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New comment by smegger001 in "Helium is hard to replace"

smegger001 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:38:22 +0000

mostly out of our reach unless you have way of removing it from the sun without your retrieval craft melting or being captured by the suns gravity well or from gas giants without the onboard system being fried by the intense radiation or again captured by the gravitation.

New comment by smegger001 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

smegger001 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:09:08 +0000

You could probably do something to increase the apparent entropy like xoringing it with an irrational number like tao or pi starting with a digit determined by the date.

New comment by smegger001 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

smegger001 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:20:47 +0000

You could probably cheat with the one time pad and use a book as a key, pick a pre determined starting point go diagonally down accross the page convert the letters to numbers and xor that against the message. It would be near enough to random and less conspicuous than a pad of random numbers when searched.

New comment by smegger001 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

smegger001 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:06:06 +0000

I used to have little battery powered AM/FM/Shortwave/weather radio lost it a couple house moveings ago. Kept it around for the emergacy weather radio during flood events and other extreme weather when internet/power isnt reliable. Should probably pick up a replacement come to think of it.

New comment by smegger001 in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

smegger001 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:17:47 +0000

It is Larry Ellison doing. He has been lobbying and trying to push the US and UK towards it for the last 20 plus years with plans on controlling the database and infrastructure behind it.

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-behind...

New comment by smegger001 in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

smegger001 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:20:37 +0000

So pretty much the same as the Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. case ruling it as fair use as a transformative work. I mean if indexing the worlds books is transformative then a neural net run on them certainly is a transformative work and fair use.

New comment by smegger001 in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

smegger001 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:22:31 +0000

> if you license it MIT, and it's useful, expect Amazon to make a fork, not give you the source code,

thats why the gpl family of license exist.

MIT/BSD family licenses are do whatever you want with this,

if you want to make money off of you pet opensource project I recommend multi-license it with a copyleft with copyright assignment required for contributions and offer other licenses with a fee.

New comment by smegger001 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

smegger001 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:03:08 +0000

Smallpox, which the only remaining samples exists in a couple of secure facilities controled by superpowers for use making vaccinations in case they are wrong about their only being a few samples controled by superpowers. Everyone with an ounce of sense knows bioweapons infect both sides and nuetral parties who are no longer neutral once you infect them. It like mustard gas but worse no one other than suicidal terror groups want them and they dont have the facilities equipment samples or knowhow.

New comment by smegger001 in "We Will Not Be Divided"

smegger001 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:03:44 +0000

because bio-weapons labs take more to run than a workstation pc under your desk with a good graphics card. both in equipment material and training. Its hard to outlaw use of linear algebra and matrix multiplications.

New comment by smegger001 in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

smegger001 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:49:53 +0000

sort of not really but effectively yes. their deal with OpenAI gave them unrestricted use of all of OpenAI Models and IP (source code, weights, patents probably any other data) except the eventual hypothetical end products of Artificial General Intelligence which would belong to OpenAI alone but Microsoft would still have everything leading to it so could probably make that jump on their own (not a great deal on OpenAI's part as it doesn't give them much of a moat). so when OpenAI runs out of money well Microsoft won't own the IP but will have unrestricted use of it some one else could buy it at bankruptcy but microsoft could still use it. As for the staff well they already showed a willingness to jump ship to Microsoft back when the OpenAI board tried firing Sam without giving a reason, and if OpenAI dies Microsoft would probably hire any of the top talent that applied. So kinda sort of but on paper no but yeah they would have everything of value they would choose have.

New comment by smegger001 in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

smegger001 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:05:18 +0000

I don't know about that they have multiple successful businesses with or without AI and they stand to have all of OpenAI's IP when they implode (their license gives them free access to fork all of OpenAI's AI models with the sole exception of some hypothetical future artificial general intelligence) my guess is they take a hit to the stock price but so will everyone else and they will go on a shopping spree of buying up any IP or infrastructure left after the bubble pops.

New comment by smegger001 in "Why vampires live forever"

smegger001 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:26:43 +0000

as someone that donates plasma twice weekly I wonder what health effects of removing and filtering the blood regularly has if accumulation of byproducts is a major issue

New comment by smegger001 in "Why is the sky blue?"

smegger001 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:21:17 +0000

because they are the frequencies that pass though water most readily, and we are made of mostly water

New comment by smegger001 in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

smegger001 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:54:59 +0000

where will the government get the money to buy anything if the billionaires and their mega corps have it all and spend sufficient amounts to keep the government from taxing. we have a k shape economy where the capital class is extracting all of the value from the working class who are headed to subsistence levels of income and the low class dies in the ditch.

New comment by smegger001 in "Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled"

smegger001 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:30:11 +0000

Grok even if it were technically superior is hampered by it being owned and run by a mercurial racist narcist who in drug infused mania keeps accidentally turning it into Mecha-Hitler in attempts to make it fit his political views or turning it into a generator of child porn. No one in their right mind wants to have their product associated with that kind of liability. Who wants an ai agent that starts spewing great replacement theory at their customers?

New comment by smegger001 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

smegger001 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:55:43 +0000

The burgers are fine at the one accross the road from my job but the Burger King here has to most bland frys I dont think they salt them at all they are crispy but lack taste.

New comment by smegger001 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

smegger001 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:44:54 +0000

it the natural results this site catter not just to tech nerds but one chasing venture capital money. its an inudustry that has never seen a dark patern it didn't like. we have gone from "don't be evil" to "be evil if makes the stonks go up"

New comment by smegger001 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

smegger001 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:40:12 +0000

if cosmic ray bit flips were so rare then ecc ram wouldn't be a thing.

New comment by smegger001 in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

smegger001 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:28:29 +0000

Who decides where the art erotica boarder is? There is plenty of content that would straddle that border, I have seen art that could legitimately called pornographic and pornography i would describe as art. Who decides? And then you have prudes Florida Texas red states trying to prevent remove any thing from an .edu and would happily ban the .xxx entirely and would find any .art suspect and probably ban it.

New comment by smegger001 in "Happy Public Domain Day 2026"

smegger001 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:04:57 +0000

Sort of like how the movie Charade staring Carry Grant and Audrey Hepburn is public domain (due to failure to file back when that was required in the 1970's) but the soundtrack is not. So the music is in the pubic domain only when played in the movie but played separately the music is still protected.