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- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 12 hours ago:
As someone who has thought about it, could you provide the data that you used to come to the conclusion that the amount of water being extracted from the air has any appreciable effect on local life?
From my thinking…
Death Valley covers 7800km^2.. Atmospheric moisture is typically contained in the first 10km of air. So there is somewhere around 2.5 quadrillion cubic feet of air containing 114 billion gallons of water.
The average Atmospheric Water Vapour Residence Time is around 8 days The median is 5 days and Death Valley’s topography is a valley which would trap more moisture, but we’ll use the average instead.
This represents a moisture turnover rate of about 625,000 Liters/second (or 1.45x10^10 gallons/day).
So, one of these devices would consume .000185% of the moisture that enters Death Valley every day.
- Comment on iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information 1 day ago:
Another fun one is ex-Intelligence agents leaving government work to go into the private sector and create unconstitutional spying powers and obtain information which would be illegal for the government to obtain, which they then sell to the government.
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 1 day ago:
- Comment on Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already 2 days ago:
Windows users, I hope you guys know that you have our support in these trying times. I’m wearing a ribbon and everything.
Microsoft only beats you because they love you
- Comment on Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law, source says 3 days ago:
The domestic response Donald Trump’s destruction of all of our alliances are giving these other countries the backbone to do the kinds of regulations that bribery have kept away from American tech companies.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, X, should be next.
Why is an online book retailer operating datacenters? How is a search engine 90% of the digital advertising market?
Monopoly powers and corruption, that’s how.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 3 days ago:
You can set it to default to the Subscribed feed in your settings.
- Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim 3 days ago:
But wouldn’t their IT infrastructure block random employees from running torrents on the network?
Not if the employees in question control the IT infrastructure.
- Comment on Sony develops technology to trace origin of AI-made music 4 days ago:
On one hand you have a soul sucking corporation who’s purpose in life is to profit off of the work of musicians and on the other side you have an AI company.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 4 days ago:
Exactly.
It’s one thing for Reddit to be taking action against automated posting and just be doing a shitty job. At least they’d be TRYING to fight against this source of toxic societal corrosive.
It’s a whole other kind of immoral to see that their anti-bot activities are simply cover for the enforcement branch of their ad sales department. Bots are not against the rules at all, spamming communities to create false consensus is A-OK with Reddit as long as the check clears.
Fuck Spez even more. I heard he was a moderator on r/jailbait for quite some time, btw
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 5 days ago:
The bigger news here is that Reddit, as a policy, allows bot posting (organic posting) as long as you’re buying ads from them.
- Comment on Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Stealing them is felony grand theft.
Vandalizing them is a misdemeanor (typically, check your local laws and also don’t do crimes).
If they were all stolen, it’s an easy PR ‘woe is us, think of the children’ win for Flock.
If there’s a bunch of social media posts that are showing chopped down flock cameras just laying on the side of the road then it has better optics from the point of view of ‘We don’t want country-wide surveillance networks’.
- Comment on English Wikipedia bans archive.today 1 week ago:
From the article:
There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links) and remove all links to it. There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack (see [WP:ELNO#3]). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.
Evidence was presented here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Archive.is_RFC_5#Evidence…
- Comment on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate 1 week ago:
It’ll probably look like the electric kettle market. Where you can buy 11,000 different brands on Amazon for barely more than material costs.
There’s nothing rare about RAM other than the ability to do high resolution lithography, China is more than capable of mass producing this just like any other product.
US Tech companies have relied on their monopoly status to charge whatever prices they would like. There is a HUUUUGE amount of room between the material costs and the wholesale price and any Econ 101 student will tell you that this creates fertile ground for new competition.
Even selling RAM at half price, they’re still earning nearly 2x pre-AI RAM prices. That’s way more than enough to grown a company.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Beijing inserted candidates into the local elections, won power and passed sweeping National Security laws which allowed for mass arrests and the breaking up of pro-democracy institutions. The key people in the movement were jailed. New laws, mass arrests and detainment effectively ended protests.
TL;DR: it was crushed.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
Also, don’t sweat too hard because covering/uninstalling cameras like this is misdemenor-level vandalism (don’t take the cameras, they cost enough to warrant felony grand theft charges).
You’ll have a bond and the bond will be low enough that most bail bondsmen will bond you out on promise of payment even if you don’t have someone outside ready to come get you.
If you’re caught, you’re looking at a few months of probation and restitution. If confront with police, stay calm, follow orders, “I don’t want to answer questions without a lawyer” and “<Your name>” are all you need to say. Do that an you’ll be right back home opening a gofundme in no time.
Don’t do crimes though, obviously.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 week ago:
hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks
lol
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m sorry faceless downvoters, my bad. My morality was compromised.
AI is terrible and everyone hates it because they exploit a large database of unlicensed copyrighted works to generate images for profit
Memegen site images are a better because they exploit a large database of unlicensed copyrighted works to generate images for profit but have been doing it for longer, so it’s fine.
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 week ago:
It’s a way to infer the data without having to create some human engineered and fragile detection method.
The problem of dealing with unreliable signal transmission (i.e. a CNN’s error rate at inferring the data based on their imaging) is well explored. A CNN that fails to correctly read some measurable percentage of time is not much different than a wireless data transmission on a noisy channel.
You solve the problem by encoding the signal so that you can check the data as it comes in to discover and correct for errors. A simple example would be writing the data 3 times so that you could compare the inference on each of the 3 places where the data is written. Modern error checking algorithms can do a lot better than this, space-wise.
CNNs can be trained to have a very high accuracy rate on these kinds of image recognition tasks (especially with a limited symbol set) and they can tune their error correction around the CNN’s error rates so the net result would be a clean and error check and corrected output.
Not to mention that CNNs may not be required of future persons with better imaging technology.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
This is too many dependent probabilities
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 week ago:
Finally, we can have sci-fi future that is just weird, rather than dystopian.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 1 week ago:
What if the thing that you want is to have SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation?
- Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success 1 week ago:
Use
_netdev,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=10snofail doesn’t interrupt the boot and 10 seconds is a more sane timeout. You can also use
x-systemd.automountAnd it will automatically mount the directory the first time it is accessed.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 1 week ago:
Vibe coders did nothing wrong.
- Comment on Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be so angry if we weren’t actually giving them money.
Don’t sell yourself short. I have a feeling that you’d find another way to be angry
- Comment on English Wikipedia bans archive.today 1 week ago:
An archive site that alters content in the archive is worse than worthless.
The DDoS is just confirmation that the site is actively harmful.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 1 week ago:
I don’t believe it until they AT LEAST septuple down
- Comment on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere 1 week ago:
A Trump controlled VPN service, seems safe.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Someone AI a gif of this STAT
- Comment on 1 week ago:
until they are removed from the planet
Where can I donate to your campaign?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The Dow is over 50,000
