We should make more random friendly comments here on Lemmy
Like just commenting a friendly joke, a compliment or something like that
Generative AI’s environmental costs are soaring — and mostly secret (www.nature.com)
one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much...
Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits (www.al.com)
The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.
What's on your helmet NCD? (sh.itjust.works)
AMD GPUs are cursed for me
Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I...
What was the last time you clicked on an ad?
I think as a child I got viruses from one of the ads, you know, the ones would put on the side of the site. We had to call in a guy, to clean parents’ computer. I felt really guilty and never touched those ads again....
Florida woman sues Hershey for $5 million, says Reese's candies don't have carved designs (www.cbsnews.com)
HERSHEY, Pa. (CBS) – A Florida woman is upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy - and now she’s taking parent company Hershey to court over it....
What are you having for dinner tonight?
I am thinking about making myself something delicious. Not celebrating with anyone this eve but curious what everyone else will be eating.
Minnesota panel chooses new state flag featuring North Star to replace old flag seen as racist (apnews.com)
Minnesota’s new state flag should feature an eight-pointed North Star against a dark blue background shaped like the state, with a solid light blue field at the right, a special commission decided Tuesday as it picked a replacement for an older design that many Native Americans considered offensive....
The "i" in Linux and Linus have different pronunciations even when they shouldn't.
Fuck Subscriptions. Here is how to setup Streamio like a pro
Credit: u/No-Refrigerator9154...
The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case (pixelfed.social)
Soon, Google has even more leverage against adblockers (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist (www.techspot.com)
The only thing that matters (lemmy.world)
Go watch Invasion if you don't believe me (lemmy.world)
Do you donate to FOSS projects?
Hello....
Floppy disks were high-tech weapons once (files.mastodon.social)
I'm going to be a bit morbid here, but of all the diseases or mechanical ways to die, which would be your LAST CHOICE if given a preference. Dead last, so to speak. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Mine would probably be Rabies.
Does it not pierce thine very heart? (startrek.website)
Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues (www.404media.co)
Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras (www.nytimes.com)
After six years of reviewing a variety of Wyze security cameras at Wirecutter, we’ve made the decision to suspend our recommendation of them from all our guides....
GODOT ussage this week (i.redd.it)
Frontier Airlines CEO says the pandemic made workers 'lazy' and less productive: 'People are still allowing people to work from home, all this silliness, right?' (www.businessinsider.com)
She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil. Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by 'woke mind virus' that infected his trans daughter. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
