antlion

antlion, 1 month ago

Not sure if you’ve been paying attention but citizens have no say over stuff like this. 99% of the politicians in office were placed there by rich people - they have the only true votes. The bill included money to Ukraine (great), and Israel (WTF), and Taiwan, and TikTok. It shouldn’t be legal to package all that stuff together, but it’s pretty standard. Anyway not sure who you’re talking to - there are like a few hundred politicians who supported this bill, most of them probably for other reasons, and none of them are on Lemmy.

antlion, 1 month ago

That’s about 6 kilowatt*weeks or equivalent to 31 gallons of gas.

antlion, 1 month ago

Yeah even a very efficient generator would probably use at least 90 gallons of gas to get 6 kW*weeks.

antlion, 1 month ago

Yeah humans burn about 100W so it’s like 60 weeks of human metabolism, more than a year of food energy!

If the van had a generator, like days of old, the sun has replaced like 3 full tanks of gas.

antlion, 1 month ago

These are spanning from the earliest adopters, up until August of last year. Plenty of idiots using a cruise control system and trusting their lives to beta software. Not the same as the current FSD software.

Your own car insurance isn’t based on your driving skill when you had your learners permit. When Tesla takes on the liability and insurance for CyberCab, you’ll know it’s much safer than human drivers.

antlion, 1 month ago

Tubi has a few gems: Sarah & Duck, Mofy, and Hooray for Huckle. These can be downloaded for offline use (ad-free) using the command line software called yt-dlp. This software has the ability to load your cookies from your web browser, so it may work for some login sites, for example if you just pay for one month.

You can find some stuff searching btdig.com.

antlion, 1 month ago

Large hydropower is not counted as “Renewable” by California. We have renewable portfolio targets, and we import a lot of wind power from the north to meet the standards.

antlion, 1 month ago

We already had so much of it, the renewable targets would have been too easy? Most dams use huge amounts of concrete or earth moving, and there’s no carbon-free way to do that work at this time? Policy makers didn’t want to incentivize any dam construction?

These are guesses. It’s probably in some kind of records. Sometimes laws even explain the rationale in the beginning with a bunch of “whereas” statements. But I’m too lazy to look it up right now.

antlion, 1 month ago

So we have LLMs that can represent the language part of the brain. Robotics and self-driving is emulating the spatial part of the brain. The image and video generators are the visual processing part of the brain. Independently these are components of a brain but they don’t equal intelligence. These are all things that animals are capable of in various forms. Sometimes I space out when I’m driving the car - it takes up a small fraction of my brain.

There’s a really big thing missing before AGI can be developed: reasoning and self learning. So we would need a model that knows its limits (the best LLMs don’t seem to), asks for more information, and then improves its own model. My suggestion for this would be to make a new AI that tries to teach itself mathematics. Start with numbers and representations of numbers, then addition, multiplication, and so on. But the key is the initial training has to be the building blocks only and the rest it has to learn itself by asking human teachers. When you get into higher math and it makes novel inferences, I think that will be the first sign of intelligence. Then you can get into physics and language and other stuff and it’s still a long path from there to AGI.

Anybody have examples of self-improving models? Following that might indicate whether we may have AGI by 2030. I’m skeptical.

antlion, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

The end talks of reintroduction, which is actually de-extinction. I hope somebody is compiling a bank of DNA for cloning from the few remaining hides. Dogs are a clear example that many behaviors are in DNA. You can’t just introduce Montana or Alaska grizzlies back into California.

Edit: I found this link to the full paper. They indicate they had pelts and bones from 57 individuals.

…squarespace.com/…/mychajliw-et-al-2024-coupled-s…

antlion, 1 month ago

On the other hand, Gowdiak has not provided the technical details of his findings to Microsoft. The researcher is displeased with the way the tech giant handled his previous PlayReady vulnerability report, saying that his work was mostly ignored. Gowdiak claims Microsoft has now requested additional information on the findings, informing him that the research may be eligible for a bug bounty reward, but the researcher says at this point he is only willing to share the information with the vendor through a commercial agreement.

antlion, 1 month ago

Yes I can. AT&T has remote access to their routers, and they apply firmware updates automatically. That by itself is a security risk. I do have the default password which is printed on the side, so I will change it to see if that fixes anything. I’m hesitant to do a factory reset because of some static IP and port forwarding I use. Of course the port forwarding could be a vulnerability passed on to one of my network machines, so I will try that if the password change doesn’t work.

antlion, 1 month ago

There’s some workarounds but they aren’t trivial. Basically I have to find a way to extract the certificate from the router, or set up a certificate pass-through with another router. If I switch ISPs, I could bring my own device.

antlion, 1 month ago

I know what my public IP is, and it’s static, and listed correctly on IKWYD. The premise of the site is that torrent magnet links use distributed hash tables (DHT), which gives a public list of IP addresses who have participated in a particular torrent. Given that I have a static IP address, I’m not sure how it would be possible for my IP to show up, unless somebody is using my router as a proxy.

antlion, 1 month ago

But I have a static IP (unchanged for years) and the site shows torrents downloaded within the past 10 days.

antlion, 1 month ago

The DHT is what the torrent client uses to connect to peers. Any invalid IP entry should make that peer unreachable. But maybe some clients have a way to start a download connection, while providing a false IP for the upload connection. I’m not sure how it works exactly.

antlion, 1 month ago

I have 4 IoT appliances, and 3 cameras. None of them have really high WiFi traffic. I’m looking into what kind of logging I can get from the router, as I’m primarily concerned with internet traffic rather than LAN traffic. I have two Linux servers that are always on, so it could be software running on one of those too. Also it seems the router itself isn’t the most secure device so I have to check that somehow too.

antlion, 1 month ago

Looks like a bit of a learning curve. Depending on where it sits in the network topology I may or may not be able to see the traffic? For instance if the router is compromised, running arbitrary code like a proxy server, it may be completely isolated from my LAN, right?

antlion, 1 month ago

It’s a good idea, and easy enough to do. I can’t confirm anything going on in the router without hacking it myself. But even if that fixes the problem temporarily, it wouldn’t patch any vulnerabilities in the router so it could be a short term fix.

malwarebytes.com/…/millions-of-arris-routers-are-…

antlion, 1 month ago

Good to know. Your seed box isn’t shared with others at the same IP? I wonder if newer “anonymous” BitTorrent protocols allow bouncing IPs or something.

antlion, 1 month ago

I do have a dual Ethernet computer running ProxMox. But if I’m setting it up between the ONT and router, I may as well go all in setting it up as a soft router. Then it would be my firewall, DNS, and DHCP server, and I don’t need to worry about the router.

antlion, 1 month ago

Could probably isolate the yeast and brew vomit flavored beer too!

antlion, 1 month ago

I was just wondering if Anonymous mode could be responsible for the false hits on iknowwhatyoudownload.com from my static IP

antlion, 1 month ago

I like Bluey but it can be quite obnoxious, lots of shouting and high energy. I like Sarah & Duck better for being much more calm.