RobotToaster

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

The server is down

Have you tried rebooting it?

No, it's depressed and wants a hug.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm just theorising how AI could be used, but consider the situation where someone makes a complaint, but doesn't remember the exact time of the incident (say they remember it was within a six hour time frame for this example), or what the officer looked like.

You have (for example) 20 officers on duty it could be potentially be, in a six hour time frame, that's 120 hours or 5 days of footage. An AI can use facial recognition to find the complainant within minutes.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

You need to try my grandma’s cloud

Is that a new euphemism for medical cannabis?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I'm aware of those scams, but that isn't what the article talks about:

This report doesn't even touch on the plague of USB sticks that falsely claim to have several hundred gigabytes of capacity but only have perhaps as little as 16GB or even 8GB.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The company says that in its business, it's finding more and more devices with cut-down memory chips with manufacturer names removed

Removing the identification from the top of ICs isn't that uncommon

Clearly discarded and unrecognizable microSD cards are also soldered onto a USB stick and managed with the external one on the USB stick board instead of the microSD's internal controller

This makes sense, the memory controller on uSD card doesn't normally do wear levelling and stuff that a larger flash drive does.

These chips are not completely broken, but CBL notes they come with reduced storage capacity, implying that reducing capacity was how they were salvaged.

Isn't disabling bad blocks of memory chips and selling them at the lower capacity pretty common?

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz -1 points 2 years ago

Depends if they make me look hot tbh

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

As someone who was formerly owned by a black cat, this is absolutely something I can imagine him thinking.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Am*ricans like them.

Therefore we are duty bound to hate them.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Does the alliance system seem broken for anyone else? I tried doing several "evil" runs, but I can never get the authoritarian or Malthusian to like me despite implementing stuff they are supposed to like. (I end up getting the utopian and environmentalist as allies 🤨) Maybe I'm just bad at being evil lol.

(Also it seems weird you only get ally points when you complete a project, usually in politics alliances are formed around throwing money at things, not actually getting them done)

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Ah great, BSE 2: venison boogaloo

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