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Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 43

More like AC is not needed because generally speaking Europe doesn't get that hot for most of its history. It can get cold, but, it rarely gets very hot.

Indeed, the southermost points of Europe like Spain are really only as far south as Northern California - most of Europe is to the north and thus it doesn't get very hot.

Indeed, air conditioning is needed in the US south, but no equivalent place really exists for Europe, for those latitudes are occupied by Africa and Middle East. And with the Mediterranean Sea helping moderate the southern temperatures means high temperatures in Europe are the exception, not the rule.

Even in North America the Pacific North West region traditionally has never needed air conditioning simply because heatwaves are rare and the region is very temperate. Even reaching the mid-80s during the peak of summer was something that happened for maybe a few days in the past.

Comment Re:Understandable but in practice, not sustainable (Score 1) 43

I suspect you may have thought that by hardening, I meant âoeharden your heartâ or âoetake a hard-headed approach of refusing to payâ. I didnâ(TM)t. I mean t the technical sense of âoemake the attack less likely to succeedâ which includes both prevention and mitigation.

It also means hardening the humans using the system. Ransomware attacks are generally targeted at humans. If it means more phishing tests to inboxes, and remedial training for those who consistently fail, so be it.

Comment Re:Your hit piece on us is wrong!11! (Score 1) 83

We don't like how conspiracy theories tore our families up because some dude called Q made a thousand predictions that all where wrong.

Conspiracy theories have been the recruitment method of cults. Scientology relies on it a lot to get members, and they have broken up many families, especially by turning their immense political power to shun those who leave.

Q is merely a more modern form. The only real benefit is that with all these conspiracy theories going around, Scientology likely hasn't been able to recruit as easily because everyone else grabs their marks before they do. After all, they've been rather quiet as of late.

Comment Re:"Central" is probably overstating it. (Score 1) 18

They're a GPU vendor, they just want to sell product.
If you have slots on your motherboard for a graphics card then it shouldn't matter if the arch is x86, ARM, RISC-V or (historically) PowerPC.

Thinking of them as a "GPU" vendor or a seller of "Graphics Cards" is outdated. They make 90% of their money in the data center now. They DGAF about Crysis.

Comment Re:I don't like the phrase 'Conspiracy Theory' (Score 2) 83

The issue with most "conspiracy theories" is there is no or little evidence to support the claim, with lots of evidence to the contrary. Since they don't have the evidence they resort to denialism, cherry picking, god of gaps, pseudo science, quote mining, whattaboutery and so on. You can see this across the board from moon hoax, 9/11 truthers etc. They all think if they kick up enough dust, deny established facts that somehow their evidence lite assertions win by default. This extends to other fringe beliefs like holocaust denial, creationism, anti-vaccine and it's no wonder that a lot of this stuff has metastasized into QAnon - every conspiracy all at once with racism and antivax on top.

Yes there are actual conspiracies and usually trail of verifiable evidence behind them - paper trails, witnesses, conspirators ready to talk etc. The batshit conspiracies - not so much.

Comment That's what they want you to believe (Score 1) 83

Deep state paid disinfo agents working in cahoots with $andy Hook and Obamacare wrote this fake report. They read thoughts with radio beamed through my filligns. Thats why the meds have lithium to increase reception. Diana h0ax death she knew thermite and mi$$iles and planes in civilian livery were all staged 911. Wake up sheeple!!

Comment Re:This will keep happening (Score 1) 13

The simple solution is the legal requirement that any AI generated content that may enter the public domain must, wherever possible, be digitally watermarked indicating what AI created it, an identifier to the original context/query used to generate it and a timestamp. And the watermark, which must be detectable with publicly available tools is embedded in the content in a way that resists efforts to remove it. And the original context/query must be permanently stored for a period of no less than 24 months.

Not only would that mean services like YouTube / Spotify have no excuse weeding this shit out but AIs can stop ingesting each other's slop. And if AI is used to generate deepfake content there is a chance for AIs to be held accountable for it to the cops and victims.

Comment Re:Isn't that the point? (Score 1) 77

I've been tracking how accurate they are, and it's been steadily ticking upward for the last 4 months.

I only put this extension in a little over a week ago, so I know that's completely incorrect. I saw the results get worse and worse right up until the day I installed it. I asked it about things I knew something about, the answers didn't pass the sniff test, I followed the links and the links directly contradicted the Gemini results. It's worse than worthless.

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