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COASTER1921

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  • In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into.

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  • Surprisingly asking about Jack Ma's resignation didn't stop it, it mentioned that he was allegedly forced to step down for political reasons. When I probed further on what these were it didn't error but did randomly switch to Chinese at one point in the answer.

    It's very verbose compared to any other AI I've used. Not necessarily all great but there's some good parts in the responses. I'm more curious how it was trained behind the great firewall.

  • Are you addicted to your phone?

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  • Yes

  • ISPs say their “excellent customer service” is why users don’t switch providers

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  • Unfortunately the next administration will likely agree with the ISPs on this. To an extent T-Mobile and Verizon 5G home internet has genuinely shaken up the industry. As long as low latency isn't a requirement of yours they're quite good. For me they offer higher upload speeds than my local ISP monopoly with similar download speeds.

  • Special counsel Jack Smith drops election subversion case against Donald Trump

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  • More than likely he'd just go the direction of Russia/Putin and run behind a candidate he endorses but then effectively take control after the puppet candidate wins.

  • Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival

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  • FT asking

    is insane. I'm happy to pay for quality journalism but that's simply out of reach for most Americans. I'd love to know how their management determined this was an appropriate price.

  • Your body, a choice

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  • Back when the COVID vaccine was new it was reasonably common to hear my body my choice in this context

  • How embarrassing it must be to lose to this guy. Democracy is dead not because Trump policy but because we dont have any functional parties.

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  • At least he won the popular vote, so it's well and truly want the majority (who cared to vote) wanted this time. It would be much more frustrating if he lost the popular vote like in 2016, where the minority in votes had control of house, senate and executive branches. This time it's what people wanted, and people somehow voted for fascism instead of the status quo.

  • Trump warns voters that his second term would get ‘nasty’ at times | According to Donald Trump and his allies, his second term would be "nasty," "bloody," and filled with "hardships" for many

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  • NYT forecast is 90% Trump now. It's crazy that anyone would vote for him, really shows that policy plays no part in politics. It'll be interesting to see how he tears down the judicial system to remove the many charges against him.

  • YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know

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  • I don't know what's up with the algorithm pushing these lately. If it's a video with 4 views from a channel with no subscribers I'm probably not interested in it. Sometimes they have a good thumbnail/title so I give them a chance but 9/10 times it's terrible. Also often extremely right wing for whatever reason.

  • Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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  • Sounds like Russia is already expecting hyperinflation

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  • I thought that without blocking cookies the tracking is still active, even if you're not being served ads from them. In those same LinkedIn privacy settings you're automatically opted into having your data used to train AI models.

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  • LinkedIn has some of the most obfuscated and complex ad targeting settings I've encountered. There needs to be a retirement to have a one click solution to disable ad personalization.

  • Lemmy 100%?

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  • I miss the old topic specific internet forums so badly, but having tons of different accounts made the barrier to entry high so I understand why they died out.

  • Texas sees record early-voting numbers, particularly in Democratic-leaning areas

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  • Personally I've never had any issues with lines despite living in a heavily blue district. It's worth noting that as election day gets closer more early voting locations open, voting the first day of early voting sounds like a bad idea in terms of lines. Obviously this isn't going to be the case for every district, but when only a handful of places are open for the first day of early voting it's inevitable they'll be packed.

    I personally have bigger issues with the fact that the majority of polling locations are churches and that political signage is allowed outside of them.

  • Texas sees record early-voting numbers, particularly in Democratic-leaning areas

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  • We're not possibly going to flip but hopefully with abortion now restricted we'll be closer to a swing state than in quite a while. The biggest problem is how heavily gerrymandered the state is, there are some crazy looking districts to get some parts of urban areas to vote red. A simple majority of votes really won't do it in the state of Texas.

  • Goddammit Texas!

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  • At the same time those Republicans who they'd hope to gain support from by allowing to vote by mail now believe that voting by mail will lead to fraud.

    Honestly early voting isn't too much of a pain. I already know I'll be out of town for work on election day but because of early voting I'll be able to get it done before then. It's silly how complicated a process they make registration and how most of the polling locations are churches, but allowing voting by mail won't fix the main issue here, registration.

  • What's your favourite paid Android app?

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  • I have purchased both. I prefer Tasker but not as many things work as in Macrodroid in Android 14. So a big +1 for Macrodroid from me.

  • Techies, what's your personal data storage setup (photos, music, movies, docs) and what do you recommend everyone should be using?

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  • Offsite backup is not optional for anything important. It's worth paying for AWS or literally any other online storage solution for that copy. You don't want a natural disaster to lead to the loss of all your life's photos for example.

    I also personally don't recommend doing your own software for anything related to backups, you can't test edge cases easily and it could easily lead to loss of data. I once used an app that attempted to manage its own backups delete it's online backup when it lost its local data as it attempted to back up the blank local data.

  • "Housing" Proposals

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  • Land isn't the problem, even in suburbia large commercial complexes fail all the time or rich people get some grand ambition to build their perfect city outside of the existing one. For example Las Colinas outside of Dallas. Or Rosslyn outside of Washington DC. These were planned in one go to be the ideal future of urbanism at their respective times, and there are many other examples beyond these. The issue lately if the local opposition is small or poor is zoning requirements and parking minimums drastically increasing costs.