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  • What's the deal with male loneliness?

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  • Lol. Bad joke. What I was getting at is people used to hang out at bars and drink more (alcohol use was worse). More generally, it's a lack of third places and car-based city design. More, and more engaging in-home entertainment/Internet also probably plays a part. Though, it's probably not a completely new phenomenon either, judging from art like Taxi Driver, Catcher In The Rye, etc. So, toxic or even plain masculinity likely makes it harder to make and keep close friends.

    I'd bet female loneliness is also rising in modern society as well, due to modern phenomenon. Humans didn't evolve to live like we are. We used to mostly live in small, close-knit tribes.

  • Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI

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  • That's really cool (not the auto opt-in thing). If I understand correctly, that system looks like it offers pretty strong theoretical privacy guarantees (assuming their closed-source client software works as they say, with sending fake queries and all that for differential privacy). If the backend doesn't work like they say, they could infer what landmark is in an image when finding the approximate minimum distance to embeddings in their DB, but with the fake queries they can't be sure which one is real. They can't see the actual image either way as long as the "128-bit post-quantum" encryption algorithm doesn't have any vulnerabilies (and the closed source software works as described).

  • Bernie Sanders wades into MAGA Civil War to trash Elon Musk

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  • He's been consistent on these issues for a while. "Open borders? That's a Koch brothers proposal."

  • What's the deal with male loneliness?

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  • DUI laws.

  • Search for a note taking app (solved)

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  • I just use Joplin, encrypted, and synced through dropbox. Tried logseq, but never really figured out how to use its features effectively. The notebook/note model of Joplin seems more natural to me. My coding/scripting stuff mostly just goes into git repos.

  • Republicans be like

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  • I don't think there's is a STEM worker shortage. IIRC, there have been something like 300k tech layoffs in the last couple years. Actual scientists and mathmeticians are extremely underpaid, but a lot of people like doing it, which is one of the reasons "citizen science" is becoming popular.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • The PC I'm using as a little NAS usually draws around 75 watt. My jellyfin and general home server draws about 50 watt while idle but can jump up to 150 watt. Most of the components are very old. I know I could get the power usage down significantly by using newer components, but not sure if the electricity use outweighs the cost of sending them to the landfill and creating demand for more newer components to be manufactured.

  • Only Sensor (5, 4, 8-AQ, and 2-TH): The only DIY home automation sensor you'll ever need

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  • Cool. A few years ago I made similar sensors (but just PIR, LUX, esp8266 board, jumper wires, and some with ultrasonic proximity). Attached them to the wall with those 3m velcro things. ESPHome makes things so easy; didn't even have to write code. Hardest thing was designing and iterating over the case to get the tolerances just right.

  • The Trek Place

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  • A lot of people seem to use "DEI" as a stand-in for the "n-word."

  • Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate

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  • I'm loading up on vacuum tubes.

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  • Last time I looked it up and calculated it, these large models are trained on something like only 7x the tokens as the number of parameters they have. If you thought of it like compression, a 1:7 ratio for lossless text compression is perfectly possible.

    I think the models can still output a lot of stuff verbatim if you try to get them to, you just hit the guardrails they put in place. Seems to work fine for public domain stuff. E.g. "Give me the first 50 lines from Romeo and Juliette." (albeit with a TOS warning, lol). "Give me the first few paragraphs of Dune." seems to hit a guardrail, or maybe just forced through reinforcement learning.

    A preprint paper was released recently that detailed how to get around RL by controlling the first few tokens of a model's output, showing the "unsafe" data is still in there.

  • Elon Musk suddenly realizes he has no clue how to govern

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  • He can use his money to support challengers in their next elections. He's already said he's going to do this to the Democrats. As we've seen with AIPAC recently, it doesn't take much money to unseat politicians. Musk has enough money to basically control congress.

  • Performative Perp Walk

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  • Looked it up, and looks like a local criminal justice reform non-profit bailed him out earlier this year. Looks like he's still awaiting trial though, is on an ankle monitor, and they keep resetting dismissal hearing dates.

  • Performative Perp Walk

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  • Yeah, the company I was working at got bought out and then they layed the entire tech team and pretty much everyone else. Co-founded a business with coworkers, but it's not bringing in any revenue and not sure it ever will bring in very much, so have been applying to jobs. Only got a few interviews, then ghosted afterwards. I'm guessing a part of it is I have a criminal charge pending, and the first thing you see on Google when you search my name and town is one of those mugshot websites. Maybe I should go into construction, lol.

  • Performative Perp Walk

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  • Yeah, the criminal justice system in the U.S. causes immeasurable harm. From a probation system designed to keep you in the system, to kids-for-cash-like schemes that I'm convinced are more common than has been prosecuted, to coercive delay tactics. All of which I have personal experience with. I've currently been out on bail for 2 years, and someone else in my county has been in jail without trial for 5 years because he can't afford bail. Not to mention the horrible conditions in many jails and prisons, slave labor, nearly complete lack of rehabilitation, and the system milking the incarcerated's families for money. I can't think of any other word to describe it than evil.

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    Huntsville-born software engineer mapping license plate readers nationwide: ‘I don’t like being tracked’

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  • Memories of a bygone era

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  • TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal

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  • I think TikTok appeased the right by changing their algorithm. Charlie Kirk is apparently doing extremely well on the platform now.

  • Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions

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  • You can also just install the libreelec os (Kodi), and install the Jellyfin Kodi addon. Haven't tried that addon. I used to use Kodi when I had only one TV, and liked it. Now that I have 2 Android TVs, just installing Jellyfin on the TVs works fine. I might go back to rPIs and disconnect my TVs from the internet though.