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[bemis]

or maybe they think somebody with a $1000+ cartoon profile picture doesnt need a job?

https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xeeca64ea9fcf99a22806cd99b3d29cf6e8d54925/2278

McAfee was (or is, if he's still alive ) completely correct when he said that the value of a crypto-currency is in it's utility. I'll spare you my autistic diatribe about the dangers of treating cryptocurrencies purely as an asset class, McAfee's statement sums up my opinion. I'm much more interested in the implementation of NFTs in the form of SSI/DID (self-sovereign identities/decentralized identifiers). W3C and their contemporaries have been working to formalized standards around SSI/DID that, if people could get through the technobabble, would be mortified by the implications. That same technology that can anchor a randomly generated image to a block in a chain, can also be a great way to anchor a persons ID card, medical records, etc to a chain. There are some naecent frameworks like this popping up in EMEA, and in a more subtle form here in the US. At some point, we may find ourselves chuckling as a red light flashes overhead at a checkpoint because our identity, which at that point is concretely embedded in an electronic ledger, has been flagged by some beaurocrat and now we can't get into Fresh'n'Easy to buy Quinoa. "Wasn't it funny when this was all just pictures on OpenSea?"

 

[hackinzoomer]

If anybody is reading this and wants to get into IT, I would say DO NOT major in Cybersecurity, DO COMPUTER SCIENCE instead.

I graduated in December with a B.S. in Cybersecurity and have CompTIA A+, Network+, Security+, CySA+, Pentest+, Project+, Axelos ITIL Foundations, ISC2 SSCP, CCSP, and am working on the Cisco CCNA right now.

I CAN NOT FIND A FRICKIN JOB. Not even a help desk job. I have a spreadsheet I think its up to 480 applications I have made and have not gotten hired anywhere.

Do Computer Science. The math isn't as hard as people make it seem. Don't read reddit. Those people are retarded so of course they can't learn math. Don't let the math scare you like I did.

If you're entry-level cybersecurity with a clean record, look for anything involved with the government. The government and their contractors are required to do cybersecurity for compliance, and usually they can only hire Americans because of regulations. The closest thing they can get to Indians is low-wage entry-level employees, so they fill up their ranks with them. Most of the people I've met who work at these places hate their job and do nothing particularly interesting, but it's an easy way to get enough experience to start somewhere better.

Also remember that no business actually cares about cybersecurity. It's just something they have to do that costs them money. What they really want is someone who looks good on paper and can keep them at bare minimum compliance to make stakeholders happy. If you're able to contribute in ways that generate revenue, then you'll be insanely valuable.

 

[Andrew]

since this website is using WordPress, you can automatically get the RSS/Atom feed for all the articles if you point a reader at https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/feed. I like reading articles over a feed because I find a lot of webpage layouts distracting. Here is what an article looks like in my reader:

RSS is based unfortunately support is different from site to site and it's mainly meant to be for headlines. If Slave wants to take it a step beyond he should look into the gopher protocol.

 

[bemis]

RSS is based unfortunately support is different from site to site and it's mainly meant to be for headlines. If Slave wants to take it a step beyond he should look into the gopher protocol.

It would be cool if Gopher got some love again, I've met a few old Usenet boomers and they're interesting people to talk to (usually about old core utils). People also tried to reinvent the wheel with Gemini, and what they ended up with was an entire ecosystem running on Gemini talking about... Gemini. I've equalized on the opinion that sites like this are probably the best we can hope for. The real desire was always to engage with a small community of personalities anyhow. I've got an OPML of the RSS feeds for all the stuff mentioned in this thread. Most of the sites are actually decent and include the whole article, but like you said some of them default to just showing a headline.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<opml version="1.0">
  <head>
    <title>MEM Exported Feeds</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://infostormer.com/" htmlUrl="https://infostormer.com/feed/" title="Info Stormer"/>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/feed/" htmlUrl="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/feed/" title="Occidental Observer"/>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.unz.com/xfeed/rss/all/" htmlUrl="https://www.unz.com/xfeed/rss/all/" title="Unz Review"/>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://vdare.com/generalfeed" htmlUrl="https://vdare.com/generalfeed" title="VDARE"/>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://americanbookclub.org/rss/" htmlUrl="https://americanbookclub.org/rss/" title="AF BookClub"/>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/feed" htmlUrl="https://mindseyemag.com/magazine/feed" title="Mind's Eye Magazine"/>
    <outline type="rss" xmlUrl="https://www.amren.com/feed/" htmlUrl="https://www.amren.com/feed/" title="AmRen"/>
  </body>
</opml>

 

[Lobot]

I like those guns that you point at stuff and it tells you how hot something is. Stud finders too. If you point one at yourself it beeps. gets an easy laugh out of a home depot employee if you do that and say "guess it works"

 

[Clovis]

Why are 4000-series NVIDIA GPUs so much more expensive than 2000- and 3000-series GPUs? Is it just a status thing, like Vision Pros costing $3400, or are they actually that much more sophisticated than previous lines? For reference, the last "pinnacle" GPU in the manner the 4090 seems to be now was the $~1200 Titan X.

 

[hackinzoomer]

Why are 4000-series NVIDIA GPUs so much more expensive than 2000- and 3000-series GPUs? Is it just a status thing, like Vision Pros costing $3400, or are they actually that much more sophisticated than previous lines? For reference, the last "pinnacle" GPU in the manner the 4090 seems to be now was the $~1200 Titan X.

Personally I think it's mostly a status thing. When the 5000 series releases I expect the price to decrease significantly.

 

[$lave]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1788383707880894957?s=46

 

[daddpitt]

"It’s very clear that outside of niche gaming, no one actually wants go into the “virtual” realm." no. that's not clear at all. plus facebook isnt apple.

I agree. I think it's another example of the tech taking time to be fully realized.

The equipment needs to become more affordable, and as far as gaming is concerned, it will have to be attractive enough for developers to make big games designed specifically for VR and nothing else.

Personally, I don't think a VR version of Skyrim or something similar is a compelling enough reason to dump the money into a headset, and I think most people would agree.

But I think it'll get there at some point, and once they can optimize VR to be a good balance of design and function, it'll be there. IMO if a piece of VR equipment was available that looked and felt similar to a pair of eyeglasses and was about the price of a smartphone, I'd buy it. I don't see any reason why that wouldn't be possible within my lifetime.

 

[Stiff]

AR products like the Apple Vision Pro already have a much stronger value proposition for casuals than immersive VR. A quality lens on a comfortable headset could replace every monitor you would ever have to buy, with no stands or cables, usable in practically any position.
It could unshackle the screen from the PC completely. You could keep your computer in any room and access it with wireless peripherals. Commercially available low-latency networks already support this at a usable level.

It's also a longjump in the direction of consumer-grade cloud-computing-as-a-service, which brands like Google and Microsoft have been trying to sell in specific niches (gaming, mainly) for years. Consumers dislike cloud computing in principle because it gives custody of their personal computer, with all their data, to a third party. They also dislike it because it is currently accessed inelegantly through another computer.

AR lenses obfuscate the first problem by hiding the computer out of sight, and completely solve the second problem by eliminating the need for a physical computer near the viewport(s) in a more versatile way than a similar-functioning standing monitor could provide.

So that's a weird take from Spencer. AR is the same level of virtual as regular computing, but much more comfortable. Strictly as or less "inherently dystopian" than what we already do every day. He said it about the "virtual realm" but called out Apple specifically so yeah if that's his angle, I don't think he thought about it like this.

TL;DR Apple Vision Pro is a hardware evolution with clear benefits to consumers and different but also clear benefits to cloud computing providers.