This reads like DARVO - Corporate Edition with a derogatory jab towards free time and unions both.
I work 30h now too and thus I suppose this is aimed at people like me, but tell you what: the job I applied to was actually only approved by HR/payroll for 30h max, the company doesn‘t WANT to pay more than this and they knew they wouldn‘t find anyone experienced to sell 40h of their life for such a measly salary.
So we managed to find a mutually beneficial agreement, I get to live and exist like a frugal monk, perpetually renting and never owning anything (the European dream!), and they filled a position at 70%, pocketing 30% of the salary they would have had to pay to attract a full time worker.
Now, how is it my fault I can’t spend like an American and the economy stagnates then? It‘s maybe a shared responsibility, but truly, the company is the one in charge here and if they told me I have to work full time and get that 30% more pay too, I probably would (since I kinda like my current job oddly enough and don‘t want to switch again yet).
While we still call them laptops, they are not actually laptops, they are notebooks. The last laptop I saw had a 80286 for a processor (odds are it was junked before you were even born). Somehow the name laptop stuck, but they are notebook form factors and never intended to be used on laps.
Around a year ago I was searching for a solid single-cable solution for my M1 Max MacBook Pro to hook up to an external monitor, ethernet and peripherals - and best case a decent audio jack.
The MacBook supports Thunderbolt 4 so I thought I might as well go for a Thunderbolt 4 dock (as opposed to a “normal” USB-C dock), but oh boy.
First, there was the problem of display outputs. I thought I’d just get a dock with two DisplayPort ports. But there are a lot of differences. Some are DisplayPort 1.4, some only 1.2. And some use MST (multi stream transport) to support both ports; which macOS does not support. Thunderbolt 4 does support two distinct streams of DisplayPort though, so in theory docks could exist with two DisplayPort ports, each with their own dedicated stream/signal.
Long story short, there were basically no docks with these specifications. So it became clear to me early in the selection process that would need to act as a hub that has multiple Thunderbolt outputs, so I can simply use USB-C to DisplayPort cables. This seems to be the best solution anyways, as the dock doesn’t limit you in DisplayPort version or feature set this way.
So I looked for a Dock with 2-3 Thunderbolt outputs, Power Delivery, USB-A, gigabit ethernet and an audio jack.
There’s the Razer Thunderbolt 4 dock for example. Has all required ports, provides 90 watts of power to the computer and (at least in color “Mercury”), looks the part. Bought it, plugged it in, connected a display via USB-C to DisplayPort cable. So far, so good. USB-A seems to be working.
So, what are the problems? Well. Firstly, the ethernet controller is connected to the internal USB controller. This also means it shares bandwidth and when hammering the USB controller, doesn’t only mean bandwidth is throttled, but also that latency can be affected and spike seemingly randomly (like you’re on wifi). There are also reportedly some issues with USB ethernet when waking up from sleep, but this might be related to macOS. Anyways, use f* PCIe based ethernet in your 300,-€ dock!
Next problem was something I couldn’t believe got through QA. When audio starts playing via the audio jack, the right channel starts playing immediately, but the left channel starts after I’d say around a 200-300ms delay. This is VERY irritating, especially with headphones. As I said I couldn’t believe it so I tried other devices including Windows 10 and 11 notebooks, and they all showed the exact same issue with this dock.
I found out that the problem goes away or is at least reduced when you set audio output to 24-bit in Windows. That’s not how it works in macOS though (I know you can set something in some MIDI audio setting app, but that didn’t help). So you’re basically stuck. It’s so insane to me that this glaring and obvious issue went through QA.
Then I thought okay, it’s just Razer being Razer and ordered alternative docks. Turns out THEY ARE ALL THE SAME CRAP INSIDE. Sonnet Echo 11, i-tec whatever, Kensington. If it has a similar port layout to the Razer dock, it’s likely that it’s the exact same crap with the only difference being the odd USB-A port more or less and slightly different PD wattage.
There’s a highly praised 400,-€ dock from CalDigit, but availability was bad at the time.
I ended up getting an Anker dock for around 170,-€, which simply has 3 Thunderbolt 4 outputs and a single USB-A output. I connected a simple USB-A hub so I can connect keyboard, mouse and USB DAC and mic for audio. I use the Thunderbolt outputs for DisplayPort via USB-C and the Apple Thunderbolt (1) Gigabit Ethernet adapter plugged into an Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Thunderbolt 3 adapter, and that’s plugged into the dock. You wouldn’t believe that this abomination of adapter chaos works a million times better than this USB ethernet crap.
Now, this setup works but it’s super ugly and messy on the desk.
Nowadays I’m using some HP monitor with USB-C which has built-in ethernet and USB-A ports. It’s honestly not a great solution (and functionally worse than my solution above), but it’s simple and doesn’t clutter your desk with 3-4 different boxes and 10 cables.
As much as I also have hope in the next generation, there isn’t a damn thing we can do anymore. If every single human being disappeared right now, the earth would continue warming and experiencing climate change for 100s more years, because of the feedback loops we have set in motion and the fact that the ocean is still dampening some effects, but won’t be able to for long. Our only hope to avert complete disaster, collapse of society and maybe even the extinction of humanity is if we find a way to start pulling massive amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere ASAP. Carbon neutrality isn’t enough, we need to be carbon negative. If zoomers can get that done, in time, then they’re a whole other fucking class of human. I hope they do, but I think the odds are against them and all of us.
Reddit being enshittified is what motivated me to switch back to Android. I don’t want to continue using a a locked ecosystem only for apple to one day say: “Welp, no more adblocks 😜 Oh you use VLC? Dude that’s for pirates only. Signal? That’s for terrorists. Standard Notes? What evil plans are you hiding? Banned Banned and Banned.”
I used iPhones because everyone else was using them so I kinds fell for the peer pressure thinking “Hmm… what are the odds that Apple become evil? Probably don’t have to worry about it.” The Reddit shitshow just triggered a fear in me that made me rethink about my life decisions. Apple’s locked ecosystem suddenly looked terrifying to me, and I just wanna nope out. So I got an Android phone and gave the iPhone to someone. I love my apks and don’t need to worry about Google-Play shennanigans.
The general community is probably going to catch any issues that pop up extremely quickly. Like my main machines are all on whitelist firewalls residing on external devices. If any software tries to make odd connections, the connections will get dropped and logged. I wouldn’t hesitate to report anything odd. I don’t run sketchy proprietary junk for the most part.
This is my first time messing with UEFI software keys. I want to sign the nvidia gpu drivers and be able to change them to revert or test the public beta if I choose....
It was on SpikeTV back in the day and while it used cool tech simulations their sims were heavily weighted by their chosen experts. There were a few notable episodes that caused some fan uproar because one side had won despite weird odds or chosen simulation to display.
If I remember right ninja vs spartan was one such episode. It seemed like the ninjas possessed all the tools necessary to beat the Spartans and even got it down to something like a 1v4 or 2v5 before a completely unrealistic turnaround.
Consumption of regular dairy ice cream, which does not include frozen yogurt, sherbet or non- and low-fat ice creams, has been falling for years, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
No one's quite sure why or how or whether it's some sort of odd correlation (but it does seem to resist all attempts to p-hack it out of significance), and there's not much appetite among researchers to look too closely into it because everyone knows that ice cream is bad for you.
It runs all the way down, flanking both sides. I pretend it’s a moat for protection. So lush in some places it’s difficult to not touch with your car as you drive along.
I've been seeing a lot of good stuff about Baldur's Gate 3, but for a variety of reasons a bunch of other CRPGs I've played haven't clicked with me. So, since I owned Divinity: Original Sin 2, I decided to pull that back out and focus on it for a bit to see if it got my attention this time. The very early start up trying to break out of the fort is a bit rough, but once you get past that it gets compelling fast. The tactics play out really enjoyably, and I really find it enjoyable to take bigger encounters, if I get stomped, and figure out the optimal positioning I can set myself up in to beat the odds on the next try. After a good few too many hours I'm finally off the first island and it's starting to open up for real.
This might have convinced me to the BG3 first and save Starfield for a while, even though that and FF16 both look damn good too.
And don't @ me about "100 corporations are responsible for like 90% of emissions". Who's buying those corporations' goods?
People bringing up the 100 corporations are usually calling for regulations on them, and the "you're the ones buying the goods" people are usually calling for Personal Responsibility and Voting With Your Wallet.
Seems like an odd software choice to create actual dotfiles under /etc. Often files there have much the same name as a user's dotfiles but without the dot. Thinking of things like /etc/profile vs ~/.profile and so on.
Without knowing precisely why those decisions were taken (good reason? ignorance? insanity?) it's not clear what steps to take.
Vaguely leaning towards symlinking or hardlinking but precisely what to do and which way around is still unclear.
Do those dotfiles have your user permissions or are they owned by a system account like root?
A recent study in Israel used brain scans to explore the differences in empathy between political liberals and conservatives. The researchers found that when imagining other people suffering, liberals showed stronger brain reactions associated with empathy compared to conservatives. This pattern of brain activity was linked to...
Small sample size of 55 participants that were gathered online and all from Israel. They are all ~25 yrs old and were split up based on what newspaper they read. The participants were free to label themselves but it was backed by asking questions of how they feel about their current administration policies. Kind of odd study.
Every dev I know must be terrified of technology as they all use apple laptops. I don’t love apple but they make a pretty sweet *nix laptop for dev work.
Tbh I’ve spend time thinking on this, and realistically the only solution I could find is through mathematical optimization - describing it through and example, we’ve definetly killed hundreds of Einstein’s in Africa simply working for the west - we have the ability to provide food to every single person in the world, and certainly the technology to educate them.
If we simply offered everyone an equal chance to learn, and the ability to focus on “thinking”, instead of starvation, bills, poverty etc. naturally the best would rise to the top and statistically we’d have insanely better odds of finding smart people than the essentially lottery we got going on now. (Look at yee old days, population directly correlates with technological innovation, never one person being “built different” )
In our current society you can see this isnt happening everywhere, everyone knows you got to ‘know someone’ to rise to the top. A great example of being the film infustry; well known actors are somehow able to pop out amazing acting children, entirely uncorrelated to their connections right?
Musk is a beautiful example of this, cause he can hardly stop himself bursting at the seems with cockyness - and he was risen like he was gods child, so understandably he believes that, but he’s simply hooked on the dopamine rush he gets from making obsene amounts of money, soley because the exponential growth of ones wealth (and take a wild guess at how hr got anywhere with PayPal; hint hint it’s genetic). I honestly see him as no better than a common crack addict, but for some reason we decided he should have the power of a small country, certainly a dangerous thing in an addicts hands.
Sorry this got a little long, but Tbh this is the society I hope for some day!
Rdr2 has so many odd controls that I literally don’t know what the melee is by default and had to look it up again when I got into another fist fight section. The narrative is basically the only thing convincing me to play. The mechanics are starting to get real repetitive and the game is insanely slow for what it is. It seems like a well done game but I wish the animations and forced pacing took a backseat to give the player more agency. I feel like I’m parts they wanted to make a cutscene but some executive said “no no we need now interaction otherwise it’s not a video game.”
Maybe ethics is a bit more complicated for this discussion, but it makes me think how do uncensored LLMs still have ethics, yet remain uncensored? Maybe there’s a fine line somewhere. I can agree that it should be steered till more positive things, like saying murder and suicide is bad. The description of that model I linked says it’s still influenced by ethics, but has the guardrails turned off, and maybe that would be a better idea then what I initially said.
Should custom models be allowed to be run or modified? Should these things be open source? I don’t know the answer to all these questions, but I’ll always advocate for foss and custom models, as I fundamentally see it as a tool that should be allowed to be owned. Which that is at odds with restrictive ethics rhetorics I hear.
But your second point that it shouldn’t be taught to kill. I think that argument could be used to ban violent video games. You won’t do very good in Overwatch or Valorant if you don’t know how to kill after all. To learn how to hide a dead body, how much more detailed can you get then just turning on the TV and watching Criminal Minds? Our entertainment has zero issue teaching how to kill, encouraging violence (gotta rank up somehow), or hide dead body. Is an AI describing what this media already shows in text form so much worse?
Side note: that hyperlink I added links to the 33b uncensored WizardLM model which is pretty fun to play around with if you haven’t already tried. Also GPT4All is a cool way to run various local models offline on your computer.
Maybe the state I live in is just ghetto as shit. It seems like every air pump at the gas station has the top part that attaches to your tire to fill it with air stolen....
It could be all, and I never meant to imply it’s only one. Just in my situation they’ve always been addicts, worked at a gas station in my mid-teens, and have relatives with the problem. But I’ll concede the odds could be 50/50. Like most answers you’ll get here, it’s going to be from personal experience.
I mean personally for myself, was gonna use Firefox regardless- I’d rather support the open source option and web engine that isn’t chromium based; the question for me was whether to use brave search, and if brave search was providing rights to web content to those who’d like to use it for AI training. I had generally liked brave search okay as my google replacement (though I will say I tired quant looking for a brave alternative because of this article, and qwant is pretty good too! I’ve been impressed!)
Not disclosing sites are being crawled is iffy, but I genuinely do understand the justification given in the email reply that the article updated to add- as long as they’re not selling rights to other people’s content for AI training.
I’m a little out of my depth here from a technical perspective so that probably doesn’t help, but honestly between the comment provided by brave and the original authors interpretation of the email response they received, the whole situation feels pretty muddy. The author and brave seem to be kind of fundamentally at odds about what they’re describing brave as doing, so it’s a little hard to gauge. Even if brave is accurately describing the product they provide (“it’s an api you can make calls to to get ai outputs based on web content”) which doesn’t seem totally consistent with some of the descriptions on their api products page, it still feels somewhat ambiguous because of the fact that websites can’t opt out of their content being provided through an api, whether it’s been filtered through a LLM or not. It all seems very, very mudy; hard to make heads or tails of. I’ll be curious to see any additional updates to the article.
Most of the claims in the article have been retracted after Brave responded
That’s not true, the author pretty explicitly maintained the most important claims…
and the issue didn’t affect users anyway.
So…? You can do unethical things without it affecting the user…? There’s an argument to be had around whether it’s unethical, but it not affecting the user is frankly kinda irrelevant.
Also, Brave is a completely independent search engine now
Indeed! That’s why I was using them. If folks are looking for a brave alternative with their own index though, I’d say qwant has seemed very competitive, and it like their interface even better, though they do lack the helpful ai summary tool- perhaps both for better and worse.
which is why they have web crawlers like the guy in the article is complaining about.
That’s definitely not what he was complaining about. He was complaining about how they’re crawling the web. Tons of people have crawlers, but most do a better job of respecting website consent than brave seems to (even if brave may have understandable reasons, which they might), and that’s especially important given the broader context of the story.
Brave Browser has an opt-in feature for that where sites you visit will be indexed by Brave Search.
Yes, that’s exactly what I was referring to… It’s a cool feature, and I wish Firefox would implement it and maybe use the results to make an open source web index that any alternative search engines could use to supplement their own indexes in order to support competition with bing and google.
Brave Search is the only real contender to be an actual competitor for Google Search
That’s an entirely baseless assertion, I literally listed 3 alternatives to brave, all of which have their own index (and I’m pretty sure there are others, but I may be mistaken), and of those 3 I’d say qwant provides very competitive search results with brave, maybe even better. I plan to keep testing them but its cool for there to be more than one decent private search engine that isn’t a meta search!
All of their arguments against Brave really aren’t serious and don’t affect users at all.
That’s the second time you make this argument and it still doesn’t matter. If were to steal the entirety of other people’s content and copy it 1-1 without attribution that doesn’t affect users either, but that sure as hell doesn’t mean its okay. And I already explained that it genuinely is ambiguous whether what brave is doing is okay- if they’re selling people’s content to train large language models, that’s definitely serious, and for right now it does remain kinda ambiguous whether they’re doing that or not
I get that you’re frustrated and feel like people are biased against something you like, but getting angry, making poor arguments to defend a corporation that doesn’t care about any of us, and calling everyone who says they prefer not to support Brave is more shill-like behavior than the folks you’re frustrated with, it might be worth dialing it back a bit.
Edit: adjusted wording for accuracy, and some of my original wording felt a little more passive aggressive than it need end to be (and some of it kinda still is but I’m tired and don’t wanna edit more 😅 apologies for tone that comes across as somewhat hostile)
For all nutrek attempts to pose as the most progressive Trek ever, DS9 was lightyears ahead of it politically. Discovery and Picard feel so oddly “yass queen” conservative.
Origins of the Name "Lemmy"
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Europeans Are Becoming Poorer. ‘Yes, We’re All Worse Off.’ (www.wsj.com)
An aging population that values its free time set the stage for economic stagnation. Then came Covid-19 and Russia’s war in Ukraine....
Why do most gaming laptops have vents on the bottom?
If you’re using the laptop as intended (i.e., on your lap), wouldn’t those be almost entirely blocked?
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness - Dennis Schubert (overengineer.dev)
I was looking for a new USB-c hub and came across this article. It’s an interesting write-up of what is on the inside of some popular options
The temperature in China hit 52.2°C (126°F) (lemmy.world)
If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Are packages from flathub always safe?
I usually trust my distro repos without checking. Can the same be applied to flathub without much worry?
UEFI Secure Boot keys replacement guide (please help sanity check this) (web.archive.org)
This is my first time messing with UEFI software keys. I want to sign the nvidia gpu drivers and be able to change them to revert or test the public beta if I choose....
WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative With 'No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations' (www.pcmag.com)
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How America fell out of love with ice cream (www.cnn.com)
Consumption of regular dairy ice cream, which does not include frozen yogurt, sherbet or non- and low-fat ice creams, has been falling for years, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
This poison ivy along my street (lemmy.world)
It runs all the way down, flanking both sides. I pretend it’s a moat for protection. So lush in some places it’s difficult to not touch with your car as you drive along.
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of July 16th
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Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)
Anybody have a solution for dotfiles outside /home
on gentoo for example I have accrued a few files under /etc/portage that to my knowledge just have to live there…...
New neuroscience research shows liberals experience more empathy than conservatives when they imagine others suffering (www.psypost.org)
A recent study in Israel used brain scans to explore the differences in empathy between political liberals and conservatives. The researchers found that when imagining other people suffering, liberals showed stronger brain reactions associated with empathy compared to conservatives. This pattern of brain activity was linked to...
And then comes the wonderful realm of the BSDs and the OpenSolaris derivatives (thelemmy.club)
Every time you click on this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website (wiby.me)
Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50% (lemmy.world)
nuff said
Let’s start a bar fight, shall we? (youtu.be)
ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers, and the reason might be AI’s biggest threat for the future (www.techradar.com)
ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers, and the reason might be AI’s biggest threat for the future::AI for the smart guy?
Why do people steal the tip of the air compressors?
Maybe the state I live in is just ghetto as shit. It seems like every air pump at the gas station has the top part that attaches to your tire to fill it with air stolen....
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)
None of you will convince me that this wasn't foreshadowing (i.imgur.com)