runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
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runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Firmware update bricks HP printers, makes them unable to use HP cartridges
Seems like the next logical step, really.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
Arguably, allowing anyone to create very believable lies is a world-changing superpower.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
My understanding (as a very amateur astrononer) is that it's an entirely different sort of scope - very wide field, with the ability to track extermely faint objects, rather than magnification of a much smaller field. I.e. we'd need to build and launch another immense scope to get the same sky-mapping ability.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: How bad are satellite megaconstellations for astronomy?
It's not just "any individual with a telescope" though. It's stuff like the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a set to map the southern sky down to below 27th magnitude that's in trouble.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Google Is Staring Down Its First Serious Threats in Years
Except... I find I get more useful results from bing, ddg, kagi than I do from Google. (Not great results, but reliably less contaminated with pure junk.) Obviously, my personal search habits aren't going to match those of everyone else, but a year ago this was not the case.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Winner of $1.3B Powerball jackpot is a immigrant from Laos who has cancer
That we're so lacking in real hope and dreams, so people buy them a few dollars at a time from gas stations.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
>Whether or not copyright has "worn out its welcome", it continues to be a legal reality in the US.
Unless you're a billion-dollar corporation who needs to feed your LLM.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Myths about the Anthropocene
We already had 'minor planets' (asteroids). Planets are a continuum, from small rocky or icy ones the size of large moons, to "terrestrial" ones, to ice giants and gas giants.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019)
There is (or was several years ago), one on display at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Nebraska. You could walk right up to it. (As is the case with most of their aircraft.) Gloriously strange little aircraft.
runeofdoom | 1 year ago | on: This is a teenager
You're joking right?
Look at the "morality" of America's wealthiest and most influental citizens, and how rarely they are ever held accountable for anything.
Our nation has been rotting from its head for decades, and telling the plebes to be better citizens is pissing into a firestorm and thinking you'll accomplish something.
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: Boeing whistleblower before death: "If anything happens, it's not suicide"
To the best of my knowledge, his civil case revolves around his claim that Boeing retaliated against him for his whistleblowing. "Company that cut corners on safety found to have retaliated against whistleblower" certainly seems like it would have a pretty significant impact on PR and stock price.
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death
Karen Silkwood
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: Quiet-STaR: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Think Before Speaking
And how often will those "plausible looking commands" create obvious or subtle problems that cost far more than 30 minutes?
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out
>it's not as if they have done nothing that benefits society, that we all use daily, forgetting how much of it would not be possible without the contributions and innovation from these companies.
Perhaps I'm parsing this wrong, but it sounds a lot like "past successes are a license for future abuses." Which is not something I think we should, or can, allow.
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: SpaceX discloses cause of Starship anomalies as it clears an FAA hurdle
One in over a decade, for $23 billion.
(And it's arguablely a failure, as the Senate is still earthbound, and likely to remain so for the forseeable future.;))
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
But... without Apple's car, my only choices for vehicles will be tanks, batmobiles, and Microsoft's Rube-Golberged mopeds.
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: Dracula's Biggest Mistake
The author thinks that Helsing & company killed Dracula... and that is certainly the narrator's desperate belief. But as Fred Saberhagen pointed out in his more modern telling of the tale, Van Helsing himself maintains Dracula must be staked, decapitated and have his mouth stuffed with garlic to perish. And yet, despite this and despite knowing that Dracula can turn himself to mist, the heroes are content with victory when, in the shadows of sunset, they stab and cut Dracula with steel knives and he turns to "dust".
Fun article though, even with that small "mistake". :)
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: ChatGPT went berserk
That last part sounds like the Orz from Star Control II. Almost sensical, in a vaguely creepy way. Like an uncanny valley for langauge.
runeofdoom | 2 years ago | on: I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
I'm having trouble seeing AI as anything more than the next bitcoin - frightening because of the people who are adamant it will do things it really can't. In particular, the hallucination glitch seems impossisble to resolve, and no one appears to care. It's like the Emperor's New Clothes.
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If the manufacturer doesn't support the software anymore (or better yet, is out of business) the odds of malicious updates go way down.