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  • Manhattan Prosecutor Who Handled Epstein Cases Is Fired

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  • I wish her the best of luck and sincerely hope I am wrong, but I would be completely unsurprised if there was a Tragic Accident in the next 18 months

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  • Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by the internet being held together by chewing gum, string, and an informal agreement that the few thousand people who keep the whole mess running won't all go to the pub at the same time

  • Release v0.6.11 · open-webui/open-webui

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  • The license change literally just prevents you from stripping their branding if you have more than 50 users a month - this is more permissive than the MPL that Firefox is licensed under

  • Fluff pile!!

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  • Cuddle puddle!

  • What are commonly used idioms/metaphors that make no sense to anyone who knows about the topic they come from?

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  • Not quite an idiom, but one of the senior managers at work keeps talking about Moore's Law in the context of AI stuff like it's some kind of fundamental law of the universe that any given technology will double in capability every 2 years

    1. Moore observed that transistor density in microprocessors had historically been doubling every 18 months, and this trend more or less continued for a decade or so after he noted it
    2. Density has nothing to do with the capability of technology that uses those microprocessors. The performance of the chips roughly doubled every couple of years, but there was a lot more going on with that than just transistor density
    3. Moore's law hasn't held for at least the last decade

  • Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk

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  • Idk, even before Musk went full meth head things were already heading south pretty fast - they'd completely squandered their first mover advantage and their "move fast and break things" approach was really starting to take a toll on their brand reputation. Teslas were already starting to be known as expensive cars with terrible build quality, then the constant delays and broken promises about self driving did them no favors either.

    A Tesla made sense when they were pretty much the only really viable luxury EV, but when you can get equivalent cars (with better build quality) from established Western manufacturers for ~75% the price or from a Chinese manufacturer for ~60%, what advantage do they have?

    Musk's cult of personally is/was a big part of it, so they are kinda screwed either way - the stink of Musk won't instantly vanish if they get rid of him, and taints everything while he stays

  • What do you pay for your cellular service?

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  • Nothing - my employer pays for it - but if I was paying myself it would be $85NZD/month for 150GB 5G data, unlimited text and calling to NZ and Australia

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  • Over COVID I was given 3 of the widgets that my company manufactures to take home in case I needed to help diagnose a customer problem. Stuck them in my backpack and walked to my car, then realized that my backpack was now worth about $150,000. When I got home I emailed my boss to confirm that, if my house were to burn down, the widgets would be covered under the companies insurance policy

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  • Existence is suffering

  • Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios?

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  • I find it telling that AGI people seem to assume that AGI will spontaneously appear as a distinct entity with its own agency rather than being a product that will be owned and sold.

    People who have hundreds of billions of dollars can get mid-single-digit percent ROI by making very safe investments with that money, but instead they are pouring it into relatively risky AI investments. What do you think that says about their expectations of returns?

  • Genuine question - why did 250 people buy this?

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  • At a guess:

    • People with steam accounts and VPNs in countries that steam doesn't operate in. Steam will block your "foreign" credit card as a fraud risk, but eBay dgaf cos it's the sellers problem if they get ripped off
    • This is probably a pretty convenient way to send small amounts of money to people in a way that looks pretty legit. Arrange to buy some drugs off someone over telegram, they get you to buy a "steam card" from them, they send an envelope with a blank bit of cardboard and the drugs

  • Backup compose and env files

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  • Check them into Git, but be cautious about credentials that might live in the env files that you don't want to expose if you end up making the repo publicly available.

  • A new colour of cat has been discovered

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  • Damn, toner is running out

  • Get your new PebbleOS watch

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  • ... so I shouldn't use the CEOs history of bankruptcy and failed a Kickstarter when judging if I think it is going to succeed or not?

  • How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught

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  • The irony of being asked to sign up to a website to be able to read an article about opsec failures

  • Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

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  • Martial law lets you arrest people without trial, but it doesn't directly allow you to just not hold an election, and you can only declare it "unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it".

    I guess you could come up with some pretence then impose martial law and make it clear that anyone voting the wrong way is going to get arrested, but at that point why bother with laws at all?

  • Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

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  • Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of "vote for me and I'll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again". It'd need the supreme court to decide if that "and" is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn't be surprised if that worked

  • Steve Bannon admits Maga operatives ‘working’ on third term for Trump

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  • If I had to put money on it, I'd guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he's just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen

  • Get your new PebbleOS watch

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  • My concern isn't that things will get delayed, it's that I'll give them my money and get nothing in return

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    RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

    Tool to manage CLI tools