[–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Right, a question that literal neuroscientists couldn't answer.

I believe the technical term is "your brain is way more fucking complex". We have like 50 (I'm not a neuroscientist, just studied AI) chemicals being transmitted around the brain, frequently. They're used and passed on by cells which do biological and chemical things I dont understand. Ever heard of dopamine, cortisol, serotonin? AI dont got those. We have neurons that don't connect to every other neuron - only tech Bros would think that's an acceptable expression. Our brain forms literal pathways, along which it transmits those chemicals. No, a physical connection is not the same as a higher average weight, and the people who came up with AI maths in the 50s would back me up.

AI uses floating point maths to draw correlations and make inferences. More advanced AI does this more per second and has had more training. Their neurons are a programming abstraction used to explain a series of calculations and inputs, they're not actually a neuron, nor an advanced piece of tech. They're not magic.

High schoolers could study AI for a single class, then neurobiology right after and realise just how basic the AI model is when mimicking a brain. Its not even close, but I guess Sam Altman said we're approaching general intelligence so I'm probably just a hater.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner. Metasploit is a penetration testing framework.

    First one does what OP wants. Second one less so, and is more hands on.

    See dirbuster for automated dumb searching of web directories, gives you response codes to tell you if a page is accessible to the outside world. See nuclei which I haven't used myself but seems to get good reviews for automated vuln scanning from the command line - has nice output and seems simple to use.

    They're both easy to use and install on something like Kali Linux.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Read up on the time Christianity started a war with itself over flat bread vs not flat bread. People love to control others and its just so fucking weird. Ive got enough social anxiety and life problems without thinking about controlling what everyone else does.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    So obviously its not a foolproof plan but wouldn't you just dump the RAM while the machine is on? Dont you just copy /tmp or something and analyse that?

    I suppose I'm assuming they can get shell access now that I think about it so probably a stupid question

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:

    • fill a word document with nonsense
    • open word document in hex editor
    • corrupt file through some means she googled
    • submit the file to our submission system
    • wait for teacher to open the file, get 'corrupted' message

    She'd do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she's in infosec.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Depends what you want to do.

    On distrobox, I installed a containerised version of Ubuntu that can interact with my host, sort of like WSL on windows. Anything I put in it remains isolated so I can't install packages that break my system - and I can use apt to install whatever in want rather than rpm.

    You could develop in a VM or container like distrobox, and tbh, the host can be whatever you need it to be. You dont actually have to move off Mint.

    That being said, I dont see why you couldn't just develop on Bazzite/atomic distros of your choice using flatpaks for IDEs. I believe it has c++ installed and you'd be able to layer whatever language you needed onto your atomic distro of choice.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I really do suggest using Bazzite if you don't want to wait for steamOS.

    I previously used Mint, haven't had to install an nvidia graphics driver or new kernel since moving to Bazzite and I'm now learning distrobox so I can make my usual bad computing decisions in a safe space. Its a very stable base, and with container tech layered on, you can have all the fuck around you want with minimal find out.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    There's the honorary kings bday in June/July (lazy and dont remember which). Then there's the one in October, Melbourne cup I think idk? So there's two in between. I think 3 would be nice. Thats one every couple of months. Others to many early on in the year anyway. It fucks up January to have one again that soon, having been working somewhere that doesn't close over Christmas + new years.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    "Question: I am getting error with code 0xblahblahblah. How to fix?"

    "Deleted response"

    Reply 1: "Youre a life saver mate, thank you."

    Reply 2: "I would kiss you if you were here"

    Reply 3: "Absolute legend, this fix is so obvious, thank you for pointing it out!"

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    They didnt have time to playtest the game. So the AI can fire faster than a human. It was one of the things they sorted for Halo CE but never got to due to constraints. It is literally the hardest Halo game because of this. I think on legendary youre even the weakest character entity in the game.

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