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I guess they'll have to shut down their bootstrap-pulling engines for awhile.

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This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone's ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.

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I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

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"Humanity can not progress without heaps" - Hubert Farnsworth

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It's a big improvement from making them from straw.

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You would think that with all those kids watching, Xi would lean into the whole Winnie the Pooh resemblance.

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Like many southern states, there is much natural beauty in Texas. It doesn't seem like many of the locals realize what they are blessed with.

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They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.

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How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.

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I wonder what kind of simulators they use to test their code.

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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Every year California is becoming more like Night City. Cyperpunk is supposed to be a dystopia, not an aspiration.

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We'll now need AIs to spot AI fakes. AI wins!

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There's only one right answer to that question. We want a life devoted to each other, until we don't. When has the answer to that question actually changed the nature of a relationship?

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Those are the easy questions to answer.

How about:

  1. What would do if I became sick? Would you abandon me? Would I abandon you if you became sick, or be there for you?

  2. Are you more important to me than your ambitions, your compulsive desires? Which dreams are you willing to compromise on to make this relationship work?

  3. Are we combining or finances or keeping them separate? Do you trust me enough to access your bank account and spend your money?

  4. Are we each willing to compromise on our jobs so that we both can have good, but perhaps not ideal employment?

  5. Can you imagine being old with me? Would you feel like you had missed on your youth, that your opportunities in life were wasted?

These are the kinds of things that destroy marriages. People rarely think about the sacrifices they need to make to be married.

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Securing a general purpose operating system seems like the Dutch boy with his finger in the dike. It doesn't matter if its Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X. Lots of little leaks, not enough fingers to plug them.

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This is like that episode of Rick and Morty.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ab18c4a9-f6c3-452f-8fd7-510eb21b0688.jpeg

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I think the hydrogen is intended to be sourced from natural gas, which is not a great thing. The only way I see this working in an environmentally sustainable way is an efficient means of solar hydrolysis (much more efficient than photosynthesis).

X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

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No we don't! This isn't argument, it's contradiction! Yes it is! No it isn't! Yes it is! No it isn't!

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

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I remember once when I accidentally turned on my phone during a flight instantly the plane started to plummet out of the sky. The phone slipped out of my hands and I groped for it while people and service items flailed around the cabin as the plane tumbled. Finally I slipped out of my belt and grabbed it. With only 10,000 feet of altitude to spare, I finally managed to get the phone to go into shutdown mode by holding the power button down. The plane righted itself immediately, and I slipped the phone into my pocket quietly and kept a low profile for the rest of the flight.

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The problem with the 5G phones is that they effect the thought waves of the pilots and put them into a deep dive trance. I can't blame them for wearing those tinfoil hats. Modern aviation is not what they taught in flight school.

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The problem is that ceramic and glass dishes often chip if they are in contact with each other in the dishwasher.

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I'd love to see Ryan Cohen short sell the Reddit IPO. What would WSB do?

Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone." (gizmodo.com)

Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."::The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."

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Place your phone in a sealed bag with a container of anhydrous calcium chloride, like Damp Rid. DO NOT allow the powder to get in the phone, just have in the same bag as the phone. It is a strong desiccator.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iJsdGkl44

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It's just amazing that probably the one man who least needs to give a crap about anything has such a thin skin. All of his money can't seem to resolve his deep insecurity.

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There is certainly a lack of perspective and empathy between those who spend their time concentrated on computer maintenance and those others who must perform other important tasks in their lives.

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

FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)

Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.

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I, Telemarker.

Cory Doctorow wants to wipe away enshittification of tech (www.theregister.com)

Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.

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Given that Microsoft software runs the government, I don't see this happening very soon. They might as well be another branch of the US government.

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What's he saying? And it's not like he can see what his words are doing down below.

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Can't wait for the subscription based Pi.

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The NSA does not need money from asset forfeiture. This is one of the stupidest accusations I've heard of NSA. They have to be careful about how they use their intelligence to keep potential targets unaware of what they can or are snooping on. This would be the stupidest and most pointless use of their intelligence. Anyone they would share intelligence with must do so with the most absolute secrecy, and municipal and state law enforcement generally does not qualify. This doesn't mean they're not acting unlawfully, but knowing if they are is going to next to impossible.

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It's quite likely a lot of Americans' data is already being stored and perhaps mined in the Utah Data Center.

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

I would just assume your data could be there unless your computer has never been connected to the Internet. It's simply too easy to hide surveillance in the processor (in the form of remote administration capabilities), the operating system (with remote updates), or the browser, or in the numerous security holes or likely zero-day exploits out there. The state of computer security is an absolute joke, and your 4096-bit RSA key is not keeping your data safe.

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You've got to point your dish at Mars first, otherwise you can't hear it.

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Don't worry, they'll destroy their printers for you, so you have to buy new ones.

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This way if you align your monitor with the rotational axis of the Earth, the image appears to sit still in space.

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