At least the hard drives can be plausibly used. SAS controllers aren't exactly cheap but might be worth it for a home server if a slew of used datacenter HDDs show up on the market.
The video game industry effectively collapsed entirely.
There were something like 14 major console systems on the market, all incompatible with each other. None had decent quality control for the games. At the same time home computers were starting to be a thing so the hobby money started going in that direction.
In sum that caused an effectively total collapse of the industry in the USA. It took until the late 80s for the market to start to recover when Nintendo released a new console. Notably, this console was not marketed as a game console – it was the Family Computer in Japan and the Nintendo Entertainment System (with a shell deliberately styled like a VCR) in the West.
Several major companies left the market (like Magnavox or Coleco) or were unable to compete when the market recovered (Atari).
Schon mal gut so. Wenn jetzt mal das Gericht die Klage der AfD gegen das BfV abgewickelt kriegt, damit die auch auf Bundesebene wieder gesichert rechtsextrem sind...
But hat would require them to put in actual effort instead of just pushing out a minimum viable product and calling it the next evolutionary stage of computing.
Things like this made the news several times when Interpol (or was it Europol?) showed pictures on social media and asked if anyone could turn them into information (things like "in which country is this backpack sold").
When international law enforcement agencies are already openly crowdsourcing image details, an article about a group doing background detail analysis isn't much of a revelation.
I mean, I can see a case for not wanting to play dragnet at a mere request. You don't want any random guy and/or agency to be able to have you to help them track down someone they only have a picture of, no matter how much they pinkie swear they're doing it to protect that person.
That's getting awfully close to sharing PII. You generally want to see a subpoena for this stuff and with good reason. Meta are, oddly enough, not being actively scummy here. (One can of course argue about all the other times when they don't give a shit; the bigger picture is definitely super scummy. But for this in isolation they actually have a valid reason for their behavior.)
What might work would be a standardized, streamlined process where the police can ask the company and if the company says the request is reasonable they can apply for an expedited subpoena to allow legal access to the information. Agreement by both would be necessary to give more opportunities for due diligence. This process would also have to have a very limited scope in order to make abuse harder.
Yeah, that's what I meant with the bigger picture. They have a valid reason to deny this request but they haven't denied other requests that they really should've.
Of course it's political. If Caligula hadn't chickened out they wouldn't be in this mess today where water can just airdrop in and demolish the landscape at will. Is that water the sea? No, but conquering the sea would've sent a clear message to water in general.
Usually people who have silver cutlery tend to only bring it out when they are entertaining guests. Since semi-formal dinner parties have fallen out of fashion and casual guests don't care about how nice your cutlery is, fancy silverware has basically become irrelevant these days.
It definitely depends on the use case. I could accept this being abstracted out to facilitate mocking, for instance (although I'd recommend mocking at a higher level). But in general this wouldn't pass review with me unless I get a good explanation for why it's necessary.
My high school had a few unusual traditions around graduation time.
The first related to our director, a man who gave his 100% on official school business and then gave another 100% on all of his hobby projects around the school. It wasn't that we had something like an apiary or a pond biotope. We had an apiary and a pond biotope and a herd of goats and a tiny vineyard (in an area mostly unsuitable for wine) and a shelter for emotionally disturbed aras. In a public school. And all that besides him being a highly respected director and teacher who epitomized the definition of "strict but fair".
So at some point the students started to express their gratitude by giving the school presents upon graduation, usually themed around the director. The gym sported a Jurassic Park sign, except with the name of the school and with the profile of the T-Rex replaced with that of the director. In another year someone had contacts with the roads office and got something that looked like an official city limits sign made, except that it identified the school along with "administrative region <director's name>". Very cool; he took that one with him when he retired.
Another tradition is somewhat common in the region: The "chaos day", effectively a formalized graduation prank. At my school, it worked like this: The evening before, the students were given a copy of the keys to the school and free access to the school grounds to prepare. The next day they had to prevent the teachers from entering the building; if a teacher got in, school would resume as per normal. The teachers had a fairly good track record. Many graduating classes failed to account for the fact that the teachers had bolt cutters. One time they didn't account for an obscure window at the back of the school, which happened to be an emergency exit and had an external lock.
My year didn't take any chances. I come from a fairly rural area so we had farmers in class and those farmers had forklifts and hay bales. By the time school was supposed to start, all entrances to the building had solid walls of hay in front of them. We also immediately cashiered any teacher who entered the school grounds and forced them into party activities. I have fond memories of hearing my class teacher horribly butcher Oh my darling, Clementine before wandering off to listen to the school band play Hurra, hurra, die Schule brennt.
Oh yeah, same here except with a self-hosted LLM. I had a log file with thousands of warnings and errors coming from several components. Major refactor of a codebase in the cleanup phase. I wanted to have those sorted by severity, component, and exception (if present). Nothing fancy.
So, hoping I could get a quick solution, I passed it to the LLM. It returned an error. Turns out that a 14 megabyte text file exceeds the context size. That server with several datacenter GPUs sure looks like a great investment now.
So I just threw together a script that applied a few regexes. That worked, no surprise.
I've been to the park with a dog with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
When I make passwords, I can remember his name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give me no pain
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Dude somehow owns a smartwatch where the step count and sleep tracker need to be operated manually. He might be too busy fiddling with that thing to get anything done.
I wonder if he has to manually blink the turn signal on his car.
Transforming text is one. To give examples, a friend of mine works in advertising and they routinely ask a LLM to turn a spec sheet into a draft for ad copy; another person I know works as a translator and also uses DeepL as a first pass to take care of routine work. Yeah, you can get mentally lazy doing that but it can be useful for taking care of boilerplate stuff.
Another one is fuzzy data lookup. I occasionally use LLMs to search for things where I don't know how to turn them into concise search terms. A vague description can be enough to get an LLM onto the right track and I can continue from there using traditional means.
Mind you, all of that should be done sparingly and with the awareness that the LLM can convincingly lie to you at any time. Nothing it returns is useful as anything but a draft that needs revision and any information must be verified. If you simply rely on its answer you will get something reasonably useful much of the time, you will get mentally lazy, and sometimes you will act on complete bullshit without knowing it.
That's true; I didn't touch on those points but I very much agree. (Yes, while I occasionally use it. It's easy to ignore the implications of what you're doing for a moment.)
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Speaking as someone who is currently planning to move a community away from Discord to something self-hosted, it's not as easily said as done.
Apart from the need to run your own infrastructure, competing software is typically finicky and comes with caveats. Plus you have to worry about discoverability if you want to attract new users.
It's doable, sure, but it requires a lot of planning and work. Honestly, it's probably going to take us months to get our own service fully up and running.
Nee nee, er hat gemeint, dass bis zum ersten Angebot nicht gestreikt werden dürfen soll.
Bin ich dafür. Allerdings sollten dann die Forderungen der Arbeitnehmer nach X Werktagen verpflichtend automatisch angenommen werden müssen. Wer's nicht mag soll halt ein Gegenangebot machen.
It would be "impossible" to move 40% of Taiwan's semiconductor capacity to the U.S., the island's top tariff negotiator said, pushing back against recent comments by American officials who called for a major production shift. ...
Tariffs are not the answer, they are part of a reasonable answer. By themselves they're not going to being back the tech manufacturing industry. You also need incentives on multiple levels, government funding into relevant education, etc.
You also need time. All the money in the world won't cause a world-class industry to spring up overnight; you need sustained investment over years, if not decades.
Those investments should definitely come with strings attached. But there's a lot you need to invest into.
Fabs cost a shitload of money and are slow to build. If you want to be able to be independent from Taiwan in ten years you should invest a couple dozen billion bucks in fabs right now. If you want a company to invest that money for you, you need to guarantee that they'll see a good ROI, which means you probably sign a contract to buy tons of hardware that won't be made for another decade.
Fabs need a lot of land. If you want to start building ASAP you need to expedite assessments and acquire land quickly (and though eminent domain, if necessary). That ain't cheap.
If you want a qualified workforce available you need to not only invest in making training available but also in making it appealing enough that they'll start training before the jobs are even there. Advertisement like that costs money, as do stipends.
In fact, add research grants to the pool because you'll want both basic research to be done in the field and skilled researchers to be available for cross-hiring by your companies.
You'll need to keep (some amount of) the money flowing at least until the industry can be independently competitive on the world stage. Mishandling your burgeoning industry can mean that all that investment money and a large number of jobs suddenly go up in smoke.
Note: All of this assumes that you'll buy your manufacturing equipment from established, potentially foreign companies like ASML and Zeiss. If you want to make that stuff domestically as well you can probably add another hundred billion bucks and a decade or two of very dedicated catch-up to the bill.
It's just that when people hear "artificial intelligence", they think of Lt. Cmdr. Data and not the actual field of research that machine learning is a legitimate part of.
You could have a really simple Markov chain generator fill a gigabyte's worth of .txt files with nonsense sentences. At least that's "content" they have to parse.
Both options are potentially bad for low-income earners. If you force them to pay for a speed limiter they lost the money for that, which they might not able to afford. If you take away their license they will have difficulty getting around and might lose their job.
So from that perspective the speed limiter might be the less dangerous choice.
Or you could go for a tiered scheme where the device is free if the owner's income is below a certain level. There's always options; whether or not they're taken is another question.
Richtig. Wenn jemand mit einem zweite-Klasse-Ticket in der ersten Klasse sitzt, dann ist das ein Verstoß gegen die Beförderungsbedingungen und die Bahn darf von ihrem Hausrecht Gebrauch machen und eine Strafzahlung verlangen. Das ist Angelegenheit der Bahn.
Herr Palmer arbeitet nicht für die Deutsche Bahn und hat keinerlei Autorität, irgendwen zu konfrontieren. Das war der erste Übergriff seinerseits.
Der zweite war, dass er dann auf ein "halt die Fresse" damit reagiert hat, einen Dienstausweis zu zücken und Personalien aufnehmen zu wollen. Das ist eine direkte und unnötige Eskalation.
Aber es geht noch weiter: Dass Polizisten besonders gegen Beleidigung geschützt sind hängt damit zusammen, dass uniformierte Polizisten im Einsatz eine gewisse Autorität brauchen, um ihre Arbeit effektiv verrichten zu können. Wenn die untergraben wird, wird das mit der öffentlichen Ordnung schwerer. (Was man jetzt von der Polizei hält sei dahingestellt, aber so die Theorie.) Wenn er jetzt als Oberbürgermeister zur Polizeibehörde gehört, dann hat er technisch gesehen auch diesen Schutz, aber der ist an sich nicht dafür gedacht, irgendwelche Verwaltungsbeamte zu schützen, bei denen ohne Dienstausweis gar keine Zugehörigkeit zur Polizei erkennbar ist. Also haben wir eine gefühlte (wenn auch nicht rechtliche) Amtsanmaßung.
Er präsentierte sich als unnötig autoritär, wandte diese Autorität in einer unangemessenen Situation an, nutzte einen von Amts wegen vorhandenen Status als Polizeibeamten für weitere Eskalation, und wunderte sich dann, wenn das in der Öffentlichkeit irgendwie nicht gut ankam. Und war noch baffer, wenn ihm nicht der gebührende Respekt gezollt wurde, nachdem er dem Jugendlichen gegenüber keinerlei Respekt gezeigt hat.
Man würde erwarten, dass ein Berufspolitiker ein besseres Gefühl für Optik hat.
Mit dem falschen Ticket in der ersten Klasse fahren ist ein Verstoß gegen die Beförderungsbedingungen des Zugbetreibers. Das geht mir persönlich am Arsch vorbei; ich arbeite nicht für die Bahn. Wenn die Leute sich in dann unangemessen verhalten, ist das ein Problem – aber das wäre es auch, wenn sie sich ein richtiges Ticket hätten. Das ist vollkommen orthogonal zueinander.
Insofern habe ich am Verhalten des Jugendlichen per se nichts auszusetzen. Das schließt potenzielles späteres Fehlverhalten nicht aus, aber dafür gibt es keine Anzeichen.
Palmer hingegen hat sich erst mal aufgeführt, als wäre er ein Zugbegleiter, und hat den Jugendlichen konfrontiert. Er arbeitet aber nicht für die Bahn und hat keine Autorität in der Sache. Also wäre hier Palmer der Unruhestifter.
Als der Jugendliche sich dann unhöflich aus der Unterhaltung entfernt hat, hat Palmer (der zuvor nicht als Angehöriger der Polizeibehörde zu erkennen war) ein für Streifenpolizisten intendiertes Privileg angerufen, und wollte wegen der wahrgenommenen Beleidigung Personalien aufnehmen. Wie gesagt: Er war als Polizist nicht erkennbar und ist ohnehin nur über seinen Titel als Oberbürgermeister Teil der Polizeibehörde.
Das ist ein massiver Übergriff. Als Bürgermeister mag er technisch gesehen in der Lage sein, das zu tun, aber gesellschaftlich werden hier Grenzen überschritten. Und als Leute das dann kritisieren, zeigt er sich empört, weil er davon ausgeht, dass er als Oberbürgermeister Tübingens das Recht hat, sich jederzeit zu verhalten, als wäre er ein hybrider Zugbegleiter/Bundespolizist.
Ganz ehrlich: Den Leuten in den Öffis weniger durchgehen lassen kann nicht bedeuten, eine solche grundlose Eskalation zu tolerieren.
Zumal er Normen einfordert, während er sich Autorität anmaßt, die er nicht hat. Wenn er als Fahrgast jemanden wegen eines fehlenden Fahrscheins konfrontiert, dann macht ihn das nicht zu einem Zugbegleiter im Ehrenamt, sondern zu einem Unruhestifter.
War es, aber nicht so, wie du denkst. Herr Palmer hat FA, indem er sich unberechtigt als inoffizieller Zugbegleiter aufgespielt hat. Das FO bestand dann aus einer mäßig schweren Beleidigung. Das ist keine besonders schwere Konsequenz.
Die Reaktion ist jetzt zwar unfreundlich, rechtfertigt aber keineswegs, dass jemand, der von Amts wegen technisch gesehen Mitglied beim Ordnungsamt ist, plötzlich Personalien aufnehmen will – zumal er in der Konfrontation der Aggressor ist. Das ist noch mal FA und dann Weinen, wenn man FO, dass die öffentliche Meinung nicht auf der eigenen Seite ist.
People manage to do that at the supermarket. Either that or they walk up to the cashier and ask: "Excuse me, what's the most complex transaction I can possibly engage in with you?"
It's always fun when they open up another register and wave everyone over because they can see that this one customer probably won't be finished within the next five minutes.
Hey, so this is the list of movies on my local media server which are tagged as "cyberpunk". I am looking for suggestions on more movies I should add to this list. Cheers, ...
It's part of a wave of tech noir movies that came out of the late 90s, along with e.g. Gattaca, The Matrix, Strange Days, eXistenZ, 12 Monkeys... I'll also count The Thirteenth Floor, even though it's an adaptation of a 1964 novel that had already been adapted in the 70s (and very well, for that matter).
(One addendum: The Matrix feels slightly out of place but that's because it brought more action and innovative special effects to the mix and ended up all but ending the genre as audiences demanded more of that now.)
To be fair, moving money between countries was not trivial before PayPal.
To use Europe as an example, SEPA became operative in 2008, about six years after PayPal first became available in Europe. Before that, all international money transfers had to go through SWIFT and the easiest way was probably to use a credit card (and good luck trying to send money to a someone who isn't a company with that).
Even with SEPA (or for domestic transfers), PayPal offered superior comfort over entering the recipient's IBAN into a homebanking software. Processing was faster, too.
Of course these days banks in Europe have to offer instant transfers, there's a QR code standard to read invoice data into banking apps, and they're working on a full-blown PayPal replacement to get the last comfort bits down as well. It'll be interesting to see how that works out.
I love obtusely named flavors hiding among obvious ones. Drink Hancock! We have flavors like lemon, orange, and sports!
(Relatedly, German chocolate brand Ritter Sport has a variety called "Olympia". Admittedly easier to remember than "yogurt honey crisp hazelnut with dextrose".)
The dollar still isn't much different than it was a month ago. The bet is less on how strong the dollar is than how stable the stock market is going to be in the near future. And apparently people expect a relatively stable stock market.
Either way, this fluctuation doesn't even matter if you hold gold unless you engage in short-term trading. Anyone with a "sit on it" strategy can pretty much ignore such behavior.
I had avoided it until late last year when I had to reinstall a friend's borked install after it had somehow managed to shred its registry hives.
Holy shit. That installer is an embarrassment. First it couldn't get past the first reboot until I found out that you can set it to use what looks like the Windows 7 installer for the first steps. Then I had to deal with a dog slow installer that needs half a dozen reboots for some unfathomable reason. Then an endless cavalcade of sales prompts, including one for an Office subscription where they try to hide the price from you. All to end in, well, Windows 11.
I simultaneously installed Fedora Kinoite on his old laptop. I don't think the Fedora installer is one of the better ones but it was so much easier and faster to set up the machine that it was almost comical.
Seeing both systems side by side really drives home just how clunky Windows is. And how Microsoft installers are barely better than they were 15 years ago, but now they have ads.
1984, Jet Set Willy was released. A great game that every kid at school wanted. Of course we all wanted a copy, but it cost £8 here in the UK, which was several weeks' pocket money. ...
More like "before easily available color photocopiers". Most copiers could only do black and white copies, which this scheme was probably specifically designed to make useless.
There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange. ...
Honestly, given that TV viewership is falling and people are increasingly using on-demand services instead of tuning in, I'd argue that 404 error pages and NXDOMAIN browser error pages are in the process of replacing the dead channel conceptually.
I don't know the reason why.
CEO of Mistral AI says warnings about extreme risks of artificial intelligence are often 'distraction tactics' ( www.lemonde.fr )
Archive link ...
Two sides to every story
"Overproduction" (Art by David Revoy)
Source
Anon is a PC gamer
You said my activation phrase
AfD Niedersachsen als extremistische Bestrebung eingestuft ( www.br.de ) German
Microsoft Finds “Summarize with AI” Prompts Manipulating Chatbot Recommendations ( thehackernews.com )
How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse ( www.bbc.co.uk )
Italy’s famous Lovers’ Arch collapses into the sea on Valentine’s Day ( www.theguardian.com )
Rock structure which served as backdrop to countless proposals disappears into the Adriatic after storm ...
Mine is too coooollddd
POV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency. ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
pls?
What is the weirdest story from your high school?
AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds ( www.theregister.com )
A Harvard Business Review study is answering the question ‘what will employees do if AI saves them time at work?’ The answer: more work.
Everyone who has a dog does this
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Man Wakes Up Homeless, Realizes He Fell Into AI Psychosis That Destroyed His Entire Life ( futurism.com )
Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy ( www.newsweek.com )
Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default "teen-appropriate" experience unless it has proof that users are adults. ...
Warnstreiks im öffentlichen Dienst: Arbeitgeberverband fordert Einschränkung des Streikrechts ( www.zeit.de )
Taiwan says 40% shift of chip capacity to US is 'impossible' ( www.reuters.com )
It would be "impossible" to move 40% of Taiwan's semiconductor capacity to the U.S., the island's top tariff negotiator said, pushing back against recent comments by American officials who called for a major production shift. ...
It's the dream
It Took Less Than a Quarter for NFL Fans to Be Sick of AI Ads During Super Bowl LX ( www.si.com )
No kinks in my sword please
Cast it into the fire
Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files ( www.theregister.com )
AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents
Peasants...
This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?
Who came up with this stupid idea?! Just seize the car. ...
I selflessly offer to help during this
„Bald traut sich niemand mehr, Fehlverhalten anzusprechen“: Boris Palmer berichtet von Disput mit Jugendlichen im Zug ( www.tagesspiegel.de ) German
Every time...
This is my Jellyfin Cyberpunk collection - need more
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Just ask, "Would Kramer be convinced to get into this?"
European sodas?
Hi! ...
Can someone smarter than me tell me if this affects me or not?
'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI ( www.techradar.com )
42 years ago, this was state of the art copy protection
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Everything was indeed brown.
There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange. ...