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Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

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He comes from a South African Apartheid family that got rich with blood diamonds. Can't expect much more from that than a white nationalist.

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Bringing protest signs = ABSOLUTE LUNATICS!!!

Proceeds to whataboutism questions far less impactful than the Genocide of Gaza which is by far the worst human rights violation worldwide right now.

Israel has yet to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links, Colonna report says (www.theguardian.com)

Israel has yet to provide supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UN relief agency Unrwa are members of terrorist organisations, an independent review led by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said....

Urgent need to investigate role of technology, social media companies in killing Gazan civilians (euromedmonitor.org)

The role of major technology companies and international social media platforms in the killing of Palestinian civilians during Israel’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023, must be investigated. These companies need to be held accountable if found to be complicit or not to have taken adequate...

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Yes when israel releases the 3000+ Palestinian hostages they hold in concentration camps we can reach a ceasefire.

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What ceasefire are you talking about? Israel has clearly stated they will not under any circumstance stop their Genocide. They are only offering a 6 week pause after they will continue their Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza.

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I don't understand why people want to use so many PC's rather than just run multiple VM's on a single server that has more cores.

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Of course, but installing everything on multiple bare metal machines which take IP addresses, against just running it in VM's which have IP addresses... It just takes a lot of extra power and doesn't achieve much. Of course that can be said about any hobby, but I just want OP to know that there is no real reason to do this and I don't understand so many people hyping it up.

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I'm not sure if running multiple single SSD machines would provide much redundancy over a server with multiple PSU's and drives. Sure the CPU or mobo could fail but the downtime would be less hassle than 25 old PC's.

Of course there is a learning experience in more hardware but 25 PC's does seem slightly overkill. I can imagine 3-5 max.

I'm probably looking at this from a homelab point of view who just wants to run stuff though, not really as the hobby being "setting up the PC's themselves".

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I see I was picturing a 25 pile stack of PC's this makes a lot more sense thanks for the explanation.

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I've enjoyed Mark Rober's videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn't sitting right with me...

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Mark is not a genuine person he is a pretengineer. He can barely make a functional robot.

Backyard Scientist and Sripol however are the real deal.

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Probably on some design stuff. If you look at his videos he never makes anything impressive. Just some mediocre junior tier engineering with good video production.

This video is no different. Backyard Scientist shows up with a functional shockwave blaster. Mark puts some elastics on rocket shaped foam and calls it a day.

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Not necessarily. Making a great product would only attract a younger audience more and make the videos far cooler. But that takes a ton of time. Way more than just painting a large cannon and strapping some elastics to it

Mark clearly tries to only deliver a minimum viable product for a single shot rather than an actually functional product.

He falls under the "shittyrobots" engineers that don't just make shitty robots for fun, but because they can't actually make non shitty robots which accomplish the desired goal of their video well. Some people such as "I Did A Thing" don't try to hide it and make it part of the content. Mark is in the twilight zone of pretending he's engineering complex stuff while not actually doing that.

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Dude was a NASA engineer. This also says more about how low the bar is for NASA engineers than about Mark, as we can clearly see Mark is incapable of good engineering.

As people above have pointed out there are plenty of real engineers making real cool stuff and get views with it. It is not necessary to make a bad robot whatsoever. Hell there's a reason Backyard Scientist got featured on the thumbnail.

Stuff made here. Tom Stanton. Peter Sripol. Backyard Scientist, James Bruton, Collin Furze, and many more. These people make amazing videos about prototypes that are actually functional and accomplish the goals they set out.

Mark does not meet the list of people who make amazing inventions for their videos that actually work. He makes painted trash that falls apart when touched. He makes shitty robots not because he wants to, but because he can't make good ones. If any more people need to be triggered, Micheal Reeves also doesn't meet this list.

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They don't push any limits. They just make fun gadget that works by connecting a Pi or Arduino to some servo, and possibly connect a joystick to it. This is fine for any beginning engineer of course. But they never push any limits. The glitter bomb you mentioned is very similar. A decent engineer can make that in a single day.

Anything created by them can be made by a university student, often a first year one if they have prior engineering experience during their youth.

The other guys are desiging custom hardware, custom electronics, write custom firmware. It's a lot more than a single input > output https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPXN0QejqM0

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At least the Genocrats cant hide behind the "it was bundled in with Ukraine" excuse now. The end up the exact same as the Republicunts.

Both sides are exactly the same.

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Great news. Treat all social media equally.

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AV1 has been quite disappointing compared to HEVC. Encoding and decoding is super heavy and hardware acceleration is very lacking.

Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)

Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....

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Google had a "don't be evil" clause as well.

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Joe Biden strikes back for Talor Swift not endorsing him at the super bowl.

/s for those that take this serious.

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Thats not a bug that's a feature.

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Paul is co-founder of CircleCI and got fired for writing his pro-Palestinian article I can't sleep, another great read.

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This is true, however that means Meta has access to this data.

The question is how that data hands up in the hands of the IDF.

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Life can't start at birth if brown people aren't humans!

For those out of the loop: Reuters - Gaza's IVF embryos destroyed by Israeli strike

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Image from Sunnyvale in CEO Thomas Kurain's office

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ba54f021-d96f-4682-9140-b5f743f2c422.png

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Genocide should be a socialist endeavor.

Starting an Apartheid should not only be for the wealthy and privileged.

Seize the means of destruction!

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Didn't he say this like 5 times already

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But... Why are they taking it down if they still support it?

Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)

Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)

The Israeli military has reportedly implemented a facial recognition dragnet across the Gaza Strip, scanning ordinary Palestinians as they move throughout the ravaged territory, attempting to flee the ongoing bombardment and seeking sustenance for their families....

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Google doesn't seem to be interested in stopping it which is weird.

Also Google is already providing cloud services to power israel's IT system for apartheid with project Nimbus.

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No they kidnap random people from Gaza that get recognized in some system. There was a journalist that had nothing to do with Hamas and was recognized by the israel system and kidnapped by the IDF. He was only freed because of outrage. Many others get kidnapped and tortured by the IDF and the IDF even cuts their arms and legs off.

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Israeli doctor at detention facility says grim conditions 'break the law'

In a letter to Israeli officials, doctor says Palestinian detainees have had limbs amputated due to handcuff injuries and were forced to defecate in nappies

Israel puts their zip ties on so tight that blood flow gets restricted killing off the arms and legs. The IDF amputates multiple limbs a week from their hostages which often have nothing to do with Hamas.

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Toyota can't IP block people installing machine guns on their pickups and isn't actively supplying ISIS with cloud infrastructure though

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They found a spare 25 billion to inject in countries committing Genocide

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/26/tech/intel-israel-investment/index.html

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Are they pinky promising they deleted it? Then I totally trust them now...

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Linux developers are famous for how civil they handle their arguments. Especially that Linus Torvalds guy.

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The char is part of the texture.

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The Lena image is (was?) featured quite prominently in the OpenCV docs and tutorials. Kinda weird it only now goes noticed.

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Having a custom distro that installs some extra frequently used software by default is no problem for me.

Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)

Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...

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Christians currently living in Gaza

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5a7120d9-0e58-4225-864d-c4e98ea34430.jpeg

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It labeled many people falsely as terrorists and was a waste of time. That's why it got leaked to begin with.

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In my experience they're very solid. They also have thicker PD charging cables.

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