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  1. Comment on Historic voter turnout powered US Democrats’ blue wave in ~society

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    I recently learned that it was originally scheduled to land on a day people were likely to be free. But the way people work has changed a lot in the last few hundred years and it's long overdue...

    I recently learned that it was originally scheduled to land on a day people were likely to be free. But the way people work has changed a lot in the last few hundred years and it's long overdue for a change.

    9 votes

  2. Comment on Historic voter turnout powered US Democrats’ blue wave in ~society

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    This is why we protest. Not because it's going to get Trump to step down, but because it regularly reminds our neighbors that we're doing something about this on election day.

    This is why we protest. Not because it's going to get Trump to step down, but because it regularly reminds our neighbors that we're doing something about this on election day.

    18 votes

  3. Comment on RIP Cybertruck. You were unloved, unwanted, and utterly absurd. in ~transport

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    I'm glad I'm missing the part of the brain that makes those platforms so appealing.

    I'm glad I'm missing the part of the brain that makes those platforms so appealing.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on US Democrats are hatching a plan to reverse Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs in ~society

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    I hope the Democrats understand they're under a microscope right now and need to do as much as they can.

    I hope the Democrats understand they're under a microscope right now and need to do as much as they can.

    30 votes

  5. Comment on US Democrats win enough seats nationwide to (potentially) end Electoral College via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in ~society

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    Maybe I'm fooling myself but it feels like a new wing of the Democratic Party is gaining power. Maybe they'll effect some change in the party leadership.

    Maybe I'm fooling myself but it feels like a new wing of the Democratic Party is gaining power. Maybe they'll effect some change in the party leadership.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed in ~tech

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    That initiates a reload and doesn't show any buttons or links.

    That initiates a reload and doesn't show any buttons or links.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed in ~tech

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    That's how it was yesterday for me. The update is likely coming to Android soon...

    That's how it was yesterday for me. The update is likely coming to Android soon...

    3 votes

  8. Comment on YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed in ~tech

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    Well, they could simply just show me a subscriptions button if I have watch history turned off.

    Well, they could simply just show me a subscriptions button if I have watch history turned off.

    5 votes

  9. YouTube mobile app has deeply hidden the subscription feed

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    I just opened YouTube on my iPhone and realized there was no UI at all for seeing my subscriptions. I had to relaunch the app and notice right when it opens they show a subscriptions link at the...

    I just opened YouTube on my iPhone and realized there was no UI at all for seeing my subscriptions. I had to relaunch the app and notice right when it opens they show a subscriptions link at the top but it auto-hides. So what you need to do is tap on the screen and then tap on the subscriptions link. There’s no other reference to subscriptions anywhere. It’s almost completely hidden now.

    I have “watch history” disabled, which turns YouTube from a wannabe TikTok into its former self. You get no algorithmic suggestions and you can’t watch shorts (unless linked to them directly or through subscriptions). So now the YouTube app essentially has no content unless you dig through hidden UI. This is crazy.

    38 votes

  10. Comment on US Democrats win enough seats nationwide to (potentially) end Electoral College via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact in ~society

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    They're currently doing that and it's not fun to watch. Congress banned states from regulating AI for 10 years in 2025. I think we should capitalize on the momentum, though. A new Supreme Court...

    the party of states rights will need to argue that states should have less rights. It will be fun to watch!

    They're currently doing that and it's not fun to watch. Congress banned states from regulating AI for 10 years in 2025.

    I think we should capitalize on the momentum, though. A new Supreme Court down the road can also issue a new interpretation.

    24 votes

  11. Comment on Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too in ~tech

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    What is "very few people"? And what subset of the population are we talking about? Are we including people in rural Indonesia?

    Very few people have 16GB of RAM, let alone VRAM.

    What is "very few people"? And what subset of the population are we talking about? Are we including people in rural Indonesia?

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Amazon Grocery introduces a Thanksgiving meal for $25 in ~food

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    “Deep fried turkey A moister, tastier turkey.”

    “Deep fried turkey
    A moister, tastier turkey.”

  13. Comment on fxgl/steamac: Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS in a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon in ~games

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    Valve recently added an x86-64 to ARM translation layer to SteamOS.

    Valve recently added an x86-64 to ARM translation layer to SteamOS.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on fxgl/steamac: Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS in a lightweight VM on Apple Silicon in ~games

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    MacOS has far worse game support than Linux, so it should be. I’m downloading it now to try it out.

    MacOS has far worse game support than Linux, so it should be. I’m downloading it now to try it out.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on itch.io reveals just how much AI slop is flooding gaming storefronts in ~games

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    That assumes you're trying to do that from scratch as a one-shot prompt. If you instead have it cloning games and modifying clones you've already published it would be pretty easy to flood the...

    That assumes you're trying to do that from scratch as a one-shot prompt. If you instead have it cloning games and modifying clones you've already published it would be pretty easy to flood the store. Granted, I don't know what kind of games are going up and I could just check but I won't bother.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on itch.io reveals just how much AI slop is flooding gaming storefronts in ~games

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    I have a strong suspicion this is one of those situations where half of the submissions are from a handful of people. One person could easily have AI crank out a hundred submissions per day.

    I have a strong suspicion this is one of those situations where half of the submissions are from a handful of people. One person could easily have AI crank out a hundred submissions per day.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Google receives response from Project Suncatcher prototype satellite in space in ~space

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    Up front I want to admit I have no qualifications to speculate on this. It's still uncharted territory. And if Russia takes down a US satellite the US might just try to take down all of Russia's....

    Up front I want to admit I have no qualifications to speculate on this.

    It's still uncharted territory. And if Russia takes down a US satellite the US might just try to take down all of Russia's. It would be a shitshow and no one wants to throw the first punch.

  18. Comment on Google receives response from Project Suncatcher prototype satellite in space in ~space

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    It sounds like this is a long-term planning move. There is limited orbital space with optimal solar flux. So if you ever need maximum wattage for hardware in space (as you would for AI) those...

    It sounds like this is a long-term planning move. There is limited orbital space with optimal solar flux. So if you ever need maximum wattage for hardware in space (as you would for AI) those positioned in these orbits are the only ones that can perform those high-wattage workloads. It’s a “land” grab.

    They’re probably thinking that a military would have future interest in compute in space. As of yet no one has crossed the line of shooting down a satellite. Given Kessler Syndrome it’s in everyone’s interest to avoid that.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on LLMs can natively read and write neural network weights in ~tech

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    It turns out being able to think about 1,000,000 things simultaneously, compared to a human that can handle ~6, is a big upgrade.

    It turns out being able to think about 1,000,000 things simultaneously, compared to a human that can handle ~6, is a big upgrade.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on LLMs can natively read and write neural network weights in ~tech

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    It would be awesome for hosted LLMs to be provided access to read their own weights and activations so they can truly, for the first time, explain why they did something. Edit: One thing I do...

    It would be awesome for hosted LLMs to be provided access to read their own weights and activations so they can truly, for the first time, explain why they did something.

    Edit: One thing I do right now is provide agents I set up with access to their own source code. I created an agent that's a glorified search engine for an organization. You chat with it through Discord and it can search Discord, our internal wiki, the broader web, and can read the source code to any of the organization's code repositories. We have a lot of technical people so it gets a lot of question like "@Bot what agent framework are you using?" etc. (for the record, no framework - the agent.ts file is only a few hundred lines and wouldn't benefit from anything so fancy).

    10 votes