Posts by catprog

SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts

Re: Who would have thought it!

Tesla & solar city mostly with subsidies only in the 10s of million for SpaceX

How much is spent on road with private contractors a year?

Re: Who would have thought it!

But this is the falcon program not the starship program

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

Re: One of many ironies

Doesn't that need optical fibre to transfer the photons?

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

Re: Ownership?

If someone reads the article and writes their own do you get to sue that person?

I think the same standard in that situation should apply to AI.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Impact on self-hosting and private services?

Do you only give out access to people you know?

i.e do you already have effective age verification by default?

How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible

6.6 billion cubic meters sound large but (on phone so it is hard to calculate) it is the equivalent of a billion people having a 2 minute shower a day for a year

Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

Re: You are an LLM

Have you watched a legally purchased vhs. That is also what they want to be prevented.

Re: Throwing the baby out with the bathwater

If an author reads a book and remembers parts of it is is theft if they then write a new book?

Re: Delete them

If you read an article on the Internet that is freely available does that make your brain is now trained on that article and everything you write has to pay a royalty for?

If not why is it diffrent for a LLM?

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

Re: If it's that good and useful...

Would you also allow publishers to opt in to having their content learned from by humans?

Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam

Re: Squeaky clean?

Do they use private jets or do they fly commerical?

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist

Re: long numbers are long

Which is more memorable?

2001:0000:130F:0000:0000:09C0:876A:130B

or

425:4048:8167:8741:9183:4450:1428:9120:1925:899 ?

Re: No true scotsman says IPv6 is supposed to replace IPv4

>So your going back to your phone that works so well. A phone can be a hotspot, has bluetooth, NFC, usb, and wifi connections, all of which can provide active network stacks. Now possibly look at dual sims is some areas, and satellite access is being added. The IPv6 stack doesn't define how it's supposed to coordinate and broker getting two cell carriers, a constellation of satellites in LEO, and your office wifi linked to two upstream fiber WAN links of it's own, none of which you control.

What is your solution for this with just IPV4?

Re: Hence, IPv6

Routing should be geogrpahical.

If you can tell tell from the start of the prefix where it should go it makes the routing tables much easier.

But does it really make it more memorable if all the IPS in a country start with the same code ie if the country code for England is FE80 then the ips will be:

FE80:CD00:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C

FE80:CD01:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C

Re: Opinions do differ

What purpose do you see IPV7 doing that cannot be done by IPV6 ?

3 * 10^28 addresses for each person when the population of Earth gets to 10 billion

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

Re: Patent trolls

Could add licencing out their IP in addition to manafcturing the product.

250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin

Re: Elephant

Does that include p2p applications like video chat?

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Re: Broken record time...

To be fair, it was the ISP's actions that forced https.

They were manipulating http requests to insert their own advertising into sites.

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Re: Only an idiot would torrent without VPN

The ISP does not.

You connect to a seeder controlled by the copyright holder. This gives them the IP which is passed to the ISP.

encryption cannot stop this.

The studio have sued because people learned from their songs.

See land down under and kookaburra sits under gum tree.

How low can you go: Tesla's US market share dips below 50% for the first time

Telling we don't get a lot of actual numbers from the article

Going from 300,000 to 330,463 EV overall is an increase. If tesla has gone from 150,000 to 160,000 they have an increase in sales while less marketshare.

The only one of these 4 numbers in the article though is 330,463.

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

Re: So, Bing is down...

Why does it need to be a human? Can a bird be the witness?

US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI

Re: Is it obvious

Then the ai get trained on the patents and mostly reproduces the patent in question

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

Re: A brilliant testament to analysis

I know nothing about the whole scheme so this is a layman's interpretation.

Whu do you need to encrypt the communication?

The cpu encrypts with a key on cpu and that is what is sent to the tpm.

Standards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin

Re: EMC Symmetrix

Was the building flood prone?

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

Re: And after all the comments

So shouldn't the same rules apply to EVs as Diesel?

If both need heaters in the winter then both are equally as suitable?

How many of the other 80% can afford an ICE car?

Except the goverment ended up having to pay it all back

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-29/victorian-government-to-repay-electric-vehicles-tax/103163994

Apaprently most fuel cars can get 33% effeciency to the wheels.

So 20% loss would mean 80% effecicncy in comparision.

Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content

I am not saying they should get free data.

My argument is if they legally aquire the data (I.e no copyright laws have been broken and they have a copy of the data) then it does not matter if the training is human or computer they are allowed to train using it.

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So far I have not seen a law that makes a distinction between human or computer. If everyone knows that it is diffrent htey would be able to show something that makes it diffrent.

Some of the attemps at claiming this diffrence I have seen include.

1) It is just diffrent

2) Humans look at a other things as well not just copyrighted materials.

Re: I plan to train AI for generating videos

Yes. For Netflix the cost is $7/month and you can keep as much in your brain as you can remember.

You can still delete it from the training set for future training runs.

Did you have a licence to incorporate eveything you read when you wrote your comment?

GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered

Re: “We firmly believe"

No. The parts that were dismissesed work like this.

It is a crime to rob the bank.

It is a separate crime to take money out of account 476 at the bank.

The prosecution was saying they commited both crimes by taking money out of account 477.

The defense says we cannot be guilty of the second crime as the account in question is 477 not 476.

They still have to answer for the first accusation.

So, are we going to talk about how GitHub is an absolute boon for malware, or nah?

Re: "Microsoft says it's doing its best to crack down on crims"

Are they sending from outlook.com or claiming to be outlook.com but it is actually a ip they not Microsoft control?

Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly

Re: confused

On my Samsung phone their is the galaxy store in addition to the Google store

Re: Do we leave Microsoft in charge of Chrome development?

Does that mean drive and Gmail will each have to offer 15GB each instead of shared space?

Re: Breaking up is hard to do x

Did overtune invent search itself (pagerank) or just a business model?

Datacenters feeling the heat to turn hot air into cool solutions

Re: Stirling engine

You need a high temp difference to make electricity efficiently.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Free Speech only works if both sides have Free Speech.

If you say something other people have to have the right for their speech to say "That is bad"

Airbus to test sat-stabilizing 'Detumbler' to simplify astro-garbage disposal

Re: Rent-seeking

Or more likely.

I am Starlink and I show even without intervention they deorbit by themselves therefore I do not need to pay anything.

And all the geostationary stats become unprofitable overnight.

Google says that YouTube vid can wait if it saves on energy

Re: Not Google's job here...

The utility company says to Google "we can provide 3 of the 4GW you need to run full power. Can you reduce the consumption so we don't need to pull the plug on you"

Google then goes down to their critical computing needs.

China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids

Re: "parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach"

Yep. The moment kids are let out of the parent's sight the child protection service come down hard. (only slightly exaggerated)

Thames Water to datacenters: Cut water use or we will

Re: someone please explain

My understanding is the water is evaporated not put into the sewer.

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

Re: Most misused list - where is "steep learning curve"?

Plot time taken to lean each step on the y and each step along the x axis and a steep learning curve is now bad.

Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard

Re: Gorhels htts push was nothing to do with making the web secure

What was stopping the isp from changing the content once the precedent was set.

A big red Unlocked padlock icon for normal http

To make this computer work, users had to press a button. Why didn't it work? Guess

Re: The human race could be safe after all

Reminds of a web comic where the captain pretty much signs without reviewing and says "I don't understand any of this stuff"

Freefall.purrsia.com/ff1900/fc01856.htm

Moscow to issue HTTPS certs to Russian websites

Re: Fake facts

Who says you need to change the DNS. If you control the routing in the area you can change it so every IP goes through your server.

As for the root certificate organization being trusted. Do you trust the root certificate organization mentioned in this article(I.e the Russian government)

Re: Fake facts

change the DNS to one you control and change the IP address of microsoft.com to a server you control.

Now you sign the certificate of "Microsofty.com" and the browser thinks it is connecting to the right one.