linearchaos

linearchaos , 19 hours ago

I always figured it was because they have to pay the 27 reps that call and email me monthly begging to set up a meeting because I looked up their service once several years ago and asked for pricing.

There's so much more expensive than the alternatives I really had no choice.

Oh, you went with Splunk, I see. Well, can I get a meeting with you to explain why we're so much better and you would be much happier with us.

No, I'm not going to reinitiate this working completed project and pay three times more for my data munging.

linearchaos , 19 hours ago

They're pretty good, they're better, but they're not that much better than Splunk or Elasticsearch (especially the value with Elasticsearch community) I admit elasticsearch gets pricey if you go corporate.

But Splunk, they're like 80% of the product at 20% of the price

linearchaos , 2 days ago

Unfortunately this is one of those things that you can't significantly develop/test on closed private streets. They need the scale, and the public traffic, and the idiots in the drunkards and the kids speeding. The only thing that's going to stop them from working on autopilot will be that it's no longer financially reasonable to keep going. Even a couple handfuls of deaths aren't going to stop them.

linearchaos , 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Do you really think they didn't test that before they got to this point?

I'm willing to bet they had been through that intersection before hundreds of times and never seen this. It's not like it can't detect a stoplight and they're just out there randomly running through them all.

Of the millions of variables that were around them something blinded it to light this time. The footage from that run has probably been reviewed at nauseam at this point and is done more for them finding the problem than they could have done sitting in a closed warehouse making guesses when the car never fails to detect a red light.

edit: look keep smacking that downvote, but it's not going to change anything. I hate musk too, but we're going to make progress toward automated driving unless it becomes more dangerous than existing driver. In the next generation or so, most driving will become automated and all deaths by automobiles will drop significantly. Old and young people will get where they need to go. You cannot automate driving without driving in the real world. If you think they haven't been doing this in a simulation for a decade, you're on crack.

linearchaos , 2 days ago

Same happened with airplanes

linearchaos , 1 day ago

well if you're not going to discuss things in good faith, good bye

linearchaos , 1 day ago

I absolutely don't trust the CEO. I don't even need to trust the company, there are a dozen others trying to work out the same problem.

linearchaos , 1 day ago

100% accurate.

They want people to use it so they get data from it. Accidents and deaths will happen... honestly, they'll always happen... they happen now without it, it's just more acceptable because it's human error. Road safety is absolutely awful.

The reason they get away with it is Lobbying, Money and Political favors. They got where they are by greasing a whole shit ton of wheels with dumptrucks of money.

Shitty means, but pretty righteous ways.

linearchaos , 1 day ago

Man that's some interesting brigading we have going on here. You throw facts at them they just explode.

linearchaos , 1 day ago

The problem is all the s*** we really want to hear about all the companies are keeping close to their breast.

Then, when something actually novel and interesting comes out it ends up being polarizing. We can only consume so much Chat GPT Gemini Bard crap.

We should start a tech community on the federal verse about technologies people are passionate about. Get some people to talk about cool s*** they've done with Wyoming, Piper and whisper. Maybe have some people talk about their local mini installs of LLMS, for how they're getting the most out of stable diffusion. Maybe some people looking at Obsidian or Anytype, maybe some NixOS

There's lots of cool stuff out there to cover there's just not a lot of news about it these days. If it's not AI they're afraid people's eyes will just glaze over.

linearchaos , 21 hours ago

Voice dictation. I need the censorship on for some places, but the setting is buried enough that turning it on and off is arduous. Unfortunately that means that gracing the world with my profanity is only for a times where I can be at the keys.

linearchaos , 21 hours ago

Fair

linearchaos , 2 days ago

yeah, it looks like most of the other new agencies are attributing it correctly as the government. IMO it's the damn gag order that's most damning. You will spy on them for us and tell no-one.

linearchaos , 2 days ago

They need to be able to place a malicious file in EFI boot partition or in an unsigned section of a firmware update. Holes in the libraries that parse images for display on preboot.

linearchaos , 2 days ago

No way to know. It depends on how whoever did your firmware handled it. The idea is that there's an overflow or something in the image parser. If the person writing your firmware code still parses the image even if it's not displayed, you'd still get the pointy end. (and at that point, they're bypassing secure boot)

Don't sweat it too much, the file has to get there somehow before it can even be an issue. So someone needs to write to your UEFI partition or get you to flash a bad bios. It's just an inside vector not a direct attack. I'll be good for people to update their damn image processing, but the likely hood of getting shived in the wild is pretty low.

linearchaos , 2 days ago

Depends on the community /s

linearchaos , 2 days ago

It's because what they're doing can sometimes provide temporary relief and when it works, it works fast. An underlying cause has made some inflammation, they stretch things out, relieve some pressure in places that shouldn't have pressure. But they're not fixing anything, just letting your body get back up to barely functioning until the underlying cause rears it's head again. Messed up discs are their bread and butter, but they're just resetting the house of cards you call a back.

Actually fixing the problem is a big, expensive, scary, painful deal and (US) chiros let insurance companies off the hook for a long time.

linearchaos , 4 days ago

I believe it was about the time that musk threw a fit the news was still calling it Twitter and threatened to take action. I'm pretty sure they're calling it that now just to piss him off

linearchaos , 4 days ago

I think either a confirmation dialogue or at the very least a long tap would be a fantastic change to make. Most of the damn time if I’m changing a whole chapter it’s because I screwed up on a 30 second fast forward and got to do the wrong chapter anyway

linearchaos , 5 days ago

It’s not accurate but it’s not completely made up either.

There is a calculable power cost to each transaction. The work isn’t just happening on one computer and God knows how many ledgers are out there right? To be able to pay somebody some fractional amount of Bitcoin to buy a pizza, The cost to have generated the Bitcoin the cost to check the transaction the cost to update the transaction and all the different places. We don’t see the usage as a problem because it’s tons and tons and tons of people paying for it.

But their calculating the water usage as evaporation for the power plants and evaporation from hydroelectric. Like the freshwater isn’t returning to the system in large.

I wonder how much water was lost to make the pizza?

linearchaos , 6 days ago

My Roku is pie holed, I don’t Even get the main screen ads anymore.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

I wonder if the pi 5s are up to the task

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Oh I have my own content. I’ve also been doing this since we were recording off air broadcast TV breaking out commercials from a live stream is nothing but an inconvenience.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Coming back from VHS is a bit painful, I’ve done quite a lot of it at this point. (I think I’m up to a few hundred tapes)

I used to use TiVo to record broadcast and cable, export as MPEG, strip the commercials and then turn that into DivX. There are options out there to automatically strip commercials they’re ‘mostly’ good and work way better with digital sources.

The problem with VHS is another layer of substantial loss. If someone recorded it as SLP (and that’s pretty much what we all did back in the day) you’re going to spend a very long time with AI video denoising to get something even remotely watchable. Analog CRT hid so many video sins.

Topaz Labs video AI does a reasonably good job under certain circumstances. When you go to rip your content don’t just rip it all and then worry about it later. Rip a couple of things and then mess with them until you’re happy enough with the results to continue.

Generally speaking the stuff you start with needs to be kind of watchable If you expect it to turn out into something truly watchable. AI is good at cleaning up artifacts in a little snowy grain and straightening out fuzzy edges. But if your source material is coming out as utter disappointment it’s not going to fix it.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

I need something capable of decoding 4K hevc. I want to try to stay away from my server and needing to transcode army’s despecialized edition of starwars

linearchaos , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

It came free with one of the standardized block lists. Let me go see what my pi hole is blocking.

I can’t tell exactly what it’s nixing without rebooting it and there’s somebody watching it right now.

Here are the obvious candidates from the Stephen Black block list

P.ads.roku.com

Austin.logs.roku.com

Mobile.logs.roku.com

Scribe.logs.roku.com

logs.Roku.com

linearchaos , 6 days ago

If you can’t get it straightened out Hit me up again here and I’ll restart my Roku and see if I can figure out what else it’s hitting

linearchaos , 6 days ago

4K77 is kind of like a preservation project. They’re trying to make it look as close to as it did in the original theater. Harmy is more about trying to make modern high-res copy without all the “enhancements”.

They’re both fantastic and they both have their place in the world.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

The run on nature of that sentence is unfortunately the least of its transgressions.

That said, I don’t have space or power in the location where my TV is located for anything larger than a Nintendo switch dock. It needs to be silent, low profile, low power.

Roku gives me all that plus it’s 60 frames UHD and HDR. It’s about the size of a slice of bread and capable of decoding most of the things I throw at it, unfortunately It’s a bit picky about 4K streams.

My grown ass PC is in the basement in a rack, It has a 2070 in it but it’s old enough that it can’t quite keep up with 4K live encoding.

So now to be woke I need a real, silent PC to fit in a tiny space. Then I still have to deal with some kind of remote. Most of the options out there honestly don’t look great.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

I wonder how much recallable data is in the model vs the compressed size of the training data. Probably not even calculatable.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

It’s like the most amazing incredibly compressed non-reversible encryption ever created… Until they asked it to say poem a couple hundred thousand times

linearchaos , 7 days ago

“We sincerely thank you for your continued support.”

Not only are they not refunding, They seem to think you might purchase something else from them in the future.

linearchaos , 7 days ago

The list was wrong. Of all the highly compatible well tested well supported browsers out there Firefox is definitely at the top of the list for being honest and safe.

I use brave because I like its features, but The CEO is kind of an ass and they’re as likely to spy on you and sell your data as Google or Microsoft is.

linearchaos , 8 days ago

This place, it’s … beautiful. I’ve joined the communities with the topics i’m interested in and the posts I see are only (mostly) what I asked for.

The average person is reasonably educated, capable of arguing a point in good faith. It’s not you against the world or the world against you here, it’s more like, did you consider it from this point of view. That’s nice!

The trolls and corporations have gotten board and are going home. The people with 2 backup accounts have stopped using them because their primary choice stays up, online and stable.

We could use a little extra mod tools and discovery, but this is a nice laid back place to relax and catch up on some random subject matter or ask for a little help in between life and sleep.

linearchaos , 12 days ago

I honestly took a shot at that. I didn’t have everything but I had most of it. I also had every channel available on cable.

The streaming wars have honestly ruined it. If you’re just looking for something to watch you of course will be able to find something. But if you specifically want specific content you might as well flip a coin. Oh it’s on Netflix, no Netflix lost lost that license, Oh Max has that, Wait no Max went under, no wait they’re back but they don’t have it anymore. Oh that’s a Disney property Disney+ should have it, nope Disney pulled that offline for the time being.

Screw it I’ll make my own streaming service with hookers and blackjack.

linearchaos , 15 days ago

And then don’t ever, ever go public. Once you go public all the greedy people will insist that you install more greedy people.

linearchaos , 14 days ago

Good, healthy, properly running companies that don’t owe their existence to a lot of external forces don’t go public.

Going public only pays off the stakeholders in the company, like venture capitalists or employees that were under salaried and offered stock as a bonus.

linearchaos , 15 days ago

Pure propaganda. The only safety fears anyone in the industry is going to have is if a model is telling people to kill themselves or each other. But by saying that, The uneducated public is going to assume it’s skynet.

linearchaos , 14 days ago

Sensationalization infers that it happened and media turned it into misunderstood clickbait.

If the company designed the PR stunt and executed the PR stunt that would be propaganda.

linearchaos , 13 days ago

Not related what so ever to llm

linearchaos , 13 days ago

If you want to fan-boy the company, that’s your own choice.

The odds they constructed to 97th “ai safety story” for press vs the developers “being scared” of the llm are very very high.

No reasonable developer of the product has any worry for safety beyond hallucinations telling people to do immoral things. The only reason anyone says “safety” around llm is to generate an alarmist news story for press.

linearchaos , 15 days ago

I feel my next trunk or treat coming on

linearchaos , 15 days ago

Oh Jesus no. I have enough of those.

linearchaos , 18 days ago

Yeah that’s what my revanced looked like. Hard to tell…

linearchaos , 19 days ago

No, that’s absolutely incorrect. You want a new fake fingerprint every single time someone asks your browser for your information. You want it to lie about your plugins, user agent, your fonts and your screen size. Bonus if you use common values, but not necessary.

The randomized data they’re providing isn’t static and it isn’t the same from session to session.

100% White noise is a far better obfuscation than a 40% non-unique tracking ID. Yes, your data is lumped in with 47 million other users, but used in conjunction with static pieces of your data you become uncomfortably identifiable.

linearchaos , 19 days ago

Yes it is, and that’s why the EFF recommends it.

linearchaos , 19 days ago

Tech leaders investing heavily in AI say AI is the future.

Kind of looks like we’ve hit a wall though. As long as you’re capable of scrutinizing it, It’s pretty good for a search engine, not bad at rewording things, translating things, and is occasionally capable of producing images worthy of a creative spark.

But outside of copy editors and freelance logo designers, It’s not exactly making the waves everybody says it was going to.

linearchaos , 19 days ago

They’ve been doing this since August. I believe they are about to test in the US.