Yeah, just gimme the NP6 terminal, I’ll figure it out.

And it ended up posting significantly faster speeds in dense areas where they actually deploy the technology. My phone has hit 4Gb/s on it.

It’s a different world, there isn’t much driving VVC like there was for AVC and HEVC. There isn’t a new physical media format, and even the latest OTA TV specification is stuck on HEVC.

It’s going to be up to streaming platforms what wins the next codec race, and a lot of them are betting on AV1 and AV2 for obvious reasons. I don’t see VVC really getting widespread adoption.

The biggest concern I have for these crackdowns is how uncalibrated the exams and material now are. When a significant portion of the student body cheats, the exam difficulties are pushed up, and the study/teaching material gets worse in quality.

The result is anyone not cheating is put at a disadvantage, and if you roll this out suddenly across the classes, you’re probably gonna fail a bunch of people.

This is the reason. Deserts are hotter, but also dryer, so it makes evaporative chillers ridiculously efficient. That’s how and why they build datacenters out here. Go look at any DC facility in the state and you’ll see evapco equipment being used.

There’s often a tacit acknowledgment to the poor quality of AI output, but that they do not care, the strategy is to flood the zone with so much garbage as to make it irrelevant. It’s a grift-conomy mindset, the focus is on “velocity” and “productivity” to the detriment of all else.

It’s just a punycode domain, it ought be rendered in Japanese:

マリウス.com

Edit: I swear those replies weren’t there when I typed mine.

Not beating the association between AI and scams with this one.

The cheaper it is to produce slop code, the less the demand there will be to buy it. Companies will self-vend instead of buying the slop being sold. Your profit margins are someone else’s inefficiency.

When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.

It’s was a pretty specific non standard port on UDP. It’s not even doing proper scanning since the byte sequence used isn’t one that would trigger a response challenge/ack. My guess is someone trying to DOS using an older byte sequence that used to choke/kill the server software on older versions.

The Belgian traffic? Almost entirely from a single residential IP — one box that sent over 156,000 login attempts, more than the entire country of Germany. It just sat there, hammering echo “\x6F\x6B” over and over, every single second, for weeks. Relentless.

Had a funny similar thing, there’s some weird person/people that randomly probe and attack a specific game’s community hosted dedicated servers; and one week this specific IP address out of Virginia was just hammering one of mine, with what amounts to a specific byte sequence, then an incrementing number of the packet (until it wrapped around). Then it stopped. Weird shit.

Honestly probably a good thing long-term, lots of platforms have been dragging their heels in adopting better newer codecs, so maybe this will finally give the justification required to put in the engineering hours.

Ultimately Email is old technology, all the web frontends just get in the way more or less.

I use an email host that has roadmapped switching their frontend to one I don’t really like, so figured I’d get ahead of the curve and switch to a client that was open source and compatible with the typical standards — so I could learn it and never have to deal with another client again.

Ended up using Thunderbird, even for my old inboxes at the typical web companies

One client, all my emails in one spot, don’t have to deal with stupid UX changes being forced on users.

Not a fan of this model broadly. It discourages diverse membership and promotes cliques.

And what about when the AI owning class introduce intended bias?

It’s one the scariest outcomes possible. If people forego their reasoning and critical faculties for chat-bots. If you aren’t even the one thinking your own thoughts, who is?

It’s almost necessary at this point. At least some form of AI scraper prevention.

I had to take my public repos down a couple days ago, individuals and belligerents using botnets make blocking scrapers via normal means (user-agent/CIDR block) ineffective. So things like CloudFlare or Anubis are becoming necessary.

I think it’s a perspective thing.

Men are less likely to perceive themselves as potential SA victims (regardless of actual numbers): so the relative subjective “chance” of false accusations against them vs being victims themselves impacts their priorities.

Yeah, I mean that’s true of any social space though, if you say something agreeable (definitionally) you’re going to get agreement. If you view upvoting as consensus building (i.e “I like this” / “I agree”) it’s just a more concise representation of a reply saying as much.

But that is scrutable.

What becomes a problem is content getting surfaced/buried on non-scrutable metrics (typically engagement) — ragebait isn’t anything new, online or in societies. But when algorithms target content that gets engagement, ragebait is naturally surfaced in higher proportions. Often time such platforms completely bury content or make it impossible to find something not explicitly surfaced (YouTube search for example is widely known to be terrible here, FB rabidly buries comments on posts).

WRT communities, there definitely are instances and communities with very different rules, values and expected behaviors. Federation allows communities to pick and choose what other communities they think they’ll get along with. This includes banning individual remote users if they don’t follow local rules, or defederating entirely if other instances have drastically different values.

The federation model as described does well by my metrics. I can pick an instance that shares my values, participate in communities (in the Lemmy technical sense) that share them as well — and largely avoid or choose not to engage with people from communities (in the instance sense) that I don’t share values with. This is extending “freedom of association” to online spaces in a way that large platforms largely cannot and willingly do not enable.

I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.

This is mostly getting into normative vs descriptive philosophy. If it’s scrutable that a site/instance is demoting everything non-aligned with a worldview; then on the Fediverse it’s users’ choice to leave (and part of ‘community values’).

In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.

To some degree, yes. New Reddit is particularly bad about this, it actively buries unpopular replies (but it goes further, and doesn’t just use upvotes) — Software like Lemmy is better, you can easily set Sort by New or sort by Top as the default. There’s also no ‘Karma’ system that propagates across the site.

Sycophancy is a human trait, so it’ll always emerge in social systems; but normatively, our systems should not cater to these negative traits (e.g. Twitter).