Sporktacular

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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Questionable whether switched receivers can be called "true diversity" when there are techniques to combine the RF signals for diversity gain and higher SNR.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Another week, another story about how we aren't as unique as we like to think. Each discovery points to more intelligence, more skills, more capacity for emotion or pain. One day I think we'll regret how we treated animals so poor
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Bezos
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
So what is the outcome of the kernel war? Performant micro-kernels have settled it no?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
So, like Homer Simpson kicked out when he hadn't had all he could eat? There's always someone.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Great, now it's back on track to return in a few centuries as a destructive sentient cloud entity and threaten civilisation. Thanks a lot NASA.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
According to this the Daintree Rainforest is older than the Amazon, but no mention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daintree_Rainforest
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
* wouldn't need all the...
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
What is it with Harvard these days?
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Sure I'm missing something, but isn't that just an untrusted server self-reporting its own hash? Apple publishes the bootloader source and we'd have to assume it's what's actually running and reporting honestly the
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
The harm was done. It was just done before the consumption step, just like buying an ivory shoehorn or making a photocopy of an existing image of child abuse. The only way around it is the model is not trained on any child abuse material, o
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"ensuring that clients will refuse to talk to non-audited systems." I'm trying to understand if this is really possible. I know they claim so but is there any info on how this would prevent Apple from executing different code
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
The claim has some merit: https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide...
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Two 30 minute "walks consumed 30 percent of Einstein’s workday"? Cushy job.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"it is OK for them to have bizarre sexual likes and dislikes." I agree, so long as they are not consuming something that harmed anyone. Just as we know banning ivory sales reduces elephant poaching, contributing to demand causes h
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
So, Little Snitch helps unless your adversary is either really good at what they do or really rich. Maybe nothing can be done in those cases, but I'd like to see the limitations of such software placed on the box.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
How would policing that work exactly? Downloading only old CSAM is acceptable? Technically any child abuse material available was produced in the past, so you could argue any pedophile downloading any of it isn't 'doing any furthe
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"Not harm society" will depend on what material the models are trained with.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
It's not victimless if they use real images to train their AI models.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
"Today’s announcement sends a clear message: using AI to produce sexually explicit depictions of children is illegal" Not with the charges given. Prosecutors seem keen to push the normalisation angle, but would then have to explai
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
This is not longer the case. But another way around is the way VMWare Fusion let you set up networking in Bridged mode. Any traffic from the VM went through without a peep from Little Snitch running on the host. No reason malware couldn&#x2
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
It's not just trust in a company. Matthew Green was geeking out about iCloud Keychain privacy a few years ago. He sometimes speaks of contacts in Apple security who are really committed and competent engineers. Their professional reput
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
Ah yeah, inferior Western weapons, 'elites', 'plans' to destroy the middle class, <insert right-wing populist here> will solve everything. Yawn.
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by Sporktacular 2y ago
It's funny that with a direct match to a precisely located photo in its database, it got the country right by comparing the architectural style, but still got the city wrong.
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by Sporktacular 3y ago
How much of a performance improvement from fusion in return for spicy exhaust?
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by Sporktacular 3y ago
So to summarise: "but they started it"? "Hamas is the problem" but how then to explain increasing settler land theft, and supportive government decisions, in the West Bank where Hamas is not in charge? Who is common to b
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by Sporktacular 3y ago
I remember first reading as a kid about DDT and thinking, wow, we really dodged a bullet with that one. Never could have imagined we wouldn't learn but go on to make and under-regulate hundreds of toxic substances in its place.
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by Sporktacular 3y ago
No. Obviously there are things called discipline and rules of engagement. What kind of an answer is this?
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by Sporktacular 3y ago
In another post, my comment about Act.IL and Hasbara Fellowships were not only mass downvoted, but after being killed the commenter indicated this was their intention and wished me a nice day. Felt creepy. Dang brought it back up, to his gr
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by Sporktacular 3y ago
"When people cite deaths from numbers supplied by Hamas, they are parroting terrorist propaganda." No. Stop it. Numbers provided by the Health Ministry historically have been largely verified. The 30 000+ figure is not in question

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