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Ah sorry bud but You were Time's person of the year in 2006 so now we're all complicit!

The new Prince of Persia is the worst for this! There's no auto-cloud save, so you have to manually manage uploading and downloading to the one cloud save slot between your three on-device slots.

And no matter what, no matter how long it's been, it asks about it, like: "Your last save was 0 minutes ago, as you sure you want to exit?"

His exact tweet came up in another post of this story. He said we should eliminate Palestine and Isreal, which is that one step too far. Today's Nazi's actually can't be openly antisemetic because the genocidal apartheid state of Isreal is their closest international ally.

This rules! I used to scrobble all my shit, time to get back to it!

Agreed with @Breve@pawb.social's comment: not a good article.

First off, this article is just a link and a short summary of a much longer blog post of the Qualys AI security company. So this isn't a standard industry or academic benchmark, this is something Qualys is using as part of their sales strategy for AI consulting services.

Which, frankly, I would avoid if this article is indicative of how they work.

They tested 1 model. One. Insane. DeepSeek released about a half-dozen distillation of llama and qwep2: 3B, 7B, 8B, 14B, 32B, and the full 671B model. As an AI-expert security company, why would you test one of the weakest distillations only? Was it really so expensive to rent some time on the cloud to test out the other models? Not even the 32B which should be well within most hobbyist ability and budget to run on cloud and test out.

The full article is such obvious SEO bait, I'd be surprised if AI didn't help write it. Just goes on and on and on talking about why AI security is important, why these tests are important, why its important each single test that it failed. But ultimately, no matter how many words they write, the point that they only test 1 very weak version of the model makes the whole thing pointless except as a way to tie the name Qualys to DeepSeek and thus lure in more gullible rubes. Like did they only test 8B because that's cheap enough for them to run as a service for their business?

Anyway, I've previously written here on Lemmy about how Deepseek distilations are so easy to break than I almost think they're buggy and not just insufficient in this regard. I'd really want to see this kind of analysis done on the full model, and obviously also on the other big LLMs they could test to compare against. I wouldn't even trust the 8B models for unsupervised work. It's certainly not reliable and non-hallucenatory enough for things like content filtering or expert system usage, no 8B-level model I've tested is. So very concerning that it seems like that's the level of service they're pushing.

I'm noticing a trend of scientific-sounding announcements about physics results that turn out to be theoretical explorations of simulations. The whole "false vacuum" idea isn't really even a hypothesis, just a what-if. We have no indication that the ground vacuum state isn't the lowest energy configuration. I think people just find a non-zero minimum unintuitive.

Anyway, the key figure in all these theoretical simulation articles is the multi-billion dollar quantum super computers running these simulations. Wouldn't it be funny if tech investors with a lot of money staked on quantum devices pushed for low-quality science that required their machines to be done, thus expanding the market and value of their otherwise pointless supercomputers? This article ends on a very optimistic "these computers have so many uses in cryptography and science" which seems a little out of place when discussing physics results.

I switched fully over and am in the process of degoogling and de-microsofting my life. No more easy defaults of VS Code, back to custom configuring my emacs. No more surveillance, self-hosting and encryption. No more shitty windows gaming, Linux and Proton for gaming bliss!

It's also too fucking late. They've already got all the data and have backdoored the systems.

Elon and his little hack squad needs to be arrested and investigated not just for this but going back to whatever secret projects they were doing at Space X to interfere with the election. Trump and Musk both have admitted in public speeches that they did something to technologically undermine the election.

Willkommen bei Lemmy!

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That's the thing, they aren't public employees. DOGE isn't a valid government department, which requires congress. This is a private citizen and his private employees/associates (is he even paying them?) staging a take over of the government. Don't just grant them authority because they claimed to have it.

Damn! ExistentialComics author ain't messing around no more!

Great reference, going to be stuck in my head all day.

I got an RK recently and have been very happy with it. Multiple connection options (wired, usb, or 2.4ghz), nice white and green colors, switches and caps all feel very good for such a budget model. Only thing I dislike is they made it full size but inexplicably decided no one needs an "End" key anymore. Its an Fn-layer button (on Page Down?!), along with Pause, PrtSc, and ScrLk. Admittedly I never need those other keys but I use End failry often and it's an odd choice, especially since they kept the numpad.

At one point recently I bought a two pack of USB Blu-ray burner drives for $25. Optical media is so dirt cheap now that the readers are BOGO. Gave one to my partner, the other is still serving my physical media needs very well.

Nothing is more homosexual than being a loving, present father for the children you've created with a woman.

Because the bots/trolls/feds have shifted over to driving a wedge between leftists to keep solidarity from occurring. Thus "tankie" is being thrown around heavily, people constantly bring up early Soviet support of the nazis as a reason to say "tankie=nazi" while ignoring that tankies (sue me, it's a real term that has uses) is a broad term for all "authoritarian fascists," many of whom came after the nazis, were very anti-nazi, and like all historical figures often had a mix of good and bad qualities.

Certainly its funny to harp on tankies while America falls to literal fascism. Who ever could benefit from scape goating and demonizing communists? Who historically, poetically even, is the famous first victim of fascism due to the strong threat they represent?

With massive tariffs on all incoming food, and sabotaging our vital food producing areas, its almost like he's either deliberately damaging the country or using famine as a tool to commit mass murder of the poor.

If you liked SupCom and want to recapture the magic, do check out Zero-K! It's free (like actually, no weird micro-transactions) and open source (though buried a bit on the site) It's based on SpringRTS, which is great to see something cool being done with Spring!

There's an excellent, way underrated scifi novel that I love telling people about because it predicted our current moment. Greg Egan's Permutation City, written in freaking 1994.

You follow the simulation of a man as that man runs experiments on him of how simulated people work. If you played SOMA, those folks definitely read it! Advanced AI spam filters are used to detect advanced AI spammers in a nonstop cold war for your precious attention. I think eventually the AIs are replaced by simulations of yourself enslaved to the task of responding to messages, but I may just be combining that story with qntm's short story Lena which is also terrifying yet likely soon to be true!

It's also a revelation-of-the-method: authoritarians love to gloat about how they're doing it right in front of you, with tools you trusted, and you can't stop it.