potatopotato
@potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport 22 hours ago:
I rented shit at home depot and had to use fucking clear. They’ve broken containment.
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 1 month ago:
Yeah until we literally run out of roofs, fields, parking lots, and fucking ocean space and are contemplating a fucking Dyson sphere I really don’t understand these projects.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
If you absolutely have to hand over your phone, turn it off completely, like hold the power button and then tap the off icon. That will dump any keys out of RAM, which is why it always requires the full password to unlock when you turn it back on. Both in terms of how your phone works and the leaks we’ve seen, the cracking tools the police have are overall significantly less likely to be successful when used on a phone that’s been turned off and not unlocked since.
Also, IIRC iphones have a feature where they will dump at least some of the system keys from RAM if you push the lock button five times. I’d still trust fully off more but that’s easier to do covertly.
- Comment on Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China 4 months ago:
Yes, but it’s harder to fight such a large incumbent when all the money is just going to the incumbent
- Comment on Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China 4 months ago:
This seems like an odd move. Let China pay money to use ClosedAI hallucinations instead of using the money to develop their own hallucinations that the US has no insight into.
There’s no technology transfer if they just using the hallucination outputs, it’s just free money for trash.
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext 4 months ago:
Yeah but it really shouldn’t be that way. Just add a pin or something, it’s way too easy for people to just grab devices or install malware to leak keys
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
I want a 1995 ranger that’s electric, those things were great
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Yes, but there’s already a steep tariff, it would be nice to let them light a small fire under the us automakers so they make better products for us, instead were kinda just letting them be evil and lazy.
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 6 months ago:
Not if it’s electric
- Comment on Lilium (LILM) receives firm order from UrbanLink to put 20 eVTOL jets into service in Florida 6 months ago:
I ran the numbers myself a while back, it’s not pretty at all.
Until you hear about people traveling >200mi and getting their commercial pilots licenses entirely on conventional takeoff fixed wing electric aircraft (see pipistrel electro) it’s safe to assume this vtol industry is grounded. The conventional fixed wing aircraft are wildly more efficient in terms of battery mass fraction and range but they don’t get investors excited like a personal quadcopter for the (ultra wealthy) masses.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 6 months ago:
Those words sound cool and mean literally nothing
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 6 months ago:
Yeah but the people running this seem to only be interested in pivoting between whatever the current grift is. We should come up with a word for people who do that, maybe something like “grifters”.
- Comment on Over 100 far-right militias are coordinating on Facebook 6 months ago:
IME those groups aren’t very libertarian, they’re closer to American Taliban religious fundamentalism.
- Comment on The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich 6 months ago:
I hate that it needs to be said but love that they said it so plainly
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 6 months ago:
Now that’s how you kill all the gophers
- Comment on Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. 7 months ago:
At an absolute minimum 20. We aren’t seeing any useful systems that work on any scale at all yet. The iphone made smart phones pseudo mandatory but they were preceded by decades of development with several generations of usable devices. If I had to guess it’s probably closer to 30 years if tech decides to go in that direction which itself isn’t guaranteed.
- Comment on The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island 7 months ago:
You wouldn’t download an island
- Comment on Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form 8 months ago:
This…isn’t at all how the current paradigm of ai works at all. We’ve built glorified auto-complete bots, not something that can make a physical robot behave at a human level. Best case, they build something that can carry on a conversation long enough to excite a tech journalist and aimlessly meander like the Boston dynamic bots but without the pre-programmed tasking (assuming they don’t cheat).
So that leaves one option: it’s a moonshot project to convince the tech illiterate public to take them to their stock price to the moon long enough for a few people to make an obscene amount of money.
- Comment on Have We Reached Peak AI? 8 months ago:
Please god I hope so. I don’t see a path to anything significantly more powerful than current models in this paradigm. ANNs like these have existed forever and have always behaved the way current LLMs do, they just recently were able to make them run somewhat more efficiently with bigger context windows and training sets which birthed GPT3 which was further minimally tweaked into 3.5 and 4 among others. This feels a whole lot like a local maxima where anything better will have to go back down through another several development cycles before it surpasses the current gen.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
Buy a large computer monitor
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government 8 months ago:
They likely would for the kind of stuff they’re planning.
- Comment on SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government 8 months ago:
There are about half a dozen small companies working on this but apparently the government is more interested in spending money on a company with zero experience with earth imaging. Dunno how I feel about the USG just putting all their eggs in Elon’s batshit insane basket
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
Honestly it’s probably the best search dataset in existence right now. You can make Google suck far less by appending “reddit” to most searches because you’ll get results from a group consisting of a higher ratio of actual humans instead of bots.
Whoever bought this got a fucking bargain.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought 9 months ago:
That’s because it’s just marketing bullshit.
The worst person you’ve ever met came up with it in a very upscale cube farm over a chai latte, don’t think too hard about it.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 9 months ago:
The best explanation I’ve seen is it would be nice on airplanes so you can watch movies and not have to awkwardly scrub past everything that might offend the toddlers behind you.
- Comment on Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU 10 months ago:
Faraday cage and GPS simulator? A hackrf and some tinfoil can probably do it for a few hundred bucks
- Comment on Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times 10 months ago:
Installed it in k3s and then pulled up the Android app but all it does is say every single file is a duplicate and overload my notifications tray while not uploading anything
- Comment on Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working 1 year ago:
Everyone’s super obsessed with 300-400 mi ranges though. 100mi would be totally fine for most people and would require a small fraction of the battery (bigger batteries give decreasing returns)
- Comment on Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working 1 year ago:
Yeah, a surprising number of people don’t want these hyper complex cars with thousands of microchips and millions of lines of code operating them. Give me an electric 2012 Honda fit/Toyota matrix equivalent that just fucking works and costs $20k or less new.
- Comment on Raspberry pi 4 inside abandoned scooters 1 year ago:
Yeah, that’s the issue ultimately. The ESP32 chips are nice and easy to use but still pale in comparison to getting things working on a pi for the average developer without embedded experience. These devs may not even know they exist to be completely honest.