potatopotato
@potatopotato@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Fuck it, I’ll upvote this, see you guys in CECOT, I call top bunk.
- Comment on If it fits... 1 week ago:
He gets all the parking tickets for NA citizens parking like that
- Comment on If it fits... 1 week ago:
Idk if people are aware, but this is the original concept for the car. It was designed to be short enough to fit into parking spots sideways deliberately.
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 weeks ago:
SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 weeks ago:
Aircraft carriers don’t use reactor grade, they use HEU for more power out of smaller more compact reactors and less frequent refueling. IIRC 93%+ is common.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the systems in place right now took 40 years to build
- Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, let’s give rich people weapons grade uranium (what these compact reactors run on)
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 4 weeks ago:
Currently Anubis seems to be the standard for slowing down scrapers
There are also various poison and tarpit systems which will serve scrapers infinite garbage text or data designed to aggressively corrupt the models they’re training. Basically you can be as aggressive as you want. Your site will get scraped and incorporated into someone’s model at the end of the day, but you can show them down and make it hurt.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 4 weeks ago:
It should be noted for the record, if you ever have to use your duress code, do it before you hand the device over, don’t offer it up to them, and SHUT THE FUCK UP.
If you have time, turn the phone back on and you’ll get a “recovery” screen asking to do a factory reset. Select this and let it boot back to the setup screen then turn it off again. It’s now in a state where, if you remembered to shut the fuck up, they’ll have a much harder time proving that you destroyed evidence and didn’t just hand over a device you hadn’t setup yet, as is a somewhat common (good) practice with border crossings.
As with all things you may have to depend on, ideally you should test this flow. Carefully make a backup, verify the backup integrity, then use the duress pin ensuring that everything works the way you expected.
- Comment on Is it possible to host a lemmy instance over I2P? 5 weeks ago:
I think in theory you could do it if you had a separate relay, you might only need one for the entire I2P Lemmy community. The relay would always be exposed to some degree but it’s just a relay so it’s not going to attract too much attention, especially if the operators were smart and didn’t sync spicy communities to the clear net
- Comment on No it won’t 5 weeks ago:
I always love these AI generated “interesting looking objects”.
What we have here is some plastic, aluminum or pot-metal frame with a piece of obviously fake suede screwed to it with undersized screws so that it’ll rip off at the slightest provocation. It then has some sort of shitty OLED display crammed inside of it for…reasons?
- Comment on Price correction "worse than 2008" coming to US housing market—analyst 1 month ago:
Also worth noting that from an international perspective there’s still plenty of room for worse pricing. People have been calling for a crash for over a decade now but I’m not seeing it. More likely there may be a very modest correction due to other somewhat unrelated asset bubble stuff but it could just as easily go a number of other directions.
The stock market is currently in fantasy land because rich people are betting on AI replacing you and more importantly have nowhere else to put money that can outperform inflation. If AI stops pumping markets they’ll have to move the money elsewhere, that could mean a stock market crash taking home prices with it but just as easily they could throw it in real estate and start buying up properties so who the fuck knows.
- Comment on Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now 1 month ago:
Problem: children are depressed, have nobody to talk to, and want to kill themselves
Solution: pervasive surveillance to make sure they learn that they cannot express themselves in any way, shape, or form, fully preparing them for the digital hellscape we’ve created
Like sure, the chat bots shouldn’t be encouraging people to kill themselves or be used in the first place but this is 100% the worst possible response.
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 2 months ago:
But did you hear? The media dickheads want us all to vote for him because he’s… totally not just another useless establishment Dem.
- Comment on Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together 2 months ago:
Harsh truth, the entire bandwidth of all the HF bands combined, not just the ham allocations, fully DC to ~30MHz, is smaller than a single mediocre home internet connection (per Shannon Hartley theorem). If even 0.1% of the world started using ham radios to do so much as send the bare minimum of ultra compact text messages to each other the entire spectrum would be clogged to the point of uselessness.
HF is great for very localized communications disruptions, but a nationwide or worldwide internet failure would not remotely be helped via HF.
- Comment on ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. 2 months ago:
That’s the upstream article, I found the actual database at fpds.gov
The data is all over the place in terms of quality, lots of missing price information and apparently B&H Photo as well as Canon make “GUNS OVER 125 MM THROUGH 150 MM” and “GUNS, THROUGH 30 MM” respectively. I think some extremely smooth brain accountant categorized them off of lens focal lengths.
- Comment on ICE Spent 700% More on Weapons. What They Bought Will Terrify You. 2 months ago:
Anyone have the actual list of vendors/purchases?
- Comment on Lead 3 months ago:
I think that’s the point in this particular case
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 3 months ago:
Is it the snails, the frogs, or the British food that’s doing it for you?
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 4 months ago:
To be clear, the flipper is just a Girl Tech IM-me with an NFC chip. If it lets people do a thing, that thing has been possible for decades. Just wait until someone makes a popular device based on a cheap fully featured wideband SDR like the AD9363 or LMS7002. Shit is gonna get fucking wild.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 months ago:
www.google.com/search?q=mechanic+found+tracker
I don’t think anyone’s been keeping stats but it’s been a thing ever since GPS was widely available and cheap-ish. It seems to divide up between stalking and scummy car dealerships with a few people under fed surveillance thrown in.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 months ago:
His logo leaves very little to the imagination
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 months ago:
Yeah, but they used to be fairly obvious. Mechanics would routinely pull them off of women’s cars and people would get arrested. I think it’s good they’re keeping this in the public eye.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 4 months ago:
Use LoRa instead of sim cards so they can’t tell who bought it though
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 5 months ago:
I’ve tried helping some spicy leftist groups and I’m still floored by how little the groups of people care who should absolutely know better. They will talk a big game but when it actually comes to implementation everyone immediately goes all “nothing to hide” like their years of constant guillotine reacts and memes won’t be pulled out in court the second they try to argue entrapment against some bullshit ci/undercover op.
I don’t think many people realize how aggressive a digital search warrant can get if you or someone dumber than you fucks around and finds that main character energy. At the end of the day you gotta absolutely minimize the amount of data that’s retained long term on systems.
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 5 months ago:
The number of people who don’t understand that AI is just the mathematical average of the internet… If we’re, on average, assholes, AI is gonna be an asshole
- Comment on Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation 6 months ago:
Since nobody has mentioned it, all of this is turbo illegal and the federal courts will absolutely nuke this from orbit. State governments do not control airspace, full stop. The courts have been very clear on this. Manned vs unmanned doesn’t matter to the FAA, it’s still one hell of a PP slap from the feds for encroaching on their turf. Additionally, any form of jamming (desense, deauth, noise, location spoofing, fraudulent signals etc) is illegal and regulated by the FCC, and doing it with intent to take down an aircraft means you get strung up by both the FCC and FAA simultaneously. In particular doing literally anything to the GPS band will pose a massive and immediate risk to manned passenger aircraft and the feds aren’t going to look kindly on that.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 8 months ago:
The market can remain irrational longer that you can remain solvent.
The problem isn’t that you can’t predict when a stock is mispriced, that’s sometimes very easy, it’s predicting when all the other dipshits will come to the same conclusion because ultimately that’s all that matters.
Right now musk still has a personality cult and there are a lot of morons buying the stock like their worldview depends on it. They don’t read the earnings reports, they don’t read unbiased news, they mostly don’t even own the cars, they just think it’s going to the moon because…for lack of a better word, propaganda.
- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 8 months ago:
Trump could get the case dropped right now though if he wanted to, right? Or is it too far along at the lower level for that to be an option?
- Comment on Google loses massive antitrust case over its search dominance 8 months ago:
What’s the play here? Why is trump’s DOJ still pursuing anti trust after having all the CEOs at his inauguration? Is he trying to extort concessions out of the tech giants or something?