amelius's comments

On: Porsche Mission S

[amelius]

At this point I'd save the money for a stick of DRAM you might need.

On: AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

[amelius]

> AdTech engineer here (some 13 years in the industry).

How do you even plan to explain it to your grand-children?

[Postosuchus → amelius]

Obvious sarcasm aside, I compel you to ponder on this question next time you read "free" content on the web (a newspaper, a dedicated niche site or anything in between).

[EdwardDiego → Postosuchus]

Former Adtech dev here - yeah, that justification worked for me for a while but when I was ordered to "just go look at this porn site and figure out what they're doing to open popunders despite the latest browser updates and then apply it to our adverts" too many times, I jumped ship.

But sure, "free content cos adverts", you keep believing that for as long as you can, I jumped ship after 13 years of it, which ironically appears to be how long you've been in the industry.

Let me just say though - adverts can still support free content without all the absolutely scummy things the adtech industry does. You don't have to track users across everything you can possibly track them across to still make money - my former company at one point was going to partner with Shazam to track people via transponders in bus-stop / train station billboards.

That's not "supporting the free Internet", that's "making some amoral shareholders richer".

Hopefully you'll figure out the difference with a few more years under your belt.

[amelius → Postosuchus]

I want to pay a real and honest price for everything.

[flourish_dev → Postosuchus]

I send them a dollar or two in Monero, anonymously. That has me for a year, no?

https://www.therage.co

On: Prompt injection in HTTP headers: what 217M web responses show

[amelius]

It's a reference to https://xkcd.com/327/

On: Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

[amelius]

What if the audio effect is:

Take an audio stream, apply STT, interpret the result as an algorithm, run the algorithm, take its output, apply TTS, then send that audio stream to the output.

[true_religion → amelius]

Sounds like it would be susceptible to how they’d reverse engineer LLMs using distillation.

[tyromaniac → true_religion]

Connect the dots for me, I'm not seeing it. Unless you are talking about building a function approximator for a bunch of measured transfer characteristics, in which case you could as easily do that well before AI.

[pjc50 → amelius]

The several seconds of latency would be fun.

[casey2 → amelius]

since human hearing is lossy you can get whatever sound you like. In the context of a moat there is none for a sfx

On: BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC

[amelius]

AI has become real, and we're cancelling the leap seconds?

This is unfair.

If AI wants to be a coder then it has to do leap seconds. In fact, let's give it leap minutes and leap hours too.

[voxelghost → amelius]

I say we make it to deal with leap ticks

On: FastH3-Omni: The best open-source H3 model

[amelius]

Examples?

On: Why are we even doing all this?

[amelius]

> I spent years on this stuff.

All I needed was entering a game of Monopoly after a few rounds had already been played.

On: An Apology

[amelius]

> and will use our patent on it to prevent anyone else from making one in the future

What prevents anyone from selling a device but distributing the software through a separate channel?

[beAbU → amelius]

What software? It's a pin you strike with a hammer to pierce the piezo speaker within.

[amelius → beAbU]

They patented the hammer and nail?

[JumpCrisscross → amelius]

FTFA: "The Silencer had a pin located where the AirTag speaker is. The device description instructed users to remove the AirTag battery, apply the Silencer, and hit it with a hammer to cause the pin to pierce the AirTag 's plastic cover and the speaker below."

The device helps you aim the nail and then, presumably, makes a watertight seal around your now-punctured AirTag.

On: Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale

[amelius]

Thank you. This shows that Krea 3 website isn't being honest, and this is what I hate about all those AI tools: the cherrypicking. Stop wasting our time!

And honestly, the whole thing looks like an ad-for-an-ad.

On: Muse Spark Open

[amelius]

You don't know what is hiding in the model ...