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sobchak

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  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • China is now the world leader in science by most metrics (largest proportion of the top 1% most cited papers, most publications to prestigious journals, etc). It makes sense, with their high population and their government willing to fund research. I'm guessing their culture is much less anti-intellectual than the West too, especially the US.

  • More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds

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  • Peertube, but requires taking care of monetization/donations themselves, and possibly needing to run their own instance(?). Discovery sucks (I think Peertube may be anti-algo similar to Mastodon) so they'll have to take care of promoting themselves as well.

    I think Nebula is a creator-owned platform, so very hard to get into. I've also seen that their privacy policy is not good.

  • Anyone miss all the colors?

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  • All the crazy colors and styles originally happened to sell "self expression" because the culture was becoming more anti consumption. Advertisements for most things used to be more matter-of-fact, then they started focussing on manipulating emotions to sell more shit. I guess now the culture is more pro-consumption and status-obsessed, so conformity is what sells now.

  • Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM

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  • Not enough room in the GPU machine for all the HDDs I needed.

    Also who got millions of photos at home?

    People working on biological datasets.

  • Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

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  • If the corporate VPNs keep logs and allow government access, they will be allowed. That's how it works in some (authoritarian) countries.

  • Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

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  • I believe China does statistical analysis to do stuff like detecting and blocking VPNs, suspicious looking ssh traffic, etc from home Internet connections not going to an approved business. It's my understanding it's very hard to get around the GFW at the moment, and pretty complex stuff is needed to mask VPN traffic to make it look normal (Project X, Xray, Reality, etc).

  • Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM

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  • Rsync, syncthing, backups, mp3s, photos, json files; idk, a lot of tasks involve large amounts of small files. I personally ran into this problem training models on millions of photos. My GPUs would only get up to 25% utilization with mirrored HDDs, so I had to switch to SSDs.

    Edit: the difference is also significant when compiling large projects or just using git. I imagine some game servers need a lot of random accesses too.

  • Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM

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  • HDDs have horrible random access times, so if you need to process or just copy a lot of small files, say photos, there's a significant penalty.

  • This is why we can't have nice things.

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  • All the open hardware and software and ecosystem was pretty cool. It was cool you could just buy hats, or whatever they're called, to add functionality, rather than designing a custom PCB and spending hundreds of dollars to get a few boards made and populated. I'm not a fan of their software stack or their choice of uC's, but they did make it easy to just kind of plug stuff together in hardware and software.

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • Alibaba has released Qwen models under Apache licenses (and they are some of the best models that can reasonably be ran locally). Some argue that models aren't really open source unless the training code and datasets are made available though.

  • Look at this. Or don't.

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  • I like superdeterminism. Or Three Body Problem's sophons :)

  • TIL: There's a website called Mapcarta that utilizes information and data from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects, and presents it in an interactive world map

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  • Librewolf disables some canvas features because they're a good way to fingerprint your browser. A lot of map and image manipulation stuff won't work correctly on LibreWolf. I usually just open a Chromium private window when that happens. There's probably a better solution, but I also have to use some sites for work that only work on chromium-based browsers as well.

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  • I think Paramount is in the process of a hostile takeover of WB Discovery, and Kushner is involved, so they'll probably get it, IMO. I think the fascists really want CNN at least.

  • Solutions for remote access?

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  • Port forward/poke holes in firewall + dynamic DNS.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • I think California recently passed the Digital Age Assurance Act, which was backed by Google,Meta, and OpenAI. I think it goes into effect in 2027.

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  • I find it detrimental to my productivity when integrated into an editor/IDE. I've found the "autocomplete" causes subtle bugs that I end up overlooking because I'm trying to go fast and putting too much trust in the generated lines/snippets. Tracing down these bugs becomes a huge time-sink. I do use chatbots in the browser for various things; mostly as a kind of "search" for alternative ways of doing things, frameworks, libraries, and algorithms. Agentic vibe-coding is ok for small one-off tools/scripts you wouldn't need to maintain, IMO.

  • Photo enforcement cameras

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  • Well, this is a meme. But I personally am anti-surveillance. With the way things are going, these will almost certainly be "upgraded" to ALPR/"AI" systems for 24/7 surveillance and tracking; I'm guessing some probably already are.

  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

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  • Indeed, and I give them credit. China is unironically leading the world in scientific progress. I wouldn't recommend using their services though, for privacy reasons (same with the US).

  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

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  • If you're not paying, you're the product. Even on Chinese services. Alibaba does train my favorite local models though (Qwen).