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- Comment on Nexus Mods is under new ownership 17 hours ago:
The article: www.nexusmods.com/news/15301
Don’t read the comments.
- Comment on Workers in UK need to embrace AI or risk being left behind, minister says 2 days ago:
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology since July 2024
also
By the age of 25, he was accepted on his third attempt to become a student at the University of Sussex, where he gained a degree in geography, international development, and environmental studies, and later a doctorate in community development.
🤡
- Comment on Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say 2 days ago:
“Many of the participants expressed a strong commitment to equal treatment and fairness. They showed particular sensitivity to situations they perceived as unjust or discriminatory. This extended to issues specifically concerning men.”
No shit.
It comes after rising violence against women and girls (VAWG) in England and Wales. Data published by the National Police Chiefs’ Council in July 2024 found that about 3,000 VAWG offences a day were recorded by the police in 2022-23, an increase of 37% since 2018, with one in every 12 women a victim each year.
Separate expert studies have found some evidence that the language of the manosphere can escalate into physical violence. A submission to parliament by a group of UK academics cited cases in which incels had gone on to commit offline acts of violence, including Elliot Rodger in Isla Vista, California, in 2014 and Jake Davison in Plymouth, England, in 2021.
The Ofcom study involved 38 men, and more misogynistic men may have declined to take part. Some potential recruits refused to take part, considering the government-appointed regulator to be part of the “mainstream”. Perhaps the most impressionable group, boys under 16, were also not included.
Oh so this study is completely worthless then.
- Comment on Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion looks like a boomer shooter for the Newgrounds generation, and it's out next month 4 days ago:
- Comment on CIO wants to clone top techies as digital twin and AI agents 4 days ago:
What he’s suggesting is just science fiction.
Tell you what, Dr. Vince Kellen, Chief Information Officer at the University of California San Diego, why don’t we start with automating your job with agentic AI so that you can focus on these “exquisite” attacks instead and we’ll see how well that goes.
- Comment on Reform plans risk destabilising markets, warns Bank of England 4 days ago:
There must be a better news source reporting on this.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 5 days ago:
Chainsaws have existed for quite a while already.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 5 days ago:
superdeterminism gang represent ✌️
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 6 days ago:
It’s an optional mode for those who like it
They probably said that when they added BR to Fortnite too.
- Comment on Exclusive: RuneScape developer Jagex slammed by staff for Pride Month U-turn 6 days ago:
- Comment on All civil servants in England and Wales to get AI training 6 days ago:
🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦 🤦
- Comment on GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 2 weeks ago:
Wow that slashdot discussion is a train-wreck.
- Comment on Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 2 weeks ago:
👁️ 👁️ 👂 👃 👂 👄 <( "cool" )
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The people who pirate your game were never going to buy it anyway. Don’t lose sleep over it.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 3 weeks ago:
Savage : The Battle of Newerth - SavageXR
This was such a great RTS/FPS hybrid at the time. I looked for RTS/FPS games a couple of years ago when I remembered it, and the genre is all but dead. I did spend a lot of time playing Silica though, which is still in early access. I haven’t checked in on that in a while now though.
- Comment on Amazing Fact of the Day 4 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison, because the Spectrum and C64 were general purpose computing devices that ran a single program at once, whereas the 5090 is not designed to be a general purpose computer, but a massively parallel acceleration card with a pipeline designed primarily for 3D graphics rendering.
A better comparison would be to a modern general purpose computing device, like a smartphone or desktop PC.
- Comment on Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks [404 Media] 4 weeks ago:
Since nobody else has linked to it, the video in question:
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 5 weeks ago:
Something a lot like this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpBAFOmdNgU
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 5 weeks ago:
Going to need a source for a bombshell like that.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 5 weeks ago:
lichess good
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 5 weeks ago:
It was better than AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Tripod, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler et al. at the time when it gained its popularity.
Its main advantage was that they focussed on speed. You didn’t have to load a “homepage” with news articles and link directories (as all the other search engines had become) before you could type your search query. It was just a logo and a text input box.
The search index even at the beginning was pretty comprehensive too.
Google jumped the shark a long time ago though, around when they started putting ads on equal footing with the search results, and boosting their Shopping links.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 5 weeks ago:
your link is broken
qwant.com
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 5 weeks ago:
Good job we have free trade with our closest neighbours… oh.
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- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 5 weeks ago:
No, LLMs can’t decipher Enigma ciphertext.
“It would be straightforward to recreate the logic of bombes in a conventional program,” Wooldridge said, noting the AI model ChatGPT was able to do so. “Then with the speed of modern computers, the laborious work of the bombes would be done in very short order.”
He’s speculating that an LLM could write a program to do so.
Using a slightly different approach – that Wooldridge suggested might be slower – researchers have previously used an AI system trained to recognise German using Grimm’s fairytales, together with 2,000 virtual servers, to crack a coded message in 13 minutes.
The link is to an abstract that tells you nothing more without an account on this website. But a better write-up of the mentioned research is here: digitalocean.com/…/how-2000-droplets-broke-the-en…
In late 2017, at the Imperial War Museum in London, developers applied modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to break the “unbreakable” Enigma machine …
So this is about research from 8 years ago! They go on to explain that they did a brute-force attack on the key, using a RNN (recurrent neural network) classifier to detect if the decrypted text looked like German.
I’m no cryptographer but I’m pretty sure that we have been able to classify language samples quite successfully for a long time using much simpler (and faster) statistical techniques, like n-gram frequency analysis.
The fact that the Guardian article mentions none of this and presents the topic ambiguously enough to make it sound like ChatGPT can break ciphers on its own makes me think this is more deliberate AI-hype.
- Comment on the Twinkpad (first post) 5 weeks ago:
guten abend
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 5 weeks ago:
4 percent of employees at 50 banks use their email to register on adult content websites
How do they know it’s not people who are pissed off at a bank employee who take their business card and sign the person up to adult sites?
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 1 month ago:
Only Pro models support reasonable speeds for USB-C, up to 10Gbps. Regular iPhones are capped at USB 2.0 rates, up to 480Mbps, which is no faster than Lightning. With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds – with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
10Gbps is about 20x more than 480Mbs but 8secs times 20 is 160secs which is a lot less than 16minutes so what is going on with this calculation?
With an iPhone 16 Pro, a 1GB file transfer can take 8 seconds
1GB / 10Gbps = 1GB / 1.25GBps = 0.8secs
with a vanilla iPhone 16, you’re going to be waiting over 16 minutes.
1GB / 480Mbps = 1GB / 0.48Gbps = 1GB / 0.06GBps = 16.67secs
Wow what a great article, well done.
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 month ago:
Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.
