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- Comment on THE HECK? Documents show FEMA official ordered workers to ignore houses with Trump signs 1 week ago:
If true, sounds kinda personal and will prolly result in repercussions.
But the fact so many MAGA idiots were acting violent towards FEMA operatives prolly is enough to justify it. Can’t blame em, if a group of people are actively fighting against your help then it’s better to not waste time/energy/safety on em.
I heard shit about MAGA idiots pulling out guns on FEMA folks, that’s fucked up lol
- Comment on static website generator 1 month ago:
I use Hugo, it’s not super complicated.
You basically just define templates in pseudo html for common content (header, nav panel, footer, etc), and then you wrote your articles in markdown and Hugo combines the two and outputs actual html files.
You also have a content folder for js, css, and images which get output as is.
That’s about all there is to it, it’s a pretty minimalist static site generator.
Hosting wise you can just put it on github pages for free.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
Well yeah, I’d hope so, that’s the entire point.
Catcha’s data collection always was with the intent for training ai on these skills. That’s “the point” of them.
It’s reasonable to expect that the older version of captchas can now be beaten by modern ai, because they’re often literally trained on that exact data to beat it.
Captcha effectively is free to use on websites as a tool because the data collection is the “payment”, they then license that data out to people like OpenAI to train with for stuff like image recognition.
It’s why ai is progressing so fast, captchas are one of humanity’s long term collected data silos that are very full now.
We are going to have to keep progressing the complexity of catches as it will be the only way to catch modern AIs, and in turn it will collect more data to improve it.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
Not quite.
It’s mostly wisdom of the crowd, as it always has been.
As long as you mostly click the same squares most other people click, you pass.
You often at random get 2-3 images because 2 of them are actual checks, but the third is a new image that you auto pass and they’re using it to gather data on what the average clicks are on it.
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 2 months ago:
“Move Fast and Break Things” is Zuckerberg/Facebook motto, not Musk, just to note.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 2 months ago:
Disinformation is not the same as Misinformation mate.
It’s critical to know the difference.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 2 months ago:
Who determines what is disinformation?
A jury, for a given case
Who determines that the information is endangering lives?
A jury, for a given case
If Trump wins the election do you want him determining these things?
I wouldn’t put it past him to try and do that, knowing him.
But that’s not how laws work. Determining if a given case is or is not disinformation would be up to a jury to deliberate, based on facts presented by the lawyers.
As that’s how the justice system works. Or us supposed to at least.
And yes, proving it is disinformation is super hard, so the prosecutor must have a pretty iron tight case. You’d likely need witnesses that can attest to the defendant outright admitting to the act, or their behaviors that signal intent, or evidence on their devices, etc.
This is exactly how Libel and Slander / Defamation cases work right now, you have to prove the defendant knew they were lying and or making a story up intentionally which is incredibly hard, cuz the dependant can just go “I really thought that was the truth!”
For example in the Heard v Depp case, they had to pull evidence of her doctoring photos and using makeup to really sell the case and win the jury over.
So it’s a huge gap to cross…
But…
If you do cross it, I believe the penalty for it should be pretty severe. Especially if the defendant was:
- Endangering people’s lives with bad advice And/Or
- Posing as an expert without actually being one
IE those people that dress up like a doctor or nurse or etc and then sell extremely bullshit stuff on social media. That should straight up result in some prison time if they gave out genuinely harmful disinformation.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 2 months ago:
When they lead to harm, they do indeed end.
People often forget the right to free speech isn’t prioritized over other human rights in pretty kych every first world country.
Otherwise stuff like Libel and Slander wouldn’t make sense legally. As well as hate speech laws.
Your right to free speech comes after peoples rights to safety from harm, and how that’s worded varies country by country, but feel free to Google up on it for your specific case.
It’s why stuff like advertising laws, misinformation and disinformation laws, etc can work too.
Free speech isn’t right #1, which some people just can’t seem to wrap their head around I guess. This isn’t even new, it’s been like that for ages.
How do you think snake oil salesmen could be prosecuted if they were allowed to just say whatever they want?
Why do you think it’s possible to have legal repercussions for threatening to shoot up a school, or bomb a plane?
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 2 months ago:
I believe disinformation (not misinformation) that endangered lives should be illegal, yes.
If someone posts a video that purposefully tells people to do something that endangers lives and makes it look good/safe, that person should face penalties of fines or jail time functional of how dangerous their recommendation was.
As for the laptop, I’m not dismissing anything.
It’s 100% an entirely unrelated anecdote that was mentioned as a totally seperate and discrete event in the letter, that has nothing to do with the headline.
The article used vague wording to try and jumble the two seperate events together and make it sound like they were one event that occurred, which us extremely shitty journalism.
Stop falling for such obvious bullshit and go read the original source.
I have no issue with governments cracking down on disinformation. It’s a huge problem and should carry extremely heavy penalties if it causes harm.
- Comment on In Stunning Letter To Congress, Zuckerberg Admits Biden-Harris Pressured Facebook To Censor Content 2 months ago:
The content in question?
COVID19 disinformation that was getting people killed.
The hunter Biden laptop thing is a secondary tied in unrelated cliff note that has nothing to do with the heading.
But “government pressures social media platform to crack down on COVID19 disinformation spreading” doesn’t have that catchy ring to it to get those clicks now does it.
- Comment on In your opinion what's the best way to do and restore full backups of a Linux server? 2 months ago:
Dunno why ppl are down voting you, this us 100% the way.
Architecture as code is amazing, being able to completely wipe your server, re-install fresh, and turn it on and it goes right back to how it was 8s awesome.
GitOps version controlled architecture is easy to maintain, easy to rollback, and easy to modify.
I use k8s for my entire homelab, it has some initial learning curve but once you “get it” and have working configs on github, it becomes so trivial to add more stuff to it, scale it up, etc.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
Meh, I never used the app, I just set the temp on it when I turned it on since it’s, you know, right there in my hands…
I dont think I even have the app on my phone
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 2 months ago:
Only if you vacuum seal, you dont have to.
You can use re-useable silicone bags
- Comment on Behind Tim Walz's 'Hunter' Facade Is A Plan To Take Your Guns 3 months ago:
only 17 percent solely involve rifles of any variety.
Imagine having enough shootings per year in your country you can discuss the percents of what guns are used for your weekly massacres so casually.
Only in the US.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
They aren’t getting rid of chromecast, the title is clickbait.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
There are 2 CCwGTV models, only 1 of then is being discontinued.
The other one sounds like it’ll keep being sold.
But also you can always just buy a chromecast, just cuz they aren’t being actively produced doesn’t mean you can’t find em online
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
I have no idea what people are fucking up tbh.
It’s 2 button clicks to cast stuff, I just went and sanity checked.
The internet is full of disinformation and idiots though so I usually just assume people are the issue, when I have the same hardware and zero issues.
I don’t think chromecasts have even gotten any kind of major change updates in ages so it’s bizarre for it to change behavior.
I’m gonna just keep going with “people are dumb” until someone posts some concrete example (IE an actual video) of wtf their issue is.
The chromecast is designed so simply though that I can’t imagine wtf people are fucking up.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
I’ll just have to respectfully disagree in experience.
I have multiple gens of chromecasts and haven’t seen any degradation in performance. They work pretty much the same.
I have no idea wtf is going on with your units.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
I wrote it up elsewhere, but I don’t mind the price point.
The built in ethernet port covers a lot of that.
A solid quality ethernet dongle is gonna be $25, so now that’s $75 for the 4k CCwGTV + ethernet.
So you’re paying $25 extra for the better form factor (2 chained dongles look so bad), the extra ram, better processor, etc
For some folks that might not matter, but I use Steam Link on my CCwGTV and those specs will likely make a tangible boost in gaming performance for quality, frame rate, latency, input lag, etc.
So in my demographic of people gaming with em, I 100% expect it’ll be a popular upgrade.
The ethernet part is pretty big, overall. Don’t overbook that.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
The built in ethernet cable seems almost worth it.
It’s around $15 to $20 to add on a usb c ethernet dingle to the existing CCwGTV dongle if you want high speed connection to it (which you prolly do if you wanna stream 4k or lower latency game with Steam Link )
Better quality dongles are closer to $25 if you dint want it to wrap out.
So, assuming the onboard ethernet is comparable to a higher end dongle, you’d be looking at closer to $75 to get the same experience with the Older CCwGTV model.
Add in the higher specs and the fact that chaining 2 dongles together looks ugly as fuck and easier to fail, and the +$25 is not actually too horrible of extra price.
$100 for a better form factor (the dongle does look bad), better specs, built in ethernet, it’s not terrible ngl.
I game with Steam Link all the time on my CCwGTV so I 100% am gonna spend the money on better specs so I feel like I’m taking better advantage of my 4060ti I’m Steam linking to.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
I own multiple gens of Chromecasts from gen 1 to to CCwGTV
I have no idea wtf you are talking about.
I click cast, I click the device I’m casting to, it works, never had this issue on any of my devices abd all of them are set to auto update and afaik running latest versions.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
That’s literally what a chromecast is.
I have multiple generations of them, and casting a YouTube video is 2 clicks.
- Cast button
- Pick what device to cast to.
Done.
- Comment on Google kills Chromecast, replaces it with Apple TV and Roku Ultra competitor 3 months ago:
Why is this being framed this way.
Rebranding the next gen of your product isn’t “killing” it, people are so fucking clickbaitable.
It’s the same product, just next gen with better specs abd they’re going with a new simpler brand name than “Chromecast with Google TV” (yes that’s the actual product name before) and instead the next gen is named “Google TV Streamer”
It’s the exact same thing, and all existing hardware will keep working.
Chromecasts are standalone and effectively just running a modified version of Android. They can’t really be “killed” as they work over local network. Theoretically any chromecast will last forever as it’s functionality is based off a specified open source protocol, so as long as you have a device that can output it (cast), you can cast to your chromecast.
So it’s impossible to “kill”. I have a gen 1 chromecast that still 100% works fine today.
Newer
Chromecastsahem Google TVs just have more features, like apps you can install and sideload.People are dumb for falling for this clickbait title.
- Comment on In this house we share the bananas 6 months ago:
Unfortunately this is false. They’ve tested this and monkeys establish captilasm extremely fast when they come to understand currency as a concept.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503550
They would exchange the currency, steal it, gamble with it, purchase with it, and even do some prostitution for it.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 7 months ago:
This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.
Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.
Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.
I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.
IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time…
I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 7 months ago:
Bruh did you read the article at all? Nothing you talked about has anything to do with what this AI is for.
- Comment on To failures in (basically) the exact same location eh? Correlation? I (hope) not! 7 months ago:
Sometimes its a physical issue in your setup.
Double check your cable, double check the carriage, and double check the rails, look for potential obstructions.
I had one print that kept failing in the exact same place each time, couldn’t figure it out, then I watched it live and the dang ribbon itself was physically catching on a specific part of the geometry mid print and then the print would twist a bit, lol.
Something to consider, I’d recommend visually watching that specific layer when it’s coming up to see if you see something happen.
- Comment on We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children 7 months ago:
I find it weird how much people give a shit about what consenting adults do for pleasure in the comfort of their own homes, and to their own bodies.
If they are an adult, it’s their body and their choice.
And if their choice is to cosplay as a child and bang an older person because that’s what gets their rocks off, I really don’t care.
It’s honestly not even the most outlandish of fetishes I’ve seen. We got people out there that orgasm from popping balloons, eating shit, and getting kicked in the crotch.
- Comment on We are going to have to reevaluate our moralities when people in the future can look like children while not actually being children 7 months ago:
This is already to some degree an existing dilemma. There are already individuals out there who, due to genetic lottery, happen to have an adult body that through some efforts of clothing, makeup, hairstyle, etc, can very much present themselves as substantially younger looking than their actual age.
Lord knows certain popular niches in the porn industry make this apparant… >_>;
And from what I have heard on social media, sometimes these individuals couple up with another person who… doesnt look substantially younger.
And often, these couples face quite a bit of controversy and social stigma, despite everything they are doing and into being 100% legal and, from am objective standpoint, ethically fine (they are two consenting adults after all)
But I agree that future tech with things like gene editing and whatnot this dilemma will certainly become substantially more pronounced and I think it will likely be yet another group being attacked for daring to live their lives.
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 7 months ago:
Others have covered the fact it’s because of air pressure but haven’t fully answered why that is the way it is.
It’s simple really.
The force of gravity is also at play. As you go higher up, gravity gets weaker as you get farther from the earth’s centre.
And it is that gravitational force that increases the air’s density, same reason why if you keep going.g down in the water, the water gets denser.
For the heat to move around you need to be in a sort of goldilocks zone of density.
It needs to be dense enough that the fluid molecules can move around and spread the convention energy around… but not so dense they can’t move much either.
Furthermore there’s actually a couple different layers of our atmosphere.
First at our level is the troposphere, where heat is absorbed into the ground itself and radiation back out as well as the perpetual heat from the earth’s core, and reflected off the ground too (visible light).
The troposphere is warm and gets colder as you get farther away from the earth’s surface, naturally. That heat is absorbed by the air itself so, as you get farther away it gets colder as it has more air to travel through.
Up higher is the Stratosphere, where it’s ice cold and the air this out.
However we get a sudden uptick in temp as we go even higher into what is called the Stratopause, ack to briefly warm temperatures between the Stratosphere and the Mesosohere. Why? How?
Simple, this is the little sweet spot Ozone molecules hang out, forming a protective convenient bubble around the earth. Ozone absorbs Ultraviolet light from the sun and turns out that stuff is HOT, so there’s a band of a hot zone right above and below the Ozone layer. Think of it as a toasty little bubble around us.
Above is the mesosphere which cools off again and gets back to being really frosty quickly.
Then we hot the mesosphere, which is effectively the point when the atmosphere is so thin it stops protecting and is the “outside” of our protective blanket.
You can imagine this like earth being wrapped in a blanket, and the mesosphere is everything outside the blanket. Without any protection you are subject to the unbridled radiation of the sun which means you go back to being really toasty, as you get a bot higher you are effectively in space now and will soon enough hit Temps that just cook you alive in a minute or two. Really bad sunburn zone.
So to answer the question overall:
Hot air rises… but only when there is air to rise.
Top of the mountains just don’t have enough air anymore for it to really rise much more. It still dies but the hot air rising effect just gets weaker and weaker as the air gets thinner due to less gravity.