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by duskwuff 29d ago
From a pragmatic perspective: Berkeley Systems went through a long chain of acquisitions in the late 90s/early 2000s and eventually ended up under Vivendi, which hasn't done anything significant with the rights since a Flying Toas
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
What I'm getting at is that metadata that claims that a photo is "real" won't necessarily convince people that it is, and the lack of that metadata doesn't mean anything at all. About the only real use I've see
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
And I'm not sure it's even useful to solve. The presence/absence of a digital signature will never be the deciding factor in whether people accept/reject an image as authentic.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
At least there was some genuine effort involved there. What I find most disheartening about the current wave of AI-generated projects is that there's often very little personal involvement - someone had a general idea and asked Claude
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
Twitter was doing stupid growth hacks, like requiring login to view replies, even before AI scrapers were a concern. (And I suspect many of the scrapers are just using logged-in accounts.)
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
No - if you did that, you're likely to end up with an email address which many services will treat as suspicious or reject entirely, both for incoming and outbound mail. And you'll still get spam.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
> Is FTP really worse HTTP? I don't think I'd even call it that. FTP had one purpose: it was an early protocol for remotely managing files. It never had any intent to support dynamically generated or otherwise "virtual&quo
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
> Denying the existence of a major dynasty is like declaring that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson didn't exist There's a great difference of scale. Lincoln died about 150 years ago. There are voluminous primary sources about
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
In many phones, some of the radio hardware is integrated into the SoC. Adding a second, independent radio is a larger engineering task.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
> was any evidence ever given? Try browsing through the offtopic forum [1] if you're not convinced. About half of the threads lead with a post which uses the phrase "food noise" (often "the food noise came back")
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
Don't forget that you're flying NYC to SF to "regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building". What, you thought you got the weekend off? Rise and grind.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
Good news / bad news: employees are also expected to "co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses" (i.e. corporate frat house). Not quite sure how they get "teams of 20" living in those houses with a total company
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
You might be thinking of Nauru. Different island.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
> I suppose in principle the RPi Pico could self-host its own OS and devel environment. 520 KB of RAM in the old days was plenty to fit an OS and compiler. With two cheap PSRAM chips and a bit of trickery, you can upgrade that to 32(.5)
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
> It's entirely possible there are subscribers outside the base There are none. The native Chagossians were all expelled in the 1960s-70s.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
My understanding is that this is analogous to AI use policies within many law firms. Using AI-powered search tools as part of research is usually allowed; using generative AI to draft or rewrite content is usually not. (Given the importance
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
The methods in an interface can be implemented by many different types, and it's often hard or impossible to determine which of those types will be passed in to a function. For example, the io.Reader interface is implemented by many di
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
Both the text and the images of this article appear to be entirely AI-generated. I'm not sure there's any human insight here, just a robotic regurgitation of stock talking points. (The same appears to be true of everything else on
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
The setup costs for a pressed CD are substantial - manufacturing many different designs would have been much more expensive, and would have only slowed down crackers marginally. It's unlikely that this would have recovered enough sales
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751 found that a lot of the outputs were characteristic of an online tool called SpinBot. (The tool no longer seems to work the same way that it did at the time.)
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
> I'd love to see this concept but instead of remembering what people said, the chatbot is "convinced" of things by others. I'm not sure this is feasible, given how LLMs work. Context is finite, and it doesn't re
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
The phenomenon of tortured phrases in published papers has been going on since at least 2020 - long before LLMs were a significant factor, and certainly before watermarking their output was a consideration. The general working theory is tha
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
Some more examples of these tortured phrases: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06751 A few of my favorites are "counterfeit consciousness" (artificial intelligence), "discourse acknowledgement" (voice rec
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
The ARM ISAs are not free to implement. ARM holds patents relevant to the ISA.
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by duskwuff 1mo ago
Given that they're on the audio board, they're almost certainly volume controls.
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
A common design in compressors is to use LZ as a first step, but to then represent the constant data and/or offset-length pairs from LZ using an entropy coder. Deflate (as used in gzip) uses a Huffman coder. LZMA (as used by xz) uses a
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
I have to agree. Even if it hadn't been designated as Fermat's Last Theorem, the problem would likely have ended up in some comparable list of interesting conjectures (e.g. Hilbert's problems, the Erdős problems, the Millenni
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
A news story from a couple of years ago comes to mind - "Air Canada ordered to pay customer who was misled by airline’s chatbot". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/16/air-canada-cha...
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
> So if you detect usage of 3-byte encodings, chances are you'll continue encountering only 3-byte encodings, with the odd ASCII or emoji codepoints. Depends on what kind of text you're processing. Many languages use the ASCII
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by duskwuff 2mo ago
Technically true, but the list is mostly nonfunctional - cryptominers are basically extinct in the wild, and most of the domains on the list have expired or no longer serve mining scripts.

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