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I've never really followed X (nor Twitter), Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.

  • TIL that eating dirt was common in the U.S. South until the 80s. People ate a handful a day, often seasoned with vinegar and salt.

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  • Can those survive the baking process?

  • "Angel"

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  • We have to be a bit more careful in the US

  • Bitcoin bois b like

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  • You think Bitcoin was created specifically for crime?

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  • Tbf, "real" money is also used for those things.

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  • Your first sentence is correct, but the second one seems like an inaccurate assumption. They're specifically into Bitcoin over there, not other cryptocurrencies, and not because of a buzzword.

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  • 😆 well... To be fair to them[^1], I don't think they're quite like that.

    I don't think of them as stereotypical "crypto bros." They're a little different. They seem to specifically love Bitcoin and its original philosophies[^2] from the early days, before other cryptocurrencies appeared. IIRC (I went down a bit of a rabbit hole on this a while back, but have forgotten a lot), a few of them were very early Bitcoin collaborators/developers, and some even collaborated with Satoshi Nakamoto.

    [^1]: I don't want to paint a wrong or "bad" picture of them because they really seem like nice people. The overall culture there seems more positive than any other social media platform that I've seen.

    [^2]: I'm no expert on the original Bitcoin motives, but as far as I can tell, they still think of Bitcoin as a currency, not a commodity or speculative asset like most Bitcoin holders/traders use it today.

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  • Oh yeah, it's impossible to browse those Nostr platforms without seeing a LOT of stuff about Bitcoin. They're obsessed with it over there.

    They mostly seem like decent people though. It's a more positive culture than Lemmy, but lots of Bitcoin noise to scroll through. It's unfortunate, because Nostr seems like cool tech

  • I still have a bunch of them

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  • 🤔 is it considered piracy if you're downloading a copy of something you already own?

  • Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

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  • Fun fact: Automobiles and roads have existed for much longer than GPS navigation. Maps were very common and not "massive".

    If you were taking a road trip, you might bring a larger map (known as an "atlas"), but those were more like books (vs. local maps, which were just a folded piece of paper).

    Neither were massive. Local/regional maps fit easily in pretty much any compartment or pocket in the car. Atlases wouldn't fit in quite as many places, but they were still manageable.

  • Removing the Modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 Hybrid

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  • Username checks out

  • Gold printer go brrr

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  • I suppose its market value might depend on which organization(s) retrieves/owns it. De Beers controlled and artificially inflated the market value of diamonds for like a century. IIRC they still own almost half of the global diamond supply today.

  • Netflix Plans to Bring Ads to Even More Parts of Its Service

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  • ...This made me realize how lazy I've become around movies. I don't like the effort involved in going to a place to physically borrow an object, then having to remember to repeat that later to return it.

    Renting movies was a very normal part of my life in the past. I'm not proud of this laziness. I'm fine with going to movie theaters, so it doesn't make much sense.

  • People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants In Their Area Than AI Data Centers

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  • There are many busy data centers in the southern US states (and other places within a similar proximity to the equator) where community heating would be massively unwelcome for most of the year.

    It's not a bad idea for cold climate areas that might benefit more from it though. Much better than letting it go to waste while paying extra for heat.

  • Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It's Inexorably Driving It Out of Business

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  • It's funny to read about LLMs running businesses. IIRC, Anthropic put one of their LLMs in charge of a vending machine and it kept trying to scam people to increase profits 😆

    Not a surprise that Gemini is running it into the ground though. Every time I try Gemini, it reminds me about how much dumber LLMs used to be

  • I didn't realize it was so bad

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  • 🤔 I wonder if/when threads like these ever get trimmed out of datasets. Like, is your Bristol 7 now permanent AI knowledge?

  • I didn't realize it was so bad

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  • That's a hyperparameter that can be adjusted for consistency

  • Spooooookyyyyy Scaaaaaaaarrryyyy

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  • It has always blown my mind how some people can grow up having almost no knowledge of basic tools.

  • Server vs miniPC dilemma for homelab

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  • I used a mini PC (from Minisforum) for my home server for a while. It worked great— until it didn't. It just suddenly shut off forever without any warning signs or anything. No signs of life. I confirmed that the power supply and memory were fine. The only option is to find a replacement motherboard (and CPU/GPU since it's an APU soldered onto the motherboard).

    I ended up just building a PC to replace it. I don't recommend a mini PC for this purpose.

  • Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway

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  • I hope this isn't a manifesto 😬