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avlcharlie

@avlcharlie@mastodon.social

I've seen things
I've done things
I've made things
I've conquered things

Most of all, I just want the world to be a better place for everyone.

Every single human.

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freemo, to random
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Reality...

avlcharlie,
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@freemo
Which Communism are you talking about? The one where everybody shares everything or the one where there's a dictator making them share nothing?

avlcharlie,
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@freemo
I wondered if that was the angle. It is an unfortunate but realistic view.

While not probable I still hold out that there is a possibility, however minuscule, that we can break that cycle.

arstechnica, to random
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Gravitational waves reveal “mystery object” merging with a neutron star

The so-called "mass gap" might be less empty than physicists previously thought.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/gravitational-waves-reveal-mystery-object-merging-with-a-neutron-star/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

avlcharlie,
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@arstechnica
Reminds me of something I've been stewing on lately.. if mass distorts apacetime and light, and we are not Maxwell's demon knowing the position and status of every Mass out there, it makes me wonder how you get a accurate measurement on anything.. I could see things being many orders of magnitude wrong.. but then again I'm not that scientist :-)

QasimRashid, to random
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Boomer: At your age in 1970 I paid off college and bought a house with hard work.

Millennials: At your age in 1970 college was 5% of median salary—Now it’s 44%. A median home was $24K—Now its $417K. The top marginal tax rate was 70%—Now its 37%. You worked hard—and then closed the door behind you.

avlcharlie,
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@QasimRashid
This is also the direct answer to why doesn't anybody want to work today.

It's not the same thing we're working for. We're working for survival and food. Owning a house and the general American dream does not exist anymore.

That's why nobody wants to work anymore.

dangillmor, to random
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Copyright is a deeply flawed weapon to use against the generative "AI" companies. But the tech industry's arrogant vacuuming up of everything in sight -- ingesting what others created so it can re-sell it to us -- is moving us quickly toward the worst possible Internet, a pay-per-view system that ruins what we've collectively built.

What is clear, meanwhile, it that Big Tech -- including Big AI -- should be broken up, period.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html

avlcharlie,
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@dangillmor
I'm all for breaking up the monoliths, but to me the elephant in the room of AI is what data did you train on.

If you back up from that question then you end up with data protection, privacy, and the lack of transparency on personal and copyrighted data.

We are in desperate need of laws regulating the transparency of data and especially personal data.

It's unfortunate it's very unlikely any of that will happen in the US.

itsfoss, to random
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Time to try something different, Bluesky or Mastodon? What's your pick?

https://itsfoss.com/bluesky-vs-mastodon/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
Well this is a no-brainer for me. I am literally here in protest of the corporate social media sphere stealing our data and selling it, and the evil of the people who run those things.

In my mind it's not who's best, it's who's worth supporting.

nixCraft, to linux
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Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2. Switch to or (if you need those Adobe and other apps). Both oses allows customization. Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-blocks-even-more-customization-apps-in-windows-11-version-24h2/

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
Screw me once, bad on you..

Screw me every day of your existence..well that's bad on me.

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1913.

Niels Bohr publishes the first paper of the trilogy "On the constitution of atoms and molecules" in The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science. This trilogy provides a comprehensive review of the origin and content of Bohr's atomic history. In a longer perspective, Bohr's quantum atom of 1913 gave rise to the later Heisenberg-Schrödinger quantum mechanics and all its relevant consequences.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72787

avlcharlie,
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@gutenberg_org
One of the true unsung heroes of the quantum revolution. Thanks for this!

itsfoss, to random
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A Deepin challenger?

https://news.itsfoss.com/lingmo-os/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
It's a bit of a red flag that it wouldn't virtualbox why wouldn't it?

rbreich, to random
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Why are we talking about whether paying fast food workers a better wage will drive up the cost of a Big Mac instead of asking how much McDonald's CEO's $17.8M salary is driving up the cost?

avlcharlie,
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@rbreich
If paying workers survivable wages means your product becomes unaffordable then your product was never affordable to begin with.

bagder, to random
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(Easy) ways to help struggling open source projects:

  • step in and help review a few PRs

  • help the project triage/reproduce bugs

  • if code in the PR looks complicated or is hard to understand, ask for an explanation

  • express your gratitude to the maintainers

  • make your company sponsor projects they depend on

avlcharlie,
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@bagder
Localization (languages and such) help as well and don't require tons of tech savvy

dangillmor, to random
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The editor of Ohio's most essential news organization felt compelled to tell readers that the paper's "north star" in the Trump era is truth, period.

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

What's demoralizing is that almost no other top editors in the business are willing to say this so plainly -- to make clear that their organizations will refuse to give any ink, much less equal ink, to the relentless liars who are poisoning our public discourse.

Big Journalism needs to find its spine, pronto.

avlcharlie,
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@dangillmor
1000% respect for this author and news outlet.

If half our media had this spine I doubt we would be where we are at with this insanity.

itsfoss, to random
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Don't want to upgrade? It doesn't matter; Microsoft thinks you do.

https://news.itsfoss.com/windows-11-linux-switch/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
I was told Windows 10 would be the last one. I'd like to speak to the manager. lol.

nixCraft, to random
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I bought a domain 12 years ago...and it achieved exactly as much as my side projects. It proudly displayed the default Apache web server page until quietly expiring this January. What a waste of time and money 😪

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
I was a web developer for almost 20 years and a few months ago let go of all of my domains. There are good reasons to have them but I don't have any anymore .. was bittersweet..

itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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What was it? 🐧

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
The technology bug hit me in the early 90s and I ended up with a job at a Mom and pop's PC repair shop. I got interested in alternate operating systems and stumbled on Mandrake and the original BeOS.. which was a great little operating system that unfortunately got Microsoft stomped. I made the final jump to Linux somewhere in the early 2000s because I got tired of the Microsoft tax and never looked back.

nixCraft, to random
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this is how bots army and click fraud take place. your uniq mobile id means nothing. Here is How they build the 3rd gen, 20 mobiles into a server chassis? 3rd generation click farm fraud involves mobile device servers, centralised and operated by one.

video/mp4

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
I'm actually okay with this. People who advertise on social media deserve to understand they are throwing money in the wind.. but they won't LOL

arstechnica, to random
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Bill that could ban TikTok passes in House despite constitutional concerns

US much closer to banning TikTok, despite users' protests.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/bill-that-could-ban-tiktok-passes-in-house-despite-constitutional-concerns/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

avlcharlie,
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@arstechnica
It's all fun and games until China decides Google Microsoft Facebook and X have to sell their China interests..lol

Daojoan, to random
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Kate, 23, said it wasn't as hard to buy a house as people made out.

"I just cut my expenses. Unlike my friends, I didn't go out, I ate at home, I watched free to air TV instead of Netflix and I thrift shopped. Add that to the $500,000 my parents gave me for a deposit, and I was able to achieve my goals in just 6 months"

This story sponsored by realestate dot com dot au

avlcharlie,
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@taatm @stfn @Daojoan
I'll add that the definition of success is subjective and living a life working until you're exhausted to sit on a pile of money is not everyone's definition of success.

nixCraft, to opensource
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Elon Musk says he will open source its AI called Grok 😱

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
Really feels like a cheap shot at openai.. retribution is what these guys feed on..

nixCraft, to random
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What jobs are 99.9% safe from Al making it obsolete?

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
AI can't do anything physical. If you add robotics in there then that makes this question a lot more difficult.

itsfoss, to random
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Set up PrivateGPT to run AI locally with your documents.

https://itsfoss.com/privategpt-setup/

avlcharlie,
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@itsfoss
Great tutorial. I 1000% prefer running things locally.

I think it's also good to mention that Nvidia has an entire ecosystem setup to create your own AI models. With a $70 Jetson nano I created and ran image and video recognition models * from scratch * that had unusually good performance.

gamingonlinux, to unity
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Unity cutting 25% of staff (about 1,800 people) as part of restructuring https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/unity-cutting-25-of-staff-about-1800-people-as-part-of-restructuring/

avlcharlie,
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@gamingonlinux
The sound of tone deaf to your clients..

ElleGray, to random
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the only thing worse than a meeting at the end of the day is a meeting first thing in the morning. meetings in between these times are also not great

avlcharlie,
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@ElleGray
After a 25-year career of meetings I came to the conclusion that the only meeting worth having is a brainstorming meeting and that's pushing it.. informational meetings need to be emailed or printed or some way to have documentation when people don't do things or when things get stupid..

Daojoan, to random
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While 23andMe’s attempt to entirely shift the blame onto victims for using recycled passwords is both ill-advised and insensitive, it does cast a spotlight on a rarely discussed aspect of digital security — the shared burden between companies and users. https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/a-shared-burden-rethinking-cybersecurity-post-the-23andme-breach

avlcharlie,
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@Daojoan
Imho, user level interactions should never interfere with system level security.

nixCraft, to random
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Heads up: Google just killed yet another product. RIP Google Podcast.

avlcharlie,
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@nixCraft
At this point you've got to assume anything but search is potential chopping block for these guys.

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