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- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 3 days ago:
Is there a good place to see more without logging into something? I found some on threads, but it requires login after a bit; not interested in FB/X. Maybe time to buy a book!
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 1 week ago:
From the article:
At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.
- Comment on AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. 1 week ago:
And Ars published a piece about it — with AI hallucinated quotes attributed to the human maintainer. They have since retracted it.
I was having a discussion related to this with my team at work: some of them are letting through poorly-reviewed AI code, and I find myself trying to figure out which code has had real human consideration, and which is straight from the agents net. Everyone said they closely review and own all the agentic code, but I don’t really believe it.
- Comment on My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker 1 week ago:
Plot twist: the server giving worldwide access to send people electrical stimulation was also implemented by Claude.
Cool use of AI for spelunking, though.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 1 week ago:
Sounds great. I can’t figure out what the status is. Working prototype? Manufacturing?
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 2 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s more like NiMH than LiPo, but higher power than NiMH (which I guess lines up with their claims of charging super fast).
- Comment on Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds 2 weeks ago:
Chatbots are terrible at anything but casual chatter, humanity finds.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Over and over. Time to report & block.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Best gas masks 3 weeks ago:
The one thing the article doesn’t cover is picking filters. Is there just a number, like N95?
Sounds like the mask might be used for paint/varnish fumes while out of lawless Federal officers’ throwing range.
- Comment on Best gas masks 3 weeks ago:
Illegal in the US sense of “for protesters only but fine for LEOs”?
- Comment on Best gas masks 3 weeks ago:
I found myself baffled as to what the hallmarks of a riot even were. I had thought that a crowd being tear gassed in the dead of night might be similar to a mosh pit at a concert, but riddled with fear instead of elation — a crowd pushing and shoving, overcome with heightened emotion. But I found that the people around me, even when they were screaming and throwing eggs and other produce at the feds, would apologize if they even slightly jostled me. I did worry about being trampled one time, while standing next to an underprepared television crew that had come without gas masks and kept panicking throughout the night. When did a gathering turn into a riot? Were riots even real?
Yeah, insightful writing about something that should be vanishingly uncommon.
- Comment on Israel’s West Bank Occupation Is a Danger to Women 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I read the headline as “genocide is dangerous to women, even when Israeli genocide properties say they’re nice.”
- Comment on At Google - Organising at the digital arms dealer 4 weeks ago:
Since Donald Trump’s election, Google have moved rapidly to consolidate their position as the primary provider of the infrastructures of surveillance and oppression. In just the months following the inauguration, they have abandoned their pledge to not use artificial intelligence for surveillance or weaponry; they have begun work with US Customs and Border Protection to augment the southern border’s surveillance infrastructure (provided by Elbit) with AI capabilities; they have entered into an AI Lab partnership with Lockheed Martin, to use AI in targeted weapon systems; they have unveiled a collaboration with Palantir to accelerate the deployment of Google Cloud for sensitive government and military applications; and they have provided ICE with data about Palestine activists in the United States.24
Yep. Good work organizing, keep it up!
- Comment on Cold weather stud finder 4 weeks ago:
Old lath and plaster for me, so they don’t work that well.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 11 comments
- Comment on My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear. 5 weeks ago:
I hadn’t considered thermal shock, good caution.
The other advantage of the water bottle is not adding more moisture to the problem.
- My bike lock was full of ice. Hot water bottle cleared it up, WD-40 to keep it clear.media.piefed.social ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 4 comments
- Comment on Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles? 5 weeks ago:
Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.
- Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outagewww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Tell your favorite content creators to get over to Nebula. Or are there better options?
- New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed garymarcus.substack.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Large-capacity microSD cards are now regularly out of stock in Japan as storage crunch claims another victim — high-capacity HDDs are also vanishing 2 months ago:
Maybe it’s time to properly erase and eBay my box of old HDDs?
…nope, still only $30 shipped for a refurbished 1TB WD or Seagate drive.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 4 months ago:
There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:
due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.
That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.
- Comment on Rondo Energy turns on first major thermal battery — at an oil field 4 months ago:
The installation is housed in what looks like a four-story prefabricated office building. Inside sits a massive stack of refractory bricks, which are heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) by an adjoining 20-megawatt solar array. That heat is tapped to generate steam that is injected into oil wells to increase production — a job previously done by a fossil-gas-fired boiler.
The project is something of a Faustian bargain. It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 13,000 metric tons per year, said John O’Donnell, Rondo’s cofounder and chief innovation officer. But, of course, those reductions are in service of bringing more planet-warming fossil fuels to market.
- Comment on Sniper attacks Texas ICE facility amid soaring tensions over US immigration 5 months ago:
According to local news reports, all three victims were detainees. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed no law enforcement officers were injured, and suggested he believed the motive was political:
While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical (sic.) motive behind this attack … One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase ‘ANTI ICE.’
Huh, don’t know how to interpret that.
