hazelnoot

@hazelnoot@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Ethics and rights aside, this isn’t even possible to comply with. The law applies to additive and subtractive manufacturing hardware, and expects it to automatically detect and refuse any attempts to manufacture a firearm. But that depends on an underlying assumption that a machine can answer the question “will this command (set) result in the construction of a gun?” And that assumption is false.

  Even if you somehow designed an algorithm that could read a G-code program and determine whether it produces something shaped like a gun, it still wouldn’t be enough - because the CNC machine is just one step of a manufacturing process. The human operator controls what materials and commands go into the machine, so they also have full control over all inputs that the “oversight” program is allowed to see.

  Some simple ways to bypass this (hypothetical and perfect implementation):

  • Print the gun in two pieces, then combine them manually.
  • Print something that contains a gun, then cut out all the non-gun material.
  • Use multiple separate machines for different parts of the gun.
  • Design something that looks nothing like any existing gun, but is still capable of firing a bullet.
  • Print most of a gun, the build the rest by hand.
  • Build part of a gun, then print the rest onto the hand-made parts.
  • Print part of a gun, then run a separate program to print the rest onto the previous result.
  • A thousand variants of the above.

  So even if this was something we wanted to enforce, it’s just not possible. For the same reason why Minecraft abandoned their plans for an SMP “penis detector”, this law could never be complied with because it’s impossible to build a machine that actually meets the requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation trophies will now unlock the ability to purchase real-life merchandise of some franchises | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “unlock the ability to purchase” 😕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Validating output should be much easier than generating it yourself. P≠NP.

  This is very much not true in some domains, like software development. Code is much harder to read than it is to write, so verifying the output of a coding AI usually takes more time (or at least more cognitive effort) than if you’d just written the code yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many r are there in strawberry?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wait you’re serious? this isn’t satire???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google binning SMS MFA and replacing it with QR codes • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh so it would just be app-based MFA but without using TOTP. That makes sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google binning SMS MFA and replacing it with QR codes • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m confused about how this is supposed to act as a second authentication factor 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to help generate the “hundreds of thousands of ideas needed for game development"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t ideas like, the easiest part of making a game??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  same, I was ready for this to be some transphobic thing and was pleasantly surprised!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety, Digital Rights Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a different beast if the school didn’t allow you access coursework on a personal machine without installing their bullshit, thats a huge issue.

  That’s exactly how it works at many places. Students can only use a personal device if it’s enrolled in the school’s MDM, which grants them just as much control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” (17 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL that pluralistic.net is blocked on Facebook, and any links to it are automatically removed as “farming engagement” bee woozy emoji

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good we have “Knewbies” in a sandbox when they start.

  attention all companies: please stop making pet names for your employees, it’s weird bee sob loud emoji

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another vote for the steam controller - it’s versatile enough to work comfortably with every game I’ve wanted to play.