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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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Arguably that may be related - cryptocurrency people needed a new thing to prop up their Nvidia shares, and "AI" fills that niche.

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While flipper is very versatile, it's pretty weak compared to dedicated devices with proper antennas for the signal type you're looking at.

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Electricity solving a maze

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Porto Alegre underwater, not expected to recede any time soon

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Or even Ami Pro's keyboard settings, where each function key was mapped to a paragraph style. F2 = body text. F5 = bullet list. F6 = number list. F8-F12 = heading levels 1-5 (from memory, it's been a while). Function keys in Word are so useless that I can't even remember what they do (except for F9 which is super broken).

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"We wrote it!" when trying to stop people copying it.

"We didn't write it!" when it comes to §230 liability for what is written.

The judge can clearly read "you grant us a worldwide, non exclusive, royalty free license" in their TOS, which isn't transferring any copyright ownership.

‘Lol, No’ Is The Perfect Response To LAPD’s Nonsense ‘IP’ Threat Letter Over ‘Fuck The LAPD’ Shirt (www.techdirt.com)

We’ve had plenty of posts discussing all manner of behavior from the Los Angeles Police Dept. and/or the LAPD union here at Techdirt. As you might imagine if you’re a regular reader here, the majority of those posts haven’t exactly involved fawning praise for these supposed crimefighters. In fact, if you went on a reading...

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"Up there with Arkell vs Pressdam" - yup!

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Time to play Rimworld then I guess?

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It's The Stig's American cousin!

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

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Example: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/local_council_tech_struggles/

Maybe if they collectively owned a software company it would be more responsive.

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Jeff's solution is pihole not firefox? I thought ad blockers did way more complex and subtle stuff than the DNS approach of blocking entire domains?

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"Also this strikes me as a very lazy reviewer. Which makes him profoundly qualified to review printers"

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    Meanwhile XKCD on staring at the wall

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    A cafe staffed by robot waiters controlled remotely by paralysed people

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    Is there any way to re-enable password saving in private mode? All the discussions say "you don't want to do that because it's a type of history" but it's sure less convenient leaving Firefox in private mode all the time.

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    You can have emojis in branch names?

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    I heard a rumour that this crashes at least one type of modern smartphone - can you confirm?

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    The affected versions are 5.6.0 to 5.6.1

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    The craft in the news today mixes aero lift with helium lift, and claim that it "can stay in place on the ground as it is loaded, unloaded or refueled"

    https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/airlander_10_hybrid_airship/

    Admittedly their main customer wasn't unloading anything at remote locations (it was carrying surveillance equipment) so we don't know if it can fully unload all 10 tonnes in that mode - but that was the claim.

    Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

    Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...

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    I wonder if it could spot Steve

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    No need to create such a community - there's one ready-made in Iceland! They even had a vet who was on top of the vaccine* research in the early days.

    EDIT: Just looked up that story, and (a) it was in the Faroe Islands not Iceland, and (b) they adapted their salmon-testing labs to detect covid in humans, allowing them to test 5% of the population per day, locally.

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    Aleatoric as demonstrated by slow mo

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    "Tools" -> "Page info" -> "Media" menu on Firefox - you can even see and save the images that the browser already downloaded.

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    He said someone in the bank's supply chain was compromised, as they knew a lot of details that should have been known only to the bank. Also that the only information he gave away were the last digits of a card number.

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    It's scary how oblivious banks can be, and I think Brokkr is either lucky or optimistic about their procedures - I have seen even large banks like HSBC make "facepalm" mistakes like you described, and it sounds like Cory's much smaller credit union might even have outsourced their nighttime call handling to someone very close to the fraudsters.

    Still curious how they managed to use Cory's card with just the card number and not the CVC2 code - is that a regional thing where some online shops aren't required to use it?

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    Ah yes, Caesar Cardini the famous ancient roman.

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    "Up to 50% off or more!"

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    When writing a contract you can just specify which legal system the parties agree to use - this is quite common.

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    Contemporaneous blog post about it from 2011

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    very little data? Climate Town looked at one of the datasets, it had just two points - and they showed a negative correlation!

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    For true excess we need to turn to the tech world: https://www.theregister.com/2009/07/29/aboxalypse_now/ where "deliver a mouse on a pallet" isn't even the worst example.

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    https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/seat_selection.png

    https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/incident.png

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    Interesting experiment: Ask translation software to translate "my manager", "the cleaner", etc. from a non-gendered language into a gendered language without any other context, and see which form it chooses for each.

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    *** BE NOT AFRAID ***

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    Apparently the latest ones have even more usable space within the fake size: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UsWx1iO-aeA

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    You can just go to fiverr and pay a manga artist to create your drawing.

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    they've already trained on stack overflow, if you want an AI that recommends a complete change of technology stack in preference to solving the problem at hand.

    I don't know if it can also insult you for wanting to solve the problem?

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    Original history of http colon slash slash slash dot dot org

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    What investment are they making in customers? Are they selling something at a loss? Should the FTC BoC ask what exactly they mean here?

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    because UK law said that computer systems should be assumed to be working correctly, which is exactly as stupid as it sounds.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/12/update-law-on-computer-evidence-to-avoid-horizon-repeat-ministers-urged

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    does that help with privacy at all? would that mean someone can't pick up your locked phone and ask it questions like "who did I recently call"?

    More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (www.themarshallproject.org)

    Private security footage is nothing new to criminal investigations, but two factors are rapidly changing the landscape: huge growth in the number of devices with cameras, and the fact that footage usually lands in a cloud server, rather than on a tape....

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    Obligatory reminder that just getting into a car (or walking past one) is considered by pretty much every car manufacturer to be acceptance of their privacy policy:

    https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

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    NjB literally made a dramatisation of this comic! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZh7A7qTPo

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