theneverfox

theneverfox , 9 months ago

I’m with you there, but that seems like a reason to fight

This would very likely be added to cloudflare by default (it would lower their costs), and that would put a solid chunk of the Internet behind the blackwall

theneverfox , 9 months ago

When I made my first app, KitKat had just come out, and Google was one of the better companies out there.

Man, things have gone a long way down some rough paths

theneverfox , 9 months ago

I mean, underpaid IT aside, do they need to be better than the students?

We like to organize school like there’s rules, you follow them, and if you do better it must be because you are better.

But thats not how the world works, and it’s not how technology works - it’s all about understanding the system and looking for loopholes

Is it better to enforce absolute control though? It teaches you nothing but how to be a good cog in the machine.

Teaching you that the rules aren’t absolute, but requires skill and legwork gives you a mindset to actually succeed in our warped little resource allocation game. Instead you should teach them to consider the effects - if they crash the network, make school suck for everyone for a few days.

But as to your original point, you still need an admin who can at least manage the network, and they should be given the funds to pay for that

theneverfox , 9 months ago

They want everything to run in TEE on the TPM, which has device specific keys signed by the manufacturer and can’t be accessed through normal means

Best case scenario is someone learns to spoof it, but that’s not easy. Possible, but unlikely to be packaged for personal use, since it’d be the kind of exploit you could sell to the right group for a 6 or 7 figure payout - and that’s doing it officially and above board. Plus, if you did share it, you’d want to keep your identity hidden, the manufacturer would probably try to silence you with legal action

Hopefully, the EU challenges them if they try to move forward, someone brought up a law on the books in Germany that makes it illegal to use an automated system to make the decision to deny someone access to a system

theneverfox , 9 months ago

Did… Did it work?

theneverfox , 10 months ago

Here’s the thing - being bigger makes this much harder

Software is about vision - we learn methodologies and make all sorts of tools to enable collaboration, but one skilled and driven dev is always going to outperform a large team

It’s a lot like painting murals. If you’re making something big, you might want some helpers, but the painter is the guy with the vision, working on all the fine details. A few skilled people who have worked together for a long time might be able to do it together and you can make a design around the idea of collaboration, but generally you’re going to get clashing styles

theneverfox , 10 months ago

Since it’s Facebook, probably by account

theneverfox , 10 months ago

You’re caught up in an idea that has been going around since long before any AI systems had been built

Humans rarely, if ever, produce something new. We stumble upon a concept or apply one idea to another thing

Neural networks are carefully distilled entropy. They have no subjective biases and no foundation - they’re so good at being original that they default to things useless to humans.

I like to think of training like a mold, or a filter. You only want things in the right shape to come through - the more you train, the more everything coming through looks the same.

theneverfox , 10 months ago

Why in the world would you need phone data for that???

Nearly all existing public transportation was designed before cell phones. And there’s so many better ways to get that data… In fact, I’m not sure anyone uses individually identifiable tracking to plan public transportation… It’s neither necessary or even convenient for that

theneverfox , 10 months ago

Illegal? Probably not, so long as you were careful about not hosting any of their code/data

Would doing it publicly end with you getting buried in lawsuits? It might. Anyone can sue for any reason, and copyright holders love making examples of people

theneverfox , 10 months ago

I travel as little as possible, I’ve been attempting to grow my own food in my apartment, I’ve rarely bought clothes and never bought furniture. A roll of paper towels lasts me months and I eat meat a couple times a week (I sprained my ankle stretching in bed before adding meat back in)

My carbon footprint is way too large, and IDK what to do about it. All I want is to buy a mountain and fill it with fruit, but it’d take a decade of destroying the world to get there

I’m a damn good programmer, and open to suggestions… This is a constant weight for me. IDK how to not make things worse