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Amazon uses kid’s dead grandma in morbid demo of Alexa audio deepfake(arstechnica.com)
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Boinc in Retrospect(continuum-hypothesis.com)
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> I think that’s why many great writers were alcoholics - it takes down the barriers we set up within and gives us the “liquid courage” to just say something and not give a s*it. Absolutely. There are certain styles of writing best do
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Screw that. Write what you want to read. I hate videos on the internet, so I started my blog (see profile) with an emphasis on text and photos. About seven years later, still going strong. Some of it gets traffic, most doesn't. Som
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Hm. Your numbers and mine don't match by a few orders of magnitude. I came up with 2.5GW sustained, which is (2.5GW * 24h * 365) 21900 GWh ~= 21TWh/yr. Big, but not the same as your value. An acre foot is 1233 m^3, and at 3kWh&
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I mean, if you don't care in the slightest about cost of the plants, the energy required, the land needed to run the giant tunnels... maybe? It's probably technically possible within the constraints of "I have a full count
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> But they just straight up don't run in constant time, so they're vulnerable to a timing attack across the network. That's clearly just a library bug? Like surely the dumbest part of a "constant time" algorithm
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> If your code isn't running in an environment where other processes from untrusted sources are also running, these timing side-channels and their mitigations are irrelevant. And then you put 'mitigations=off' in your ke
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> Btw., who is saying that books aren't biased? ;-> And that's why I specifically said three. If I read one, I won't have enough grasp of the subject to be able to identify any biases. If I read three, I probably wi
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> Switching to a version that uses more modern English like the NIV is trivial so maybe I'll do that. ESV or CSB, please... How hard would it be to train it on the range of common modern translations? It would be an interesting s
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I'm not sure. I've moved most of my reading and reference material to e-ink (Kobo, I avoid Amazon in every way possible and de-DRM anything I can only find on them), and I think it's better than a LCD from a distraction pers
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That was a depressing read, knowing where things went afterwards. //EDIT: Decent Roger Waters album, though. I should hunt it down on vinyl. "The Shallows" by Carr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by Syonyk 4y ago
No, they're not. It depends on what battery you pick, and if you go with a deep cycle battery designed for that sort of storage use, you typically get charts of cycle life down to 80% DoD or so, and still have "hundreds of cycles
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> ...while I can only imagine how impossible it is to emulate a hackintosh considering the M1/ARM factor. Simply not possible. Apple Silicon is ARMv8, but with a number of their own custom extensions on top of it.
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> I didn’t hate catching up with people over AIM nearly as much as I do over text. You had a keyboard for that, too. Nothing is quite so annoying as trying to have a conversation with someone when one party is on a keyboard and the
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> We show that the pandemic has had large effects on both current and expected future cash flows for office buildings. And this is why loans charge interest, for the "I have no idea what's going to happen but I don't bel
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Thanks - I'd not seen that before, and I think it generally covers the principle well. I don't care if a fixed function device that does its job well can be updated, but I do care if something like a fridge that talks to Google
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> ...then the microcontrollers in critical systems like these should be doing no less. Should be, I agree. Though I would doubt that they are. We've seen plenty of malware packages related to industrial control systems over th
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I haven't figured out the exact wording or requirements - feedback welcome. My goal is not to discourage "Fully Finished" sort of products - if you have some widget that does X, and you've optimized the firmware to do X,
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I would certainly prefer that this be the case, but I also don't think it's particularly likely to pass as legislation - because there are plenty of devices that are sold at a loss, expecting to make it up on other later software
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Unfortunately, the USPS now no longer is required to deliver that stuff. It's in their postal codes now. https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/505.htm > 1.3.8 Improper Use of Labels and Misuse of BRM Cards and
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We should be pushing some of the "repair" legislation to include clauses about, "If you're no longer going to provide OS updates for a device, you must provide a way to install alternate firmware on it." We'd
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> Many tears as most of them use it as their only photo backup for kid pictures. Painful as that is, those of us who tend more technical should be helping people understand the nature of social media companies, and encouraging backups
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It doesn't help sell ads if there's nobody to sell ads to. But the "monetizable eyeballs" are interchangeable, 100% so.
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I generally try to use ARM small board computers as much as possible. They really struggle with running a bunch of Electron stuff at the same time, and while you can reasonably use some modern websites on them, it's amazing just how
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Nah. "Raspberry Pi Day at Google." One day a week, your dual Xeon workstation is replaced with a Raspberry Pi 4. 8GB. Overclocked if you want. It is absolutely adequate to do a lot of things one wants to do. But it will s
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> I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes. The current hardware is more than enough for any consumer applications I can think of. Electron says, "Hold my beer!" I would love to see low
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> So how long does the microchip shortage continue? Warning: Paid Pessimist point of view (I've done computer security for far, far too long). Indefinitely. It doesn't recover. Because (modern, leading process) microchips a
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Local privilege escalations are about a dime a dozen. If you're executing arbitrary code, root isn't a far jump.
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"Whonix alone" is probably fine against browser exploits in the Tor browser (of which I generally assume there are many, because it's a browser of Very Much Interest to plenty of agencies). However, if you assume a "dir

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