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- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 6 months ago:
Front trunk. It's aggravating slang, but it's been in use for decades, well before Tesla.
- Comment on Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human? 6 months ago:
To add to this, a new type of brain cell was discovered just last year. (I would have linked directly to the study but there was a server error when I followed the cite.)
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 6 months ago:
Didn't it just roll out to league of legends?
- Comment on Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it | CNN Politics 6 months ago:
And making assumptions like that is why you will continue to be out of touch :/
- Comment on Fact check: Biden repeats his claim that he ‘got arrested’ defending civil rights. There’s still no evidence for it | CNN Politics 6 months ago:
You're kinda opposite reality on most other things you've said in this thread so I guess that tracks
- Comment on Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law 6 months ago:
This is why we need a corporate death penalty.
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 9 months ago:
I hardly dream so I guess I would say "it's a dream when I wake up afterwards"
- Comment on Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web 9 months ago:
There are already plenty of companies that sell managed data removal like this, Mozilla claims to be doing it better and perhaps they are incrementally more trustworthy than the smaller no name ones
- Comment on Discord Servers asking for Phone Numbers and 'Verification Levels' 10 months ago:
What are you talking about? There are endless services where you can get a free email address without spending a cent. Verifying that an email is genuine is a much harder ask than you might think.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
A handcar!
- Comment on First functional graphene semiconductor paves the path to post-silicon chips — Georgia Tech researchers' material can be used with standard chipmaking methods 10 months ago:
Silicon and silicone are two very different things, just FYI. But that does make sense
- Comment on First functional graphene semiconductor paves the path to post-silicon chips — Georgia Tech researchers' material can be used with standard chipmaking methods 10 months ago:
It's still bonded to silicon carbide...
- Comment on What If: No Social Media Anonymity 10 months ago:
Yes, enforced pseudonymity would work much better. You can have up to three, or some number, of identities, they're not linked to your info but they are all linked to each other.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
Toss a coin, to your admins...
- Comment on AI Doomerism: Intelligence Is Not Enough -- “The lack of arms and legs becomes really load-bearing when you want to kill all humans.” 11 months ago:
While I appreciate the nitpick, I think it's likely the case that "kills a bunch of people" is also something we want to avoid...
- Comment on Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed 11 months ago:
Assassin's Creed's Publisher's Greed: "No Pop-Ups. No Pop-Ups. You're The Pop-Ups."
- Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software? 11 months ago:
Kinda sounds like a format similar to Stack Exchange might work
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
If a malicious actor has physical access to your machine, you have already lost. Been that way since the dawn of computing. Full-disk encryption can potentially protect your data from unauthorized access, but it can't really stop a thief from wiping the laptop and making it their own. And if you get it back you probably want to wipe it anyway.
- Comment on Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity 11 months ago:
According to your link, hosting an exit node was not a crime by itself, this person pretty much encouraged the illegal activity
The Austrian Court found that this activity may lead to criminal liability for aiding and abetting of a crime of distribution of child pornography when coupled with other circumstances. Of course, mere provision of Tor Nodes would not be enough to establish at least indirect intent (bedingte Vorsatz), which such aiding and abetting under criminal laws usually requires (§ 5 StGB).
In order to find such circumstances, according to PCWorld, the court cited transcripts of chat sessions uncovered during the investigation in which the Weber told an unidentified correspondent “You can host 20TB child porn with us on some encrypted hdds”, “You can host child porn on our servers” and “If you want to host child porn … I would use Tor.” Weber defended himself against this on his blog saying: “Yes, this logs existed – Yes, i recommended Tor to host anything anonymously, including child pornography – Yes, this is of course taken out of context.” - Comment on Cybersecurity firm executive pleads guilty to hacking hospitals 11 months ago:
"This cyberattack on a hospital not only could have had disastrous consequences, but patient's personal information was also compromised," said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.
Irl relevant username
- Comment on Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team 11 months ago:
And probably contracted out to a company, so they can say it was outside their knowledge/responsibility/control when evil shit inevitably happens
- Comment on Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation 1 year ago:
Methinks your username is a little too relevant right now :p
- Comment on Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation 1 year ago:
Yeah it's the front end of the week and Saturday is the rear end
- Comment on Programming questions for beginners 1 year ago:
Well most replies already suggested a LLM but good old fashioned search skills work fine too.
For simple questions, as long as you know the correct terminology that is relevant, just asking the question of a search engine is usually good enough to turn up articles or stack overflow answers that'll help
If you don't know the terminology or you struggle to ask a precise question despite your knowledge, going up one level , so to speak, and consuming more information about the stuff in the immediate context, can often either fill in the gaps to allow you to ask the right question, or sometimes it's the missing bit of info you didn't know you needed to solve your actual problem.
- Comment on Omegle has officially shut down 1 year ago:
A really powerful statement, and I completely understand their decision.
- Comment on Researchers develop solid-state thermal transistor for better heat management 1 year ago:
It's a bit over my head but the gist I'm getting is that you can do more interesting things when you can go from simply predicting the heat dissipation of a component, to controlling that heat dissipation.
While there have been efforts in tuning thermal conductivity, their performances have suffered due to reliance on moving parts, ionic motions, or liquid solution components. This has resulted in slow switching speeds for heat movement on the order of minutes or far slower, creating issues in performance reliability as well as incompatibility with semiconductor manufacturing.
- Comment on Little Bobby Tables has a baby sister. Meet Sally Ignore Previous Instructions. 1 year ago:
...Huh.
Guess we're gonna hit the singularity soon or die trying
- Comment on Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion] 1 year ago:
Your point is valid. You may want to use "raises the question" going forward though — begging the question has a slightly different meaning and usage.
- Comment on Salt solution cools computers, boosts performance 1 year ago:
Whoosh
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
That got a chuckle. Genuinely curious, how'd that work out for you?