🎉 What a moment! Andy Kim was considered a longshot when he launched his campaign, and now he's New Jersey's Democratic nominee for US Senate! We're thrilled for Rep. Kim, a walking embodiment of pro-democracy values. This is a monumental win not just for the people of NJ, but the whole country. Andy rallied voters to defeat a powerfully corrupt, decades-old political machine. This is a story of political bravery in service of democracy that we’ll be telling for years to come.
The Fiancé just reported that on his train from Paris to Dijon, there was a group of (rich, white, older) women from OC in front of him, generally being loud, obnoxious, rude, and when discussing their upcoming bike tour in Dijon trying to decide WHEN TO WEAR THEIR MATCHING TRUMP 2024 SHIRTS.
35 years ago, a friend and I went to his house and his father met us at the door. He commanded us to sit on the couch and went to the kitchen to get us something cold to drink.
CNN was covering the events at Tiananmen Square, and the peaceful protest was being met with unspeakable violence. We sat together and spoke of past state violence like Yugoslavia in 1968.
Mark Zuckerberg was 5 years old, and was not raised in a culture that treasures democracy, so exactly nobody was surprised by a jog.
@YakyuNightOwl I was in college SJSU, history major. One of my professors who I took several classes with, his focus was Asia in general, but specifically China & Japan. (He was born in Osaka in 1927, his parents were missionaries; fluent in Japanese, he was in Tokyo as an interpreter for Army high command at end of war; died in 2021.) But we spent several classes discussing the event at length; the massacre happened after the semester was over but his lectures had an impact.
Big #FreeCAD news! Feature freeze for FreeCAD 1.0 is now on. If you have held back from trying development builds, please consider running weekly development builds starting this week and filing clear bug reports. The may give you ideas what to expect and look for, but also lots of testing has been focused on explicitly new behavior, so just using the new version for general use (of course saving early and often!) is likely to uncover a few stray problems here and there that would be great to fix before the big 1.0. 😁
I'm not one of the FreeCAD developers (my sole code contribution so far has been fixing a tooltip typo, and I've contributed to a couple Workbench extensions), but if you, like me, were previously scared off by the "no bug reports not first discussed in the forum" rule, that rule is gone. FreeCAD now take normal GitHub bug reports and even have someone dedicated to triage. Bug reporting for FreeCAD is now a good experience!
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
Bon vu que encore une fois beaucoup de journalistes et politiques vont commenter les propos effectivement semi-conspis et critiquables de melenchon sur les radiations electorales/bulletins de vote, mais sans chercher à élever le débat (c'est plus facile de taper sur le bon client).
Je précise pour mes abonnés les plus anars que moi-meme je ne considère pas les élections comme un moyen de faire gagner notre camp social, cela dit il est important de pointer les inégalités inscrites dans l'organisation du scrutin.
En vrai la délégation au privé de la diffusion des professions de foi et la main mise délirante des sondages à la méthodologie discutable mériterait de vraies discussions publics. Bien sur pas comment l'insinue melenchon qui fait du melenchon comme d'habitude, en supposant que ce serait son parti qui est specifiquement vise. Et je sais pad comment la LFI va s'en emparer, au delà de la demande de commission d'enquête car je ne sais pas s'il y a réellement eu des radiations abusives.
Pourtant des dysfonctionnements dans l'acheminement des professions de foi avant déjà été souligné, depuis que c'est confié à des prestas.
Mais meme avant les bulletins de vote et professions de foi sont à la charge des partis donc tout un tas de listes n'auront pas de bulletins dans plein de bureaux. En 2019 les campagnes étaient rembourses que au dessus de 3% des suffrages, et encore pour certaines listes les frais ne peuvent être avancés.
De maniere plus general le NPA avait fait des bonnes vidéos pédagogiques sur le financement des parties politiques, donc je vous mets le lien de l'épisode 1 : https://youtu.be/4uiVGuqp-2Y?si=Iehz3H-l9H_ETl0u
Évidemment tout ça differe selon les campagnes electorales.
From the FAQ of Qubes OS (i.e. most secure desktop OS for general use):
“Why does Qubes use Xen instead of KVM or some other hypervisor?”
“In short: we believe the Xen architecture allows for the creation of more secure systems (i.e. with a much smaller TCB, which translates to a smaller attack surface). We discuss this in much greater depth in our Architecture Specification document.”
While I love being a lone wolf fedi developer, having nobody to discuss development with gets lonely
My partner, friends and family are not devs, so I resort to our discord and matrix channels to excitingly explain my dev related ideas, progress and thoughts, but it's rare to get a reply
Maybe I should settle with AI, I'm not looking for friendship or general convos, rather more technical discussions related to the context
Not being able to explain/share how proud you are of your code sucks
As an urban landscape photographer concerned with architecture, I make a extensive use of what are called "shift movements", which are supported by certain cameras/and or lenses. Shift movements are used to avoid introducing geometric distortions (particularly of rectangular objects) that would otherwise be caused by the camera's position with respect to the subject
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution sent out a memo to its staff and freelancers this week, banning them from making any public comment regarding the War in Gaza:
"Our operating principles also say you may support human rights with limitations."
What do you mean by "human rights with limitations"?
MARTA’s mini-city station makeover takes key step forward Josh Green Fri, 05/31/2024 - 12:15 MARTA’s ambitious plan for turning its easternmost station into a self-sustaining, transit-connected mini city has taken a key step forward....
Got sent a podcast where they discussed “universal house rules” for a better time at the table. Pretty much everything they suggested is the standard behavior for Fate and Cortex.
People will generally stick to what they know, and that’s what those videos capitalize on.
The universe didn’t force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct....
Wh… why are you telling me what I believe and think?
Also, no, you would not be scientifically accurate in describing computer wizards as summoning spirits from magic rocks, because spirits are not a scientific concept.
Spirit means many different things to many people, such that few will 100% agree on its qualities on properties. It is basically a religious concept with an extreme amount of variance depending on who you talk to, generally it could be said to be a sort of ‘essence’ of a person or thing, but some would even disagree with that.
What does or does not have a spirit? People? Animals? Rocks? Only magic rocks? Water? Concepts (Zeitgeists)?
What does a spirit do? How does it do what it does? How can you know whether it is present? Is it limited by time and space, temporarily and spatially localized? Or is it in many places at once, or does it persist through time? Do spirits have personalities? Do they have forms, or bodies?
What you mean by spirit?
I don’t know, but I also won’t presume to know someone else’s thoughts.
Anyway, I did not define magic as anything, though I love studying the esoteric and the occult and learning what different peoples in different times have believed.
There are many forms of magic. Some of them relatively simple in both exercise and effect, others vastly complex and purporting astounding powers and abilities. Alchemy (Spiritual Purification / Inner Alchemy / Gnosis Englightenment and Proto Chemistry), Divining, Scrivining, Tarot, Evocation, Wards, Spells, Charms, Hexe/Curses, Secret Languages… theres so much more.
What typically differentiates magic from non magic for most people is probably the idea of a well understood, provably reliable causal mechanism.
In the past, when little was understood, concepts from religion, folklore, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, chemistry… much of this was jumbled together such that dividing those listed ideas into their modern constituent concepts would be anachronistic for to varying degrees for different places and time periods.
Over time, more and more ideas were tested via experimentation, experimentation itself became more rigorous, and our understanding of those causal mechanisms, and technological use of them, increased dramatically.
I would say that ‘Magic’ can be said to be the ideas, that were not found to reliably have a reproducible effect, that were found to not be functionally useful beyond creating an experience of profundity to the practitioners.
As an example I can attempt to speak Enochian to evoke Metatron to aid in sealing some particular demon by using the Lesser Key of Solomon, but this will not actually do anything unless I convince myself that it has in fact done something, that there was a demon to be sealed, etc.
It would be extremely helpful if you could describe precisely your conception of magic so that an actual discussion could be had, as that seems to be what you are looking for.
In my experience with magic believers/practitioners, all of them will tell you that their specific conception of magic is correct and nearly all others are wrong, so it is quite difficult to avoid accidentally strawmanning them.
But uh, you later switch to a different meaning of the word magic when you describe it as a wondrous and whimsical way to experience the world.
Personally, I find wonder and whimsy through understanding the vast intricacies of nature as science describes it.
How wondrous it is that we live in a world where the laws of optics allow a crepuscular ray from a burning star, following the laws of nuclear physics, to illuminate a lonely grove of plants, whose biology is wonderfully complex.
In closing, I do not know what you mean by magic.
Could you perhaps describe magic as a concept, or some specific instance of it or magical procedure?
I don’t know about google because I don’t use it unless I really can’t find what I’m looking for, but here’s a quick ddg search with a very unambiguous and specific question, and from sampling only the top 9 results I see 2 that are at all relevant (2nd and 5th):
In order to answer my question, I need to first mentally filter out 7/9 of the results visible on my screen, then open both of the relevant ones in new tabs and read through lengthy discussions in order to find out if anyone has shared a proper solution.
Here is the same search using perplexity’s default model (not pro, which is a lot better at breaking down queries and including relevant references):
and I don’t have to verify all the details because even if some of it is wrong, it is immediately more useful information to me.
I want to re-emphasise though that using LLMs for this can be incredibly frustrating too, because they will often insist assertively on falsehoods and generally act really dumb, so I’m not saying there aren’t pros and cons. Sometimes a simple keyword-based search and manual curation of the results is preferred to the nonsense produced by a stupid language model.
Edit: I didn’t answer your question about malicious, but I can give some example of what I consider malicious and you may agree that it happens frequently enough:
AI generated articles
irrelevant SEO results
ads/sponsored results/commercial products or services
blog spam by people who speak out of ignorance
flame bait
deliberate disinformation
low-quality journalism
websites designed to exploit people/optimised for purposes other than to contribute to a healthy internet
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....
There are layers of wrong and stupid to this article.
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights.
“The cloud” accounts for something like 80% of the internet across the entire planet. I’d be curious what 80% of transportation infrastructure would end being in comparison… no takers? We’re only comparing to (some) flights instead of, I dunno, the vast bulk of our fossil fuel powered transport infra?
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.
Oh no, the most popular song in the world used the same amount of energy as 40k homes in the US. The US probably has something in the range of a hundred million homes. The efficiency of computing equipment increases by a sizable percentage every single year, with the odds being good the same data could be served at 1/20th the cost today. So why aren’t we talking about, say, heat pumps for those homes? You know, since they’re still using the same amount of energy they did in 2018?
…about 700,000 litres of water could have been used to cool the machines that trained ChatGPT-3… Additionally, as these companies aim to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels, they may opt to base their datacentres in regions with cheaper electricity, such as the southern US, potentially exacerbating water consumption issues…
What is this idiocy? You realize that a chip fab uses something to the tune of ten million gallons of water per day, right? Ten million. Per day. I’m not even looking at other industrial processes, which are almost undoubtedly worse (and recycle their water less than fabs) - but if you’re going to whine about the environmental impact of tech, maybe have a look at the manufacturing side of it.
Furthermore, while minerals such as lithium and cobalt are most commonly associated with batteries in the motor sector, they are also crucial for the batteries used in datacentres. The extraction process often involves significant water usage and can lead to pollution, undermining water security. The extraction of these minerals are also often linked to human rights violations and poor labour standards.
Man, we’re really grasping at straws here. More complaining about water usage, pollution, water security, labor standards, human rights violations… wait, were we talking about the costs of data centers or capitalism in general? Because I’m pretty sure these issues are endemic, across every industry, every country, maybe even our entire economic system. Something like a data center, which uses expensive equipment, likely has a lower impact of every single one of these measures than… I dunno… clothes? food? energy production? transport? Honestly guys, I’m struggling to think of an industry that has lower impact, help me out (genuine farm to table restaurants, maybe).
There are things to complain about in computing. Crypto is (at least for the time being) a ponzi scheme built on wasting energy, social media has negative developmental/social effects, etc. But the environmental impact of stuff like data centers… its just not a useful discussion, and it feels like a distraction from the real issues on this front.
In fact I’d go further and say its actively damaging to publish attack pieces like these. The last few years I didn’t drive to the DMV to turn in my paperwork, I did it over the internet. I don’t drive to work because I’m fully remote since the pandemic, cutting my gas/car usage by easily 90%. I don’t drive to blockbuster to pick out videos the way I remember growing up. The sheer amount of physical stuff we used to do to transmit information has been and is gradually all being transitioned to the internet - and this is a good thing. The future doesn’t have to be all bad, folks.
Which is actually a very good idea economics-wise but fabs didn’t care much for the longest time because while crucial it’s still a minor part of their operating infrastructure. They had bigger fish to fry.
The thing is if you clean a wafer with ultrapure water, the resulting waste water might have some nasty stuff in it… but tap water has more stuff in it, just not as nasty. They generally need to process the waste water to be environmentally safe, anyway, doesn’t take much to feed it back into the cycle and turn it into ultrapure, again.
Side note in case you’re wondering what it’s like to drink that kind of water: It’s basically a novel way to burn your tongue. The osmotic pressure due to lack of minerals will burst cell walls but you’re not a microorganism so you’ll most likely be fine and the load on your overall mineral stores is only marginally higher than when drinking ordinary water, we get the vast majority of our minerals from food.
But the environmental impact of stuff like data centers… its just not a useful discussion,
I’d say it is but more along the lines of feeding waste heat into district heating. Someone can shower with those CPU cycles.
Bit late to the discussion, but I’ve only just found this thread, so please bear with me.
Those are very different trip modes. The scooter is for trips where you could walk but it is bit far, while the ebike is for trips you wouldn’t walk at all
What if I’m dealing with both? For context: my city has okay transportation system, but it’s about 10 minutes walk to the nearest bus stop (not a lot, unless it’s snowing, because nobody clears the bloody snow), then either a 30-40 minute ride to city centre and switching buses, or about 5-10 minute ride in the opposite direction to the bus depot and getting on the bus there (can’t get this bus from my stop, it passes over). Either way it’s a 1-1.5 hour commute. By car it’s 30-60 minutes drive, but with the obvious caveat of gas prices, traffic jams, carbon emissions, and atrocious parking situation.
So it’s kinda both - too long of a trip to walk in general, but also short enough if it’s via public transport. What would you recommend in this situation?
The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....
The 5 orders of magnitude gained from general computers to asics is standard knowledge, you learn it in the first year of any comp sci class. You can find it all over, for example.
so, it is just your wishful thinking. you have no proof that this is going to be true, you just blindly extrapolate from the past… wait, that is how this discussion started… 😂
There isn’t a difference. We don’t have some super magical mystical human thing that sets us apart.
yes, there is, i have already answered that.
A way to imagine how it can be possible for a computer to have thoughts and ideas
just imagine this thing that is at the moment impossible and we have no idea how to do it or whether it will ever be possible.
and see, once you imagine this impossible thing becoming true, this other impossible thing also becomes true.
q.e.d.
how easy, huh 😂
I think it’s important to now let what we want to be true to interfere with our analysis of what is true.
Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary (theconversation.com)
By Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County....
Security considerations between Xen vs KVM?
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PieFed development update, June 2024 - Peertube, Polls
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Foundations of Amateur Radio: The ARRL incident of May 2024 (podcasts.itmaze.com.au)
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Daily Discussion - 01 June 2024
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MARTA’s mini-city station makeover takes key step forward (atlanta.urbanize.city)
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Four systems and yet the videos are so similiar (ttrpg.network)
It's a choice (lemmy.ca)
The universe didn’t force you not to believe in magic. You could have spent your whole life believing magnets are magical stones, that the electromagnetic force is magical energy, and that computer engineers are wizards who conjure spirits from magic. And you could have been 100% factually and scientifically correct....
Daily Discussion - 31 May 2024
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Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face (nymag.com)
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....
Final Question. E-Bike or Electric scooter?
I am going to make my purchase this Wednesday. And a late addition to the fold is an electric scooter....
ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)
The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....