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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 day ago:
“Never sit down to program without a crowbar close at hand."
-Stanislaw Lem - Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 1 day ago:
Still not Bloons Tower Defense 😢
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 1 day ago:
For low power neural nets look up “spiking neural networks”
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 days ago:
At least one Nobel Laureate had exactly the opposite opinion (see the Hinton lecture above)
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 days ago:
You might benefit from watching Hinton’s lecture; much of it details technical reasons why digital is much much better than analog for intelligent systems
BTW that is the opposite of what he set out to prove
He says the facts forced him to change his mind - Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 2 days ago:
Dead serious
I can’t decide
Maybe if everything has an LLM and talks to its owner and adjusts itself based on the owner’s level of interest & understanding… that will be better?
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning TP-Link WiFi routers, citing national security risk and ties to China. They have between 30 and 50% market share in the US. 2 days ago:
WRT + TP-link = more secure than most corporate networks
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
If you really want to get theor attention, carrry signs with pictures and names of their children
- Comment on Relativity 1 week ago:
sounds… hot
- Comment on Performative vegetables: veggies you pack in your kids lunch even though you know they won't eat them 1 week ago:
I don’t have what it takes to be a parent
All it takes is the creativity you get when high. You know what fruit kids will eat? Apple chips, Mango chips, dehydrated strawberries, frozen blueberries
The same fruits you crave when really high
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 week ago:
There’s a Sean Carrol video somewhere talking about how the average graduate student in physics understands Relativity far better than Einstein did, and it’s because lots of people with lots of different specialties and insights have thought really long and hard about it and come up with deeper, more elegant ways to describe it.
- Comment on I AM BETTER 1 week ago:
I try to bear Old Isaac in mind when I meet arrogant and unpleasant but intelligent teens.
It’s very easy as an adult to be very annoyed by them, short with them, and/or to feel an obligation in some way to “socialize them better”
But you don’t know which of them have an insight in their brain that unlocks the proverbial Warp Drive.
Zefram Cochrane - Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself.
I bought an old Radio Shack Color Computer off EBay and had a total blast playing Dungeons of Daggorath with my kids. Plus, it’s educational: it teaches you to type “A L <enter>” really really fast
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s much more expensive to have two providers. Both in terms of outright costs but even more so in terms of ongoing engineering/technical overhead.
The calculus is how much the expectation downtime is, versus that cost. It’s a reasonable calculation and TBH if outages are a few hours once every few years for most cases it’s acceptable.
OFC if your hospitals or emergency services depend on a cloud service, you happily fork over the extra money same as you do for any other insurance.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
from multiple companies
See the above post from the Azure shop … that uses AWS for 2FA tokens
You want to add multiple companies in parallel as alternates/failovers, not in serial where any one failure blocks the whole flow
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
A summation of scums
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
Especially Microsoft, Google, and Oracle, who are all at this very moment probably sending out sales droids in vast numbers
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
I love it when Cloud companies pretend there are “serverless” services that are “location-transparent”
You know, they sell this crap to governments and have to follow compliance regimes like FedRAMP but yet… this happens
But the only way to do this is to have a CSO willing to invest heavy in red-teaming – for attacks of every kind the team can brainstorm – and a CEO willing to spend the $$ and attention to get their recommendations implemented.
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy seemed fine
Federated, open source
Reddit did not
Centralized, corporate
- Comment on The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums. 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure most of Azure (Microsoft), OCI (Oracle), and GCP (Google) have all been fine.
Bezos is a craven beast but I don’t see many companies above with CEOs that I’d feel comfortable babysitting my teenage daughter
- Comment on Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device 2 weeks ago:
Ooooh that’s information
Downvoting myself now LOL
- Comment on Give your mouse the finger with this wild cursor control ring — Prolo Ring hits Kickstarter, hoping to transform your finger into the ultimate macro and gesture device 2 weeks ago:
Yet people put lithium batteries on their lap right next to their genetalia and on top of a blanket that covers up the laptop’s hot air exhaust
I have reasons to pass by this invention but exploding off my finger is not the primary concern
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 2 weeks ago:
If it were just a tip jar feature that would be one thing but it’s kind of a lot of things.
It does what it says on the tin and I love having a shared library online for streaming with apps that support local cache download. - Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 weeks ago:
Also it funds Google which is … not ideal
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 3 weeks ago:
I set up a Funkwhale but tbh it is feature-poor
Which would you suggest as a selfhost alternative ?
- Comment on Average physicist experience 3 weeks ago:
Professor Lenny ❤️
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re doing it wrong
When I said high AF I wasn’t kidding. I am doing it right because combining that many edibles and just the right amount of shroom is a ficking science
- Comment on when hell freezes 4 weeks ago:
Meta: I, a Linux using Atheist, sharing this meme with Catholic in-laws as we return from Mass (I go because it’s relaxing when high AF)
- Comment on Anonym and Snap partner to unlock increased performance for advertisers | The Mozilla Blog 4 weeks ago:
Just another reminder why I use Librewolf
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 4 weeks ago:
About my browsing history: this was for a novel I am writing about terrible terrible people who should never do that
