thefurdrake

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by thefurdrake 3y ago
This is feeling somewhat inevitable. There are a nonzero number of highly-intelligent individuals capable of developing weapons tech AND AI/ML who are also 100% Dead Certain nothing could go wrong because they're super clever and
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
There are no benefits to bog-standard, crappy replacements for genuine human-crafted creative products. Period. These tools should be applied to solving real problems. Instead, they're being used to solve nonproblems like "how can
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Yeah, sorry, this feels like a strawman. The adblock issue is only the most recent and exciting of the multitudinous pile of suck Youtube has been generating the last 5 years or so. The content discovery genuinely sucks. Being forcefed tikt
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
And discussing piracy isn't it.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Egregiously bad. Remember wannacry?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
It has also been super gross to me to watch these infant technologies be thrown at removing humans from creative tasks. The whole point was supposed to be to automate the mundane, boring bullshit so we could do more things involving higher
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Fair enough! However... I'm still not seeing why that experience requires an account, so while this response is academically interesting, it doesn't actually address the purpose of my comment. Any reason why these calculations can
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Please explain in excruciating detail the need for an account to provide a single input box for zip code to just calculate fees? I need a serious breakdown of the logic behind this position, because from where I'm sitting, it seems to
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Yeah, you'd need someone on the network to be doing something like browsing the internet and coming across a malicious website capable of making requests to other nodes on the local network, or downloading something that gives an attac
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
"Unsecured AI" is the "Ghost Gun" of AI control now, I guess? We're inventing new terms for the AI models people can run on their own without the involvement of a megacorp? Nice narrative. Sorry, IEEE, but just putt
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
HN doesn't amplify drama as a business practice, as best I can tell. Arguments happen, but they don't seem to blow up much here.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I don't think it's just the internet. Covid was a very (ahem) masks-off moment for people realizing just how shitty things are and deciding they don't want to put up with /anything/. I think culturally, we're e
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
That's okay, I can stop dualbooting once win10 is out of support and the hassle will be gone! Though I've been refunding games that don't run on proton sometimes as well, because dual booting does indeed get annoying! Perhaps
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
The fact that the targeting part is the output of a multibillion-dollar industry focused on scientific experimentation on humans without informed consent. Also the fact that they're ads. That's a problem, too. Basically the whole
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Linux is not even close to matching Windows in gaming performance. I'm curious if you've actually, you know, tried linux with proton/wine at all in the last three years. Things have really changed since the Deck. You mig
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
So I now get advertised to by windows: 1) On the login screen (if you let it do its OOBE login background thing) 2) On the post login screen every time I update asking me to sign in to cloud (which is actually asking me to pay for cloud) 3)
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Ceding your concept of morality to a book someone wrote thousands of years ago is the pinnacle act of moral apathy. That level of apathy is revealed in the way you make your argument: Others' way(s) of life can't possible be moral
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Oh, yeah. ICS/SCADA is definitely the worst industry I've heard of as far as security is concerned. I don't think Microsoft has anything to contribute to that, because no, I don't think Microsoft possesses the technical
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Because Microsoft has a difficult relationship with information security and developing internal corporate procedures that are more conducive to growth and safety than to pleasing interpersonal and interdepartment disputes.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
No, it heavily depends on their ability to enforce it. This CEO can't enforce it and should thus shut his mouth and continue being the quiet little corporate parasite he is.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
How is that relevant?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Wow. Is Ars really stretching this hard? Can we not just let the evidence speak for itself? Despite their desperate attempt to scarequote and chop up excerpts from a direct quote, they fail to demonstrate "Google exec said users get ho
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
It'd be fun to participate in an effort to purchase cheap drone FCs en masse to ship to Ukraine. I'd love to help violate China's export restrictions. Really, it's the FCs and ESCs that are probably going to be the harde
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Good.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Theorycrafting here, but wine and proton will make it pretty easy to decouple Steam platform DRM. It should be noted that it's perfectly possible to release your game on steam in a way where the steam client doesn't even need to b
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Nuclear power plants to offset power use from new tech: Good. Nuclear power plants being run by Microsoft Corporation: Concerning.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Talk of peak oil demand is “withering under scrutiny”, said Saudi Aramco chief, Amin Nasser. It genuinely pleases me that they are sticking their heads in the sand. It actually brought half a smile to my face. I hope they continue bein
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I see a lot of people who are down on this. I read the comments before the article, which was perhaps a mistake, because I went into the article thinking this was a lot less clever than it actually is. This is neat. This may not be The Most
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Eh, those are probably just bots it's losing! This is clearly evidence that these policies are working./s
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
It depends. Oobabooga's webUI is pretty simple to set up on linux. It's not as easy as a tor plugin or browser made for it, definitely. But tor is neither as secure nor as anonymous as running the LLM on your GPU.

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