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@ chicken @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Amazon to start blocking sideloaded piracy apps on Fire TVs

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  • I had to use one of these things in an AirBnb before, Fire TVs are impressively awful.

  • Head of Swiss armed forces is sceptical of Microsoft Cloud

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  • This is from the autotranslated version of the article but

    He therefore calls for a separate, private cloud solution for classified documents to be examined.

    Why does a word processor need to involve the "cloud" at all?

  • 'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

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  • I use local models, and it barely doubles the electricity use of my computer while it's actively generating, which is a very small proportion of the time I'm doing work; the environmental impact is negligible.

  • Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams 😆️️

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  • 'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

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  • We’re replacing that journey and all the learning, with a dialogue with an inconsistent idiot.

    I like this about it, because it gets me to write down and organize my thoughts on what I'm trying to do and how, where otherwise I would just be writing code and trying to maintain the higher level outline of it in my head, which will usually have big gaps I don't notice until spending way too long spinning my wheels, or otherwise fail to hold together. Sometimes a LLM will do things better than you would have, in which case you can just use that code. When it gives you code that is wrong, you don't have to use it, you can write it yourself at that point, after having thought about what's wrong with the AI approach and how what you requested should be done instead.

  • Ex-CISA head thinks AI might fix code so fast we won't need security teams 😆️️

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  • If there are actually no bugs, can't that create a situation where it's impossible to break it? Not to say this is actually a thing AI can achieve, but it doesn't seem like bad logic.

  • Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

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  • the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have voilated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds, Crary explained.

    "This would create a situation where money we'd already spent could be taken back, which would be an enormous, open-ended financial risk," the PSF director added.

    "Part of the problem here is all the uncertainties," Crary told us. "Even if we wanted to give up anything that might be considered [DEI] work - which we don't - part of the risk here is that all these restrictions are new, the language is very broad ... I had no interest in being the test case."

    Sounds like a really awful deal; get some funding, but the unpredictable and corrupt US government gets opportunities to bankrupt you.

  • How do y'all feel joy without alcohol or weed?

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  • Make sure you are also doing fun and nice things for yourself while sober, and not just reserving it for when you're high. Expectations and associations make a big difference, if you're taking a drug with the intention and belief that it will make you feel a certain way, that alone might make it work.

    Except for alcohol, which will make often you feel like shit even if you expect it to make you feel good. Congrats on quitting.

  • Bay Area chief of police allegedly commutes from Idaho

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  • They addressed that though, the idea is that maybe they aren't literally actually commuting from another state and that's just their legal residence. The article showed evidence they were illegally living in the police station, so if that's the case it would explain why they aren't using that explanation as a defense.

    It's kind of confusing why this would be a thing to begin with though, is the Bay Area really so expensive that 600k a year isn't enough to afford rent there?

  • What's the most impressive video game mod you've ever come across?

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  • That was a mod? It honestly feels like the finished version of what the game was meant to be

  • Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)?

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  • I had a PC I used for games and stuff that had Windows, switched it to Linux. Don't want Windows 11 and it didn't support my computer anyway.

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  • The fascist mindset is about superiority, not violence.

    Nah, those guys hate themselves, the idea they're superior is surface level cope. Look at the content right wing extremists are consuming and how they are using it; it's the emotional weight of violence being employed for self inflicted brain damage, dogmatic cult building through manipulation and artificial trauma eg. hazing.

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  • Your opinion that nobody deserves to be killed is really rare

    My point is more that being fixated on it in that way reflects a mindset that is the same as fascists.

    The rest of your comment seems like some kind of joke which is a little funny with your username, but it's a serious topic so idk.

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  • I mean, you're wrong if you think I don't think these are urgent problems, being caused by fascists. If you're in a position to effectively resolve them, great, I will give credit to actions that qualify as stuff that is likely to actually work and not be counterproductive.

    What I'm talking about is less urgent, but I don't think inadvertently contributing to fascist culture is the sort of thing that's a direct solution to urgent problems anyway.

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  • To me it seems at least kind of suspicious if someone has a shared hobby with fascists of sharing videos of people being assaulted or killed and talking about how much they deserved it, and are enforcing groupthink in a similar way. It feels like they are playing the same game and must share many of the same ways of thinking, even if they are nominally on different teams. Maybe that isn't what Antifa is really about, but people I've known who self identified with it have been like that. I worry that engaging with and relating to politics that way is all heading to a similar place regardless of on-paper beliefs, so the way this comic depicts a physical refusal to even acknowledge the thought is kind of chilling.

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  • It's ok, Bush made sure the government backs a lender's investment by ensuring those loans are an inescapable weight students can never get away from, no need to do risk analysis.

  • Boredom

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  • Imagine if someone kills you for fun but they aren't even having fun with it anymore they're just bored, that would extra suck.

  • TIL - the Alt-Right is obsessed with Roman Memes

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  • Mythologized history to serve their racist worldview:

    Right, ancient Greece and Rome were actually quite diverse and the concept of “whiteness” didn’t have much meaning thousands of years ago. Race, as we know it, is a fairly recent category. But the far-right relies on this construct of Western civilization, which for them means white civilization and culture. So they craft a narrative that begins with Greece and Rome and then continues into the medieval period up through the emergence of modern Europe.

  • RFK Jr. Warns Teenagers Now Have Less Sperm Than 65-Year-Old Men

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  • The reason I'm thinking of it is I recently read this lemmy thread. The article itself is probably AI and not that convincing but I think people are making some good points about the pressures imposed by expense of housing and how those affect the desirability and difficulty of having children.

    Of course a prerequisite for that to matter is that not having children is more of a real choice than it is for people with no resources in a state of poverty. But it isn't necessarily the case that the difficulty of raising children decreases with country-wide affluence, because wealth inequality is a thing, required resources (like housing space) might become more expensive relative to income despite overall increase in income, and other factors like an increasingly atomized career focused society where community can't be relied on as much to help raise children and the expectations placed on parents are higher, maybe requiring high daycare expenses.

    So bringing capable workers in means they pay into taxes that support the aging and school-age population, and never had to have their school-age years paid for. They’re a productive member with half the cost over their lifetime.

    I agree in principle with the logic here, but if those capable workers are being placed in competition with a population that is financially struggling, and those taxes are not being used to give those people more breathing room, that productivity isn't helping and is being employed on the wrong side of a class struggle.