Quexotic
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- Comment on Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch 17 hours ago:
We jail execs in the US? Huh. Didn’t know that.
- Comment on World's Largest Sand Battery - YouTube Short 1 day ago:
I sincerely like your story.
- Comment on The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response 1 day ago:
And the cynic in the back of my head is saying “oh, just you wait! You’ll love what’s next!” while another finger curls on the monkey’s paw.
- Comment on Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital Journal 1 day ago:
From what I’ve learned recently, those may not be safe options.
Best bet would be Mullvad, IMO.
This video summarizes it well though it is a bit of a shill. I’ve actually taken the time to validate the claims made here and haven’t been able to refute them.
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- Comment on Doug Bowser is stepping down as Nintendo of America president and COO | VGC 3 days ago:
Is it weird that I misread that as gazonga twice before I got it right?
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 2 weeks ago:
Statement like that makes me seriously doubt that it can even run on a PS5 which I was thinking about getting it for but this is kind of changing my mind
- Comment on Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
This is… Well, not entirely convincing.
So, say the computational cost triples. Intelligent methods to mitigate this would include purpose built hardware to optimize these processes. That’s a big lift, but the reward would be calculable and would have significant enough ROI that there’s no way they won’t pursue it. I think it’s a realistically conquerable problem.
And so what if it doesn’t know? Existing solutions will scour the Internet on command and this functionality, given a sufficiently high level of uncertainty, could be automated.
Combining the Internet access capability with a certainty calculation and assuming there is hardware optimization in the future, these problems, while truly significant, seem solvable.
That said, the solution probably will most likely make our world uninhabitable, so that’s neat.
My concern on top of this is that they will not exhaust funding even if private investment goes dry. The state (US, China) won’t stop funding till they reach total dominance.
We’re so screwed, guys.
- Comment on We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it 2 weeks ago:
As if the level of bullshit science produced by corporations wasn’t already high enough… Ugh.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 2 weeks ago:
The comments of this YouTube video are enough to tell me that your expectations are not realistic and that neither human nor machine is going to pronounce this correctly the first time except by coincidence.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 4 weeks ago:
Makes me wonder if something similar to the veilid architecture could solve some of the problems.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 months ago:
I hope and doubt.
- Comment on Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the patriot act.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 months ago:
That is if it doesn’t kill us by engineering a bio weapon first.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan | 404 Media 2 months ago:
But can it really be a breach if it was never secure in the first place? They put it a bucket with absolutely no security. Anyone, literally anyone could have downloaded all of that data.
Also the app looks like some sort of awful vibe-coded meme garbage. I noticed it on the app store a while back and kind of wondered who would actually use it. I guess we know now that we have all of their driver’s licenses available.
Oh well.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 2 months ago:
TIL. Maybe that’s a very good reason to release the code; fix the vulns.
- Comment on Boffins detail new algorithms that boost AI perf up to 2.8x 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 2 months ago:
Open source the server/game codebase motherfucker! Your copyrights should end when support does.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 3 months ago:
Might wanna access that site with tor.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I wonder how the place that sold me the license for Windows 11 Pro for $6 did it. It still works for some reason.
- Comment on The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun 3 months ago:
Guilds that act as intermediaries?
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 3 months ago:
Fair. I should really quit using autocomplete and stop using Gboard for privacy reasons. Honestly, I’m just a little bit away from de-googling and going graphene. Just gotta spin up immich and a few other servers.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 3 months ago:
For som reason, “ywars” changed your voice into that of a pirate, and it made me cackle. Thanks 💛
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 months ago:
“every safety regulation is written in blood” and I’d add, it’s often the blood of the poor or working class.
- Comment on Microsoft wants a version of USB-C that “just works” consistently across all PCs 3 months ago:
So I thought it couldn’t possibly be that bad! So I looked it up on Amazon. Guys, it’s way worse than that bad. $60 for a goddamn cable! It supports everything though… www.amazon.com/…/B084Z65YJQ
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 4 months ago:
It makes sense that you don’t buy it. LLMs are built on simplified renditions of neural structure. They’re totally rudimentary.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI's ChatGPT will integrate MCP 4 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but I don’t think you’re 100% correct either. The human mind is able to synthesize reason by using a neural network to make connections and develop a profoundly complex statistical model using neurons. LLMs do the same thing, essentially, and they do it poorly in comparison. They don’t have the natural optimizations we have, so they kinda suck at it now, but to dismiss the capabilities they currently have entirely is probably a mistake.
I’m not an apologist, to be clear. There is a ton of ethical and moral baggage tied up with the way they were made and how they’re used and it needs addressed, andI think that we’re only a few clever optimizations away from a threat.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 4 months ago:
So, if your VPN provider is sold, why would you keep them unless you had pretty intimate knowledge of the buyer. Is that a dumb question?
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