kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

Bear in mind that the people coming up with this stuff are not completely stupid. Completely corrupt and ignorant perhaps, but not so inept that if they write legislation that strongly encourages practically everyone to use a VPN to avoid the bullshit it isn't a good possibility that their aim (or the aim of those manipulating them) is to generate excuses to eventually make easy-to-use commercial VPN services illegal. Obviously many of us could get around such a ban with ease, but the more difficult they make it the fewer people will do it. There are reasons why not every kid on your average street is an I2P user. What they can't effectively ban they'll suppress by other means.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You think so many things will be accessible for people without driving that the roads will fall into disuse? Unfortunately I don't think they're planning to go that far.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You say that as if it makes the idea somehow less insane. I hope the billionaire clique pushing this shit has miscalculated and there are still enough people not so far gone that they're ever going to let the technofascists scan their faces in exchange for the privilege of spending money and being advertised at.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 32 points 3 days ago (5 children)

A strange choice given that you don't even need to have a face to enjoy music.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Our prevailing system of electronic payments is an absolutely ridiculous situation that gives Visa and Mastercard more power than anyone should have over the whole world of retail commerce. It's been like this since fucking 1993, or whenever it became commonplace to buy stuff using credit cards on the Internet. It's nice that gamers have now noticed that it affects them but it remains unclear how their efforts are going to help improve things other than by making more people aware of the problem.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

Either you're with us or you're with the criminal ransomware sex trafficking child-molesting terrorists who, as a result of too much Internet freedom, are lurking around every corner.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago

The Birth of a Nation II: The Rebirthing

[–] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not the most eloquent "fuck you" missive they could've written. Too wordy.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago

Further Left than even Obama himself!? Is that even possible?

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Imagine watching actual TV. Millions of people do it.

 

They're talking about closing the main support office for the Mauna Loa Observatory — which is "recognised as the birthplace of global carbon dioxide monitoring and maintains the world's longest record of measurements of atmospheric CO2."

 

Changelog once again didn't make it to nexus but it looks fairly substantial.

 

The carbon dioxide (CO2) spewing from human activities is not only changing Earth’s atmosphere, it’s also rapidly acidifying the planet’s oceans. In 50 years, that acidification could reduce the oceans’ ability to absorb CO2 by 10% as it takes a toll on phytoplankton

... Nevertheless, it’s still too early to conclude that the projected declines in phytoplankton will inevitably reduce CO2 uptake by the world’s oceans, Church and others caution. It’s still possible the declines could be offset by higher plankton growth rates at high latitudes and other global processes involved in carbon cycling. However, Church says, “It certainly doesn’t help.”

 

It seems like whenever I post things to m/random there is a long pause and then sometimes an error message.

Error 503 first byte timeout

first byte timeout

Error 54113

Details: cache-lga21954-LGA 1741291495 2045459759

Varnish cache server

This time, the whole site was unresponsive for a minute afterwards. Did anyone varnish the cache server lately?

#fedia

 

Are we selling your data? Who can say, really? What does "selling" even mean? We'll just need you to agree to new some terms of use to be sure we can get away with whatever it is we'll be doing. Don't worry about it!

#firefox

 

Legal researchers Cynthia Khoo and Kate Robertson warn that a Canada-U.S. CLOUD agreement would extend the reach of U.S. law enforcement into Canada’s digital terrain to an unprecedented extent, and that if signed, this agreement would effectively allow U.S. police to demand personal data directly from any provider of an “electronic communication service” or “remote computing service” in Canada, so long as it had some ties to the U.S.

 

What is going on with loops.video? Once in a while I follow a link to there and it plays the video no problem, on a nice minimalist web page with no distractions... and then I wonder what other videos might exist and there seems to be no way to find out. It just plays that one it started with, looping forever. What am I missing?

 

As expected, the long-awaited ntsync has made its way into kernel 6.14.

ntsync "driver" to handle Windows locking types enabling Wine to work much better on many workloads (i.e. games). The driver framework was in 6.13, but now it's enabled and fully working properly. Should make many SteamOS users happy. Even comes with tests!

 

Meanwhile, in Québec... Carney demonstrates that he can parle français, Freeland goes on Tout le monde en parle.

 

If 2024 was the year of "age verification" let's build on this success and make 2025 the year of height verification. We must develop a consensus about where to draw the line, so that we can finally say "you must be at least this tall to use social media."

 

After reading a completely credulous article attributing the success of OpenAI's latest model on the ARC-AGI test to the spontaneous emergence of genuine AGI and not, as seems more likely, the fact that the benchmark has recently become fashionable and therefore they've been specifically aiming for it as they develop the model, I finally took a look at the test itself.

It's sort of a fun little challenge for the bots, but it's absolutely nothing compared to playing the game of Go as they managed to do in 2016. Meanwhile actual AGI as we traditionally think of it will be when an artificial intelligence can hear about the game of Go somewhere, having never heard of or trained on it, find it interesting, and teach itself to play.

 

If this be madness yet there is method, innit.

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