Has anyone else noticed this? YT seems even more eager now than ever before to funnel people into reactionary garbage. If I was conspiracy brained I'd say this was on purpose but I know it's because the reactionary stuff gets ad clicks.

lmao

(also use Linux)

what kind of lame-ass dork would spend $200 on some worthless plastic garbage that does nothing but give you blatantly false information

for fuck's sake, LLMs do not possess knowledge. they generate believable text, that's it. you can't trust any information it spits out, it's just a word prediction algorithm AHHHH STOP TREATING IT LIKE AN INFORMATIONAL TOOL

even if this "AI" shit was even remotely useful, who wants to carry around some stupid orange device that does nothing your smartphone can't already do? whoever buys this trash deserves to get grifted

PS I hate Swedish minimalist design. this shit looks like a toy for a 4 year-old, which happens to be mental age of anyone who would buy this crap

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240418-israel-using-metas-whatsapp-to-kill-palestinians-in-gaza-through-ai-system/

If this is against instance or community rules just let me know and I'll remove it.

Are there any groups to get involved with to do tech support or create tech solutions for organizers? I do organize with some local groups, technologically and otherwise, and it seems like it would be helpful to see what cross cutting concerns are and cross pollinate solutions.

Obviously, please don't doxx yourself or others to answer this.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14962465

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/much-ado-about-nothing/44236

Not directly related to this blog post but from NixOS discourse forum, a tl;dr from another person about the NixOS drama here :

If you’re looking for a TL;DR of the situation, here it is:

    Nix community had a governance crisis for years. While there has been progress on building explicit teams to govern the project, it continued to fundamentally rely on implicit authority and soft power

    Eelco Dolstra, as one of the biggest holders of this implicit authority and soft power, has continuously abused this authority to push his decisions, and to block decisions that he doesn’t like

    Crucially, he also used his implicit authority to block any progress on solving this governance crisis and establishing systems with explicit authority

    This has led uncountably many people to burn out over the issue, and culminated in writing an open letter to have Eelco resign from all formal positions in the project and take a 6 month break from any involvement in the community

    Eelco wrote a response that largely dismisses the issues brought up, and advertises his company’s community as a substitute for Nix community

Background on Jon Ringer's GitHub suspension

Curious if it'll gain any traction. The dev already has an instagram clone.

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not | Ars Technica

The "AI mouse" is just the start.

My brother sent me this today, I only skimmed it but i guess the reason google REALLY sucks now is the guy who built their search engine got replaced by a managerial ratfucker whose previous experience was being head of yahoo search (lol)

Or, struggle session: give me your best electricity analogies

I passed my physics classes in high school from simply memorizing the formula. I never thought too deeply about electricity until now because I want to preserve the life of my electronics. The water hose somewhat makes sense to me, but I need something a bit more concrete.

• Amps/Current: the electrons; the thing that is actually powering electronics
• Volts/Voltage: the ~~"speed"~~ "pressure" of amps. ~~I know that it's not technically speed, but it's measuring the movement of amps right? Can we agree for layman's purposes that it's the speed?~~
• Watts: How much work is done, or a summary of your power situation

So, the analogy of an airport

• The charger: Security checkpoint
• The battery: The terminal
• The device: the plane

Charger: checkpoint

Input: 200V 5A

• At an urgency level of 200V (i.e. people want to rush home before weather cancels the flight), 5 customers arrive at the checkpoint waiting line at a time

Output: 100V 3A

• The checkpoint is operating at an urgency of 100V, and they process 3 customers then send them to the terminal

Checkpoint B can screen 6 customers an urgency level of 100 (100V 6A)

Terminal: battery

Input: 100V 3A

• The terminal can handle a level 100 urgency, and 3 passengers from the checkpoint enter
• You can have more than 3 passengers enter the terminal at an urgency level of 100 (e.g. 100V 6A), but it may overcrowd or the planes may take off sooner
• If the airport is advanced enough, it will always only let 3 passengers through no matter what the urgency level is
• You can let less than 3 passengers enter the terminal at an urgency level of 100, but it will take a longer time before the terminal is full, and perhaps a longer time before the plane can take off (or maybe the plane/device keeps losing money/power because not enough passengers/amps are entering)
• The terminal is not designed for an urgency level of over 100 because there's not enough room or resources to handle that pressure
• (What if you have 3V 100A?) - It's a busy, normal day. 100 passengers are slowly moving through the airport because there's no pressure compelling them to rush
• The terminal has a capacity of 500wH, so 500 max passengers?

Output: 25V 2A

• The terminal boarding area is not feeling much pressure, so they have an urgency of 25 and sending 2 customers in the plane at a time

Plane: device

Input: 25V 2A

• The plane is not feeling much pressure, so they have an urgency of 25 and accepting 2 customers at a time

And in the context of headphones, amplifiers would be... extra employees pushing more passengers into the plane?

"I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet."

She was mostly looking for validation, since the guys in the group thought that hashing the passwords on an online banking application is waste of time, and the best way to handle login is to send the whole user database to the front-end so you can match the unhashed password to the correct account

Colleges should lower their limits for stabbing