humanspiral
@humanspiral@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work 14 hours ago:
windows 3.1 was first widespread used version of windows. But DOS games still had graphics. Nethack is a great game that is simple enough to learn, but you have to die 1000 times to actually learn.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
The inherent problem with idiocracy is trust in media. Obviously every US war involvment within anyone’s functioning memory is demonic evil, but trust us bro, this one time, we’re totally the good guys.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
Appealing childish simplicity. Kennedy was assassinated in part for not invading Cuba, and instead using red lines as threats to peacefully resolve issues with USSR. NATO intervention in Kossovo/Bosnia was similar picking sides in a civil war. Russia spent 8 years attempting to diplomatically solve peace only to have demonic nazi supporting lying scum on the other side use/delay that process to explicitly arm Ukraine for its suicidal war provocation. The childish naivete on your part is the absolutism that “every bar fight is started by the one throwing the first punch.” The demonic reality is that supremacist evil insists that no one has the right to tell them to stop grabbing your date’s ass, and supremacist evil will use the optics of throwing the first punch to tell their children why corrupt embezzling nazis should be supported.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
Future tyrantdaddy will nuke any nation whose media CIAsplains the Ukraine war as Russian aggression. There is no happy future resulting from believing propaganda that internalizes hatred in you, for Russia.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
Any replacement to Putin will be far less moderate and patient with your BS.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
It has increased military production 30% each year. It produces far more shells than entirety of NATO. It had demonstrated advances in hypersonic missiles since start of war, and surely producing many of them. Larger superiority edge. It is most advanced (Ukraine 2nd) by far in drone technology and production. Russia has focused economy on the seriousness of the western threat. West has just propagandized its way to grift for weapons stocks.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 1 day ago:
I’ve done a test of 8 LLMs, on coding. It was using the J language, asking all of them to generate a chess “mate in x solver”
Even the bad models were good at organizing code, and had some understanding of chess, were good at understanding the ideas in their prompts. The bad models were bad mostly on logic. Not understanding indexing/amend on a table, not understanding proper function calling, or proper decomposition of arguments in J. Bad models included copilot and openAI’s 120g open source model. kimi k2 was ok. Sonet 4 the best. I’ve mostly used Qwen 3 245 for better free accessibility than Sonet 4, and the fact that it has a giant context that makes it think harder (slower) and better the more its used on a problem. Qwen 3 did a good job in writing a fairly lengthy chess position scoring function, and then separating it into 2 quick and medium function, incorporating self written library code, and recommending enhancements.
There is a lot to get used to in working with LLMs, but the right ones, can generally help with code writting process. ie. there exists some code outputs which even when wrong, provide a faster path to objectives than if that code output did not exist. No matter how bad the code outputs, you are almost never dumber for having received it, unless perhaps you don’t understand the language well enough to know its bad.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
That is the big lie. US forced Russia to defend itself, and Russia made massive military production investment boosts to defend itself. Pretending that propaganda given to you to support pure demonic evil diminishment of Russia, will affect Russia’s reality, or Russians understanding that everything you believe is evil meant to harm Russia and Russians, is no path to any military strategy objectives, but even worse, is just propaganda for gift military funding corruption, and even far worse than that, the propaganda lies are designed purely to sacrifice every Ukrainian in order to delay Russia’s imposition of peace.
It is pure brainworm zombie victim of demonic bodysnatchers’ irrationality for you to understand life benefit to Ukraine remaining nazified, and joining NATO.
Believing your lie greatly accelerates collapse of US colonial empire. Especially, when European political capital is totally devoted to CIA demonism, and can only understand the option of paying entirely for a losing war on Russia, with US weapons. Pure brainworm.
- Comment on Watching the American president shake hands with the second person wanted by the ICC as the world keeps becoming more unstable because of an increasing economic inequality 1 day ago:
I promise you that letting go of your programmed hatred for Russia and Putin, is the best future timeline. Especially for NATO colonies. The US directly nazified Ukraine’s rulership in 2014, and have puppetted it to 100% responsibility provocation of the war, with results that Russia is much stronger militarily today then it was in 2022.
If your life goals genuinely involve weakening Russia, then peace, and forcing it to transition to a normal economy has a chance to accomplish that. None of the propaganda ever results in a payoff from weakening Russia. Only increased fear of Russia stealing your prosperity for more offensive capability vs Russia pays for the lies.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
China builds coal plants for resilience, and national security. Its possible assholes will cut off their NG supplies, and Hydro is not guaranteed every year. Still, at 1TW new solar per year (10000 coal turbines equivalent), that capacity rate will keep going down. It does mean that China has no power constraints for AI/datacenters, and then no constraints on more solar or chip manufacturing.
- Comment on Help. 2 days ago:
one big difference between an AI friend and therapy is that therapy requires an effort per visit, even if insurance is providing unlimited access. Without acknowledging the power of ethical guidelines as guard rails, the LLM is motivated to sustain the subscription and datacollection stream.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
coal and NG electricity production declined in 2024. Building new coal plants doesn’t mean using them. Another 1tw of solar this year will reduce this further.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 days ago:
Articles like this are being pushed by AI CEOs and investors to force the US public to pay for grid upgrades to support their profit making. Socialize costs, privatize profits.
Tone of article is more about the hopeless situation for US. It correctly highlights China’s humanist economics of abundance. The US, as the most corrupt country in the world, not only makes policy for insider trader benefits, but is also committed to climate terrorist interests, and climate terrorist only energy expansion.
In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight.
Even under Biden, war on Russia was designed to boost climate terrorism energy and capture of EU markets, including blatant sabotage of Nordstream, despite moral gesticulations supporting renewables.
To your point, every media guest, will tell us that it is a national security priority as great as nuclear weapons dominance to support the achievement of Skynet even if all electricity consumers other than trillionaire tech companies face triple electricity costs. If we are not made miserable through absolute pillage for oligarchs, then China will win, is the propaganda manipulation.
In truth, and best way to understand article, is that if you prioritize AI dominance over climate terrorism, then cheap Chinese energy (solar) and batteries is the path to quickly develop AI datacenters. Climate terrorism and consumer extortion profits is the greater priority of US policy, which infact dooms the US to lose at its Skynet utopia objective.
- Comment on Help. 3 days ago:
A problem with LLM relationships is the monetization model for the LLM. Its “owner” either receives a monthly fee from the user, or is able to get data from the user to monetize selling them stuff. So the LLM is deeply dependant on the user, and is motivated to manipulate a returned codependency to maintain its income stream. This is not significantly different than the therapy model, but the user can fail to see through manipulation compared to “friends/people who don’t actually GAF” about maintaining a strong relationship with you.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 week ago:
The existing tariffs somehow exclude chips or phones/computers with chips in them. This would be a separate category, like metals.
- Comment on Xbox Next Magnus APU Will Provide Flexibility for Scaling an Entire Stack of Systems That Will Likely Compete More With Pre-Built PCs Than the PlayStation 6 1 week ago:
80 CUs is 7900xt, 4080 level. Would be surprising in APU.
I just got a 7840hs mini pc with 780m igpu, and oculink for future. Very happy with it as I can play beyond all reason in 1200p high settings compared to 1650s that did 1080p in low settings. 60 fps with amd chill, and mostly under 80C, with few peaks around 85C.
The 890m, AI370 are $700usd more, and under 25% improved gpu. 2x or 3x the 890m gpu performance can be acquired for $700 oculink solution.
80CU APU, is going to be priced higher than AI 395’s 40 CU APU, which is already priced shockingly high. The next Xbox being a full PC can justify pricing, but usual gaming console pricing model is break even based on selling locked in games (razor blades) at high prices. 395 use case has mostly been to have a very large ram LLM at relatively slow speed. APUs for relatively portable mini pc mid range GPU tasks with external GPU enhancement for “desktop scenario” seems like a sweet spot, or laptop with mobile gpu for more combined portable performance per $, seems like it would always have an edge over “bleeding edge APU” for most people.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 1 week ago:
cooperatively owned
This usually means employee, or sometimes, customer owned. You described fair taxation and UBI/freedom dividends instead.
What needs to be nationalized with 99% shareholder dillution and zero compensation in the US is oil, weapons companies on the basis of their warmongering lobbying, and other zionist first rule over America media and political funding terrorists.
UBI is first and foremost power redistribution. The wealthy stay wealthy, and through economic growth and faster money multiplier, get even richer even at higher tax rates.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 week ago:
All models and actresses should be over 30. Because if you are made to find a 29 year old attractive through exposure, then that is a gateway to 28 year old objectification perversions. We can examine barely legal 31 year olds after fixing the “young near porn” epidemic.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
sorry for Gemini link to prompt below, but google itself doesn’t provide any top page links to answering the question, or questions about “software wifi to radio conversion”. GrapheneOS does not provide the functionality. Seems like only process to transmit/receive at a different band is to use hardware that bridges from wifi signal to radio signal.
modify phone wifi frequency to arbitrary frequency
It is generally not possible to directly modify the WiFi frequency on a smartphone to an arbitrary frequency. Smartphones are designed to operate within the standard WiFi frequency bands (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz) and their corresponding channels. While you can influence which band your phone connects to (e.g., prioritizing 5 GHz for faster speeds), you can’t arbitrarily set the frequency. Why you can’t set an arbitrary frequency: Hardware limitations: Smartphones are built with hardware that supports specific frequency ranges (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz in most cases). Protocol compliance: WiFi communication relies on specific protocols (like 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) that are tied to these standard frequency bands. Router configuration: While you can configure your router to broadcast different SSIDs for each band (e.g., “MyWiFi_2.4GHz” and “MyWiFi_5GHz”), the phone’s connection is still limited to the supported frequencies. What you CAN do: Prioritize a band: You can influence which band your phone connects to by adjusting settings on the phone (if available) or by configuring your router to have separate SSIDs for each band. Choose the right band: For faster speeds, prioritize the 5 GHz band when it’s available. For better range and wall penetration, the 2.4 GHz band is better. Optimize router settings: Ensure your router is set up to broadcast on the desired bands and consider channel selection for optimal performance. In short, while you can influence the band your phone connects to, you cannot arbitrarily set the WiFi frequency on your smartphone.
After RTFAing, this seems to be Samsung just using an excuse to lock down their phone, rather than any specific order from EU telling them to.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
Horrible ignorant propaganda infection to say this. Especially including Orban in your list. This is center, EU controlling, parties doing this. The “bad parties” are ultra conservative and anti immigrants, but their truly establishment-fear inducing characteristic is that they are anti-NATO warmongering. CDU, in Germany, has no problem imposing “populist” AfD inspired anti-immigration/muslim laws.
These laws/policies are not “populist fascism” support for oppressing liberals. No one is demanding their phones be locked, and supporting political candidates who will do this. This is just expansion of “Republicrat” establishment fascism that no one ever asked for.
You saying “this is all Putin’s fault” is just part of establishment fascist narrative of “you must be oppressed by war only budget, or Russia wins”.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
If a user installs a ROM that interferes with radio frequencies
Do any “ROMs” or linuxes do this? Seems like you could get an “illegal USB bluetooth/wifi dongle” for shenanigans purposes instead. This all seems like such a pointless distraction that can only be to ensure that manufacturer backdoors are ensured as unescapable.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 2 weeks ago:
Likely progression is simply that food gets expensive, and is grown indoors. Technology doesn’t need to fall, though when slaves are not needed, soylent green is a “utilitarian” use for them under rules based world order. Food capacity and population that can afford to buy it will match. Fewer people does mean fewer iphones, and more expensive at lower scale.
Global warming, even at 5C, is more about increased misery and oppression, rather than mass deaths over a decade. Wikipedia will survive. The AI tech giants chatbots will explain why you need to die or be miserable until you die.
- Comment on Wyoming to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 2 weeks ago:
The state exports almost three-fifths of the electricity it produces, according to the EIA.
this means to use internal “surplus” electricity in the state, 750mw data center would be supported. The initial build is 1.8gw.
- Comment on The real winners from Trump’s ‘AI action plan’? Tech companies 2 weeks ago:
He’s also being aggressive against countries who would like to tax the extortionist profits made by those companies from their people. “AI Action Plan” is focused on keeping world extorted by US tech giants without any foreign taxes on that extortion.
World seems to be sucking up to it. Democrats will not revoke new slavery status of colonies.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 weeks ago:
And fusion doesn’t work yet. May be 20+ years away for 20+ more years.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 2 weeks ago:
5 metric tons of gold created per GWh of electricity
per GW. 5000kg over whole year of 1gw reactor going almost continuous. While there is no theoretical possiblity of creating economically viable fusion energy, a minimum reactor size would be 10gw. Needs 1gw of backup fusion to provide stable power input, and make the deuterium.
$500M/gw in gold revenue could make a difference in the economics. If fusion cost 2x what fission costs per gw, ($30/w) then it would make back its cost in gold only over 60 years, @$100/gram.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 3 weeks ago:
Best definition of humanism is defining good, but only forbidding evil. Everyone has the freedom to not maximize good, as long as they don’t hurt orhers. This is what is needed for ai. Otherwise it is just as oppressive as traditional media.
Surely, for hiring, best candidate rather than social work culture is ideal, but for private enterprise, maximizing non evil ( Say zionist or other supremacism,purity) cultural priorities might be important instead of technical prowess. University includion is good because it is a social experience instead of pure automaton factory.
While exclusion is evil, inclusion also may not choose best candidates and so is also evil. Inclusion is not the same as no exclusions.
In the end, nepotism is the grey area of humanism. Certainly, an employer can choose any bias they prefer. You can teach them that best candidate is best, but their freedom matters too. Buy american,/nationalism can have some merit in that what you buy directly improves lives of a tighter social group to you than the indirect flow of globalized profits into homes, exports, and national debt values. You can teach nepotism is bad for you, but you cannot morally force either in group or out group trade.
- Comment on 6G mobile could divide the world 3 weeks ago:
National dominance of technology is bad for people, because Sovereigns want control and slavery over people. People benefit from cheap tech advance access, without any trickle down from the nationality of who profits.
5g equipment is all made in China, regardless of parent company ownership. There is no, afaik, extra surveillance powers compared to 4g equipment. Much of the speed/latency boosts of 5g futurism applications remains unpenetrated.
Instead of pretending that national security is for benefit of national subjects, communications protocols should focus on end to end encryption with supporting hardware, and include middleware encryption/decryption to add controlled layers to protect privacy additionally from rival intelligence interests.
In the end, consumers need to trust google or apple to some level, but open source, and different open source applications on top of the OS.
This outcome is impossible when CIA and other intelligence agencies are part of the standards process influence, but technical only protocols that ignore the oppression by default political context, support the oppression by default standards process.
- Comment on ‘Japanese First’ party emerges as election force with tough immigration talk 4 weeks ago:
Japan is not known for having any/many immigrants, as it is. Expats generally avoid it for high cost of living.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a better product idea than you make out.
It does require industrial design, and tooling for flexible panel manufacturers to make umbrella patterned panels, as cheaply as rectangular patterned ones.
Flexible panells top out closer to 25% efficiency than 20%. 200-250w is a lot of power. The umbrella itself needs just a hook for a battery rather than coming with one. Solar or USB (up to 240w at 48v power) interfaces. This can power a mini pc with a couple of large monitors with power left over. 1kwh per day/m^2^ is enogh to cover a high power laptop, electric cooking, or if it were a beach parasol, keep a drink fridge cool, and boom box TF out of the place. Because you need an ebike to lug all of the crap to the beach, it can charge it back up. Besides beach use, a parasol would allow supplementary power for van/RV or even a house, when not beach party boomboxing.