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utopiah

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  • Trump Grades Economy ‘A+++++’ as Americans Skip Medical Care and Struggle to Afford Essentials

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  • Eh, does it though?

    His "coin" https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/ went from 40B to 6B in less than a year, top holders owns 80% (I imagine him), others top 10 get few millions at most and everybody else has 8%. That looks like a pretty bad outcome even for bribes.

  • I don't remember any technology being pushed as hard as AI

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  • OK ok yes and I have a theory about it!

    So... my theory is that, and it might be shocked, by VCs, investment banks, business angels, C-suites, so basically people with BIG money are actually learning. I know, I know, sounds crazy but hear me out.

    I think they are learning NOT about a topic, say AI, or XR, or 3D printing, etc no, that's pointless, no they are instead learning about real materials, things like pretty curve published on Harvard Business Review or McKinsey Quarterly or HackerNews. These people learned over time about the Gartner hype cycle and they are learning to both ride it AND amplify it. VCs have a big incentive for big bets. They do NOT care about your mom&pop software shop which might just reach a million paying customers. No, they make BIG bets that nobody else can, that's their cornered market. If it doesn't reach a billion users, not even customers, then it's just not interesting to them. They want, no they NEED, something that will grow fast, very fast, and big, VERY big. This way they fund the infrastructure and in exchange they get the only thing they care about, shares. Everything else is just a hurdles to go over, or remove entirely thanks to lobbying.

    They specifically look for this dependency so that they can't be bought out, 1000x return on projects that need them. It's a parasitic relationship that they excel at. Now again this isn't new but IMHO what you are hinting at, the amplitude of the push is arguably new.

    One person at the center of this embodies it perfectly : Sam Altman. He lead YCombinator at the heart of the SiliconValley. SV isn't special for the skills, they are plenty of very smart people everywhere else. What's special is that smart people go there to go money, a lot of money very fast in exchange for the promise of tremendous growth. Altman has seen hundreds if not thousands of such proposal and he evaluate them. He knows precisely what sticks, what people offered but also what promises get funded.

    He keeps on doing exactly that. He keeps on promising MORE.

    So... yes I think the AI push is bigger than anything else. It's bigger than cryptocurrencies, it's bigger than the metaverse, it's supposedly THE technology that changes everything else. We heard this before. In fact we hear this at the beginning of every cycle. This time though grifters, because no matter how big the bank account is, they still are grifters (look at Musk, promising constantly what everybody wants to hear, delivering a fraction of it so small it became a joke) who get their power through getting everybody to push for their promises.

    TL;DR: yes and it's a pattern. Everything gets pitched as more revolutionary than ever before.

  • Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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  • FWIW (and I know it's not the joke...) it's perfectly fine to remove the mouth piece while scuba diving. In fact it's part of basic training. You should be able to remove the mouth piece and take another one, your octopus or the one of your buddy, in case there is an incident.

    No... the real question for a good diver is how the heck you're going to say HDMI 2.1 with hand signs! /s

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • 3 tries then what, data wipeout?

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • I don't think that matters as much as the delay because with brute force you can precisely go through a LOT of possibilities so the practical aspect is the attempt frequency. Even 1 number if it's 1 attempt per decade is enough to prevent intrusion.

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  • 4 legs, cables, ... it's already tricky to navigate a complex space on 2 legs without cables ...

    I feel like this is close to https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/ recent piece, namely that, yes, all that is easy to imagine but in practice, to reach the seemingly basic level of movement an average human can do for a similar weight, not 1 ton, is actually ridiculously hard. Biological organisms aren't magical by any stretch of the imagination but somehow to manufacture an equivalent is not something we are able to do. Each extra wire adds a bit more weight, which in turns needs more powerful servos, themselves making the one below requiring more power too and keeping the whole thing mobile needs a very powerful battery... so yes making design suggestion is easy but fully comprehending the consequences of those choices often means going back to the drawing board.

    Fun fact : VR players know quite well what moving while tethered means. I can tell first hand, it's damn annoying BUT if you don't manage it, you will both fall and break your system.

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  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • I don't think infinite attempts is the issue, I think the timing of those attempts is what practically limit the usefulness of the attack. Here in the Apple example I imagine rebooting the phone takes longer than 30s. Also if one goes to the length of removing the battery of an iPhone to crack it, this is a pretty serious attempt. One better have proper protections in place.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • Is there a way to verify that? I did run Servo months ago and some pages did render without issues. Others not but that wasn't enough for me to draw such a conclusion. I remember Mozilla pushed for https://webcompat.com/ so wondering if this can be used to see the pace of change.

  • Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla

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  • It renders... so what is missing for you to use it?

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • PIN bruteforcing.

    Curious, how does that work? 10000 possibilities aren't many but you get 30s break every 3 failed attempts then 5 more then its every single failed attempts so that'd be ~5000minutes so that's about 3 days. Assuming they get "lucky" it's about 1.5 day. I don't know though what happens after 20 failed attempts, maybe it's 1min break or 20min break.

    Basically, does PIN bruteforcing actually work and if so on what timeframe?

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • Open an issue to explain why it's not enough for you? If you can make a PR for it that actually implements the things you need, do it?

    My point to say everything is already out there and perfectly fits your need, only that a LOT is already out there. If all re-invent the wheel in our own corner it's basically impossible to learn from each other.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • If I understand correctly then this means mostly adapting the interface?

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • Sure, you're right, I just worry (maybe needlessly) about people re-inventing the wheel because it's "easier" than searching without properly understand the cost of the entire process.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • FWIW that's a good question but IMHO the better question is :

    What kind of small things have you vibed out that you needed that didn't actually exist or at least you couldn't find after a 5min search on open source forges like CodeBerg, Gitblab, Github, etc?

    Because making something quick that kind of works is nice... but why even do so in the first place if it's already out there, maybe maintained but at least tested?

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • I agree... but beside the point I have access to a dedicated workshop and a tool library https://www.tournevie.be/ which challenges this whole setup. It's relatively unique though, unfortunately, so your example still stands, thanks for sharing.

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • Yep. That's exactly why I tend to never discuss "AI" with people who don't have to actually have a PhD in the domain, or at least a degree in CS. It's nothing against them specifically, it's only that they are dangerously repeating what they heard during marketing presentations with no ability to criticize it and, in such cases, it can be quite dangerous.

    TL;DR: people who could benefit from it don't need it, people who would shouldn't.

  • Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

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  • Mostly because the model is incapable

    There, fixed that for you.