ITGuyLevi

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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree for the most part, but if we are all walking around in jumpsuits and helmets (Daft Punk style) and repeating the digital beacons of everyone else it seems like false positives are a skill issue for AI. Not too long ago I was watching a video about a guy that was a 100% match in the eyes of AI as someone that was trespassed by the casino. When the cops showed up and he presented his documents, the cops brought him to the station as they thought he must have given false ID when he was originally trespassed. He was eventually able to prove his innocence but the fact he was taken into custody because AI messed up makes me have no issue with people doing stuff to intentionally poison the data.

None of this matters in the present context though because just by wearing that you would be easily identifiable.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I'm so glad I don't 'sideload' anything, never learned how. I have been installing software since the 90s though and it's pretty much the same as always.

Joke aside, it really seems more like 'sideloading' when you go to a store, to ask it to install something on your phone instead of just installing it directly on the device.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The clothing they wear solves most of those. For the physical side (gait, height, etc) it's a little harder but shoe's have an effect on most of those (i.e. the round bottom shoes meant to help people work out just by walking wildly change a normal gait and posture).

For the devices though it could get fun. You could have a device mounted in the helmet that will pretend to be people you've passed, essentially just replaying the beacons (SSID broadcasts, etc) for the sake of a digital camouflage.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

I don't know, the old zombie flick 'Shock Waves' (1977)... Not typical zombies but it made the island approach seem a little less viable to me. It's still better than my default choice of a mall.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

I'm nearing two years into using it as my daily driver and I would 100% not want to go back. Graphene does everything I need.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think my wife paid for that one, then I bought her the CD.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I haven't used it in the past few months, I'll definitely give it another try though.

Edit: Oh, yeah this is a bit different. I like the new prompt asking if it's extended or desktop. I will definitely have to play with it a bit more, I had tossed it to the back of my brain as a 'well it exists' feature.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It works okay, but not great for me. I toss my phone on one of my old laptops docking station at work, but some apps like to force a shit resolution. It is pretty neat having them in moveable windows though.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In a normal byte format it wouldn't help, the byte standard breaks off bits into 8 bit chunks and calls them bytes (I'm not trying to explain basics, just putting it there for background), little-endian excels at using the least number of bits to express larger numbers in a stream. If you wanted to send any number from 0-255 you only need 1 byte, for 256-512 you need two bytes (or 16 bits), in little-endian it can be represented in just 9 bits, or up to 1024 in 10 bits, etc.

Doesn't matter for much to many people, but when the number gets big enough you can save a lot of bandwidth.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I think you missed the point, that I was making, albeit poorly (little endian still requires leading zeros when not transmitting in a byte format, otherwise you don't know if the first on signal is for 1, 256, 1024, etc.) it's all good though

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm not seeing any trailing zeros if that is in little endian, you start little end first and it isn't limited to a silly 8-bits, it can be used to represent numbers far larger than 255 if continued (though then it wouldn't be representative of a byte and half the joke would be lost).

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Little-endian for the win!

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