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Leader praises his soldiers for turning ‘danger zone into a safe one’ during ceremony in Pyongyang welcoming them back from Ukraine warGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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More than 400 Harvard affiliates signed a petition to reinstate the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights in a withering rebuke of the University’s decision to dismiss her earlier this week.www.thecrimson.com
What are your favorite mountains for hiking in this region?
Tomorrow I finally have time to hike again and definitely get out of the fog! Do you have any tips for me in this region? Max 1000hmBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Anyone speak Lenovo laptop?
I have a Lenovo P50 laptop that’s been sitting in storage for forever. No idea what shape the battery is in, but it’s at least not bulging or anything.
No led power light on the back when I plug in the charger. Power button blinks green three times when you plug the charger in and when you hit the power button while the charger is plugged in.
Removing and reseating the battery does nothing. I don’t have another charger to try. Any idea what it’s trying to tell me?
Just the other day I was thinking how much the presence of POC are missed on this platform. And then I scroll the comments of a post talking about systemic oppression and I'm reminded why #Mastodon is 99% white.
How is it that so many of you are expert coders but haven't read a single book by an activist? How is it that you haven't accidentally come across even a quote to spark curiosity?
This is especially concerning for Americans. We're facing fascism and still at "I don't see color"
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If someone says it's your job as a person with privilege to dismantle systems of oppression, instead of panicking and getting defensive, you can do one or both things
1. You can just say "I don't know how to do that." Seriously. I think so much of these lame ass comments are because people panic and get defensive. And instead of just being honest, they try to intellectualize their way out of the anxiety.
2. Literally go google "Black activist authors" or "queer activist authors" and learn.
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I've been really weighing the pros and cons of just being on the #Fediverse and not corporate social media.
I like to write about tech and social justice. But I'm discovering it's probably easier to write about the dangers of big tech to a non-techie audience on BlueSky or Substack than it is to convince a Mastodonian that systemic oppression exists. The former also just far more delightful
The absence of POCs here is just so heavy sometimes. It makes me question what am I actually supporting?
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there are a few pockets of non-white folks on the smaller instances, but yeah - every time a black person with a substantial presence joins mastodon.social or one of the big open federation instances, they get harassed by all the channers and trolls, and very rightfully leave. the mastodon teams response to this has been...lackluster. but there's really little that can be done without sacrificing open federation
(that's not mentioning the cultural problems of white fragility and respectability policing that's rampant as well)
It's not just the channers and the trolls that are the problems. In fact on an instance with a good blocklist, they aren't even the primary problem.
It's really much more the "HOA racism" (including casual microaggressions systemic power imbalance like in homeowners associations) that's endemic on most large instances (and many smaller ones too) along with the cultural problems you talk about, the lack of real understanding of systemic oppression Jason mentioned in his first post.
@poisonous Latinsky is currently multiple feeds as well as a moderation service - blacksky.community/profile/ric… is the list of feeds, blacksky.community/profile/did… is the moderation service. You can access it with a Bluesky or Blacksky account
Over time they plan to do more as well. They talk about it as building a "digital barrio".
Latinsky Barrio by @richferro.com
A directory for the Latinsky feeds. Un directorio de feeds de Latinsky.Bluesky Social
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Pro tip: if you're going to debate me on the existence of systemic racism and how to tackle it, maybe don't throw a bunch of book quotes and sources at me.
It heavily implies that despite being well-read, you've gone out of your way *not* to read anything authored by a Black or brown person. And I can only think of one other well-read group who does that. 🙃
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This is why it's important to have diversity. It's the retaliation to calling out white supremacy. It's the subtle threats, the even subtler racially charged language.
Racism isn't just a guy in a white robe. It's the person with a gun who doesn't even know it's in their hand.
No one feels safe talking about racism in a room full of white people, even if they are self described progressives.
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A Virgin Australia Boeing 737 plane flies past storm clouds as it comes into land at sunset at Sydney airport on 14 August.
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A contemporary look at the pedestrian streets of our heart
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bsdinstall: Mount /dev and /packages after using the shell to partition disks
<github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src…> was a few days after FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. For <bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show…>.
I wonder, does it also help to think about a fix for <bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show…>?
290024 – FreeBSD Installer live system: pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed (files such as dconf, indexinfo, xmlcatmgr not found)
bsdinstall: Mount /dev and /packages after using the shell to partiti… · freebsd/freebsd-src@f63a8c0
…on disks Normally after partitions are created by the installer, the 'mount' script is used to mount the target disk partitions under /mnt. The tail end of this script also mounts a coup...GitHub
A bushfire destroys homes along Glenrock Parade in Koolewong on the NSW Central Coast on 6 December.
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Caught the sunrise and sunset while in town
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I sure as fuck hope Prometheus didn't bless you with this
but yeah. yeah I see this.
it's a repeat of 2008 but the bad actors have known what's going on this whole time and they're banking on it
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@nofunoverlord Closer to 2000 imo because it is tech, but yeah. The hype market should have crashed by now, but the money power is still waiting to cash out.
There's a chance the governments are smart enough to avoid this but HAHAHAHAHA we live in Canada.
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yes you're right. I was only an early teen in 2000 I don't really remember it. 2008 at least has a movie about it lolol
here's hoping Carney stays away from AI investments (not likely he's a douche). I have no hope for Alberta tho.
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@jarek Yep, and that's also how we get to your boss has AI and you don't.
Alternatively, in an ideal world, we see a mass democratization of much more efficient models. I'm not holding my breath though.
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@jarek I am not that deep in the space, but isnt the cost factor the relevant thing when comparing the big "foundation" models and the smaller models which can easily be self-hosted?
Someone (maybe ed zitron or doctorow?) suggested that when the bubble pops, the big models will be forgotten but the smaller models might survive and actually be used where there is a use case, with low(er) ecologic and economic cost
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sounds realistic
staaaaargaaate like an albatros around the neck
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I don't think anyone actually believes in them. There's already so much skepticism on this with the failure of the Rabbit and the Human AI pin that it's all a joke.
Laundry is far from a solved problem.
No, it'll be something simpler, like wearables again, or a break through in chip-level hardware. Something that generates and gathers vast amounts of human data in real life.
It'll feed back into surveillance tech for the military industrial complex.
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Yeah, but in a way, all of these things are already here. Nothing is new. It's simply the continuation of what's going to keep happening:
- Decreased value attributed to human labour.
- Consolidation of wealth and power.
- Profiting off public funds.
The whole game is hot potato, and the people left holding the bag are the public, the workers, and the least savvy investors. We're not even talking about profits anymore. The game is now growth and being able to sell something for perceived inflated value. What could be vs reality.
If you go back through the list and reframe every single item as a labour issue, it'll all make a lot more sense.
The only way to break the bullshit hype cycle is for us to redefine the meaning of "value", and to end the power that corporations and shareholders can exert on the public institutions that were always meant to serve the people.
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I think these are very believable predictions.
WRT costs of cloud services going up, big firms negotiate massive, multi-year deals with their cloud providers. So enterprises are likely to experience their own tech version of shrinkflation: their cloud spend doesn’t go as far, so they use less while paying about the same.
As those agreements age out, enterprises will look at their options. Cloud companies will compete on price when the purchase is 8 or 9 digits a year. This might keep prices low for the big biz and force the bulk of the price rises onto smaller businesses that can’t negotiate that way.
Who knows? That could lead to greater consolidation: enterprises buy a small company and the delta in IT OPEX is a meaningful part of the deal’s economics.
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@paco Mergers and acquisitions are rarely good for the worker. Cost consolidation sounds great and all, but that usually just means shoehorning the larger company's processes and workflows into something with a completely different context. Now you have to do your old job, deal with fundamental changes in that context, AND expand the scope to deal with the other company.
Meanwhile, there was no raise. It's harder to negotiate for a better salary now at a larger corporation.
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Interesting, you suspect wearables are next... Could be!
There certainly already has been an attempt to hype quantum but it didn't seem to take off. Maybe it will in the future.
Personally I just wish that my industry would stop with this whole hype dynamic! That they'd stop running around in circles insisting its a straight line! But I don't see that happening.
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@alcinnz I believe that wearables are next because surveillance is the next big thing, but that's not a publicly palatable thing to advertise.
Also, we've made so much progress in the materials science in the past few decades. It's a little surprising we haven't seen more of it in literally everything.
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It's not as good as the premier models but it's 80%
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Most of their investor statements have them losing 40B/QTR until 2027.
Cory Doctorow correctly points out that its much more about data center consolidation and rentier chokepoints than any of the cloud/LLM products.
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@dnavinci If this becomes the reason for how western megacorps start contracting with Chinese companies... 🙃
$1000-$2000 is on par with how much extra a company would spend on each dev for hardware. But also they could host the whole thing on their own servers. Costs are negligible here for corporations.
I'd like to see how much the AI wrapper companies will start investing in making all this work with deepseek. They probably won't though until the crashes are completely transparent.