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dustyData

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  • Choose your Nope Rope

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  • Entirely different things, and I think the meme actually correctly corresponds to orthopedics. It's a pediatric specialty, and unfortunately, most of the treatments are some form or another of restraining body parts so they grow straight. Hence the snake tied to the rod in order to remain straight instead of wrapping and slithering around.

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  • Unironical, it kind of works like that. There are usual combos, and straying off from them costs extra.

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  • Yes, the world is only the us, UK and the EU. No one else counts.

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  • Which country's?

    It is awfully priviledged and insulting to imply such horrible things and wish harm on others because of your xenophobia and limited experience with diverse contexts.

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  • Lol, tell me you've never step inside a data center in your life without telling me.

    Just because the US dominated market is wasteful and destructive doesn't mean it is like that everywhere. You buy a server today and the offerings will be the same CPUs that were available five years ago. Servers are mean, powerful beasts, and upgrades have been slow and incremental at best for almost two decades. While manufacturer guarantees might last 7 to 10 years, operators offer refurbishment and refreshment services with extended guarantees. A decade old server is not a rare sight in a data center, hell we even kept some old Windows servers from the XP area around. Also, mainframes are most definitely not legacy machinery. Modern and new mainframes are deployed even today. It is a particular mode and architecture quirk, but it is just another server at the end of the day. In fact, the z17 is an AI specialized mainframe that released just this year as a full stack ready made AI solution.

    A business that replaces servers every 3 years is burning money and any sane CFO would kick the CTO in the nuts who made such a stupid decision without a very strong reason to do it. Though C suites are not known for being sane, it is mostly in the US that such kind of wastefulness is found. All this is from experience on the corporate IT side, not at all hobbyist or second hand market.

  • AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output

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  • Cool, the best AI has to offer is worse than the worst human code. Definitely worth burning the planet to a crisp for it.

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  • Comparing AI to the Saturn V is morally insulting. Sure, servers do have a lifespan. There's a science to the upgrade rate, and it was probably 5 years…back in the 90s. When tech was new, evolving fast and e-waste wasn't even a concept. Today, durability is measured in decades, which means provision is typically several decades.

    There are many servers with chips from the last 20 years that could be spun today and would still work perfectly fine. They were furbished with proper cooling and engineered to last. In 2020 I worked in a data center where they still had a 1999 mainframe in production, purring away like a kitten and not a single bit less performant. It just received more network storage and new ram memory from time to time. This is not what is happening with AI chips. They are being planned to burn out and become useless out of heat degradation.

    All based on the promise from NVIDIA of new chip's design breakthroughs that still don't exist for new models of LLMs that don't exist either. The problem is that, essentially, LLM tech has reached a pause in performance. More hardware, more data, more tokens, are not solving the problems that AI companies thought they would, and there's a development dead end where there's very few easy or simple improvements left to make.

  • Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group

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  • I dare to wage that the top 1000 most popular artists entire body of work is already freely available in torrent form. The remainder of artists will benefit from an independent archival point of view.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  • 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?