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Comment Re:Book Publishers only publish WOKE CHICK FIC (Score 1) 109

It's been 16 years since I've felt inspired to comment on Slashdot, but I'm breaking silence to congratulate you on achieving your goal (I assume) of being the worst, most ignorant version of yourself. It must take a concerted effort to become such a cartoonish portrayal of the worst stereotype imaginable of a red-pilled incel. To be so completely wrong in a public forum, and to have no shame about it, is genuinely impressive.

Not in a positive way, of course. You're a small-minded tool with a pathologically broken view of the world, tilting against windmills that aren't even related to the thread you're commenting on, and I hope that any woman or employer with the misfortune of crossing your path sees the testament to ignorance and impotent rage you've turned your sad life into, and regards you with every bit of the respect that you've earned.

Comment Re:0.5 mm resolution (Score 1) 25

Also, they claim it is safe due to lack of radiation. But ultrasonic can fuck shit up too. I mean ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones, shear and fragment DNA (for NGS prep).

Good points, but to be fair, ultrasonic is currently used to break up kidney stones because it is safe to use it to do so.

Comment Re:My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73

To me the hoops that smoothbrains will jump through to avoid IPv6 and stay on legacy IPv4, especially when hosting, is pathetic. NAT, port forwarding, tunnels, blah blah blah blah.

I have something like ~1.2 trillion times the number of routable addresses that the entire IPv4 space has. Not all are reachable, of course, just the services that need incoming access and they're each on their own isolated DMZ.

Comment My home network is nearly pure IPv6 (Score 1) 73

Started the move about 18 months ago when I decided to get off my lazy ass. My ISP gives out a /56 prefix, so that lets me run 256 /64 subnets/VLANs in the house, currently there are ~10 in use. Everything get a GUA through SLAAC and I use RAs (Router Advertisements) to give ULAs to everything. Any external facing services get their own VLAN and /64 for the system(s) as needed. Firewall blocks all incoming as they usually do by default and I punch a hole for the external-facing systems. They can't reach back into the network, they only answer the phone. All the systems update DNS dynamically if the prefix or full address ever change.

I have an SSH bastion set up. In all this time there has not been a single SSH attempt from the internet. On IPv4 it was constant background noice.
For those legacy IPv4-only systems on the internet, I set up NAT64. I have an IoT VLAN and IoT 2.4 GHz wireless network that are only IPv4 because a lot of IoT network stacks are junk.

I'm still farting around with it, but man oh man, there's no way I'd go back to IPv4. It was one of the best moves I've done in ages.

Comment Yep (Score 1) 186

The UHF app on our Apple TVs & iOS devices and the UHF Server in Docker to act as a PVR gives us everything for a few $ a month paid in crypto.
We haven't had cable since ~1999-2000. Downloading and the *arrs have kept us happy, but the better half wanted to check out some live sports. So IPTV it was.

Comment Re:Calling it a lead is very generous (Score 1) 28

I've used Claude at home for ages. Work was wanting to get some AI stuff for us and the only 'blessed' one is CoPilot. Everything else it blocked. All senior management seems to know about AI is "Hurrr... Copilot and ChatGPT."

Out team of ~8 (pentestesting & VA) were unanimous about Copilot being crap and Claude being the top dog. So some higher ups OK'd a Claude Teams package for work. To bypass the CorpSec tards, we use it from our lab environment that has its own unmonitored link and IP range.

Anthropic/Claude is just so far ahead of OpenAI/ChatGPT and MS/Copilot it's not funny.

Comment Re:Question (Score 1) 20

retains access to the AI startup's technology until 2032, including models that achieve AGI

Exactly how do they envision an autocomplete gaining sentience?

It hasn't been "autocomplete" in a long time. Sure, there's a training step based on a corpus of Human language, and the autoregressive process outputs a single token at a time, but reinforcement learning trains specific behaviors beyond merely completing a sentence.

Besides, the best way to write something indistinguishable from what a Human might write is to, well, "think" like a Human.

Comment Will we finally learn our lesson? (Score 1) 32

Are we, as a sapient species facing an uncertain prospect of continuence in a world full of rapidly-advancing bullshit going to learn from this catastrophic and absurdly predictable failure of information security, personal and professional ethics, civilian government, market economics, basic common sense, and consumer psychology?

Eight-Ball-Based-On-Cursory-Reading-Of-Literally-Any-Slice-of-Human-History says "no".

What do you say, and why is it also "no"?

Comment Re:That's not bad (Score 1) 38

There's absolutely no point in comparing different battery tests of the same phone. Comparing different phones with the same test, this makes sense.

Apple claims 27 hours video, this is a very different thing than using it actively. Others on YouTube have run it for 5 hours with YT streaming at 50% brightness and the battery dropping from 100% to 80% with that. That's just because video decoding is fully hardware-based these days and the SoC is nearly dormant then.

Whenever I hear someone talking about "x hours of battery life" without exactly qualifying what he does during this time I could scream.

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