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Halcyon ,
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Article including the satellite imagery of the site where the RS-28 Sarmat missile exploded:

arstechnica.com/…/satellite-images-suggest-test-o…

Halcyon ,
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You’re okay if you have done watermelons.

Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy

I wanted to get printer photo paper for my printer, a Canon. I went to Walmart, They had nothing. Went to Target, they had one pack of photo paper and it was crazy expensive, so I went to micro center. That one was just as expensive. So finally I went back to Amazon, which I was trying to avoid, and saw the price 25 to 40% lower...

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There are other online shops besides Amazon. I find an alternative for almost everything that I order and it’s not more expensive. And finding the right product inside Amazon is so exhausting nowadays that it’s not more work to compare different web shops.

World now has five times more photovoltaics than nuclear power (www.pv-magazine.com)

“But even in the only country that is massively building, China, nuclear development is comparatively marginal. In 2023, China started up one new nuclear reactor, that is plus 1 GW, and more than 200 GW of solar alone. Solar generated 40% more power than nuclear and all non-hydro renewables—mainly wind, solar, and...

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Solar panels are fusion harvesters.

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This is another sign of weakness and his unfitness for presidency. What’s Trump for a president if he cannot stand and take responsibility for his own utterings?

Halcyon ,
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I wouldn’t be so sure about that… Sex on psychedelic substances is quite an experience, compared to alcohol which numbs.

Halcyon ,
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Ok, I was not precise in my wording – but THC clearly is a psychoactive substance through which people can observe profound experiences and have intense physical and emotional perceptions.

Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media (fortune.com)

A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted officers could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators....

Halcyon , (edited )
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Disabling the wifi SSID broadcast might even increase the number of communication attempts between devices. Because all devices then must actively search for the network.

Halcyon OP ,
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According to Wikipedia, Windjammer is a term of English origin:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windjammer#Etymology

Halcyon ,
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It’s a LLM. It doesn’t “know” what it’s talking about. Gemini is designed to write long nuanced answers to ‘every’ question, unless prompted otherwise.

Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline (www.theguardian.com)

Late on Friday afternoon, Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has been engaged in a dispute with X’s owner, Elon Musk, since April – ordered the “immediate, complete and total suspension of X’s operations” in the country, “until all court orders … are complied with, fines are duly paid, and a new legal...

Halcyon ,
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Spread it to Everybody from Brazil: Leave Xitter, JOIN MASTODON!

How to join Mastodon:

www.followchain.org/join-mastodon/

Halcyon ,
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Are you aware that Lemmy is social media too?

Halcyon ,
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Of course it is.

Halcyon ,
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Humans on Earth have been transmitting radio waves into space for over a century now through various means: television broadcasts, radio communications, and radar signals.

Halcyon ,
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Masaru Emoto’s “experiments” are not scientifically legit. They are at best artistic photography. But his so-called science in regard to water/ice crystals is rubbish and does not stand up to scrutiny, it is not reproducible. He makes a lot of money from common people at his events.

Halcyon ,
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The new technique distorts reality in a much larger way. That hasn’t been there before. When everybody has this in their smartphones, we will look at manipulated pics on an hourly basis. That’s unprecedented.

Why are so many leaders in tech evil?

I remember when I was growing up, tech industry has so many people that were admirable, and you wanted to aspire to be in life. Bill Gates, founders of Google Larry Page, Sergey brin, Steve Jobs (wasn’t perfect but on a surface level, he was still at least a pretty decent guy), basically everyone involved in gaming from Xbox...

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This is alledgedly the location of Zuckerberg’s property on Hawaii:

google.com/…/data=

Halcyon ,
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They’re really working on making World War III attractive. That’s not a joke. They long for war.

Halcyon ,
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Ugh, sponsored of course by Peter Thiel, the fascist transhumanist.

Halcyon ,
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If anyone doesn’t know it yet:

The podcast Tech Won’t Save Us has a wonderful series called “Elon Musk Unmasked” where they also debunked all of his empty promises.

techwontsave.us/elon-musk-unmasked

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If we stack five whales end-to-end, we’d get a 125-meter-long “whale train,” long enough to confuse any passing ship captain into thinking they’ve discovered a new mode of ocean transportation.

Halcyon ,
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This is well-known and even written on the labels. There are special 0,0% beer products that guarantee to be absolutely free.

As a dry alcoholic you normally know such things.

Halcyon ,
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Also nice: Flensburger Frei.

Death Valley heat melts skin off a man's feet after he lost his flip-flops in the dunes (www.yahoo.com)

According to a National Park Service news release, the 42-year-old Belgian tourist was taking a short walk Saturday in the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in 123-degree heat when he either broke or lost his flip-flops, putting his feet into direct contact with the desert ground. The result: third-degree burns....

Halcyon ,
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International travel health insurance is not that expensive in Europe. In Germany you can get it for the equivalent of around $15-20 a year. Then you are fully insured for a travel period of 8 weeks per year. Insurances like that also exist in Belgium.

Halcyon ,
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You could just as well replace these names of the generations with the astrological signs of the zodiac, that would be just as meaningful. It’s bullshit.

Halcyon ,
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Yep, it’s similar to Astrology where certain psychological characteristics are attributed to the signs of the zodiac.

Halcyon ,
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The immense computing power for AI is needed for training LLMs, it’s far less for running a pre-trained model on a local machine.

Halcyon ,
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From Crowdstrike’s Terms of Use:

“THE OFFERINGS AND CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE NOT FAULT-TOLERANT AND ARE NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN ANY HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT REQUIRING FAIL-SAFE PERFORMANCE OR OPERATION. NEITHER THE OFFERINGS NOR CROWDSTRIKE TOOLS ARE FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION, NUCLEAR FACILITIES, COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, WEAPONS SYSTEMS, DIRECT OR INDIRECT LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, OR ANY APPLICATION OR INSTALLATION WHERE FAILURE COULD RESULT IN DEATH, SEVERE PHYSICAL INJURY, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE. Customer agrees that it is Customer’s responsibility to ensure safe use of an Offering and the CrowdStrike Tools in such applications and installations.”

www.crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/

Halcyon ,
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AI-generated images and videos will become so flawless that they will no longer be easily distinguishable. We cannot build up media competence in the general public as quickly as is required.

Halcyon , (edited )
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It’s hidden in the sense that the normal user does not see the true cost on their energy bill. You perform a search and get the result in milliseconds. That makes it easy to get the false impression that it’s just a minor operation. It’s not like driving a car and watching the the fuel gauge and see the consumption.

Of course one can research how much energy Google consumes and find out the background – IF you’re interested. But most people just use tech and do not question or even understand.

Halcyon ,
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Public transport in Japan really is such a delightful experience. Also the organization and the habit of the people using it. It just works. And is cheap.

Halcyon ,
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I think the true use case for these AI technologies is yet to come. What most people are doing with the “AI” tools available today is just gambling around. But working with personal computers could be changing fundamentally in the coming years.

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And how about price comparison, is it mandatory for US supermarkets to display the price per unit based on a standard unit of measurement (such as per pound or per ounce or whatever metrics are used)?

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There is, it’s called UK.

Halcyon ,
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Ah ok, thanks.

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