Good creators should be paid for their work, hence why I subscribe to Nebula and watch YT with ads (although there are so many I’ll be pushed back to Nebula, and I won’t get YT premium on principle).
Realistic: Getting a faster motorcycle and going on longer touring rides and track days with it. I currently have a Suzuki GZ250 but it struggles on the highway, and the acceleration of even a “middleweight” bike like the Trident 660 is exhilarating.
PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing....
I wish I could semi-whitelist (graylist?) many websites, like allowing only “acceptable ads” so that the website can pay for costs and make a small profit while not blowing up my screen with ads. At the same time, many websites (Reddit, most recipe sites, and any text site with an autoplaying video) absolutely deserves a full ad blacklist for disrespecting their users so much. Still other websites deserve a full whitelist.
The Biden Administration announced sweeping new tariffs on imported goods from China, including increasing tariffs on electric vehicles from China.......
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate “NSFW stuff” for users — and he has examples of just what kind of “stuff” he means....
It also really depends on what “home” is. My current home is a tiny room in a cheap apartment (to save money) with a tiny kitchen, a small living room, and a joke of a dining area. I feel inclined to go to the office despite a 45 minute commute because there isn’t anywhere good to spread out and focus on work at home. Plus in-person connections with colleagues is another benefit. I’m currently hybrid with WFH 1 day out of 5.
Hard disagree. I dual boot both Windows 11 and Ubuntu on my main laptop and Ubuntu is usually way faster feeling, except sometimes on shutdown due to some snap or cups bug. Almost everything opens in a second or less, and I get better battery life on Ubuntu as well. My bigger problem is that it struggles with WiFi under crowded conditions.
This is one of the areas I see this whole “AI” thing being super useful. It could probably transcribe the video, separate the text into coherent sections and paragraphs, and take stills from the video as pictures. If the AI is smart enough, it could selectively pick out the right stills.
I can’t wait to see this technology in motorcycles and micro mobility vehicles. It will be a mushroom in Mario Kart IRL. And imagine this tech on drag bikes/cars
I was looking around for some GPS equipment for my motorcycle and came across some dirt cheap (in comparison) cycling computers with GPS tracking. This got me wondering, has anyone tried it? Since I don’t need nor want all that fancy stuff like tracking, consumption, points of interest, etc, and just want a map, a route and...
Try as they might marketing the CE 02 toward city dwellers around the world, the BMW electric scooter only makes sense when you treat it like a fun, silly toy.
I love the effort of making the electric motorcycles, but $10k is a ridiculous price on this Grom-like bike. You can get a Yamaha MT-09, a ridiculously fast and fun ICE bike, for that price. This scooter should be about half that.
Difficult decisions
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
What are you currently excited for?
The birth (or death) of a relative, the release of a new program, game, series, movie, the date you were dreaming about, could be anything
Microsoft starts bundling Windows 11 with its 'PC optimizer' app in some regions (www.neowin.net)
PC optimizers are not a new concept, and they have been around for quite a while. Nowadays, many consider them unnecessary, but having an official program made by Microsoft that is capable of (allegedly) speeding up your PC may sound quite appealing....
Being courteous [Off the Mark] (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15717415...
US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/15863526...
Of course (lemmy.world)
Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days (lemmy.world)
Guy attempts to ride from Boulder, CO to Austin, TX on micromobility vehicles (nebula.tv)
YouTube link...
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. (lemmy.world)
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)
Will Biden's new 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles affect e-bikes? (electrek.co)
The Biden Administration announced sweeping new tariffs on imported goods from China, including increasing tariffs on electric vehicles from China.......
Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)
Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for "Personal Use" (futurism.com)
In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate “NSFW stuff” for users — and he has examples of just what kind of “stuff” he means....
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/0KvTq
Using Ubuntu may give off hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect.
hot take?...
The Linux Experiment - Linux kernel variants explained: Zen, Xanmod, TKG, RealTime, Liquorix... (tilvids.com)
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)
Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of May 6th, 2024
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Cycling GPS on a motorcycle?
I was looking around for some GPS equipment for my motorcycle and came across some dirt cheap (in comparison) cycling computers with GPS tracking. This got me wondering, has anyone tried it? Since I don’t need nor want all that fancy stuff like tracking, consumption, points of interest, etc, and just want a map, a route and...
BMW's New Scooter Is An Electric Slide Machine (www.rideapart.com)
Try as they might marketing the CE 02 toward city dwellers around the world, the BMW electric scooter only makes sense when you treat it like a fun, silly toy.