Climate change is increasing the likelihood of synchronized crop failures across different regions of the world. This synchronization means global food shortages are more likely....
he’s so great! i’m a huge fan - i really do want to try it but I know if I got slack on maintenance it would go to shit really fast, so i’ll have to wait until I have more free time. I do want to take some time off and set something up that is somewhat sophisticated so requires less maintenance but honestly the apocalypse will probably get here first
My wife and I recently took a trip to Tasmania and spent most of our trip doing amazing, beginner friendly hiking trails and looking at amazing scenery....
I am actually looking forward to threads taking off. I, as a mastodon user, will be able to follow my friends, celebrities, artists and interact with them when federation is activated. It is hard to get friends on to mastodon. The software is great and is better than Twitter, but the people are not on Mastodon but on Twitter,...
I honestly agree, I feel so annoyed that on a platform designed from the ground up to enable communication whatever platform we’re on, people are taking the first opportunity to cripple its growth because they hate a company.
You can get whatever data is available from federation with a server just by joining a server - the data they want is from installing their app on your phone.
if you stay federated with them you can get all their content for free without installing their spyware.
this makes a lot more sense. I’ll read the link, thank you
edit: yeah, that’s a bigger risk. I’m a bit more torn… I’m frustrated, the promise of an open protocol is having access to the content without signing up to mainstream services. I would really love that and it’s what the protocol was designed for. cutting ourselves off feels like it’s just going to doom the whole idea to being underused and fringe.
do you think xmpp would have done far better without google?
It feels like they’re two different roles. It might be better to have user-orientated servers that prioritise federation of content and only have a couple of meta-style communities, and other servers which prioritise being the go-to place for discussion on a particular topic and less a place that manages a large number of user...
yeah I wouldn’t be in favour of making that change to the software itself… I think the features are good the way they are. I’m just thinking in terms of organising services, and the best way to do it - it’s lots of servers run by volunteers and the structure is hazy so I think it’s good to have these conversations.
I think the trouble is you can assume your superposition calculated all the possibilities, but you have no way of picking the right one. it just calculated all the possibilities at the same time. however, there are some really clever ways that i don’t fully understand of figuring out what the result is, if the result is periodic you can see some kind of interference, or if it can be represented as a lowest energy state the system can fall into - honestly it’s all really confusing. but it has to be a specific algorithm that’s been identified for a quantum computer, if you try to run it like a regular computer it won’t work at all. here’s a cool article on the algorithms: amarchenkova.com/…/5-quantum-algorithms-that-coul…
i think shor’s algorithm is the most interesting because it breaks encryption and ends the world
Climate change threatens to cause 'synchronised harvest failures' across the globe, with implications for Australia's food security (theconversation.com)
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of synchronized crop failures across different regions of the world. This synchronization means global food shortages are more likely....
Baize exLlama SuperHOT is the best model I've used yet (huggingface.co)
Huggingface...
Beginner Hiking/Walking Spots
My wife and I recently took a trip to Tasmania and spent most of our trip doing amazing, beginner friendly hiking trails and looking at amazing scenery....
I think people are over reacting to the launch of Threads by Meta
I am actually looking forward to threads taking off. I, as a mastodon user, will be able to follow my friends, celebrities, artists and interact with them when federation is activated. It is hard to get friends on to mastodon. The software is great and is better than Twitter, but the people are not on Mastodon but on Twitter,...
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom 1.2.0 Update - doesn't look like it's fixing many of the glitches people have found (press-start.com.au)
Does it seem like we’re mixing two concepts, having servers for users and content?
It feels like they’re two different roles. It might be better to have user-orientated servers that prioritise federation of content and only have a couple of meta-style communities, and other servers which prioritise being the go-to place for discussion on a particular topic and less a place that manages a large number of user...
Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)