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pennomi ,

I mean, it might be as simple as “my alternative conservative candidate is no longer in the running”. It could take a lot of diving into the stats to figure out the actual cause and effect.

pennomi ,

I think he’s likely an invertebrate, no bones required.

pennomi ,

This guy is a real goofball, I really enjoyed his storytelling.

pennomi ,

Privacy is implied when you say “innocent until proven guilty”. Surveillance assumes the opposite.

pennomi ,

Yep, graphing calculators are a forced necessity for school, therefore they can charge anything they want and people will still buy them. This kind of artificial demand causes extreme price inelasticity and is capitalism at its worst.

Same deal with university books, you are forced to buy them so they cost hundreds of dollars, when they could easily be sold at a profit for a quarter of the cost.

pennomi ,

If all students did a general strike for a year, it would immediately force change. Tuition is absurdly expensive, even though it’s cheaper to educate people than ever before due to technology.

pennomi ,

AI isn’t a scam, but damn, most of the businesses surrounding it sure are.

pennomi ,

AI does mean something, but it’s quite disappointing.

Even mundane algorithms like A* pathfinding are technically under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence. However the public’s perception of what AI means constantly shifts to be “whatever computers can’t do today”.

pennomi ,

No, but it also stands to profit from those violations of consumer rights, where other countries do not.

pennomi ,

Plus even if you defederate them, oops, it’s all public anyway!

pennomi ,

The easiest way is a sitewide NoAI meta tag, since it’s the current standard. Researchers are much more likely to respect a common standard and extremely unlikely to respect a single user’s personal solution adding a link to their comments.

pennomi ,

If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.

That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.

pennomi ,

I believe pixart sigma is more open. The community hasn’t rallied around it though.

Edit: Fuck yes, pixart is AGPL!

pennomi ,

Of course it helps. Sure, the first election wouldn’t see much change, but RCV emboldens third parties to exist and would give them a viable path towards displacing the establishment. Right now there is NO path.

pennomi ,

That’s starting to not be true. Several of the brands out of China have better manufacturing quality than LEGO these days.

pennomi ,

That’s not exactly true, the manufacturing quality of LEGO has gone down in recent years after moving much of the manufacturing to China. For example, you’ll find more parts with ejection marks in them today than you used to.

Ironically there are a few good Chinese knockoff brands with superior quality now.

pennomi ,

No, that’s counterproductive because the government uses those services. Instead, the government could confiscate his stock in those companies.

pennomi ,

It’s mostly Tesla and Twitter that he’s wrecking, but yeah Shotwell does sometimes rescue SpaceX from terrible ideas he has, like canceling Falcon Heavy.

pennomi ,

Yeah, if you’re running monitors with two different refresh rates, you’ll have a hard time in X11. I haven’t tried it in Wayland but I’ve heard it’s better.

Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

pennomi ,

I know people shit on those bots that repost content from Reddit and other places, but it’s a really simple way to bootstrap content on Lemmy. I think if we want to win we need to be open to that.

pennomi ,

Probably no, unless it turns out to have more porn than non-porn. Which could definitely happen!

(And with a site name like X, probably should happen.)

pennomi ,

Locally run AI could be great. But sending all your data to an external server for processing is really, really bad.

pennomi ,

It’s advertising more than AI for me. Everything you do in Windows is monetized by selling your preferences to advertisers. Shameful.

pennomi ,

They probably signed a contract stating they’d pay it in American dollars, governed under American law. Oops!

pennomi ,

Honestly with the internet, we might be able to live in the first technologically viable direct democracy. I’d be curious to see a proposal for how that could be implemented.

pennomi ,

Our elected representatives aren’t specialists with deep domain knowledge either. Ideally you have specialists in a specific role as drafters of legislation, administrative people appointed to filter through the bills, but the final vote goes to the people instead of Congress. That way you don’t get fiascos like abortion rights where you have a small group of people controlling us despite overwhelming support.

pennomi ,

Yeah I’m not pretending I’ve thought deeply about my proposed system. But the people at very least deserve the ability to have a direct hand in legislation. Politicians are not scared enough of their electorate.

pennomi ,

Unfortunately, all the problems that exist in the population also exist for legislators. Turns out they are extremely vulnerable as well!

pennomi ,

Not just him, but to send copies to several of his friends too!

pennomi ,

Nothing, just use a good tool for the job, whatever that job requires.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

pennomi ,

It won’t fizzle out; it already has legitimate business use cases. (A lot fewer than the marketing bros want you to believe, but real use cases nonetheless.) Blockchain and Augmented Reality never reached this point, so they fizzled. We’ll see a huge AI winter soon just like we did in the dot com bust in 2000.

pennomi ,

I picked it up to test. So far I once got soft locked in a push animation while pushing a box another player was pushing, but otherwise the game seems nice and fun. Also it’s beautifully designed.

pennomi ,

I agree that for it to be science it needs to be reproducible, but obviously publication could happen internally. It just ends up as science that no one else can benefit from, which is contrary to what most scientists actually want.

Musk is just an ass who doesn’t want to share his toys.

pennomi ,

Put crocodiles in a moat at the bottom please

pennomi ,

Exactly, you do not want to touch hydrazine.

pennomi ,

Sadly, even if that billion dollars was somehow taxed, the obstructionists in government would be sure to stop it from going to reproductive rights. So oddly enough a billionaire is the only way for this kind of good to happen.

pennomi ,

It’s harder to obstruct the greater majority of people in other governmental systems. Ours is set up so literally one bad actor can fully hijack the entire legislative process, and that bad actor can be elected by the minority of the population.

pennomi ,

Depends on what journal is reviewing the paper.

Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday (digiday.com)

The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

pennomi ,

Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.

pennomi ,

GIMP needs the Blender treatment honestly. Inkscape too. That would cover the vast majority of what I do art-wise.

pennomi ,

Oh god FreeCAD is a nightmare to learn. But it does get work done. I wish Blender could move more into that space.

Inkscape is lovely but imo it could use some interface cleanup. (And really it has been getting better each major update.)

pennomi ,

Touch grass. It’s the best replacement for social media of any kind!

pennomi ,

Honestly, dating apps are one of the cases for a federated system. Use whatever frontend you want, no one person owns the backend so they can’t sleazily monetize you. Probably would need to be a bit more cryptographic than something like lemmy or mastodon though.

pennomi ,

I mean, Twitter is the dumbest shit on the internet. But Reddit gets close sometimes!

pennomi ,

Because Google penalizes you for being concise. Just vomiting out more words is an easy way to improve your SEO.

pennomi ,

I mean, an eclipse certainly isn’t moving underground…

pennomi ,

Sometimes you can consolidate your debt to a lower interest block. It has helped several of my friends to fix their high credit card debt.

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