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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

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Stallman warned us, we didn't listen.

I'm glad to see BadVista still up https://badvista.fsf.org/blog/view/?set_language=en

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At what point does this all just become sinophobia?

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Agreed. Developing countries need clean and affordable energy

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"Nuclear for me but not for thee".

The optimal temperature for solar panels to operate efficiently is typically around 25°C (77°F).

It is 34°C (93°F) at night.
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nuclear power isn’t relevant anymore.

that's not true. you just don't want developing countries to have nuclear power.

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Wow, some industry lobbyists got government funding, amazing.

Not just in the US, China too is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country

Global fossil fuel subsidies are at $7 trillion, so I guess those are really relevant to our future as well!

No of course not. The subsidies at this point at a crime against humanity.

I don’t want developing countries to waste their money on nuclear power when they can get much more cost effective renewables.

If the renewables are cost effective and provide stable power then I too want them to be priority -near zero risks-, but more importantly industry and business will seek them on their own. I just hold that nuclear power should be part of the mix. Take the UAE for example it is investing in both nuclear and solar.

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It is not illegal is it?

If it is legal, then thank you China for the free backup.

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Not as bad as you make it out to be, and I actually worked in the US with more Chinese engineers than US engineers.

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At least the Fediverse exists.

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Remember when Google used to give good search results?

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

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AI -and cryptocurrencies- use massive amounts of energy and the only value they produce is wealth. We don't get correct, reliable and efficient results with AI, and we don't get a really useful currency but a speculatory asset with cryptocurrencies. We are speeding into a climate disaster out of pure greed.

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I don't want to doxx myself or blow my own horn. The programming I do, and many developers do, is not something ChatGPT or Bing AI or whatever it is called can do.

At best, it is a glorified search engine that can find code snippets and read -but not understand- documentation. Saves you some time but it can't think and it can't solve a problem it hasn't seen before, something programmers often have to do a lot.

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Just capitalization and autocompleting variable names with correct grammar is handy

We have had IDEs for decades

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

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I have a solution! Employ a human to verify the work of AI, perhaps you need more than one with all the junk AI might produce. Maybe you will even need an entire department to do that, and maybe you should just not use AI.

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https://archive.is/2024.05.24-022620/https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/saudi-arabia-claims-record-low-price-as-marubeni-wind-power-deal-hits-15-mwh/2-1-1647186

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My bad. I tried to archive it but it didn’t work

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A lot of people hate on modern Arab cities, but they aren't as bad as they may seem. Cities are divided into districts, and each district is more or less self sufficient: bakeries, barber shops, supermarkets, schools, mosques, soccer fields, restaurants, banks, hotels, ... So as child with a bicycle I can reach everywhere I needed to go. It is when moving between districts that it can get tricky since you will have to cross fast moving stroads or highways.

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More for me!

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You got them mixed with Israel. From malicious spyware and surveillance to running over civilians with tanks.

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As someone who uses both daily I prefer the shell of Windows 11.

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EU making iPadOS more useful

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    The reliability of Wikipedia depends on the topic.

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    There's a bridge in development -not associated with the project- that should bridge @Protocol and ActivityPub.

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    There is an ancient 1400 year-old Arabic saying that goes إن من البيان لسحرا "in eloquence there is magic" or "some eloquence is magical". It is an ancient tactic.

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    Other countries are Asiatic hordes, nothing but lawlessness and savagery. Only America make clean safe technology! 😜

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites 🤨

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