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Comment Re: The prompter (Score 1) 92

It is the same with writing; Who hasn't ever written a sentence that turns out to be equal to whatever someone else also wrote? Sometimes, we even find something extraordinary clever, and re-use it at some point in time. Even learning to write, is done the same as by training an LLM; by reading, reading and reading the works of others.

Comment The prompter (Score 2, Interesting) 92

Just as syntherizers, sequences and arpeggiators can generate music based on randomization of initial parameters set by the musician, the person writing the prompt, is the copyright holder. Also, similarly, it is the person who actually press the trigger of a camera, who owns the copyright - even if it and all lighting and all composition was done by another person

Comment Re: Wonder if there is an emergency mode (Score 1) 406

Since the ambulances start at the ER, by the time they arrive, after driving 160, I could just as well have driven in their direction at 160, arriving there by the same time they would have arriven to where I would be located. I've rarely seen ambulances going faster than 140. Remember, Sweden is a big country. It is as long as the distance between Florida and the Canadian border, so there's rarely an ER nearby. Sure, if it would be possible to meet at halfway, that would be even better. But that's naturally not an option on the highway. If in the city, though, it might probably better to wait 5-10 minutes for an ambulance, since always get right of way from other driver and thus can drive much faster in traffic than I would be able to.

Comment Extraordinary claims needs extraordinary evidence (Score 1) 83

Lets see:

* Whitepaper - Nope
* Presentation of the members of the board and key persons - Nope
* Contact information - Nope
* Media relations and press releases - Nope
* Claims their firmware can be uploaded to "your existing BLE location tracking device" - Yep
* Lists any disclaimer regarding which chipsets that are compatible - Nope
* Has more than 2 blogposts - Nope
* Claims to have heard a BLE signal from space - not impossible to hear a BLE beacon with sufficient transmission power and directional antenna. But likely - naaah

Conclusion: They are looking to find money for a series B investment round.

Comment Not again! Security hole just waiting... (Score 1) 82

I was pushed an update to W11 on my work laptop some weeks ago. Due to the industry I'm in, our security and lockdown policies are actually reasonable, despite really tight. Use a USB stick? Disabled. Local admin? Forget about it. Ransomwareattack? We consider ourself a target, so we have the procedures to handle it the day it happens. But with W11, it suddenly comes with an endless list of sponsored links to God-knows-what in that extra menu, just waiting for a vulnerability to pop up. The typical MS "we got something acceptable working, now let's bloat and change the UI while we're at it. But don't even think about updating those NT4/W95 apps...."

Comment Industry standard, unfortunately (Score 1) 44

It seems that benchmark tweaking has become somewhat of an industry standard. Everyone does it - more or less - and everyone knows about it. Especially in the mobile industry, where ARM cores and Qualcomm SoCs are commonplace. As long back as 10 years ago, Samsung, Qualcomm and Intel all got caught red-handed with "benchmark-modes" that were automatically turned on whenever a benchmark app was running. And don't get me started on car emissions or fuel consumption...

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