Basically it means that AMD is now a possible contender for the rather large market of basically scientific researchers and private industry who have CUDA based/oriented software to do ‘AI’ driven development or research on huge banks of GPUs.

Probably this initial implementation still has some kinks to iron out, but it could eventually result in Nvidia not having a functional monopoly in that market.

Also its neat from a hobbyist perspective if youre looking to do some kind of small version of CUDA based stuff along the same lines.

I guess you also aren’t kidding.

I’d love to discuss insulation, but alas, the current windows provided to me, compared to what could be provided, leave me doubly, even triply pained to discuss the topic at length.

I am extremely tempted to make a dingo ate my baby joke, but in fairness many of the Australians Ive known actually do find that offensive, so I wont.

Anglicans are a… sort.of a branch of English Christianity founded when an an English King wanted to divorce wife, but the Pope would not authorize this.

His solution was to basically tell the Pope and all of Catholicism to get rekt, and he basically founded his own religion by splitting Christianity away from Catholicism, naming this Anglicism or the Anglican Church, and this new branch of Christianity he basically created allowed him to divorce his wife.

Then there were like hundreds of years of wars and basically what we would now todag call domestic terrorism between various versions of Christianity in and around England.

Pizzashire.

Eeeeyyhh oooh eeeyyy look at this faguzi, drinkin his tea /pinky gripped/ like its gonna get away from you or somethin’.

Now come, come, over here and tell me what you think of this blood pudding and beans pizza.

What? Yeah, seriously. Its very important you tell me, I’ve been working on this recipe for months now.

Ahh, ahh, yeah, whatchu think, how is it?

(Then an Anglican hit squad bursts through the door, surprise this is somehow a movie about a Catholic Italian Mafia family in hiding that made one too many somewhat stereotypical enemies.)

EDIT: To the single person who has downvoted this: Dont worry, its ok, Im of Italian heritage and a good number of us think these stereotypes are hilarious.

I ask only that his grace fill my empty cup, fill my mortal soul with his divine marinara sauce, for I am a penitent man wronged, an honorable man falsely besmirched, and a faithful lover of too many a woman later to fall into accursed witchcraft, madness and debauchery.

I ask only for some tangible morsel of proof.

Some… tasty meal, for my impoverished stomach.

I wont believe in FSM unless he personally appears to me and presents me with a Teapot that can verified scientifically to have been exposed to radiation effects only possible from extended duration in a close Solar orbit.

Set up a small raspberry pi device that is.programmed to constantly spam them with nonsense emails and give it a decent battery and casing and hide it near somewhere with public wifi.

Maybe tie it into that Wisdom of Deepak Chopra text generator or something.

I mean ultimately, at that point in time, as far as describing the physical infrastructure of underground telecomm lines… its not an entirely innacurate description.

It leaves out the entire concept of software and DNS and everything about how websites and IP protocols and such actually work but uh… there at least actually are a series of tubes, lol.

Bang, bang, bang on the door baby!

I completely agree regarding mobile OS’s.

I am currently writing this on an Android phone that is basically as de googled as i can get it via installing f droid, then the aurora store and neo store to replace everything I can with open source stuff, remove as many permissions for everything as possible such that it still functions, etc.

Problem is my computer was trashed, and I cannot risk accidentally bricking this phone right now, so no safe way to root this thing, using only itself, in a way that is 100% guaranteed exists, at least as far as I am aware.

Anyway… good luck explaining any of this to non tech savvy or non tech nerds. Quite literally the vast majority of them have already had their brains rotted via aforementioned social apps…

Basically we more or less live in a kind of cyberpunk dystopian zombie apocalypse: nearly all social media apps are equivalent to hard drugs that cause dependency, ruin attention spans, and generally drive nearly all users into echo chambers that cause extremism of some kind or another, steal much of your attention, alienate you from real world interactions, and as you mention are functionally both mass spying devices for governments, and for corporations to perfect market research and become even more effective at selling what is nearly always overpriced garbage, or laughably mundane and unoriginal ‘content’ of some kind.

Try explaining this to people, and that the only way to avoid it, not even to fight this but just to avoid this is to… learn things and give up their digital drugs?

In my experience they nearly always respond with emotional violence, social ostracization, and sometimes even physical violence.

So, Dunbar’s number comes into play here.

Super summarized, in 1993 an anthropologist (guess his last name), made a compelling argument that the average person cannot maintain more than about 150 meaningful relationships.

This idea has since been generally embraced by many scientists, and to my knowledge, the basic concept has been reaffirmed many times.

A more recent study in 2021 criticizes Dunbar’s original methodology, but functionally reinforces the main concept, just concluding that via a more comprehensive statistical analysis along the lines of Dunbar’s methodology, the 95% confidence interval is basically between 3 and 520 people.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0158

Anyway, yeah, the phenomenon of celebrity fame, and more recently parasocial relationships very clearly show that many, many people are seriously changed and challenged by being surrounded by, and interacting with a functionally endless number of fans, who are also critics.

The internet is, at this point, replete with people who turn into extremely shitty people, develop mental disorders, in some cases kill themselves, etc, because of the way that having a large ‘following’ warps your mind.

But, fast forward almost 15 years after Malcolm Gladwell largely popularized the concept of Dunbar’s number amongst academics, intellectuals, Social Media went from a curious internet phenomenon seeming like it might be neat, might be a fad…

…To basically warping the fabric of reality itself via cutthroat and extremely exploitative business decisions causing more or less the ‘norm’ nowadays to be constantly flooded with content and constantly pressured to post content.

Especially in America, but obviously also in many other regions… many, many people suffer serious mental health problems from using popular social media apps, but it has become the norm… because they have been intentionally designed to be addictive.

To conclude: go touch grass basically, but maybe also try to remember the before time, and just uninstall apps that control you and make you mentally unstable.

I am not looking for markdown, I like using /words/ encased in /'s for emphasis sometimes.

I mean, I know how to do it and get away with it, but I dont because I am a decent person.

Ah I see, the author who you were unaware of until now is a ‘known idiot’, so you are not interested in reading then citation I provided.

Welp, cant argue with that!

So a crime perpetrated by highly technically competent attackers, that can be done and hidden easily by such highly competent attackers, has never been proved to have happened, even though this very article outlines that it is very doable…

Do you think this means I am somehow incorrect in stating that this is a thing that can happen? An article that explains that it can happen?

Or do you think it ‘proves’ that it doesnt make sense to worry about, or take steps to mitigate?

I got the RFID mitigating wallet I have for 10 dollars. Its a great wallet, easily worth 10 dollars whether or not it has RFID protection.

I only use the tinfoil in my wallet.

I remember everyone calling me crazy in the early 2010’s for pointing out that the new smart chips in credit cards could be read by various electronic devices, and that this could be blocked by basically lining your wallet with tinfoil.

Nowadays of course you can just buy wallets with it neatly built in.

You can also line a backpack or laptop bag with tinfoil on the inside to do shoplifting, as long as they have the older style scanning towers.

Apologies, it was DARPA program, and the funding came from the CIA, to Peter Thiel, to Facebook. Got my alphabet soup a bit mixed up.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/

I assumed this story was common knowledge?

Guess not.

Anyway yeah, when part of your job includes managing cybersecurity policies for a medium sized organization, its behooves oneself to do some research into the most well known data thieves in the world, the US Government.

That emoji captures how I feel toward anyone who still has a Facebook account.

Facebook got its angel investment from a front company for the NSA, and the NSA cancelled a project to figure out how to do mass domestic surveillance literally 24 hours prior.

Matrix algebra isnt /really/ matrix algebra until you get to Vec3