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  • that’s great buddy. but while recapping basic IT facts might make you feel smart on facebook. this is lemmy where the average user 1 is perfectly familiar the principles. here it just telegraphs to us that you didn’t read the fucking article (which would’ve taken less time than spamming the thread & insulting users btw).

    1 before the influx of reddit api refugees - on that topic do you ever reflect on how corporate bootlicking might relate to the over-corporatisation of reddit which led to users fleeing? only to come here and do unpaid simping for the corporations, slowly ruining this place too?





  • you are basically correct, and i believe these concerns were raised when that apple patent hit the news.

    essentially it boils down to the unpleasant fact that it’s simply currently not required.

    1. recording & sharing recordings of such activities has already been outlawed in certain jurisdictions.

    2. media & public narrative is already tightly controlled.

    3. they already routinely get away with worse crimes against the public for the above reasons.

    4. even if a handful of individuals face some vague justice, the public foots the bill with tax payer funded settlements.

    one day something similar to that apple patent probably will happen though, especially as corporations merge further with our legal systems, and it’ll be labelled a breach of copyright because their uniforms have sony logos or some such






  • yes, as i said

    from the article it’s not clear what the performance boost is relative to intrinsics

    (they don’t make that comparison in the article)

    so its not clear exactly how handwritten asm compares to intrinsics in this specific comparison. we can’t assume their handwritten AVX-512 asm and instrinics AVX-512 will perform identically here, it may be better, or worse.

    also worth noting they’re discussing benchmarking of a specific function, so overall performance on executing a given set of commands may be quite different depending what can and can’t be unrolled and in which order for different dependencies.


  • from the article it’s not clear what the performance boost is relative to intrinsics (its extremely unlikely to be anything close to 94x lol), its not even clear from the article if the avx2 implementation they benchmarked against was instrinsics or handwritten either. in some cases avx2 seems to slightly outperform avx-512 in their implementation

    there’s also so many different ways to break a problem down that i’m not sure this is an ideal showcase, at least without more information.

    to be fair to the presenters they may not be the ones making the specific flavour of hype that the article writers are.




  • hey man, i think you may have misinterpreted who i was replying to /what i was saying, or perhaps i didn’t communicate perfectly.

    i am 10,000% on your side with this, and very much appreciate your post and appreciate your support in this thread/community on this topic. it’s actually giving me a tiny bit of hope that this community isn’t entirely lost.

    i’ve really grown absolutely weary of the ridiculous denialism in society and especially in so-called tech communities on this topic.

    the kindest thing i think you could say about the rampant denialism is they emotionally do not want to believe it could be happening, and therefore all rationality has gone out the window.

    these threads are always a circle jerk of denialists repeating popular media headlines which say “its not happening”, and then if you read the article IT DOESN’T SAY THAT AT ALL. and these denialists WON’T EVEN FUCKING READ THE ARTICLES THEY POST.

    apart from the emotional cope, perhaps also partial exposure to eg. basic consumer stuff like installing steam or downloading a movie, so they assume the bandwidth is too high to exfiltrate audio cos their music/game/movie audio files are big, completely ignoring the fact that the telecomms industry has put many decades and $ into producing efficient voice codecs for around 50 years now. they probably think nyquist is a brand of cough medicine

    same goes for all the other erroneous ‘consumer tech’ false facts they parrot back and forth.

    eg. the lunacy of saying the tired old statement “if they were listening ALL THE TIME, we’d know” completely ignoring threshold based noise gates have been a thing for well over half a century.

    these self-proclaimed know-it-alls can’t even put in 10 minutes reading BASIC topics in an encylopedia to realise this shit was solved over half a century ago. (actually you don’t even need tech knowledge or an encylopedia to imagine such a fundamental thing as…i don’t know…not recording when nothings happening 🤯). they can’t put in even BASIC effort, yet are SOOO smug in not only telling us “its absolutely not happening”, but they actually can’t wait to be rude and ridicule randoms for even asking the question.



  • ganymede@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlOur phones DO listen to our voices 24x7
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    cos the majority in this thread cannot even read the articles they cite mistakenly thinking it supports their unscientific claims that this topic is decided.

    afaict no researcher has formally claimed a full coverage binary analysis.

    if you know of such a study please link?

    afaict the researchers are very upfront about the limits to the coverage of their studies and the importance of that uncovered ground being covered.

    when the researchers themselves are saying the work isn’t over. why are all the super geniuses in this thread so smugly announcing this topic is wrapped up?

    i guess they know better than the actual researchers do. amazing, someone should tell them not to worry cos the geniuses in the forums have it all worked out 🤣

    [if you’re unable to reply with a direct excerpt from actual formally issued research (not some pop media headline) i will not bother responding]


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    yeah the level of technical competence on this site has plummeted since the influx of the reddit crowd.

    just enough consumer tech enthusiast knowledge to delude themselves they can smugly and self righteously shit on the average non-tech person.

    and now they’re the majority, drowning out legitimate curiosity by loudly parroting headlines from articles they didn’t even read. slowly turning lemmy into the regurgitated reddit pop media shithole they wanted to escape.

    this topic is especially difficult because of the clear emotional desire for it not to be true. hence the degree of fragile cope in this thread.

    thankfully not everyone here is a lost cause, and you’ve been given some good advice on delineating the other possible causes for what you’ve observed. when we do a careful analysis we must ofc consider all possibilities.

    what i’ve not seen properly acknowledged in this thread, however, is that the possibility of alternative explanations doesn’t preclude the possibility of voice-based surveillance either.