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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Then again, a 40% rate of security vulnerabilities is less vulnerable than the average software intern.
40% or more of vulnerabilities are introduced within one day of a weekend.
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Show your calves where they'll end up if they don't behave:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
A visitor to a McDonald's drive-through in Wisconsin captured video of an unusual sight -- a cow riding in the back seat of another car.
There's only so much space in a first sentence, yet the word
another
made the cut, vsa
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sorry, I've been using machine learning to generate posts.
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@Tsaukpaetra The flood washed most of the pixels away
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra The flood washed most of the pixels away
A few more should do something about the smell.
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Archive version if you don't want to give Wired your email:
https://archive.is/aMaNu
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
using front-facing cameras has distorted our self-image
False. My self image is still Glenn Danzig.
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@boomzilla Thoughts:
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Not sure about Zoom, but why not just turn off the view of yourself? (Assuming you can't just turn off the camera in the first place.)
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The people using their laptop camera pointed straight up their nose should indeed consider plastic surgery, e.g. to rotate their whole face down by a few degrees. Well, either that, or start placing the camera in way that it doesn't point up their nose.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
people using their laptop camera pointed straight up their nose should indeed consider plastic surgery, e.g. to rotate their whole face down by a few degrees. Well, either that, or start placing the camera in way that it doesn't point up their nose.
Some noses, no matter which way you look, you're staring right up them.
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One of these days I'm going to snap and spawn the Novel Meltdown Conspiracy thread. None of that shit has any real-life applications, and all the microcode "vaccines" are just slowing shit down to make everybody buy new stuff at stupid "component shortage" prices.
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@Applied-Mediocrity a prohibitively X approach is only prohibitive up to a certain level of either need or lack of constraint on X.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
The people using their laptop camera pointed straight up their nose should indeed consider plastic surgery, e.g. to rotate their whole face down by a few degrees. Well, either that, or start placing the camera in way that it doesn't point up their nose.
Some laptops have the webcam placed below the screen, pretty much forcing the up-the-nose camera angle
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
The people using their laptop camera pointed straight up their nose should indeed consider plastic surgery, e.g. to rotate their whole face down by a few degrees. Well, either that, or start placing the camera in way that it doesn't point up their nose.
Some laptops have the webcam placed below the screen, pretty much forcing the up-the-nose camera angle
Stunning. Who does this?
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@Gribnit Dell, I think. Maybe HP, Acer, etc. I don't recall any specific laptops but they're out there
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit Dell, I think. Maybe HP, Acer, etc. I don't recall any specific laptops but they're out there
I have some Acers, none do that, but HP was on my list of guesses.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
None of that shit has any real-life applications, and all the microcode "vaccines" are just slowing shit down to make everybody buy new stuff at stupid "component shortage" prices.
The AMD "meltdown-like" ones or the Intel ones?
From what I've read my non-expert impression has always been that the Intel vulnerabilities very much have real life applications, just all the "look, there's some kind of flaw in the AMD processors so they're as bad as ours" seemed to be Intel FUD with no applications.
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@topspin That's why it would be a conspiracy thread. It doesn't come with a prerequisite that I should actually understand anything about the subject. That's for you to do, folks. Possibly covering the C++ implications.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin That's why it would be a conspiracy thread. It doesn't come with a prerequisite that I should actually understand anything about the subject. That's for you to do, folks. Possibly covering the C++ implications.
I really like the idea of execution threads performing complex rituals to break the local causality scheme. I approve of this as a thing for computers to be doing.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin That's why it would be a conspiracy thread. It doesn't come with a prerequisite that I should actually understand anything about the subject. That's for you to do, folks. Possibly covering the C++ implications.
I really like the idea of execution threads performing complex rituals to break the local causality scheme. I approve of this as a thing for computers to be doing.
Don't they do that already without the vulnerabilities?
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@topspin On a local level, causality is overrated anyway.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
I really like the idea of execution <...> rituals to break <...> causality <...>
Sometimes I read too much of the Laundry series. Especially the later books.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@topspin That's why it would be a conspiracy thread. It doesn't come with a prerequisite that I should actually understand anything about the subject. That's for you to do, folks. Possibly covering the C++ implications.
I really like the idea of execution threads performing complex rituals to break the local causality scheme. I approve of this as a thing for computers to be doing.
Don't they do that already without the vulnerabilities?
~~, sometimes that itself is a vulnerability, at very least vs availability.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@topspin On a local level, causality is overrated anyway.
Also at a global level, it gets impossible to predict without new and reductive systems. And it totally breaks down at the other end. Gets all quantum.
Other than that, it's a good idea and you should follow it whenever possible.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Archive version if you don't want to give Wired your email:
https://archive.is/aMaNuWe don't use the video except briefly during our Friday stand-up (show your face Fridays) and one-off special events.
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@Karla We don't use the video except for special events at all. It just takes up a lot of bandwidth at expense of the actually important screen sharing.
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@boomzilla There's a reason there doesn't exist more than 20 pictures of my face past the age of 13.
Not that I'm ugly (or think I am).
I just don't like looking at faces and especially do not like people knowing I'm looking at their face.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
The people using their laptop camera pointed straight up their nose should indeed consider plastic surgery, e.g. to rotate their whole face down by a few degrees. Well, either that, or start placing the camera in way that it doesn't point up their nose.
Some laptops have the webcam placed below the screen, pretty much forcing the up-the-nose camera angle
Discrete webcams start around $10.
A telescope stand for mounting the camera slightly higher than your face is entirely optional, but highly recommended.
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@acrow Yeah but you first need to care about that. I'm assuming that most people don't, and just use whatever their hardware/software uses as defaults.
I certainly do, the only setting that I change being whether I turn the camera on or not. If I do, I don't give a shit how people see me. Dammit Jim, I'm an engineer, not an actor!
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@remi I've considered borrowing some cameras and a muxer from my church, just to mess with people on a video call. You know, change camera angles in tune with my lines. Make it look like I'm in a professional shoot.
Too bad I don't have regulat video calls. Working in the office throughout the pandemic and all.
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@acrow If you have multiple cameras, OBS should allow you to composit those as you want, and output the resulting video to a virtual camera. You can also mix in content from other sources (images/videos, application windows, ...).
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@cvi Thanks. I know. We use that at church. Video-streamed sermons during pandemic.
We also have a hardware capture/control board, since the camera used outputs HDMI.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@cvi Thanks. I know. We use that at church. Video-streamed sermons during pandemic.
We also have a hardware capture/control board, since the camera used outputs HDMI.Unless you really want some high quality video, you can buy adaptors HDMI-USB that will fix that for not insane money. Maybe not low enough to be worth the joke, but still.
I've got one of those for my camera, it was cheaper than buying an external webcam that was decent, and my camera has pretty good night vision.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
actually important screen sharing.
I thought we were talking about work meetings, which consist of somebody talking while everybody else in the meeting ignores that person and does unrelated stuff.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I thought we were talking about work meetings, which consist of somebody talking while everybody else in the meeting ignores that person and does unrelated stuff.
I've suggested further optimizations to this process: work meetings where nobody talks. That way everybody can focus on the unrelated stuff (e.g., actual work). Suggestion did not receive much enthusiasm from upstairs.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
On a local level, causality is overrated anyway.
Causality is only a local thing anyway, but I don't really want to require computers to undergo relativistic accelerations as a conventional measure.
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@dkf I dunno; there are times I want to defenestrate my computer at relativistic velocity.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I just don't like looking at faces and especially do not like people knowing I'm looking at their face.
I could not into this. It would deprive the world of too great a treasure.
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Still 25 years away, but cool none-the-less:
https://www.pppl.gov/news/2021/08/pppl-physicist-helps-confirm-major-advance-stellarator-performance-fusion-energy
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Still 25 years away, but cool none-the-less:
https://www.pppl.gov/news/2021/08/pppl-physicist-helps-confirm-major-advance-stellarator-performance-fusion-energyPsht. The stellarator approach is far less promising than the tokamak.
And although it turns out I thought a stellarator was something different, I stand by my original statement.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Psht. The stellarator approach is far less promising than the tokamak.
The stellarator is way cooler though. A tokamak is basically the spherical cow in vacuum: make it as symmetrical as possible, because otherwise the equations get too hard. The fact that the confined plasma doesn't want to go into a flat circle is a small detail. (However, it's too bad that most of the stallarators were designed back when computers still sucked a lot.)
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Psht. The stellarator approach is far less promising than the tokamak.
It is actually the more promising approach from what I have seen. Tokamaks have had the same issue for 50 years, stabilizing the super heated plasma so it doesn't break containment. Stellarators have that done as part of its core design. Their biggest problem for the longest time was simply being able to build the structure at the level of precision that was required. That is now largely solved and they are actually making up fantastic ground on Tokamaks.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Psht. The stellarator approach is far less promising than the tokamak.
It is actually the more promising approach from what I have seen. Tokamaks have had the same issue for 50 years, stabilizing the super heated plasma so it doesn't break containment. Stellarators have that done as part of its core design. Their biggest problem for the longest time was simply being able to build the structure at the level of precision that was required. That is now largely solved and they are actually making up fantastic ground on Tokamaks.
Tbh I thought stellarators were more or less bombs (how would I make a star), and that these things were a twisty kind of tokamak. Standing by this statement is getting difficult but I intend to keep doing so.
Physical pathing assumptions are going to break down. A twisted torus cannot support as large a set of magnetic field geometries as a plain torus. The progress needed is in electronically shaping the fields.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Surely any AI evidence can be thrown out with the simple question "now explain to be me how it came to that conclusion?".
A computer can't testify. The evidence is put in and a human expert would testify about what it means. Which, like any other expert testimony could be complete bullshit.
There was a case in Poland recently where a train driver was sentenced for manslaughter because he run over a suicidal man with a freight train. The sentence was based on expert testimony which claimed that if the driver was attentive, he could easily stop the train in time. It was based on an experiment the expert has performed in which he measured the braking distance at the speed equal to the one in the incident and compared it to the visibility distance in similar weather conditions. The thing is, the braking distance was measured with a city bus. Somehow the court still admitted this evidence and found the driver guilty.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
freight train. ... the braking distance was measured with a city bus.
That's ridiculous. There are orders of magnitude difference in mass. The stopping distance of a freight train can be several kilometers.