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RadicalAnthro, to Futurology
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Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez #Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in #server farms to illustrate some of the diverse #environmental impacts of #datastorage.

"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes"

#ethnography #computing #data

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

spmatich,
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@RadicalAnthro there were warehouses filled with racks of servers and network gear before aws, microsoft and google got into hosting. While the number of servers has probably gone up, the cloud providers have not created a demand for their services, which would not be met elsewhere by a non-cloud provider. Datacenter hosting is not a term I encounter much these days, but I made my living working in that area for about 10y from the early 2000s, when the cloud was a little thing on architecture diagrams that showed where the internet connection was. Large companies had contracts with datacenter hosting providers. They owned or leased hardware. Then virtualisation came along, and all of a sudden the corporate clients didn’t need to own the hardware anymore. The cloud as we refer to it today is just an extension of that. So while it is now a bit more obvious how much energy goes into running ‘the cloud’ it’s mostly because what might have been discrete hosting contracts have been aggregated by big providers

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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Linux experts: I have the 6.5 and 6.1 kernels installed, but system boots automatically into 6.1 -- any guidance on why that's happening and how (or whether) I can force it to boot into 6.5?

(Assuming a GRUB issue but I don't want to muck with that in a casual way...)

spmatich,
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@dangillmor updating grub is a step that should be triggered by installation of the new kernel.
You can try this on Debian / Ubuntu systems
sudo dpkg-reconfigure <linux-package-name>

spmatich,
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@dangillmor
this is what it looks like when I run it on my ubuntu laptop

ajsadauskas, (edited ) to Birds
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Swift spotted in Sydney 😲

There's a good display on them at the Australian Museum, which is well worth the price of (free) admission.

@sydney

spmatich,
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@ajsadauskas @popheads radar-like navigation system? That would mean they did not fly at night before 1940, as radar hadn’t been invented yet.

kcarruthers, to acab
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Murder victim Kelly Wilkinson repeatedly visited police in fear of her husband trying to kill her. They said she was ‘cop shopping’. Then he killed her. Seems she was right. 🤬

Exclusive: Family calls for inquest, saying Wilkinson visited police ‘almost every day’ before she was murdered by her husband in 2021


https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/18/kelly-wilkinson-murder-husband-guilty-plea-police-visits-fear-inquest-brian-earl-johnston

spmatich,
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@kcarruthers what the hell is cop shopping? what can be done? I mean, aside from stopping some men being violent thugs. Women in this predicament need access to services that can actually provide the protection required which police cant/wont.

ajsadauskas, to ai
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In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don't understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

#AI #LLM #LargeLanguageModels #WebDev #Coding #Tech #Technology @technology

spmatich,
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@veronica @ajsadauskas @technology The hype around AI in software engineering seems to be that it is ‘proven’ that devs produce code quicker. it is going to be interesting to see if the corporate world values code quality over development velocity. There seems to be a pervasive belief that “move fast and break things” is how the big guys do software engineering. A few points to note:

  1. this idiom only applies when you fail fast, realize it, and address the problem that has been introduced.
  2. Break things does not mean enshittify ie create tech debt by virtue of poor code
  3. It really only applies if you have enough development resources to do the rework. That is to say, can afford to get it wrong often.
decryption, to random
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    @decryption who is your supplier/retailer?

    chris, to Israel
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    You know what "total victory" means right? Countries use this when they intend to completely remove, or conquer, another country, or people.

    It's just another euphemism for

    And yes... it will take "months"... because that's how long it will take to starve out, kill, imprison, or remove every last Gazan.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68232883

    spmatich,
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    @OGjester @chris it's important to remember that there are some significant differences between the Nazis and the Zionists. But if the founders of Israel were told that 80years later, the machinery of their state would inflict unimaginable suffering and death on tens of thousands of children (half the population of Gaza is under 18), they would surely have tried to prevent the rise of the likes of Netanyahu.

    spmatich,
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    @cakeisnotalie @chris The Zionists have not invaded Europe, created extermination chambers nor started a world War. The Zionists have a history of cruel and overreaching, heavy-handed responses to military / terrorist action on their borders but in that they are not unprovoked. The Nazis just invaded entire countries with no provocation. Even though he talks of extermination, Netanyahu does not justify the killing of Palestinians based on eugenics. Also the Zionists do not talk about a master race. etc etc I could go on but this is question for a history lesson, and frankly a bit of a sad one at that.

    kcarruthers, to random
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    Not creepy at all: Elon Musk Had Twins With His Top Neuralink Executive, But They Never Dated — She Explains 'He Wants Smart People To Have Kids, So He Encouraged Me To' And He's The Person She 'Admires Most In The World'

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-had-twins-top-225513548.html

    spmatich,
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    @kcarruthers sometimes I wish news media would just skip the shit that wealthy idiots say to justify their self obsession. It really would make the world a better place.

    azonenberg, to random
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    Parts for the BaseT1 passive tap came in! There's a few more SMAs and some pin headers (nothing super exciting) and a lot of parts for other future projects.

    But this one is a bit more interesting, let's have a look! Mini-Circuits ADCB-20-82+ dual directional coupler. 1-800 MHz, 20 dB IL.

    Since it's a dual directional coupler it gives you taps in both the forward and reverse direction. I may respin my BaseT passive tap around this as well, since it's so much smaller than the one I used there.

    From the top at low mag, not a whole lot to see. Just a white box with some markings.

    spmatich,
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    @azonenberg @Ongion just a guess. it is using a transformer if it has a primary and secondary winding. The signal from the primary appears in the secondary. But One effect you can see with transformers is that the orientation of the winding is important. So it might be something like the forwards path has the orientation additive, but reverse path the orientation is subtracting. So it cancels the signal in the reverse direction?

    spmatich,
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    @azonenberg @Ongion it's hard to see from that shot. But it might just be a inductor windings, which is effectively a resistance (impedance) at high frequencies. it might be doing something tricky with a phase shift to achieve subtracting, but that's not a broadband effect, phase shift will be freq-specific. Clock signals are effectively broad band because they are square.

    spmatich,
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    @azonenberg @Ongion ah just had a thought. Looks like it's the same wire wound in both cases. If the same wire is wound one way, ie half first, then tapped and the other half is wound the opposite way, then I think that's called an auto transformer. So depending on the path it could cancel itself out. If the signal traverses the full length of the wire it will produce zero output. If it only goes halfway it won't be a transformer it will just be an inductor as there's no secondary

    kellylepo, to random
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    Next in our 19 days of galaxies is perhaps the prototypical face-on barred spiral galaxy, NCG 1300, as seen by and .

    Instead of starting at the galaxy’s core, the arms of barred spirals like NCG 1300 begin at the end of a large bar-shaped structure, filled with older stars.

    Two prominent dust lanes cut through the bar, ending in a spiral feature at the center — a spiral within a spiral.

    It is about 62 million light years (19 Mpc) away.

    📷https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/105/01HM9W19S5P2GMG5TXDXQ7M7RG
    1/

    spmatich,
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    @kellylepo according to Wikipedia 2/3 of the galaxies we can observe have some kind of bar. Is there any evidence in the JWST images to indicate how Dark Matter might generate bars in the spiral?

    xeus, to random

    What will the dark market for rogue LLMs look like? How will people go about obtaining AI models that aren't filtered or regulated by govt or big tech?

    spmatich,
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    @kcarruthers @xeus it's not so much the models as the dataset used to train them? If it becomes law to disclose what and whose data is used to train models, then presumably there will be a financial incentive for models where it is not disclosed.
    I'm thinking about deep fakes and how they might be used for coercion, extortion or blackmail. In which case if the model used to produce a deep fake has used the targets data without permission, to make it more convincing, that might have a market. Not just for criminal activity, but also espionage.
    Or maybe it would just be a dataset from socials of a company like meta. So like Cambridge Analytica, but where the data is used to train models. It's not easy to prove where the data came from once the model has been trained. So black market models might be a way to hide data theft or unauthorized access as well.

    jerry, to random

    Looks like Ron is hanging up his heels.

    spmatich,
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    @jerry if I were a betting man, and you were asking my opinion (neither of which holds), I would have given this very short odds. The question for me is who really believes anyone other than could ever win GOP nomination and why? Such believers really need to explain themselves. This primaries thing is way too performative. It's theatrics and not policy that gets pundits attention.

    decryption, (edited ) to random
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    @glent @decryption https://linux.die.net/man/1/gpg

    spmatich,
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    @glent @decryption I think @decryption has mentioned previously they are migrating to a Linux desktop. Call me old school but man pages are also a valuable resource on *nix systems.

    ElleGray, to random
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    Crocodiles use many forms of camouflage for instance these "jazz hands" are used to lure musical theatre people to their doom

    spmatich,
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    @ElleGray do the crocodiles prefer the fan flavour of Sondheim or Gershwin? Gilbert and Sullivan fans would be attracted by period costumes, so Im pretty sure the crocs aren't interested in them.

    decryption, to random
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    @decryption dual boot if you need it. But there is always wine.

    spmatich,
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    @Zagorath @Nath when your language switched from describing "a woman" to "female", I found myself reacting to those terms. It's none of my business really. Though I want to say two things. One, that a woman can experience privilege, but a female not so much. That is, female is an attribute, and as such is completely inadequate to describe a woman, who has much more than just one attribute. The second thing is that privilege relates to the experience of life, where the subject of the privilege does not encounter a particular struggle. Not only that, because they never encounter it, they aren't even aware that someone else might do. Tall people know they are tall. How can you know what someone has experienced, unless you know them well? How many privileged people can you say you know that well? Not only that, it's probably likely perceived as a pejorative, because it points out what someone else doesn't know. I don't necessarily agree with the academic containment bit. Though I think you make some good points.

    spmatich,
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    @Zagorath it's a fairly common usage. Though 'male privilege' has the same problem. Referring to a category of privilege as if maleness is it's only attribute, is generalised and problematic. It's quite different from saying "privilege that men tend to have". Calling it male privilege, has an implicit catch-all. The term is describing social categories, as if they are discrete groups, where as in reality what each person is aware of forms more of a spectrum. I think it's problematic because it diverts from the intent of the distinction, which is to highlight the privilege, rather than who necessarily has it. Anyway, like I say it's a fairly common usage, I'm not singling you out. I just reacted to that form of language.

    spmatich, to HashtagGames
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    She's a man eater

    jonoabroad, to random
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    Wasn't there meant to be a new season of Dr Who?

    spmatich,
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    @jonoabroad didn't BBC sell that "franchise" to Disney? Do you have disney+

    _dm, to random

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    @_dm "ferocious ambition" is a standout quality?
    Vladmir Putin also has a ferocious ambition. As did Hitler, along with a number of notable misery-generating toxic individuals from history.
    If ambition is all those who know him can find to describe his quality, that's a damning indictment indeed.

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