaries?