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  • Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns

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  • Perhaps OP is a Marxist and/or Leninist.

  • TIL there's a Reeses flavoured toothpaste

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  • You should put the toothpaste somewhere the cat can't get into, like a drawer or medicine cabinet. Same with your toothbrush, and anything else in the bathroom that goes into your mouth. Airborne poop particles land on everything. You'll be doing yourself two favors in one.

  • Tennessee bill would allow detention of 'at risk' juveniles without criminal charges

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  • I don't think these guys ever saw the ending to Minority Report.

  • LLMs can unmask anonymous internet users for $1–4 each, matching 67% of pseudonymous Hacker News accounts to real LinkedIn profiles at 90% precision

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  • If 90% of LinkedIn users are making the same OPSEC errors, then I'd say it works as advertised.

  • That's why I say hey man, nice shot

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  • This is Budd Dwyer, who ended his life after giving a speech. You can read about the event here.

  • Spotted in Burbank, CA

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  • At least the soundtrack would be incredible.

  • Pissing in the shower is better than pissing in the toilet in every single way.

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  • We're a waffle-stomping household 'round these parts.

  • F...

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  • Unconstitutional conduct is already suable over, though..?

    Not when it involves law enforcement.

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    Sam Altman: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

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  • If you mean the Department of War, then that IS the correct and original name. Department of Defense was never accurate.

  • fully autonomous

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  • Why do you need anything beyond "riding a virtual track", though? The point of a car is to go from A to B, and a track is literally the most effective way to do that (which is why we need more trains in the first place, but that's an entirely separate rant I could go on about).

    IMO, at a certain point you reach a level of autonomy that is sufficient enough. It doesn't need to know every nook and cranny of obscure roads because realistically, nobody's going there to begin with. And even then in those situations where you did need to go to a location that wasn't pre-mapped, it's still likely to get you 99.9% of the way to your destination, anyway. Waymos are also constantly scanning and remapping their surroundings in real time (to adjust for things like road work, detours, and other blockages), so it stands to reason that if you had to manually engage the car after reaching the end of its mapped area, it would eventually develop a map of the new areas with a high-enough level of confidence to navigate on its own, over time.

    I also think you have the wrong takeaway regarding the remote dispatchers being required. I think it's a good thing that they exist, because that means that Waymo doesn't trust their own machines to be 100% accurate. Tesla incorrectly does, which is why their self-driving cars have an exponentially higher rate of at-fault collisions than any of their competitors. Waymo at least understands the realistic limitations of their tech, and has a safety net in place for when those limitations are reached. I think that's the correct way to do it, as you lead up toward an actual finished product.

  • fully autonomous

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  • I get what you're saying, and I don't have the data handy to provide the necessary context, but it's important to keep in mind that these "what am I looking at?" requests from the cars will represent something like ~0.0001% of all scanned objects on the road. Almost all of the time, the car is confidently identifying everything in its path without any human assistance. Almost every request that the dispatchers would receive to identify was already correctly identified by the car by the time the dispatcher presses their buttons. Most of these requests would be something like "Is this a fire hydrant?", and that request was automatically sent on the first "frame" where the car couldn't identify the object; more often than not, the car has figured it out by the very next "frame" and has made whatever necessary adjustments are needed to correct its course before dispatchers even respond.

    Of course, I have no way to validate any of this, as any numbers I can provide are just made up based on my own experience doing this job around 7 years ago, and I don't believe Waymo publishes any actual statistics in this regard, so you'll just have to take the word of a random guy on the internet for however much its worth. :)

    For what it's worth, I will say that self-driving cars are about the only technology that genuinely excite me these days and some of the things they're capable of are not talked about nearly enough (you hardly ever hear about the fact that Waymo has autonomous semi-trucks on public roads). With the exception of Tesla, who have been seen as mostly a joke by the rest of the industry, pretty much everybody in this particular tech space are doing some very impressive things.

    I don't suck big tech dick that often, but the self-driving car industry has some good techdick right now.

  • How to prevent your phone from being opened forcefully

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  • Be careful: repeatedly pressing the lock button on many new phones will auto-dial 911.

  • fully autonomous

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  • It's even less than that. The act of plotting a course (which we called Augmented Trajectories), was used very sparingly, and mostly just to do "illegal" maneuvers like crossing a double yellow line in order to get around debris in the road. The Waymo won't (knowingly) break the law on its own, even in those exceptional situations like road obstructions, so we could either tell the car "this road is inaccessible due to the obstruction" and let it try to make a 30-point u-turn and reroute itself 8 miles in another direction, or we can tell the car "let me direct you through this tiny lil one-time crime". ATs are very limited in scope; we could basically plot out several points in the car's path, and then tell it to drive itself to those points while ignoring other traffic rules, and then the car will complete that course while steering itself along the path you've plotted. You can only set a max distance of like 20 meters or so before having to make the car pull over and plot a new AT again, and the car will only ever go about 3 MPH during an AT. Even during an AT, the car will still refuse to drive over anything it doesn't recognize as safe and will not collide itself with anything at all.

    Almost all of the remote dispatcher's job is just identifying objects (usually road signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles) that the Waymo isn't able to immediately identify. No remote driving, and very little manual course-plotting is being done by humans.

    Source: was a Waymo remote dispatcher for a year and identified tens of thousands of road objects, and conducted maybe 4 ATs in total. They're very rare. We mostly had to use them in road work areas, where the workers would leave a very complicated temporary path with road cones that the car just couldn't figure out, or where the cones had fallen over.

  • Florida uses emergency rule to cut patients off AIDS medication

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  • "No no, you see, we have to kill the most vulnerable among us. It's an emergency, duh!"

    -Florida

  • Some may find this amusing and interesting: Digg doesn't seem to be as active as the Fediverse.

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  • Friendica says "hello".

  • Wouldn't you like to know

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  • Saucey subs have to beg for it.

  • ‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’

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  • It's been child abuse.

  • 90% of Prostate Cancer Tumors Contained Microplastics

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  • I'm pretty sure that 90% of all biomass in general contains microplastics these days.

  • How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts?

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  • the childlike whimsy that Misskey has.

    This, so much. I really wish I could read Japanese, because the really active Misskey instances look genuinely fun to be on. It reminds me a lot of the OMGPOP days, which I miss dearly.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Dr.K Explains Tylenol and Autism

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    "Bella Ciao" - Italian Anti-Fascist Song

  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Texas hemp ban bill dies (again)

    www.politico.com /news/2025/09/04/texas-hemp-ban-bill-dies-00543897
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What would be an inexpensive and reliable way to set up a personal-use VPN tunnel?

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What seemingly backwards solutions have worked for you in life?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Texas man sues Whataburger for nearly $1 million after burger had onions on it

    www.kens5.com /article/news/local/texas/houston-texas-man-sues-whataburger-1-million-burger-onions/273-196d97b2-093e-4a73-adbe-0839005671e2
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What do you do if you encounter a skunk?

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: There are 6 levels (0-5) of autonomous driving

    www.synopsys.com /blogs/chip-design/autonomous-driving-levels.html
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    The Tesla protests are working.

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    Stand-up comic, Steve Hofstetter, explains firing his agency for signing Kanye West

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    What Happened to Decades?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What do drain unclogging liquids actually do?

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
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    THE FINALS - A community for players of the free-to-play FPS game, The Finals

    fedia.io /m/THE_FINALS
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Not a pure void, but you guys have me thinking about an old friend today.

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Not a pure void, but you guys have me thinking about an old friend today.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    This creepy short film from just over seven years ago hits a little different lately |ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ＴＶ - Contingency

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that some Shinto mythology refers to October as "the month without gods", as this is the time the gods take to gather at Izumo Shrine and check in with each other on the state of the world.

    mastodon.social /@camelliakyoto/113382669688943912
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    YouTubers, stop holding your lav mic!