Notices by SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)

@enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be A furry engineer? Are you the one who makes the furries?

@sun@shitposter.world I don't think they are. Whatever it is that you do with them they provide a meaningful experience to the user.

And in terms of processing they keep getting more efficient too.

If you really think about it gaming on a Gameboy is probably less energy efficient than gaming on a desktop computer, because the desktop computer uses less watt per FLOP.

@velzie@booping.synth.download "It's bad for the environment" is honestly the weakest argument against machine learning technology in my opinion.

Literally anything you do is a waste of energy. Playing a video game is waste of energy. Watching video is a waste of energy.

Nobody ever complains about these things because they are meaningful to us, but when it is something that is not meaningful it is very easy to say that it is a waste.

Personally I don't think the use of energy is necessarily a waste if it is meaningful to someone at least.

A much stronger argument against the use of machine learning technology in my opinion is that most of these models are fully proprietary and locked behind a paid API service.

They handcuff their userbase with full control over the software and top of that they are also collective a lot of private data on them.

Absolutely not become dependent on it, it will cost you your livelihood as soon as the companies like OpenAI start to change something that you relied on in their service or if they started refusing your access.

meido supremacy

@skyflare@fosstodon.org Also it just adds up based on popularity. It doesn't matter on which machines it runs on and for home long. "wasted" CPU cycles are still CPU cycles.

If Anubis really takes off and every website in the world starts using it or a similar proof of work solution I wouldn't surprised if the total CPU power required to solve them adds up to numbers similar to the average cryptocurrency.

@skyflare@fosstodon.org I think calling cryptocurrency mining just a competition does not do the process justice.

Every single miner adds more security the network. The less miners you have, the easier it is to take control of the network.

This "competition" serves a purpose and the reward is just an incentive created to get people to start mining.

@kuriko@wetdry.world I'm kinda curious what will happen if you instruct it to do this.

Maybe it won't change the code quality whatsoever because it doesn't know when it is making stuff up or not.

@djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place Knowing Rockstar this means it will come out 2027

Tagging your joke with a "misinfo" content warning ruins the joke.

@blakeana@noord.zeehond.city There is no consistent rule to no if something is "de" or "het".

You just have to remember this every word.

Just be glad there's only two options in Dutch so even if you don't know you're still correct 50% of the time unlike German with "der", "die", "das", "den", "dem" and "des".

@skyflare@fosstodon.org Ah cool. I think Anubis should do something similar to give users the ability to run it using a local copy of the software instead of the one provided by the website.

I think this could be made more convenient if implemented by a browser addon instead of a separate C program like this solution provides.

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com Why go through the effort of poisoning their training data? That's just a bunch of work that does not help me. It frankly does not matter to me.

@besserwisser@shitposter.world Yeah people hate cryptocurrency because of all the web3 bullshit, all the ponzi schemes, pointless NFTs, etc.

But it's easy to look an entire technology very black and white. I believe there's also a lot of good sides of cryptocurrencies. I definitely prefer paying with a cryptocurrency over a credit card.

It's also very easy to avoid the bullshit. Just don't buy memecoins and don't go daytrading. Also avoid all proprietary cryptocurrency solutions.

@kaia@brotka.st Just like how "captchas" are being used to do useful things like scanning books and doing image recognition I think it would not be a bad thing redesign Anubis in such a way that it would do useful things instead like mine cryptocurrency or protein folding or something like that.

@besserwisser@shitposter.world I think cryptocurrencies are a good thing and they have allowed me to safely transfer money in ways that would otherwise not be possible without being tracked.

I think proof of stake cryptocurrencies have a lot of issues. I think proof of work is well suited here. I also don't think the resources used for mining is actually being "wasted", it is what actually makes the cryptocurrency safer to use. How can you consider that wasteful?

Now in the case of Anubis it is arguably actually bad for the environment. The point of Anubis is literally to waste everyone else's resources just to save a few of your own resources (and prevent denial of service).

Personally I am not a fan of Anubis, it requires me to have Javascript enabled for your website. I usually don't want to enable Javascript on websites that I don't trust.

I understand why a proof of challenge might be necessary to prevent denial of service, but maybe some browser native solution, like an addon is a better solution?

@cell@shitposter.world If you're ever in Germany you just gotta buy one and you will understand.

Proof of work when used in cryptocurrencyBad for the environment! Thousands of computers are wasting CPU cycles! We must stop this now!Proof of work when used to stop webcrawlersAmazing, very good. Best thing ever! It even has an anime mascot!Can someone explain to me why one is wasteful and the other is not? I personally find both usecases to be legitimate actually.

@16af93@wetdry.world Security through obscurity