A_norny_mousse
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- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 1 day ago:
Sorry to say but this is just one aspect of dropping out of all climate contracts national, international and global. And yes, AI is making this much worse.
“Hyperscale data centers are the really large data centers that are being built now for [generative] AI, which is really driving a lot of the growth in this sector because it requires vast data processing capabilities,” said Volzer. “The trend is larger and bigger centers to feed this demand for AI.”
Much of the water used in data centers never gets back into the watershed, particularly if the data center uses a method called evaporative cooling.
Think about that the next time you “ask ChatGPT” something.
Just one more reason not to use servers located in the USA for anything.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 4 days ago:
And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.
There we go. Who coulda seen that coming! While that’s going to be a fun ride, at the same time companies all but mandate AS* to their employees.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 4 days ago:
Both are good 👍
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 4 days ago:
ASSD
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 4 days ago:
Thank You! Yes!
So … A-not-I? AD? What do we call it? LLM seems to specialised?
- Comment on Anthropic tested Claude's(LLM, AI Chatbot) ability to manage a physical “storefront” to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management 4 days ago:
True; I just hate headlines that ask stupid questions.
But then again, there’s always the premise that it could work, in such attempts, which annoys me no less.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 days ago:
Nice. M3U saved
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 days ago:
No need to wait for Linux to listen to internet radio with individual song metadata: Soma.fm. Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.
There’s also amazing NTS.live, Lyl Radio, Dublab etc… but they don’t always show per-track metadata.
- Comment on If you have cut off mainstream music streaming, how do you discover new music or artists and songs like what you're listening frequently? 4 days ago:
Another vote for internet radio. Adding Bagel Radio for guitary stuff. Oh and 9128.live for amazing Ambient mixes.
- Comment on Anthropic tested Claude's(LLM, AI Chatbot) ability to manage a physical “storefront” to mixed results, as the AI struggled with pricing strategy and inventory management 4 days ago:
Anybody who thought the answer could have been even remotely close to Yes is delusional.
- Comment on There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes 4 days ago:
Are those VR goggles?
- Comment on How fair is a Fairphone? (Or, how much of the sticker price does Fairphone spend on fair/eco?) 5 days ago:
if you buy a regular phone and donate €5, you will have done more
I question if donations work that way. And you still bought one more device that’s made on the backs of disenfranchised people. (Again, not saying that a Fairphone eliminates that 100%, but a little)
In the end you are annoyed at the brand name plus the higher price evoking larger excpectations in some of your friends. Join the club. But that’s a far cry from your original statement. Glad we could clear that up.
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 5 days ago:
Just to be clear: this is about the USA.
Austin, Texas–based influencer and entrepreneur shares of students at her dozen or so K-12 schools, a ten-year-old boasts that he is a successful Airbnb manager, while another constructs a miniature Cybertruck.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 5 days ago:
I’m typing this on a laptop. But I’m old.
- Comment on To what extent has Smartphones replaced Computers? Has Smartphones replaced Computers for you or people you know? Will Phones and Computers eventually merge into one device? 5 days ago:
Unfortunately what the other commenter replied is happening instead.
I will take this opportunity to drop one of my favorite tropes: even 10 years ago, every smartphone had millions of times more computing power than the complete computing power used during the moon landing in '69.
- Comment on How fair is a Fairphone? (Or, how much of the sticker price does Fairphone spend on fair/eco?) 5 days ago:
I know a lot of people who buy a fairphone
A lot? Lucky you. I know one.
they want to save the planet, and that’s really not what this phone is doing
It’s not an on/off either/or thing; every little bit helps.
This is exactly it. Running a tiny company with nothing in-house making a custom phone with custom hardware is expensive.
Are you expecting a Fairphone to be only as much more expensive as the extra (“fair”) wages paid would cost? But your own quote above proves why that cannot be.
The rest of your comment is much the same; you seem to get too hung up on comparing prices to mainstream devices/parts. If it’s too expensive for you, don’t buy it. You can also do your part in saving the planet by using an older phone for longer with, say, Lineage OS or Sailfish OS.
- Comment on French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for FOSS 6 days ago:
Nice. There’s a demo for the Docs.
- Comment on French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for FOSS 6 days ago:
France created their own open source version of google docs as well.
“France” as in the government? Or do you mean Framasoft?
- Comment on How fair is a Fairphone? (Or, how much of the sticker price does Fairphone spend on fair/eco?) 6 days ago:
This is absolutely correct.
I actually remember the time when they changed their messaging and openly admitted that their phone is not and can never be 100% “fair”, but that they’re trying their best. Even so, what I read then read better than what you present.
TBF (haha, pun very much intended) their phones are also about modularity.
So where does the money go?
Almost* every alternative hardware company asks much more for a (hardware wise comparable) product for a whole slew of reasons; “Fairness” rarely plays into it.
In other words, even if the Fairphone wouldn’t claim to be fair, it would cost just as much.
And, to be fair again, the Fairphone is still cheaper than some of its competitors.
* except Pine64 it seems. (also somewhat modular btw)
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 6 days ago:
Check the forums.
FWIW, Signal works perfectly, WA too.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 6 days ago:
There are a few happy US users on the forums. Maybe check out what they have to say.
I’m sure the company is perfectly happy with having these users. AFAIR the reason they don’t sell outside EU is that it would add hassle, mostly sales legalities.
I didn’t know you cannot buy the C2 in the USA, but I would recommend an Xperia X10 II or X10 III anyhow.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
The forum has a thread specifically about banking apps.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
I understand. But I think it’s right that they concentrate on a few devices. There’s also something about SONY openly providing firmware iirc.
Ah, the N900…
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
What about LineageOS?
My guess is the problematic parts here aren’t open source so they should never show up in Lineage OS?
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
This is my fourth comment shilling SFOS here, but it just might be what you’re looking for. It is my daily driver.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
Volla also has a (reliable, judging from reports) community version of SFOS
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
I haven’t tried, but I took a closer look at their wiki yesterday:
- the Main (official) devices are QEMU, i.e. virtual
- the list of Community devices is long, but whenever I clicked on something it seems that none os working sufficiently.
IMHO they should focus their efforts on getting at least one actual phone working fully.
I want this project to succeed, but until then I use Sailfish OS, btw.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
Sailfish OS has it.
Unfortunately the project has some closed source bits which, imho, aren’t an issue when you look closer. Maybe I’m naive but I trust this EU company.
I use it as my daily driver. It certainly is frugal compared to recent Android versions, but fully functional.
- Comment on Iran’s internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet? 1 week ago:
I was wondering the same actually (I did label the cell tower thing a guess):
Wouldn’t hard shutting down the internet shut down mobile communications as well. Of course a soft shutdown would allow for filtering that out. I wonder which one Iran chose.
Still guessing btw.
- Comment on Iran’s internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet? 1 week ago:
our discussion
Not our. It’s a discussion you are trying to have with me about something I labeled as a layman’s guess.