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  • Deutsche Telekom plant KI-Assistent direkt in Telefonaten

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  • MAICA - klingt in der Tat etwas wurstig

    Nachtrag: Vielleicht wird es aber auch schlicht der Magenta AI call ASSistant

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous

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  • Great.

    asking that machine to improve writing is like asking a blender to improve a salad

    A counterweight grows as people learn to reappreciate the acerbity of art and words. The ring is poisonous and must be destroyed, but it can unite.

  • Snow Kitty

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  • I think the pink ones didn't fare so well in evolutionary terms.

  • DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz @feddit.org
    xtrapoletariat @beehaw.org

    Willkommenskultur in Deutschland: Schafft man sowas noch mal?

    taz.de /Willkommenskultur-in-Deutschland/!6110482/

  • How do you time manage and prioritize your work and projects?

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  • Personal experience, obviously:

    1. enforce time limits on apps (like 45 min messaging/social per day), e.g. using built-in tools => frees a lot of time
    2. streamline communication, i.e., do not be available 24/7 for mail, chat, etc. Instead, define time windows to check and answer your channels
    3. Use some Pomodore timer [1] to focus on specific tasks for a few hours. Minimize distractions as far as possible in that time window.
    4. Sleep. Working tired is a black hole for time management.
    5. Do sports/seek nature to keep the stress level down.
    6. Plan honest to your capabilities, sometimes the 80% solution will do (yes, this can be hard to accept)
    7. A simple hand-written checkboxed ToDo list per day is helpful, take 5-10 minutes to compile it before your day starts.

    [1] Goodtime

  • Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?

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  • There were several incidents (ref. 1), but in particular Fukushima in 2011 changed a lot, as it was a modern type of power plant.

    It reignited discussions regarding safety and (under the impression of 9/11) fears that nuclear power facilities could be targeted by terror attacks.

    With current regulations new reactors can cost some 20 to 40 billion, making it one of the most expensive sources of electrical energy. Costs for decomissioning are significant as well. Both building and decomissioning costs are typically passed on to tax payers.

    Also, permanent storage of used burning rods is hard, nobody wants nuclear waste buried in their neighborhood. Given its half life of ~240 000 years, it may also be difficult to communicate its dangers to future generations (ref. 2).

    The currently most common sources of burning material (Uranium) stem from - large parts - politically controverse regions and may in sum last some estimated 80-100 years, quite short given some 10-20 years of construction time per plant.

    This is not talking about thorium and salt reactors, but technical challenges and costs seem to be limiting for these technologies, in particular as long as the default infrastructure exists.

    edit: the 'new' types are more complex and not suited for weapons in general.

    1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents?wprov=sfla1

    2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUXwrWMS-x8

  • What does everyone here do when you can’t sleep and are wide awake besides being on phone? [serious]

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  • Look at the stars for a while.

  • Bremen führt als erstes Bundesland KI-Chatbot an Schulen ein - buten un binnen

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  • T+5 Jahre: Bremen verbannt als letztes Bundesland KI-Chatbots aus Schulen

  • How do you wash your back?

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  • In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

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  • This one, I guess.

    "The latest generation of 'calculators' (German synonym: computer), 16 colors, on a 'solid plate' (syn: hard drive) including mouse."

    "You should wait - it's half the price in six months"

    by Uli Stein

  • Bad film with amazing premise and mediocre execution that you can't stop thinking about?

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  • The sequel's plot is somehow weak with a couple of cringe moments. Given the twist is revealed in part one, the movie expresses one of many solutions to what should be free roaming of your own thoughts after the first film.

    Sequels can be awful at destroying the 'blew my mind' effect in general by streamlining a great, open idea to a specific plot I guess.

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  • US tells French companies to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-diversity order

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  • I think they spelled anti-diversity disorder wrong.

  • Thinking on switching to linux

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  • Yes, and in fact, the complete jetbrains toolbox works fine on Linux. Setup is commonly done by simply unzipping an archive.

  • Thinking on switching to linux

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  • Remmina is nice to manage remote access, see https://remmina.org/

    I heard negative criticism of rustdesk in terms of security, can anyone confirm or refute this?

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • Ah, great, I was not aware of that. I typically stick to the defaults, but this may help to convince others.

    My impression is that LO criticism is unexpectedly harsh. After all, it's a free and powerful alternative to MO and you are in no way forced to use it.

    It's less polished, obviously, but great for a wide range of use cases. Power users relying on specific features: different story.

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • For some reason I don't fully understand, LibreOffice hides the option to switch the UI in View > User Interface. The option Tabbed seems to resemble MS ribbon-like style.

    They should possibly consider to make that a default question on first start-up, like: 'What interface layout feels familiar?'

  • DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz @feddit.org
    xtrapoletariat @beehaw.org

    Plötzlich regt sich bei CDU und SPD was – pro Klima, Stern vom 12. März 2025

    www.stern.de /politik/klimapolitik--ploetzlich-regt-sich-was-bei-cdu-und-spd-35542486.html

  • Degitalisierung: Eff… what?

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  • Oder frei nach Thorsten Dirks: „Wenn Sie einen Scheißprozess digitalisieren, dann haben Sie einen scheiß digitalen Prozess.“

    Fasst es gut zusammen.

    In der Praxis würde schon eine Art Bürokratie-Daten-Vault vieles vereinfachen: Möchten Sie Daten X, Y und Z mit Amt K/Verfahren V teilen? Klick 'ja', 2FA und gut.

    Die Redundanzen deutscher Formblätter und deren Abhängigkeiten sind auch, speziell für Nicht-Muttersprachler, ziemlich absurd - und eher nicht effektiv.

  • Linux users don't customize their systems all that much?!

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  • Hey, I changed my desktop background and color theme... but yes, customization for me is copying all my scripts to ~/bin and set a keyboard shortcut to open a terminal. I'm-old-Gandalf-meme around here

    edit: yes, .vimrc as well

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