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cecilkorik

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  • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

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  • What's that sound? It sounds like fizzing... all these bubbles keep popping... wait, is the foam getting smaller or is it just me?

  • California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists

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  • Us digital hippies just believe in free data and world peace, man.

  • Google hates you

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  • Rest assured, the feeling is deeply mutual.

  • "China is a superpower, but we know nothing about them. Can you name 3 alive chinese people right now ?" Question leaves guests embarassed on french television

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  • If you really want to piss them off, name politicians from Taiwan. They tell us it is part of China after all. (/s)

  • Israel to Cut Ties With U.N. Chief Over Its Inclusion on Sexual Violence Blacklist - The New York Times

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  • And nothing of value was lost. Good riddance. Genocidal apartheid terrorists don't belong in the U.N anyway.

  • Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?

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  • Technically almost everything is educational in some way, if you're willing to engage with it in the right way. Like you said, period dramas and historical dramas are often a great way of learning about (some aspects of) history. The problem is you need to be able to sort out the fictional elements from the non-fictional elements and without at least a little bit of background that becomes challenging. Some methods that might be useful is cross-referencing by watching multiple shows about the same topic from different sources. If both shows include the same element, there's a good chance it's based on some real historical evidence. But you also have to understand that evidence is not proof, and there's a lot of disagreement in science and understanding, and that's good and natural. Not everything is going to match up exactly. You have to do your own research and actually study real sources and do your own experiments. This is why edutainment starts to become of limited value.

    The problem with growing up is that you're getting to a higher level of education and understanding, and that comes with caveats. No longer can you just rely on simplistic expositions of "this is absolutely how it works" and you start to get into a lot of "seems" and "maybes". There's a lot of stuff we just don't know with absolute confidence and as we have learned from the historical documentary Star Wars, only a Sith deals in absolutes.

    Most things at the adult level are not explicitly going to teach you things (because they effectively can't) as much as they are going to motivate you to research further, experiment yourself, or become interested in things you might not otherwise find interesting.

    With that said, there is tons of educational and entertaining content out there. Sometimes stuff that seems stupid is actually very educational. Sometimes stuff that seems boring and educational can be entertaining as hell. If you want a bunch of Youtube channels to help point your recommendation algorithm in the right direction, try some of these channels (in no particular order or topic consistency):

    • Hydraulic Press Channel
    • Technology Connections / Technology Connextras
    • Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
    • styropyro
    • NileRed / NileBlue
    • Xyla Foxlin
    • Chris Spargo
    • Wilson Forest Lands
    • James Condon
    • FarmCraft101
    • Tom Scott

    Honorable mention for bugfishhhh's insane and comedic hour-long video on the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England which came out of nowhere but I'm here for it.

  • Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They're Fired Because of AI

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  • Given that AIs are demonstratably incapable of successfully operating a vending machine for more than about a week, sounds like a great time to start a competitor.

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    Do people really "need" friends?

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  • A romantic partner is ideally also a friend. They can often handle both, but they're just one friend and that's putting a lot of weight on their shoulders. And things in life change. What happens if your romantic partner gets seriously ill and you can't confide in them anymore? What if the romantic partner is the person you're having issues with and you need an outside point of view? Not everything is so minimalist in real life. Good luck trying to keep it minimalist like you're proposing, but life often has other ideas.

  • Our AI just got even better (Ecosia switched to Mistral)

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  • Sustainable technological societies do NOT use more and more electricity, until such time as they have ensured that the externalized environmental costs of the energy providing that electricity have been adequately addressed. Posing our mostly fossil-fuelled "technological society" as if it is the only available choice besides the stone age is ignorant at best and disingenuous at worst.

  • Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’

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  • Maybe give people the UBI before the jobs go away and they become homeless? Just a thought.

  • Our AI just got even better (Ecosia switched to Mistral)

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  • I don't know if I'd say "many", but the water usage is a red herring anyway. More importantly, data centers invariably use a lot of power and they are explicitly the reason we are currently reactivating mothballed nuclear and coal power plants, the reason we are not shutting down natural gas plants, in fact many of them are running temporarily, regularly or even full-time on their own small-scale natural gas turbines.

    And they are doing this to generate mass quantities of shitty text and images, and to train new models to do the same, things that provide little to no actual value to humanity.

    AI datacenters are an environmental catastrophe, whether they use any water or not.

  • Google I/O 2026 And Its Consequences

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  • Yeah like most people probably don't remember the web before Google, but there was altavista. You know what happened to altavista? It became overrun by SEO bullshit and people stopped using them literally overnight because Google did a better job. If Google starts doing a shit job, you know what's going to happen? People will stop using them literally overnight as soon as anyone else starts doing a better job.

    Yes, web search is a "hard" problem, but a lot of it is a hard problem because there's an insane amount of corporate SEO slop out there, and now there's a lot of AI slop out there too. The first person to solve this problem is going to completely destroy Google. Is it an unsolvable problem? I don't think so.

    At its core it's a federation problem. Websites want to be discovered. People want to discover websites. But bad people also want to abuse the discovery process to show their own spam that people don't want to discover. The magic that Google brought to the table was PageRank, which allowed them to determine the authenticity of the spam by the number of backlinks that went from other real sites TO that site. This is essentially just "voting", same as we do here. Of course immediately people tried to abuse it by generating their own massive backlink farms but those are pretty obvious and easy to taint as bad actors and scrub out their rankings or remove them completely. If it's not clear yet how similar this is to the exact sort of trustworthiness problems the fediverse is also dealing with with, just wait. People will find ways to solve this.

    The arms race against shitty content will never stop -- but the point is, if Google is no longer participating in the war against shitty content and is now switching sides to become a producer of shitty content, they're not going to succeed. People don't want that shit, and people will instantly vote with their feet the moment any very inevitable alternative appears.

  • Nextcloud or Seafile alternatives?

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  • I am questionning using it only for myself and use something else to share with family

    I'm confused, you don't want your family to be able to know each other's email addresses? That seems like a bit... extreme level of profile paranoia.

    I have my family on my Nextcloud and I can guarantee 90% of them don't even know where their own user profile is nevermind anybody else's. Maybe you have a different family than mine.

  • What should my celebratory first game be?

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  • Yeah I have a love/hate relationship with Paradox sometimes. I love their games until I hate them, then I love them again. The DLC and their pricing is always a challenge. It's confusing.

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  • It's not "smart" it's a "convincing text generator". It's very good at being convincing, like making you think it is smart. But it doesn't know anything, it doesn't understand anything, it is a parrot repeating what other people on the internet have said in similar situations.

  • What should my celebratory first game be?

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  • Definitely Rimworld, it will tax the hell out of that 3060 /s

    In all seriousness though, congrats, and those are all great games and I love all of them, you seem to have similar interests to me. I can't really recommend any particular one over another. That said, when I get a new computer my first choice for a new game is typically something that is a fun, lighthearted, colourful visual feast that I can immerse myself in. In the past for me that has been something like Subnautica, ARK Survival Evolved, but of course this changes over time. Given that Subnautica 2 Early Access just released and I've already worked my way through it, I would consider recommending that. Or if you're not into Early Access in general or Subnautica in particular, perhaps something like Satisfactory might also properly start to show off your new hardware. Star Rupture is another interesting option. If you don't really want to get into first person stuff and stick to the grand strategy side, Stellaris is another fun one although a lot of the DLC is pretty crap lately. And I'm always a sucker for Age of Wonders series, with 4 being the most recent entry.

  • Flashforge closes ecosystem & puts AI ads into printing software 🤦

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  • The poor man is just trying to keep up with all the shitty companies doing shitty things all the time, he's only got one lifetime and he needs to fit a lot in. It's like that scene in Spaceballs where President Skroob is running everywhere, "The ship is too big! If I walk, the movie would be over!"

  • (UPDATE: a different issue??) What are these burn marks on my failed 3D print?

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  • It's typically called a raft or a brim depending on whether it's underneath the whole print or just around the edges.

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    Nvidia director talks 100-hour limit for GeForce Now, says "we're thinking about it" to unlocked tier proposal

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  • But you also have to verify your identity before you can drink a verification can, otherwise children could be drinking too much sugar.