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rainynight65

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Migrated from rainynight65@feddit.de, which now appears to be dead. Sadly lost my comment history in the process. Let's start fresh.

  • More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers

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  • Thing is, I am actually Gen X. Early even. And I look at the Boomers and see the generation who kept pulling up the ladder. They got free education and privatised it to make it expensive for us. They got free healthcare and privatised it to make it expensive. They got into the housing market for cheap and started using it as an investment and speculation vehicle, making it harder for each subsequent generation to get into it. They were pretty much the last generation in which it was possible to raise a family on a single income. Climate change is front and center of mind in my generation, we've known for over 30 years what's coming. When you look at those who most fervently oppose climate change action - all old fogeys, and I say that being very conscious of the fact that I am approaching 'old fogey' status from the perspective of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

    I can only imagine how todays teenagers and young adults feel...

  • More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers

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  • Teenagers today were born in the aftermath of a global financial crisis, are seeing war after war after war, grow up with the knowledge that the world is going to shit and the older generations aren't willing to do anything about it. They see everyone pull up the ladder behind them, the 'fuck you I got mine' mentality is everywhere.

    And TikTok is to blame for their mental health?

    Specific to subway surfing: I'm 46, and I know this stuff happened when I was a kid. There were no social media back then to show you, but somehow kids still these got stupid ideas. It seems like social media is just the new video games are the new comic books are the new heavy metal is the new whatever scapegoat society wants to use to blame for its own deliberate shortcomings in bringing up the next generation.

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • A decade ago 1TB SSDs were rare and, like all new things in tech, expensive.

  • collaborators, it’s time to review the recommendation of Firefox as a good browser option…

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  • Ask that question again when it's a site that you need to use.

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • SSDs were relatively new in 2010, and priced accordingly. Now it's just about increasing sizes and (hopefully) reliability. I just don't think that all of a sudden we'll have huge cheap SSDs - people are used to a certain price point and manufacturers will take advantage of that.

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • The prices will stay the same. Manufacturers will just make more profit.

  • Shapeshifter “E”

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  • Not quite. The middle e is longer than the other two.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

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  • Equally then, the nuclear disasters shouldn’t count, right?

    Deaths from an accident at an active nuclear power plant are not the same as deaths caused by a burst dam that was originally intended to produce electricity one day, but has never produced any. Especially if you call the statistic 'Deaths per unit of electricity production'. At the time of the accident, it was just a dam, construction of any hydroelectric facilities was nowhere near beginning, so calling it a 'hydropower accident' is highly debatable (probably as at least as debatable as calling nuclear 'conventional'). Without the inclusion of those deaths, hydro would be shown to be even safer than nuclear, given that it has produced nearly twice as much electricity in the time span covered by those statistics, while having caused a similar number of deaths (if you continue to ignore the increased miner mortality, otherwise nuclear will look way worse). The article also does not cite how they determined the number of 171000 deaths, given that estimates for the Banqian dam failure range between 26000 and 240000. The author mentions (but does not cite) a paper by Benjamin Sovacool from 2016, which analyzes the deaths caused by different forms of energy but, crucially, omits the Banqian dam death toll. I will try to get hold of that paper to see the reasoning, but I suspect it may align with mine.

    How do you assume it’s ignoring their increased mortality?

    The article makes zero mention of any such thing, and the section about how the deaths are calculated (footnote 3 in this section) only calls out the deaths from Chernobyl and Fukushima. Direct quote from the footnote:

    Nuclear = I have calculated these figures based on the assumption of 433 deaths from Chernobyl and 2,314 from Fukushima. These figures are based on the most recent estimates from UNSCEAR and the Government of Japan. In a related article, I detail where these figures come from.

    No mention at all of any other deaths or causes of death, nothing whatsoever. It's the deaths from two nuclear accidents, that's all. The figures from the cited study alone would multiply the number of nuclear deaths in this statistic. What's worse, the author has published another article on nuclear energy which essentially comes to the exact same conclusions. But if you include deaths from a burst dam that has never produced electricity (but was planned to do so eventually), then you must include deaths among people who mine the material destined to produce electricity in a nuclear plant.

    To me it simply looks like the author of this article is highly biased towards nuclear, and has done very selective homework.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

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  • Edit: It’s also the cleanest and nearly the safest source of energy, including the disasters. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

    I love how the 'Death rates per unit of electricity production' graphic highlights deaths from a 1975 dam break in China, therefore making hydro seem less safe than nuclear, when the dam in question up to that point hadn't produced a single megawatt of electricity (and by the looks of it, still hasn't to this day). At the same time it appears to conveniently ignore the increased mortality among uranium miners.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

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  • Nuclear falls under 'conventional' - the PWR design of TMI is one of the oldest and most common types of nuclear reactor. It's just another way of creating steam to drive a turbine which then generates electricity.

    Nuclear is also anything but clean. People love to call nuclear 'clean' because its low in emissions, but that's ignoring the requirement for either safe storage of radioactive material or reprocessing thereof, as well as the emission of radioactivity in the water cycled through the reactor.

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

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  • Three Mile Island is the epitome of

    conventional dirty energy

  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

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  • It doesn't make financial sense to build new nuclear power plants. They're hugely expensive and such projects routinely run well over time as well as budget. If it did make sense, Microsoft would be building them, instead of reviving the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in the US. Thing is, they want lots of power, and they want it yesterday. By the time you can build a new nuclear plant to satisfy these needs, AI will have run its course and big tech will be on to the next scam.

    But hey, why pay attention to such nuances?

  • Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'

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  • No fictional dystopia needed. China already performs mass surveillance and has systems in place to enforce desirable behaviours in citizens. This is just another evolutionary phase.

  • People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?

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  • I had lots of time to play games, but not a lot of money to buy games.

    Now it's the other way round.

    If I could bring back anything from back then, it's boxed PC games that can be resold and traded. Covered a lot of my gaming needs from second hand shops.

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  • The USB transfer speed claim is misleading to say the least. The iPhone 15 was already capable of up to 10Gbps transfer speed (USB 3.0 support). You could quibble over the fact that the included cable didn't support that (if only the USB-IF could get its shit together), but to claim the hardware doesn't support it is a lie.

    Also, non-US iPhones support both physical SIM and eSIM.

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  • And yet every time Apple announce a new product or feature, Android fans are here with their 'welcome to the past' memes.

  • The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

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  • Sure, training data selection impacts the output. If you feed an AI nothing but anime, the images it produces will look like anime. If all it knows is K-pop, then the music it puts out will sound like K-pop. Tweaking a computational process through selective input is not the same as a human being actively absorbing stimuli and forming their own, unique response.

    AI doesn't have an innate taste or feeling for what it likes. It won't walk into a second hand CD store, browse the boxes, find something that's intriguing and check it out. It won't go for a walk and think "I want to take a photo of that tree there in the open field". It won't see or hear a piece of art and think "I'd like to be learn how to paint/write/play an instrument like that". And it will never make art for the sake of making art, for the pure enjoyment that is the process of creating something, irrespective of who wants to see or hear the result. All it is designed to do is regurgitate an intersection of what it knows that best suits the parameters of a given request (aka prompt). Actively learning, experimenting, practicing techniques, trying to emulate specific techniques of someone else - making art for the sake of making art - is a key component to humans learning from others and being influenced by others.

    So the process of human learning and influencing, and the selective feeding of data to an AI to 'tune' its output are entirely different things that cannot and should not be compared.

  • The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates

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  • Generative AI is not 'influenced' by other people's work the way humans are. A human musician might spend years covering songs they like and copying or emulating the style, until they find their own style, which may or may not be a blend of their influences, but crucially, they will usually add something. AI does not do that. The idea that AI functions the same as human artists, by absorbing influences and producing their own result, is not only fundamentally false, it is dangerously misleading. To portray it as 'not unethical' is even more misleading.

  • Black & White (2001) open source game engine sees a first release

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  • After pretty much failing as an overambitious game designer...