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- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 day ago:
Wired magazine wrote it up in more detail.
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 day ago:
Why does one need so many virtual phones for swat threats?
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 day ago:
You don’t need phones. They are emulated. Better to call it a SIM farm but phone farm is good enough a term colloquially.
- Comment on A robot programmed to act like a 7-year-old girl works to combat fear and loneliness in hospitals 2 days ago:
The example in the article is of a kid patient.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 4 days ago:
Yeah I know: Dunning-Kruger effect.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 4 days ago:
When I had intense legal problems I found myself being stupid and regretted judging all the kids at school who may have had horrific home lives.
- Comment on It's depressing, man 4 days ago:
Yes because almost everyone agreed with the sentiment, even the people we consider stupid (who use a different metric).
- Comment on Massive Attack Turns Live Facial Recognition Into Concert Commentary on Surveillance 1 week ago:
The audience saw the concert poster and thought Massive Attack was a call to arms rather than the name of a nand?
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 week ago:
average of over 60,000 daily active moderators” that month, which, at the time, would mean that 0.1 percent of all mods equals 600 people.
No, it equals 60 people.
- Comment on ‘Betrayed the trust of Australians’: ANZ bank pays record $240m fine for widespread misconduct 1 week ago:
In ten years we have had major fines of ANZ, Westpac, CBA. Next is National Bank?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I recommended to one person (who* didn’t know well) that she use chatGPT to correct her grammar. It is great for that.
However she then paid for a subscription because she likes the “conversations”. Am feeling guilty now. Better check on her that she isn’t losing the plot.
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 2 weeks ago:
I always remove the ugly suffix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti?wprov=sfla1
What is it for anyhow?
And don’t get me started on the unwieldy suffix Facebook adds. That must be for tracking reasons but why is it so loooooooooong?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
332 instances of lawyers in Australia using AI evidence which “hallucinated”.
And this week one was finally punished.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT is just as stupid.Image
- Comment on Australia may be losing its sweet tooth – but sugar is only part of our health story 2 weeks ago:
can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
I think you mean can cause fatty liver disease just like alcohol
- Comment on Australia may be losing its sweet tooth – but sugar is only part of our health story 2 weeks ago:
And liver disease because IIRC The by-products of sugar are the same as alcohol.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 weeks ago:
Or share it over WiFi.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
Yes, likes/views is higher but you originally said views/likes is higher.
- Comment on Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring 2 weeks ago:
Could get you arrested in China.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
*the view/ like ratio
doubledhalved - Comment on ISO 26300 2 weeks ago:
It is not a leap at all. Was seamless for me.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 2 weeks ago:
They will block all instances except the one registered. They just want a point of contact when there is illegal activity. Yes it becomes a problem if they make criticizing the government legal but it is a democracy for now.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 2 weeks ago:
Telegram allowed. It does not e2e encrypt by default. How will they make sure that option isn’t chosen by Nepalese?
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 2 weeks ago:
The lawyer is still allowed to practice but only as an employee, under supervision and checked quarterly.
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 2 weeks ago:
The energy is indeed wasteful but cooling water is recovered and reused . Do you know for a fact that much of it evaporates?
- Comment on Lawyer caught using AI-generated false citations in court case penalised in Australian first 2 weeks ago:
Since this case, there have been more than 20 other reported cases in Australian courts where lawyers or self-represented litigants have been found to have used artificial intelligence in the preparation of court documents that led to those documents containing fake citations.
“Since this case”, however there are over a thousand instances of lawyers in Australia using AI evidence which “hallucinated”.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I thought Microsoft would be unscrupulous enough to be pretending they were producing general AI.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 3 weeks ago:
All of us Geeks were evangelical about the Internet in the 90’s. It is very humbling.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 3 weeks ago:
Why is it referring to GenAI? It doesn’t exist.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 3 weeks ago:
That’s the Peter Principle.
