Neddy Seagoon posted:

Oh that's also just a thin facade for the real use case; Micro-managing remote workers. No, really. The whole use case for VR headsets in the "office" is so Managers can cope with stupid peons enjoying a work/life balance by working from home now by getting remote workers back under their manager's thumb where they can be seen and "expected" to be working constantly, with their manager able to virtually look over their shoulder constantly like at the office. Or at their open windows remotely at any time. Sitting in a VR meeting with everyone just lets you watch them all at the same time and feel like you're managing them.

On a $1,500USD headset per person. In a coming recession. On a device that no sane company would permit to hold secure data, or be let inside a development lap because of the way its tracking system models the observed playspace with its cameras.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cg7tFZy_QA

I heartily invite you to watch the Meta Connect 2022 event, because holy poo poo is it sad and yet immensely entertaining for how bad it is. There's a lot of Kickstarter pitch energy (from the kind you can tell is probably gonna not make goal), and the best highlight is the way the lie to the audience in various ways. The legs showcase is staged animation, and the whole "Woah, did you know legs add to IMMERSION?? What a new concept, I Mark Zuckerberg, am pioneering a solution for!" comes about 40 minutes after name-dropping VRChat.

Also while there's some legitimately interesting new tech at the end, you can clearly see Mark co-opting someone else's work as his own.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

what if, instead of GeoHotz' stupid idea for a google killer, someone produced a search engine better than that

phew, had the idea, that's like 95% of the work, someone please do the rest and e-mail me your work and i'll see if i can slot you in an internship somewhere

repiv posted:

it feels like search engines in general are doomed now that these giant AI language models are proliferating and can churn out mountains of plausible sounding SEO garbage with minimal effort

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

Elon musk the type of guy who bought those green markers that “make CDs sound better”

Lammasu posted:

Like what kind of Kickstarter? The bipolar hubris video game one? Or like a schizophrenic "going to replace binary with base 4 computing" one?

goatface posted:

That means Sony did a good job. Hire the guy who designed that security.

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So how did Fail0verflow get the keys so quickly? Well, in creating the encrypted files, an important element of the mathematical formula is the use of a random number. The PS3 encryption scheme uses just a single random number that never varies between each signed file, while the proper way of carrying out the signing process is to use a different random number every time a file is signed. Armed with just two signatures, it is possible to mathematically reconstruct the encryption key thanks to this constant variable. In theory, it's as simple as that. In practice, some simple equation work is required.

There are many different keys used by Sony – keys for game code, firmware components, and the isolated SPU decryption system, for example. All of them have been encrypted with the same random number faux pas, meaning that all of them can be reversed. In a stroke, hackers now have the exact same privilege level for running code as Sony itself, and this encompasses all file-types the console uses.

The Awesomesaurus posted:

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1599970004593946625

Having a good one.

Also his profile picture really pisses me off and I don’t know why.

Edmund Sparkler posted:

bird with big dick posted:

Those really work

Data Graham posted:

Yes I too want all my web searches to be published openly as tweets so they are forever in my history and people can reply to them.

The Awesomesaurus posted:

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1599977399403569152

Hahahaha yeah sure man. Boy Wonder at it again

A farting mink posted:

Someone should probably tell George there that the idea of getting ratified, as in putting a rat next to your name was invented by a Trans-Woman.
She's very funny and paints great warhams figures but I doubt he'd like her much.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

OK, some thoughts.

This is what we'd call an "interesting problem", and as everyone who's done research or computer science knows, that's a synonym for a "pretty difficult thing". You're kind of at the intersection of several different things. Obviously first of all you'll need a good search engine to be able to find data in the first place, and that's famously not super easy. Then, you'll need to do a bunch of natural language processing, because you're not just returning hits that seem to be related to the topic at hand, you need to process the data to form some kind of consensus about the results, and turn it into what sounds like real replies.

Neither of these things are impossible. People have done them, and people are doing them. But your guy started this job by literally saying "hey can anyone do this thing for me? I'll try to get you hired as an intern if you can" and then "hey can anyone give me any research related to this topic" which are both big red flags. They kinda imply that he doesn't have a lot of domain knowledge, nor has he done any research by himself because he's asking people for relevant papers. So you're kinda starting at a pretty big disadvantage here.

But then we get to the truly nutty part: he wants to beat Google. This whole thing started with a "what would it take to get you to use Twitter's search instead of Google's", and Google are kind of the kings of this kind of stuff. They literally built their company on this poo poo. Hell, they already offer a very similar product: if you ask Google's Voice Assistant a question, it tries to answer in a natural way. If you ask "hey Google, what is Little Big Horn famous for", it will say something like "Little Big Horn was the location of a large battle during the Great Sioux War and is known for Custer's Last Stand".

So in essence we have a guy going "hey I'm a 95 pound nerd and I wanna beat 1986 era Mike Tyson at boxing... does anyone have a link to a research paper that explains what boxing is?"

It's extremely dumb.

E: and also lol at the whole "hey if anyone can do this thing I'll try to get you an internship". As with most "pretty difficult things" in computer science, if you're a person who can do the thing well, you probably already have a high paying job somewhere and might not be champing at the bit to jump on Captain Apartheid's Wild Ride.

Tiny Timbs posted:

yeah you have to scroll past an entire page of sponsored listings to get to the actual search results sometimes

maybe time for me to switch to something else? what do people even use? when I tried Bing for a few months I ended up just re-searching everything in Google anyway

Plant MONSTER. posted:

I'm curious about the green markers that make music better

Olewithmilk posted:

I don't know if ChatGPT is conisered poor form, but I'm a bit obsessed with it. I asked it:

Accubitus posted:

This is all correct, but I don't understand what GeoHotz is even saying with this idea. What does posting a tweet have to do with search? Please someone explain the UX flow here because I'm not getting it.
Like you post a tweet that's a question, and then you search that question, and it gives you the replies to the tweet? Why is posting the question necessary for searching the question?

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Uhh yeah. About that good job.

When this news broke ~7 years ago the common reaction was "no that's too stupid, you've got to be explaining it wrong", and yet here we are. Some genius decided to use one static "random number" to encrypt literally all of the PS3's signed files.

IBroughttheFunk posted:

Also, looks like that visit Musk made to Apple HQ recently didn't smooth things over:

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1600685117579571201

IBroughttheFunk posted:

Also, looks like that visit Musk made to Apple HQ recently didn't smooth things over:

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1600685117579571201

IBroughttheFunk posted:

Also, looks like that visit Musk made to Apple HQ recently didn't smooth things over:

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1600685117579571201

Accubitus posted:

Like you post a tweet that's a question, and then you search that question, and it gives you the replies to the tweet? Why is posting the question necessary for searching the question?

quote:

Tidal: The music streaming app charges $9.99 for a monthly subscription to its premium tier on the Tidal website, but $12.99 if you purchase it through Tidal’s iPhone app. While not a huge difference, why pay $36 more each year?

quote:

YouTube Music (owned by Google): A monthly subscription costs $9.99 if purchased via the YouTube website, but $12.99 if want to purchase via the YouTube Music iOS app.

IBroughttheFunk posted:

Also, looks like that visit Musk made to Apple HQ recently didn't smooth things over:

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1600685117579571201

The Butcher posted:

"The concrete walls and security room have been completed sir. Strip searches of all employees permitted off site can now commence to ensure they are not stealing any precious code."

"Good. You've earned yourself an hours rest in one of our premium office sleeping cells. The doors lock from the outside, so tweet me when you need to get out."

"Thank you sir. If I might ask, could I have some food?"

"You people eat?"

Data Graham posted:

My favorite thing about that Hotz guy is thinking search can be improved by Javascript

like, there is front-end and back-end. Javascript is front-end. All the search machinery and intelligence and data is in the back-end. Front-end is just the user interface.

"Improving search" by tweaking Javascript is about equivalent to making your car go faster by painting stripes on it

Someone who knows a little bit about web development would understand that what he was proposing was nonsense that would make him look like an absolute fool if he tweeted about it publicly. For that to seem like a good idea he would have to know literally nothing about the domain

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Yeah it's completely baffling. I initially thought it was gonna be like "we built a search engine into tweets", like you write a tweet saying

"Hey guys what's the best Indian place in Toronto?"

and then his brilliant search engine searches for the best Indian food in Toronto and writes the responses below as tweets like people were commenting and giving suggestions. I have no idea how the gently caress any of that makes any sense or why anyone would want to use that, but it still makes even more sense than the alternative which is "we made a search engine, but instead of just giving you the results, we're gonna format and rewrite them to look like tweets".