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  • There are no psychopaths, but the idea persists.

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  • Pyschopaty never existed as a diagnostic.

    It's akin to a doctor diagnosing you with "sick". It is nonspecific, arbitrary and useless to inform treatment or prognosis. It was used as a descriptor by very early psychiatry, but it was never a distinct diagnosis.

  • I hope none of you wanted to buy RAM anytime soon

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  • Wait, you read a CEO statement and believed her? Watch as everything she said turns out to be false. This is an old corporate tactic, put women in power positions just to push them under a bus. Her job is to kill Xbox and take the fall. Microsoft doesn't want a gaming division anymore. This is why all they do is shutdown studios. They only got in because they feared Sony consoles would compete as cheap computers on the corporate market. It was never meant to go this far.

  • Oh no...

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  • The whole point of inmutabiltiy is that, even if the system breaks itself on update, you just rollback to a working image. I've had issues with bazzite, but never once have I lost a system with it.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Oh boy, they weren't fuzzy. Some film outclass the clarity and sharpness of modern OLED, even when it was for B category low budget movies, just that most people watched a 4 week old piece of film in bumfuck middle of nowhere cinema. With a scratched up and badly calibrated focus lens and dirty and deteriorated film over a dirty screen.

    Anyways, the biggest problem that physical media solves is not the number of pixels, but the bitrate. Tons of information, specially about color, is lost to streaming compression. Pixel density equation means that the quality of what you see is rarely distinguishable between 1080p, 2k and 4k, depending on how far away you sit from the screen and how big it is. For the typical seating accommodation at home and commercial theaters, you won't notice a significant change within FHD and UHD. However, you can definitely tell the difference between the 10Mbps 4k (down to as little as 2Mbps if your connection sucks) that you get from Netflix¹ and the steady 32Mbps that Blu-ray can give you.

    ¹: BTW, it doesn't matter how fast your internet connection is, the data transferred can get to you at as high speed as you want, but the bitrate of the video file inside the container that the streaming services give you is usually hard capped rather low anyway.

  • where are all the maga sports feminists

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  • A single sentence can be a paragraph, but you need to not be brain damaged to understand that, so I don't blame you.

  • where are all the maga sports feminists

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  • Being part of a minority really highlights how horrible some sport's cultures can be. If you are a gay or female fan of any sport you have to pick your social circles like navigating a minefield. Lest you end up in the homophobic “let's lynch the gay guy” or the “gang rape the only woman here” fan-club.

    Sure, the vast majority of sport spaces are not that extreme, but it only takes one, and unfortunately they are a pretty much non-zero number. Sometimes just watching a game alone in you living room can expose you to casual homophobia and misogyny depending on the commenters.

  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • The proponent is a rather successful and rational investor. This was satire, meant to evoke the idea that, if AI was all that the con men are selling, it would collapse the economy. It is not and everyone knows it, but the point is to highlight the idiocy and try to wake up people to the absurdity. I see it akin to what "a modest proposal" was. To nudge the most radical AI ideologues into understanding the dead economy and ghost GDP concepts. If the economy becomes detached from human reality, it will crumble and collapse.

  • Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform

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  • Isn't it ironic? The only Microsoft product that makes money consistently is based on Linux.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Intelligence is not reduced to producing speech or complex reasoning. Hence why calling LLMs AI was always disingenuous.

    Intelligence is an extremely complex and multi factor phenomenon. With a wide range of definitions, dimensions and degrees. Your cat is intelligent, some ML models are very intelligent. But, so they are certain blobs of fungi rhizome. A cluster of neurons in a petri dish, and a few hyper specific automation scripts can also be intelligent. An LLM can display intelligence. But that doesn't mean it is conscious or that it is AGI, or that it can be classified as a person.

    Those are all entirely different things.

  • AI tool OpenClaw wipes the inbox of Meta's AI Alignment director despite repeated commands to stop — executive had to manually terminate the AI to stop the bot from continuing to erase data

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  • You know this saying in ICT: Everyone has a development environment, a lucky few also have a separate production environment.

    I witnessed it first hand on IBM, three in the morning, troubleshooting a database problem for a big client. Engineer writes up a script to try and solve the issue, I was the systems operator. Tells me to just run it on the mainframe.

    “Wait, was this tested at all?”

    “Client authorized it, they just want the downtime gone. Send it.”

    So I just ran an untested script that fundamentally changed everything on the production database, written by a sleep deprived engineer that just wanted to go back to sleep. Granted, it worked, that one engineer was an old rockstar who had been with the client for over a decade. But the next three weeks were dedicated to tiptoeing around the changes of this one script and testing everything, in production, to make sure that the solution was viable long term and it didn't break anything unseen. We all knew better, but everyone agreed and did it anyways.

  • How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations

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  • It is just voice messages automated. That's all. You push to talk, it records your voice message, then sends it to everyone in the channel (group chat). Everyone gets a notification and the message automatically plays on their end. It creates the semblance of radio comms, but everything is recorded and kept in a group chat history. It also depends on service data coverage, since it is just an internet app and that's all. Basic features like dispatcher mode, diffusion and complex multi-channel setups are paid under a premium subscription. They sell some hardware that interoperates with the app in a radio like fashion as well, but it is all third party, so quality varies a lot. Also, I'm not aware anyone has ever done a security audit on them, the thing is entirely proprietary and closed source, it tracks location as well, so I wouldn't necessarily trust it.

  • seriously

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  • On one hand, yes, sure, fuck those people, 100%. On the other hand, remember that those people are encouraged and most likely exist only because of disinformation propaganda campaigns designed, promoted and delivered by the same bus load of people. So, you know, perspective.

  • How far back in time can you understand English? This site goes back by centuries allowing you to test yourself.

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  • And that's just the reading part. Phonetic changes will make the spoken word unintelligible a bit ways before that.

  • Facts

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  • KDE literally comes with a manual. Hitting f1 almost anywhere will give you a help tool that explains everything in detail.

  • Facts

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  • Just want to remind everyone that the point of this scene is that Draper is an unstable and insecure man that is actually obsessed about how everyone around him are perceiving him, all the time. So this line is just stupid bravado, because he thinks the phrase projects the image he wants others to have of himself. He is lying because he actually thinks about what others think of him constantly. He works in advertising ffs.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • My problem with Spotify shuffle was that it always ended up throwing a similar order of songs. The same group of songs would end up in the same general position on the playlist every time. It's not random, and it stands to reason that people doesn't actually want real random order. But it was super obvious, noticeable and quite annoying to hit the same songs at the same time on your walk every single time. They even admitted publicly that their shuffle function sucks.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • In what I've seen, the best masons are on construction sites planning the work before hand. The inexperienced and newby masons mix mortar and carry bricks around. The top elder guys lead the prep work planing when and where stuff needs to be for what is being built. But once the machine starts mixing the cement all those guys do is lay bricks.

    They don't shovel, they don't mix mortar, they don't carry materials. Just laying brick after brick until they run out of materials or the construction is done. It's quite mesmerizing to see a good contractor working efficiently, rare but fascinating.

  • DHS shot her and called her a “terrorist.” New videos show something different.

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  • I wouldn't say that neither Germany nor Japan had a normal that they went back to after WWII. Both countries are politically, demographically and culturally very different today from their pre war selves.

  • "People who rape children are people too!"

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  • One of the saddest things I learned from working with convict's mental health was that an alarming amount of child abusers weren't pedophiles. It was a crime of opportunity, not desire, for most of them. And that sort of fucks you up, because most people want a neatly ordered world, however, bad people will do horrible things regardless of whatever neat little boxes society wants to create to put them into.

  • World Politics @lemmy.world
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    I Can Prove Maduro Got Trounced

    www.wsj.com /articles/i-can-prove-maduro-got-trounced-venezuela-election-stolen-772d66a0
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    dustyData @lemmy.world

    What is you backup tool of choice?