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Avid Amoeba

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  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • Uhm, I seem to recall that social media was actually pretty good in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The authors used AI models as the users. Could it be that their models have internalized the effects of the algorithms that fundamentally changed social media from what it used to be over a decade ago, and then be reproducing those effects in their experiments? Sounds like they're treating models as if they're humans, and they are not. Especially when it comes to changing behaviour based on changes in the environment, which is what they were testing by trying different algorithms and mitigation strategies.

  • The most utilitarian vehicle

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  • Yes, exactly. Mass public transit's value isn't in how comfortable the seat is. It's that it can move you from almost any place to any other place, "autonomously" in a reasonable amount of time and at low cost.

    I didn't mean to imply that only main arteries were served, just that in Bulgaria for example the main arteries used the articulated 280s instead of the 260s. :D But yes, they were everywhere. There were Chavdars too in less busy areas:

  • The most utilitarian vehicle

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  • When you don't need planned/perceived obsolescence you save resources. That said it eventually needed:

    • Low floors / no stairs
    • More efficient engine and auto gearbox / hybrid / electric drivetrain
    • AC
    • Information displays

    Newer Ikarus models have all that.

  • The most utilitarian vehicle

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  • Ikarus provided great public transit service to millions in the Eastern Bloc. The 280 hauled massive numbers of people across the main arteries.

  • China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age

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  • If you observe snapshots in time you'd understand what the facts are at that point in time. If you observe the trends at a point in time, you'd understand what things are likely to look at a future point in time. To me the interesting and informative bit is the trend and its short and long term projections. E.g. that it points to peak oil consumption within a couple of years and that it points to reduction of the leverage of OPEC and the US over China along any downstream effects.

  • China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age

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  • anyway, you’d think republicans would be on board with renewables for exactly the same reasons as china. it makes economic and national security sense if that’s all you care about.

    Not for them, and not for the horizon they care about. They're (and the US as a whole) heavily invested in fossil fuels, so economically for them it makes the most sense to squeeze as much profit from those investments as possible.

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  • Saddam Hussein's hiding place.

  • HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September

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  • Don't be a savage, create users for people.

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    Turn linux server into a router?

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  • As others have mentioned this is practical with a VM. It might also be doable with Docker, saving some resources.

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    Turn linux server into a router?

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  • The 8K porn was too hot.

  • Ex-Superman actor Dean Cain says he's becoming ICE agent

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  • 50K signup bonus gotta cover it

  • The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements

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  • It's great. Not much else to say. You install it, it works, it doesn't stop working unless you break it. I run Debian 12 on my laptop.

  • Phoronix: Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

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  • Fuck.

  • Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill controversial Data Center

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  • True but this isn't specific to the tech bubble. It's a feature of capitalism. Competition forces firms to adopt shorter term horizons. If a firm has significant profit to make by focusing on the short term and it does not, its competitor would. If the profit possoble within this period is significant, having the competitor collect it runs the risk of the current firm failing, or the competitor accumulating enough for hostile takeover, among other failures. That would stop the current firm onwer from collecting profits in the future. Even if focusing on the long term is more profitable over time, firms may not survive in a competitive environment to realize long term profits. These are some of the fundamental processes that drive firms into short term horizons. With liquid asset markets there are even more immediate processes driving firms into short term planning.

    Add to that planning based mainly on prices, which don't capture a ton of reality and you get situations like a water hungry datacenter in the desert, cause the price of water does not capture its long term availability for example.

    All of this has happened in the past, even a century ago. It's happened and keeps happening in other industries too. For example the fossil fuel industry.

  • We are mainstream now🔥

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  • That's my thought process too.

  • We are mainstream now🔥

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  • I bet many of us are subbed to 404 given their content's presence here. It's good to see them returning the favour! Time to show that content is not created only on Reddit.

  • Starting out with Selfhosting

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  • Add storage via good USB hub or use a multi-bay storage box later on. The have built-in hubs. E.g. Terramaster or OWC Mercury Elite Pro.

    For the highest possible resource utilization and security support beyond Apple's, you could try installing Linux and using Docker containers for everything. You should be able to run quite a few services.

    The next best option resource-wise is to run a large Linux VM and docker containers inside it. The Docker for Mac setup does exactly that. This is how we solved running a complex and resource hungry tech stack locally for development at a past workplace.

    Then come running services in multiple VMs.

  • Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs

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  • I'm running a container,

  • Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming.

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  • Not it. People are worried about what their brand of authoritarin capitalism will do with transhumnism.

    Whenever you see technoligical skepticism, it's almost always about its effects on the working class as used by the ruling class of the time. If for example you opened up a new public research agency for AI (like NASA but NAIA) with the short term goal of developing open source AI and the long term promise to reduce the work week for all through AI productivity advancement, I think you'd get broad support.

    Today however we hear private execs left front and centre salivating over the layoffs they'd be able to achieve thanks to AI, or over the new profit growth they're gonna achieve. Most people know they ain't getting any of that profit and would instead be stuck with the layoffs and inequality, among other negative effects. And history tells us this is a well founded concern.