remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on US to reportedly sanction 200 more Chinese chip firms — high bandwidth memory might also see export bans 3 weeks ago:
Cheap Chinese electronics come with a ton of caveats. There are reasons why you can get $150 dollar drills for $23.
- Comment on Japanese firm demos tech that makes any object a capacitive touch surface — stuffed cat on display, works with wood, ceramic, and plasterboard, too 1 month ago:
So you are saying that a stuffed cat can work with wood, ceramic and plasterboard? Neat.
- Comment on FSR 4 has been in development for 9-12 months already, and one of the biggest focuses is improving battery life for handhelds 2 months ago:
I am curious as to why they would offload any AI tasks to another chip? I just did a super quick search for upscaling models on GitHub (github.com/marcan/cl-waifu2x/tree/master/models) and they are tiny as far as AI models go.
Its the rendering bit that takes all the complex maths, and if that is reduced, that would leave plenty of room for running a baby AI. Granted, the method I linked to was only doing 29k pixels per second, but they said they weren’t GPU optimized. (FSR4 is going to be fully GPU optimized, I am sure of it.)
If the rendered image is only 85% of a 4k image, that’s ~1.2 million pixels that need to be computed and it still seems plausible to keep everything on the GPU.
With all of that blurted out, is FSR4 AI going to be offloaded to something else? It seems like there would be a significant technical challenges in creating another data bus that would also have to sync with memory and the GPU for offloading AI compute at speeds that didn’t risk create additional lag. (I am just hypothesizing, btw.)
- Comment on Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work 4 months ago:
As we kick off our 50th year as a company …
… we just realized that security was never actually our priority, regardless of what our marketing people actually said. Sure, security was a priority before, but now it’s the top, top priority right below shareholder value and C-suite bonuses. It’s a core priority, actually. Just like the core of a rock-hard coconut.
- Comment on Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO 4 months ago:
Update your robots.txt harder next time spez.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 4 months ago:
Yeah, I tend to break the brains of auditors that have never dealt with startups and have been used to Fortune 500 mega-companies.
Auditor: So what is your documented process for this ?
Me: Uhh, we don’t have one?
Auditor: What about when X or Y catastrophic issue happens?
Me: Anyone just pushes this button and activates that widget.
Auditor: Ok. Uh. Is that process documented?
Me: Nope. We probably do it about 2-3 times a week anyway.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 4 months ago:
You aren’t wrong about my description. My direct experience with compliance is limited to small/medium tech companies where IT is the business. As long as there is an alternate work location and tech redundancy, the business can chug along as usual. (Data centers are becoming more rare so cloud redundancy is more important than ever.) Of course, there is still quite a bit that needs to be done depending on the type of emergency, as you described: It’s just all IT, customer and partner centric.
Unfortunately, that does make compliance an IT function because a majority of the company is in some IT engineering function, less sales and marketing.
I can’t speak to companies in different industries whereas you can. When physical products and manufacturing is at stake, that is way out of scope with what I could deal with.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 5 months ago:
Absolutely that. For networks that matter, patches are usually tested independently. While I wouldn’t trust the average military command to do patch testing, any civilian contractors absolutely would, because money. (Microsoft is likely at the top of that stack…)
There are other conditions as well. EDR infrastructure, if it exists, would need to be isolated on a “Government cloud” which is a different beast completely. Plus, there are different levels of networks, some being air-gapped.
- Comment on CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft 5 months ago:
The only companies I have seen with workable BCDR plans are banks, and that is because they handle money for rich people. It wouldn’t surprise me if many core banking systems are hyper-legacy as well.
I honestly think that a majority of our infrastructure didn’t collapse because of the lack of security controls and shitty patch management programs.
Sure. Compliance programs work for some aspects of business but since the advent of “the cloud”, BCDR plans have been a paperwork drill.
(There are probably some awesome places out there with quadruple-redunant networks with the ability to outlast a nuclear winter. I personally haven’t seen them though.)
- Comment on These Linksys routers are likely transmitting cleartext passwords 5 months ago:
DD-WRT was practically born from Linksys routers, btw.
If you are actually “serious”, you would be building your own access points and not focused on brands.
- Comment on A group of R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw in Rabbit’s code 5 months ago:
People actually bought these? Lulz.
- Comment on US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems' app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks 7 months ago:
Never give anyone else control of systems that are directly responsible for your physical safety. Door locks are just a mild deterrent and breaking through a door at least leaves more evidence for the police never to follow up on.
And for fucks sake, stop putting “cloud” connected cameras in your fucking houses! (You are more likely to incriminate yourself in a crime anyway.)
- Comment on 105 Trillion Pi Digits: The Journey to a New Pi Calculation Record 8 months ago:
There is that word again. That’s the second time I have seen it and the second time that the context has baffled me.
- Comment on Some teachers are now using ChatGPT to grade papers 9 months ago:
I am surprised that most data entry and billing jobs haven’t been automated already. After a quick Google check, it still seems to be a hot topic for human workers.
I do agree with you though. Unless we are talking about multiple choice tests, grading should be a human teaching a human to be human. The few teachers I had that truly gave a shit about me as a person remain my personal heros over 30 years later.
- Comment on Microsoft AI engineer warns FTC about Copilot Designer safety concerns 9 months ago:
Frank Shaw says the company is “committed to addressing any and all concerns employees have in accordance with” Microsoft’s policies.
Yeah. I am sure it will be addressed and then promptly forgotten. Once this is out of the news, MS will address it once more with a bad review and termination.
- Comment on David Chase Says TV’s Golden Age Is ‘Over:’ It Was a ’25-Year Blip’ 11 months ago:
Older things were only better for me because of an active imagination.
I refuse to watch the original Star Trek series again for that reason. I tried to watch some of them once but all the magic was gone. The effects are horrible, the scripts are flat and the stories are creative, but still moderate.
However, I can think back and remember most of the episodes I enjoyed as a kid and it’s just as awesome as it once was. It don’t remember the details,obviously, but I remember my emotions and reactions. That is good enough to let the magic live on.
- Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for? 1 year ago:
You probably grew up in the age of rotary phones too, hu? The last one I used was only … uh… 35 years ago, I think.
- Comment on According to the site "What does the internet think?" when asked about Elon Musk - The internet is very positive about 'Elon Musk'. And that's why you shouldn't believe everything you read online. 1 year ago:
Being serious for a second, that site just counts hits returned by search engines. ‘Bad breath’ returns an 89.6% positive result, as weird example.
- Comment on [Help] Is there a way to stop the "BIP" sound when speaker are plugged ? 1 year ago:
The video will not load for me for some reason.
- Comment on [Help] Is there a way to stop the "BIP" sound when speaker are plugged ? 1 year ago:
Cool. The video is still getting processed, and I won’t be able to view it until the morning. (It’s 3AM my time, so sleep time for me.)
Just looking at the picture though, I am going to speculate for fun: The audio cable is poorly shielded and is also very close to small, but relatively powerful, transmitting antennas. I suspect you might be hearing the Bluetooth check-in and handshake.
- Comment on [Help] Is there a way to stop the "BIP" sound when speaker are plugged ? 1 year ago:
The sound is coming from the built-in speaker on the deck when you start a game, or from external speakers when you plug them in?
Can you post steps to replicate the problem?
