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CrayonRosary ,

Brother Laser

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/53c24fe1-f2ff-4bed-9b95-c83d9f1fc2ea.webp

CrayonRosary ,

Crawls to a crawl is a very common phrase, I don't know why people are saying it's not.

CrayonRosary ,

Firefox has an add-on called "Allow Right-Click" that lets you easily toggle blocking right-click scripts. Some sites offer a useful context menu, like Google Drive, so you don't necessarily want to always be blocking them. Hence the toggle.

CrayonRosary ,

Interesting. I'll give that a try.

CrayonRosary ,

This looks like junk in a web browser. Here it is inside a code block.

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CrayonRosary ,

Image generators are not LLMs. LLM stands for large language model and are for generating text.

CrayonRosary ,

The salt is stored in the same table as the hash. All the salt does is prevent super easy rainbow table attacks. You can still attack the passwords with brute force. Most people still use simple passwords that barely satisfy password requirements like password1!. There are freely available cracking algorithms that target the same "clever" password patterns that everyone uses. It greatly reduces the time it takes to crack passwords, and if you have a table with a million passwords in it, it'll only take a couple days on a few GPUs to crack 15,000 of the simpler ones.

CrayonRosary ,

Ahh, I see someone's making swiss roll enchiladas!

CrayonRosary ,

Ask the bible belt Christians that.

CrayonRosary ,

It was an elective for me in the very far north, too. I took "Bible as Literature" where it was just like any other English class.

CrayonRosary ,

I have never in my life seen as much pet hair in a house as in my sister's from her Great Pyrenees mix.

CrayonRosary ,

Anyone downloading executable code from a random person on the internet needs to take a course in digital safety.

I assume you're not being malicious, OXero0, but none of us can possibly know that.

For anyone thinking of downloading it, wait until the popular, vetted forks show up. If you don't already have a working version, you don't need it today.

CrayonRosary ,

Sceptre makes dumb TVs.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Absolutely not! ChatGPT is a large language model and cannot generate images.

ChatGPT can have a little image gen once in a while as a treat.

CrayonRosary ,

This is called a VRIF, Voluntary Reduction in Force, and usually comes with a sizable severance. Lots of people close to retirement at my last job took the offer because it was worth it.

CrayonRosary ,

I certainly didn't. I had no idea it was hooked into an image generator now.

CrayonRosary ,

Nice! Shows what I know. I had no idea it was hooked into an image generator now.

CrayonRosary ,

ChatGPT is just a front-end that maintains a session that gets fed to an LLM each time you add a reply, and now has access to image gen, too, so I was wrong.

CrayonRosary ,

You don't strictly need a PiHole. You can also import a giant hosts file.

CrayonRosary ,

The thing is, RCS isn't SMS. That's kind of the point. RCS is a replacement for SMS. The two protocols just happen to be available in the same Messages app. It's like sticking WhatsApp inside Messages, except it's a different protocol.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

It's really not because he has absolutely zero expectation of actually getting a bone if he keeps digging. It actually makes no sense, and if you showed this to someone who's never heard of the Sunk Cost Fallacy and asked them to explain what it means, what are they going to say? "Um, it means you keep going when you know your wrong." Or something equally incorrect.

Here's a real world example of the sunk cost fallacy:

You saved up for months to buy two tickets to see a Broadway play for $400. You live in Maryland, and when it comes time to drive to NYC, your find your car won't start. You could only afford the tickets after months of saving, and now you have to rent a car to get the the show, and that will be another $400! "We have to do it. We can't let the $400 we spent on the tickets go to waste. We can eat rice and beans for two months."

The price of the tickets is the sunk cost. You've already spent it. It's gone. Now you have a brand new choice. You can spend $400 new dollars to go see a Broadway show. The fact that you already spent $400 is of no consequence, but humans just can't get it out of their heads that they'd be wasting that money if they don't spend even more money to go see the show. But that money is already gone! You now have an entirely different choice: spend $400 to go see a Broadway show. Or you can cut your losses and stay home.

That is the Sunk Cost Fallacy, not some dog who's too stupid to stop digging.

CrayonRosary ,

You are assuming Sunk Cost Fallacy only applies to "“throwing good money after bad”.

I did not make any assumptions. I simply gave one good example. Nowhere in my comment did I say that money is the only possible sunk cost.

How do you know that the dog has zero expectation?

Because he almost literally says so! The one dog tells him his bone isn't there, and the other dog doesn't disagree. His "yes" is implied in his sentence fragment: "[Yes,] but I can't stop now." He agrees it's not there, but says he "can't stop". It's a stretch to say that's an example of the sunk cost fallacy at all, let alone a "a great example". I still think anyone reading this comic would not come away with a proper understanding of it.

I'm not the only one who thinks this. Hornface made the same comment and got highly upvoted. To think otherwise is just plainly wrong.

CrayonRosary ,

Exactly! I can't see how anyone can read this comic and think the dog actually thinks he'll find the bone if he keeps digging. He implicitly agrees with the other dog that the bone isn't there.

CrayonRosary ,

"America says other country hacks more than America."

CrayonRosary ,

A "burner" account? Never heard it called that before. "Sock puppet" or just "puppet" makes much more sense.

CrayonRosary ,

I wish humans created fewer pollution.

CrayonRosary ,

Holy shit, you broke so many comma usage rules in your first sentence alone!

CrayonRosary ,

That's exactly the point. There's nothing pedantic about acknowledging the difference. "Fewer" is for a countable number of things like "pollutants", and "less" is for uncountable things like "pollution". It's not hard.

Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Don't limit your thoughts to just generative AI, which is what you are talking about. Chat bot and media generation aren't the only uses for AI (by which I mean any trained neural network program that can do some sort of task.

Motor skills

AI can solve learn to solve the marble maze "Labyrinth" much, much faster than a human, and then speedrun it faster than any human ever has. Six hours. That's how long it took a brand new baby AI to beat the human world record. A human that has been learning hand-eye coordination and fine motor control all of it's life, with a brain which evolved over millions of years to do exactly that.

No special code needed. The AI didn't need to be told how balls roll or knobs turn, or how walls block the ball. It earned all of that on the fly. The only special code it had was optical and mechanical. It knew it had "hands" in the form of two motors, and it knew how to use them. It also had eyes (a camera), and access to a neural network computer vision system. When the AI started taking illegal shortcuts, and they had to instruct it to follow the prescribed path, which is printed on the maze.

Robots could in work factories, mines, and other dangerous, dehumanizing jobs. Why do we want workers to behave like robots at a factory job? Replace them with actual robots and let them perform a human job like customer service.

Think of a robot that has actual hands and arms, feet and legs, and various "muscles". We have it learn it's motor control using a very accurate physics system on a computer that simulates its body. This allows the AI to learn at much faster speeds than by controlling a real robot. We can simulate thousands of robots in parallel and run the simulations much faster than real time. Train it to learn how to use it's limbs and eyes to climb over obstacles, open doors and detain or kill people. We could replace police with them. Super agile robot cops with no racial bias or other prejudices. Arresting people and recording their crimes. Genuine benefit.

Computer Vision

AI can be trained to recognize objects, abstract shapes, people's individual faces, emotions, people's individual body shape, mannerisms, and gait. There are many genuine benefits to such systems. We can monitor every public location with cameras and an AI employing these tools. This would help you find lost loved ones, keep track of your kids as they navigate the city, and track criminal activity.

By recording all of this data, tagged with individual names, we can spontaneously view the public history of any person in the world for law enforcement purposes. Imagine we identify a person as a threat to public safety 10 years from now. We'd have 10 years of data showing everyone they've ever associated with and where they went. Then we could weed out entire networks of crime at once by finding patterns among the people they've associated with.

AI can even predict near future crime from an individual's recent location history, employment history, etc. Imagine a person is fired from his job then visits a gun store then his previous place of employment. Pretty obvious what's going on, right? But what if it happens over the period of two weeks? Difficult for a human to detect a pattern like this in all the noise of millions of people doing their everyday tasks, but easy for an AI. Genuine benefit.

Managing Production

With enough data and processing power, we can manage the entire economy without the need for capitalism. People's needs could be calculated by an AI and production can be planned years ahead of time to optimize inputs and outputs. The economy--as it stands today--is a distributed network of human brains and various computers. AI can eliminate the need for the humans, which is good because humans are greedy and neurotic. AI can do the same job without either. Again, human's are freed to pursue human endeavors instead of worrying about making sure each farm and factory has the resources it needs to feed and clothe everyone. Genuine benefit.

Togetherness

We will all be part of the same machine working in harmony instead of fighting over how to allocate resources. Genuine benefit!

CrayonRosary ,

That's funny because the whole post was sarcastically outlining a distopian nightmare.

If that kind of stuff was actually to become real, some dictator would take control of it and subjugate the entire country, or world... forever. There'd be no way to resist that level of surveillance or machine policing.

CrayonRosary ,

Well, yeah. They are told to put down their weapon. They get 20 seconds to comply. If they don't, they get killed.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Yes, but known 3rd party tracking cookies are already blocked. It's not like these tracking sites pop up every day, but the list is updated when new ones are found. Meanwhile, 3rd party cookies for legitimate uses are allowed.

Whereas Google just blocked them all with no regard to their purpose.

You can also choose to block all 3rd party cookies in Firefox, although it might break certain sites. And you can also keep 3rd party cookies (that are more functional than tracking) but maintain a different copy for each website so they aren't effective at tracking you.

Firefox gives you a lot of choice.

CrayonRosary ,

They were being sarcastic and quoting something a phone manufacturer would say.

CrayonRosary ,

ಠ_ಠ

CrayonRosary ,

If you don't receive the email containing the bomb threat because you banned the email domain, does the bomb really exist?

No! The bomb just goes away. Checkmate, terrorists.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c9118b01-4f3c-4045-8a3f-1f6c90ee2bca.png

We all know that the louder an opinion is expressed the more correct it is, so your opinion is very correct.

CrayonRosary ,

They're talking about making it a nonprofit, I'm sure. People working for nonprofits can have good salaries so its not like they're not good to work for, and any profit can be reinvested into the company or donated to other nonprofits. But you can't sell the company to a for-profit (I don't think), and the ownsers can't take all of the profit for themselves.

CrayonRosary ,

People have given you some good ideas, but here's another: DuckDuckGo has free email aliases. You generate a "duck" address and it's just some random email address that gets forwarded to your real email address while also blocking any trackers in the emails. And you can easily turn off an alias if it becomes spammy.

It's free and you don't even have to make an account of any kind. To "log in" to their web browser and use this feature, all they do is send you an email with a link to click to make sure own that target email address. Then you can generate unlimited aliases that get redirected to it. But it's up to you to track which alias was given to which website.

There's also a master duck address that you make up manually. I guess that's technically an account and that's the one you "log in" with if you install the browser on another device. You don't have to actually use their browser, and they even have a plugin for Firefox to generate the aliases.

Not as easy as having your own domain and forwarding email going to any address to your real account, though. But it's totally free.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

I could imagine a tool that makes cloud storage act like a remote hard drive, with sectors and everything. Where these "sectors" are just small binary files.

You have software locally that is setup to track local files and calculate how they are mapped to the remote sectors. When a file gets updated, or new ones are added, it shuffles things around in an efficient manner to keep the number of remote updates to a minimum, and then it only updates or adds the required sector files. This way a tiny edit to a 4 GB local file would only require a tiny upload to the server instead of resending a new encrypted copy of the entire 4 GB file.

Not only are the little sector files all encrypted with a private key known only to you, the file structure in this system doesn't even make any sense to anyone but you.

However, if you lose you home PC and the file structure DB, the cloud copy becomes absolutely useless. Even if you had a backup of the private key.

Something like this surely already exists. Maybe there are even cloud storage providers who offer hard-drive like access to a block of data instead of being file-based.

EDIT: Turns out that's what Proton Drive does. Kind of.

End-to-end encryption for large files

Proton Drive's unique technology enables high-performance, client-side end-to-end encryption with large files by splitting large files into 4 MB chunks. Each chunk is signed with a hash to prevent removal or reordering. When you open or download a file, our file transfer and decryption algorithms ensure your data is rebuilt quickly in the correct order.

They say it's client side, but the hashes that control the ordering must be stored on the server or else you couldn't easily download the file on a other device. And I wonder if it's still efficient if you make an exit in the middle of the file. Does it need to send the full 4GB all over again? Even having to send 2 GB all over again would be a lot.

andrew , to Technology
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Bose introduces their new Ultra Open Earbuds. “Their cuff-like fit leaves your ears totally open so you can still hear the world around you”

https://www.bose.com/p/earbuds/bose-ultra-open-earbuds/ULT-HEADPHONEOPN.html

@technology

CrayonRosary ,

Thank you for the hot take. You've really added to the discussion.

CrayonRosary ,

Like this?

https://youtube.com/shorts/N11AcpJoDOE

But a dead person.

andrew , to Technology
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Walmart in Talks to Buy TV Maker Vizio

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/13/24072191/walmart-vizio-smart-tv-acquisition-rumor

@technology

CrayonRosary , (edited )

How are they unrepairable yourself? Are there not people online selling boards for them? Most of the time all you have to do is replace the power board or image board or one of the others if a TV dies. $100 and you gotta new TV. Is that not a thing for Vizio TVs?

CrayonRosary ,

With that name, she'd clean up!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/70fbce9d-d4a3-4cd0-a707-4157f1334df7.jpeg

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Oh, this whole thing is source code? Great. Why would you think everyone here would immediately want all the source code? This is a very specialized thing from a very specialized subreddit, and not appropriate for Technology. If you don't know how to post properly formatted source code on Lemmy, you shouldn't be posting it at all.

Scrap this entire post and replace it with just a summary of the findings and a link to the original reddit post for people who want the source code.

While you're at it, learn what Markdown is and how it affects the appearance of text on both Lemmy and Reddit so you don't make this giant font mistake again. If you had used a plugin like RES to view the source of the original reddit post, you could have copied that and it would look identical over here. But like I said, no one wants all the source code to this very narrow mathematical problem, and if they do, they can go to the original post.

CrayonRosary ,

The fact that it's missing a "doo", "dee", or "dah" at the end of the first line is triggering me.

CrayonRosary , (edited )

Except it's becoming what a lot of people want. Jokes that hit too close to the sad truth aren't funny, or interesting, or anything.

See? Right in these fucking comments. LMAO!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f25b12fb-e793-4b4a-a6ca-19c96e008f6d.png

CrayonRosary ,

Abuse of power for a random guy at the DMV to ask out a cop?

CrayonRosary ,

That's just kicking the can down the road. They'll be exactly as trustworthy as your own brain at summarizing articles soon. What then?

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