fonix232
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- Comment on ‘No Palantir’ motion passes as Lambeth joins growing revolt against NHS data deal 5 hours ago:
Here's an idea:
Have the government write and maintain that system.
Employ engineers affected by AI-driven layoffs
Ensure compliance from the ground up
Ensure it's written for the specific use cases
Bam, you saved money, have a national product to sell, 0 Palantir influence, and all your issues addressed.
- Comment on Bought a pair of Fluevog x Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Starfleet boots 9 hours ago:
Nice.
It is a shame that Volante Design closed down right when I got to a point in my life that I could spend a few thou on specialty clothing... They had some amazing Trek inspired stuff. The Disco uniform based denim jackets looked awesome.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
While I see why Sisko had to make that choice, political pressure notwithstanding, I disagree with it.
In any case of deciding the guardianship of a child, the first and foremost factor is the child's benefit - aka where and with whom does the child have the best chance of upbringing, including how the child feels where they should be.
In this case, Rugal wanted to stay with his foster parents. His benefit would've been to stay with them, and Sisko should've seen this. While yes, Rugal's father was indeed screwed over by Dukat's aide, his claim to guardianship was questionable at best. Would he provide for the boy to the best of his abilities? Sure. Would the boy have a happy, fulfilling life? Given his upbringing, no.
Unfortunately, politics played into it, and the Federation needed to score a gold star or two with the Cardassian government, and as such, the boy was handed over.
- Comment on Cyberattack destroys food at hundreds of French grocery stores 2 days ago:
If anything, this should've been a read-only, monitoring/alerting system.
I have something similar for my freezer because sometimes the door doesn't close properly and, well... I too dislike tossing out a lot of food because it spoiled. A simple £10 sensor and a crafty little rule in my home automation system (sliding window averages, stored as historical data points, live comparison + alert if value is higher than usual for longer than 5 minutes), and I know if shit is going wrong.
No supermarket needs remote controllable systems for a fucking fridge. Period. Set up monitoring, alerting, and some minimal local presence. Bam, you're done, if shit goes south, you can have a person there to fix it manually within 30-45 minutes. And hackers can't fuck up your food.
- Comment on How I Could’ve Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records 4 days ago:
Especially now that AI is incredibly capable of security... "research"... literally any skiddie with a bit of money can "pentest" systems.
It's no longer "if" a system gets hacked but "when".
Prior to this, all the knowledge and skills and thought processes were limited to a small fraction of a percentage of the population, most of whom ended up selling out, thus limiting the potential damage.
But today? Any skiddie with a grudge can get their hands on an abliterated model, spend a bit of money on hardware to run it (if power consumption isn't a limit, a handful of 3090s will do, which you can get relatively cheap), and just run attacks against any server their fridge is against.
- Comment on Shitbox wearing an exoskeleton to walk. 5 days ago:
Why not both? Just not in this order.
- Comment on A one-time 5% wealth tax would bring Silicon Valley’s billionaires’ wealth back to where it was just 31 days ago 6 days ago:
It also sets a precedent - why not an annual 5% tax? why not 50%?
That's why they're afraid of it. It's not just the liquidity, because 5% they can easily liquidate without affecting any of their hedged-leveraged debt coverage.
- Comment on harm reduction 6 days ago:
I'll dispose of it for you, for free! I've even got my hazardous materials disposal license.
- Comment on They never even notice 6 days ago:
Not how much cheese? what if I want mine drowned in blue cheese?
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 6 days ago:
Try to reason with the local govt. If you're lucky, the people at the local planning dept or whoever is in charge of public properties will find your inquiry unusual enough to do something about it.
- Comment on Surveillance Capitalism 1 week ago:
Well well well, lookie here, it's Sir FartsALot
- Comment on Brady Inspires us all 1 week ago:
Precisely.
I want people in politics who want to do the work, not the politicking. I want them to worry about finishing the projects that improve people's lives, not about re-election or the other candidates.
- Comment on Just found this behind a wendys dumpster 1 week ago:
Thou hath not the knowledge, it seems
- Comment on Just found this behind a wendys dumpster 1 week ago:
And imperative.
Also replace words for close enough synonyms. Like say cylinder instead of 🍆.
- Comment on Now that your an adult 1 week ago:
As a European who doesn't celebrate Halloween (it's explicitly an Anglosphere thing), I was always surprised by the amount of scaremongering about dangerous candy (let it be for razor blades and whatnot in it, or more commonly, drugs), when pretty much every single case - and that's maybe one or two a year - of dangerous candy, including candy that is simply... out of date... gets reported internationally.
Like, a few years back, I think right after COVID, it was headlines that a couple accidentally gave out a few - either THC gummies or brownies or mushroom chocolate - and immediately went after the kids and let the parents know, so there was no harm, and yet...
Meanwhile the child pedestrian death rate on Halloween is like, 3x higher than any other day in the year, yet you don't see THAT being the concern for parents...
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 week ago:
I fully concur that the onus is on the parents first, not the platforms.
However I also think that there should be proper tools made available for parents to simplify managing what their kids can access.
No, not the Orwellian surveillance crap most politicians try to push. Those don't help.
But having a proper parental control system that has pre-made filters and is straightforward to use would get us ahead quite a lot.
About ten years ago I had to be the "parent" for my youngest brother on a number of platforms because our parents speak no English and parental controls were all... only in English.
Just last year I did the same for my nieces. And let me tell you... in ten years there was exactly zero progress made in parental control systems at Google, Microsoft and Apple. No ways to make it easier to control what your kids can access, no improvements in UX, it's still a hidden, tucked away, third or fourth thought menu.
Maybe start focusing on that instead of trying to use your incompetence to strongarm governments into handing you even more data? Just an idea.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 1 week ago:
Yes it does. Just need to go beyond prompt. Add reinforcement loops, make it test the solution in a separate environ it can't screw up in, and have it not just INVENT things ("give me X"), but research the topic and base its solution on the rules created by the research.
This is what basically the Claude harness (not the local but the remote harness you can't see) adds to the LLM what makes it so powerful and useful. Replicate those processes and even a small 4B mode will be incredibly capable.
- Comment on Ezequiel 19:43 1 week ago:
Nah. If a man wants to eliminate himself from the genetic pool, let him.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 1 week ago:
Your experience is pretty unique then.
Yes, LLMs make mistakes, but even small, self-hosted ones are pretty efficient today if you prompt them well. They're not mind reading software so you need to be able to describe the task and HOW you want it done, not just barf in some basic instructions like "write me a copy of Facebook but better".
- Comment on Got any more? 1 week ago:
Is that a combat wombat? obviously retired (or just very tired)
- Comment on Happens at least twice a month 1 week ago:
- Comment on politic 1 week ago:
Arguably the Fully Automated Luxury Space Gay Communism was much less authoritarian than indicated.
- Comment on Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds 1 week ago:
I'd presume a kid doing e.g. newspaper delivery and getting hit'n'run by a car is what counts towards these statistics. On one hand I want to think that a country like the US is above and beyond child labour, but on the other... I remember how 50+ years of family/kids movies made it seem normal that 12-13 year olds have to work to get some allowance/money to buy things for themselves....
- Comment on o.0 1 week ago:
What do you mean, that guy is obviously VP of Engineering if not C-suite
- Comment on There's one right choice 2 weeks ago:
Someone's been playing too much Control Resonant
- Comment on Slash. 2 weeks ago:
Wanna bet both OOP and her sister are prolific Sherlock slash writers?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So, it's not a nude body after all?
- Comment on Crypto scam not included 2 weeks ago:
This would only be funnier if it was an obvious billionaire's superyacht that will see absolutely no fishing ever.
- Comment on Sounds Pretty Cool Honestly 2 weeks ago:
I'm down for good old "tired shit" that's well tested and good quality.
- Comment on Sounds Pretty Cool Honestly 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I'm fine getting power AFTER drugs and sex. Can think more clear headed after a good coke and coochie binge.
