Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening....
Oddly, not 10 mins before seeing this post I was having to convince someone that anyone espousing Jordan B Peterson probably isn’t reading the political climate from a reasonable vantage point.
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Just emerged from a Hugo Novels nominations reading spree; three delights (Adventure of Amina al-Sirafi, Saint of Bright Doors, and Translation State), two that I enjoyed but didn't love (Starter Villain, Desperate Glory) and one I didn't get on with (Witch King - which is odd because I have liked the author's previous stuff.)
I tried Linux on my desktop end of last year (like I always did on about a yearly basis) and decided that if I was gonna make the switch, I needed an AMD card. NVIDIA + Wayland had a lot of flickering issues and whatnot, but I didn’t want to use X11 because Wayland has way better support for multi-monitor with different refresh rates and also VRR.
So, I sold my RTX 3080 and got a Radeon 7800 XT and switched to Linux on my main desktop full-time January 1st. A few months later and NVIDIA finally decides to stop fucking around and properly improve their Linux driver. Could’ve saved a few bucks there (sold the 3080 for like 350,-€ to a friend and got the 7800 XT for like 550,-€, and the 7800 XT is pretty much in the same performance ballpark, so I spent 200,-€ on better compatibility/less pain).
Good to know that NVIDIA will be an option for me for a GPU upgrade in the future. It’s always good to have more choice. While my experience with AMD Radeon under Linux was okay, it wasn’t really perfect either. I had the odd crash here and there with kernel versions from earlier in the year (6.6), 6.7 had black screen issues with RDNA3 (maybe RDNA2 as well) after standby and hot restarts (fixed in 6.7.4 or 6.7.5 iirc), and ever since 6.7 I have stability issues with enabled VRR and multi-monitor as well, unless I force the memory clock to stay at a higher frequency. Then there’s also this issue that just got fixed with 6.10 it seems.
So if NVIDIA really ups their game now and consistently improves their Linux driver, I could see myself going NVIDIA again. I’m also excited to see what Intel has in store though.
If we assume “half a day” is 4 hours, and 500 pounds. That’s 125 pounds per hour. Which isn’t the worst rate. Assuming it’s actually capped at 4 hours and we all know that if it’s your dad’s friend, this is not going to be a set and forget kind of thing. So that 4 hours quickly becomes 10. And suddenly you’re down to 50 pounds per hour. And then if it’s actually static and simple and good, you still have high odds of getting insane feedback demanding changes to make it worse. A motherfucking website would actually be the best option, but wouldn’t get you paid. At that point youre just doing it for the lols.
But ultimately, this isn’t even about the rate or how much time this will take. this whole scenario depends heavily on the son here. Is the son unemployed and living in dad’s basement for free? Then yeah. Sorry, he should probably take any work he can get for any rate he can get. His dad gets a lot more say in how things work financially if the son is relying on him financially. But if the son is already working a full time job and living in his own house? Then no, I don’t care what the rate is. Don’t commandeer other people’s time. Don’t make deals that people haven’t agreed to. Come to me with opportunities, not demands.
The odd bit here is that Pixel phones were not necessarily considered flagship phones. And accordingly we’re priced not as flagship phones but if rumors are correct they are trying to get a flagship phone price for non flagship phone.
She once related a story where her mom (I think) told her “What, you think you just fell from a coconut tree?” to get across the idea that no one is an island and we all build on what came before us. And between the odd phrasing and her exaggerated delivery, it ended up becoming a meme.
The European Union has stripped Hungary of the right to host the next meeting of foreign and defence ministers over its stance on the war in Ukraine....
The European Union has stripped Hungary of the right to host the next meeting of foreign and defence ministers over its stance on the war in Ukraine.It comes weeks after Hungary assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union, a role in which it would normally host the event, and amid anger over a meeting Prime Minister Viktor Orban held with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this month.
Every six months, under each new council presidency, the EU’s foreign and defence ministers hold informal meetings to discuss the biggest global issues facing the bloc.
Following the decision, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on Facebook: "What a fantastic response they have come up with.
"Mr Orban’s meeting with Mr Putin came as part of what he described as a “peace mission” - launched days after Hungary assumed the council presidency - that also saw him visiting the leaders of Ukraine and China as well as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the US.
The trip sparked condemnation from leaders across the EU, with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen describing it as “nothing but an appeasement mission”.Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Mr Orban had “no mandate to negotiate or discuss on behalf of the EU”, while Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the trip sent “the wrong signal to the outside world and is an insult to the Ukrainian people’s fight for their freedom”.The episode is one of numerous occasions since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on which Hungary has been at odds with most of the rest of the EU about the appropriate response.
After winning re-election in April 2022, just months after the invasion, Mr Orban told a crowd of supporters that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was among the people he would have to “battle” in his fourth term.Last year, he repeatedly used Hungary’s veto to delay a €50bn (£42bn) package of non-military financial aid to Ukraine.
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@mhkohne@Princejvstin@bookstodon Odd jumps in supporting memberships bought under strange or false looking names apparently started to appear in June, i.e. fairly shortly before the voting deadline.
In a large Singapore cohort study involving over 13,000 participants spanning close to 20 years, higher consumption of fruits during midlife was found to be associated with lower odds of depressive symptoms at late-life.
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I have a Daughter who was born on Pi day. When she was little. she would tell you it’s the second most important day, right after Christmas. Pi Day actually became a school wide fun day because of her, (small rural schools can be fun that way). We would bring a couple of pies for her math class to celebrate. Oddly, she much prefers a strawberry cheese cake for her birthday over pies.
I would like to share my jellyfin movies and tv shows with my friend. I was thinking about allowing only his IP address to connect to my jellyfin server....
In the US, it’s a violation of copyright. You could be sued, but wouldn’t likely be arrested.
I would say that the odds of being sued are minimal, close to nonexistent, if it is just a few close friends and family. Jellyfin uses password protection which helps, but you can improve your odds of staying off the media companies’ radar by keeping the server on a private VPN like Tailscale and remembering the rules of Fight Club.
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TITLE: Mental health linked to better aging: Cheese and lifestyle matter
A new study highlights the significant role mental wellbeing plays in determining healthy aging, regardless of socioeconomic status. By analyzing genetic data from over 2.3 million Europeans, researchers found that better mental wellbeing leads to healthier aging, characterized by greater resilience, improved self-rated health, and longevity. Interestingly, they also identified certain lifestyle choices, including being active, not smoking, and eating cheese and fruit, as beneficial to mental wellbeing and healthy aging.
The findings have been published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Human life expectancy has increased significantly over recent decades, posing challenges for individuals and society, such as healthcare demands and financial burdens. While physical health and longevity have often been the focus of aging research, the role of mental wellbeing has received less attention. This study aimed to explore the causal relationship between mental wellbeing and healthy aging, and whether this relationship is independent of socioeconomic status.
The study employed a technique known as Mendelian randomization to investigate the causal relationship between mental wellbeing and healthy aging. This method uses genetic data to determine whether an observed association between two traits is causal or merely correlational. By using genetic variants as proxies for exposures, Mendelian randomization helps mitigate biases commonly found in observational studies, such as confounding factors and reverse causality.
The researchers analyzed data from eight genetic datasets encompassing over 2.3 million individuals of European descent. These datasets included information on five key mental wellbeing traits: overall wellbeing, life satisfaction, positive affect, neuroticism, and depressive symptoms. In addition to mental wellbeing, the study considered three socioeconomic indicators: income, education, and occupation.
The study was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, the researchers assessed the causal associations between mental wellbeing traits and various aging phenotypes, which included resilience, self-rated health, healthspan, parental lifespan, and longevity. They also examined whether these associations were independent of socioeconomic status.
In the second phase, they investigated potential mediating factors that could influence the relationship between mental wellbeing and healthy aging. These factors included lifestyle choices (e.g., diet, physical activity, smoking), behaviors (e.g., medication use, cognitive performance), physical functions (e.g., body mass index, cholesterol levels), and diseases (e.g., cardiovascular diseases, diabetes).
The study found a strong causal relationship between better mental wellbeing and healthier aging outcomes. Specifically, individuals with higher levels of mental wellbeing exhibited significantly higher scores on the aging-related genetic influence phenotypes (aging-GIP), as well as greater resilience, improved self-rated health, longer healthspan, and extended parental lifespan.
For example, the study revealed that a genetically determined increase in overall wellbeing was associated with a substantial rise in aging-GIP (1.21 standard deviations), resilience (1.11 standard deviations), self-rated health (0.84 points), healthspan (1.35 odds ratio), and parental lifespan (3.35 years). However, no significant association was found between overall wellbeing and longevity (odds ratio of 1.56).
Importantly, the study demonstrated that the relationship between mental wellbeing and healthy aging persisted regardless of socioeconomic status. While higher income, education, and occupational attainment were each associated with better mental wellbeing, the positive impact of mental wellbeing on aging outcomes remained significant even after adjusting for these socioeconomic factors. This suggests that mental wellbeing exerts a robust and independent influence on healthy aging.
The researchers also identified several lifestyle factors that contribute to mental wellbeing and, consequently, to healthy aging. Among these, being physically active and avoiding smoking were linked to improved mental wellbeing and healthier aging outcomes. Other influential factors included cognitive performance, age at smoking initiation, and the use of certain medications, which also mediated the relationship between mental wellbeing and aging. Additionally, dietary habits such as consuming more cheese and fruit were found to be beneficial.
Interestingly, this is not the first study to find a link between cheese consumption and mental well-being. A study published in the journal Nutrients found a correlation between regular cheese consumption and cognitive health in the elderly population. Analyzing data from 1,516 participants aged 65 and above, those researchers found that individuals who regularly ate cheese tended to have better cognitive function scores.
While the new study provides compelling evidence of the causal relationship between mental wellbeing and healthy aging, it has some limitations. For instance, the study focused on individuals of European descent, so the findings may not be generalizable to other populations. Future research should investigate whether these relationships hold true across different ethnic groups.
Nevertheless, the results suggest that strategies to enhance mental health could significantly improve aging outcomes.
“Our results underscore the imperative to prioritize mental well-being in health policies geared towards fostering healthy aging, and propose that interventions to remediate healthy aging disparities related to suboptimal mental well-being could target promoting healthy lifestyles such as restricting TV watching time and avoiding smoking; monitoring performances and physical functions such as enhancing cognitive function and regulating adiposity; and preventing common chronic diseases,” the researchers concluded.
The study, “Mendelian randomization evidence for the causal effect of mental well-being on healthy aging,” was authored by Chao-Jie Ye, Dong Liu, Ming-Ling Chen, Li-Jie Kong, Chun Dou, Yi-Ying Wang, Min Xu, Yu Xu, Mian Li, Zhi-Yun Zhao, Rui-Zhi Zheng, Jie Zheng, Jie-Li Lu, Yu-Hong Chen, Guang Ning, Wei-Qing Wang, and Yu-Fang Bi.
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Couldn’t aimbots be picked up as odd movement and be detectable on a server though? Kind of similar to how those “not a robot” checks can tell if a human is clicking on the box just by looking at the movements of the cursor.
In addition, things like textures and game-modifications could be picked up in part by things like checksum verification to make sure the client is unmodified (assuming the files are modified on the disk and not in memory)
I feel like most client-side changes like see-through walls or player highlighting make themselves pretty obvious when aggregated over multiple games. A good user-reporting system could probably catch most of these.
I definitely agree though, allowing multiple random companies to install ring 0 rootkits should not be the norm. Honestly, even a Windows-level anticheat would be problematic because it would only worsen the monopoly Microsoft has on competitive games as a platform. A new solution would need to be cross-platform or else it would only be marginally better than what already exists.
As someone who’s extremely left leaning, it’s so goddamn infuriating, because there are so many pro-gun Dem leaning voters that wind up voting ® down the ticket, almost solely because the Democratic candidate went on an idiotic speech about AK-15s and their 30 caliber per second clipazines. It’s not like the anti-gun Dems they’re pandering to are going to vote Republican because the Democratic candidate said nothing about guns during their campaign.
It’s literally one single issue that the Dems could just not say a word about. Literally, no work involved. No campaigning, canvassing, or fundraising. Just don’t bring it up, and it would massively improve their odds in some of the most critical swing states. But no, they just have to virtue signal to the areas that are basically ultramarine blue, and it fucks them over every goddamn time.
Betting odds are 1:1.5 for Trump and 1:3 for Harris while Trump is slightly ahead in the polls. I’d still think it’s a toss up since the Democratic election machine is going to kick into high gear and they have a pretty good youth angle by saying Trump is a relic of the past.
I have to say I am too. She’s had a few incidents of odd speech patterns; if not this, the poor soundbites like weirdly explaining things (“Russia is a country” or “do not come”). Trump’s word salad is so normalized that he won’t be scrutinized for it. There will probably be sexist comments on it as well.
I hope she gets new speechwriters and a bit of training on what to say instead. It’s probably a lot to hope that she can quickly override this pattern, given it’s likely something she’s done all her life, but her duties as VP are relatively minimal and the campaign can afford speech training. She’s better than Trump either way, but being consistently on point would be useful
Depends which society you are referring to. I’m Irish I love in Ireland. And although I make no claims that Ireland is post racial… it’s sure af less racial alliance round than America.
I lived there too. Firs time I ever heard the n word being used with full unabashed sincerity. At the age of… 25 odd.
After the debate and especially after the botched assassination attempt, I felt despair and a hopeless sense of certainty that our comrades in the USA would have to endure a Trump presidency and all of us around the world would suffer the consequences.
I’m genuinely optimistic now. I think Harris can win.
People who complain about her not being a socialist or how electoralism won’t change the system are missing the point. Those are true things, but the alternative is a fascistic climate change denier with the Sons of Jacob as his cabinet.
The Americans are standing at a crossroads between an increasingly fragile status quo and tyranny. As much as I hate the status quo, I’m glad that the odds are now smiling far less at tyranny.
She doesn’t have to worry about people turned off by Biden in general to win the nomination. She doesn’t need to care about voters at all to win the nomination, she just has to appeal to a handful of DNC operatives because the primary is over.
Assuming the Biden can’t simply reassign his delegates to Harris that is - in which case she’s essentially already won the nomination before she even started running.
Now the election on the other hand…the election also isn’t particularly about what she has to offer. The election is all about Trump. People are either voting for Trump or not-Trump, and the vast majority of not-Trump voters aren’t all that concerned with what form not-Trump takes so long as it isn’t Trump. It’s entirely a matter of turnout.
I’m more curious whether she’ll go for a milquetoast generic moderate Democrat or a progressive well to her left - if nothing else it will say something about what she sees as her bigger weakness. I’d put odds on a white guy either way to appease the lesser racists (aka the same reason Biden was Obama’s VP).
Elon Musk denies reported $45 million a month pledge to Trump, says he doesn't 'subscribe to cult of personality’ (fortune.com)
Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening....
NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules (www.phoronix.com)
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Just a dad helping out (lemmy.world)
Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak (www.techtimes.com)
Google packed the Pixel 9 Pro XL with a punch, as evidenced by its latest leaked specs.
The internet has entered its Kamala Harris ‘coconut tree’ era (www.nbcnews.com)
Hungary stripped of EU meeting over Ukraine stance (www.bbc.com)
The European Union has stripped Hungary of the right to host the next meeting of foreign and defence ministers over its stance on the war in Ukraine....
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Ohio GOP Senator Says 'Civil War' Needed If Trump Loses. (www.commondreams.org)
Is it a crime to share my jellyfin library with only one friend of mine?
I would like to share my jellyfin movies and tv shows with my friend. I was thinking about allowing only his IP address to connect to my jellyfin server....
Nvidia could lose up to $12 billion in revenue if US bans new China-oriented GPU — analysts believe the H20 will get the banhammer soon (www.tomshardware.com)
My brother claims that Vanguard for League can do the same to gaming PCs that install it as CrowdStrike did to businesses who installed that, is this true? Does Vanguard have as much access/power?
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‘The Squad’ Is Coming Around to Kamala Harris for President (www.thedailybeast.com)
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Kamala Harris Launches Presidential Bid: ‘My Intention Is to Earn and Win This Nomination’ (variety.com)
Kamala Harris has launched her campaign for the White House, after President Joe Biden stepped aside Sunday under pressure from party leaders....
Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI (www.wired.com)