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oo1 ,

Thing is a douche is useful.
I giant one is probably also useful in cleaning, industrial or civil applications like sewerage.

I think only flies or dung beetles would be interested in the turd sandwich.

oo1 ,

As fuel? like whale oil maybe.

I was thinking trump was the turd sandwich, but I really don't understand US politics.

I suspect Joe Bidet is more likely to want to clean out your sewerage system.

oo1 ,

You've probably not infringed the copyright, only the court can decide though; if you were to be challenged by the rights holder.

I think there are lots of factors in your defence:

  • you're not selling it , your use is an example for education
  • I don't think you're reducing the market value for the original(s) in any way
  • you've not included substantial verbaitim sections of the original works , but I think you have used more than just facts and ideas (not sure though).

But add in some more quotes, flesh it out, and then try to sell it . . . each step weakens the 'fair use' defence.

This the the problem for the LLM, it can be used for many things, and if it has no filter or limit, then eventually the collective derived works might add up to commercial, substantial reuse, and might include enough to have copied a substantial portion of the original.
Very hard to determine I'd think. Each individual use might be fair, but did the LLM itself go too far at some point?

Copyright holder probably struggles to challenge the LLM on the basis of all the things infinite mokeys might use it for in future.

oo1 ,

it has got cheaper, but it has to get cheap enough that you can buy enough batteries with the difference.
I'm not sure it has become that cheap. Maybe these sodium battery things will get developed.

oo1 ,

phat nucleasss

oo1 ,

They're just looking at death rates, not the reduced economic activity due to restrictions in usable land, and the transition costs for moving.
They also looked at, say, the mortality rate for the thyroid cancer and count the 2-8% death rate only
The other 92% suffered nothing I guess. . . /s

But i'll grant them that coal seems way way worse.
Though basing on 2007 study is a time before the IED kicked in and a lot of LCPD plants were running limited hours instead of scrubbers - modern coal has to be cleaner by the directive - unfortunately the article is paywalled so hard to tell what their sample was based on time-wise and tech-wise.

Hydro estimate is interesting because it shows the impact of the one off major catastrophic event.

oo1 ,

heres some radom impractal ideas.

identify excesses fo power that do not work in the national interest and figure out what stable system can be put in place to regulate those excesses down to lower levels as effectively as possible. simples. /s

regulate banks so that they invest more of your savings in businesses and services that your country needs for your future. (this is a very long term fix as they've spent 40-50 years divesting from your society).

regulate capital gains so that business can not meet shareholder needs with asset price bubbles, only dividends.
regulate dividends too. (aim is as Keynes said to avoid "whirlpools of speculation" and see only "bubbles" on a steady stream of investment).

nominal transaction tax (tobin tax), and transaction delay times for all exchanges to stop stock markets being ran so fucking stupidly they do not need to trade that much that often

dissociate commercial banks from building societies separate and minimise home loans- but regulate house prices to prevent mortgage bubble. (/ust accept low gdp growth , gdp is fucking made up number)
basically do a load of FDR bank regulation stuff that got scrapped in the 70s/80s under dubious pretexts.

better to promote localised banking and local lending coops and such, then the power to make businesses loans is held closer to the savers and borrowers, and can be more accountable just by being a closer group that interacts mmore frequently.

regulate scarce situations that are hard to replicate , rent controls in centre of town or near transit (or other land use regualtion).
try to manage away property bubbles - this is part of the reason businesses become uncompetetive, along with all the other stuff that pushes up cost fo living.

Of course regulation is difficult, prone to corruption, as al) the freedoomers will say.
It is after all an excess of power - but it it not the only one and might be the only one with a chance of reducing the ppower of the others unles you cound bloody revolutions every now and again that also end up investing a new set of powerful people..
And it doesn't help that one of your(assuming i'm talking to usa by context) parties just works solely on behalf of al those power mongers that most need regulation; their real neat trick,"govt is shit", "look at us we're govt", "you'd better reduce the power of regulators in case you elect idiots like us again"
And that line of reasoning is so successful that the other party imitates it.

So you need a way to make the regulators accountable, and elections are not a necessarily the best way to improve regulation , but they can be part of a wider system to hold the regulatros to account.
On a more local scale , something like having to explain themselves and their decisions to random anonymous juries.
They should also, as public officials have to submit their income and weath statements to the jury of the people to try to demostrate no bribery.

you dont need perfect, just a framework where it can improve bit by bit, and gradually weed out those with excess power orwho abuse it. which basically needs transparency and accountability at a level and frequency that matches the circumstances at hand.

oo1 ,

haha.
yeah clinical depression is the most realistic outcome.

Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough (www.xda-developers.com)

There were a number of exciting announcements from Apple at WWDC 2024, from macOS Sequoia to Apple Intelligence. However, a subtle addition to Xcode 16 — the development environment for Apple platforms, like iOS and macOS — is a feature called Predictive Code Completion. Unfortunately, if you bought into Apple's claim that...

oo1 ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Sauce

oo1 ,

Tell your mum I'm enjoying the new album.

Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser (www.windowslatest.com)

Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....

oo1 ,

yeah but ai means the same stupid ape can excrete 25 times the stupid shit in the same time period.
That's progress.

oo1 ,

After a thorough review, our lame language model told us that if we don't have all your data, and if we don't use our AI to analyse it it, then it will be impossible for us to keep you safe from evil haxors , jeffrey epstine, putain, terrorists, china and drag queens.

For your own protection we're duty bound to enable it by default in the next version.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

oo1 ,

Tape over the hole.

oo1 ,

https://superuser.com/questions/12943/how-do-i-replace-the-stupid-windows-xp-dog-assistance-search-with-the-classic-wi
/s

oo1 ,

My problem is my work provided pc.
Will I know when they enable this?

Ideally i'll resign before that happens.

oo1 ,

Or a someone getting a bribe from them.

oo1 ,

looks more like a snail to me.
probably something to do with speed of updates. jk

oo1 ,

What ever do you mean, isn't it obvious to just navigate here :
"/HKEY/current_user/sytem/reg/software/currrent_version/microsoft/explorer/advanced/pleasedontfkmymom"
and set that to 1?!? as well as the 3-4 other very similar looking places.

oo1 ,

Yes I was doing similar a few weeks ago.
I was investigating how to get netflix app running on linux, tried a Windows VM, basically stopped at roughly this screen due to bile reaching my mouth.

Ended up installing Zen kernel, switching to KDE(Wayland) and using Waydroid.
Far easier than having to read those words or figure out what you actually have to do. I'd assume you have to regularly regedit often to keep this shit under control.

On the wierd condescending tone I also noticed a few years ago at work (compulsory MS) the MS programs started being very rude and overstepping the boundaries of informality:
"Want to save this file?"
"Fuck you excel, you can't talk to me like that.
You think I'd ever be friendly with someone who so wantonly fucks up my data types?"

They must think stockholm syndrome has spread to most of the user base.

oo1 ,

A complete sentence like that would nornally have a "subject" - in this case it should refer to me in the "second person" by using "you". Failing to refer to me as the subject makes the sentence incomplete and seem informal.
The sentence literally does not respect me.

Such informality would usually only be used in conversation with a friend or acquaintance.
It's jarring to me to see that in written English, especialy coming from a computer.

A more formal and complete sentence would be:
"Do you want to save this file?"
That's formal and not rude, but if you want to be more polite you'd say :
"Would you like to save this file?"

I can't really explain why "Would you like . . .?" is more polite than "Do you want . . . ?", it just is in my experience.
Perhaps that's not globally true though many might disagree.

FYI since you're asking about English, "no rude" would normally be written as "non-rude" or you can just use the opposite word "polite".

ajsadauskas , (edited ) to Fuck Cars
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Concerned about microplastics? Research shows one of the biggest sources is car tyres

A lot of the emphasis on reducing microplastics has focussed on things like plastic bags, clothing, and food packaging.

But there's a growing body of research that shows one of the biggest culprits by far is car tyres.

It's increasingly clear that we simply cannot solve the issue of microplastics in the environment while still using tyres — even with electric-powered cars.

"Tyre wear stands out as a major source of microplastic pollution. Globally, each person is responsible for around 1kg of microplastic pollution from tyre wear released into the environment on average each year – with even higher rates observed in developed nations.

"It is estimated that between 8% and 40% of these particles find their way into surface waters such as the sea, rivers and lakes through runoff from road surfaces, wastewater discharge or even through airborne transport.

"However, tyre wear microplastics have been largely overlooked as a microplastic pollutant. Their dark colour makes them difficult to detect, so these particles can’t be identified using the traditional spectroscopy methods used to identify other more colourful plastic polymers."

https://theconversation.com/check-your-tyres-you-might-be-adding-unnecessary-microplastics-to-the-environment-205612#:~:text=Tyre%20wear%20stands%20out%20as,rates%20observed%20in%20developed%20nations.

"Microplastic pollution has polluted the entire planet, from Arctic snow and Alpine soils to the deepest oceans. The particles can harbour toxic chemicals and harmful microbes and are known to harm some marine creatures. People are also known to consume them via food and water, and to breathe them, But the impact on human health is not yet known.

"“Roads are a very significant source of microplastics to remote areas, including the oceans,” said Andreas Stohl, from the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, who led the research. He said an average tyre loses 4kg during its lifetime. “It’s such a huge amount of plastic compared to, say, clothes,” whose fibres are commonly found in rivers, Stohl said. “You will not lose kilograms of plastic from your clothing.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/14/car-tyres-are-major-source-of-ocean-microplastics-study

"Microplastics are of increasing concern in the environment [1, 2]. Tire wear is estimated to be one of the largest sources of microplastics entering the aquatic environment [3,4,5,6,7]. The mechanical abrasion of car tires by the road surface forms tire wear particles (TWP) [8] and/or tire and road wear particles (TRWP), consisting of a complex mixture of rubber, with both embedded asphalt and minerals from the pavement [9]."

https://microplastics.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43591-021-00008-w

@fuck_cars

oo1 ,

Tyre degredation is a lot about fast accelerating and braking.
The lower mass and speed of a bike should mean quite a lot less degradation to move one person the same distance (albeit probably slower).

But as you add more cargo or need more spped the equation will change.

Of course, steel wheels on steel rails are pretty durable at high speed and load.

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