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    SkyeStarfall ,

    Even against an induction stovetop though, it’s only better in some niche situations, otherwise I’d say the induction stovetop is better, especially because it can’t set stuff on fire.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I really don’t understand how unanimous and encouraged this support for Israel is. And then we like to think of ourselves as the good guys, and wonder why others hate us.

    It’s such an obvious wrong thing, and yet it is supported by most. It’s completely absurd.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    What do energy drinks even contain that is harmful to you? Beyond just caffeine and sugar?

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Taurine is an amino acid that exists basically everywhere and throughout our entire bodies. It is not harmful to consume. Many other foods have high quantities of taurine naturally.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Sure, but that is by far not exclusive to energy drinks, that often have less sugar than typical sodas, even.

    14 years after playing League Of Legends for the first time ever, I, today, played it on Linux!

    I’ve been playing LoL since a long time - practically since my friends etc. started it in 2009. I was on windows back then and moved slowly and slowly to Linux via dual boot. These days I only used windows for gaming and Linux (Ubuntu) for everything else....

    SkyeStarfall ,

    It’s mostly an inside joke that people who play league are worse off for it. Don’t take it too seriously.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Yes, unfortunately currently society exists to serve billionaires, and we don’t see that changing much. More automation will just entrench that power further.

    We need to eliminate billionaires yesterday, or risk ending up in techno neo-feudalism.

    Capitalism is reaching its end road. Things will change, for better or for worse. How it will change will depend on whether politics will support the people, or the rich… and of we continue on without changing much, it will support the rich.

    ‘Groundbreaking’ bionic arm that fuses with user’s skeleton and nerves could advance amputee care (www.euronews.com)

    ‘Groundbreaking’ bionic arm that fuses with user’s skeleton and nerves could advance amputee care::The bionic arm has been working for years, reducing the user’s level of pain. The first person to receive it tells how life changing it has been.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    We got vibrators and other toys for that. Imagine just using your hand when you’re already a cyborg, smh smh

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I don’t think it’s a complaint. It’s an anti-joke.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    People with mental disorders and/or disabilities don’t get believed, more at 11.

    I have adhd and friends with mental and/or physical disabilities. Everyone is frustrated at how often they face roadblocks or issues because people and systems struggle to believe them, and a lot of shit is just about “proving” you are really “disabled enough”. Invisible disabilities are especially vulnerable, take people on the internet for some reason making fun of wheelchair users who can still walk a bit for example (as not all wheelchair users are incapable of walking). And this is a pretty global phenomenon, as I live in Europe, where I see and experience plenty of this stuff.

    It’s incredibly frustrating, and it causes endless issues for people with disabilities, making life much harder than it already is. I wish people were just more willing to believe us when we say something. And not constantly belittle our issues.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Basically every software engineer laughed their ass off once they realized they were serious about that stuff.

    It just shows such an intense lack of understanding of how software and business works. Thinking that blockchain is just some magic powder that can bring their wishes to reality.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Eh, no, I’m going to disagree with you there.

    Yes, AI is trendy, hyped, and a buzzword at the moment, but at the core of it there really is a very useful and practical technology (and it’s also much more varied than just LLMs). Take for the fact that generative AI is actually being used in practice, to do more or less what it was advertised to.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    You need to be more specific than just say “AI” here. Experts do not say that AI will never reach a point of true general intelligence, but they may say that LLMs cannot do that.

    AI is a big field, and it has seen massive improvements over time. Sure, don’t oversell its current capabilities, but we don’t really know where the current path leads. Current AI is already plenty impressive.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I see a lot of people conflating concepts in AI, so I cannot be too sure just from context.

    Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)

    Mathematician warns NSA may be weakening next-gen encryption::Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already under way to replace them with new, secure algorithms. Now it seems the US National Security Agency may be undermining that process

    SkyeStarfall ,

    …there very much is practically unbreakable encryption. We use those every day (it’s part of the s in https).

    And your example is just a very rudimentary form of encryption that is far far weaker than the typical encryption methods used on the internet today.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I think you vastly underestimate modern encryption. I would recommend looking up concepts and math from encryption, it makes more sense for why thinking that practically unbreakable encryption is very much possible once you do.

    It’s why governments want to implement back-doors, because they are not actually capable of breaking it more directly.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    …it’s literally about accusing NSA of trying to implement back-doors for quantum resistant encryption.

    I have no idea what you’re trying to get at.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    The thing with AI, is that it mostly only produces trash now.

    But look back to 5 years ago, what were people saying about AI? Hell, many thought that the kind of art that AI can make today would be impossible for it to create! …And then it suddenly did. We’ll, it wasn’t actually suddenly, and the people in the space probably saw it coming, but still.

    The point is, we keep getting better at creating AIs that do stuff we thought were impossible a few years ago, stuff that we said would show true intelligence if an AI can do them. And yet, every time some new impressive AI gets developed, people say it sucks, is boring, is far from good enough, etc. While it slowly, every time, creeps on closer to us, replacing a few jobs here and there in the fringes. Sure, it’s not true intelligence, and it still doesn’t beat humans, but, it beats most, at demand, and what happens when inevitably better AIs get created?

    Maybe we’re in for another decades long AI winter… or maybe we’re not, and plenty more AI revolutions are just around the corner. I think AIs current capabilities are frighteningly good, and not something I expected to happen this soon. And the last decade or so has seen massive progress in this area, who’s to say where the current path stops?

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I want to note that everything you talk about is happening on the scales of months to single years. That’s incredibly rapid pace, and also too short of a timeframe to determine true research trends.

    Usually research is considered rapid if there is meaningful progression within a few years, and more realistically about a decade or so. I mean, take something like real time ray tracing, for comparison.

    When I’m talking about the future of AI, I’m thinking like 10-20 years. We simply don’t know enough about what is possible to say what will happen by then.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Please elaborate on why it’s a scam

    SkyeStarfall ,

    What’s wrong with it? It’s just a cutesy name for a dog.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Some people like to be cutesy

    SkyeStarfall ,

    People need to remember that chances are they are far too unimportant to use expensive stuff like anthrax on them. And if they are important enough for it, then they would already know and take precautions.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    This depends entirely on whether you consider aliens to be people (or if person is synonymous with human), and whether aliens exist (which they probably do).

    If both of those are true, then this image would be false. The inverse would actually be true. Even if you would account everything behind the Earth that is also inside the circle, if you also assume life is mostly evenly spread out in the universe.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    But adhd doesn’t really prevent you from having hobbies or personal projects. It does make it hard to work and survive in the labour system we have today though, at least hard to not get stressed the hell out.

    If I had much more free time and less stuff demanded to me and sapping my energy, I’d happily work away at a bunch of personal projects or other stuff. And in the times where I had such freedom, I did. But now that I’m stressed and bogged down by the working everyday, I do little, and it sucks.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    But a company head makes a decision that siphons billions of dollars from poor people, or directly endanger other people’s lives, or, hell, risk the future of our fucking civilization (looking at you Exxon), and maaaybe they get a slap on the wrist if we’re lucky. But only after rising hell on earth for that.

    …but a woman gets accused of substance use that might hurt her unborn child, and she gets 15 years. Ruining not only her life, but also her unborn child’s, ironically enough.

    If aliens looked down at us on earth, they would have thought we were some uncivilized savages about to blow ourselves up to kingdom come.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    That’s because it’s still an early’s adopters tech. There is absolutely a ton of potential in this space.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Google Mandelbrot set (or other fractals)

    SkyeStarfall ,

    If I lived in Gaza now, I probably would have started to think Hamas were right all along.

    And the only reason I’m not, is because I was lucky in my birth lottery. I am here not there. I am safe, and not there in danger for my life.

    It’s literally just luck.

    Not everybody is so lucky.

    I wish cooperation was a lot more typical in the world, instead of the egoistic and power hungry normal that it is. Doing whatever one can do to get an upper hand, instead of just trying to make the world a better place. In the long run, we all would benefit.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Not just was, is. It’s still one of the most popular and better Tower Defense games put there.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Most likely yes

    Servers are like 98% linux or something like that

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Capital loves Israel, especially the military industrial complex.

    Sure, maybe it’s not a very direct link, but it’s part of what the people in power want.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Culture isn’t nearly that important, and learning the language, or just speaking English, is a minor obstacle all things considered. If you move somewhere, you will get a language teacher.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    Indeed. And the machine code is created as part of the physical CPU design.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    It barely works because it makes a lot of money

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I mean, twitter is at the risk of bankruptcy so…

    Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X (www.cnbc.com)

    Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    He’s one of the wealthiest people in the world

    SkyeStarfall ,

    86GB is nothing for a condensed form of all human knowledge

    SkyeStarfall ,

    It’s not the solution. Revenge isn’t constructive

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I wish it was easier to find quality clothes. Nearly every piece of clothing I find has synthetics mixed in.

    I would gladly pay a lot more for good, ethical, quality clothes.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    While true, how much troubleshooting does windows require? Because as I sometimes use windows, it’s not that much less work to get it to do what you want it to do, or solve issues, than linux.

    Especially since it feels like windows tries to fight you every step of the way.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    …I’ve certainly had that issue on windows as well. I had to manually set the time. Windows sync at least didn’t use to always work.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    It sucks when you want to port an app to iOS, or an application to MacOS and find out “oh… I need to have a Mac to compile to these platforms… and there’s no way to otherwise test…”

    Meanwhile, with android you can just run an emulator.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    I find it interesting how people who were voted in can just completely go against their voter’s wishes and nobody can do anything about it until their term is up (at least in a timely fashion, as far as I know). That really sucks

    A deaf football team will debut a 5G-connected augmented reality helmet to call plays (www.opb.org)

    A deaf football team will debut a 5G-connected augmented reality helmet to call plays::The helmet, developed by AT&T and Gallaudet University, will debut at the school’s Saturday game. When a coach chooses a play on a tablet, it will then display on a small lens on the player’s helmet.

    SkyeStarfall , (edited )

    A big part of 5G is to support a lot more devices at the same time, making congestion a smaller issue.

    5G, at least the fully developed version, which idk if they have here, supports directional beams, beamforming. That reduces any congestion to basically 0.

    Like, I don’t know the specifications here, but 5G would work fine, or possibly be better, than wi-fi. Wi-fi is designed for lower scales, and doesn’t handle congestion as well, meanwhile mobile networks are designed to support mass amounts of devices simultaneously. 5G was designed with a lot of these future considerations in mind.

    Edit: further, 5G uses a much shorter wavelength, or higher frequency. It can support far more theoretical traffic than wi-fi, and it has lower range to 4G due to higher attenuation, making congestion an even lower concern.

    SkyeStarfall ,

    The point is that neither sides are saints. You cannot just blame Palestine while letting Israel off the hook.

    This is such obvious prelude to actual genocide by Israel, and you don’t see any issues with that?

    SkyeStarfall ,

    You changed your statement here

    In your previous comment, you wrote “they” as a whole population. Now you write “those who”, the more limited segment.

    But Israel doesn’t just punish the perpetrators here, do they?

    SkyeStarfall ,

    it can be parasocial, but it doesn’t have to be. Neither does it have to be a coping mechanism. I still watch streams even if I get plenty of social interaction. I like streams specifically because I don’t have to be social, and can just relax.

    But yes, of course, it can be problematic, and it’s important to be aware of that. Especially since there are some content creator that exploit that phenomenon. That’s bad. But you can apply similar criticisms to video games, how they can exploit our psychology and make us addicted or want to spend money etc etc. Doesn’t mean all games are bad, or gaming is bad, either.

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