Hazelnoot [she/her]

this is like, a regular occurrence on fedi. I guess it’s maybe the first time the threadiverse side has had to deal with it, though 🤔

Did you write a whole entire post to complain that another instance silenced yours?

it was stable, up until a few years ago. But starting when MS scaled back their QA department (Windows 10 era IIRC) - and worsening when they went all-in on AI (Windows 11 era), stability and reliability has fallen off a cliff. I started tracking crashes and problems that required manual intervention, and over the last two years I’ve spent more hours debugging and fixing Windows 11 than Xubuntu. This is the first time in my life where Linux has required less maintenance than a stock Windows installation. It’s bad enough that I advised all my non-technical family members to stay on Windows 10 instead of upgrading to Windows 11, despite the lack of support.

uh, I’ve been writing like that for years and I am not about to stop just because the slop machines decided to copy me!

Each chip runs ONE model, hardwired into the transistors.

That’s… that’s an ASIC. That’s literally just an ASIC… with all the tradeoffs and compromises that come with it.

Ethics and rights aside, this isn’t even possible to comply with. The law applies to additive and subtractive manufacturing hardware, and expects it to automatically detect and refuse any attempts to manufacture a firearm. But that depends on an underlying assumption that a machine can answer the question “will this command (set) result in the construction of a gun?” And that assumption is false.

Even if you somehow designed an algorithm that could read a G-code program and determine whether it produces something shaped like a gun, it still wouldn’t be enough - because the CNC machine is just one step of a manufacturing process. The human operator controls what materials and commands go into the machine, so they also have full control over all inputs that the “oversight” program is allowed to see.

Some simple ways to bypass this (hypothetical and perfect implementation):

• Print the gun in two pieces, then combine them manually.
• Print something that contains a gun, then cut out all the non-gun material.
• Use multiple separate machines for different parts of the gun.
• Design something that looks nothing like any existing gun, but is still capable of firing a bullet.
• Print most of a gun, the build the rest by hand.
• Build part of a gun, then print the rest onto the hand-made parts.
• Print part of a gun, then run a separate program to print the rest onto the previous result.
• A thousand variants of the above.

So even if this was something we wanted to enforce, it’s just not possible. For the same reason why Minecraft abandoned their plans for an SMP “penis detector”, this law could never be complied with because it’s impossible to build a machine that actually meets the requirements.

And of course, OP is now banned 🙄

Validating output should be much easier than generating it yourself. P≠NP.

This is very much not true in some domains, like software development. Code is much harder to read than it is to write, so verifying the output of a coding AI usually takes more time (or at least more cognitive effort) than if you’d just written the code yourself.

wait you’re serious? this isn’t satire???

Isn’t that a classic corporate raid technique? Sell the company’s assets to you or an organization you control, then lease them back to the original owners.

oh so it would just be app-based MFA but without using TOTP. That makes sense

I’m confused about how this is supposed to act as a second authentication factor 🤔

I see, thank you for explaining!

what’s the concern with channel blockers? /genq

It would be a different beast if the school didn’t allow you access coursework on a personal machine without installing their bullshit, thats a huge issue.

That’s exactly how it works at many places. Students can only use a personal device if it’s enrolled in the school’s MDM, which grants them just as much control.

TIL that pluralistic.net is blocked on Facebook, and any links to it are automatically removed as “farming engagement”

That’s not entirely true. Practice is important, but homework actually has a negative impact on learning: https://hachyderm.io/@Impossible_PhD/112969358305278574

Agreed, unfortunately. I’m not even sure it supports defederation :/

It’s good we have “Knewbies” in a sandbox when they start.

attention all companies: please stop making pet names for your employees, it’s weird

In my experience, the larger threadiverse instances have gradually collected the worst ex-redditors, who have brought the worst of reddit’s culture. I’m unfortunately not surprised that lemmy.world has queerphobic mods, given how the users behave. 😕