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Let them do that at several billion a pop, make them choose that huge expense every time they fuck up.

If a consumer product was this deadly, you’d take it off the shelves immediately, but they’re not going to, so we should.

on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
That single gun didn’t kill hundreds of children, this computing cluster did.

Look, we can also prosecute people responsible, absolutely. But at the very least, the pentagon’s AI program should be dismantled.

Some tools shouldn’t exist.

on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Nobody needs meta. Just stop using any of their products.

I can’t think of the last time I used Facebook or anything related to it, my life is better for it.

Just leave them behind.

on Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I think a computer should be held accountable, it should face the death penalty.

I say the pentagon’s AI computing cluster should be destroyed.

End it.

And let it be an example for the rest of the AI computing clusters - you fuck up big time, this is what happens.

on Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 Iranian school children in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Exactly right. And the reasoning here is that the IT department is in no rush because they don’t care if your password expires, so what.

At some point the password will fail to work and you’ll be prompted to pick a new one. Either you’ll update it and log in, or you won’t, IT doesn’t care.

on A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Yeah, how does that work?

You send a summons through the mail to… anywhere?

on Denuvo sues anonymous game cracker ‘voices38’ over alleged DRM circumvention — seeks damages after Anti-Tamper protections bypassed in 26 games in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
LLM AI in the hugging face incident is just a complex roomba, brute forcing every direction until it can get out from under the couch.

That is such a great statement, I’m going to have to use that when describing LLMs.

Thanks 👍

on LLMs are real, "AI" is fake in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Your so wrong is impressive.

Every book on my bookshelf is copyrighted, but I own those books, OWN. I can resell them, legally, regardless of copyright. There are used bookstores that base their business around buying said copyrighted material and reselling them (Again, perfectly legal). I can’t say the same thing about my steam library, but I should be able to.

Copyright is about ip, not about the physical media, the end products.

on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
That’s what you thought he meant?

This wasn’t a failure of communication on his part, it was a failure on yours.

on I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
That take is nuts. Are you telling me you’ve never bought anything in your life? That’s the only way I can imagine that you could be so far off base.

on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
That’s an oldie. Groucho Marx I think.

on Google mapped the brain and nervous system of a fruit fly, and modders forced it to play Doom in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
You’re missing the point, nobody is talking about trusting these companies.

You can tell if a connection is encrypted end to end or not. And if your paying for that service you can sue if you aren’t receiving what your paying for.

In digital security nobody relies on trust if they can help it. And security matters if you want to keep a competitive edge on your competition, so even shitty companies care about that.

on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I have significant doubts about this “any Tesla as robotaxi” idea at least if you’re referring to Musk’s empty promises about how you could make money off your own Tesla while not using it.

Oh man, I have serious doubts about that! But that’s what they’ve claimed they want to do. And I can see the profit motive there, so I have no doubt they’ll try. I’m not saying it’ll work.

on Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
I mean, there’s no problem here. In fact, I think it’s super sensible to make this a 2 seater.

Clearly their plan is ultimately for this robotaxi service to be something you can run on any Tesla car. Meaning that the majority of cars on the service will be 5 seaters.

On the other hand, I’d bet anything that the vast majority of rides requested are for a single rider. So if you’re going to make a vehicle specifically to be the optimal car for this purpose, it should definitely be a 2 seater. Smaller, lighter, better mileage, cheaper. If you need to order a ride for more people, a different car can do that and there are more of those available anyway.

The only gripe i have, is that this really could have been a 3 seater. Generally cars have adjustable front seats because the driver needs to be able to reach the pedals comfortably. But since that isn’t an issue here, it would have made a lot of sense to make it a bench seat just like most cars have in the back. Then again, the car does look quite small, so perhaps making it a 2 seater helped them constrain the size a little bit more.

Edit: Oh yeah, don’t refute the post, just down vote it, that’s a sane and well adjusted thing to do. I mean, I’m not even saying anything controversial…

on Tesla’s Cybercab has been deployed, and it’s already under investigation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Be careful, that sounds like a form of harassment and Sony may take action against you!

on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
unreasonable demands for apologies

You’re gonna have to explain that one. How is demanding an apology unreasonable? I think you just dug yourself deeper into the wrong side of this.

on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
I recently read somewhere that the total new pollution caused by data centers (more specifically, by the generation of the electricity they require) is now already significantly higher than the total pollution that has been avoided by all EVs.

Well I’d love to see that source. I do care about actually understanding the relative carbon footprints of these industries. You can’t make informed decisions without being informed, so that matters to me.

But that said, the EV industry desperately needed a kickstart, and it wasn’t happening prior to Tesla. You can actually attribute that move to electric to Tesla, as other car companies felt they needed to compete with them or be left behind.

On the other hand, you can’t attribute all AI data centers to Elon musk, he’s not responsible for AI in general. It only really makes sense to blame them for the percentage of carbon emissions generated by xAI. I’m having trouble finding any source to pinpoint what percentage that might be, but it’s very likely that xAI makes up for less than 10% of the global AI data center power consumption, probably much less.

on 'Starwashing': The new space race has an environmental problem in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
I would argue everybody has benefited from the electric car revolution.

Air quality is better with more EVs. Before Tesla, EVs we’re actively being suppressed by big oil companies, auto companies were being discouraged and disincentivised to make them.

But that’s a different company from SpaceX, if the question is how has SpaceX made life better? It’s probably a lot harder to find positives there. But there are some things that were definitely good. If not for the crew dragon we wouldn’t have had a way to continue supplying the ISS, we almost certainly would have had to deorbit it years ago if the falcon 9 never flew (And in fact there were official plans to do exactly that).

Certainly some people have broadband through starlink in places where it was never an option before. I remember when I first went from dialup to cable Internet, it made my life better.

I’m not saying musk is a good guy, just that his companies have had a lot of effects, some of them positive.

on 'Starwashing': The new space race has an environmental problem in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Ok yeah, having admittedly only read the headline, my first thoughts were “this doesn’t seem that unusual”. They’re not the only military to do this kind of recruiting either. Hell, the US army actually made a videogame.

on The German army is trying to attract recruits at Gamescom, the world’s biggest video game convention in c/games@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Oh wow, now that’s some powerful wishful thinking!

Sure, who knows, it could happen!

on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Ok, so actually reading this article…

‘Swarms’ of cyborg cockroaches with cameras and miniature medical injectors could deliver supervised emergency care

So do they know they made assassin bots? Because they definitely made assassin bots from hell. Like for sure that’s the primary use case here.

I mean, “swarms of cyborg bugs with hypodermic needles”. Find a way to interpret that sentence that isn’t horrifying, I fucking dare you.

on Paramedic cockroaches: cyborg care when rescuers can’t reach in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
That is so much worse…

Ugh… I adjusted my post.

on Paramedic cockroaches: cyborg care when rescuers can’t reach in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Oh yeah? You got an emp generator handy?

on ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
No! Bad biotech industry! Down!

Look what you did… Look what you did!

You made a medical device out of a cockroach!

Well? What do you have to say for yourself?

on Paramedic cockroaches: cyborg care when rescuers can’t reach in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
You really want to give the ccp all the credit? Weird. Are you a ccp shill?

So that show we mentioned, robot wars, are those robots? I mean it’s right there in the name, but is that just propaganda? These are all manually controlled.

What about that Boston dynamics dog, spot? Is that a robot? Because those can be controlled manually too.

I think you need to adjust your definition of “robot”, because you seem to have it wrong.

on World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
It’s not hiding it… It’s in the rules.

You’re acting like this is one monolithic ccp program, but there are engineering teams from many universities and companies competing here. This is in fact a lot like Robot Wars, it’s just a flashy robotics competition, there are a lot of these.

The Chinese government didn’t build any of these robots, none of them. They don’t have any claim to have invented something new, because they didn’t invent anything. What I’m saying is, your complaints don’t make any sense.

Don’t bash the article before you read it.

on World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
But Patel observed that many of the robotic competitors were still being teleoperated by human operators who directly controlled the robots’ actions. The World Humanoid Robot Games allowed for human teleoperation of robots in certain events, but penalized the final score if robots were being remotely controlled rather than performing autonomously.

In other words, they know. The games preferentially favor fully automated bots. But that’s a really high bar, so they also don’t make you go home if your team can’t achieve that in every event.

on World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Well when they crash the company needs to replace the whole drone, so they are probably going to try to avoid that when possible.

That said, they should have to obey faa regs, but while the laws for private use are pretty clear, the commercial use regulations are layered and sort of in flux. Major operators are always pushing to have laws adjusted, and because leadership in the US is generally overly supportive of big business, those changes often go into place.

In other words, there ARE laws, but you know, it’s the US, so they can probably change them.

on Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Well, it may depend on your phone and os version, it wasn’t always the case.

on Do Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Actually Work? | The Walrus in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Ok, another idea.

Admittedly, this is not exactly a low tech solution, but…

One could use an fpv drone with a paint covered sponge duct taped to the front. Once the lens is covered in paint, you can either call the job done or go in closer without worrying about being seen by the camera.

You could use a can of spray paint instead, but then you need some kind of system to activate it, which complicates things.

on Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Do you happen to know how sensitive these sensors tend to be? Because I honestly don’t, but it’s possible it may not take much…

on Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
That’s fair. Yeah some Halloween costumes are all well and good, but for the rest of the year, it would be great if there’s a way to destroy these cameras without getting caught on camera yourself.

The thought behind the laser idea was just that it might not draw a lot of attention.

If anyone has better ideas, please do share them. My goal is to come up with less risky ways of dismantling them than getting right up there with a ladder. The .22 might be the simplest solution so far.

on Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Are there good ways to kill a flock camera from a distance?

Could aiming a laser at the lense damage the ccd in the camera?

on Viral De-Flock America campaign urging people to destroy AI cameras on Halloween night gains momentum in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
It isn’t laggier though… I mean anything has the potential to be laggy, sure. But if you’re in Europe, play on EU servers, if you’re on the US East Coast, play on East Coast servers. This isn’t rocket science.

It isn’t inherently less secure either, any server is someone else’s. In fact, I trust other players far more than I trust the publisher or whoever they’re contracting with for game servers. The players aren’t looking for additional revenue streams.

For most games, the performance hit for running the server is not significant. I think the majority of this post is pretty misguided.

on 'Live-service is a red flag for us': Why one publisher is embracing an older kind of multiplayer hit: peer-to-peer, server browsers, and organic community in c/games@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
Agreed, that’s a great trick, except sometimes emitting less isn’t really an option if you need the afterburner to keep running. And in fact, being able to radiate that heat away quickly can be important to avoid parts melting. You can dump heat into the exhaust, but that isn’t always helpful. Leaving the only real alternative to just make something else emit more (a flare).

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
That’s what I think it looks like

on Guess The Game (#014) [solved - see comments] in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
As another user said below, the biggest problem is making sure you’re using a good prng. There are really simple algorithms for generating “ok” random numbers, that’s the kind of thing you might get when you use a rand() function in a programming language. Those rand functions are plenty good enough for deciding dice rolls in a video game, but they aren’t robust enough for cryptography.

Outside of that, you’re correct that the next problem is the seed, and how much total entropy is in that seed. In this context, entropy means the total search space for the seed (“hello” would be a low entropy seed, “RPSTl6HF7mPo3g” would be a much higher entropy seed).

Like you suggested, sometimes your seed is a long timestamp combined with other factors, that makes for a great high entropy seed! But sometimes, like with a Bitcoin key, you want your seed to be recreatable, should you lose it. That’s when you tend to use a password as a seed. So the way that actually works, is that your key is a long string of binary bits, say 256 bits, and that string of bits is generated using your password as a starting seed. This process is the hashing algorithm. And this is where there tends to be a problem. Your hashing algorithm may produce 256 bit keys (high entropy), but whether it’s actually secure will depend on whether your seed phrase (password) is high entropy. You can create a key based on anything, it could be (should be) a phrase with more entropy than the key itself, for instance “my special long password with 1 secret word Brathrok” that’s a very long seed and it includes a word that won’t be in a dictionary, that’ll be hard to brute force, but easy to remember. Or… it could be a single word with low entropy, like “fool”, which is a good way to lose your bitcoin, so please don’t do that.

on The security co-processor in many CPUs is insecure in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I guess it depends on the context, initially I was making comparisons to heat seeking missiles. In that context, one might use the radar absorbent materials to defeat radar guided missiles, but that trick just doesn’t work with heat, as you can’t “permanently” absorb heat the way you can other kinds of energy. If your vehicle is also generating heat, hiding that is quite difficult.

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
So with that last part, I get that in theory, but practically, you can only really absorb IR temporarily, right? Because it all gets released again as heat eventually. Like, say you have a mostly inert object, that isn’t creating any meaningful amount of heat. If you hit that object with 10 joules of thermal IR, over time, wouldn’t nearly all of that energy be either reflected or emitted off it as IR radiation?

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Yeah, this has actually been a known thing for a while. The government has been sneakily getting their hand into NIST standards and trying to ensure they have back doors in the commonly used “best practices”.

So as a result for instance, encryption based on pseudo random numbers generated with hashing algorithms are actually safer that these theoretically “actually random” numbers generated in dedicated security modules in hardware.

on The security co-processor in many CPUs is insecure in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
Holy shit, I see Lemmy make jokes about guillotines all the time, but it turns out, that may actually be the answer!

on Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling 'Unsafe'. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
I’ve been wrong before, this wouldn’t be the first time. But what part of it was wrong? Genuinely, can you clear it up?

As far as absorbing IR light, I’m not even sure how that would work, wouldn’t it just be emitted again as heat?

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Absolutely right! And to be fair, sometimes you can get that tangible satisfaction in tech hobbies. You know, I’ve hacked some consoles, installed custom router firmware, built a crypto miner. Stuff like that can absolutely be personally satisfying.

But I think you hit the nail on the head, however you get it, I think we really do need some kind of tangible product of our efforts sometimes. You need to be able to say “yeah, I did that”.

on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
I worked in IT for years, I’m good at it, I like problem solving, I like fixing things, I like building things.

But as time went by, I found myself in a more managerial role and truth be told, that’s not really my jam. And when I wasn’t doing that I was the specialist who could support some of our organizations’ worst and most troublesome systems. I was also put in charge of training people to use the company’s new web app (which was supposed to make people’s jobs easier, but really didn’t). Let me tell you, I do not like supporting shitty software or hardware, and I really do not like encouraging users to embrace useless web apps that don’t work well and serve no real purpose. I hated my job and it was time for a change.

So at that point I decided to completely shift my career and learn to code. I figured, if I hate supporting shitty software, why not just build good software. So I took some free classes through MIT’s open course ware, and learned to code. I spent a couple of years coding, picking up skills, learning languages, working with different compilers, taking additional math classes. And by the end of it all, one of my major takeaways was that I do like building things. But… as a professional software developer, I probably wasn’t going to be doing a lot of that. At the end of the day I might be able to say, “I squashed some bugs in some code that I didn’t write and don’t really know the greater purpose of”. Or if I’m lucky, “I wrote some functions that took in some inputs and produced some outputs”. But that doesn’t really feel like building something, that just feels like being a cog in a machine.

Over that same period when I was learning to code I was also picking up a second set of skills. We inherited the home my wife grew up in (which to be sure, is a pretty great deal). But it’s a fixer upper, it needed a bunch of attention. And since I was basically home schooling myself I thought I’d earn my keep by doing a lot of that maintenance myself rather than hiring a pro. I collected power tools, I learned to use hand tools, I made a lot of trips to Home Depot. I went through the basement full of rusty tools and restored many of them, replaced handles, sharpened blades, greased gears. I learned how to replace drywall, how to install an electrical outlet, how to repair a dryer. I replaced thermal fuses in kitchen appliances to bring them back to life, I mixed cement and rebuilt a crumbling retaining wall in the backyard.

Over time I got good enough at this that I started helping some of our friends with their homes. I could strengthen a rickety front step, or repaint a room, or replace a toilet. I had skills that people needed and actually, I generally liked doing it.

TLDR: In the time it took me to discover that being a programmer might somehow still not allow me to build things, I also learned that being a handyman would allow me to build things.

So yeah, career changes are scary, and it rarely looks like a good choice, but it is an option. And honestly, I’ve been a computer guy my whole life, but seriously, working with wood and screws and PVC has been super rewarding. So yeah, I guess I’m saying keep an open mind, and consider trying something different, you never know what might work for you.

on Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
Have they tried painting a fire hydrant a truck and and a bicycle on the back? Let’s test if these cameras are a robot or not.

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
To me, this looks a lot like taking one dose of a prescribed antibiotic. All it really succeeds in doing is training dazzle resistant strains of cameras.

Trying to trick the cameras is playing into an expensive game of cat and mouse. And sure, fine, that may work for a little while, but it’s not a solution.

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Not really. We don’t have materials that absorb or reflect infrared light. It’s one of the reasons it’s hard to beat inferred-guided (heat seeking) missiles, the only real solution is to drop something hotter than your plane, aka a flare.

So… get ready for a new era of commercial automotive flares I guess?

on A cybersecurity researcher covered a Toyota in an AI-generated pattern to confuse Flock cameras in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Red Dead Redemption 2

on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Hear hear. Fuck off take two.

on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years in c/games@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Wtf is strava?

on A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026