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kbal

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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • People who didn't get sugar as kids, how did that work out?

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  • I didn't get to eat much sugar as a kid. It was fine, never a big deal really. I do remember the first time putting actual sugar on my breakfast cereal just to try it at age 18 or something but it just seemed weird, unhealthy, and overly sweet. I hadn't thought about it since several decades ago, but now that I remember I thank my parents for it.

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    anyone here uses or likes closed source or normal software?

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  • My computer is running "xclock" right now, possibly the most normal software ever made.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues

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  • Is it even possible to run Facebook so badly that it stops making money? I guess we're finding out.

  • You go outside. You see this. What's your reaction?

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  • I've got the street all to myself. Maybe I'd have a brief moment of reflection on how surprisingly quiet and peaceful city streets can be at times.

  • China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade

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  • Thank you. I'm glad my instincts told me to read the comments on this one before following the link.

  • What would be the most ridiculous current media future civilizations use to determine 21st culture?

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  • As everything else becomes locked up with increasingly complex and fragile DRM ("digital restrictions management") content encryption schemes, the largest surviving archive of 21st century media that's still available three hundred years from now could be ao3.

  • Persistance of posts and account data post-deletion

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  • If the idea is to connect with family and friends, there are parts of the Fediverse where you can post stuff that's only visible to followers. Probably not possible on lemmy or piefed though, I think.

  • What sort of personality would you call this?

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  • Yeah I've met people like that. I believe they're normally called "psychopaths" for short. They tend to be concentrated in particular places and occupations and of course they will all tell you that it's perfectly normal and that everyone else is also like that and just hiding it.

  • How would you undermine open source software?

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  • I think the best strategy is to contribute lots of money and work to promoting and developing free software, improving it and using it everywhere so that it comes to be ubiquitous, used by everyone. That will make it even more of a target for malware authors and therefore lead to its sure demise. We should get started right away.

  • Any other Windows or Mac users here?

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  • I remember Windows — it was ok for its time I guess, but I didn't like it as much as AmigaOS.

  • [PDF] Signal attacks UK plan to scan devices for nude images as "mass surveillance"

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  • Weird headline. Whatever you think of their arguments, the interesting part is not that they were so bold as to describe the latest plan for mass surveillance as "mass surveillance."

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    You walk into a restaurant and see this. What’s your first thought?

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  • Maybe throw in Boimler's transporter clone

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  • The Section 31 movie was pretty bad but who knows — maybe it will be remembered just as fondly by people 50 years from now as Blackenstein (1973) is today.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • I asked a chatbot that question a few months ago when I was trying them out. It came up with lots of bullshit ideas that make no sense to me, and one genuine use for some of that surplus data centre capacity: Scientific computing. Physics, astronomy, climate simulations, that sort of thing.

    Aside from that maybe when all the big AI companies go bust their assets will be bought up by new operators who will continue to flood the market with cheap generative AI, without the burden of having to pretend that it's possible to pay off all the debt incurred in building it. There are only so many high-energy physics simulations it's worth doing and having that many GPUs is not really useful for much else that anyone's discovered so far.

    According to the Internet though it is said that the useful lifespan of a big Nvidia data centre GPU is something like 5-10 years, so it won't be a problem for long.

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    is the barter system the peak of economics?

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  • Nah, the peak economic system is potlatch.

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  • Which country is that? Just wondering. Explaining that the people and the government are not the same thing seems a little obvious and beside the point.

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  • Right, the country is conventionally known as "China" and that is probably what it should be called in general discussion. I know some people like to endlessly talk about nothing else even when there is nothing new to say, but I don't really get it. Perhaps that's because I mostly see only things I've subscribed to, so my view of lemmy doesn't include much of that kind of talk. That makes your post stand out and look like it's indicative of some kind of weird senseless obsession with the topic.

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  • My feeling is that anyone saying "CCP" and expecting everyone to know what they mean and have opinions about it is probably trolling.

  • What is the number one problem you are facing?

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  • The second law of thermodynamics.

  • Discussion: Is Kirk actually the womanizer people claim?

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  • Sort of, sometimes. In more of a goofy 1960s sci-fi kind of way, otherwise not much different than Riker in that respect.