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by QuantumG 3y ago
Thanks for the update. I was taking no news as good news and didn't expect to hear anything until 2025 anyway.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Chris Freeland is a menace to our library. The case was open and shut.
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Veilid: Secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveil economy(theregister.com)
9 points by QuantumG 3y ago|4 comments
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by QuantumG 3y ago
"It’s like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing"
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Smug dropout is smug.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
> The most annoying is piracy that Amazon could prevent with the work of an intern. Do tell. In the gigantic ocean that is Amazon's marketplace, what do you suppose a single intern could do that would not be immediately circumvented
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Yep. It's a terrible idea.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Not even close but thanks for playing.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Don't worry, people made the same arguments for /every/ advancement in birth and childcare from Anesthesia to Velcro on nappies.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Makes great sci-fi, well it could, your pitches are alright but we can already do most of these with good ol' fashion forced conception and if you can't get your followers to screw for the cause then you're probably not much
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Ahh the perfect date.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
OpenAI released an app last month with press-to-talk that transcribes voice-to-text, but there's no in-built text-to-speech (use a screen reader I guess?) I think this a dumb architecture. The Whisper model has been released and runs w
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Also, I've seen ALL these prototypes already. They didn't just do this. It's a slow drip of old research. If they were making these headsets available for purchase at a price normal people could afford I might give a shit.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
and what you're doing is getting all butt hurt over a technical solution. Cryptographic hardware is good.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
DRM makes it possible for customers to rent products they don't want to own. If that isn't "removing friction" I dunno what is. Tokenization similarly makes it possible to buy stuff and not have to worry about what the m
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by QuantumG 3y ago
You know how you can pay for stuff at stores with your phone? That didn't just magically happen. It wasn't just "the technology got better" or whatever you tell yourself. That was called Tokenization and what made it pos
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by QuantumG 3y ago
I'm sorry but there's a class of users who want to be able to prove they haven't made modifications and they refer to themselves as consumers. They're the people who don't jailbreak their devices for exactly that
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Yeah, cryptography is bad and consumers shouldn't be allowed to prove their browser hasn't been modified or have safety when using biometrics or making payments.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Wow, if an unbiased independent news source as credible as The Register is against it then maybe I should reevaluate!
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Every time someone says that therapy is worthless, I have to remember that Jungians (and Neo-Freudians) exist. Whereas whenever someone says a therapist has really helped, it's because they've been introduced to Cognitive Behaviou
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by QuantumG 3y ago
These days I tend to use $() over backticks, anyone wanna fight me on it?
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Whilst reading The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, I was struck by the casual glassblowing. For some reason I assumed the machine-shop/engineer division of labor, but no. William Shockley was
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Size of the neurons matter, but ultimately we don't know enough about biological cognition to say anything about existing animals, let alone long extinct ones.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
I get that
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by QuantumG 3y ago
So, umm, if you want to walk BNF and emit likely tokens you can do that without any "machine learning" or whatever you want to call it. So what is being added here? Training to tie the prompt to the output?
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Ahhh 2024, what a shitshow of a year that's going to be, especially at the end.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
aussie here, former dole bludger, still know people who live off the welfare system, hide their side income, and are proud of it. There was sooooo much warning for robodebt that they all made sure their taxes were clean before the first dem
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by QuantumG 3y ago
You mean, other than anyone we're replacing with robots next year.
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by QuantumG 3y ago
Everything already costs basically nothing. There's a Moore's Law for every industry, and if you go into mature industries you'll see how easily they ignore it. There's open collaboration to keep prices "stable&quot
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by QuantumG 3y ago
It's a problem you could solve with ion-wind and far-field wireless power transfer... or just blimps.

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