andrew0

@andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can’t we swap our minds today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your mind is your body + brain. Your behavior and all of your memories are due to how your synapses and intermediary cells were developed. Similarly, it also depends on the body chemistry.

  If you were to fully transplant a brain to a new body and correctly link all the nerves, in theory you could have the same brain in a different body. In practice, this can fail miserably due to differences in all of your sensory connections to the brain and hormone levels.

  It’s been a while since I looked into neuroscience, so there might be some things I am missing. The conclusion is that altering the chemistry around your body could change you as a person, even if your hypothalamus is the same (i.e., same memories).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about getting one, but then I read more about it and realised you can’t use it without the Steam client. Kind of put me off since I have a large part of my library on GOG. Maybe this won’t be a problem in the future though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some chap invested a lot of time into making the Skyrim experience nicer. I recommend you check out CHIM :)

  Quite a lovely project, but you will have to spend some time to set things up. For example, if you have a good GPU available, you can set up TTS for NPCs, STT for yourself, and then a decent LLM to handle the world interactions. The NPCs then can listen to you talk, follow you, do stuff you tell them (like attack someone, or pick something off the floor), etc. It’s something quite revolutionary, if you can spend the time to get it to work. If you’re looking for some LLM provider on the cheap, nano-gpt has an 8 dollar per month tier that gives you “fair-use unlimited” access to open source models. Worth a shot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just announced that the EU is pausing sustainability requirements on smaller business (< 500 employees) for 2 years. This stems from fears related to the trade war, as they want to keep smaller businesses competitive. Nevertheless, I’m pretty sure that this won’t be great for the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone know of a good QR code generation service for high-res images?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can also generate a lower quality image and use an AI upscaler to increase the size of your artistic QR code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way for me to upload my rifd Keycard to my smartphone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve looked into this before, and it really depends on the type of RFID they use. Older versions have been cracked, but newer ones can’t be copied over (easily or at all).

  If your company is serious about security, you will not be able to put the content of the card on your phone. What newer, more secure versions of RFID do is receive a code from the reader system, replies to it internally, and then sends back the answer. Even if you try to copy this over, you will not be able to open the doors of your facility.

  I think the first step should be to use one of these apps that can read RFID and see what protocol your card uses. If it’s an unsecure one (i.e., only pushes out a code and checks it in their database that it’s yours), you could probably try to copy it over. However, if it’s not, you could also just dissolve the card with some acetone and place the resulting wires in your phone’s case, near the bottom. Like that, it shouldn’t interfere with your phone’s NFC, as that one is usually next to the top area of your phone.