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So it's a screensaver, with voting?

by flukus 9y ago

Jtsummers 9y ago
And it mixes popular sheep via genetic algorithms with fitness based on the voting.
- spot 9y ago
  right, so it learns to please its human audience. and distributed computing for rendering because it takes an hour per frame.
DonHopkins 9y ago
And sheep shagging!
- pbhjpbhj 9y ago
  Huh?
  - DonHopkins 9y ago
    If you press the "up arrow" key when you see something you like, the current sheep is sent off to pasture to shag, so its silent lambs will inherit the earth.
    - tinus_hn 9y ago
      Reminds me of the process used to build the most wanted and unwanted song. The most wanted song is a terribly cheesy pop song, the most unwanted song is a bizarre mishmash that is kind of interesting to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
- chris_wot 9y ago
  Are you the same Don Hopkins who ported SimCity?
  - DonHopkins 9y ago
    Yep. Spot and I hung out together at CMU, when he was working with Andy Witkin doing amazing graphics stuff, and I was working with Brad Myers doing Lisp user interface stuff. That was when I finally bit the bullet and learned X-Windows so I could hate it better, and started porting SimCity from NeWS to TCL/Tk. (The unix-haters X-Windows chapter was the result of that.) https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/creativity/2012/winter/spot-on.shtml https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/creativity/2012/winter/spot-on.... https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aw/people.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aw/people.html http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69 http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69 http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
brians 9y ago
And remote execution.
- deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
- spot 9y ago
  sounds like you don't know how it works. please check out the code and LMK if you find any real bugs. it does not run downloaded code.
  - brians 9y ago
    I uninstalled Electric Sheep after http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4581/ http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4581/
    - spot 9y ago
      > This local exploit to the sheep client does not pose a significant threat as electricsheep does not setuid(0). > The vendor was notified on November 18, 2005. The vendor was extremely responsive and cooperative in regards to these security issues. All issues are fixed in the CVS HEAD of Electric Sheep client development and will be included in the next release. that's not remote code execution and in a 12 year old version that was fixed right away.

So it's a screensaver, with voting?

by flukus 9y ago

So it's a screensaver, with voting?

Jtsummers 9y ago

And it mixes popular sheep via genetic algorithms with fitness based on the voting.

spot 9y ago
right, so it learns to please its human audience. and distributed computing for rendering because it takes an hour per frame.

DonHopkins 9y ago

And sheep shagging!

pbhjpbhj 9y ago
Huh?
- DonHopkins 9y ago
  If you press the "up arrow" key when you see something you like, the current sheep is sent off to pasture to shag, so its silent lambs will inherit the earth.
  - tinus_hn 9y ago
    Reminds me of the process used to build the most wanted and unwanted song. The most wanted song is a terribly cheesy pop song, the most unwanted song is a bizarre mishmash that is kind of interesting to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McIfIx29tSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gPuH1yeZ08
chris_wot 9y ago
Are you the same Don Hopkins who ported SimCity?
- DonHopkins 9y ago
  Yep. Spot and I hung out together at CMU, when he was working with Andy Witkin doing amazing graphics stuff, and I was working with Brad Myers doing Lisp user interface stuff. That was when I finally bit the bullet and learned X-Windows so I could hate it better, and started porting SimCity from NeWS to TCL/Tk. (The unix-haters X-Windows chapter was the result of that.) https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/creativity/2012/winter/spot-on.shtml https://www.cmu.edu/homepage/creativity/2012/winter/spot-on.... https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aw/people.html https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aw/people.html http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69 http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/69 http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...

brians 9y ago

And remote execution.

deleted 9y ago
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spot 9y ago
sounds like you don't know how it works. please check out the code and LMK if you find any real bugs. it does not run downloaded code.
- brians 9y ago
  I uninstalled Electric Sheep after http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4581/ http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4581/
  - spot 9y ago
    > This local exploit to the sheep client does not pose a significant threat as electricsheep does not setuid(0). > The vendor was notified on November 18, 2005. The vendor was extremely responsive and cooperative in regards to these security issues. All issues are fixed in the CVS HEAD of Electric Sheep client development and will be included in the next release. that's not remote code execution and in a 12 year old version that was fixed right away.