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nazokiyoubinbou , vor 13 Stunden

@arstechnica The article wasn't clear (or I missed it.) Does "bricking" just mean they're discontinuing? Normally in electronics it means doing something to render it completely unusable (such as erasing firmware.) It's bad enough we live in such a throwaway society, but if it's reaching the point companies actually destroy their discontinued products rather than just let people keep using them we're at full blown dystopia levels now...

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 13 Stunden

@arstechnica That was amazingly fast... The Supreme Court only JUST declared that federal agencies have no power to do their jobs and already others have jumped on board it seems.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 4 Tagen

@arstechnica What kind of "AI" are we talking about here? If it's a complicated set of algorithms written by hand I'd trust it a bit more, but if we're talking LLMs, a so called "halucination" could easily end up with the user snapped in half.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 4 Tagen

@arstechnica "Likely"? Don't they know? It's literally their job to know.

Maybe there should be a minimum requirement that they actually understand law before being allowed to become a Supreme Court justice. We'll have to replace about half of them, but we'll be better off for it.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 7 Tagen

@arstechnica In other words, the less likely someone is to still be alive once the Earth is no longer livable and everyone is dying, the more likely they are to support burning it down for short term profits.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 9 Tagen

@arstechnica I'm not entirely certain that makes sense. For streaming only it needs very little CPU or GPU power. I'm not even sure if a Raspberry Pi (5) couldn't do it today, but even in the past before it came out we're talking some pretty low end hardware from several generations back. The whole point of "cloud gaming" is to offload the actual performance requirements to the other system, thus making the system a dumb terminal. (I still don't understand why people want this though.)

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 9 Tagen

@arstechnica Not even "PC emulators." DOS emulators! Not exactly a big competitor. Or a competitor at all...

This is a good reminder of why a wildly proprietary gated device and library was never ok. Eventually they'll change their minds and come around after all the flak and when the higher ups realize that emulating a DOS system isn't exactly going to send people flooding to the competition or cause rampant piracy or whatever, but it doesn't change that this happens in the first place.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 10 Tagen

@arstechnica I have been seeing a lot of talk that seems to agree with this. AI isn't great for the grid by any means, but it certainly is not the only problem. And as the article highlights, crypto is still one of the biggest and most useless wastes. So much so it's really kind of upsetting everyone switched their focus so much more to AI -- many seem to have forgotten how horrible crypto really is.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 11 Tagen

@arstechnica Fun fact: if your online account gets locked -- such as if you log into your account on a console apparently (that's what did it for me. I logged into Minecraft. That's it. Just logged in. Didn't make any purchases, didn't even play online. Just logged in) it breaks access to your computer. And if you log in with a second account, anything encrypted with the first is inaccessible. This is a big problem if you don't want to give them personal info (like your cell number.)

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 11 Tagen

@arstechnica Even so, call it anecdotal, but I think pretty much any pet owner (like really close to 100%) will tell you having a pet really is good mental health if nothing else.

I feel like there is an implied fallacy (I call reverse appeal to authority -- the belief that ONLY an authority can make a statement about a thing.) We don't need studies to tell us the sky appears blue to the human eye. Studies would just be helpful in finding out why if we didn't already know.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 14 Tagen

@arstechnica This sounds like it requires serious investigation. For example, might he have some stake in the company that produced it?

It really makes no sense that just one person can issue such decisions though, regardless. I could understand if there were very good reason (such as an emergency and something with bad side effects was the only option) but this doesn't seem to match that. It really feels like he has stock in the company or something. (If that's not illegal it should be!)

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 14 Tagen

@arstechnica They actually had the Pocket 386 for a while. I never even understood the point of the 8088 system. It would limit so much software capabilities even in regards to retro terms... A 386 makes a heck of a lot more sense.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 14 Tagen

@arstechnica As a general rule of thumb, when something where privacy is a concern straight up skips the EU it means you don't want it elsewhere either until they fix whatever makes it non-compliant with EU privacy laws...

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 15 Tagen

@arstechnica "For its part, Kaspersky and its representatives have always denied the US government's allegations."

Unfortunately, the problem isn't "does the Russian government currently influence Kaspersky." The problem is that it can at any given time without warning.

As a side note, "you can trust me because I say so" isn't very good. Of course if they WERE influenced they would be required to say that they weren't and it's highly unlikely they would refuse (and fall out a window.)

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 15 Tagen

@arstechnica The idea is sound enough. Would be nice if there were some more automated method people might use on local LLMs or things not owned by large corporations that take your information to actually use this. For local LLMs and such one would just have to do this manually I guess.

Really the basic idea is so simple we all pretty much were already doing this really. Just the way this is described one realizes it could be automated perhaps.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 17 Tagen

@arstechnica A good reminder of why people never should have been ok with EVs relying so heavily on closed, proprietary software... I never understood how people accepted this in something as costly and vital as a vehicle.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 18 Tagen

@arstechnica It has launched. This is it. This "alpha" is all anyone will ever get.

But yeah, even if you pretend it's not vaporware, considering the game will remain in this state for the foreseeable future, it only makes sense they wouldn't be fond of cheating that could affect sales.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 18 Tagen

@arstechnica Actually thinness is not good. We need to go back to devices that we hold being designed for human hands. Current ones are so thin and slick now that it's nearly impossible to hold onto them without a death grip.

What we need to bring back is making them small enough to actually fit IN a hand instead of AROUND a hand.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 18 Tagen

@arstechnica Does TDK have some sort of exclusivity agreement with Apple? I haven't exactly kept up, but they used to be just a tech company in general, not specifically tied to Apple. They're not an "Apple supplier" if Apple just happens to use their products...

Sure would be amazing if their claim was true anyway. At least unless they actually do have an exclusivity agreement. Then it screws over the world.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 20 Tagen

@arstechnica Yeah, but they're also responsible for EV cars sinking in the ocean and shocking people while they chase you to nom on your legs.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 21 Tagen

@arstechnica In other words they hit the limits of what they can get away with in a country with privacy laws so they'll just steal info from everyone else.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 21 Tagen

@arstechnica The thing is, the games weren't really about that originally. It was nice and neat when you got a nicer than normal item, but it wasn't the whole game. You could just play and enjoy the game and that was bonus, not a requirement. Making finding those the chief focus of the games now was always horrible.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 22 Tagen

@arstechnica It's not meant to be a creative victory, it's meant to make a point.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 22 Tagen

@arstechnica What's that sound? Sounds like a bus coming...

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 22 Tagen

@arstechnica When THIS Supreme Court can't support something that would help anti-abortionists, you KNOW the legal standing is bad!

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 24 Tagen

@arstechnica Says the man who puts spyware in people's cars.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 28 Tagen

@arstechnica Uhm, him paying less attention to it actually would be a positive, so it's kind of win-win to not give him the money. In fact, the less he is paid the more the rest of the world wins...

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 28 Tagen

@arstechnica Too bad anything running at the user's access level will bypass the encryption. Aka it has little effect on things like viruses, exploits, etc etc. (Pretty much just means someone physically sitting at your computer will find it harder to access.)

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 28 Tagen

@arstechnica The competition thanks Broadcom.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 28 Tagen

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nazokiyoubinbou , vor 29 Tagen

@arstechnica I can't understand why so many things are throwing their all behind LLMs when flipping a coin is literally more accurate... Just build automatic coin flipper machines. They have to be cheaper than running LLMs.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 29 Tagen

@arstechnica There's also another major disease going around that vaccine misinformation has been causing problems around.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor 29 Tagen

@arstechnica Even more anonymous: just run a LLM on your own PC.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica This is the fundamental problem with "AI." It's not AI. It can't learn. They have to manually program those conditions in.

The fundamental problem is that in the real world "full moons" happen frequently. Both literally and figuratively of course.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

@arstechnica Do they use a SoC controller yet? I still don't understand why Intel didn't copy that ASAP when AMD did it. With economy cores and such a SoC really is needed... (Software routing is troublesome.)

Not sure how useful NPUs like these really are in practice though. They can't do very much compared to real ones. AMD has their own equivalent, but to be on the scale of a real NPU or a real GPU it would melt the package.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica My own mother is one of these. I don't know what to do. I can't block it on all of her devices and even if I did, she receives some misinformation straight from misinformation sources via email and etc. What can one even do when a person is just willingly indoctrinated?

Though her poison of choice is Facebook of course. She believes she is an "independent" but actually is hardcore republican (repeating republican propaganda word for word and believing every bit of it.)

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica Heh, is that an Everquest wallpaper? Seems fitting.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica Gee. I am very very surprised. This is my surprised face: 😐

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica I don't think you can say "this is not quite what I said" about an actual recording of you saying something...

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica God, here we go again. Blame the videogames. Never blame the fundamental underlying problems. Games are an easy target, so it must be their fault, right? And before that it was movies. Before them it was books.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica As neat as it may sound, what are you going to do if Musk arbitrarily decides your name should be X and you should obey his every whim? While I am being facetious here, the fact is, too much of his products and services come down to his whims in some way or other eventually and you can't trust your brain to whims. Period.

IMO it's not even worth discussing the tech until it becomes more well known, more widespread, and more all around audited.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica That is some weird wording... In other words, they have intentionally made a setting to turn it off in a search, but not made it easy to use directly. They may remove this at any time or change it to something else.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica No, really, drinking raw milk d̶u̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶H̶5̶N̶1̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶b̶r̶e̶a̶k̶ is a bad idea.

Fixed it for you.

Seriously, there is a reason people in past times would either drink very very fast or do other things like make cheese rather than treating it as if it was totally normal to just randomly drink. The more people move towards what they call "natural," the more they move away from what actually is natural.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica They already have. It isn't as if they're all going to pull their services down and throw away all the money they've invested. This changes exactly nothing.

nazokiyoubinbou , vor einem Monat

@arstechnica Let's be clear: a lot of media are specifically doing this on purpose.

Also importantly, it also goes the other way. They use such language to make early/loose interpretations seem like fact.