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cecilkorik

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  • 'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump

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  • A high power laser? That feels like it might work. Perhaps we should start experimenting on Jeff Bezos's head to see what works best.

  • 'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump

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  • Sadly the inescapable physical truth of convex vs concave lensing still relentlessly holds its tenacious grip on reality, despite the billions of dollars these folks have accumulated they have still, thus far, been unable to alter that particular aspect of reality.

    The only solution I can offer for Jeff Bezos is to begin forming his skull inwards somewhat so that any captured light can reach a proper focusing point. As as astronomer with some experience with such reflective optical surfaces, I'd be happy to begin the grinding and polishing process for you at any time, I'll just need you to hold him still while I work. It's a very precise process.

    I assume his head is mostly thick skull surrounding empty space anyway, so I think there should be little harm done.

  • Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck: Flipper One hacking multitool offers 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and Linux on ARM

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  • I haven't had my intro sequence where some dramatic event forces me out of my horrible corpo job yet, but I'm expecting it any day now.

  • Mounting git commits as folders with NFS

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  • Things I never knew I needed, and probably still don't need, but am going to pretend I need anyway.

  • Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck: Flipper One hacking multitool offers 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and Linux on ARM

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  • These are the good guys, when we land in cyberpunk dystopia hell, these will be the guys I'm joining up with.

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    Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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  • Don't worry they've got a plan for that. They're going to let most of humanity die off and kill each other fighting for the scraps they've left behind, while they use money to live as close to forever as they can get, while hiding in their bunkers and protecting their own descendants. Once humanity is down to a few million people at most, the environmental problems should stop getting worse and their army of robots can clean up the rest.

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    Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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  • This could've been regulated decades ago. We chose not to regulate it, because we were told it would hurt the economy, and we always choose benefits to the economy, whether they are real or imagined, over environmental regulation. Always have, always will. We're still doing it today. We could regulate it today too. But AI is now the foundation of our economy, so we will choose what we imagine will benefit the economy, even if it is completely imaginary, over the real impacts to the environment, yet again. Because we always do. The cult of capitalism has brainwashed us all and there doesn't seem to be any escape. The capital in the economy must grow, forever. The people who benefit from it will make sure to tell us so when they tell us what decision we must make for the sake of the economy that benefits them. And we will listen to them, because they have lots of money so they are ideal successful people whose success we rely on for our own meager lives.

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    What's your homelabs power draw?

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  • Way too much. The Nvidia P40 I scavenged for my homemade AI server runs at 120W (throttled down from 250W default) on its own. Then I've got two more PCs running purely as redundant firewalls with automatic failover, pretty unnecessary but if that's not the sort of thing homelabbing is for then I'm going to keep doing it wrong because I find it fun. Then there's the minecraft server, which is pretty beefy and also eternally running at max CPU because my niece is a monster who loves spamming spawn eggs and should never be allowed access to creative mode. And I don't even have the two rack units of disk arrays I bought at auction powered up yet because they need 240V which I don't have handy. I guess someone could do the math on what 48 enterprise SAS drives will pull if they need to satisfy their curiosity, I'm not sure I want to. I will hook them up someday but for now ignorance is bliss. All I know is it's a lot, and there's stuff I'm not even including in this.

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  • You can get an AI to plagiarize a bunch of open source projects that people have volunteered time to create, bypassing the licensing of those projects and mashing them together into something that sort of resembles what you want it to do on a basic level and is full of horrifying security holes and feature gaps that may not matter for your particular usage.

    So, yes, you can vibe code. That's what vibe coding is. Enjoy.

  • Software Engineers Say They're Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them

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  • If I was paying for it, hell naw. But if my employer not only is willing to pay for it, but considers it a performance metric? I'm going to use it for fucking everything. These are the incentives they give me, I'm going to follow the incentives. Talking to Claude is what they pay me for, apparently.

    But like the article says, if I don't continue practicing on my own code in my unpaid off-work hours, I imagine I'd be regressing in my skills too. I do that because I enjoy it as a hobby, but if I didn't, I could see myself and probably a lot of other people getting rugpulled by this.

  • Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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  • This is the way. If you don't care that much about CI/actions or already use a non-Github solution for that, it's even easier.

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    While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.

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  • I think that's sort of the trick. They do the plastic deformation "permanently" into one shape, then they "permanently" deform it back. I assume there's some crystal lattice stuff going on that makes one of the deformations require more/less energy than the other deformation, and thus the heat created doesn't quite balance, meaning you can now theoretically transfer heat energy with it.

  • SAP dives deeper into Iceberg with Dremio acquisition

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  • Hell and SAP have already been working together for decades. Not sure what they intend to do with an Iceberg but I doubt it will last long.

  • Best way to check the readibility of QR codes

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  • The art may be monochrome but the readers interpreting the QR (the part you are supposed to be testing) are almost certainly RGB. If you are not testing from the point of view of a camera reading the image, you are leaving a blind spot, no pun intended, and are not really testing properly.

  • New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB

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  • Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of disks doing 75 mph on the highway.

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • If I understand correctly, the OS isn't the problem, the radio frequencies are.

  • ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?

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  • .fuckicann .fuckai .fuckspez .fuckeverybodynowthatithinkaboutit

  • People are getting very nervous about AI; India saw the sharpest rise in AI nervousness of any country

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  • You get what you pay for. I've never met an offshored Indian developer who was paid what a western developer was paid. If I were them, I actively wouldn't give a fuck either. I love my Indian colleagues, they are great people, and know how to have great parties. They're way cooler when you realize they're actual people and not code-bots.

  • AI uses less water than the public thinks

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  • Yes, it uses less than the public thinks, but it still uses too much. 1 ounce is too much. AI can fuck right off. It is not entitled to our world.