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OpenAI chief goes to US congress to propose licenses for building AI.
>"I am nervous about it," CEO Sam Altman said about elections and AI, adding rules and guidelines are needed.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-chief-goes-before-us-congress-propose-licenses-building-ai-2023-05-16/

"Ethics in AI" is so liberal easily co-opted to promote:
- monopoly capitalism (hinder competitors)
- state power (prevent democratization, prevent ordinary people developing AI)
- imperial power (sanctions to prevent non-compliant nation states developing AI).
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Morons ITT actually think AI isn't a pyramid scheme that only benefits a small pool of capitalists lmfao
Yeah, turns out the technology that at best regurgitates Wikipedia articles and turns Hitler into an anime girl doesn't have that much use

 

>>19627
>all this is is OpenAI and similar companies being afraid of competition and seeking regulatory capture
RMS: PROPRIETARDS!!

 

>>19624
Now the question is: can one generate this art with an AI…

 

>>19624
Even if they succeed in passing laws that will help porky control this tech, the barrier to entry is so low they won't be able to prevent rogue development.


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Do I really need to have a github repo showing a bunch of projects that would make executives wet when applying for a programming job now?
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>>19243
Not necessarily. However, you should work on projects outside of work to increase your skills, regardless of where you keep the source code.

 

>>19746
Why? Cashiers don't practice giving back change in their free time why should I waste my time with this shit?

 

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>>19753
How did you even get into coding if you didn't already have personal projects that drive you to learn it? Your workplace isn't going to teach you from scratch and courses are just to certify you understand the bare minimum of a language.
Coding is art, if you don't come into it seeing yourself as an artist then you probably aren't cut out for it. You have to have a portfolio like any other art job.

 

>>19755
> Coding is art

PB mindset

 

>>20308
gatekeeping art is apex "pb" though


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The best method for extracting Blu-Ray source files is through VLC with libaacs installed. CTRL + D in VLC, select Blu-Ray and the mounted Blu-Ray drive, select "Convert" from the drop-down menu, select "Dump raw input" and the destination, then "Start".
Web rips are complicated and depend on the platform

To turn source files into something that most people can automatically run on their media players, you can use FFmpeg on the command line, or settle for its restricted GUI frontend, Handbrake
https://ffmpeg.org/ (https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html)
https://handbrake.fr/
For a container, MKV and MP4 are obviously the standards
For a video codec, HEVC (x265) and AV1 (libaom/SVT-AV1/rav1e) are currently the most efficient at compression
For audio, opus is roughly 2x more efficient than mp3, with 64kbps being subjectively CD-quality in most cases. FLAC is a solid lossless format. Both formats support 5.1/7.1 channels although mapping them can be tricky and broken in FFmpeg
The trick is to find a compromise between file size (smaller bitrate) and quality. It's better to start off by encoding at the lowest possible bitrate and then moving up incrementally until you find the right one
Subtitles can be taken from the ripped source, done yourself, or imported from a website like Subscene
Extras from the source can be transcoded into their own files
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> For audio, opus is roughly 2x more efficient than mp3
Why is it not more widespread?

 

>>17469
SoundCloud switched to it in 2016, and I think it’s used by other big streaming platforms more and more lately
Some rippers are experimenting with it (search for it in qBittorrent’s search engine)

 

>>17469
>>17477
>In late 2014 and 2015, Google's video platform YouTube started offering Opus audio along with VP9 video in the WebM file format, through DASH streaming.
>Since 2016, WhatsApp has been using Opus as its audio file format.
>Signal switched from Speex to Opus audio codec for better audio quality in the beginning of 2017.
>In 2018, SoundCloud switched from MP3 to Opus, reducing half of its required bandwidth for music streaming.

 

Bumping for rarbg 9/11

 

alternative guide to ripping and compressing blu-rays that uses makemkv instead of vlc https://archive.is/9aqzF


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Who wants to do some infosec crash courses, anon? Where I, or others, help you learn information security for either attack or defence or both.
I would like to gauge interest for this, and would teach even only one person if that all who is interested.

Lesons will be short and hands on, users will be expected to understand how to use tor.

 

Hell, I'm down if you say it only takes one person. I'm fairly novice if it's relevent.
Sage to not bump a potentially dead thread, but hoping you deliver, OP

 

>>17966
>sage not to bump necro thread
>one month
You are like little baby. Watch this

 

infosec is by far the most overrated field in IT

 

>>20280
yet probably the most useful in everyday life

 

>>20290
If by infosec you mean "not falling for phishing" and not "staring for endless hours at disassembly hoping to make sense of it", sure.


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Rendition 1.0
post everything related to reverse engineering here, including but not limited to guides, resources, personal projects, news about RE

here's a handy guide to get you started: https://rentry.co/ReverseEngineering
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I want to contribute more to reversing but it is so fucking boring like goddamn

 

>>19517
How does one contribute to it?

 

>>19432
>>19439
bumping

 

>>19517
looking at the rockbox project you really need to be into it

 

Is there a debugger like ollydbg for Linux? I know that gdb is good but I need a graphical interface.

>>19253
Read Programming from the Ground Up to learn the basics of x86 assembly.
https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook

Then learn how to use Ghidra. Personally, I would run it in a virtual machine even if it's open-source. A good way to practice is to do CrackMes. https://crackmes.one/


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I keep seeing news about tech companies having huge layoffs and doing salary cuts. Is it going to collapse? Are software engineers going to paid how much their work really is worth (i.e., next to nothing)? Should I start looking for a new job?
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Good.
Hopefully it will put a damper on the stemlord dick wagging.

 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tech-workers-layoffs-industry/
Workers from the hard-hit tech sector find stability in traditional industries
>Laid-off tech workers are increasingly moving into mainstream industries such as banking as they trade the excitement of startups for the stability of long-established companies in traditional sectors.
>While tech companies scramble to cut staff to reduce costs, after swelling by as much as a third during the first years of the pandemic, many tech workers are now looking for opportunities outside the industry, despite its reputation for high compensation, fast-paced projects and intense work culture.
>The result: Some of Canada’s largest companies are reaping the benefits in scooping up talented tech workers.
(Continued)
FAANG is definitely an endangered species, but the demand for tech workers in the general economy is still there

 

>>20080
FAANG are long-established companies, not startups.

 

>>20081
They're different, though. Their business is specifically built on disruptive tech services, which is why they're constantly absorbing newer tech companies and investing into research and development, even if they have some more or less reliable flagship services.

 

>>20082
FAANG is just short for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google. They are pretty much all mono- or duopolies. They are not disrupting shit, they are buying up potential competition.


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They've already ruined news and articles since you can't search anything up without all of the top results being confidently incorrect AI-generated shit that doesn't even answer your question. What happens when they start generating videos or break down captcha so that even forums get run over?
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>>20097
>search anything up without all of the top results being confidently incorrect AI-generated shit
Even before AI started worsening this issue this was bad enough I started learning to use my bookmarks and RSS feeds for sites I already know are reliable. Then just use forums like the one you're on right now to curate them to expand your library.
You never *needed* search engines, and you not missing out on something integral now that they aren't an option.
>What happens when they start generating videos
They already do, have you not used YouTube in the last 5 years? Curation and RSS fixes this.
>break down captcha so that even forums get run over?
Legitimate but manageable concern. use robots.txt and ip blocking to prevent search engines from scraping the site, create more obtuse forms of capcha, and foster in-site culture to make the tonal difference between bots and users more appearent, i.e. encouraging non-standard grammar and banning algorithmthings like wojaks.

 

>>20101
>60 or 70 years old they'll be using AI to fake the voices of my loved ones in order to trick me into doing all sorts of insane shit.
already happening

 

>>20097
Bots are already used by political operators and I'm pretty sure they can already beat captchas. Reddit and 4chan already have obvious bots and shills there.

 

Yes. This is why porky wants to regulate it with not only Porky's Policy, but law. It's not a real problem until Porky Starts Replacing Us and things like the video are more common. When robots start replacing us, people WILL die off because they are no longer needed for the Economy.

>>20102
AI can get around that by studying inputs from users and copying them. Say, people don't capitalize the first letter of words or use periods, ai can be configured for this. There really is no way to tell who is real and who isn't, if it's done properly.

 

>>20105
>There really is no way to tell who is real and who isn't
What if reality is a spook?


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Linux Desktop Environment: tde, also known as trinity desktop is something i used 2 years ago and its like a old fork of kde 3.5 from around 2005 or so that is still being maintained today. it was an interesting experience and every now and again i wanted to reinstall the de but i sometimes decide against it. so i decided to make a thread on it because i checked that nobody had mentioned anything about it here.

also i find it kind of cool that we are almost on kde 6 and this de is kde 3.5. it's almost like the halfway point

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

 

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Never tried it, seems like it isn't in any distro package repo, is there a reason for that? does it conflict with qt5 or qt6?

Have you tried enlightenment DR16 (https://www.enlightenment.org/e16)? It is also an old fork and has many themes, it even has a version of a theme you posted.

 

>>20065
i don't know why exactly but i just assumed it wasn't popular enough or used enough to be added but i might be wrong


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If you unironically think AI will serve an actual purpose and you're not one of the handful of people with a chance at monetary benefit from believing this idea, you're basically the person in this picture
You are a precarious petit-bourgeois who hates capitalism because you're too mediocre for it and need to find an escape, no matter how false of an escape it is in reality
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>>19959
if ai can understand human language, it could probably learn programming languages much easier (as these are basically reduced to basic syntax with no need for nuances). ai does have a use and it could end the it labour aristocracy

 

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Automatic Mining Robots
https://youtu.be/g-ff9HCpE5Q?t=3177

 

>>20036
Features

Remote Non-LOS Operation
Autonomous Steering
Fleet Integration
Mine Visualization
Map Features
High Speed Tramming

Draw/Dump Goals
Goal-to-Goal Automation
Autopilot Route Properties
Automated Dumping
3:1 Control Ratio
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as always "AI" is the wrong word to use for these technologies. it's just fancier automation
>>20036
I know some people who have worked on an automatic mining jackhammer thing. basically when these trucks dump rocks to be crushed they must pass through a grate. rocks that are too big have to be broken down. previously this was done by hand. they were experimenting with machine vision to locate the rocks and figure out where to hammer them to break them. neat stuff

 

>>19949
Jelly, meatsack?


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RIP RARBG
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wtf is going on right now. rarbg gone and the YTS movie feed is polluted with podcast and random tv episodes. At the same time. How are people checking the day's releases at a glance? torrentgalaxy is ok but doesn't have the rare gems that were in the rarbg feed

 

>>19784
PassThePopcorn is the only comparable movie tracker, and it's intensely private and is extremely, extremely strict about ratios

 

>>19925
the last private tracker I was a member of my ratio was godly. can't seed here though. anyone want to rec a cheap anonymous vps or seedbox?

 

F

 

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/

Found on leddit. Self-hostable archive of all magnet links. Works just fine. Don't know how which torrents will maintain seeders and for how long, unfortunately.


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