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  • Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic

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  • So I bought one of these for my wife a couple months ago and she loves it. She likes that the eink screen is easier on her eyes and that it removes the temptation to open up social media and doom scroll. I do however have a few gripes about the X3.

    First, the biggest issue for me is the device isn't backlit. For my usage pattern that's a deal breaker. The upside is that the company just released the X4 Pro and that is backlit, although it's also a bit pricier (not by a ton, it's still just barely sub-$100, but it's noticeable). My wife has a rechargeable light that attaches to the X3 magnetically which she's happy with, but that's not for me.

    Second rather than using something sensible like USB-C it uses a semi-proprietary magnetic charger with pogo pins. Not only is that another annoying cord to keep track of, but it's unacceptably easy to short the charging cable and start a fire. I really hope they see reason and release a later revision of the device that uses USB-C (the slightly larger X4 does include USB-C charging, but that model is discontinued).

    Third the buttons are kind of hard to press at times. This is more of a nitpick but I've got larger hands/fingers and it ruins the ergonomics of the device for me.

    Fourth, these devices have an incredibly small quantity of RAM and as such they have to get clever just to open and display ebooks. They heavily cache indexes to the SD card to speed up access and those indexes take time to generate. When you first open a book and periodically while navigating you'll be subjected to very long pauses while the firmware generates and saves that books index files.

    Overall the devices are interesting, and I can see how some people could find them useful/enjoyable, but they're also far from perfect and there's a lot of room to improve.

  • Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget

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  • People don't choose Teams, it's forced on them by executives that rather save a little licensing money rather than have an effective communication tool. The entire MS stack is basically kept alive by convincing corporations to shove it down the throats of their employees. The only people I ever hear say anything nice about MS products are system admins that like the centralized way you can lock down and micromanage Windows instances.

  • Microsoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget

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  • The users.

  • Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

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  • Anyone else know what's up with including Framework at the end of the post? That seemed to come out of left field. I checked and nowhere else in the article is it mentioned, so it's not clear at all what his beef with Framework is.

  • Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice

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  • Exactly. The concept of an LLM is perfectly fine, we've had its precursors like markov chains and neural nets for decades, the issue is how their being created and used these days, particularly the scale of it. LLMs are the shiny new toy the way blockchains were previously, so all the tech bros and utterly clueless CEOs are rushing out to embrace the hot new thing and demand it be shoved into every nook and crany because they think if they don't they might not make every last cent they possibly might.

  • Freedom Fuel gas stations sold stolen fuel, lawsuit claims

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  • A Trump affiliated company was committing a crime? Surely something like this has never happened before.

    At this point if Trump endorses a company the DOJ might as well just automatically launch an investigation into them because it's practically guaranteed their guilty of something even if it's just false advertising.

  • Trump declares national emergency over 'extraordinary' threat in America's power grid

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  • It's the same one ever week and it's the national emergency named Donald Trump.

  • The Freshman Register

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  • Quora was always that site where you'd search for something on Google, see it show up near the top of the results and you'd just instantly skip over it because you already knew whatever it said was a waste of time unless you were looking for a laugh. Half the time the answers would literally be people messing with the person asking the question, and the other half of the time the person asking the question would be the one joking around.

  • Nvidia customers notified about AI-related price hikes above 15%, Bloomberg News reports

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  • While that is true this news doesn't actually have anything to do with gaming. This was Nvidia telling other corporations that they're going to price gouge an extra 15% for server GPUs (ironically making cloud gaming potentially that much more expensive).

  • RIP to the Russiagate Liberals

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  • Yes this article is the mother of all ass pulls in a desperate attempt to make this about Trump somehow instead of the reality which is that progressives are beating neoliberals across the board.

  • Yes Obviously the Senate Should be Abolished

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  • Ultimately it's because the US is a bad compromise. The original intent was for the US to be a loose confederation of somewhat independent countries similar to how the EU is currently structured, however the civil war showed that some of those States couldn't be trusted enough to not treat their citizens like shit so the federal government had to be strengthened. This reduced it from a loose confederation into a mostly centralized government but with a bunch of territories that function more as testing grounds for stuff that isn't quite ready to be promoted to the federal level.

    The Senate is an awkward leftover of that transition. Under the original design it somewhat made sense, you could even argue that the House was the bit that didn't quite fit under that model because every State was supposed to be equal to every other one. The thought was if you didn't like the State you were in you could just move to another one. Slavery of course disproved that theory.

    Under the post civil war design of the US the Senate is now the piece that doesn't quite fit because the people are supposed to be the ones in charge now with the States being an awkward hold over from the earlier confederation concept.

    So yes, ultimately it probably makes sense to eliminate the Senate and strengthen the House. It's either that or you fundamentally restructure the powers of the US government again. The States have demonstrated that they can not be trusted with civil rights so at a minimum you would have to make civil rights the exclusive domain of the House leaving things like economic policies and trade to the Senate. What we have now is just awkward and doesn't really work for anyone, the civil war was never really handled properly and it's about time we cleaned up from that properly instead of taking a bunch of half measures and kicking the can down the road.

  • AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them

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  • It's the exact same problem you run into on any open or semi-open market but the outcome for anything with a good user review system will be the same. Look at Steam where asset flips and low quality clones flooded the store but 99% of them barely get a handful of sales if any. Instead all the money goes towards the games with actual fun content. People recognize low quality and low effort slop and AI reeks of it.

    The only thing flooding markets with slop does is it makes it harder for the small gems to get discovered. Some of them still will, they happen to catch the eye of just the right person and spread through word of mouth, and the big companies will just shovel heaps of money into advertising, but it makes life miserable for the little guy trying to make a name for themselves.

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    Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier alongside two other red states, issued a subpoena to former Covid czar Anthony Fauci

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  • Political theater. They'll huff and puff and make a bunch of accusations, harass him, dig through his personal life, and then quietly drop the whole thing.

  • ‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words

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  • I mean it kind of already does this accidentally, just look for em dash and/or emojis sprinkled all over the document and you can be pretty certain that it was AI generated.

    The other thing I'm seeing here is that this will only be effective for large chunks of text, if you're dealing with small snippets interspersed with human generated content there will be enough statistical noise to make classification hard without introducing a bunch of false positives and negatives.

  • Trump’s Air Force One deception faces scrutiny over ‘decoy’ passengers

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  • Until and unless Democrats control a majority of both the house and senate impeachment and conviction just isn't going to happen. I don't think there's anything Trump could do that would get the Republicans to vote against him short of maybe rounding up a bunch of them and having them publicly executed and maybe not even then. The only way it's remotely happening is if Democrats don't need a single Republican to vote with them and for good measure they should count on not having a few of the Democrats vote in favor as well.

    If/when Trump and his cronies are finally removed from power the US needs major political changes to make sure this shit never happens again.

  • uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

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  • It would make a good second (or third) layer of defense. The problem with it is that it's reactive not proactive, so you need to download the ad first before it can decide to block it or not. URL blacklists are the superior option, but hard to maintain. The ideal setup would be a URL blacklist that's automatically updated on the fly by an AI classifier so anything that slips through the blacklist gets ban hammered by the AI and added to the blacklist to prevent future wasted bandwidth. If the blacklist updates were shared the same way some of the ad blockers do currently it could be incredibly effective as it would be essentially distributed realtime ad blocking.

  • Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

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  • Eh, maybe. First for existing content it makes no difference, the creator already got paid to read the ad so whether you skip it or not doesn't change the money that's already in their account. The argument would be if people are regularly skipping the sponsored ads then companies might stop offering sponsorships. Considering this is currently limited to premium customers which a) tend to be the minority, b) still need to manually trigger a fast forward to skip the ad, and c) would likely fast forward through it anyway because they've already shown they're willing to pay money to avoid ads, I don't think this will actually make much difference. Worst case scenario it drives down the amount being offered for sponsorships a little.

  • Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

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  • The content creator won't care but the sponsors might. YouTube has a similar system that skips over "commonly skipped segments" when you're fast forwarding. In practice it just means you skip past the section of the video where whoever it is reads the sponsors ad copy. It would have gotten skipped anyway, this feature just saves you a few seconds of putzing around trying to find the exact spot where the ad ends.

  • A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

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  • It doesn't have a long tail, that's the wheel. If you look the same line shows up at the front of the hamster as well.