SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
But online porn did kill the dirty movie theater.
VHS tapes / DVDs killed the dirty movie theater. Online porn killed DVDs.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
The government can't even stop people from plugging in yandex.ru into their browsers and gaining instant access to any movie they wish to consume in seconds.
Hell, The Pirate Bay itself is still operating just fine two entire decades later and the only hitch is that you have to google "piratebay mirror" and use one of those links.
I get a feeling people here vastly overestimate the required HW needed for generating random NSFW images because so much discussion is about LLMs that do require an order or two of magnitude more HW. If you don't care much about prompt understanding, concept flexibility or accuracy of poses and such, even "ancient" (ie. SDXL) models are more than capable of doing the job on piddly half a decade old computers that can be bought for $300 second hand.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
I’m not talking about old high end gpus but the middle / low-middle end that’s now eclipsed even by integrated gpus. When you equalize for processing power, gpus are still way cheaper than when the hw that was capable of image generation first became common (which was several years before the software was invented). You really don’t need a 32 GB 5090 just to do some basic NSFW generation / inpainting.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
I suspect most major AI’s will simply not allow you to turn pictures pornographic.
That is just a speedbump. All you have to do is reverse the direction. Take a random porn image, inpaint some clothes on it locally (doesn’t have to be very high quality, this is just to pass any censorship of the faceswap model), then do an AI face swap and finally unmask the original pornographic parts using standard non-AI editing. Hell, you could probably not even bother with the clothes by just using a closeup crop of the porn model’s face and then copy paste the result over the original.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Why would that be the case when a seven year old laptop is already powerful enough to do it? You don’t need fancy new hardware when the existing far from top of the line hardware will do fine.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
My guess is that there might be an opening where very low-fidelity renderings are used to map out the action on screen
Something very much like this will be a near certainty because trying to prompt detailed poses, positions, proportions, movement paths and so on is a fool's errand. Pure written language is a horrible inefficient way to do such things while a 3D modeler uses an interface optimized for that and provides realtime feedback to the user.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
Yes and no. Any part that can be CnC'd can be essentially perfect provided it uses quality materials (which is very much not the norm when you get to 90% of MIC / MII / MIK guitars with eg. a Floyd Rose bridge). There's still a lot of hands on work required and much of this is crucial for really good playability. It doesn't matter if the neck itself has been built to exacting tolerances if the frets are uneven and your local guy charges $200 or more to fix that. And it's not that those far east OEM builders can't build a guitar with high quality manual work but when they're still essentially competing on price, the brands are very tempted to choose the cheaper package which means less hands on time which in turn means lower quality. I expect we'll see high end MIC / MIK brands emerge that are going to compete on name recognition and quality instead of low price.
Of course if the goal is just to surpass Gibson quality and consistency, well, any Squier probably already does that at a tenth or less of the price.
As a rule most guitarists are braindead idiots so you very rarely see them understand what quality control even means and how it's completely pointless to make statements about quality of some brand / line based on single specimens. Yes, that particular $300 guitar might play better than that particular $3000 guitar (with often different specs even!) but to say anything authoritative you'd need to compare dozens of specimens of identically specced guitars which unfortunately nobody ever does. Then you get idiotic statements like "Well I haven't played a cheap guitar that feels the same as my [insert specs here] Gibson (a brand known for extreme variance) so they can't be any good" as well as "I like my $400 Squier better than a $3000 Stratocaster so it never makes sense to pay more than $500 for a guitar" (nevermind that there are smaller brands whose entire focus is on the highest build quality instead of vintage accuracy).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
12d ago
so I had the unique experience of being awake during the operation.
Wait what? How is that unique? Over here the only way you'd get sedated is if they have to operate on your entire jaw or something. Even tooth surgery is just good painkillers combined with local anesthetic, so you're lucid during the operation. Basic wisdom tooth removal that doesn't require surgery is just local anesthetic.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
At this point it's better to ask "what standalone programming tasks can't LLMs help with", and the answer is very little.
I disagree. I have yet to see a single relevant example of LLM helping in a real world situation that would apply to me. Ie. Doing expert level tasks with large C++ codebases that have little to no documentation and also don’t rely on just calling some popular framework to do everything. Or to put it another way, the situations where help would actually be needed beyond regular googling.
Instead it’s always simple beginner level stuff (eg. your ”I don’t know much C#”) or web / databases / python.
Show me LLM writing eg. a non-trivial Linux device driver, deciphering how the hell you’re supposed to do something not quite trivial with ffmpeg programmatically or writing structural document for a random medium size codebase that’s actually accurate and not just wild ass guessing. Thus far ”AI is a must for coding” has been pure gaslighting as far as I’m concerned.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
So where’s the utility of AI if I haven’t done any of the things that got utility points in your list in the last 25 years? And in general stay as far as possible from anything web related, databases, javascript or other ”typical online programmer” staples (I’ve literally said in job interviews that I want nothing to do with web stuff or databases).
Thus far the only relevant uses I’ve seen are translating and hyping up bulleted items into a format the HR demands.
AI is efficient at generating tests.
Is it?
I keep reading this but how is the AI going to know what the results are supposed to be and what the edge cases are when it doesn’t have in-depth understanding of that specific problem (ie. gazillion Stackoverflow posts to copypaste from)? And conversely, if you have to tell it those explicitly (and make a detailed review of the result to ensure it has in fact covered all cases), how is it going to save effort compared to just writing the test conditions yourself?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
Nobody reads compiler stuff any more.
Clearly you've never worked in a field that cares about performance. People absolutely do read compiler output to see if it did anything too stupid and work around such issues.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
superset of python
You mean the language that is de facto completely untyped in the real world and does next to no checks on the code before trying to execute it?
The best systems engineers are trans and mentally unwell.
Objection: Fabrice Bellard is quite obviously not trans and nothing suggests he's mentally unwell either. The guy makes John Carmack look like a noob.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
so that they explode within 48 hours
This would make most landmines completely useless. Their value is in short to medium term area denial so you want the fields to last from weeks to some months.
The treaty was completely braindead because it effectively only restricted countries that already deployed mines using maps that allow proper clearing afterwards while the problems of landmines derive from indiscriminate (or intentionally malignant) deployment without any care about collateral damage or clearance.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
21d ago
It's almost as if having a political disagreement didn't mean you have to be mortal enemies. Clearly that cannot be...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
26d ago
I think the discussion is descending into ridiculousness at this point.
Yes, that's what happens when you discard explanations from domain experts given in good faith in favor of conspiracy theories that you've already decided to believe against all evidence.
Must be using some kind of unholy black magic
Yes, also known as "worse performance in the aspects that people actually care about". If all you cared about was apps not being able to listen to the microphone, you could always buy a dumbphone with no apps (or just not install any apps you're concerned about).
Also do you actually know that they disconnect the microphone or are you just believing their marketing material? Have you verified it yourself from the schematics? If you haven't done even that, why do you trust it more than what every expert in the topic says about audio routing and app permissions in regular phone OSes?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
26d ago
Facebook shouldn't have had anything to cue off of.
Except the data that the FB / Messenger app transmitted, whatever sites had FB pixel, anything you accessed (voluntarily or in the background) that communicates with FB and so on.
There is simply no mechanism for the FB app to listen to the microphone of your phone because the phone OS just won't stream audio to it unless explicitly enabled (including the visible indicator etc). To do that FB would have to abuse a zero day exploit in the phone OS for years without anyone catching on.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
27d ago
between all the bureaucracy, environmentalism regs, NIMBYs, and cost disease, it just costs WAY more than it probably 'should'
I think an important aspect is that those things largely don't apply to data centers in the same way they do to any public infrastructure or factories. A data center is essentially just a large building with power and network connectivity and cooling. There is no real noise or chemicals involved so safety regulations don't apply and of course it isn't a public building so the local politicians or interest groups don't get a say. It also doesn't have to be located in city center so there's no "social" aspect and in general the location is not critical so NIMBYism is much less important.
There isn't "the circuit" to interrupt. A phone has something like half a dozen digital MEMS microphones, so you'd have to interrupt a whole bunch of circuits with a single switch. That'd require an expensive and more failure prone multi-pole switch and would be hell to route. You can't just cut power to the mics either because you need to turn off the clock signal before cutting power to prevent overdriving the protection diodes and also short circuiting the clock driver (and you can't sequence the clocks because the switch directly cuts power before the cpu has a chance to react). Plus of course there would again be the routing issue.
Then there are the legal ramifications. You have to be able to call the emergency number while paniccing and phones go to quite some lengths to bypass blocks to enable that. This would of course be impossible with a physical switch.
Finally, the whole thing is completely and utterly pointless for anything other than state level actors who have to worry about zero day exploits in the OS itself (where "turn off the phone" / "leave the phone in a sealed box" is more secure and much easier to do). Anyone with half a clue of how operating systems work knows that an app can't "just access" the microphone and the OS has to do a whole lot of work to stream audio to an application via a dedicated API that is used solely for that (which is a fundamental difference from all the typical file permission bypass exploits).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
27d ago
Why would you trust the Phone OS to set the electronic switch off (a physical switch isn't possible) if you don't trust the same OS to not route audio to the app without your permission?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
28d ago
For example, did you know that neither Scotland nor the UK are actually in the EU?
It's baffling why people on this site try to use UK as example of Europe anything when it comes to legislation given the entire legal system has very different traditions.
I noticed the same and have absolutely no sympathy for that viewpoint, to the extent that I think anyone advocating for it is some combination of idiot and actively malicious.
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