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Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system in ~tech
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Comment on US indoor marijuana grow operations are consuming a staggering amount of energy in ~enviro
arch I mean, obviously...? Outdoor agriculture uses basically no electricity. Why is it being compared to agriculture for this article? It is not competing with any agricultural products that I know...Indoor marijuana growing operations in the U.S. use more energy than all outdoor agriculture combined.
I mean, obviously...? Outdoor agriculture uses basically no electricity. Why is it being compared to agriculture for this article? It is not competing with any agricultural products that I know of. Shouldn't it be compared to alcohol production, or production of opiates? Even then, so what? The author has a section talking about greenhouse gas production, and outright states legislation is needed to curb it. Why not renewables? Why not nuclear? I hate to say it, but the issue isn't so much what we're using our power for, but how we're generating it. How in the hell is trying to regulate energy use in the U.S. going to work? It's just a different shade of trying to put the guilt on the consumer (reduce, reuse, recycle while corporations are pumping out styrofoam and single use plastics at an alarming rate).
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Comment on I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one. in ~tech
arch (edited )Link Parent[edit] I am going to, hopefully not too disrespectfully, bow out from any further discussion in this post. I just want to let any readers know that before they delve into my thoughts below,...[edit] I am going to, hopefully not too disrespectfully, bow out from any further discussion in this post. I just want to let any readers know that before they delve into my thoughts below, because they likely won't get any response from me if they want one. I don't want to add to any further surprisingly heated discussion on this topic. I do wish everyone I've been talking to here the best, and I hope no one has a bad day because of this conversation.
We are certainly allowed to read the same comment and come to different conclusions on it. I don't exactly think calling me vapid and moralizing is helpful, or trying to understand my standpoint in any way. I do, personally, think I have a differing opinion from the one given by /u/PendingKetchup. From my reading they are stating that we should walk away instead of trying to change from the inside. And since some people can't, then anyone who can should. I don't think that's helpful, or realistic, or likely to accomplish anything. The public school system is not the for profit private bus industry. Why would protesting like during the civil rights movement make sense for whatever it is we're even talking about doing here? Hence my reference to Invitation to a Beheading a short story at the end of which a prisoner either just gets up from beneath the headsman and walks away, or his spirit does at least. Because that is what the advice for anyone who is unhappy with the changes their career path is taking sounds the most like to me. Especially when it comes to technology, which is everywhere and will continue to be everywhere for the rest of our lives, until our spirit finally gets up and walks away from it.
Do try to bear in mind that this is all in response to a comment telling people to find a job without technology, then a reply from a teacher stating that online teaching is a requirement since COVID and it's drastically harder than people think to avoid technology, and an immediate response reiterating, "you don't have to remain a teacher". Then further down a call for protest quitting of public school teachers who are able to do so, leaving those who can't further entrenched. I don't follow the logic. What is being protested? How will be people left behind even know there is a protest?
If an employee states a concern with the technology in their role, we should be engaging with them in the conversation and not outright dismissing them. If it boils down to "I don't know how to use a phone" then they can get additional training, or take a free course at the local library. It only really makes sense for them to leave if the complaint is I can't/don't ever want to learn how to use X technology. But when it comes to remote learning we are likely to legitimately be seeing that a class of over 20 six years olds cannot be taught phonetic spelling effectively over zoom. I don't know what the case was for the teacher who posted, though. You know why I don't know? Because the knee jerk response of this vapid moralizing website was "you don't have to remain a teacher". No follow up questions, no discussion of what they're actually thinking, feeling or saying.
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Comment on Right to root access in ~tech
arch Would you have any info on one? I haven't been able to find one that works in the U.S.AFAIK there are alternative tap to pay apps that do work under GOS
Would you have any info on one? I haven't been able to find one that works in the U.S.
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Comment on Right to root access in ~tech
arch It definitely takes a bit of configuration, especially on the permissions side and in the Sandboxed Google Apps section. It can apparently differ depending on the car/device you're connecting to....It definitely takes a bit of configuration, especially on the permissions side and in the Sandboxed Google Apps section. It can apparently differ depending on the car/device you're connecting to. But yes, it does work. It just took me a few hours of messing with settings to get it working for the first time when I had a rental car with AA.
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Comment on I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one. in ~tech
arch Your comment adds literally nothing to the conversation, here. You draw false equivalences. It's extremely difficult for me to pull my rationale far enough to believe the you equate quitting...Your comment adds literally nothing to the conversation, here. You draw false equivalences. It's extremely difficult for me to pull my rationale far enough to believe the you equate quitting Twitter to someone quitting a career. A teacher has gone to school for four years to earn a degree to be able to do that job. They have spent at a minimum tens of thousands of dollars on that career path, they likely have a pension tied to their state of work and stand to loose significant retirement income if they leave early, they likely have years, perhaps decades of training and experience in the career.
You might as well go and read Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading as a realistic advice on how to escape Kafkaesque persecution.
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Comment on The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official teaser in ~movies
arch (edited )Link ParentIt doesn't seem to be an origin story, they do show Galactus in the trailer, so I assume he is in some way the villain, and he's not usually an origin story villain for them. Hell, I'd love to...It doesn't seem to be an origin story, they do show Galactus in the trailer, so I assume he is in some way the villain, and he's not usually an origin story villain for them. Hell, I'd love to just see a short 5 or 10 minutes "history of the Fantastic Four" video that they watch on a screen in some sort of museum in the movie. It works really well for that sort of exposition in movies like Jurassic Park. It avoids that problem when you suddenly just have a depressed superman and the audience can't connect with him emotionally.
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Comment on The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official teaser in ~movies
arch (edited )LinkI'm on board for Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic alone. He has that nature that you just inherently trust in a person even when he has to do things that you don't like. I'm not personally a huge...I'm on board for Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic alone. He has that nature that you just inherently trust in a person even when he has to do things that you don't like.
I'm not personally a huge fan of Fantastic Four stories, not that I've experienced to many of them, but from a filmic standpoint this trailer's pacing, cinematography and visual design are very refreshing. The only thing I'm not immediately delighted by is when they initially pull out of the 4:3 framing and image processing to show The Thing moving around. It strikes me as a little jarring just because everything felt a certain way before hand, then we're suddenly hit with the more traditional and modern GCI that honestly feels stale. It affects my willful suspension of disbelief. The rest of the clips they showed somehow felt perfectly fitting, though. So I don't know if that jarring feeling was all it took to get me to encompass the new look into the frame of reference, or if the rest was just better quality CG. This is the first trailer I have seen in maybe 6 years that made me remark on how far CGI has come, namely with fire on Johnny, so it truly felt impressive. I've been watching mostly HDR content lately which is easier to spot the discrepancies with, so hopefully it doesn't look worse in cinemas. The retro-futuristic costume and sets designs are really on point.
I don't know if the Presented in FantastiVision at the end is a throwaway or not, but I honestly hope the studio is onboard and actually making it something more visually consistent between their new movies. This looks like it will be enjoyable in a way for me that is similar to Werewolf by Night. Being first and foremost a compelling story, but delivering it in a film that is a love-letter to the way movies used to be filmed, edited and displayed.
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Comment on Right to root access in ~tech
arch While it doesn't hard the security of the device, it does lock you out of a significant number of features. The most obvious is that tap to pay (namely Google Wallet) will not work, I haven't...While it doesn't hard the security of the device, it does lock you out of a significant number of features. The most obvious is that tap to pay (namely Google Wallet) will not work, I haven't found a single software that will support it on GrapheneOS. There are a non-insignificant number of other issues that require a bunch of workaround. Android Auto took me hours to get working, Google Fit took me more time, Google Maps and properly location access was glitch for me until I got the location software stack configured in a specific way.
Even if you want to go fully sans-Google there are certain pieces of software that rely on things like safetynet for which they have only been granted partial access by Google.
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Comment on Why and how I use Immich in ~tech
arch Your setup sounds absolutely amazing, honestly. Can I ask what is your monthly cost of VPS hosting (and if it's really cheap, I'd love a name drop). I've been running on local hardware in my house...Your setup sounds absolutely amazing, honestly. Can I ask what is your monthly cost of VPS hosting (and if it's really cheap, I'd love a name drop). I've been running on local hardware in my house for something like 20 years now, with spinning disks for data that only get changed out when they fill up or fail. My only backups are Google Drive (which I don't use for photos due to cost), and the original phones the images are copied from. Needless to say, I will lose significant data
ifwhen my drives fail. Part of me will enjoy the process of rebuilding my server from scratch; I'll probably take the opportunity to move to Proxmox, use encryption on my drives, maybe encrypted boot loader and usb keys. etc. But right now, it's all a set of patchwork nonsense built on a rolling release distro that was first set up decades ago, to the point that I'd either have to build a new server or have significant downtime to make the switch.I personally switched from NextCloud to Immich at little over a year ago and I haven't looked back. I run Arch, and NextCloud broke frequently for me, even with updating weekly. It was almost always easy to fix, but a few times it required physical access which was pretty inconvenient for me, sometimes I would like to run updates remotely while I was at the office. Facial recognition and the maps plugin would just stop working on me randomly. I'd have to fight with installing plugins from AUR or downloading from the web. It must my older age, but I finally see the benefit of Debian Stable, and only updating for security issues.
If you install Immich in docker it will probably run facial recognition out of the box. If your VPS has CUDA or hardware acceleration support, Immich will run it very quickly, too. There's tons of details out there about upgrading the facial recognition to a better model, but I've never bothered personally, because I'm lazy and it works for me as it. If you have a home server with CUDA, a modern Intel iGPU or are able to invest in a cheap nVidia Tesla card, maybe you could set something up using the VPS for actual data but processing in on your home server. For what it's worth I run all of this on an Intel i5-6400 with 16 GB of RAM, and I regularly give 4 GB to a virtual machine. Instead of upgrading the motherboard/CPU I bought a Tesla P4 to handle transcoding, so I can now use my system to browse Tildes, transcode 4k video on the fly, run a 4GB VM with Debian all at the same time. None of this software is nearly as hungry as you would expect.
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Comment on Stream PBS and PBS KIDS free on Prime Video in ~tv
arch I would hope that it could serve as a wakeup call to some that PBS is being attacked by this administration. Near as I can tell PBS is the most trusted actual news source in America, and probably...Edit: better get it now, because I’m reading another article that says trumps fcc is looking to cut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS and NPR)
I would hope that it could serve as a wakeup call to some that PBS is being attacked by this administration. Near as I can tell PBS is the most trusted actual news source in America, and probably the closest thing we have to a legitimate centrist news organization in 2024. The fact that they want to defund and silence legitimate news should be seen as universally alarming.
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Comment on Stream PBS and PBS KIDS free on Prime Video in ~tv
arch Honestly, I hope this involves some sort of funding for PBS on behalf of Amazon. PBS is a wonderful service and deserves as much funding as possible.Honestly, I hope this involves some sort of funding for PBS on behalf of Amazon. PBS is a wonderful service and deserves as much funding as possible.
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Comment on Does anyone want to talk about stocks/options? in ~finance
arch They're still down ~15% ytd. But honestly, it's all just speculation until we know if it's going to actually hit their revenue or not. Nvidia has seen insane revenue growth since 2020, and it...They're still down ~15% ytd. But honestly, it's all just speculation until we know if it's going to actually hit their revenue or not. Nvidia has seen insane revenue growth since 2020, and it seems to all be because of AI. If Microsoft finds a way to continue their AI programs without buying 500,000 new AI chips from Nvidia every year, they're going to see a significant decline in revenue. They'll probably be in a bit of a slump until their quarter closes and people see some actual numbers to feel reassured that sales are still strong. It's likely to take a while for companies like Microsoft to pivot their AI to less power hungry models even if they do come to fruition.
Personally, I wouldn't go strong on Nvidia. But I don't personally invest in single stocks because I'm so conservative when it comes to financials.
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Comment on Can VLC or some other Windows program shuffle through a playlist without ever repeating a file, while also storing that state for future sessions? in ~tech
arch Apparently you can now (I edited my original comment to add this after your reply)Apparently you can now (I edited my original comment to add this after your reply)
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Comment on Can VLC or some other Windows program shuffle through a playlist without ever repeating a file, while also storing that state for future sessions? in ~tech
arch You want foobar2000. I believe shuffle mode does this by default. Edit: stupid me didn't read closely to see that you need video, not audio. But foobar2000 likely supports whatever video you need...You want foobar2000. I believe shuffle mode does this by default.
Edit: stupid me didn't read closely to see that you need video, not audio. But foobar2000 likely supports whatever video you need worst case through plugins
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Comment on If eyes emitted light, could they still see? in ~science
arch I started looking into it, and honestly camera shutter timing, flash length, and the speed of light are way more complicated than I can even begin to understand. The thought I had was that you...I started looking into it, and honestly camera shutter timing, flash length, and the speed of light are way more complicated than I can even begin to understand. The thought I had was that you need to capture the light bounced off your subject, but too bright of light at the bulb would risk washing out your exposure, so time the shutter imperceptibly after the flash. But after trying to research it I can't find any corroborating sources that this is actually what happens.
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Comment on How would you rate adulthood? in ~life
arch I don't know how much hearing anything from someone like me could possibly help, but the only thing I can think of to say that I think would help you is this. Try your best to take every single...I don't know how much hearing anything from someone like me could possibly help, but the only thing I can think of to say that I think would help you is this. Try your best to take every single step you can away from the political world, especially in regards to how it will effect your career choices. I know that it feels very stupid, because this administration is absolutely going to throw up roadblocks that you will have to respond to. Because fascism is going to make all of our lives more difficult, and depending on exactly who you are it might become very difficult. But if you are going to avoid pursuing grad school because of the policies that are being enacted, then you are choosing to cut yourself off from your passion, and honestly that is only going to make you depressed in the end. If you love teaching, but can't stand the bureaucracy of the public school system, then you need to find a way of teaching that either doesn't involve that system, or makes it bearable to you. Be it private tutor/lessons, private schooling, or something else entirely.
The first thing to do is to decide what you want to do in life. And only after you have made that decision start navigating the roadblocks that currently exist in front of you.
I guess that is the advice I would have actually wished I was given and lead through when I was younger. Because no amount of platitudes (youth is wasted on the young, follow your passion, etc) will help a kid who lacks the experiences to actually choose their paths through life. Yes, when I was young I had every single door open to me, just like very kid does. The only way to know what lies through those doors is to walk through them, and the moment you do you cut yourself off from so many others. But we have a tendency to look too far ahead, especially those of us with mental health challenges, and we assume certain paths are off limits, or are too hard, so we don't even try them.
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Comment on If eyes emitted light, could they still see? in ~science
arch Well, I believe camera flashes work by first emitting the flash, then a short (pretty much imperceptible to us) delay later taking the picture.It's not very different than cameras with built in flashes.
Well, I believe camera flashes work by first emitting the flash, then a short (pretty much imperceptible to us) delay later taking the picture.
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Comment on What is China’s DeepSeek and why is it freaking out the AI world? in ~tech
arch TSM is definitely an over reaction, it'll be back up very soon. Apple is their largest customer; they'd survive with a smaller drop than that even if NVIDIA went under.TSM is definitely an over reaction, it'll be back up very soon. Apple is their largest customer; they'd survive with a smaller drop than that even if NVIDIA went under.
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Comment on What is China’s DeepSeek and why is it freaking out the AI world? in ~tech
arch I'm going to be blunt in my reply: as a gamer I really hope so. Their pricing has been absurd because of this, and it was absurd before AI due to Bitcoin and mining. We will need these chips for...Time to short NVIDIA.
I'm going to be blunt in my reply: as a gamer I really hope so. Their pricing has been absurd because of this, and it was absurd before AI due to Bitcoin and mining. We will need these chips for the foreseeable future, there's no viable alternative in sight, but the last few years have seemed like an "AI Bubble" reminiscent of the dot-com boom of the 1990's.
Some days I feel like AI is exactly like giving a Magic 8 Ball to a 5 year old. They decide it can answer every single question for them for the rest of their lives.