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  • Make it make sense

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  • All those data centers will be of little use. The components used are deliberately e-waste, designed to die in 5 years or less. The rack space is the cheapest part and if there's no demand, they will be quickly deprecating real state. Anything built will be demolished and sold as soon as the bubble bursts. That's their usual destiny, as data centers are not a very profitable for lease space.

  • Make it make sense

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  • That's why they're making it expendable. Those chips are designed to survive no more than 5 years of service in data centers. An unprecedented low level of durability provisioning. They are intentionally making e-waste.

  • Make it make sense

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  • Simply because they can read the writing on the wall. Corporate made every single decision possible to signal "use AI or get fired." With mass layoffs being driven mainly by whole industries pivoting to AI, people are fighting desperately to stay relevant. Every pundit and tech guru is singing "learn AI or become unemployable." It is a strive for survival, not a heartfelt trust or belief on the tech. Hell, they might not even understand how it works, people just know they need it in their CV to keep their meager income coming.

  • Pet Food Science Is the Most Corporate-Captured Field in All of Science

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  • My dog's vet told me straight up, if you don't mind the labor avoid kibble. The recipe is simple. Zucchini, carrots, pumpkin and some protein in equal parts. cut into tiny squares. Poultry mostly, is preferable, chicken liver once a week for extra vitamins and fat. All boiled until soft, without salt or any other seasoning. Once a month a raw large bone is good for chewing, but under supervision and don't let it break the bone.

    It's work to cook every other day for the dog. But this diet literally saved her from a platelets deficiency once. She's super healthy in her yearly check ups despite a chronic infection.

  • Why I feel Samsung’s push for thinner foldables is making them worse

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  • Because consumers prioritize camera quality over everything else. It sounds stupid, because it is, but it is the number one quoted purchase factor in surveys, right above weight and screen size. Social media clout and influencer culture have made people care excessively. But the prime limitation to phone camera qualities is sensor size. They are tiny, they have to be. The larger the sensor, the larger the optics required for them to catch light properly. These are physical limitations that will never go away. If anyone wants better quality cameras, it means either bigger bumps on phones or switching to large sensor dedicated professional cameras. Any foldable phone is forever cursed to have a bump as long as people care about those big three.

  • What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema?

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  • Yeah, I would say that magic spells, in English and other languages, are more traditionally associated with rhymes than specific words. Latin associated to magic is through catholic ritualist use of Latin. Even then, it was more about repeating prayer phrases, like in stereotypical exorcism or funeral rites. Gothic novels, for example, straight up used catholic prayer in Latin to convey magical intent. But it was not vaudeville magic or modern day superpower magic like in pop culture.

  • Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims

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  • It is a Vice article. It has the journalistic credibility of a dirty wet wipe.

    Edit: Lol, the source is an off the cuff remark of Mike Straw on a podcast. The same Dude has been teasing this news of an alleged leak since November and produced not a single shred of evidence while being an asshat on xitter about it at the same time. This is not the first time this guy speculates over future games and is taken out of context by fans.

  • Backing up Spotify

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  • If we were talking about the ethnic music of an extinct tribe that uses a language on risk of disappearing, sure, you would be right.

    But think about it for a bit longer. They are just a commercial production that had no cultural impact in a population. They are still getting preserved in a format with a quality degradation that is imperceptible to the human ear. That's usually enough. Audiophiles are usually overzealous about fidelity preservation. But the efforts are often misguided and discussions abound on technical topics that ultimately don't matter.

  • TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims

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  • Gay communities are not all the same around the world. It kind of is part of the problem, grindr applies an insensitive one size fits all model. US gay culture prevalent in grindr pushes promiscuity, distorted body images and sex centered stereotypes. It used to be that the app was simply a proximity chat with basic profiles. This was a safe haven for gay men in homophobic cultures that needed a way to identify, contact and interact with other gay men without fear of violence or discrimination. Yes, it was about sex, but it was about sex as a reactionary channel for frustrated desires for human contact and emotional connection.

    Today it is so enshittified and has added so many anti features that it has shifted to be the opposite. It has turned into a harassment machine, that frustrates and enrages users in an attempt to make them pay money for premium features, that used to be free, or get rid of the new ones that nobody uses. Which signals users to be and act even worse to each other in order to circumvent the exploiting anti features.

    Then it also pushes things like penis size obsession, high risk multipartner encounters and unprotected sex, with a high dose of body shaming on the side. All that while showing an ad every 3 seconds (I'm not exaggerating). Without mentioning that it has always been a privacy nightmare, a vector for minor's abuse, sex work and drug trafficking. With the app owners never doing anything of value to actually protect the users. Grindr has gotten kids and adults raped and murdered before. But it promotes PRep (in countries where the drug is banned because homophobia), so, yay!

  • TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims

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  • It's not sex in return for data, more like “you get sex, you lose confidence and any sense of self-worth, we will also show you ads every 3 seconds.”

  • TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims

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  • So is grindr. Most dehumanizing app ever, so manipulative and full of ads.

  • Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?

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  • Synology offers cloud services and business level support for their enterprise products. They do support different authentication workflows, they are just not all included with the consumer products.

  • How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness"

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  • Never conflate loneliness with not getting laid. Thereby lies the first in a long streak of mistakes.

  • How did far-west era US dealt with "Male loneliness"

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  • extreme disconnect between researchers/academic writing and how the general populace interprets the word

    This is the bane of sciences communication. No, the way I'm using the word is not the same you use and therefore your interpretation of my research is wrong. Prescriptive arguments about semantics are irrelevant and don't fix the situation in the slightest, if anything they muddy the waters and worsen the quality of the discussion.

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  • The whole point of signals is because you don't know when you haven't noticed that someone is around. People who only use signals when someone can see them are doing it wrong as much as those who never use it. Cars have blind angles and you can't be aware of everything going on around you all the time. That's why you signal, so everyone has clear indication of your intents. You also reminded me of an uncle who used who always forgot to signal before a maneuver and when he realized mid-turn he would then use the signal. Like, it is of no use anymore.

  • Christmas Animals

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  • I told you, I'm not arguing. I actually agree on that point.

  • Firefox is really innovating

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  • They are not opt-in, they are on by default and opt-out AI features. They said so themselves in their public communications. Also, they aren't future possible considerations, they are concrete plans that are underway and have funds allocated and feature goals set.

  • Christmas Animals

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  • Not arguing here. But just want to point out that disability subculture usually arises as a survival response in the face of discrimination and segregation. Everyone has a need for community and a sense of belonging. When broad hegemonic culture rejects you and your presence, belonging is found in the one distinctive feature that is the cause for the rejection and the source of cohesion with your peers. See also gay subculture as a response to homophobia, US black culture as a response to racism, feminist sorority subculture in response to misogyny, etc. So it is not rare to see disability subculture as a response to ableism. These communities are very important for security and preservation of individuals. Just as everywhere else, security is always a trade-off with something else.

  • Trump says he'll deliver prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday

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  • Probably not, it will be another "special operation".

  • 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?