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  • Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?

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  • I'll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.

    They'll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they're skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.

    Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don't care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There's just no way they can support that.

  • Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage

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  • This is a pretty decent article and answered some of the exact questions I had when I heard about the recovered video.

    or a cloud service that offers end-to-end encryption, which means not even the provider can access your footage.

    That's not what "end-to-end encryption" means. End-to-end encryption means only the sender and receiver have the ability to decrypt the message. The definition the author provided would be a match for "Zero-Knowledge Encryption" instead.

  • Pumping the bubble now, pay later

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  • I'm not sure how much you follow the history of IT, but this has happened at least 3 times in history, and it has always swung back to local processing. What has always been the force that brought local computing back is that compute power gets cheap. RAM and GPU costs are pushing the distributed (cloud) model right now.

  • Answers below

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  • Wasn't she born this way?

  • The WHOLE system? Do you promise?

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  • Too criminal to fail?

  • Moderna says FDA refuses its application for new mRNA flu vaccine

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  • Moderna also has a vaccine production facility in Canada. So maybe a family vacation north might be a good idea this year.

  • Governors won’t hold Trump meeting after only Republicans invited

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  • If the invited GOP governors were allowed a +1, I would have liked to have seen each Republican governor bring a Democratic governor as their +1 thereby meeting the original mandate of having all governors present.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • Its only a problem if you want to run AI. If you don't want AI locally or cloud based, then no need to spend the money on the high end 32GB model (for AI purposes) or paying for a cloud subscription. No one is required to get the 32GB model if they don't want it.

  • GOP senator says she went from ‘I don’t care’ to ‘I see what the big deal is’ after reviewing unredacted Epstein files

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  • Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

    The cynic in me thinks she ignored pages and pages of trump named referenced crimes and saw Clinton's name at least once, so now she's wants to make political hay only against Clinton.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • yea, i’m surprised, 32GB is goddamn ridiculous for anything, let alone for a shitty hp branded autocorrect

    32GB is actually considered the bare minimum for most of the common locally run LLM models. Most folks don't run a locally run LLM. They use a cloud service, so they don't need a huge pile of RAM locally. However, more privacy focused or heavy users with cost concerns might choose to run an LLM locally so they're not paying per token. With regards to locally run LLMs, this would be comparable to renting car when you need it vs buying one outright. If you only need a car once a year, renting is clearly the better choice. If you're driving to work everyday then clearly buying the car yourself is a better deal overall.

    You are perfectly fine not liking AI, but you're also out-of-touch if you think 32GB is too big for anything. Lots of other use cases need 32GB or more and have nothing to do with AI.

    I agree with your frustration with subscription laptops. I hope people don't use it.

  • TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms

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  • I can almost guarantee you that nobody under the age of 30 gives a singly flying fuck about having an antenna on a television. They’re probably watching more than half their media on their phone or tablet anyway.

    ...and...

    if you asked a kid in their twenties if they even knew what an antenna for a television was they’d probably go “what the fuck are you even talking about?”

    I'm not sure that's accurate. Gen Z and younger are apparently re-embracing OTA TV.

    "The study found that younger viewers now over-index on digital antenna usage compared to their older (50+ year-old) counterparts (23% and 15%, respectively). " source

    I'm much older but OTA TV is still a nearly daily use in our house even if the same content is available on various streaming services. DVR means skipping commecials while also getting a much better image quality than highly compressed streaming.

    We found OTA TV is a great compliment to streaming. There's no need to pay a cable/satellite subscription, you don't have to constantly worry about that bill going up year over year or a local channel being blacked out because of contract disputes. There's no "service" to have to worry about going out.

  • HP has laptop subscriptions now

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  • What is surprising about this? LLMs are giant memory consumers.

  • The quiet revolution that made your home, car, and wallet a lot safer | The decline of burglary and robbery, explained.

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  • TVs, game consoles

    Lets say the theft is successful of a TV or game console. The thief likely wants cash, not consumer electronics. So they need a way to convert stolen goods into cash. Any TV worth money worth bothering with is also very large and fragile which is a problem for offloading it. Sure, there's craigslist and facebook marketplace, but there aren't many that will buy a TV off of those because of the likelihood something is already wrong with it, and TVs just aren't that expensive new. Many consoles also have a theft reporting function that will block or limit how the console can be used. I imagine this also make theft of a console a high risk, low reward path.

  • Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules

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  • I'm very glad to hear that! Thank you for correcting me on this.

  • China bankrolling Putin’s war to gain advantage over West, MPs told

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  • China is successfully preparing Russia as a vassal state of China. Putin and Kim Jong-Un will be sitting next to each other as equals at the kids table at a meeting in China in the years ahead.

  • Is the Raspberry Pi Still an Affordable SBC? I Don't Think So

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  • For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.

    I have a handful of the original Raspberry Pi A and B models that have analog audio built in (with 3.5mm jack) and they're still in use today because of that built in analog audio out. Also honorable mention to the original Pi Zero which had the logic (but not the header pins) for NTSC out. I have a couple of those in use too because of their NTSC out capabilities.

  • Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

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  • The byline at the bottom of the article jumped out at me:

    This is a professional journalist and doctor of microbiology. She has spent many many years in education and practice to reach her level of knowledge and ability. Then some editor says "hey I need 1500 words in a story we want you to write covering dudes injecting their junk for cosmetics and athletic performance enhancement. Can you have it done by Tuesday?". I can just imagine her eyerolling as she accepted the task. Dr. Beth Mole, don't worry. We still respect your credentials and achievements and understand you just have to pay the bills too.

  • Border Patrol agent's texts after he shot a Chicago woman five times will be released, judge rules

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  • If the text messages of Agent Exum show deep remorse for the killing or immense anger with the system that put him in the position he needed to kill then I think that would reflect well on Agent Exum.

    If instead it shows him making jokes about the victim or boasting about the killing then, yes, Agent Exum's reputation will be further sullied.

    The government is telegraphing what the tone of his text messages are even before they are being released.

  • Nebraska lawmakers vote to reduce minimum wage for workers under 20

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  • pass the asvab.

    Oh man, I made a mistake taking the ASVAB. I had no plans of joining the military, but was encouraged to take the test anyway. I got 99s or 97s in all the general categories and a 99 in Electronics (my program of study at the time). I had Air Force and Navy recruiters chasing me for months. Navy recruiter said he wanted me for a nuclear technician. It took close to a year for the last attempt to contact me ended.

  • Superbowl @lemmy.world
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    Video: When A Barn Owl And Great Horned Owl Meet

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.

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  • Commodore 64 @lemmy.world
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    C64 spotted at Universal Studios Orlando

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Chief O'Brien has the most wholesome Holosuite programs