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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • Over 4,000 schools shut down nationwide as student numbers plunge - The Korea Times

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  • The population of North Korea is approximately 26.5 million while South Korea is around 51.7 million. North Korea has already overtaken the South in total number of births per year (~340,000 VS ~250,000 in the South).

    If the current trend continues (which I doubt it will), that means North Korea's population will overtake South Korea some time around 2090-2100.

    Instead, what's going to happen is South Korea will have a regime collapse and then they're going to have a "come to Korea" moment (like a "come to Jesus" moment, but Korean-themed and much more literal). There's all sorts of things they can do to improve their situation practically overnight (from a geopolitical perspective) but they've so far refused to do so (for racist reasons).

    Either they're going to fortify their population with foreign stock or they're going to demonstrate "the superiority of the Korean race" by going extinct.

  • Over 4,000 schools shut down nationwide as student numbers plunge - The Korea Times

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  • SK is not going to be a good example because, in addition to the usual reasons for a declining birth rate, they also have some pretty extreme racism, sexism, and a work culture that even worse than Japan in many ways. Why would you want to have kids in South Korea‽

    Let's say you do have a wife and kids... Good luck getting home to see them on time on the regular!

    What's incredible is that the government's stance on this situation is that it is preserving their culture. What they really mean is that they're keeping out foreigners and not cross-breeding with the riffraff (which is... The rest of the world).

    They will "preserve" themselves right into extinction.

  • GOP coalescing behind Vance as Trump privately dismisses third-term run

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  • The GOP should just setup a copy of the press room at the White House in a retirement home where everything is painted gold. Every day, they can place dementia Don in front of the podium and tell him, "there's a million viewers."

    He'll keep himself busy like that until a bigger stroke than the last takes him down to hell.

  • Your pictures of Scotland: Photographs from around the country

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  • Witness Scottish robin a crested tit and an orca sealing the deal.

  • How the upcoming AI legislations around the world, like voice cloning prevention and disclosure requeriment of techincal details of models, will affect open source or selfhosted models?

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  • I work for a huge bank and we tested voice recognition technology: Even under the best circumstances (high quality microphone with no ambient noise in a sound booth), it was far, far too easy to copy someone else's voice by simply playing back a sliced up recording a la Sneakers (the movie). We ruled it out as an option over a decade ago.

    The problem was fundamental and had nothing to do with the quality of the technology. If your bank is using your voice as a unique identifier they had better be using something else in addition to it! Because it's super insecure.

  • How the upcoming AI legislations around the world, like voice cloning prevention and disclosure requeriment of techincal details of models, will affect open source or selfhosted models?

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  • From the perspective of human perception, people's voices are only unique enough to about one in a few thousand. There's a few outliers with much more unique voices but believe it or not, there's a lot of people walking around on this earth that sound just like Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, and other voices people think are super unique.

    I view an anti-cloning law as too risky: It sounds exactly like the type of thing that would prevent Grandma from cloning her own voice before going down for surgery because it just so happens to sound a lot like a famous person.

  • How the upcoming AI legislations around the world, like voice cloning prevention and disclosure requeriment of techincal details of models, will affect open source or selfhosted models?

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  • How do you implement voice cloning prevention? Human voices aren't that unique. Also, AI voice cloning isn't perfect. So... At what threshold is a voice considered, "cloned" from a legal perspective?

    I mean, people couldn't tell the difference between Scarlet Johansson and OpenAI's "Sky" voice which was not cloned.

  • How the upcoming AI legislations around the world, like voice cloning prevention and disclosure requeriment of techincal details of models, will affect open source or selfhosted models?

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  • Before any of that can happen we need some non-ambiguous definitions of what "AI" is.

  • Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?

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  • Big AI is a bubble but AI in general is not.

    If anything, the DRAM shortages will apply pressure on researchers to come up with more efficient AI models rather than more efficient (normal) software overall.

    I suspect that as more software gets AI-assisted development we'll actually see less efficient software but eventually, more efficient as adoption of AI coding assist becomes more mature (and probably more formalized/automated).

    I say this because of experience: If you ask an LLM to write something for you it often does a terrible job with efficiency. However, if you ask it to analyze an existing code base to make it more efficient, it often does a great job. The dichotomy is due to the nature of AI prompting: It works best if you only give it one thing to do at a time.

    In theory, if AI code assist becomes more mature and formalized, the "optimize this" step will likely be built-in, rather than something the developer has to ask for after the fact.

  • Do you think that everyone have a "mask" that they use to show a different "self" to different people and that hides their true self, a truth they don't even show to their closest friends/family?

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  • How could pleasing older women ever bring dishonor‽

    Mohammed himself did as much with Khadija!

    Be the change the world needs by replacing oil with pleasure as Saudi Arabia's strongest export!

  • If reincarnation exists, suicide could make things much much worse.

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  • Who says you get reincarnated right away? It could be a 1000 years between your death and rebirth!

    That's how I set it up in my silly comedy Isekai, Maizy's Tails (it's free to read on the web if you care... Just search it, it'll be the first link): After death souls need to be "aged" at least 1000 years before they can be put in a new body. The gods think it's a multiversal rule but the MC figures out a workaround 😁

    It actually opens with the gods bidding on souls from Earth... A world that ended about a million years prior to the auction (because that's how long it took to sort and categorize them all) 🤣

  • Airplane lands itself after in-flight emergency, in a first for aviation automation

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  • I’m curious what was in your pods?

    Loads of containers.

  • Airplane lands itself after in-flight emergency, in a first for aviation automation

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  • Think the acronyms are bad now? Wait until your plane is in the cloud!

    "Plane pod bay doors open unexpectedly! Engaging emergency AWS FaaS! AWS unavailable! Engaging GCP FaaS! GCP unavailable! Local CDN AZ cannot be found! No MSP available! Engaging SRE! Blaming DNS!"

    Pilot: "We haven't even taken off yet! Also, I told you to open the doors, you dumb AI!"

    "Good catch! Would you like me to continue blaming DNS?"

  • Government Officials Once Stopped False Accusations After Violence. Now, Some Join In.

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  • Now, Some Republicans Join In

    FTFY, NYT. I almost put "conservatives" (which would also be true) but the article is really about politicians in office. So it's more specific and accurate to say Republicans.

    MSM needs to stop being so biased in favor of fascists. Writing a headline like this is misleading.

  • Biggest Dopamine Hijackers

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  • Someone is wrong on the Internet.

  • Trump administration wants to set quota for denaturalizing American citizens

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  • They'll claim that because someone is LGBTQ+, their birth certificate is fraudulent and that counts as enough evidence for denaturalization.

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  • Mrs Brisbee is pleased.

  • chainmill rulers 😵

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  • Says chain male bear.

  • I got socks for Christmas. The packaging is awful AI slop.

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  • They can't even AI right!

    That should've been a pelican on that bicycle.

  • Makes sense

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  • Due to cost cutting, norovirus decided to only do the bare minimum.

    Quiet quitter!