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Comment Re:What ... (Score 1) 84

too many folks are still stuck on IPv4

Printer is IPv6 only?

What I'm saying is that if everyone had IPv6 in their homes and offices, remote access wouldn't require all the silly cloud server games. You could just hit the device directly by its IPv6 address, and assuming your router suppoerts UPNP pinholes, you're done. You'd need dynamic DNS and that's it.

I can understand the remote printing (not on the same network) part. But only up to the point where something jams and I'm not there to yank the plug and untangle it before it gets hopelessly borked.

An emergency stop button in the app should be able to do the same thing. If that's not possible, it's a rather bad design flaw.

Also, if something jams in a way that could cause meaningful damage (beyond having to brush blobs of filament off of the hot end) and the printer doesn't detect it, that's also a rather bad design flaw.

Comment Re:umm (Score 1) 13

Actually, if anything he's saying his software package is so crappy that it *should* have found issues. He considers it's failure to find issues not a testament to how awesome his software package is but how lacking the tool is.

I've seen a few times where the curl developer has stood up to some asinine thing that most projects just roll with and I've appreciated his perspective each time.

His finding is consistent with another analysis I saw: Mythos was not good at finding issues at all. The one thing they could claim was that while other models found more issues, Mythos was able to craft a demonstrator to actually exploit the weakness, rather than just identifying the issue.

Comment Re:You're Gonna Go Far, Kid (Score 1) 89

People don't typically boo tools they know how to use effectively.

So you have no data or evidence to support your conclusions and your "use effectively" criteria is simply begging the question? After all a tool you can't use effectively sucks and one that can be used effectively doesn't? Right?

Does this still apply when those jobs gained someplace else are also filled by machines?

Does your strawman apply? I don't think so. At the moment there's no evidence that AI is taking any jobs in any meaningful way, beyond a few select industries, and even in those industries the jobs often remain for those who know how to use the AI tools.

The context of the commencement speech is the future rather than the present. If in the future AI takes jobs why would the taking of jobs not also include taking of gained jobs?

Comment Glad someone else is saying that (Score 2) 13

I have been saying it to anyone who will listen: Mythos won't end cybersecurity. It's not a tool too powerful to get into anyone's hands. it's an incremental upgrade to existing models. I am sure it's nice...it just won't change the world or set it on fire. I also have an insider connection that confirmed...it's no revolution, just a marketing stunt. I thought Anthropic was above the Sam-Altman-grade bullshit, but I was wrong. It's inspired many emotions, but that was based on our imagination, not reality.

Comment Re: Market forces at work (Score 1) 179

"The only silver lining of Trump's demented Iran war is diesel hitting $6 per gallon and the sound of all those F150 tears."

150s don't run on diesel. Only Dodge has a half ton diesel pickup because only they have a mid sized diesel engine. Ford uses turbo gas motors for that market. Those are F250 and larger tears.

Comment Re: These are just US sales (Score 1) 179

Most people don't know the difference between a SUV and a CUV, which is because the manufacturers deliberately created confusion on that point in order to sell vehicles consumers were rejecting. Most people don't know the difference between full frame and unibody either, they only know whether the vehicle crashes over bumps or not. It's irrelevant because it's irrelevant to the majority of buyers, who don't know shit about shit

Comment Re: All according to plan. (Score 1) 179

"the Lightning was always a glorified grocery getter for people who didn't use a pickup for a work-use. It was suburban vehicle for those that didn't want to have an SUV. It was an upscale minivan that you could put plywood and crap in the back - if you didn't care about messing up your $70,000 truck. It was a great vehicle - but it wasn't a "Truck"."

Trucks are heavy vehicles. They're defined in the code as such. The lightning is a pickup. Like the lightning it was named after, it's not a great one in terms of maximum pickup ability. It's a lot more useful than the last one, though.

Comment Re:You're Gonna Go Far, Kid (Score 1) 89

How do you even know what they bothered to learn?

People don't typically boo tools they know how to use effectively.

Does this still apply when those jobs gained someplace else are also filled by machines?

Does your strawman apply? I don't think so. At the moment there's no evidence that AI is taking any jobs in any meaningful way, beyond a few select industries, and even in those industries the jobs often remain for those who know how to use the AI tools.

Now to be fair to you Arts Humanities and Communication is a field which will include some of those people. All the more reason for them to embrace and get a deep meaningful understanding of AI if they want to remain employable in the future.

Comment Re:You're Gonna Go Far, Kid (Score 1) 89

The economy will eventually be better doesn't console someone who right now is facing enormous college debt, a poor job market for what they trained for, high income inequality, and inflated of costs of living.

None of that has to do with AI, so there's no reason to boo AI unless those people are themselves unable to understand the world around them (at which point they'll probably struggle finding jobs regardless of what the economy is doing). No one right now is unemployable due to AI. The only thing is people may be making themselves unemployable by openly ignoring the tools that may affect their trade. The electric screwdriver didn't make builders unemployed either, only those who said "I don't need no fancy electrical dobawhackey, my hammer was good enough for my granddaddy and gosh darn it's good enough for me"

Also "learn AI tools" sure feels like the last decade's "learn to code and you'll be employable" mantra.

Not even remotely. We were teaching people learn to code a good decade after coding was a highly desirable skill. Add to that 5 years of a degree and then you may end up unemployable at the end of it if coding is all you can do.

But right now it's very much the opposite. AI is in its infancy. Skills around it are highly sought after. In 10 years when every idiot knows it and the market is saturated with idiots then I will very much agree with you.

Comment Re:Not that useful (Score 1) 19

That still brings the question which problem is RCS trying to solve?

Everything not described in my edge case. Just because someone knows that you texted your friend at 2pm today doesn't mean you want them to know that you were arranging a gay romp in the forest

And why do we want carriers to have control on text messages sent between two people?

The key there is in the 6th word of the sentence. You know what the carrier is right? It's someone who shuffles something from A to B. You don't want it, but you may need it if you haven't setup an alternate form of communication.

SMS/MMS and RCS all suck.

Yes the only thing worse is not being able to talk at all. iMessage is great, doesn't work when you're talking to me. WhatsApp is great, doesn't work when you're talking to me. Signal is great if you know how to connect with me. My phone number on the other hand is on my business card. By all means make your first RCS message "Hey do you use signal?" You'll get a favourable response from me. But just because these systems suck doesn't mean they don't serve a vital purpose, and doesn't mean they can't be made better than they currently are.

Good messaging solutions work on any internet-connected devices

Good messaging systems work. Period. SMS/MMS and RCS often work when your internet doesn't, even on insanely congested networks.

Just avoid cell phone-only solutions.

Sure. I'm all with you on avoid. That doesn't in any way mean we don't continue to develop them and have them in place so we can use them when needed.

My friend I would love nothing more than to sit with you in a bar and discuss this in detail over a beer, but Slashdot will have to do for now as well.

Comment Re:You're Gonna Go Far, Kid (Score 1) 89

The only people unemployable are those who are booing the thing they never bothered to learn.

How do you even know what they bothered to learn?

Every technological change in history has caused job losses someplace and job gains somewhere else.

Does this still apply when those jobs gained someplace else are also filled by machines?

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