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  • "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, and it could be a good opportunity to share some of the feedback that usually gets commented here :)

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  • Actually, the AI assistant fad isn't all bad.

    HomeAssistant has an open souce assistant pipeline that integrates into the most flexible smart home software around. It is completely local and doesn't rely on the cloud at all. Essentially it could make Alexa's and google homes (that literally spy on you and send key phrases back to your built data collection profile) obsolete. That is a way not to have to rely on corporate bullshit privacy invasion to have a good smart home.

    Indeed transcribing and translating (and preserving dying languages and being able to re-teach them) are 2 of the best consumer uses for AI. Then there is accelerating disease and climate research.

    If these were the use cases that were pushed instead of fucking conversational assistants, replacements for customer support that only direct to existing incomplete docs, taking away artists' jobs, and creating 1984 "you can't trust your own eyes and ears" in real time, then AI would actually be very worthwhile.

  • "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, and it could be a good opportunity to share some of the feedback that usually gets commented here :)

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  • What?

    He is saying that AI uses countries worth of energy by itself. Even a normal search query using AI uses orders of magnitude more energy than a traditional search query.

    Literally tech companies have been buying or reserving entire power plants exclusively for training AI datasets. At least Microsoft reactivated an old nuclear plant instead of buying out coal plant energy shares.

    And 90% of uses for AI are absolute dogshit corporate fluff or a shiny activity for 10 year olds to play with for 30 minutes.

    There are legitimate uses like auto note taking, voice assistants, etc... But it is destroying the environment because corporations are shoving it into every possible thing they can, quadrupling the energy growth rate and straining our electrical grids and burning tons and tons more coal to do it.

  • Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe

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  • Here in Belgium there used to be big government subsidies for solar panels 5-10 ago.

    Now the same wattage battery + solar setup without any government subsidies is a good chunk cheaper than that time with the large subsidies.

    Pretty cool and shows the power of government renewables subsidies. A huge percentage of houses in Belgium have solar panels now.(and electricity still costs 0.30€/kWh average because of fossil fuel energy lobbies)

    Now that there is a local industry around it, most renovations and almost all new builds include them.

  • Native German speakers: Are Hitler's speeches particularly compelling?

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  • Still doesn't seem to work.

    Tribalism + fearmongering propaganda + times of financial hardships is more effective than education.

    See: afd popularity in germany

  • homelab upgrade recommendations

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  • This is a good way to do it.

    I went one smaller with the Node 304 which only can do 4 HDDs with a GPU inserted. Going used for consumer desktop CPU is the most powerful play for the money I think.

    This is a good path forward OP for a pretty powerful server

    • Node 804
    • Used AM4 motherboard ( microatx B550) (can be around 150€)
    • used 5700X or similar (seen as low as 100€)
    • new 500W power supply
    • 32GB DDR4 3200 ram in 16GB sticks
    • WD red plus 10TB helium filled for balance of noise and performance and price. My 10TB drives are as quiet as my 4TB. My scheme is ZFS mirror of 4TB (2 drives) for important docs, and 10TB drives for non critical data. Drives are by far the most expensive unless you get good second hand drives
    • if you want to do Jellyfin media server, pick up an arc A310

  • Do I need to learn a 3D modeling software?

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  • All of their changes will be merged to freecad 1.0 apparently outside of a few UI changes that will be add-in options.

  • How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be?

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  • Well being able to figure out 1 complex math solution per day vs 1 complex solution per 1.5 days for the person who just has to work on the problem for longer is balloons a lot over the long term.

    Like how the average calorie burning difference between people is only 400 per day out of ~2000, but over a month that is like 1.5kg difference of mass burned which is 18kg per year.

    But I don't know if I am interpreting the result you said correctly.

  • What is your favorite Fediverse platform?

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  • Also, I am confused at why nextcloud is at the intersection of networking, music, and multimedia.

    Yes it technically has a video viewer and music player, but I would be very surprised if any person in the world right now is genuinely using it to post that content to the fediverse social-network style.

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    This can't be real can it?

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  • She absolutely should not concede and should fight tooth and nail to verify, otherwise america is literally given up to facism...

  • Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany

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  • Well the entire multiplatform astroturfing campaign from people who call themselves leftists worked! Democrats stayed home instead of voting.

    Now Palestine will be completely flattened with 0 resistance at all, and redoubled support and bombs for Israel! Way to go! You really showed your support for Palestine by helping this happen!

    They will probably come back saying "it wasn't our fault, we just pointed out the truth" while they shouted that a vote for Harris was a vote for genocide [so don't vote for harris] from every platform that they used.

  • Power-Over-Skin Makes Powering Wearables Easier

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  • You said it right there in your comment.

    Sleep mode, (and other effectively off modes) where it is functionally useless, it can do.

    MSP430 can do 140uA/MHz. That is ~7 times the power that this application supplies, and that is not counting any single other chip quiescent current or chip that actively provides useful data. You would have to have a battery anyway or a big cap to provide the needed current for on-states. Or you could run it extremely low frequencies like you said, but those tend to not scale linearly at all with per MHz power ratings. Quiescent currents tend to catch up fast at that scale. I would be extremely doubtful that 150kHz would scale perfectly and wouldn't have already exponentially decayed to around its lowest possible on-state consumption for the chip. I would definitely have to see tests on that.

    The smallest of batteries like the VARTA tiny cells in TWS's are infinitely more useful and practical and it would take this application months to fill a single cell, discounting all losses.

  • TP-Link cold feet - go for ubiquiti instead?

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  • It is the Mac of network hardware in my corporate - entered experience.

    It is aesthetic hardware, marketing, and everything software related looks polished on the surface, but is buggy (particularly their access which is the worst thing to be buggy) with the least possible configurability, completely obscured debugging resources, and proprietary ways to make you reliant on their support services.

    That being said, I am still using them because I got a 30€ UAP-AC-SHD from my company's old stock when we switched to Cisco hardware. And their cloud gateway ultra is a good value. My whole house setup with prosumer hardware will be 140€ and where my internet comes in is the worst place in the house to put a wireless router.

  • The Terrifying Group About to Stage a Pro-Trump Comeback

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  • Like how the traitor insurrectionists were that tried to overthrow the government? A lot of good that did lol.

    Hopefully with biden in charge during the next attempted coup in a few months things will be handled instead of ignored.

  • Power-Over-Skin Makes Powering Wearables Easier

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  • I don't think people realize how extremely little 50uW is.

    For a standard 3.3V microcontroller assuming a 95% efficient voltage regulator will be a current of 14.4uA. Just having the HSI master clock enabled on one of the low power STML0 chips is 15uA. This will literally only the clock. That is 0 sensors, 0 communication, 0 IO, nothing useful at all. For reference, reading SPO2 with a very efficient maxm86161 takes 10uA by itself in ultra low power mode with low accuracy and not counting the max leakage current of 1uA. For full operation, you need about 1000x-10000x that amount for short bursts.

    "Oh but it can cHaRgE tHe BaTtErY"

    Let's say the device has a standard 100mAh battery (apple watch had a 228mAh or more). At 100% efficiency with absolutely not one millijoule being used by any other electronics (which would never ever happen, it would at the very least need a boost converter), it would take around 277 days to charge up that tiny tiny battery.

    Let's take another example of an even smaller battery. To charge one side of the airpods 3rd gen (0.133Wh battery), it would take 110 days per ear

    This is one of those free "energy harvesting" fad BS based in nothing but wishing and marketing. It is an interesting learning project for wireless antenna beginners, but that is the extent.

  • What are your hobbies?

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  • With electronics, that is only the tip of the iceburg before you get into trinocular microscopes which the absolute cheapest are almost 300€ nowadays 😉 then assembled PCB prototypes where every iteration can be 200-500€ depending on size. Or you could get into spending hundreds on hotplates and reflow ovens to do it yourself.

    But wouldn't it be faster and cheaper in the long run to be able to fabricate the simple PCBs yourself? There goes 1000€ on a small CNC 😂 rabbit hole goes deeeeep.

  • What are your hobbies?

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  • Electronics projects mostly.

    Mostly smart home PCBs and interconnect boards and 3D modelled housings. Examples:

    • esp32-C3 dumb doorbell (just a doorbell that sends an MQTT message and sleeps the rest of the time). It works fatastic except that my Proximus ISP modem/router completely fucked up and so the network is no longer usable and I had to set it in bridge mode to a router it can't reach. I want to release it, but haven't had the time to water - resistance test it or make assembly instructions
    • esp32-S3 voice assistant satellite attached to an IR blaster, I2S mic, and PCM5102 to control and send audio to my old Yamaha RX-496RDS to control it via IR and can play audio (local or Spotify) via music assistant. Pretty much an Alexa echo attached to my speaker system. PCB link which I am planning on releasing.
    • My unfinished Flight Stick with custom electronics, fully custom 3D printable housing, etc... It is almost done, but needs like 2 more small iterations, but we moved and started doing a full-strip renovation, so my 3D printer is no longer set up because it is too dusty inside, and I don't want to spend another $100 doing a PCB test iteration to use a better ADC with less components. Eventually as firmware practice, I want to rewrite the firmware in Rust or something. I also just looked at the Repo and the quick logo I drew up has been modified somehow without any commit. I know for a fact it was correct before. Very weird.

    I also have tons of new project ideas that I don't have time for.

    My other hobbies

    • weightlifting, again completely dropped off due to every free moment renovating
    • Running a home server with replacement services for everything I need
    • Running (my motivation has been 0 recently...)
    • cooking. I try to do a few new recipes per month
    • gardening. With the renovation, I just grew a few courgettes, tomatoes, and squash this year
    • video games (more of a de-stresser nowadays than a hobby, most recently casual rocket league with friends is fun, hadn't played since 2018 or so)

  • Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns

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  • This seems like classic corporate backtracking when their customers spot a terrible, deliberate decision.

    That being said, I am happy about it. I got my company to use it and finally got my girlfriend to use it and just recommended it to her brother. Would hate to have to try to find something else

  • Healthiest way to charge Lithium Ion

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  • Really? My girlfriend's A52 doesn't have this feature. That is part of why I bought my Xperia 5ii. Is it a new feature?

    (After 3 years the battery is at 70% on mine because apparently Sony uses shitty as hell batteries and software drain glitches, while my girlfriend's A52 always charging to 100% lasts a day and a half with 3x the use, would not recommend)

  • how can i self host my music?

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  • That is a different usecase though. That is simply syncing local musical with a server.

    I do that too because i have an SD card. Just use Syncthing for that. Much faster and less hassle. You can use any music player on your phone that you want, not just one that works with jellyfin.

    If you aren't streaming music in real time for the majority of time, then do a phone sync, not a streaming server.

  • how can i self host my music?

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  • I have heard symphonium is very good if they are looking at closed source Plex anyway. It works with jellyfin and navidrome.

    I just use syncthing to sync all of my music to my phone's SD card. Then PowerAmp since there aren't many fully featured foss music players. I am keeping my eye on Auxio though, keeping it installed and updated.