henfredemars
@henfredemars@infosec.pub
This is a secondary account. My main account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 4 days ago:
Artificial artificial intelligence.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Costs are borne by all, but profits only for the few.
- Comment on It's the Lord's problem now. 1 week ago:
This is a gag gift, right?
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 1 week ago:
Then, he is a fool. LLM technology has no fence around it. You can download and run one on your own hardware. The only reason a person would use their service is convenience access to a larger model.
- Comment on Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the American president. 1 week ago:
One Iota of critical thinking would resolve this, but it appears that might be too much to ask.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate a simple piece of software that does exactly what it’s supposed to do.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
My wife used to love this game! And then her mom started playing.
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 2 weeks ago:
I have a simple pile of Markdown files that I edit with Obsidian. I like the simple text file format because it keeps my documentation forwards-compatible. I use OpenWRT at the heart of my network, so I keep I right there in root’s home. Every long while I back it up to my general Documents which is then synced between my high-storage devices with SyncThing.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
7 Days to Die. Just started with a friend group of a decade after I first heard of it. Still buggy!
- Comment on Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues 2 weeks ago:
Fantastic read! Thank you for sharing.
- Comment on True 2 weeks ago:
It’s a reason, but probably not the only reason. You are less likely to innocuously forget while on auto-pay, though, I don’t they care why so long as they get paid.
- Comment on True 2 weeks ago:
They don’t mind if you’re dead so long as it’s on auto pay.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 2 weeks ago:
It’s certainly not your fault. Nobody could have been certain prices would explode this much.
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 2 weeks ago:
I’m really glad I met my memory needs last year. The price is completely unjustifiable. AI will blow over (revert to reasonable expectations) and when it does, hopefully there will be something left of the market so that we still have companies left to sell us RAM.
- Comment on What is the difference between a managed switch and an unmanaged switch? 2 weeks ago:
An unmanaged switch is a simple, zero-configuration network device that connects multiple Ethernet devices together. This is by far the most common type of switch because they’re cheaper to make and satisfy most needs in the home and small office. There are no settings to configure, and the device generally avoids inspecting the traffic it switches. Unmanaged switches are commodity products that are all pretty much same, varying only in the number of ports and speeds provided.
Managed switches add a central CPU for device administration. This design enables configuration settings which is usually an important precursor to have features such as VLANs, QoS, IGMP snooping, and port security. Businesses usually need managed switches to implement security policies. In addition to the added hardware, businesses have deeper pockets, and managed switches are no longer simple commodities because comparing the advanced feature set and software is no longer trivial.
Only recently have we seen pro-sumer switches occupy the space in between these two options by offering some simple managed features (VLANs) while reserving necessary enterprise features (port security, DHCP snooping, reporting) to segment the market.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 weeks ago:
An intern at work once asked me what a CD was and I had to explain that it was a vinyl for computers.
- Comment on At least the movie was good. 3 weeks ago:
But we did manage to make a few men extremely wealthy beyond all imagination for a short time. Isn’t that something worth celebrating?
- Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy. 3 weeks ago:
I tried. This isn’t a very good video, but you can kinda see it’s still trying to crawl away after it’s been eaten at several points. I might have had 20 or so in a pile fresh out of the water and they were much more active. I hope this helps.
- Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy. 3 weeks ago:
It’s true! I would collect them in a pail from the tidal pools as a child. I would crack them open with whatever I had available and eat them, and the halves would still be running around on the ground after I discarded the rest.
The parts of urchin, the remains, they would skitter around and bunch up in one corner of the yard trying to get away like they didn’t realize they’d been eaten yet even though there was nothing left inside.
- Comment on The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a brain throughout its anatomy. 3 weeks ago:
These guys always made me feel uncomfortable. I would collect and eat them, and the remains would run away afterward.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 3 weeks ago:
Well, they won’t be accessing my personal folders and files because I just won’t use Windows. Thanks but no thanks. That’s really creepy.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 weeks ago:
I remember finding online guides for the first time back in the days of dial up. It was incredible. So many games I had places where I was stuck and you just accepted that you have to figure it out or you just don’t continue the game.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 5 weeks ago:
This nobody has a lot of opinions 👴
- Comment on So sad to see a really old guy driving an expensive sports car 5 weeks ago:
It’s not sad. Let the man have his fun! He may have been saving for decades.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 5 weeks ago:
Considering how the open source community is being inundated with low-quality bug reports filed using AI, I don’t have much faith in the tech reviewing code, let alone writing it correctly.
Could it be a useful aid? Sure, but 70% of your reviewing is a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream. Not with still delivered a good product.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 weeks ago:
Can the universe not also approximate? Why must it be an exact result whenever a rule is applied?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 weeks ago:
I take issue with completeness in a very similar way. For example, imagine for some reason that in the simulation it’s impossible to think about penguins. Let’s say that penguins are so logically incomprehensible that we cannot implement this.
The implementation of the simulation could simply trap any attempt to think about penguins and replace it with something else. We would be none the wiser. The simulation still works even if there are states that we can’t get to or are undefined.
It could be that reality itself isn’t entirely complete and defined everywhere. Who’s to say this isn’t one big dream and that the sky isn’t there if we all stopped looking?
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 weeks ago:
Dr. Faizal says the same limitation applies to physics. “We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity,” he explains.
“Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone.”
Your argument is bad and you should feel bad.
Impossible to describe does not mean that it’s not computable, and impossible is an incredibly strong criterion that sounds quite inaccurate to me.
This seems like a huge leap to conclude that just because some aspects of our understanding seem like we wouldn’t be able to fully describe them somehow means that the universe can’t be simulated.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 1 month ago:
I’m not sure it matters if it’s legal or not anymore these days.
Still, they can legally demand any recordings from you if they reasonably can know that such recordings exist. Generally they will need a warrant or they may subpoena you for the evidence that they know you have. You can even be arrested for erasing your own footage as destruction of evidence.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 1 month ago:
Unless you’re self hosting your own cameras, just don’t. If you don’t control the data then it’s somebody else’s camera.