Scammers won’t need to social engineer grandma into giving out her SSN, they can just ask her AI many times and eventually, it will spit out absolutely everything.

Interesting Defcon presentation about how AI is a security nightmare:

DEF CON 33 - Exploiting Shadow Data from AI Models and Embeddings - Patrick Walsh

https://youtu.be/O7BI4jfEFwA

The saddest news is that they are down to like 4 mechanical engineers. There were at least 30 when I was working there.

I was told all the engineering actually gets done by the contractors in China. The engineers just send a wish list and the China team hacks it together.

iRobot not going to make it. 4 engineers can’t innovate just like that.

I used to work at iRobot. Chinese manufacturers cloned Roomba so well that parts from their robot like wheels assemblies could be dropped in and the Roomba would work.

The issue is that iRobot decided not to litigate patent infringement in China because it’s an uphill battle.

I agree that iRobot was very slow to innovate. They were on the brink of releasing a lawn mower robot but covid hit and the C suites made the decision to kill that product and fire that team to reduce risk…

They could build them so that they stay in perpetual dawn or dusk. One edge with the solar panels in the su, the other edge with the cooling fins in the night’s cool breeze.

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Yeah but if you lose to a boss you have to start from the beginning again. I am not very good at rogue lites, I’m slow to learn how bosses work, and I wish there was a way to save before a boss so I could try multiple times with the same build.

I understand why the mechanic is there, it’s still a mind blowing game, loved it and loved Hades II as well.

This. How did Christ, chalice and tabernacle become an insult ?!

Don’t play Hades then

Well these days, I’d rather be ice around Saturn. The view must be amazing

That’s how you know I’m French, I don’t know how to spell my own language and no one truly does. Too many homonyms… makes it hard.

Compte, conte, comté, condé, dégonder…

I found it very good, fascinating, makes you feel a full range of emotions being confronted by such a natural yet heavy human experience.

Expresso gauloise sans filtre

Are you me?!!?? Hello?

What’s your favorite cheese for breakfast and why is it comté??

If were to skip a meal it would be lunch

These days: Chia seed pudding (chia seeds, water, coconut cream) with roasted almonds, walnuts and pumpkin seeds and unfrozen berries.

If I’m still hungry, two eggs w cheese on toast.

All that with pour over light roast coffee and a big glass of water.

What was that movie about post partum depression and the nannie that comes over to help?

Tully by J reitman (2018)

Yes, a computer heating system would be just as efficient as an electric wall heater at near 100% effective whereas heat pumps effectively ranges from 300% to 500%: for 1w used to operate the pump you will pump 3 to 5w of heat into your home.

Nature is healing

I really don’t want to believe that requisitioning the grain of peasants at gun point and killing those who protested , burning their villages and raping their women as punishment was necessary. I don’t believe that sending the Tcheka to union leaders who had “bottom up” demands and disappearing them was either.

The kromstadt sailors, who made the October revolution happen, didn’t want that. They wanted socialism without the dictatorship, they wanted power to the soviets, democracy. They mutinied to ask for that and were killed / had to flee to finland.

The USSR was not run by the workers, that was propaganda. It was run top down by the communist party apparatus, specifically the politburo, of whom most were from the intelligentsia, not workers nor peasants.