CursedSilicon

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by CursedSilicon 5d ago
Success and fame in...selling an AI slop phone? If that's something to be jealous of, I guess?
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by CursedSilicon 5d ago
It's weird how you say that those terms are meaningless, then redefine them to fit your specific needs
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by CursedSilicon 5d ago
From what I've read, the phone did not (does not?) yet physically exist All his marketing has been via AI renders
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by CursedSilicon 5d ago
His behaviour, mostly
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by CursedSilicon 5d ago
I mean, that Peri Fractic clown "owns Commodore" now and tried to sell people a phone that was rendered entirely using AI. Maybe Amiga people are ready to drink from that chalice too?
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by CursedSilicon 9d ago
As someone who also attended (both as a table and speaker) this last VCF Midwest. The biggest problem that event has is the base mercantilism. If I'm attending that event, I want to see cool machines doing cool things and hear the
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by CursedSilicon 10d ago
"This is the thing I think of when X" "Oh, so what you're describing is Y, actually" "HE NEVER SAID HE WANTED Y! STUPID PARTISANS!" Okay buddy
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by CursedSilicon 11d ago
As The Onion put it eons ago [1] "There's no shame in being second best!" [1] https://youtu.be/53tGLKlsQv8
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by CursedSilicon 11d ago
Oh, you want "libertarianism" then. Not the original kind, the Ayn Rand kind That always works out well. Until the bears come [1] [1] https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...
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by CursedSilicon 11d ago
Never underestimate the power of the fourth estate
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by CursedSilicon 12d ago
I think they made a movie about that
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by CursedSilicon 15d ago
Careful now. Criticizing the slop machine is a great way to get harassed on this site
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by CursedSilicon 16d ago
Do you work for IBM? [1] [1] In IBM there's a religion in software that says you have to count K-LOCs, and a K-LOC is a thousand line of code. How big a project is it? Oh, it's sort of a 10K-LOC project. This is a 20K-LOCer. And t
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by CursedSilicon 16d ago
The problem (particularly on places like HN) are that if you are openly Anti-AI the people who disagree will flex their ability to downvote you (which contravenes HN's rules [1] [2]) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/n
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by CursedSilicon 17d ago
Removed By Facebook or removed by a group admin?
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by CursedSilicon 17d ago
Not to sound like I'm criticizing them too harshly. But I do wonder what the poor souls Facebook hires through a litany of contractor and sub contractors are actually told to remove I've reported images of Swastikas, hate speech
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by CursedSilicon 17d ago
That seems to be an "April Folks Joke"
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by CursedSilicon 17d ago
PFsense gleefully ships vulnerable code to their own customers. They are an even worse data point https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice...
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
I'm not sure why they aren't using it. His github repo is over here https://github.com/patapancakes/dreamconstraint
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
Wasn't intended as a "nerdswipe". Wrangling OpenSSL to actually work is a herculean task on a good day. Much less figuring out how to enable ancient crypto protocols within it It's okay to "not know things".
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
Ah, So. I (and one other person) disagreed with you visibly. Ergo you felt personally called out :) Sounds like a bit of main character syndrome
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
Let's flip it, then Is the "anti AI mob" in the room with us right now? If not, why did you feel the need to lament it?
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
I don't recall doing any of that. But thanks for affirming my point? :)
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
Oh, I have * strong* opinions about the slop machine. But I try to temper them so I don't get buried by the usual "pro AI" mob I will say that my projects have a "leading the pack" anti-AI policy [1] [1] https:&#x
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by CursedSilicon 18d ago
A while back I helped a friend (read: dumped a bunch of compute power into it) brute force the SSL keys for Sega's "Phantasy Star Online" Dreamcast game. They used a similar kind of custom (and flawed) TLS implementation in t
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Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts(writethatblog.substack.com)
3 points by CursedSilicon 22d ago|0 comments
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by CursedSilicon 22d ago
That sounds rather tautological. If you can't even articulate the virtues in your own words
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by CursedSilicon 24d ago
One of my favourite memories of flying Qantas when I was younger was the inflight entertainment. If memory serves, they were celebrating some sort of milestone like "60 years without a fatal accident" or similar. Quite an impressi
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by CursedSilicon 27d ago
...That sounds like entropy? As in, the thing computers are bad at (truly random numbers) and /dev/urandom in your kernel already spits out an approximation of?
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by CursedSilicon 27d ago
Now that's not fair. Matrix gives you plenty of options to be flooded with CSAM or have all your chats become inexplicably unable to ever be decrypted again The future is now!

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