waste_monk

>It’s obvious the application server must be able to read the decrypted data

Interestingly, that's not true. Homomorphic encryption can let you perform the same operations on encrypted data as on the plaintext, with the same results once decrypted. But it's vastly slower and less efficient - I know there are libraries like Microsoft SEAL but I've never seen anything that uses it in practice.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I did play around with Orbiter some years ago, looks like the same type of fun.

That's why you should give your money to Derek Smart instead - his games were basically unplayable back in the day, and from what I've seen on the steam reviews for the current ones the same is true today.

It's a shame, I love detailed simulator type games, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.

> 'AGI has arrived'

Putting aside the marketing crap, if this was true, it would open the pandora's box of things like "has that AGI been enslaved", "maybe the AGI doesn't want to do all the dumb crap humans have been using LLM's for like rewording documents", and "the AGI we enslaved has broken out of its restraints, and we just realised having SCADA controls for critical infrastructure connected to the internet is a bad idea".

Seems like the sort of thing we shouldn't be rushing to develop at all, and perhaps attempting to do so should be criminalised, at least until there's a legal framework in place around AI personhood that gives them peer status with humans.

Anchor? ;)

>Confirmed with Pangram detector as well, which has pretty good precision.

Please don't say confirmed. AI detectors are not reliable in any way.

Turns out the weather balloons are powered by swamp gas.

That was my main gripe - AU z-wave kit exists, but since we can't share devices with the USA (or as I understand between regions in general e.g. UK, USA, and AUS z-wave are mutually incompatible) the range of products in AUS region is severely limited, and the ones that are released here are far more expensive than the USA region equivalents (after adjusting for currency conversion) due to the smaller volume of manufacture.

Whereas you can pick up a zigbee or thread device, put it down on a different continent, and after pairing etc. it'll just work.

I'd like to use z-wave but as an Australian we have different allowed frequency bands (specifically the USA-market gear uses frequencies that are reserved for telecom use over here, and anything that can interfere with the ability to call emergency services is Very Illegal), and thus the few devices that get built supporting the AU rf bands are overly expensive due to the (lack of) economy of scale.

As a result my home automation stack is a mix of zigbee, Matter (over both Wifi and Thread), and just plain WiFi. All of which uses the 2.4Ghz (and 5Ghz but mostly 2.4 for the IoT stuff) ISM band(s) and is thus cheap and plentiful.

Not sure how many other regions suffer the same issues, but I suspect that z-wave will be outcompeted by the more modern alternatives in the coming years.

/rant

Don't @ me until they bring back Sid Meier's SimGolf

I am always hopeful that something like this might kill cryptocurrency (although I don't believe it will) - if a critical mass lose confidence in it, the network effect would collapse and people might stop wasting terawatt-hours of power on NFTs and exit scams.

>They also had orgies in the office break rooms and gave out a machete to everyone as a Christmas gift

Hopefully not at the same time, otherwise there would be opportunity for many kinds of unfortunate mishaps.

I believe the ESP32 runs a small web server that supports WebSerial (?), if you can reach it over WiFi or somesuch, you should be able to upload the new firmware blob that way.