drspod
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- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 1 week 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 1 week 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] 1 week 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? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Going to need a source for a bombshell like that.
- Comment on I'm looking for the Holy Grail of multiplayer gaming 2 weeks ago:
lichess good
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 2 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 2 weeks ago:
your link is broken
qwant.com
- Comment on Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say 2 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 2 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) 3 weeks ago:
guten abend
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 3 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) 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.
- Comment on Apple owes more than $700M in standard-essential patent royalties and interest to licensing firm Optis: England & Wales Court of Appeal 3 weeks ago:
Patents relating to 4G apparently.
Why are we building our global communication networks on patented IP that has to be licensed anyway? Isn’t this a huge barrier to entry to the telecommunications market for new businesses? Why is the market artificially protected in this way?
Lobbyists and bribes; I bet the answer is lobbyists and bribes.
- Comment on Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 3 weeks ago:
This marks the end of the beginning of the end.
- Comment on Sycamore Gap tree destroyed in 'moronic mission', court told 4 weeks ago:
- They drove there in their own vehicle
- They were seen on CCTV cameras going there and back
- They turned off their phones around the time when the tree was cut down
- They filmed it being cut down
- They took a photo of a piece of the tree in the back of their car
- They discussed it over text messages and voice notes as the media coverage picked up
- ** They pled not guilty** 🤣
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 4 weeks ago:
ghoul
- Comment on Right-wing media generating hysteria over trans women running non-competitively in London Marathon 4 weeks ago:
Maybe we should ban right-wingers in sports.
- Comment on Ofcom announces new rules to keep children safe online 4 weeks ago:
- Effective age checks. The riskiest services must use highly effective age assurance to identify which users are children. This means they can protect them from harmful material, while preserving adults’ rights to access legal content. That may involve preventing children from accessing the entire site or app, or only some parts or kinds of content. If services have minimum age requirements but are not using strong age checks, they must assume younger children are on their service and ensure they have an age-appropriate experience.
That’s what it’s really about.
It’s not about protecting children, it’s about ensuring that adults can’t use the internet anonymously.
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 4 weeks ago:
Their current market cap is 443B with a P/E of 50, so already massively overpriced.
For comparison, Google P/E is 20, Amazon P/E is 32, Meta P/E is 21, Microsoft P/E is 30.
They would need to more than double their profits to get to 1Tn market cap with the same joke of a price to earnings ratio. At this point I doubt that will be by doubling their customer base. It’s going to be by cutting corners: paying less for shows which means lower quality shows, cutting bandwidth costs which means lower quality streams, and charging customers more for the pleasure. Classic enshittification incoming.
- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 4 weeks ago:
So if you happen to look like someone who was once suspected of shoplifting then you’ll no longer be able to buy food anywhere. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 5 weeks ago:
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for an American to buy eggs.
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop 5 weeks ago:
Par for the course with Ubuntu. They always fuck something.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 5 weeks ago:
cryptocurrency conference in Bedford
This is the funniest part to me.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 5 weeks ago:
They’re easily taken-in by some grifter selling them their software platform. It’s the same as all the famous people selling their own cryptocoin that turns out to be a rug-pull - someone approached them and dazzled them with buzzwords and jargon, and all they saw was dollar signs.
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 5 weeks ago:
So imagine the language model can produce grammatically correct and semantically meaningful dolphin language, how does it translate that to a human language?
The reason LLMs can do this for human languages is that we have an enormous corpus of Rosetta stones for every language that allow the model to correlate concepts in each language. The training data for human to dolphin is going to be just these “behavioural notes.”
So the outcome is that the bullshitting machine will bullshit the scientists that it knows what they’re saying when it’s actually just making stuff up.
It’s a big problem with LLMs that they very rarely answer, “I don’t know.”
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 1 month ago:
It’s just going to hallucinate bullshit. Because we have so much training data of conversations between humans and dolphins don’t we?