DrunkenPirate
@DrunkenPirate@feddit.org
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 days ago:
I love it.
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 2 days ago:
Just bought one two months ago and it’s pretty easy. Technical progress is fast and it’s cheap.
You best buy a combi: a battery including a microinverter. This allows you to feed in up to 2000W or 4 PV panels. However, here in Germany you can only feed 800W max into your house grid. All above will stored in the battery in given back slowly after sundown.
Technical setup: I have three current lines in my house (don’t know how in US it looks) and the system feeds power into just one of it - the one where the plug is plugged. I have a smart meter that tells me if this very current line has demand (oven, fridge,…) and I can open, adjust or close the power feed. This way I feed ZERO power into the grid out of my home as the system adjust the power amount to what I need in this moment.
I bought mine with 2 panels, 900W, 1,8kWh battery for 700€. Payback under 2 years.
- Comment on AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. 1 week ago:
That’s where a vicious cycle can form: increased capability leads to increased output, which leads to higher expectations, which then pressures further expansion
Same as The Digitalization promised. Instead of reducing work we receive and send even more emails, chats, and notifications.
- Comment on Assuming an average value of $500k per-house, a millionaire could own two houses and a billionaire could own the entire neighborhood 1 week ago:
I just heard a nice comparision:
- 1 USD equals 1 second
- 1 Million USD is 12 days
- 1 Billion USD is 32 years
If a standard US citizen owns 500.000 in average - this is 6 days vs. Larry Page (120 B) with 3,840 years
- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 2 weeks ago:
That’s funny I do as well. Unfortunately, I flush my alligator in my toilet down into the harbor I live. Now, I bought a green parot. My three sisters love it.
- Comment on The Age Verification Trap... Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection 2 weeks ago:
And it might be a good decision in the dawn of the bot-internet. It forces even bots to be traceable to some real person or getting no access to the mentioned platforms. May be even bot-free platforms
- Comment on Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice 3 weeks ago:
Sure. However, the outcome of the tool LLM always looks very likely. And if you aren‘t a subject matter expert the likely expected result looks very right. That‘s the difference - hard to spot the wrong things (even for experts)
- Comment on Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning 4 weeks ago:
That would be a good laugh if a CFO bases his/her decision on a LLM recommendation.
I rather see this threat in standard consumer decisions such as my mum playing around with AI in two years and poisining her LLM memory.
May be I should start first and set the right memory in her LLM before the marketing shit flows in. Something like „eat less meat“ or such…
- Comment on In Austria, you can go from Unterfucking to Oberfucking, stop by Fucking (now Fugging), and then spend the rest of your trip doing Hochecks. 4 weeks ago:
And if you think about how the fck they live in such a underfucked placed - take a look here maps.app.goo.gl/Zk4pHQMXMp2La2id8
- Comment on People don't really know their own motivation for their actions 5 weeks ago:
And still we can influence the borders of our thinking. „Willenskraft“ or the power of will is something that only humans have.
You are not the hostage of your genes and your environment.
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 2 months ago:
That’s were I started to get a big friends base in my neighborhood. Visit friends, play some games together, and copy floppy disks.
I loved those starter pics and animations of the hacker groups.
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 2 months ago:
They simply asked ChatGPT to create a company strategy for 2025
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 2 months ago:
You might be interested in Kondratiev Cycle‘s. Those cycles are running 30-50 years. We are in the end phase of the IT cycle and begin of a new one. I assume the new is about regenerative energy and material production.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 2 months ago:
One of my most memorable moments were at Urumqi 2006. A town in China were me as a Westener felt absolutely alien. Street and shop signs were in Chinese letters, Russian letters and Islamic letters. No chance to get an idea.
And over there my Visa debit card stopped working at the ATM‘s. I quickly ran out of money. And my visa needed an extension. And I needed money to get it and my passport back. And I had just a single box of salty crackers left. But I got out of the muddle ;)
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 2 months ago:
And everyone is doing selfies and streaming the landscape instead of watching itself. It‘s like being in a country just for the audience.
That was already visible with digital pocket cameras around late 90ies. Cost of photgraphy went to zero.
- Comment on The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme 3 months ago:
Good reading. Besides Nvidia and the AI money bubble, the link to Bitcoin is interesting. Read so many other articles about financial acrobatics with Bitcoin and how it collapses now, I‘m waiting to see it falling down to 50k.
- Comment on AI as an insntrument of class warfare 3 months ago:
Not class warfare but political/ ideology warfare is already out there.
- Comment on I spent 18 months training generative AI – here’s what I learned 4 months ago:
Hail the new emperors - the big AI companies.
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 4 months ago:
Congrats.
- Comment on i enjoy using drugs and that will never change 4 months ago:
Sorry to say but there‘s a hiccup in your thinking: How can you know you would miss it, if you don’t know it?
I don’t know of I‘d miss skydiving, if I miss diving, if I miss flying or even racing. Because I never did it. Still I don’t miss it.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 4 months ago:
Im happy with it. Better than 中国 or .مصر No idea how to read nor how to speak it out.
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 5 months ago:
Hete is the book about the entire story. Well written by a journalist and a scientist. This Sky Disc rewrote many assumptions of the bronze age in Europa.
E.g. Still they don’t know how they could figure out the stars as it is too cloudy in Europe for those observations. They assume a very ancient trade connection to the Middle East where those star images where known already. And some of the gold for the star decorations where from England and Turkey (if I remember correctly) Worth a read :)
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 5 months ago:
Do you know the Nebra Sky Disk? This one has a nice science trail. The book about it is awesome. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc
https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/effa0e78-5e3f-4109-a522-fdacfc7205f6.jpeg
- Comment on karma is the original gamefication 5 months ago:
As I‘ve companied some of my relatives already in their last weeks and days, I can say it’s different.
Karma comed into the game indeed. When your entire energy level slowly fades (around 10 yrs before) you experience a reflection of your character. Your brain just hasn‘t the power to establish s will/ strong conciousness/ whatever tells you the story you wanna get seen be others.
If you‘ve been a happy and joyful person, your surroundings will be nice and happy. A rather moaning or aggressive character wil find itself in a sort pf hostile environment.
It‘s how you interact and interacted with the people around you and how those people react on you.
Your thoughts in this phase won‘t be about Dashboards and numbers, but memorable experiences. I doubt it will be computer games, bro.
My honest advise: You better start collecting nice and joyful experiences now. If seen quite some moaning, aggressive oldsters and it’s a pity how they live.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 6 months ago:
Because they‘re drunken. Navy not.
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 6 months ago:
You can’t compare indoors and outdoors directly. I think random has its means in an uneven environment. It simply doesn’t matter if the odometry sucks, if the wheels stick in muddy earth or small sticks block on side.
Advanced sensors such as GPS and cam isn’t very precise outdoors. That’s why newer models come with its own positioning sender.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 6 months ago:
Sorry but this is a primary schools‘ view on money. I know this is how it been taught at school and this is entirely wrong.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 6 months ago:
I wonder how human societies survived without money, if this is so essential for the crap.
I wonder why people do crappy jobs for money? Is it because they need much money for things such as car, smartphone, playstation? For some food, you do not need much money. Actually you can grow it for yourself if you do not live in a big city.
Sure, if one got in this consumption trap, one needs a constant inflow of fresh money.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 6 months ago:
It does matter. How much worth is helping a friend? Or how much money for your neighbors for caring your pets while you‘re in holidays?
Don’t you think they will refuse to take money for this favor? Not everything in humankind can be paid for.
- Comment on If AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then? 6 months ago:
Same as ever…was that money wasn’t needed.
Do you need money within your neighborhood or your family? Do you pay people for giving a favor?
