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- Comment on Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 4 weeks ago:
Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.
Good. We could do with a similar rule here on lemmy. I know there’s probably a lack of people to fill all the needed moderator positions, but I’m pretty sick of seeing the same people moderating the majority of communities that I visit.
It becomes especially apparent when someone gets banned from one community and the powermod bans them from every other community that they moderate. It’s rare that someone actually deserves that type of scorched-earth response.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 4 weeks ago:
I never met one on reddit who wasn’t just getting off on the power trip.
The ones who don’t, you never meet.
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 5 weeks ago:
FTFA:
The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop 1 month ago:
rare L from gaben
- Comment on Sorry, Oblivion Remastered: dabbing, twerking, and the griddy are now unleashable on command in you 1 month ago:
titlegore
- Comment on Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected" 1 month ago:
Should have made a new Gex game, then they wouldn’t be in this mess.
- Comment on Webcam-based 6DoF head & eye tracking app LookPilot released on Steam 2 months ago:
Direct link: store.steampowered.com/app/3326890/LookPilot/
- Comment on Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah 2 months ago:
How is that legal?
- Comment on OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI 2 months ago:
🤡
- Comment on Brave Becomes First Browser to Launch On-Chain Naming Service, Unlocking .brave for Over 85M Users 3 months ago:
Is it really decentralized though? Why are they “partnering with Unstoppable Domains”? Couldn’t they just do it themselves?
- Comment on Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos 3 months ago:
Someone’s gotta pay for those hexacore CPUs (yes we did get one).
- Comment on A factory sim in which every pixel has physics is the latest from Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse 3 months ago:
Oh it’s like that Earthworm Jim level.
- Comment on Nexus Mods is under new ownership 4 months ago:
The article: www.nexusmods.com/news/15301
Don’t read the comments.
- Comment on Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion looks like a boomer shooter for the Newgrounds generation, and it's out next month 4 months ago:
- Comment on GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 4 months ago:
Wow that slashdot discussion is a train-wreck.
- Comment on Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree 4 months ago:
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 4 months ago:
👁️ 👁️ 👂 👃 👂 👄 <( "cool" )
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 5 months ago:
It was better than AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Tripod, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler et al. at the time when it gained its popularity.
Its main advantage was that they focussed on speed. You didn’t have to load a “homepage” with news articles and link directories (as all the other search engines had become) before you could type your search query. It was just a logo and a text input box.
The search index even at the beginning was pretty comprehensive too.
Google jumped the shark a long time ago though, around when they started putting ads on equal footing with the search results, and boosting their Shopping links.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 5 months ago:
your link is broken
qwant.com
- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 5 months ago:
No, LLMs can’t decipher Enigma ciphertext.
“It would be straightforward to recreate the logic of bombes in a conventional program,” Wooldridge said, noting the AI model ChatGPT was able to do so. “Then with the speed of modern computers, the laborious work of the bombes would be done in very short order.”
He’s speculating that an LLM could write a program to do so.
Using a slightly different approach – that Wooldridge suggested might be slower – researchers have previously used an AI system trained to recognise German using Grimm’s fairytales, together with 2,000 virtual servers, to crack a coded message in 13 minutes.
The link is to an abstract that tells you nothing more without an account on this website. But a better write-up of the mentioned research is here: digitalocean.com/…/how-2000-droplets-broke-the-en…
In late 2017, at the Imperial War Museum in London, developers applied modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to break the “unbreakable” Enigma machine …
So this is about research from 8 years ago! They go on to explain that they did a brute-force attack on the key, using a RNN (recurrent neural network) classifier to detect if the decrypted text looked like German.
I’m no cryptographer but I’m pretty sure that we have been able to classify language samples quite successfully for a long time using much simpler (and faster) statistical techniques, like n-gram frequency analysis.
The fact that the Guardian article mentions none of this and presents the topic ambiguously enough to make it sound like ChatGPT can break ciphers on its own makes me think this is more deliberate AI-hype.
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 5 months ago:
4 percent of employees at 50 banks use their email to register on adult content websites
How do they know it’s not people who are pissed off at a bank employee who take their business card and sign the person up to adult sites?
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 5 months ago:
Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.
- Comment on Apple owes more than $700M in standard-essential patent royalties and interest to licensing firm Optis: England & Wales Court of Appeal 5 months ago:
Patents relating to 4G apparently.
Why are we building our global communication networks on patented IP that has to be licensed anyway? Isn’t this a huge barrier to entry to the telecommunications market for new businesses? Why is the market artificially protected in this way?
Lobbyists and bribes; I bet the answer is lobbyists and bribes.
- Comment on Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos 5 months ago:
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 5 months ago:
This marks the end of the beginning of the end.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 5 months ago:
ghoul
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 5 months ago:
Their current market cap is 443B with a P/E of 50, so already massively overpriced.
For comparison, Google P/E is 20, Amazon P/E is 32, Meta P/E is 21, Microsoft P/E is 30.
They would need to more than double their profits to get to 1Tn market cap with the same joke of a price to earnings ratio. At this point I doubt that will be by doubling their customer base. It’s going to be by cutting corners: paying less for shows which means lower quality shows, cutting bandwidth costs which means lower quality streams, and charging customers more for the pleasure. Classic enshittification incoming.
- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 5 months ago:
So if you happen to look like someone who was once suspected of shoplifting then you’ll no longer be able to buy food anywhere. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 5 months ago:
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for an American to buy eggs.
