Amanda

This is one of the hardest earned lessons I’ve ever learned, and I’ve had to learn it over and over again. I think it’s mostly stuck now but I still make the same mistake from time to time.

As in efficient per watt or some other metric?

and Intel was releasing foxes and shit

I realise this is an autocorrect error, but it’s still funny 🦊

I’ve fallen for it too and I’m technically a security researcher depending on how you read my job description

What the hell is Denuvo?

No idea honesty, I don’t collect metrics.

I still do this!

I think this part:

Our volunteer ambassadors will [list of tasks performed]

And

Ambassadors need to [list of properties]

Along with

Bonus points if [list of properties]

Are what makes this read like a job ad for a job they’re not paying for. If they’d have posted a much shorter version with less demands, selection criteria, etc, not worded as a job ad, I’d have been a lot more charitable in my interpretation. In this case, I find it difficult to read it as anything else than “work for us, a profit-driven company, for free”.

I don’t think it’s a massive problem, but it for sure is bad communication. Ironically.

I generally don’t like this. Company fandom is bad, companies encouraging fandom is worse. Someone mentioned “but OnePlus does this!” as a counter argument and I think that’s telling something because I think they’re slimy as hell. And I had a OnePlus One and liked it.

If the assignment is so easy ChatGPT can do it, it’s too easy.

I agree, and I teach. A huge part of learning is having the time to experiment and process what you’ve learnt. However, doing that in a way that can be controlled, examined, etc, is very difficult so many institutions opt for tons of homework etc.

I’ve heard perovskite-based solar panels have less scary runoffs if they go bad but I haven’t found anything solid on that.

The public are usually very for that after it’s been implemented. They hate it before, assuming you include people who live outside the area where it’s being built but imagine they might want to some say drive there in “the public”. It’s much more of a mixed bag if you don’t.

Did not see “faster than Commodore 64!” coming!

This is a really good idea actually

Like lojban!

I have the same situation almost. We have fiber from Telia delivered to the basement of our apartment building where it’s converted to cable by Tele2, who rents access to Telia’s fiber. Neither of them were willing to sell me or the organisation that owns the building access to fiber, even though it would have required only activating an outlet on whatever fiber switch thing they have in the basement.

Tele2 also has a monopoly on internet access; it’s that or 4G/5G.

This led to the absurd situation where we have a special coax outlet, followed by a cable modem right next to the fiber switch to supply the intercom system with very very expensive and terribly slow internet.

I’m not in the US and I also get most of my retirement in stock market casino chips

I was worrying about precisely this. I’d be ok with blocking search engines if there was a better way of searching but AFAICT there isn’t federated search of any kind?

I think this is right on the money. The fitness function optimised is “does this convince humans”, and so we have something that’s doing primarily that.

I’m imagining him going on to do the same thing there and just going “why am I the John McClain of cybersecurity? How can this happen AGAIN???”