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enkiusz

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To make a mistake is human but to really fuck things up you need a computer.

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mpesce, to random
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Overnight, Microsoft announced "Windows Copilot" - which integrates ChatGPT-like features across the entirety of the operating system used by hundreds of millions of PCs.

Rolling out before the end of the year.

So yeah, that's pretty huge.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23732454/microsoft-ai-windows-11-copilot-build

enkiusz,
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@mpesce how easy it is to turn it off?

DJDarren, to random
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Sat next to one of those stupid big imported US tanks at a traffic light earlier. Had a fleeting thought that the roof of my Mini was about the same height as its bonnet.

And yeah, it was.

Those things are ridiculous.

@notjustbikes

enkiusz,
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@dmarti @DJDarren @notjustbikes I believe the official marketing designation for this vehicle class is "clowncar"

BenRossTransit, to random
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Ukrainian refugee flees to Columbus OH with her 2-yr-old child. Moves back to Kyiv because the bus service is so bad. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime/a-short-week-in-kyiv

enkiusz,
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@Andres4NY @BenRossTransit the American dream aint what it used to be

kravietz, to random
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The scale of tayga logging in Irkutsk oblast'. This process has been going for years, but apart from Russian environmental activists few people even know about it.

Before, the wood — perfectly healthy whole trees — were largely exported to EU where, thanks to the legal classification of "biomass" as zero-emission fuel they were, again, legally reducing CO2 emissions from coal power plants. Now it goes mostly to China.

As significant part of this logging is illegal even by Russian law, the forest that has not been logged is often set on fire to cover up and pretend it was all lost in an accidental forest fire, thus multiplying the harm to environment and climate.

The idea of biomass burning was based on sound scientific observation that when you grow say wheat, it takes CO2 from the air that is then bound in the straws, so when you later burn it, it has a zero net CO2 balance. This was then turned into a requirement for a minimum percentage of biomass in power plant fuel mix, which, together with the EU ETS emissions certificates, created a huge demand for .

Since EU actual waste biomass (straws, wood chips etc) was able to satisfy only a fraction of this demand, the industry did what it had to do: started importing it. But lifetime of straws is one year, while this forest has been growing for hundreds of years, which is how science was turned into absurd.

This is how just one Polish power plant ended up importing 7000 tons per year of forest from Komi Republic (Russia) over distance of thousands of kilometers, or German power plants importing coconut shells from Pacific area and planting forest in Africa to be cut and then transported on ships to be burned in Germany...

A helicopter goes over vast forest area with massive lanes, hundreds of meters wide, cut in it, with huge piles of logged wood. The lanes go for kilometers.

enkiusz,
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@kravietz yep, biomass fuel is ripe for abuse

mcc, to random
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It is 2023 and I want a pair of dangly earrings containing FIDO keys in one ear and a tiny computer in the other, bone conduction headphones hidden in my hair so the computer can talk to me, and a BTLE ring I can tap on the table to send morse code commands to the computer. I don't feel I'm being unreasonable here and frankly I should have been able to get this eight years ago

enkiusz,
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@mcc Morse code communications of simple messages or notifications could be useful to have in a ring or smartwatch

pancake, to random

The support improves quickly! Now there's EDKII which provides standard UEFI support for booting! That's orders of magnitude handier than uboot! https://forum.rvspace.org/t/unlocking-new-possibilities-starfive-visionfive-2-sbc-now-supports-tianocore-edk-ii-uefi/2779

enkiusz,
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@pancake why is it handier than uboot?

enkiusz,
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@pancake indeed but i dont think these features belong in a boot loader there is price for complexity esp. when it comes to security

DeerWhispers, to random

The Moon occulting Jupiter.

photo by Andrew McCarthy

enkiusz,
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@DeerWhispers Looks legit to me

stux, to random
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Suspended a ton of business spam accounts and IPs again :blobcheerwitch:

We don't need windows, doors, gambling and other spam on the Fediverse.. :nkoHammer:

enkiusz, (edited )
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@stux thank you for your hard work

cstross, to random
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Low birthrate is UK’s top priority, Tory MP tells rightwing conference

A Conservative MP has claimed the UK’s low birthrate is the most pressing policy issue of the generation and is caused in part by “cultural Marxism”

They're getting ready to go full forced-birther white supremacist here, aren't they https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/15/low-birthrate-is-uk-top-priority-tory-mp-tells-rightwing-conference-miriam-cates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

enkiusz,
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@Npars01 is there any data on women having kids and not voting as a result? Id like to read up on that.

enkiusz,
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@Npars01 thanks you will read 2mo

sjvn, to opensource
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EU's Cyber Resilience Act contains a poison pill for open source developers https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/12/eu_cyber_resilience_act/ by @sjvn

The EU still has time to fix this security law. But, if it doesn’t, it will prove a disaster for both and all technology-based businesses.

enkiusz,
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@kravietz @sjvn the one who will end up paying will litery be redhat and canonical

baldur, to random
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“Google wants to take over the web”

"The threat here isn’t sci-fi fantasies of intelligent computers that could exist in the distant future; it’s what companies are doing today" https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-wants-to-take-over-the-web

enkiusz,
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@baldur

“Google wants to take over the web”

this is news to me lol :)

stevenrosenthal, to random
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Disney demanding that Andor continues production without writers during a labor dispute proves that Disney execs do not understand Andor.

https://gizmodo.com/andor-season-2-production-writers-strike-1850411776

enkiusz,
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@stevenrosenthal They thought Andor was just harmless fiction.

DarthPutinKGB, to random
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Trivia time, serfs. US lend lease provided 1/3 of all Soviet trucks + critical metals, rations, clothing
Also 18200 aircraft (30% of fighter & bombers). Stalin privately said USSR would’ve have lost to Nazis without it.

Name the 1 item of US equipment he soviets did not want.

enkiusz,
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@DarthPutinKGB Shovels

rebeccawatson, to random
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Took some time to catch up on book reviews on my alt channel! Let's talk about Solaris
https://youtu.be/feMoj88mu-U

enkiusz,
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@rebeccawatson You can watch the Russian movie adaptation on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZhQPaw4rE

enkiusz,
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@rebeccawatson Solaris is the bomb. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible next for another hard scifi masterpiece :).

bobjmsn, to random
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This is the email address to complain about ID being introduced . Be awful if everybody used it.

enkiusz,
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@kravietz @harriettmb @bobjmsn I once had this exact discussion on birdsite. I was told (by a British citizen) that ID cards are literally communism and government opression ...

enkiusz,
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@clacke @kravietz @bobjmsn @harriettmb
Of course, in Poland everyone has photo ID as it's needed in many situations.
I think the UK would be better off if they moved towards universal photo ID as well but having voting as one of the first places where photo ID is required is a massive stink. Especially when everyone and their dog can see that the Tory party is not doing well in the polls.

Microsoft otrzymuje Big Brother Award Polish

Microsoft otrzymał Big Brother Award (Nagrodę Wielkiego Brata) za "całokształt twórczości". Big Brother Award to przyznawana corocznie w różnych krajach nagroda za szczególne osiągnięcia w dziedzinie naruszenia prywatności czy ochrony danych osobowych. Nazywa się ją czasem "Oskarem inwigilacji"....

enkiusz,
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@abix_edukacja @anedroid @lemat_87 @didleth bez sensu jest zniechęcać innych.

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