Jernej Simončič �

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@Viss @ridge VRAM? 16 MB RAM was '95 era, in '99 when I bought a Celeron 400 I went with 128 MB (and upgraded that to 256 MB quite quickly).
@0xabad1dea No, no, you don't understand! It's AI, it should learn on its own how to figure out the timezones!
fn main() {
let i = 5;
println!("{}", i-- --i)
}

This will output 10 because it's decrementing -5 from 5, in other words, 5 - (-5) → 5+5

if anyone wants to laugh at AI, a friend of mine googled "new york time" and got an "AI summary" claiming 7:14 pm (wildly wrong, it was about 2 pm) and then 40 minutes later I tried and also got 7:14 pm

I asked the question : Do you want a laptop with Copilot+?

1% said yes.
96% said (hell) no.
3% were not sure.

This is a great example of something being pushed that most really do not want.

Big Tech is very focused on winning the AI war. Problem is, that in their eagerness to do that, they focus just on what they want you to do, instead of what you want to do.

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Microsoft #Computer #Spyware #AI #Copilot #Technology #Vivaldi @Vivaldi #BigTech

For the past two years on Techdirt we've referred to X as ExTwitter, which got across the point of what it was. But I'm now calling it X. Because Twitter is well and fully dead. X is purely a personal propaganda platform of Elon Musk that has nothing to do with what Twitter once was.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l4edfel22exejp7mewt6f3ky/post/3ltwwwhypgb2s

The UK Environment Agency has some tips for the public to help conserve water, including

> Deleting old emails to reduce pressure on data centre servers

I kid you not.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/england-faces-5-billion-litre-public-water-shortage-by-2055-without-urgent-action

England faces 5 billion litre public water shortage by 2055 without urgent action

England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 – and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.

GOV.UK
@erincandescent @nina_kali_nina Yeah, there was a spec, but I don't think anything ever implemented it.
@nina_kali_nina Is this an actual HDMI-alt mode over USB-C, or something proprietary? (I was under the impression that nothing ever implemented HDMI-alt, which is why it was dropped from USB-C spec).

"USA is the hottest country in the world"

Nice to see Republicans acknowledge climate change

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@pezmico Exactly. We do not have a population problem, we have a capitalism problem. Mao was right. The wealthy would rather kill everyone than let go of their wealth. We fight their greed, or they kill everyone. It's that simple.

@anolandria @pezmico I'm not sure about this. I don't see over-consumption and over-population as mutually exclusive here. They can both be problems for the planet, even if one (over-consumption by wealthy countries) is currently the bigger impact.

8.2 billion is *a lot* of people and it's hard to imagine this many of us living comfortably and safely on our one planet for even hundreds of years, without massive social, economic, and technological changes.

I'm in New Zealand and 8.2 billion people living even like a low income New Zealander would very quickly wreck the world. Yet, as a country NZ is never going to give away most of its wealth to poorer countries.

Thinking longer term will need us to find a better balance between per-person consumption and population size, one that fits within what the planet can sustainably provide for us.

(Sorry for the long response. I have no idea how we get to there from the mess we're in now.)

@joncounts @anolandria @pezmico "It's hard to imagine" isn't an argument, friend.

@joncounts

This planet produces food enough for 12 billion people, but capitalists profit from enforced scarcity. E.g. before grain gets to a bakery, it has been traded 100x for profits of the top 10%. You can exercise that imagination of yours and unlearn capitalist thinking.

@anolandria @pezmico