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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
The Deliverator’s car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt.

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redleader
Aug 18, 2005

Engage according to operational parameters

Mola Yam posted:

can't wait to see what the gulf war syndrome equivalent is with those things in a few years

it'll be more like havana syndrome

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


tfw you think youre going to do some imperialism but all you do is sit in base playing call of duty while huffing smoke from burning poo poo and trash oohrah :patriot:

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




just get a net on a pole to stop the drones

skooma512
Feb 8, 2012

You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.
https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-jus...on-ad-blockers/

Google now spiking CPU usage to punish you for avoiding it's ads for scam products and fascism.


Tulip posted:

It's always so messed up how if you commit a small crime you get the oubliette but if you commit a sufficiently grotesque and heinous crime you just kinda get away with it.

You simply do it under the auspices of a corporation. It's not supposed to work that way, but you still benefit greatly from it because doing crimes for profit is acceptable and you benefit from them funding your defense and being close to legal escape velocity thanks all the money.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



skooma512 posted:

https://www.pcgamer.com/its-not-jus...on-ad-blockers/

Google now spiking CPU usage to punish you for avoiding it's ads for scam products and fascism.

Go ahead and spike my cpu I will just buy a new one or wait through the lag. I will never look at another ad for the rest of my life, do you hear me google, never!

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Koishi Komeiji posted:

I will never look at another ad for the rest of my life, do you hear me google, never!

:same:

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


to be fairrrr this instance of adblock fuckery may have been an issue with idiots still using adblock with chrome instead of using ublock with a browser not made by an advertising conglomerate

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/youtube-appears-to-be-reducing-video-and-site-performance-for-ad-block-users/

quote:

But the slowdowns may be a big accident from ad blockers altering YouTube's code: Adblock Plus has published a bug report covering "performance issues" introduced by version 3.22 and says things should be fixed in version 3.22.1. uBlock Origin developer Raymond Hill says the issue is limited to AdBlock Plus and its spinoffs and that blaming YouTube is "an incorrect diagnosis."

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

yeah, ad blockers sometimes have collateral damage, like when they broke FB messenger on the web because the hash-based filename for a critical module ended in “-ad2.js” and got blocked by naive matching

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)
Noooooo Google plz don't clog my pi hole

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Accounting software has bugs, company knows it has bugs, company helps get you sent to prison and pay restitution for money they falsely accuse you of stealing, no one know what happens to the money once the company admits it was wrong. Unrelated, the executives at the post office get massive bonuses for having extra cash on hand!


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fujitsu-apologizes-for-software-bugs-that-fueled-wrongful-convictions-in-uk/

quote:

"Fujitsu would like to apologize for our part in this appalling miscarriage of justice," Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu's European division, said in a hearing held by the UK Parliament's Business and Trade Committee. "We were involved from the very start. We did have bugs and errors in the system and we did help the Post Office in their prosecutions of the sub-postmasters. For that we are truly sorry."

A BBC report explains that between 1999 and 2015, "more than 900 sub-postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted for theft and false accounting after money appeared to be missing from their branches, but the prosecutions were based on evidence from faulty Horizon software. Some sub-postmasters wrongfully went to prison, many were financially ruined. Some have since died."

So far, "only 93 convictions have been overturned and thousands of people are still waiting for compensation settlements," the BBC wrote. The wrongful prosecutions have been linked to several suicides.

"Asked why Fujitsu didn't do anything about glitches in the Horizon system when the company knew about them at an early stage, Mr. Patterson said: 'I don't know. I really don't know,'" according to the BBC.

The Parliament hearing also featured testimony from Post Office Chief Executive Nick Read, who was hired in 2019. According to Sky News, Read "said the company has still 'not got to the bottom of' what happened to the cash paid by sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses in a bid to cover the false financial black holes created by the faulty Horizon software."

"However, he admitted it is a possibility the money taken from branch managers could have been part of 'hefty numeration packages for executives,'" the report said.

"It's possible, absolutely it's possible," Read told the committee.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



They said they were sorry, they don't know why software was sent out with know glitches and the missing money was probably part of that executive bonus. Sounds like they got everything wrapped up here.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Trabisnikof posted:

Accounting software has bugs, company knows it has bugs, company helps get you sent to prison and pay restitution for money they falsely accuse you of stealing, no one know what happens to the money once the company admits it was wrong. Unrelated, the executives at the post office get massive bonuses for having extra cash on hand!


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fujitsu-apologizes-for-software-bugs-that-fueled-wrongful-convictions-in-uk/

Lol at the state of britaine

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?
Throw everyone at Fujitsu who knew about it and did nothing in jail for the combined terms of the falsely accused, simple as

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
I don't understand how there isn't an army of British postal workers just running roughshod over the countryside at this point.

Koishi Komeiji
Mar 30, 2003



https://twitter.com/Kotaku/status/1746897417054953481

The Gamestop NFT marketplace is closing as of Febuaruy 2nd 2024

Your Burger Boyos, Cool Shapes, Titty Knights and Wacky Words are not safe and will become the property of Gamestop inc. unless they are moved to a different crypto wallet outside of the Gamestop family of nft marketplaces (this includes the Gamebrochain). It's not clear why Gamestop is doing this but it's probably due to the marketplace being too popular and successful.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

all those titty knights will be lost in the blockchain like poorly modeled armor

time to jerk

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

mycomancy posted:

Any amateur radio nerd could build one out of scrap I bet

yep. the chevron lookin thing is a housing around a log periodic antenna that you can build from copper wire or measuring tape, add a 10-50 watt microwave amplifier for $72 from aliexpress and back it up with a low power oscillator. the idea isnt to Zap it, just to drown it with enough rf that the wifi or w/e connection drops cause the receiver on the drone is deafened

silentsnack
Mar 19, 2009

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.

Jonny 290 posted:

yep. the chevron lookin thing is a housing around a log periodic antenna that you can build from copper wire or measuring tape, add a 10-50 watt microwave amplifier for $72 from aliexpress and back it up with a low power oscillator. the idea isnt to Zap it, just to drown it with enough rf that the wifi or w/e connection drops cause the receiver on the drone is deafened

yeah, it's easy to construct such a device. the tricky part is when the feds show up demanding your FCC license number and claim you oops'd an airplane.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

making a big ol spark gap generator and blasting that all over

1glitch0
Sep 4, 2018

I DON'T GIVE A CRAP WHAT SHE BELIEVES THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS CHANGED MY LIFE #HUFFLEPUFF

goatsestretchgoals posted:

all those titty knights will be lost in the blockchain like poorly modeled armor

time to jerk

lol

redleader
Aug 18, 2005

Engage according to operational parameters

mycomancy posted:

Any amateur radio nerd could build one out of scrap I bet

apparently you can just take the magnetron out of a microwave and mount it on a stick

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016

redleader posted:

apparently you can just take the magnetron out of a microwave and mount it on a stick

I mean probably, sure, but I'd like to refine the signal a bit and, ya know, have some sort of shielding for the operator. Don't want to get radiohead from my homemade antidrone stick

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

silentsnack posted:

yeah, it's easy to construct such a device. the tricky part is when the feds show up demanding your FCC license number and claim you oops'd an airplane.

They have to catch you first

pygmy tyrant
Nov 25, 2005

*not a small business owner

for the electrically inept you can just buy them on alibaba from the same place you can buy loitering munitions surveying mapping inspection drones

https://x.com/MerruX/status/1747296854524539352?s=20

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness
I'm sorry what, "numeration packages"

did they mean remuneration packages? that's not even close to the same word!

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I'm sorry what, "numeration packages"

did they mean remuneration packages? that's not even close to the same word!

people apparently use numeration package to mean salary + hard benefits + maybe bonuses

it is certainly not something ive heard in american english before

JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


What exactly is ai, as the term is used in marketing today

algorithms that use large data sets to generate output? it was first text based, then graphics computing power allowed it to be visual?

i'm not good with computer

Pooky
Aug 29, 2004

I post fox news so u don't have to 💋

Trabisnikof posted:

Accounting software has bugs, company knows it has bugs, company helps get you sent to prison and pay restitution for money they falsely accuse you of stealing, no one know what happens to the money once the company admits it was wrong. Unrelated, the executives at the post office get massive bonuses for having extra cash on hand!


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/fujitsu-apologizes-for-software-bugs-that-fueled-wrongful-convictions-in-uk/

lmao that they thought "Yeah, 100+ people are embezzling at the same time" and believed that was a reasonable possibility.

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

What exactly is ai, as the term is used in marketing today

algorithms that use large data sets to generate output? it was first text based, then graphics computing power allowed it to be visual?

i'm not good with computer

it means it has
code:
import tensorflow
somewhere in the code

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

What exactly is ai, as the term is used in marketing today
computer

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

What exactly is ai

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

What exactly is ai, as the term is used in marketing today

algorithms that use large data sets to generate output? it was first text based, then graphics computing power allowed it to be visual?

i'm not good with computer

it's basically meaningless now, in the same way that ~blockchain~ and ~nft~ went from being a whitepaper published by a computer nerd as a cool what-if idea to a massive craze that disappeared up it's own rear end because it turns out cool what-ifs don't create infinite money forever.

as a good at computerer, if anyone tries to sell you on AI they're either getting scammed or trying to scam you and in either case ignore them.

tokin opposition
Apr 8, 2021

I don't jailbreak the androids, I set them free.

WATCH MARS EXPRESS (2023)

lol fuzzy logic, a byproduct of an AI spring long past

Nichael
Mar 30, 2011


Someone recently said the local Innocence Project should use AI to help with the application process for people who are currently incarcerated. What does that even loving mean? How are prisoners--who are lucky if they get books--supposed to get some poo poo AI system to fill out the application????? How would it help? What are you talking about?

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock

tokin opposition posted:

lol fuzzy logic, a byproduct of an AI spring long past

fuzzy logic is back! but now we call it temperature

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005


from yesterday:



quote:

AlphaGeometry is a so-called neuro-symbolic system that deploys a combination of language learning and deductive reasoning. The company compares the hybrid method to “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, the phrase coined by psychologist Daniel Kahneman to describe the power of harnessing fast pattern recognition to more deliberative logical thinking.
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“The steeper challenge remains,” he said. “That is, to find out if an AI can discover new mathematics to solve a question that has never yet been answered.”

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

What exactly is ai, as the term is used in marketing today

algorithms that use large data sets to generate output? it was first text based, then graphics computing power allowed it to be visual?

i'm not good with computer

Dr. Sbaitso but for making pornography.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Pooky posted:

lmao that they thought "Yeah, 100+ people are embezzling at the same time" and believed that was a reasonable possibility.

Almost a thousand people actually

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TACD
Oct 27, 2000

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

What exactly is ai, as the term is used in marketing today
Predictive Text Pro

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