deafboy

deafboy, 14 hours ago

I still have this, but suspect it’s bricked after I’ve pressed the “do not press” button on the side. (i’m a filthy button pusher) If anybody has some firmware dumps or at least documentation, I’d appreciate it.

Never managed to use the brainwaves, but it was sensitive to the facial muscle movement. Good enough to play pong.

deafboy, 3 days ago

One would think that polish is all jokes and laughs, but the course on duolingo is just “The boy is eating the bread”, or “The woman is drinking the milk”

No lagun or bober in sight.

deafboy, 6 days ago

Pretty amazing… that apple allows access to the sensors, and provides an option to mirror the screen over HDMI! Given how touchy feely they were about openning the NFC stack, this is truly unbelievable.

deafboy, 6 days ago

If the only way to a revolution is making lives more miserable, is the revolution even worthy? Something, something, accelerationism…

deafboy, 9 days ago

Luckily, the patch won’t install for me, because the default size of the recovery partition is too low.

deafboy, 9 days ago

I’m confused by this revelation. What did everybody think the box was?

deafboy, 9 days ago

The best way to do on-device AI would still be a standard SoC. We tend to forget that these mass produced mobile SoCs are modern miracles for the price, despite the crapy software and firmware support from the vendors.

No small startup is going to revolutionize this space unless some kind of new physics is discovered.

deafboy, 12 days ago

What we call intelligence is largely a genetic trait. Otherwise I’d be able to have this conversation with my dog.

I think the main point is, if the genetic predisposition to what we call intelligence does not positively affect the reproduction rate, the process of evolution could phase it out at any time. The “goal” of evolution is adaptation in order to reproduce. The intelligence is not THE strategy to adapt, its A strategy. It could be replaced by something else, like faster reproduction rate, or the ability to survive in harsh environment without a need for clothes, housing, and medicine.

deafboy, 14 days ago

“those places” ?

deafboy, 12 days ago

Didn’t mimblewimble suffer from a disign flaw where the transactions were anonymized in the blocks, but traceable for anyone listening for the mempool chatter?

deafboy, 14 days ago

13 years, and there’s still no feature parity.

deafboy, 14 days ago

Well, the world is your oyster… Can’t wait for yout chief automated officer.

edit: There was a similar hype back in the blockchain era, where people were trying to build decentralized organizations by making all the shareholders directly vote on every decision. Let’s just say this model wasn’t especially successful except for very rare circumstances.

deafboy, 16 days ago

What effort? To make the whole shitshow a bit worse? They had an option to do nothing, and they said this?

deafboy, 15 days ago

Guilty as charged, your honor.

deafboy, 16 days ago

So they will just milk it until it no longer resembles a cow. Understood.

deafboy, 18 days ago

Nothing tells “peace” more than smugling a pigeon in a zipped up bag to a lenghty debate.

deafboy, 17 days ago

There should not be any consequences! The governments should stop treating citizens like a lifestock.

deafboy, 16 days ago

That’s a common misconception, but you are under no obligation to sacrifice your life for anyone without a prior consent.

If an organization tries to control your body or demands you to sacrifice your life, it’s a dangerous cult. Run.

deafboy, 22 days ago

We had that. It wasn’t a future.

deafboy, 22 days ago

And they managed to do it without us obsessing about their CEO several times a day? I refuse to believe that!

deafboy, 22 days ago

When the train can park next to my house so that my grandma on a wheelchair can get in, or get me to a KFC in the middle of the night, or move a random piece of furniture, I’m in.

A nice bike lane infrastructure would be a blast too, for when you don’t need to move a cargo.

Both are must for large cities, but unrealistic pretty much everywhere else.

deafboy, 20 days ago

As for KFC deliveries. That doesn’t involve your own personal car so that doesn’t make any sense.

I used to be a city dweller, like you. But now, in bumfuck nowhere, we deliver our own food.

What’s the excuse then?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3548ae85-2b85-4195-ac27-ded664a2efe5.png

deafboy, 23 days ago

A reformulation will be much, much simpler

Didn’t they say the same thing about the covid vaccines?