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micka190

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  • Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors

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  • It's okay, even if if they wanted to nuke the world, they'd need to find which specific portal to log into, and even after inputing everything correctly there'd be around an hour before the servers actually processed the change request.

  • NixOS forked

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  • Nothing concrete from what I can tell. Becoming a hard fork is relatively recent though (mid-November of last year, roughly).

    As a side note, I understand why Gitea and Forgejo went for a "copy GitHub Actions" approach to their CI, but man do I wish more self-hosted repo software tried to copy Drone/Woodpecker instead. Iterative containers in the pipeline is such a smoother build experience, and it kind of sucks that Gitness is the only one doing it (that I know of).

  • NixOS forked

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  • They were still pulling in mainline Gitea changes while introducing their own stuff last I checked.

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  • I know people IRL who get offended whenever I mention that I just block ads. Shit's insane.

  • Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes

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  • The issue is that the picture then exists, and it's hard to prove it was actually destroyed.

    For example, when I was in high school, a bunch of girls would send nudes to guys. But that was 10 years ago. Those pictures still exist. Those dudes aren't minors anymore. Their Messenger chats probably still exist somewhere. Nothing's really preventing them from looking at those pictures again.

    I get why it's illegal. And, honestly, I find it kind of weird that there's people trying to justify why it shouldn't be illegal. You're still allowed to have sex at that age. Just don't take pictures/videos of it.

  • Thank you Raymond Hill

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  • Also issues with links that get ads on top of them. You can still click them, you'll get redirected to a blank page (because the ad gets DNS blocked), but with an adblocker you would've gone to the non-ad link.

  • Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes

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  • such as when the person making them is also a minor

    I get the point you're tying to make. But minors taking nudes of themselves is illegal in a lot of places, because it's still possession.

  • Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore

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  • Nothing, but it'd still be a win for the consumer because then we'd have repairable/customizable laptops across the board?

    We've also seen other brands aren't interested in it because it's harder to make smaller/thinner laptops when they need to be customizable. Also they make more money from having people throw out their old laptops and buying a new one.

  • On your own.

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  • There's cases where the government doesn't have all the information they need to automatically generate them for you. That usually applies to businesses, though, since their accounting department is supposed to keep track of expenses and correct their tax filings before submitting them.

    That's not a reason the government shouldn't make it automatic/easier for the vast majority of the population, though.

  • On your own.

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  • They have, yes. Doing math for your taxes is as simple a task as doing math that needs to be applied to your taxes in the correct order. There's no need for AI in that process at all.

    The only potentially difficult part (massive "potentially" here) that doesn't involve math is probably having a UI that intuitively guides the user into selecting the right things that apply to them (if that data can't already be queried from somewhere else like a government site). But you don't really need AI for that either.

  • On your own.

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  • Swear to God people don't understand how software works at all. It's like you said: solved problems don't need AI. I wish more people understood this. AI is insanely inefficient and power-hungry. Are there applications where it works and is the best tool for the job? Maybe? I don't know. The closest I've seen is in cases where you basically want to throw a bunch of random shit at the wall and see what sticks, and there's no real way to automate that properly.

    But solved problems have solutions that are faster (like, orders of magnitude faster in most cases) and don't consume anywhere near as much power than AI. And people clearly don't understand how software works, because "power consumption" is a massive factor in how much you pay for cloud services (which is what most AI companies are doing).

  • Google search boss warns employees of 'new operating reality,' urges them to move faster

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  • There are uBlock Origin filters that exist purely to filter out certain SEO spam sites from search results. I've been using this one to filter out sites that basically copy/paste answers from popular dev sites that just completely clutter Google search results. I used to have one that included things like W3 Schools and Quora but I can't find it anymore, unfortunately.

  • Microsoft has ‘let Blizzard be Blizzard’ following its acquisition, studio says

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  • "The breast milk snatcher will be caught", a Microsoft representative assured the New York Times before taking a deep, long slurp of their milkshake, their eyes closed in apparent bliss as shivers ran down their spine. "Your days are numbered!"

  • Big Tech Is Faking AI

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  • Man, I know people love to throw the word "dystopian" around, but holy shit is that description dystopian as fuck.

    Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.

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    Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad," even with monster PC

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  • I run a Mint laptop. Power management is a joke. Configured it as best as possible, walked in the other day and it was dead. Windows would never do this, unless you went out of your way to config power management to kill the battery.

    Great bait, mate.

    Windows literally configures itself to drain your battery while your laptop is closed by default. It's called hibernation/fast boot.

    You need to go out of your way to configure power manager to not kill the battery.

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    Former Microsoft developer says Windows 11's performance is "comically bad," even with monster PC

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  • Pretty much everything related to the explorer.exe process is needlessly slow on Windows 11. On my work machine, the file explorer will take 2-3 seconds to load after I open it, and that's with only a C:/ drive (i.e. no network shares to slow it down or anything else).

  • Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade

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  • We already have text prediction that works more efficiently (from a power and computing point of view) by using things like trees.

    There's very few use-cases I've seen where AI is more efficient than an algorithm, and it's mostly in areas where it does a bunch of tests/research/simulation inputs by throwing random shit at the wall that users wouldn't normally try really fast.

    AI is basically useless when you're doing something that's easily repeatable, because it's easier to actually implement tools that use algorithms to do that kind of thing.

  • Show me how much you contribute to SponsorBlock

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  • I was early on a few high-profile videos, I guess.

  • Nvidia is on a different planet | Youtube | Gamers nexus

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  • Seriously. AI aside, if you're doing anything 3D-related you're basically shooting yourself in the foot by not going Team Green. The difference in render time/quality is exponentially better. I'd kill to see AMD or Intel pull a Ryzen in the GPU market.