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New comment by smegger001 in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

smegger001 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:28:03 +0000

or give a different eye color it not all life or death

New comment by smegger001 in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

smegger001 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:53:34 +0000

Sigh. What ever happened to the principle of least privilege and why arent we applying it to AI agents. They ought to be locked in a box and not capable to act outside designated task.

New comment by smegger001 in "LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear"

smegger001 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:31:47 +0000

And i might be a Boltzmann Brain hallucinating all of this after a paticle cloud over hundreds of billions of years of random interactions by chance happened to condenced into thinking substance out of the chaos.

New comment by smegger001 in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

smegger001 — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:19:13 +0000

Exactly no one hates the ai algorithm finding cancer, or predicting protein folding or finding novel compounds for pharmaceuticals what they hate is the "we will slurp up all human knowledge violate everyone copyrights and give nothing back in return and get you fired and replaced by a shitty ai chatbot"

New comment by smegger001 in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

smegger001 — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:37:10 +0000

Lets see; a phone os no one used, and ad on installed without user permision as a tie-for a TV show, browser integration with a thirdparty bookmarking service that should have been an optional addon, a VPN, an abborted browser based video confercing service based on open standards that they killed for non obvious reasons, a bunch of social justice initiatives, an email masking/forwarding service killing their addon APIs in favor of googles more limited api.

New comment by smegger001 in "Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said?"

smegger001 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:11:18 +0000

Does that apply to their tablet as well or just streaming devices ereader and smart speakers? Giving up android on their tablet would kill their whole app library i don't see them doing that lightly.

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.