bjorney

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The word ‘decipher’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I’m wondering if they socially engineered or just found it written somewhere in the house?

You can plausibly brute force up to 4, maybe 5 words of a seed phrase. It takes longer than a normal password because every seed phrase is technically valid, so the only way to know if your brute force is successful is to generate thousands of addresses at each of the different derivation paths you may expect funds to exist at.

The same seed phrase is used for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, etc, but each currency uses the seed phrase to generate addresses in a slightly different standard. Additionally, each wallet uses a slightly different variation of that. Within each wallet is a notion of accounts, and within each account you could have dozens of addresses. You need to generate each of those addresses, and scan each cryptocurrencies blockchain to see if those addresses have ever been used.

Realistically one of three things happened: his seed phrase was written down and they found it, it was password protected or on a drive with weak AES encryption and they cracked THAT instead, or finally, he used a hardware wallet and they exploited a firmware vulnerability to lift the PIN and transfer out funds and/or read the seed from the device

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I watched all of that and I still don't get it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Does Google Cloud not count as “own hardware” for google?

That's why the bars are so different. The "cloud" price is MSRP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's not really machine learning though. If you wanted to go way back, AI research goes back to implementations of hebbian learning in computer science back in the 1950s as a way of emulating human neurons. I was merely pointing out that AI was a computer science "dead end" until restricted Boltzmann machines were revisited by Hinton et al back in 2008 or so, and that 99% of the growth in the field has happened since the early 2010s when we reached a turning point where deep learning models could actually outperform classical statistical models like regression and random forests

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

in the coming decades

Given that in the past 15 years we went from "solving regression problems a little bit better than linear models some of the time" to what we have now, it's not unfounded to think 15 years from now people could be giving LLMs access to code execution environments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Pagers operate at a lower broadcast frequency than cell phones. Longer wavelengths (low frequency) are less impeded by walls and interference.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is only true for steam keys sold on other platforms afaik

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Homeowners aren't signing contracts where they agree to use exactly 450MW of power at a constant rate 24/7 for the entire year. The problem with "Free market" utilities is that they are reliant on private sector contracts like this to fund expansion

From a business perspective, if the grid can handle the residential load 99.9% of the year, paying these businesses to cut usage during that other 0.1% of the time is a LOT cheaper than expanding their service to add one more decimal place of uptime that sits idle for the entire year

Cloud platforms like AWS/Google/Azure do something similar, where you can rent unused servers for pennies on the dollar with the expectation they can be reprovisioned by someone else on a seconds notice

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing more beautiful than seeing transparent yellow-orange overlaid on top of transparent orange-yellow

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Top to bottom, then left to right.

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