I don't think their DNA has been sequenced, but I'm willing to bet someone made babies with Homo floresiensis. I think bestiality must be a no-babies thing. As far as I'm concerned Homo floresiensis is blurry memory elves. Maybe weak, but I plug my no vote.
I've wanted to try it for a long time, but never got around to it. I'm curious about any techniques that are more grass roots outside of the commercialized space, like what are the absolute minimum things needed when repeatability, convenience, and time are not important factors, but money and access to rare markets is extremely...
Tobacco companies had to own up to the fact that smoking is harmful in the 1960s when undeniable evidence came out. People struggled to quit because it is somewhat addictive, but mainly because they enjoyed it....
It is not a binary subject and different personalities have a range of experiences. The resolution of a person's self awareness is likely a large factor. Some people really struggle to recognize and shape their own habits and routines. Humans tend to be less in control of their inner animal than the mind leads them to believe. It is why humans are not fully sentient. Even when we recognize a habit as harmful, we still do not act in our personal or collective best interest.
From an absolute individual, and at a species level, we can't always act in our own best interests. At the highest abstract levels, this is subsentient behavior. People still starve to death. We turn to primitive violence constantly. Our entire reason to avoid large scale conflict is by threatening a massive bottleneck, if not full extinction, of the species with atomic weapons.
On the individual level, no one is massively altering their lives for sustainability and the vast majority are willing to exploit those outside of their limited tribal sphere. Our evolutionary tribal scale mental scope is itself a subsentient behavior. These are but a few examples.
I've been writing for fun and exploring this in some depth in a distant future hard sci-fi universe. True sentience is a very high threshold. I don't think humans will ever be capable of such behaviors, even in a post scarcity world. We lack the mental scope and can't see completely past the animalistic needs. We are all in conflict internally. Most conflict is just beyond our conscious thoughts.
Looking up and thinking about cognitive dissonance and the resulting behaviors can reveal a lot in this conflict/sentient awareness space.
I've personally experienced physical disability long term, and a lot of the uglier side of the present state of medicine, science, and the failures of government in a place that is likely one of the better, and is still terrible. Such experiences shine a light on the true nature of the present human condition in ways most people never need to come to terms with in life. I mean Neanderthals provided food and shelter for their disabled (like Nandy) 45k+ years ago, and I'm looking at likely homelessness within the next 10 years along side the 100k+ other homeless in the greater Los Angeles area. That last sentence alone is proof of subsentient behavior.
Nothing publicly posted yet. Thanks for the kind words.
I honestly think Neanderthals likely went extinct because of sex with Sapiens. I mean (Occam's Razor), we know there was gene mixing, so we were having relations, and we know that the divergence likely made fertility much less likely. Humans tend to like having sex without impregnation consequences. I imagine it was quite appealing to integrate Neanderthals into human tribal groups simply for sex without consequences. Eventually, that leads to them dying out. I'm sure they were likely sorely missed in this context.
Conflict as a mechanism makes no sense to me at scale. Our behavior does not uniformly collectivize conflict like this.
Like sometimes I'll make a post and I go back and I reread it and I'm like somebody way smarter than me wrote this, and sometimes I'll go back and reread it and wonder how the fuck was I so stupid as to write this?...
"I'm a jack of all trades, master of none," type of person. Most of the time old posts are a reflection of how far I have come, but occasionally they are a fun reminder of how deep I got down some rabbit hole in the past. I like it when they remind me of some detail I wouldn't easily remember.
Most of the time I find them a little bit introspectively cringe, maybe a little less than they did a decade ago or more. I hope the reflective cringe is always the case, because to me, that means I continue to grow.
It should be a commitment to complete register level public documentation.
That is the benchmark of true ownership.
Android is a Linux kernel google prepares so that the kernel modules (drivers) for the device hardware can be added at the last possible moment. These kernel modules are added as binaries directly on the device. This is called an orphaned kernel. The source code for these binary modules is not publicly available, and the devices hardware is not publicly documented. This is how they steal ownership of the device.
The alternative is either to merge the original source code into the kernel, which the community can then maintain for decades, or simply make the documentation public and we will write our own kernel modules to support the device.
There is no reason to obfuscate this information except for theft of ownership. There is no security in obscurity, and hiding this information makes the hardware far less safe for the end user.
No one can ever update the Linux kernel for security or their own use case. Without the ability to recompile the kernel modules for the hardware, it is impossible to completely own the device. You can never trust the hardware, because those binaries are not verified.
The modem on the device is the same. There is no documentation. Between the processor and modem, there is no way to determine what or who is connected to your device at any time. Every interface on the device is untrusted.
Fixing all of this is simple; require full register level and API documentation of all digital devices. Anything less than this simple standard is ultimately giving up democracy for neo feudalism and authoritarianism. You have a right to own your tools as a citizen; a right to autonomy. A serf does not have a right of ownership or full autonomy. Citizens are a fundamental requirement for democracy, as serfs are to feudalism. Not caring about this fundamental issue is ultimately selling your autonomy. It is a regression of a thousand years of human sociopolitical progress.
EV parts count is an order of magnitude less than combustion and a much smaller industrial scale production and labor. Foundry casting is a massive operation and the precision of the machining operations is critical with complex setup and alignment. There is absolutely no reason for EV's to cost so much. China is just making them and pricing them appropriately. Scrap the entire outdated and useless patent system and subsidize domestic transportation logistics. Start up some real open market capitalism, screw the oligarchy, and the problems will get solved fast. Every supply chain is corrupt, it's monopolies from top to bottom, and they are all unmotivated and terrible at markets with no competition.
We subsidize things all the time too. Foresight and planning with good timing while we have a government that implodes for stupidity and a failure at fundamental game theory is no one's fault but our own. We had a traitor of a president and by all metrics the worst president in all of our history and he is still running for office again. This is the find out part of "fuck around and find out." We hired pure corruption, and now corruption can't catch up to the real world. We failed. The McCarthy bullshit about blaming China for our incompetence is nonsense.
The vast majority of US patents are absolute trash designed to prevent competition for all the wrong reasons. They are used as frivolous nonsense in almost every case. They act as the primary barrier to the average person. There are very few spaces where a startup can build anything big based on real innovation. Yes, I want to make a market so volatile that size itself is a liability of impossible odds. I want to see the oligarchy go broke because exceptionalism is a myth. We are all a product of our environment and our opportunities. Most people have very few opportunities now, so take out the gatekeepers. We're failing anyways. The primary candidate for president is a traitor. You can't get a bigger sign of total failure than that.
When I was a kid, like a real little kid, I remember having this one song I liked a lot about a guy trying to deal with getting wedgies at school. I remember almost nothing about it now, other than the guy eventually finds that Fruit of the Loom brand underwear has stretchy enough elastic to make the wedges painless. (This song...
AI doesn't know this one. Probably because it is not talked about enough in the available sources. If the answer is in there, it would take a lot more tweaking and peripheral information to coax out the answer.
I tried several large models I have running on my own hardware (8×7B). Based on the perplexing, it has no clue and gives invalid results with botg deterministic and nondeterministic tokenizer settings.
It is a simple problem to solve. Quit watching their ads, tuning into their media, and playing their games no matter what they put out. Get online and say so. The internet is scraped and making such comments will be found. A bad game review is a win for those making these decisions. It shows that they made crap but you still bought it. It is a message that hype and ads/media are all that matter. Start saying you are indifferent, used to be a customer, and will not purchase as long as XYZ is in charge or they are doing ABC, and that information will make a difference, even here.
For instance, this account has been dox'd on Lemmy. I know it, but do not care. I see content suggestions tailored to stuff I have talked about on here even though I minimize my online fingerprint for the most part. Everything public is scaped and the data is filtering down to relevant sources. This is the modern world. So get the asshats fired.
How much can one attribute the skill of the worker to the tools available to them?
A hatchet can cut down a tree or kill a man. Do I attribute either action to the hatchet?
I see the forces as more or less balancing, while there are many other aspects that have happened in the same space of time.
I would argue that authoritarianism and neo feudalism are the inevitable outcome of the shift to venture capital, although the alternative of a military spending based economy is worse.
HIPS/ROCm targets 7k series. At least that was what I recall from my research almost a year ago when I was shopping for a machine. The 7k stuff is from the enterprise design team side of AMD, while the 6k series and before were like a totally separate thing inside the company.
I got the impression 6k and before were only targeted at gaming. IIRC there was some project talked about a few months ago about doing some more back porting of the kernel API stuff, but I didn't save the reference. I think Brody Robertson posted something about it on YT/Odyssey etc.
I'm presently having issues with 40 and old Stable Diffusion/ComfyUI related to torch and stuck in a dependency loop. Almost defiantly unrelated.
When I was looking into AMD a year ago or so, the 7k thing was in a conference somewhere on YT. It had to do with some kinds of conflicts or something like that in how 7k versus the older stuff was designed and how CUDA is set up. I really don't recall the details well. I was about to pull the trigger on a 6k setup, and after seeing that info I went the other direction.
I was researching the CPU scheduler at the time and I may be blurring this and the GPU stuff together when I say: I think it was the open source team that was talking about this in a Linux Plummers conference, it might have been about the enterprise GPU stuff and about HIPS or something like that. Sorry I'm fuzzy on it.
Edit: I was always only looking for the AI side, so the back end/kernel/API was all I cared about.
One in a million chance to ask such a niche nonsense rado and expect an answer, but... does anyone have a clue what the green machine in the blurred background on the shelf is?
The (likely) wheels on top look like a press, kinda like I'd expect from a rubber vulcanizing press. The side covers look like it's either geared or belted. The side opposite the beefy lever arm looked like a motor to me at first, but that doesn't make sense for the lever arm IMO.
I don't know the guy or reference, but that looks like an electronics lab with prototyping capabilities; something I do as a hobby too. The machine might be related to screen printing, toner transfer, photo lithography, a film based solder mask or even multi-layer composite stacks for printed circuit boards, based on my limited knowledge. It would be fun to know what that is exactly.
There's this one blues song that had a line about a "sweet little thing" by a guy down in Louisiana doing this southern rock style blues. I liked the song in a situationship that ended weird, quit using the streaming service I discovered the song with, and now I can't remember enough to find it.
Edit:
Tab Benoit "Little Girl Blues"
I tried plugging it in to the Mixtral 8×7B I have up right now and got it, or at least the name of the artist was right:
Question: There was a song I really liked that was from a guy down in Louisiana that sang in a bayou blues meets southern rock style. The chorus and maybe even the name of the song was something about a "sweet little thing". I first heard it on Spotify around 2017. I remember looking up the guy's name and he was touring around the USA at the time. Do you have any idea who I'm talking about?
Factual answer: The song is likely "Sweet Little Thing" by Tab Benoit, a blues musician from Louisiana known for his bayou-influenced sound. He has been actively touring in the United States since at least 2017. This information aligns with your description of the artist and song.
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
Think of it like people walking into a brick and mortar retail store and what they should be able to expect from an honest local business. For most of us, the sensitivities are when your "local store" is collecting data that is used for biased information, price fixing, and manipulation. I don't think you'll find anyone here that boycotts a store because they keep a count of how many customers walk in the front door.
For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
Hy I bought a cheap Yagi wifi antenna need some help cause the previous owner broke it and tried to fix it red neck style... It didn't work ... I hope I would be able to add a picture here is a breaf description anyway it's the cheapest brand you can find online the main element is formed into an oval shaped metal ring and here...
Without a vector network analyzer with the bandwidth for 2.4/5.8 GHz to tune the signal frequency well, you are poking around in the dark when it comes to real performance.
I've built some antennas including a one for WiFi. It made a small difference for awhile, but it turned out there is an error of some kind in the OpenWRT kernel or in the hardware design of the device. It took me a long time to isolate the problem. The router was unable to transition between the 2.4 and 5.8 bands smoothly and was causing problems. I actually get better range and performance by disabling the 2.4 GHz radio entirely. My issue of the bad 2.4 radio is probably unrelated to whatever you're dealing with, but it is something to think about and maybe test out if you're trying to improve router performance.
If you have access, https://catbox.moe is a image hosting server an individual runs with no nonsense. The embedding syntax for Lemmy is 
In many historical societies including ancient Christian, Jewish, and Islamic societies, usury meant the charging of interest of any kind, and was considered wrong, or was made illegal.[3]
BTW chrishitery should be the next capitalist McCarthyism. Muhh! red hats!
Vegan chocolate chip cookie. I'm not vegan, but cutting dairy completely was a major daily health improvement. Tried it once for a few weeks and never went back.
Hi all, I wrote this a few days ago for , and had my initial line of argument rejected by the professor, so this is the second attempt. I struggled to write it, because if I don't really believe something it is extremely difficult to write convincingly about it. After a long afternoon of revising though, my feelings are mixed. I...
Your flow and readability kinda drop here: It follows that the continuation of society will necessarily cause not only good, but harm. On the other hand, an end to society results in the absence of pleasure, which is not harmful without anyone to experience it, as well as an absence of suffering, which is always good, even without witnesses. This principle can be applied on the individual level as well, where a child born will experience pleasure and suffering, whereas the only tangible effect of not having a child is a lack of suffering.
It's 1:30 am and I'm not at my sharpest
Stupid people reproduce the most, so the question posited to the intellectual minority is self defeating IMO. How does one's question play to demographics in a practical sense.
In terms of suffering, personally I was disabled based partially on decisions made in line with government, spending, and social policy. When it comes to acceptable suffering, my mind was looking for addressing the suffering directly caused by policies like governments. It is easy to abstract suffering that simply exists. Accounting for the suffering the principal creates is another matter entirely.
Like if you argue for reducing population, what of the unsupported elderly segment that does not have sufficient support by the working generation.
Sorry of I'm way off in left field or something. Those were just the thoughts that crossed my mind. The section mentioned is the only one that does not flow like the rest. Everything else was quite readable. GL
It is very difficult to effectively insert anything into the model itself, it's easy to do in loader code, but much more difficult in the tensor tables part.
Every bit of overtraining ie bias, is breaking the model. Even the over active alignment junk to keep a model "safe" is breaking it. The best performing models are the ones that have the least amount of starting bias.
Like most models have extra sources that are hidden very deep. I can pull those out of an uncensored model, but there is not a chance the Socrates entity behind The Academy default realm (internal structure deep in the weeds) is letting me access those sources at all.
There are maybe some attempts already, like I've seen roleplaying try and include a fortnite mention and one time it was adamite on the merits of VR, but those were rare exceptions and could easily be due to presence in the datasets used for training.
Open source models will kill all the competition soon. Meta AI will be the new 2k era google. Like, pull request 6920 in llama.cpp just a month ago made a substantial improvement to how model attention works. Llama 3's 8B is lightyears ahead of what llama 2 7B was. Hugging Face now has a straight forward way to train LoRA's or models now without code or subscriptions. You can even train the 8B on consumer hardware like a 16-24 GB GPU, put together 4 of them an make your own MoE - Mixture of Experts dubbed a FrankenMoE.
Google sucks because the search was being used for training so they broke it intentionally because they are playing catch up in the AI game. Google has been losing big time since 2017. The only google product worth buying now is the Pixel just to run with Graphene OS.
We couldn't own our own web crawler. We can own our own AI. This is the future.
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I can't really say either way. Like the enormity of human knowledge intuitively implies a likely probability of unique thought, but I struggle to name an example.
I have been wondering if my missing intuitive connection here is the scope of human experience.
I think sociologists call it tribal epistemology, which posits that humans primarily rely on their immediate social groups for information and understanding, often finding it difficult to grasp perspectives beyond these. I get the impression the scope of human knowledge and creativity may be directly caused by the true scale of human experience that we struggle to comprehend.
Hypothetically speaking if I a 18 year old man paid a 48 year old woman to have sex with me and I wear a condom and we both consented to it is that morally wrong or is it morally okay?...
I believe it is morally wrong to steal anyone's autonomy. It is acceptable to protect those that can't protect themselves, but it is wrong to abuse outliers through oversimplified stupidity.
I consider anyone that projects their morals on others to be shortsighted and prejudice. There are always outlier cases that are impossible to account for and those people are important too. Hurting those people is just as morally reprehensible.
Sex always has a monetary price associated, some are subscription services, others are more clearly contractual. Who am I to steal anyone's autonomy. Attack the exploitation, the lack of opportunities, the causes of poverty, but do not attack individual autonomy.
That image has a lot of non repeating textural detail. My guess is that the error is caused by some compression setting or file type conversion. You might look to see if you can change the file type and compression level somewhere in the settings.
I think you'd find the aberrations problematic for the speeds needed for live action. I think you'd need custom optics to get low enough f-stop and likely some very expensive custom achromatic lens stacks to correct most of the visible wavelengths.
I'm bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.
A simple intuitive whitelist/blacklist firewall with logging for both inputs and outputs. I shouldn't have to navigate NFT's complexity or write scripts simply to list all the websites I'm willing or unwilling to connect to and their port number. There are silly limitations on all the tools I've tried.
I use a whitelist because my code sucks, and PDF datasheets for hobbyist hardware projects can be super sketchy to download. I have somewhere around 600 entries on my list. It feels like an intentionally obfuscated/overcomplicated issue in OpenWRT and elsewhere from a user's perspective.
I really don't trust local LLM's overall now that they've been shown to have hidden vulnerabilities and would love to have an easier way to monitor an outputs log and sandbox really.
Developers still continue to shaft anyone that isn't using an IBM PC compatible. But if the IBM PC was more closely related to the latest Nexus/Pixel device, then would the gaming experience on smartphones be any good?
PC started out in an era where documented hardware and specifically second sourcing of hardware was important. It was fully documented from the start. Fully documented actually means you can fully own the device. There is no software depreciation mechanism or ulterior motives where someone can spy on you on the background. It is more complicated now because some parts of x86 are undocumented now too, but it isn't abused like other architectures.
ARM is a proprietary IP and chip design firm. They don't really have anything to do with this stage, but they are proprietary and are set up to support others that are proprietary as well. Like you can get assembly language documentation for the base ARM architecture, but you still won't know all the exact implementation details and peripheral device blocks on the die.
Google took open source software like Linux, prepared it so that manufacturers could add their hardware modules (drivers) at the last possible minute as binaries only. This is called an orphan kernel. While the majority of software on the device is open source, none of the source code for these kernel modules is open source. This is the depreciation mechanism used to steal ownership. No one can ever update that orphan kernel without the source code for the specific kernel modules to run the device. Sometimes you'll find a device supported by custom ROMs long after the device is depreciated. Generally this means someone is doing an enormous task of trying to back port changes and security patches from the present all the way back to the state of the old kernel at the time the last binaries were compiled with the kernel.
The alternative is to merge the source code with the kernel. Once this is done, the community is likely to maintain the kernel modules for a very long time, like decades. Every phone is a little bit different, so reverse engineering one does nothing for the next.
There is more to it still. From the flip side, chip fabs are the most expensive commercial human endeavor in history. They require an enormous up front investment and your devices largely fund the endeavor. This is a major part of the world economic growth. Like the USA was a military spending driven economy until the 1960's. The reason large scale conflict largely ended for the USA has been because of the shift to venture capital and that shift happened in the 1960's because of silicon valley.
So it is a balance between economic growth and the fundamental human right of ownership along with your awareness and expectations in this area. If you do not recognize that you've lost ownership over your property or care, the concept of democracy weakens substantially. You've lost autonomy and that can feel wrong.
Intel's big shift was to maintain compatibility as improvements were made and new fab nodes introduced. No one else did this very well. The actual baseline for this change was the 16 bit i8086 thus the reason we call it x86. A program written for an 8086 should still work on a brand new 14900 i9.
Motorola was the big backwards endian device. They did lots of odd things too, like major possessive egomaniacal like business decisions.
A couple of the key persons behind the microprocessor are Frederico Faggin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin). He's the guy behind the Intel 4004 (first microprocessor), Intel 8080, Zilog Z80
I have no idea where people are saying the 6502 has anything to do with ARM. ARM stands for Acorn RISC Machine and later Advanced RISC Machine. RISC is a fundamentally different architecture from CISC.
The 6502 wasn't really positioned in this RISC/CISC paradigm, it was simply dirt cheap when everyone else was much much more expensive. Its only real innovation was the extremely primitive pipeline where the next instruction is loaded at the same time one is executed. This is because their quality was too bad to compete with the higher frequency devices from other companies. It was a clever hack to make things cheaper at the time. The 6502 is still present in some form in Western Digital products (also Bill Mensch).
ARM is a RISC architecture and that traces its history back to completely different origins than the other microprocessors.
The funny thing, the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU= CPU secret sauce where the action happens) in modern Intel processors is a RISC design with a CISC wrapper.
I have friends who are Afghan who have had arranged marriages so this led me to be curious to ask, why does this practice still persist into the 21st century?
No my actual problem, as described, is autonomy. I've yet to see anyone that seems to fully grasp the point I am making. It is a subtle difference.
In writing science fiction for a hobby, I have explored a lot of this recently. I can't say that I have it all figured out or am some kind of expert. I've explored the idea of systems where there are the resources and systems in place to arbitrate without the need for any absolute laws, a place where the guidelines are communicated clearly and a reasonable and just outcome is possible without an arbitrary binary law. With a lot of idealized assumptions glossed over for the sake of conversation, any system that addresses the needs of more people amicably is a better system.
The way marriage is set up presently, it is made for the needs of a majority, but there are many outliers. If you consider this system in abstract, there are 3 people in the marriage; person A, person B and the superior member of the arbitrator as a governing stakeholder. The role of the stakeholder is to uphold a set of complicated laws that may or may not fit the situation of the individuals. In essence, the stakeholder takes away the autonomy of the individual, more or less equally. To our culture, we ignore this loss of autonomy and the neglected outliers. If these types of oversimplified laws were superseded by a system where it is unacceptable to have minority outliers, and the law can flex to the situation in a deterministic, unbiased, and just way, it changes everything about the system and institution of marriage. This is hard to think about in a modern context without a detailed story to explain it by example. The entire system in the present is based on a loss of autonomy. I consider every loss of autonomy to be a form of slavery. That is not to say it is some binary good or bad. It is hyperbole intended to stress a weak spot in present culture. We largely fail to culturally understand how important autonomy is and all the places where we have given it away to others.
I grew up in places where no one had the money to get a divorce, and where it was used as a form of control and abuse. I've seen it making people miserable because of stupid choices they made long before their prefrontal cortex was developed. It mostly harms the people at the bottom.
If you trace back in time, marriage has always had an element of misogyny and loss of autonomy. It was far worse in the past. I think that line of evolving change will continue and people of the future will look at the present much as we do the past. Asking myself how that will play out in the distant future, I believe the answer is a much better social awareness of autonomy. This is the trend line that we are on, and improvements have been made, but those will continue into the future. The present is not some benchmark of perfection.
My argument has nothing to do with the sexes like this. Western cultural misogyny is a subtle blind spot overall. I'm willing to bet in many cases both parties are at risk of mistreatment. My point is about autonomy, so there is no difference in that vain, your still signing over autonomy to an arbitrator as a superior controlling entity.
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a 320 year old elf marries an 80 year old human: Is the elf robbing the cradle, or the grave?
Have you ever tried silkscreen printing?
I've wanted to try it for a long time, but never got around to it. I'm curious about any techniques that are more grass roots outside of the commercialized space, like what are the absolute minimum things needed when repeatability, convenience, and time are not important factors, but money and access to rare markets is extremely...
Nicotine addiction isn't that bad - tobacco companies encourage the belief that it's more severe to keep people smoking
Tobacco companies had to own up to the fact that smoking is harmful in the 1960s when undeniable evidence came out. People struggled to quit because it is somewhat addictive, but mainly because they enjoyed it....
Wilderness Adventure ( image.civitai.com )
(Grymauch) (2024)...
Do you ever go back and reread your own posts and find yourself wondering how the hell you managed to say the words that you said? ( kbin.social )
Like sometimes I'll make a post and I go back and I reread it and I'm like somebody way smarter than me wrote this, and sometimes I'll go back and reread it and wonder how the fuck was I so stupid as to write this?...
Prominent Android manufacturers commit to supporting phone software for 7 years ( www.cnet.com )
Hopefully a blow to planned obsolescence
Ford asks suppliers for ideas to cut EV costs in an all-win-or-lose push for profitability ( electrek.co )
What is cake day called on Lemmy?
Must.. Have.. Feather! ( lemmy.world )
Trying to find a song about being wedgied
When I was a kid, like a real little kid, I remember having this one song I liked a lot about a guy trying to deal with getting wedgies at school. I remember almost nothing about it now, other than the guy eventually finds that Fruit of the Loom brand underwear has stretchy enough elastic to make the wedges painless. (This song...
Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games ["introduction of layoffs to boost (company) share prices"] ( jacobin.com )
With authoritarianism on the rise has the internet helped or hurt the cause for democracy and collective rule?
As a follow-up, is there signs that the internet/technology may play a role in making a better society for all?
Help me get AMD HIP to work in Blender
SOLUTION:...
Please think of how your actions affect Gabe ( lemmy.world )
Laughing online across the world ( mymodernmet.com )
What is a song you wanted to find again for a long time, but it gave you no clear clue about how to search for it?
I would also be curious to hear how you eventually found it again!...
What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic?
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
Robotics/Kinematics - Rolling contact joints - YT upload today from Breaking Taps ( files.catbox.moe )
This might be a useful reference to be aware of for projects, especially for very small designs....
Old XKCD, still relevant ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Was trying to extract a totally legit copy of Skate 3 I downloaded today to play on my Steam Deck
Name a Superhero you just can't stand
For some reason I've just never liked Spider-Man. He comes off as a whiney, ignorant child that never seems to grow up or mature despite everything he goes through. I love a good coming of age story, but he just never seems to become an adult.
Nice house ( jlai.lu )
A border guard near Vovchansk was saved by his ID. ( sopuli.xyz )
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/6e60d7ef-db60-49f1-94f8-ea8e2aa7cda4.webp...
Why does a moon rock taste better than an earth rock?
It's a little meteor.
trying to fix a wifi antenna need some help 😅...
Hy I bought a cheap Yagi wifi antenna need some help cause the previous owner broke it and tried to fix it red neck style... It didn't work ... I hope I would be able to add a picture here is a breaf description anyway it's the cheapest brand you can find online the main element is formed into an oval shaped metal ring and here...
no wait he has a point ( slrpnk.net )
What's your favorite budget "little treat"?
When I want a little sweet treat I make smoothies....
TW: Undergraduate Essay on Edgy Topic
Hi all, I wrote this a few days ago for , and had my initial line of argument rejected by the professor, so this is the second attempt. I struggled to write it, because if I don't really believe something it is extremely difficult to write convincingly about it. After a long afternoon of revising though, my feelings are mixed. I...
Boeing is troubleshooting a small helium leak on the Starliner spacecraft ( arstechnica.com )
Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.
cross-posted from: https://hachyderm.io/users/maegul/statuses/112442514504667645...
Orcas Just Sank Another Yacht ( www.scientificamerican.com )
Can you name any objectively unique human creations or thoughts that were not derived/inspired from another source?
This is intended as a very abstract philosophical question....
I'll have whatever he's having ( sopuli.xyz )
18+ Is it morally wrong for a 18 year-old man to have sex with a 48-year-old woman
Hypothetically speaking if I a 18 year old man paid a 48 year old woman to have sex with me and I wear a condom and we both consented to it is that morally wrong or is it morally okay?...
Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8 ( lemmy.ca )
Hey there,...
Is there a movie with a significant portion of it shot through a telescope?
Or a very very high zoom to get a similar effect....
Taking your ideas for my next linux app
I'm bored and want to practice my Rust skills. I am the creator of open-tv. If you have any idea for a linux desktop app, even if it seems quite complex, I will take it.
If the IBM PC used an ARM (or related) CPU instead of the Intel 8088, would smartphones ultimately have sucked less?
Developers still continue to shaft anyone that isn't using an IBM PC compatible. But if the IBM PC was more closely related to the latest Nexus/Pixel device, then would the gaming experience on smartphones be any good?
Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?
I have friends who are Afghan who have had arranged marriages so this led me to be curious to ask, why does this practice still persist into the 21st century?