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Comment Re:Rendering time? (Score 1) 17

They link to "GPU.zip" which apparently is another side-channel based on the GPU's compressions - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hertzbleed.com%2Fgpu...

So apparently by asking it to blur the background, they can time it. Then the "core" of the attack is this GPU.zip so really it sounds like this is more of a "look we found a new way to exploit this."

Comment Re:Rendering time? (Score 2) 17

FTA:

What Android APIs does Pixnapping exploit?

Pixnapping forces sensitive pixels into the rendering pipeline and overlays semi-transparent activities on top of those pixels via Android intents. To induce graphical operations on these pixels, our instantiations use Android’s window blur API. To measure rendering time, our instantiations use VSync callbacks. For a more detailed explanation, we refer to the paper.

Comment Re:Requires a Microsoft account (Score 2) 43

Have you looked lately? I got my laptop last year and put Pop on it. Uses the 4070 out of the box and I was playing the second Horizon game on Steam on release day. The huge tons of effort put into getting AAA games running on the Steam Deck has really paid off. I'm currently playing Uncharted 4 on it.

I do still have two desktops running Windows, but finally migrated my daily driver laptop last Black Friday.

Comment What about COVID? (Score 2) 84

So if it is an eight-year study, that means it was also spans COVID-19.

One of the know side effects can be "brain fog."

I didn't see that in the preview, and IMHO would be a giant glaring mistake. I'd love to know who got it, what strain (the O.G. was definitely much more malicious), and how hard it hit them.

Comment Re:Publicity (Score 1) 137

Garbage.

70-90 year old "science" is valid?!?!

70 years ago smoking was promoted as being healthy, plastics were a wonder product with no hazards, seat belts weren't required in cars, electronic circuits wouldn't get much smaller, there were only a handful of computers, satellites didn't exist.

" anthropogenic climate change" is a theory, not a fact. It's also very, very, very shaky because it's based on cherry-piking data. It's quite easy to "disprove" a theory which is based on accurate data from an incredibly small fraction of time. Every claim of temperature that's more than about 100 years old is an extrapolated guess. For that matter, the records of "accurate" measuring devices are very inconsistent because they don't account for plenty of changes around the measuring devices.

Comment So...refuse to hold "employers" responsible? (Score 2) 211

Seems like this is blaming the symptom, not the cause.

Perspective from a Gen X entrepreneur:

Most "employers" are staffed with people who do not understand the primary principle of long-term success, let alone productive culture.

Gen Zers don't want to entangle themselves with people who cosplay business with lousy personal lives and crushing debt.

Comment Re:LLM for Longevity (Score 1) 33

Sam, I would have saved you 180 million USD if you'd asked how to meet the stated goal.

Tell you what, how about you cut me a check for 1 million USD because this will save even more waste and reach the stated goal:
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U.S. average lifespan is about 10 years less than that of people who live in countries with stricter food purity laws.

Outlaw the food additives (6 months to phase out, not a year or two, which looks like the FDA trying to prevent change while giving lobbyists time to bribe cancellation of the changes) and move to local small-scale farming and baking, including smart hydroponics; not the electricity gobbling motorized tower buildings (which might have been a way to discredit hydroponics.)

Bonus: Create local jobs and reduce energy and pollution from long-distance transportation.

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