Zigbee bulbs, third reality and sengeled (sp?) are most of what I have attached to my home assistant. Stay away from the WiFi shit tho

I just started writing up invoices for my side hustle and quoting prices to fix their shit.

I do that for a day job, so I have no interest in working more for free. Putting a price tag on the help definitely helped cut down how much bullshit they tried to get me to do

I commented on this issue a couple of days ago here and linked a study arguing that the current methods of “factoring” via QC are not scalable

https://lemmy.world/comment/23267756

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11687-7

The issue at hand is that there’s a fundamental limit of what we can effectively do at the moment, and a lot of the hype is being driven by “factorization methods” that ultimately only twiddle a few LSBs in the number to cheat to solve it using something that’s not even remotely close to a real world example.

To use the Manhattan project analogy, this would be like saying “theoretically, if you smash enough radioactive stuff together into a critical mass it will fission, so we’re going to compress these bananas until we hit that point”.

I think they’re hoping that reaches more of a steady state

With how quickly tech advances and hardware degrades under heavy use, they’re going to be pushing that rock up a hill for a good while lol

Sure, papers about an abacus and a dog are funny and can make you look smart and contrarian on forums. But that’s not the job, and those arguments betray a lack of expertise. As Scott Aaronson said:

Once you understand quantum fault-tolerance, asking “so when are you going to factor 35 with Shor’s algorithm?” becomes sort of like asking the Manhattan Project physicists in 1943, “so when are you going to produce at least a small nuclear explosion?”

L. O. L.

I love that this dude just casually dismissed that QC hasn’t been able to factor anything larger that 21 in the last 14 years without cheating and using primes that are nothing close to real world grade primes used in crypto.

Relevant paragraph:

PQC readiness “is mostly actuarial/risk management—even if the chance of building a CRQC by, say, 2030 is very low (say 5 percent), the downside risk is huge,” he explained. “Combine that with very long transition engineering times, and you should have started already.”

Also, relevant paragraph from the wiki page for integer factorization records:

The largest number reliably factored by Shor’s algorithm, rather than some other quantum method, is 21 which was factored in 2012.[26][27] The number 15 had previously been factored by several labs and subsequent attempts to factorise 35 failed.[27

And a relevant excerpt from this study looking at “factored” primes above 21

Large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of implementing Shor’s algorithm are not yet available, preventing relevant benchmarking experiments. Recently, several authors have attempted quantum factorizations via reductions to SAT or similar NP-hard problems. While this approach may shed light on algorithmic approaches for quantum solutions to NP-hard problems, in this paper we study and question its practicality. We find no evidence that this is a viable path toward factoring large numbers, even for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computers, as well as for various quantum annealing or other special purpose quantum hardware.

I’ll be concerned when we start seeing primes being factored when they’re not using compiled Shor algorithm primes. So far, most of the big “factorization records” cheat and use primes with only the LSBs differing, and aren’t remotely close to anything used in a real RSA prime. There was a good discussion of it on Security Now episode 1034 for those who are interested.

No, you can make it even harder now that they’re going linux

Entirely unrelated, but when did xkcd add all those goofy modes in? I just spent more time playing with those modes than I have on their site in a hot minute

“Fixing” something means it has to pass inspection. You can slap shit in with duct tape but you’re gonna be out what you paid plus the 4x because your fix was sub par.

My sibling in Talos, did you really think these AR games weren’t going to include tracking user movements when the ENTIRE POINT of the game is to be in specific places and they go out of their way to make sure people aren’t spoofing gps?

Require them to fix AND pay a fine, or let the city fix it and pay 4x the cost AND still pay the fine. Shit will stop happening quick.

Are you talking about the “tread on me daddy” party? The party of “over my cold dead hands” re-elected president “take their guns first, due process later”. Don’t expect them to stand up for their “values”, because they don’t have anything past party power and hurting the outgroups.

Because it’s always a fresh hell I deal with, none of that stale hell you get from time loops

Because then shitheads would use it as an excuse to remove the author’s credit in the comic

Certs are really only for HR.

I’d add on vendor managers to that list. Most ‘larger’ (read: more than 50 employees) orgs I’ve been at also cared about vendor certifications because it could make or break their partnership level if they didn’t have enough certified employees to make the cut. That’s why I got my ccna a decade ago (and haven’t renewed it since I left there), because my company needed more certs and they gave me a 2k/yr pay bump to get certified.

Considering Iran shut the Internet off before the us/Israel attacked due to protests, I’m not sure we’ll ever know…

Akshually, they have Internet, it’s just turned off.

The Internet and infrastructure didn’t exist for billions of years, so they couldn’t be without something that didn’t exists

Weird, I wonder why the people Trump left to die less than a decade ago don’t want to help him out??

Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

Yeah, the ‘but’ is the entire problem. In my experience, LLM chatbots are like if you made a 12yo a junior admin and fed them speed. Very quick to give you a confident answer, but wrong more often than not. The worst part is a lot of what I’m doing is coding, and it gets basic commands and syntax wrong