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potatopotato ,

Making ai more efficient will just mean more ai

potatopotato ,

AGPL just in case they try to put your brain waves into the cloud

potatopotato ,

Not if it's electric (for emissions)

potatopotato ,

Yes, but there's already a steep tariff, it would be nice to let them light a small fire under the us automakers so they make better products for us, instead were kinda just letting them be evil and lazy.

potatopotato ,

I want a 1995 ranger that's electric, those things were great

potatopotato ,

Those words sound cool and mean literally nothing

potatopotato ,

I ran the numbers myself a while back, it's not pretty at all.

Until you hear about people traveling >200mi and getting their commercial pilots licenses entirely on conventional takeoff fixed wing electric aircraft (see pipistrel electro) it's safe to assume this vtol industry is grounded. The conventional fixed wing aircraft are wildly more efficient in terms of battery mass fraction and range but they don't get investors excited like a personal quadcopter for the (ultra wealthy) masses.

potatopotato ,

Yeah but the people running this seem to only be interested in pivoting between whatever the current grift is. We should come up with a word for people who do that, maybe something like "grifters".

potatopotato ,

IME those groups aren't very libertarian, they're closer to American Taliban religious fundamentalism.

potatopotato ,

I hate that it needs to be said but love that they said it so plainly

potatopotato ,

Now that's how you kill all the gophers

potatopotato ,

At an absolute minimum 20. We aren't seeing any useful systems that work on any scale at all yet. The iphone made smart phones pseudo mandatory but they were preceded by decades of development with several generations of usable devices. If I had to guess it's probably closer to 30 years if tech decides to go in that direction which itself isn't guaranteed.

potatopotato ,

You wouldn't download an island

EM Eye: Electromagnetic Side-channel Eavesdropping on Embedded Cameras (emeyeattack.github.io)

EM Eye investigates a cybersecurity attack where the attackers eavesdrop on the confidential video data of cameras by parsing the unintentional electromagnetic leakage signals from camera circuits. This happens on the physical/analog layer of camera systems and thus allows attackers to steal victim's camera data even when...

potatopotato ,

I work on this stuff, short answer, no, it's not possible. This is just yet another overly complicated tempest attack. Especially with phones the camera link is so short it's just not radiating enough. They claim 30cm so you basically need the receiver in the same backpack as the phones. As phones get higher resolution and faster cameras this will become even less of an issue. Also, most importantly the camera has to be powered and running for this to work so just don't take pictures of classified stuff while carrying around a weirdly warm battery bank an unusually attractive eastern European girl gave you as an engagement gift and you're good.

The actual target here is some sort of The Thing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) style attack where someone with a huge budget can get a wildly expensive device really close to a system through a significant human intelligence effort.

The line of reasoning is valid though. These satellites will have some ability to track and intercept low power intentional emissions like WiFi and cellular packets. While these are encrypted there are still things you can do with the metadata.

potatopotato ,

It's just a tempest attack. Firmware won't fix anything but the attack is an extremely expensive nation state level operation that doesn't scale.

potatopotato ,

$250 per camera that you have to be within meters of best case. That doesn't include the packaging cost to make this look innocuous so probably significantly more money if you wanted this to be stealthy and reliable. Add in the money for the distribution and "installation" of such devices.

This doesn't scale at all.

potatopotato ,

Yeah, I'd agree with that.

The point I was making was for people who thought this was cellphone cameras and that it would somehow work even if the camera wasn't actively running.

As far as war driving with an sdr you'd probably occasionally find something interesting, but the vast majority would be cameras just pointed back out at the street. I think you'd mostly see stuff where if you wanted to spy it would make more sense to hide your own camera because it's already public.

All that said, I would lose my shit if Hollywood did something believable for once and used this for a heist movie.

potatopotato ,

What methods are they using to locate the backups?

potatopotato ,

Looks about right. Should be an AGM-114 though, ideally the one with the pop-out knives.

potatopotato ,

And she's right. Can we listen to her instead of the braindead celebs?

potatopotato ,

This...isn't how the current paradigm of ai works at all. We've built glorified auto-complete bots, not something that can make a physical robot behave at a human level. Best case, they build something that can carry on a conversation long enough to excite a tech journalist and aimlessly meander like the Boston dynamic bots but without the pre-programmed tasking (assuming they don't cheat and add canned routines).

So that leaves one option: it's a moonshot project to convince the tech illiterate public to take them and their stock price to the moon long enough for a few people to make an obscene amount of money.

potatopotato ,

So the line of reasoning I'm taking is that current ai is just a statistical model. It's useful for plenty of stuff, but it just doesn't do things well that don't lend themselves to a statistical approach, for instance it can kinda "luck" it's way through basic math problems because there's a lot of examples in its training set but it's fundamentaly not doing the kind of forward reasoning/chaining that is required to actually solve problems that aren't very commonly seen.

In the case of a robot body, where are they going to get the training set required to fully control it? There isn't a corpus of trillions of human movements available to scrape on the web. As mentioned in this thread, you can get certain types of a ai to play video games but that's relatively easy because the environment is simple, virtual, and reproducible. In the real world you have to account for things like sample variation between actuators, forces you didn't expect, and you don't have infinite robots if it breaks itself trying to learn a motion. Boston dynamics uses forms of ai but they're not strictly the types that are exploding right now and don't necessarily translate well.

potatopotato ,

Please god I hope so. I don't see a path to anything significantly more powerful than current models in this paradigm. ANNs like these have existed forever and have always behaved the way current LLMs do, they just recently were able to make them run somewhat more efficiently with bigger context windows and training sets which birthed GPT3 which was further minimally tweaked into 3.5 and 4 among others. This feels a whole lot like a local maxima where anything better will have to go back down through another several development cycles before it surpasses the current gen.

potatopotato ,

There are about half a dozen small companies working on this but apparently the government is more interested in spending money on a company with zero experience with earth imaging. Dunno how I feel about the USG just putting all their eggs in Elon's batshit insane basket

potatopotato ,

They likely would for the kind of stuff they're planning.

potatopotato ,

Buy a large computer monitor

potatopotato ,

Don't use TikTok, don't really care too much either way, but watching this whole thing unfold is starting to open my eyes to the ways these companies can shape public opinion.

They're apparently sending notifications to people to contact their reps and it seems very likely that they're promoting content that advocates against the ban.

I'm not a fan of censorship or blocking internet services but TikTok really seems to trying to make a good case for it.

potatopotato ,

Ok I hate all of this.

They're not the same, but they're kind of the same personality type. They frequently care about the same things, they just want very aggressive change to fix them. The issue is the path to get there and those are wildly different in terms of what the problem is and the underlying world view.

potatopotato ,

Yeah I'm becoming increasingly nervous with the blue states systematically trying to disarm everyone and the red states are trying to whip everyone into a traitorous frenzy over the dumbest shit while arming everyone with a pulse.

Otoh, and this probably sounds absolutely fucking nuts, I've found republicans tend to understand "strength" and they are strangely respectful of liberal and leftist gun owners because that's a dynamic they can comprehend. It's not a good state of affairs but it's better than them believing they can just run things because they're the only ones with "strength"

potatopotato ,

It would be an insane mistake to underestimate that group. Like the other comments said, they are the Taliban and the military/police. However even if they somehow weren't, it still means we have potentially tens of millions of domestic terrorists running around armed to the teeth and that's not a great feeling.

potatopotato ,

This is already publicly available data. You can get the address of every private pilot and the tail number of every plane from the FAAs database right now. Additionally you can see where every flying aircraft is in the world right now. Kind of a nothingburger :/

potatopotato ,

This is all public info anyway but a 100hp plane someone built in their garage for less than the price of a new Tesla isn't the same as Elon's jet fleet.

potatopotato ,

Yeah the security angle gets parroted a lot, I'd call it more of a bad practice thing than a "omg you'll definitely get haxxord".

Otoh USB C as a spec is sort of necessarily a nightmare. It's not hard to end up with shitty devices that'll gleefully provide 20V when the system expects 5V and even if it's just USB A, it's not that hard to end up with 120/240v going straight into your phone.

At least with devices you own and control you know if they're melting things and haven't spent their lives being kicked/spilled on/cleaned with corrosive solvents or just generally old as hell and unmaintained.

Personally I bring my own because it's faster and more reliable, and I have trust issues.

potatopotato ,

Honestly it's probably the best search dataset in existence right now. You can make Google suck far less by appending "reddit" to most searches because you'll get results from a group consisting of a higher ratio of actual humans instead of bots.

Yeah reddit is shit, but the rest of the internet is 10x worse at this point. Pretty much any writing that isn't a labor of love on someone's personal page or users interacting with each other in a semi organic way is rapidly becoming 100% GPT vomit as every company in existence lays off their writing staff

Whoever bought this got a fucking bargain.

potatopotato ,

Just my opinion but I don't really like the common belief of separating nation and non nation state actors. We're getting to the point where nation states are making up a large portion of the really damaging attacks, and it's frequently ones own government or a government they're in conflict with which means there are very kinetic consequences for failure even if you're a nobody. It's not just someone stealing some money anymore.

potatopotato ,

That's because it's just marketing bullshit.

The worst person you've ever met came up with it in a very upscale cube farm over a chai latte, don't think too hard about it.

How to get a private car

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potatopotato ,

The technical term is "dummy load", most antennas are around 50ohm "impedance" which in an incredibly roundabout way means the antenna is indistinguishable from a 50ohm resistor at whatever frequency it's tuned to....which means you can replace the antenna with a 50ohm resistor.

This all assumes you care about leaving the radio functional (radio amplifiers will burn up if they can't dissipate the energy they're creating) and in most cases it's probably fine to just cut the trace as close to the source chip as possible. That said, if the system is especially evil and well engineered it'll throw errors in some cases so better to leave everything functional but unable to hear or transmit.

potatopotato ,

I suppose there's nothing wrong with it when the file is at rest, it looks like zip uses AES 128 or 256 which are adequate if you have a very strong password for the encryption. Ideally the encryption would feature a computationally intensive algorithm to slow guessing attempts when attempting to decrypt so you probably don't want to use a weak password.

Usability won't be great, you'll be copy pasting constantly and that presents an opportunity for malware to spy on the paste buffer and steal your passwords but it's a low to medium severity issue.

If you want to keep everything local I'd recommend KeePass, it's free, open source, and very strong. It's kinda the same thing but with the ability to insert passwords directly in some cases and can do more to keep everything organized.

If you want to use this in environments where you can't install anything on the systems but don't want anything online, this is probably acceptable though.

potatopotato ,

The best explanation I've seen is it would be nice on airplanes so you can watch movies and not have to awkwardly scrub past everything that might offend the toddlers behind you.

potatopotato ,

..... Why does the sunflower oil factory have a plasma cutter?

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