Posts by may_i 405 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Jul 2023
Which was a horribly implemented compression scheme. I've found PDFs where the algorithm though that two characters were similar enough to be generated from the same image snippet. Except they were not at all alike - to the degree that 0 became O and other such insanity.
The gaming industry is well known for exploiting the people who work in it.
The entire industry needs to reform and stop treating the people who work in it like slaves. The crunch culture that the game industry fostered is harmful and expecting people to work 100 hour weeks is beyond unreasonable. It should be illegal!
What with Bazzite being an immutable system, it presents a few challenges. The fact that you can't just install anything like you would on a normal distro is preventing me from installing the client for my backup system. Maybe I can live with that and make backups of the system on a manual and more infrequent basis. The fact that all my games are either downloaded from Steam or GoG means that I can always re-download them. However, there may be a way for me to get this working via a container, but I haven't had time to fully dig into that yet.
The only thing that is going to present problems is multi-player games that do dodgy stuff at the Windows kernel level for anti-cheat functionality. I don't play online multi-player games, so this isn't an issue for me. I wouldn't have bought these games for Windows anyway.
Religion is, by its very nature, something intimately connected to politics and theology. Trying to divorce religion from these is to deny the very nature of the shared hallucination that religion is.
Let's just hope that Pat's efforts to imbue LLMs with the ability not to question religious dogma does not end up infecting LLMs that people use for more rational questions.
"We don't have a cybersecurity problem. We have a software quality problem,"
The biggest problem with this statement is the fact that she blindly assumes that all break-ins are down to poor software quality.
Many break-ins are actually accomplished through social engineering or stolen credentials. No amount of appealing to LLM wow-wow is going to solve those two classes of problem.
The LLM wow-wow won't solve software quality problems either - it's more likely to create new ones.
She's simply making money at speaking engagements by implying her previous employment gives her pronouncements credibility. That might work with middle-management types but it's obvious nonsense when anyone with technical competence looks at what she's saying.
Expressing the opinion that all security incidents are caused by poor quality software and that LLMs can solve the problem indicates a fundamental lack of understanding.
Whether Easterly did good work at CISA before she was pushed out for not sucking up to the mad orange king does not change my opinion of her lack of understanding.
The very same Salesforce which decided that extorting a non-profit was a good idea and which only changed their tune when it created bad publicity for them.
Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week
If ever a Trumpism was appropriate: Benioff is a very bad person.
I actually read the posts by DHH which were supposed to be racist and transphobic. I found nothing to disagree with.
"Educating" primary school children about transsexuality is inappropriate to say the least. They're not old enough to understand the issues and are at a very impressionable age.
It is a problem that just 1/3 of the population of London are native Brits.
The woke mob is out to destroy the man's career just because he spoke the truth. This is wokeism at its absolute worst.
The law of 'unintended consequences' comes back to bite the fools that drafted this idiotic legislation.
UK Internet users get a great education about using VPNs.
Fake VPN sites harvest UK identities and credit cards like never before.
Companies not based in the UK, cut UK users off from their services rather than act as gatekeepers for their customers.
Just wait until the Danish government is done with pushing through Chat Control and client side scanning in the EU. Then you'll see US companies abandoning the EU in droves. Or most likely not. The big ones will just comply. A revolution in the use of retro mobile telephones will begin. Hopefully.
I ordered mine with a US keyboard layout and received it a few days after my post. I'd recommend getting the Pi screen for it as the HDMI, power and network cables all come out from the rear of the unit. The Pi screen has a nice little cut out on the lower edge where you can neatly route the cables. I tried it initially with a 1080p laptop style screen - one of these things where the cover folds around the back and clips with magnets to function as a foot to hold the screen up, it ended up balanced on the cables!
It's zippy enough for general web browsing, even for video. The 16GB of memory is nice and has me thinking of putting a slightly more powerful desktop like Mate on it to replace the rather boring default Xfce desktop.
I want to say I love it, but I'm torn.
Paired with the white Pi screen, it looks great and the keyboard is pleasant. It has the performance you'd expect from a Pi 5. I just wish it had a battery and some kind of roll-out or wrap around screen to make it portable.
In the end, I have a very portable laptop that's way faster, has terabytes of SSD and much more memory, but a less pleasant keyboard.
I'm struggling to find an immediate role for this machine. I might end up dedicating it to controlling and logging instruments in my lab. There's a headless Pi in that role at the moment, but it would be nice to have a directly connected screen and keyboard available sometimes.
A good summary of the situation Abhishek.
Nothing is going to change the flow of high end LLM crunchers to China or anywhere else prepared to pay for them. Even hare brained schemes like putting a GPS tracker in the silicon.
All these export controls have achieved so far is to accelerate the speed at which China is developing its own fabrication capabilities and make a lot of smugglers and middle men very rich indeed. That anyone could describe these consequences as "unforseen" is clearly indicative of them not having thought about things in the first place - or maybe some more "under the table" agreements...
The other risk here is that export controls push China closer to taking over Taiwan, and that could be a planet ending problem.
If anyone wants to see exactly how banned graphics cards and LLM accelerators still flow to China in quantity and will most likely continue to, see the excellent documentary that Steve at Gamers Nexus produced:
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
You know it's a good video when you learn that Bloomberg immediately moved with a copyright strike against it shortly after it was first released. (Which they decided not to follow on with after knocking the video off line for its first ten days.)
I ditched my OnePlus phone after three months. Not only did they not release a single security update during those three months, one of the updates they were sitting on was an RCE over Bluetooth bug which was really serious. This was over a year ago and I'm not surprised to see that they are still working the same way now as they did then.
When a manufacturer couldn't give a toss about promptly pushing out security updates, it's time to vote with your wallet. OnePlus make great hardware, but their software department is clearly understaffed and underfunded. When I have things like my 2FA client for my bank on my phone, prompt security fixes are essential.
Have you lost your mind? You're advocating for:
> government run ID site... needs your passport number and that it.
Everyone having to identify themselves to the government before accessing the Internet.
> failing that... block anything deemed 'harmful' at the ISP.s
And forcing ISPs to implement an undemocratic and unaccountable censorship regime.
This is a great description of how the Internet works in China. So maybe you're Boris the Chinese Cockroach?
The US CLOUD Act together with the PATRIOT Act and National Security Letters mean that no computer system operated by a company based in the USA is sovereign to the country where it is installed. US law still has dominion over your data regardless of any empty promises to the opposite effect.
It would seem that the UK still believes that the USA is their ever faithful ally and that they don't mind sharing all their classified data with the US TLAs.
If, in the future, a UK government decides to act in a way which provokes the ire of either the mad orange king or what terror comes after him, they are setting themselves up for the ultimate blackmail.
Oh, you don't like our new tariffs on your exports? Let's see how you feel about that when we turn off your MoD datacentre.
It's not "about protecting children". That's just a familiar device which allows the politicians to demonise anyone who would dare criticise the idea.
This is yet another step along the road to the world wide panopticon where your opinions will land you in jail if the politicians don't like them. Dissent will not be tolerated!
If this truly comes to pass, the first thing I'll be getting rid of is any mobile phone new enough to be updated to include client side scanning. Then, my e-mail account will be hosted outside the EU. Any web sites I run will also be relocated. Like the elves, my data will leave these shores for somewhere much safer.
You'd think, at this time when we should be trying to divorce EU tech from an unreliable and hostile USA, that even the EU politicians could see that the only consequences of this draconian idea would be to push EU citizens straight into the arms of US technology companies.
Using a link in the comments to a pull request is stupid. Link rot is a real thing!
Copy the information which is pertinent into the pull request comments. Then nobody has to go following the link to find out what you are referring to and that information won't suddenly disappear due to link rot.
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