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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(PDF) The Role of Blockchain in 6G: Challenges, Opportunities, and Research Directions.
So this buzzword laden document was published by the IEEE. As far as I can tell it doesnāt actually say much besides a breathless stream-of-consciousness about how blockchain and AI will make everything amazing and is terribly relevant to wireless communication protocols because reasons.
Butā¦ just read it. If you can make it to the end without your brain oozing out of your ears then you win the grand prize!
boy oh boy the IEEE has fallen pretty fucking far hasnāt it
the IoE is defined as the internet of things but more so. fucking brilliant. I canāt wait to use digital technology in my industry. also I canāt wait for Nike to deny my insurance claim because my shoes decided I was too active to be sick.
something tells me the only reason this piece of shit was published was to reputation wash uncited claims like this one. this one specifically is a horseshit claim weāve seen before, earlier in the generative AI hype cycle ā itās the nonsensical idea that a blockchain could somehow be used to add a verification and attribution layer to an LLMās training data set
thereās a bunch of points in this document where the writing goes from the style of a confused undergrad assistant to whatās almost definitely an LLM fabricating shit. fucking behold: the blockchain will somehow secure the communication link with your UAV and authenticate it with air traffic control (what? also, these are things that existing cryptosystems are good at that blockchains specifically are fucking worthless for) and itāll also help with yourā¦ drone insuranceā¦?
all of this is almost certainly an LLM generating bullshit that sounds drone-related
finally, they didnāt even finish the conclusion paragraph:
what do these words mean? is this what research is now?
just ran into this gem too: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9205201
itās maddening how much marketing and outright scifantasy are being washed through reputable outlets under the veneer of research and/or technical writing
I smell bullshit written by spicy autocomplete, or at the very least it has LLM drivel pasted into it in various places.
Lol what? The EPRS has quite unambiguously stated that there are multiple points of tension between blockchain tech and the GDPR, and that ādecentralization == securityā is a false assumption for various reasons. Thereās also the elephant in the room that every person maintains the right to all copies of their data at all times (mainly articles 16 and 17 GDPR), which is a problem if it exists in an uneditable distributed ledger.
The conclusion of that study was, and I quote, āthat it is not possible to assess the compatibility between āthe blockchainā and EU data protection lawā, and the only reason why it even might be compatible is mainly because of āthe uncertain definition of āerasureā in Article 17 GDPRā. But even then they only admit that there could by hypothetical beneficial use cases but fail to find any with current blockchain tech.
Source: Blockchain and the General Data Protection
those bits of the GDPR were not written with blockchain in mind at all. However, I am reliably informed that the authors were quite delighted to find theyād preemptively made it actionably pretty much illegal to put PD on a blockchain
I hate āedgeā in its new form as pseudotechnical marketing guff. Frex, āAI-driven MCU market surge sparks innovation in global and Chinese firms for edge AIā