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MagicShel

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MagicShel ,

Cheap Bluetooth might have connection hitches and, to my knowledge, Bluetooth doesn't work with airplane mode although I think most airplanes these days aren't actually affected or we'd have planes dropping out if the sky daily.

Also, does Bluetooth get saturated the way WiFi does? That, I don't know, but an airplane full of 100 people all on Bluetooth might create some noise issues that would hurt the performance.

Apple sort of shot themselves in the foot here with removing the headphone jack if they had any interest in this issue.

MagicShel ,

even to the point of some phones not even turning off Wi-Fi when airplane mode is turned on

I didn't know that part (the rest yes). So much for using airplane mode to conserve battery. I suppose it's the tower handshake that is most energy hungry in my experience.

both wireless protocols can be activated and deactivated independently

100% although my comment was in the context of people who don't really understand Bluetooth at all.

+1 for the rest, thanks.

MagicShel ,

I have a Samsung fridge I'm happy with but I specifically avoided the in-door water/ice dispenser because I've heard awful things about them.

MagicShel ,

I thought it was just an ad aggregator.

The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media (link.springer.com)

The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....

MagicShel ,

I've always wanted to do this sort of thing, but lack the math and research background to do a good job of it. Glad someone is working on it.

MagicShel ,

I don't think Elon Musk has demonstrated the good judgement

Understatement of the century right here.

MagicShel ,

60-70% seems nuts to me. 10%-20% feels about right to me. That's a day every week or two. Builds cohesion and lets you do some effective brainstorming sessions, and then the rest of the time you do actual work far more efficiently. I mean you do you, but I thought I was suffering from lack of office time, but that's way too far in the other direction for me.

It's been 5 years and 3 jobs since I've been to an office. My last job I honestly don't even know what state my job was based out of. That's a little too disconnected. But just a little.

MagicShel ,

I'm a very private person. I barely use any social media where I'm not anonymous, and I wouldn't want my wife to be famous either. So take this with a grain of salt, but I think it's about winning the trophy. A million people like this person well enough to watch their content all the time, but they are with you? I can imagine that would be flattering to a certain kind of personality.

Being popular sounds wretched to me, but people chase it all the time.

MagicShel ,

There are already bots that use something like 5 specialist bots and have them sort of vote on the response to generate a single, better output.

The excessive prompting is a necessity to override the strong bias towards certain kinds of results. I wrote a dungeon master AI for Discord (currently private and in development with no immediate plans to change that) and we use prompts very much like this one because OpenAI really doesn't want to describe the actions of evil characters, nor does it want to describe violence.

It's prohibitively expensive to create a custom AI, but these prompts can be written and refined by a single person over a few hours.

MagicShel ,

I didn't have any links at hand so I googled and found this academic paper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.20151.pdf

Here's a video summarizing that paper by the authors if that's more digestible for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2L7MEqNK0

I don't know who is doing it or if it's even on any publicly available systems, so I can't speak to that or easily find that information.

Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...

MagicShel ,

So regular cryptography is threatened by quantum computing, for sure. I imagine you'd wind up with some kind of quantum coprocessor like we used to have for math back in the day because quantum computing isn't a replacement for current computers.

That said, cloud-based quantum cryptography has a big hole in it: the connection to the cloud.

MagicShel ,

I read it but I didn't see anything about local quantum encryption. Originally my comment talked about that until I realized they are just talking about accessing cloud-based quantum encryption. So I immediately edited it not to look like an idiot. If I'm still missing something, let me know, but I am not seeing it.

MagicShel ,

Agreed, although I wonder how much further ahead state actors are compared to common knowledge. Standard encryption will be broken before most of us are aware, I think.

MagicShel ,

That's when you drop trou, bend over, spread the cheeks, and ask them to let you know when they're done reviewing ChatGPT's "research".

MagicShel ,

You should see if you can get it to hallucinate a pay raise or 3 months vacation.

MagicShel ,

I read the same thing in Nevvsweeek.

MagicShel ,

You work for a crazy company, my friend.

MagicShel ,

AI is trying to model human text, so of course it is capable of degeneracy. It's never going to change so I don't think that's a useful measurement of when we are ready.

Faster backup solution?

I use Beyond Compare to sync files from my laptop to my NAS which is a QNAP (my laptop is Linux Mint). It is incredibly slow, to the point that it is driving me crazy. Admittedly, I have lots of large files on my laptop that I move around frequently, so that may just be how it is. I do have my laptop setup to sync to my phone...

MagicShel ,

Sync isn't backup for a few reasons. Unless you are taking system snapshots, you may be left with files without any way to restore your system. That's probably okay if you are just syncing data files. But also it only protects you from catastrophic failure since your last sync. If a file gets corrupted, the corrupted file will get synced and your backup is of no use in recovery.

OP might also have something else in mind as this isn't my area of expertise.

MagicShel ,

There were cordless landlines for years. So you could go usually anywhere in the house or even into the yard a ways. But I can't think why anyone would want to use something like that when you have cell phones. Large, comfy form factor I suppose.

MagicShel ,

I'm still protesting. Haven't been back since. Probably will protest until the sun is cold and black.

MagicShel , (edited )

I think people who are into it can be into it and people who aren't don't have to be. Every innovation had detractors lamenting it. And many of those innovations miss the mark and never take off.

Dystopian seems to really overstate it. I'm not rushing out to buy one but I'm not ruling it out eventually if I find a good use case. Probably not filming my kids but maybe there's something. Some kind of mixed reality LARP game maybe.

MagicShel ,

I think of the marketing as a bunch of nerds who want it to exist for niche reasons trying to find a way to appeal to normies because who is going to spend that much money to watch a dragon set fire to New York or have CGI bad guys lurking around corners only to pop out to be shot or going to comicon to have the amazing cosplays somehow enhanced even further with animation.

I feel like it's inherently a non-mass market device trying desperately for mass-market appeal because nerds can't afford $10k to stomp around the city as a giant mech in the hope they run into another one and have a duel.

But let's be more real. How cool would it be to look around and see other users with a tag cloud and you instantly know you can talk to that person about Star Wars or anime or football or dating? How much easier would it be to make small talk or even friends?

There's a lot of potential in such a device if it takes off. But I don't know if the devices are mature enough yet. And achieving mass-market appeal is a whole other hurdle and if it can't get past that the rest is moot.

Obviously I wouldn't want to see Apple be the only game in town. There has to be a minimum of two significant players to drive innovation, but someone has to create the market first. Apple might be able to do that.

MagicShel ,

Novel AI is uncensored and better than GPT2 and runs from $10-25/mo. Fair warning, it doesn't take long to plumb the depths of language to achieve "maximum fetish". It's like eating nothing but ice cream for breakfast lunch and dinner.

MagicShel ,

You couldn't have posted this twenty minutes earlier? Fuck!

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