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Olap

@ Olap @lemmy.world

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Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru

  • Simple Wikiclaudia: Chrome extension that finds a simple.wikipedia.org version of any wiki article. If one exists, click to open it; otherwise, it uses Claude or ChatGPT to simplify it.

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  • Thanks, I hate it

  • The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market

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  • I suspect people (not billionaires) are realising that they can get by with less. And that the planet needs that too. And that working 40+ hours a week isn't giving people what they really want either.

    There's also the value of money has never been lower either. Working for less isn't rewarding. And so demand is getting intensely squeezed, and this is likely to continue with a planet that is full of enough stuff

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    Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?

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  • Not. Haven't seen the appeal over native package managers

  • Lynard Skynard talks about Sweet Home Alabama, but I don't know if that states has anything worth mentioning?

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  • Nah, I reckon it is a love song to the south. It was also political for its time talking about watergate and George Wallace

  • Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear

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  • I work in this field. I'm trying to change these numbers! We are heading the right direction is the good news. China may well save us all with cheaper panels and battery manufacturing. And if 97% reduces our emissions even 50% on todays emissions then we can start talking about actually meeting some climate targets.

    So this is all good news, but as I also said: I work in this field and know we have a long way to go yet. There also isn't a single answer. Batteries, smart grids, grid-interconnects, efficiencies, supply mixes, demand offsetting; power is the best thing in the world to work in right now, it touches sooo many aspects of humanity and is changing so fast!

  • Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear

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  • Coal has long been unprofitable, and nuclear has always needed huge state funding (you get weapons as the byproduct of nuclear power, hence the subsidies). Until it beats gas it still isn't cheap enough imo. Gas of course is still massively subsidised too though, and that's where we need to continue to work: our policy makers need to end fossil fuel subsidies

  • I want a community to exist like 4chan greentext here

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  • Fesshole

  • Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence

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  • I've got some bad news for you. They will never fix the mistakes as it cannot reason, it has no actual intelligence. LLMs are already plateauing and are miles away from being trustworthy. And they steal copyrighted work every request

  • What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard?

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  • Most devices will give you the latest frame on a read essentially. VLC accepts a tcp:// address and interpreted it correctly somehow. The raw bandwidth on the potato 320x240 or whatever was peanuts, but even if you didn't get all the frames per second the device will discard old frames and you got the latest frame anyway. So pretty cool indeed. Doesn't really multicast though. For that I suppose you could netcat to local multicast address and then connected to that same address, but I've never tried it. VLC may not receive the headers that a read may open with would be my suspicion

  • What's your "Oh fuck, that actually worked!" Linux moment that made you feel like a wizard?

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  • Piped the ps2 usb camera /dev/video0 to nc. Reverse port fwd'd to my router 200 miles away, and got vlc 200 miles to connect to that port and it worked. No rtsp or server required

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • Gemini protocol is fab btw. Come join the tildeverse

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • When the AI bubble bursts

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  • I will chortle a lot

  • ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1 has a binding Arbitration waiver* !!r

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  • I think asking other instances to remove too is reasonable also

  • The New Digg’s Plan to Use AI for Community Moderation

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  • Lolz, this is sure to endear users

  • Pull request to begin to add ActivityPub support to the bluesly PDS

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  • This is big. Bluesky is getting lots of traction with normies who want off Twitter. Mastodon and pleroma and pixelfed all about to become much more discoverable

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  • Taxes. This is the most effective way to reduce the amount of money in a system

  • The Job

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  • Learn bash. Learn jenkins. You'll thank me later

  • The Debt Is About to Matter Again

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  • Arguably the deficit and level of debt doesn't matter either. After all, both have been higher in times gone by as a gdp ratio. So this is then a question of how much debt will a government be willing/allowed to take on?

    Due to money not being backed by anything physical, debt itself is used as an inflationary measure in order to then lead interest rates, and is the biggest market leaver a government has. Adding more money (debt) to a relatively inelastic economy means that goods will cost more as market forces say there is more money for the same stuff. In the case of tax breaks, the theory goes that these companies will invest. But what is actually happening is Trumps mates are doing lay-offs and pocketing more and more profit.

    So, Trump is showing his desire to make things cost more (something that negatively affects the bottom of the economy far more than the top) and by spending more on tax breaks instead of investment; he is literally stealing from the poor to give to the rich. And that's easily verifiable by asking: who ultimately owns the government's debt, and who is getting richer?

    That's right suckers, Trump is taking his whole voter base for a ride