GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.Maxwell Zeff (WIRED)
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About half of Americans say they spend too much time on their smartphone
About half of Americans say they spend too much time on their smartphone
Seven-in-ten adults under 30 say they spend too much time on their smartphone, as do about two-thirds of those ages 30 to 49.William Bishop (Pew Research Center)
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A bicycle for the mind
This is what computer programming means for me. You can build your own tools. You can share them with others. When you build and share such tools, you meet other people that perceive and interact with the world in the same way as you do. You make new friends. I guess this is what I've been trying to do in my life. Get people to understand this process. With computers, you can make your own tools, and so you can augment yourself, and others, to accomplish more things. This is something special about computer and especially open source tools. It costs no money at all to try this.This idea isn't really new, either. Steve Jobs called the Macintosh "a bicycle for the mind", referring to the fact that the human on a bicycle is the most efficient animal on the planet. And before Jobs, you can see similar ideas in Douglas Engelbart's Mother of All Demos, where a whole section is about the human-computer interaction loop, and how their hardware (the mouse, the keyset, the realtime display) was designed to improve this loop and make the tool as transparent as possible (update: actually the segment I was thinking about is in a later talk from Douglas Engelbart in 1986). Just like when you ride a bicycle, and you're not particularly thinking about pedalling and braking and shifting gears and keeping your balance. It's as natural as walking.
But then, there is a limitation on that as soon as you're not the one building the tool. Say you buy a Macintosh or a Windows machine. Someone has designed it to work a certain way. And their design will shape how you perceive and interact with the world.
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Google’s AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims: Prices were 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to a traditional search.
Google's AI Mode Is Ripping Shoppers Off With Vastly Higher Prices, Study Claims
The same products are showing up as 21.6 percent more expensive on average in Google AI Mode compared to traditional search, a study found.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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Google discovering that AI search may quietly steer shoppers toward higher prices is a fun twist: first search results became ads, then ads became recommendations, and now recommendations apparently have a concierge fee. At this rate, AI powered shopping just means your wallet gets the hallucination.
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Oh look, they finally found a way to make AI profitable! (It’s just scamming people again)
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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.Paresh Dave (WIRED)
Ontario Hospitals Cut 215 RN Positions, Raising Safety Concerns • Ontario Nurses' Association
Ontario Hospitals Cut 215 RN Positions, Raising Safety Concerns • Ontario Nurses' Association
Toronto, ON, September 3, 2026 — The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) is raising serious safety concerns about more than 215 registered nurse (RN) positions cut across Ontario hospitals in the past two months alone.ona_erica (Ontario Nurses' Association)
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Chinese-American community alarmed after China national dies in ICE custody
The Chinese-American community expressed anger and concern on Thursday over the death in custody of a Chinese national by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] on US territory.
Wei Lianyong, 51, reportedly died in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) on August 23, although the scandal-plagued agency did not disclose the death until this week.
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Fifth Chinese national dies in US immigration custody, raising profiling fears
Wei Lianyong, 51, reportedly died in Northern Mariana Islands on August 23, after he was found unresponsive at a local detention facility.Mark Magnier (South China Morning Post)
Tape companies ship 160 exabytes of storage in 2025, AI data demands drive growth
title: "Tape companies ship 160 exabytes of storage in 2025, AI data demands drive 'unprecedented data growth' — capacity shipped in Q1 2026 rose 57% YOY driven by AI, LTO‑9 momentum, and early LTO‑10 uptake"
url: "https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/tape-companies-ship-160-exabytes-of-storage-in-2025-ai-data-demands-drive-unprecedented-data-growth-capacity-shipped-in-q1-2026-rose-57-percent-yoy-driven-by-ai-lto-9-momentum-and-early-lto-10-uptake"
author: "Mark Tyson"
Tape storage companies continue to celebrate substantial growth. The format might seem archaic in the mid 2020s but on Tuesday, the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), HPE, IBM, and Quantum Corp., boasted of capacity shipment growth of 57% YOY, in Q1 2026. You guessed it: AI data center demands have contributed to bumper tape shipments, but so have the requirements for traditional archive workloads and cyber-resilient backups.
Last year, when we pondered over the LTO shipment numbers, we contrasted the medium’s undeniable success with Elon Musk’s DOGE crusade to wipe it out. It was criticized and dismissed for being “old technology.” But there’s certainly life in this old dog, as there were 176.5 exabytes of compressed LTO tape capacity shipped in 2024. Shipments were thus up 15.4% vs. the prior year and hit new records.
There was a small dip in LTO capacity shipped in 2025, an aberration characterized as "bad weather" by the TPCs on social media. This modest 9% YOY decline meant that 160.3 exabytes of tape storage were shipped last year. However, “shipped capacity was higher than any other year in history save 2024 itself,” wrote an LTO program representative in an email to Tom’s Hardware. The latest figures also show LTO demand is back with a vengeance, with shipped capacity in Q1 2026 a stunning 57% higher than in Q1 2025.
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“We are seeing unprecedented data growth combined with increasing cost, energy, and cyber resilience pressures across the industry,” said Hugues Meyrath, CEO, Quantum. “As organizations adapt to this new reality, tape is increasingly viewed as a strategic component of modern data infrastructure, delivering predictable economics and resilient long-term data retention at scale.”
(Image credit: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium Format companies)
Other contributors to growth, evidenced by the latest figures, were the market’s readiness for LTO-9 and LTO-10. The former is still being promoted by TPCs as a very worthwhile upgrade to stickers reliant on older generations. LTO-9 tapes support up to 18TB uncompressed or 45TB of compressed data according to the program companies. 2026 capacity shipment figures have also benefited from the early ramp of LTO-10. With these latest-gen cartridges up to 40TB of data per cartridge natively, or up to 100TB compressed, can be stored. Meanwhile, TPPCs are ensuring tape will continue to be attractive with roadmaps extending to LTO-14, which offers up to a gargantuan 576TB native capacity per cartridge, and can fit up to a touted 1,440TB compressed.
It is difficult to argue with the strong start for LTO shipments in 2026. The TPCs assert this is due to tape belonging “in every storage mix as an anchor against disruption.” LTO is also heralded as the storage medium possessing “the lowest cost per terabyte, provides excellent cyber-resilience, and is highly power-efficient.”
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Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
Crossposted from lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74960425
A great article on Haiku and the overall state of alternative operating systems.
However, the author skipped mentioning that NetBSD has taken an anti-AI stance as well. From developer guidelines:
- Do not commit tainted code to the repository.
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Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core
The developers’ announcement on Mastodon: mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/11244…
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-g…
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I have tried past Haiku betas on an old-but-no-so-old ThinkPad X31, and the experience wasn’t buggy enough to go back NetBSD.
I really liked the conclusion of the article. As someone who uses NetBSD as my primary computer, an old Nokia with Symbian as my secondary phone, self-host whatever I can, and with a general aversion to Electron apps, the conclusion really resonated with me.
We like to imagine a world of Haiku clients, talking to NetBSD back-end servers, and nothing but feature-phones – maybe running a revived Symbian. No AI, no Electron apps anywhere. A sky as clear and blue as the Haiku desktop, with no trace of a Cloud to be seen. That sounds idyllic to us. If it does to you as well, we think you might enjoy trying Haiku.
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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’
But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphereAdam Morton (the Guardian)
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.Paresh Dave (WIRED)
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Hopefully this is the first step in reinventing Wikipedia as a worker coop rather a wannabe tech company disguised as a nonprofit.
Argentine leader says oil firms working off Falklands face sanctions
Argentine leader says oil firms working off Falklands face sanctions
Javier Milei reiterates his country's claim on the British overseas territory, saying the "winds of change" favour it.Chris Graham (BBC News)
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During a Champions League football match last season, Gianluca Prestianni was accused of making a racist comment towards Vinicius Junior. There was no hard proof, but the circumstantial evidence was pretty clear. After the match I read a comment that said, "It's not all Argentines, but it's always someone from Argentina." I found that to be profoundly apt at the time. Then during the WC, the team further displayed their thuggery specifically about the Falkland islands.
All I'm saying is, fuck this guy.
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How does this downvote federate to my instance when the instance of the comm the post is on doesn't allow downvotes?
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So my understanding is that non-local communities receive interactions from other instances, then the host instance relays those interactions to all subscribed instances.
It's also my understanding that when an instance disables downvoting, it also doesn't relay downvotes onward.
So how do I see this?
This is the scenario:
- A hexbear.net user posts to a hexbear.net community [downvotes disabled], which gets relayed to all subscribed instances like mine (thelemmy.club) and mander.xyz, etc.
- A mander.xyz user sees it and downvotes it, which is sent to Hexbear
- Hexbear receives the downvote and discards it (or at least, I always assumed so)
If it had been one of the local users of thelemmy.club I could understand seeing it, as it would be recorded in our local database. But how am I seeing a foreign downvote on a Hexbear community?
When downvotes are disabled on an instance; they're just not displayed to that instances users. Nor is the downvote button displayed (so those users can't downvote).
The instance will still receive and track downvotes from outside instances; showing the data to other instances that don't hide it. The data is still there, it's just that the instance admins chose to not display them to their own users.
track downvotes from outside instances
No, Lemmy just forwards the downvote to the community's subscribers, so other instances receive them. The downvote is not written to the db on instances with it disabled.
I don't think that's true, just because I'm pretty sure even users that aren't explicitly subscribed still see the downvotes. I could be wrong 🤷🏻
Either way, the data is still there and is passed around to those that choose to see it. Disabling downvotes doesn't actually prevent items being downvoted, it just hides them from those that don't want to see it.
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You don't have to be subscribed to see activities in a community (including downvotes) but someone on you instance does for the community know to send the activities to that instance.
Disabling downvotes doesn't actually prevent items being downvoted, it just hides them from those that don't want to see it.
Disabling donvotes in the instance setting does prevent them being recorded on that instance. You can see the code here.
lemmy/crates/apub/src/activities/voting/vote.rs at release/v0.19 · LemmyNet/lemmy
🐀 A decentralised discussion platform for communities. - LemmyNet/lemmyGitHub
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I don't think so, unless something has changed.
See:
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull…
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/comm…
Reject federated downvotes if downvotes are disabled (fixes #2124) by Nutomic · Pull Request #2128 · LemmyNet/lemmy
@GitOffMyBack This is the easiest possible way to fix federation for the disable downvotes setting. It makes it so that downvotes from other instances will always be rejected. Users on other instan...GitHub
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Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped ReformRowena Mason (the Guardian)
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What Survives The Morning - 9/4/2026, 1:00:42 AM
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Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
I’ve started calling this domain human reserved. I like the phrase human reserved because it makes me think of nature reserves – places where we could put buildings and roads, but we choose not to because the loss would be too great.
Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover
In 6,000-word essay Microsoft co-founder also expresses concern governments not prepared for technology’s impactMark Sweney (the Guardian)
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It was obvious and proven already a few years ago:
CEOs are the first and most easy ones to replace by AI.
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Pre-enshittification tech. [discussion/fun]
What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you're an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.
Me ->
Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.
Paper books rather than e-books.
DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.
Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.
Old ass pre-connected car.
Prob more but I can't think of it all rn.
Termux on Android devices
To give an example yesterday walking down the street I had an idea for a prototype (basically every morning my phone would generate an ePub with calendar, map of the area, notes, articles to read, etc) but I didn't use some fancy voice assistant, no I started Termux on my phone, mkdir, echo idea > file, etc.
I have notes on my wiki on fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Swap… on doing this kind of stuff on more than phones, VR headset, IoT, etc. Typically the heuristic is to still by modern hardware flash an open source firmware or OS then connect it to your tools that are already not enshittified or de-enshittified
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Jaguar E-type
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Western hawks are pushing Ukraine to draft its women
Western hawks are pushing Ukraine to draft its women
The proposal threatens to further undermine the country's dire demographic prospectsBranko Marcetic (Responsible Statecraft)
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Not beating the allegiations of treating real world as a Paradox game, except it was not even this literal in the game
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Ongoing issues logging into and posting on Grad
I logged in, answered one question, and now can't upvote, reply. Upon clearing cache and cookies, I can't log in on either browser.
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Germany approves nearly $1bn in arms exports to Israel
Germany approves nearly $1bn in arms exports to Israel
A new nuclear-capable submarine built for Israel by German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp is on its way to Haifa Portthecradle.co
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I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
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South Africa: Illegal mining putting Johannesburg infrastructure at risk | Africanews
South Africa's economic hub Johannesburg was born from a gold rush in the 19th century. Today, the illegal mining of gold and other minerals is threatening its infrastructure - damaging the city's transport and power networks, as well as homes and buildings.
Spain: Moroccan migrants in Ceuta call for right to apply for asylum | Africanews
A Moroccan migrant on Wednesday argued he and other migrants had the right to apply for asylum, after crossing the border to the Spanish city of Ceuta, as the enclave marked its September 2 annual official holiday.
Missouri Supreme Court Delivers Win for Democrats in Redistricting Case
The Missouri Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for the state’s voters to decide in November whether to keep new congressional district boundaries redrawn to benefit Republicans.The judges ruled unanimously that the old map would be used in the November general election, a decision that at least temporarily thwarts Republicans’ efforts to pick up a House seat in the Kansas City area.
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what to do with your phone on nternational travel?
We all read about the attempts to charge a US Citizen for destruction of evidence for using the distress pin on his GOS phone. So what is safe to do if you know you will be traveling internationally? Are people getting a burner phone and leaving their normal phone at home? What's to stop you from saying you dont have a phone if you are stopped at a border crossing?
If you have good backups of the phone to say something like nextcloud or a other cloud service. Wipe the phone clean before travel. Then just give them the pin. Nothing to see at all. Then pull down a backup once passed the border control.
Tunisia: Court starts final hearing in mass trial of opposition figures | Africanews
A Tunisian court started hearing on Thursday the final appeal of scores of opposition figures accused of plotting against the state.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/70374692
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Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Oop, sounds like Clacton's having another by-election.
One can only hope they don't vote for the joke candidate this time.
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You'd think £1 croissants mandated by law would be a clincher, it's a real world policy that should speak even to bigots.
33 Dems Help Pass House Bill That Would Strip Funds From Colleges That Boycott Israel
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33 Dems Help Pass House Bill That Would Strip Funds From Colleges That Boycott Israel | Common Dreams
"The goal here is to basically say every university not only cannot refuse cooperation with Israel but must actively seek every opportunity to cooperate with Israel,” said one analyst.stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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Something different.
This is one of my neighbour's bees coming out in the spring to have the massive shit he's been storing up all winter. I was impressed and appalled and confused.
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Israel’s Ben Gvir Unveils Plan To Remove All Palestinians From Gaza
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday unveiled a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s Palestinian population, which he and other Israeli ministers refer to as “voluntary migration,” a day after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the removal of Palestinians was the only “real solution” for Gaza. Ben Gvir dubbed his […]From News From Antiwar.com via This RSS Feed.
Israel’s Ben Gvir Unveils Plan To Remove All Palestinians From Gaza
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Thursday unveiled a plan for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza's Palestinian population, which he and other Israeli ministers refer to as "voluntary migration," a day after Israeli Defense Minister Isr…News From Antiwar.com
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Not as long as most of the world turns a blind eye to it.
People are mostly against Israel's genocide at this point. But the individualsin charge of various governments haven't.
They will get on the trains or buses, or planes or boats, thinking they are being exiled. They will be killed.
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[AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system
I was just looking to plug a new zigbee coordinator into a POE switch today, then thought - that's going to be on the wrong VLAN, or, did I trunk the uplink...?
So... that made me think - is anyone using / tried / failed to export device configs, feed it into an AI, and get it to draw out the network??
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Nope, and I wouldn't recommend it either. They are generally not great with mapping IMO, no matter the model.
And really this is better managed with a quick diagram and a spreadsheet. If you want some software, look at netbox for this, you can add in validation rules and all kinds of automations as well.
But really, use a spreadsheet.
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I have Visio drawings already, and KeePass files and backup configs and...
So, it's mostly there, but there's always something that's not captured, like maybe MAC address I'm trying to resolve in a switch...
I was thinking AI could draw, redraw and draw again...
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You can, I'm just saying be prepared for disappointment. The amount of effort you need to put in, imo, you could have had a spreadsheet and been done. And then used that with a script to autogenerate some mermaidml to get a purdy drawing out of it (which I highly recommend leveraging Beautiful-Mermaid ).
And then you can feed that to an llm and make your queries about ports or other uses, to me thats a much better use/approach. To each their own though.
GitHub - lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
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Not really seen much of mermaid diagrams before, thanks.
Btw, Looking at the issue comments, seems beautiful mermaid is unmaintained and now forked to zombie mermaid: github.com/dfadler/zombie-merm…
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Yes and no. I use llama server to run my own local models, and then open ice to monitor it. From there a lot of open source services host MCP servers which then can help integrate. I then use it to auto write the documentation on the layout so next time when I say "go to the ZigBee controller and tell me..." It knows first go to the docs, it remembers where it is and any useful commands, then continues on.
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“There’s this sketchy Dutch black metal band touring Australia …”
“There’s this sketchy Dutch black metal band touring Australia …”
By way of introduction: I was contacted a little while ago by somebody raising concerns about a couple of upcoming black metal gigs. Below is the text they sent. So … There’s this sketc…slackbastard
how to boymode if its hot?
started a new job recently and im boymoding at work atm. i was expecting it to be cold because most offices ive been in are really cold, but its actually pretty warm. this is a problem because my boobs are getting big enough to be visible under most shirts so ive been wearing a tight bralet, a tshirt, and a hoodie but its too hot so im sitting here sweating wishing i could take off this hoodie but not wanting my coworkers to notice my boobs 😐
anybody have some advice on how to stay cool? im worried im just doomed to suffer or come out at work.
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I wear a t shirt under my shirt and hunch over. I don’t think it does a great job of hiding them, but I think my coworkers just don’t expect me to have boobs and that does a lot of heavy lifting.
Autopsia di una pod bruciata per inutilizzo 💧
Con il tempo che passa, e l’entropia dell’universo che ogni giorno avanza, mi trovavo tra le mani una pod di una svaporetta rimasta in disuso per più di un mese (perché non del mio vaporizzatore abituale, bensì di quella famosa Aspire Vilter Max che trovai gentilmente per strada, ancora una volta grazie all’universo che ogni […]
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Con il tempo che passa, e l'entropia dell'universo che ogni giorno avanza , mi trovavo tra le mani una pod di una svaporetta rimasta in disuso per più di un messpaccoctt (stuffoctt)
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Ephera doesn't like this.
Not knowing she was a CIA asset, for one.
Sometimes you can fix that.
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Saner macOS keybindings with skhd-zig
Saner macOS keybindings with skhd-zig
Overcoming macOS keybinding issues with a simple CLI toolDavi Ramos
Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74936481
... as hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding into artificial intelligence, there are serious concerns that an AI bubble could trigger another bailout with taxpayer money.In the interview that follows, leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein, who initiated and directs the Game Changers project at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks about AI’s impact on finance and the bailout problem and how a transformative public finance strategy can revive democracy, promote equity and social justice, and build strong and sustainable communities.
Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry
... as hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding into artificial intelligence, there are serious concerns that an AI bubble could trigger another bailout with taxpayer money.In the interview that follows, leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein, who initiated and directs the Game Changers project at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, talks about AI’s impact on finance and the bailout problem and how a transformative public finance strategy can revive democracy, promote equity and social justice, and build strong and sustainable communities.
Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the AI Industry
Hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding the AI industry. Economist Gerald Epstein says this bubble could burst.Zack Kligler (Truthout)
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Today it is obvious that most "AI companies" will never be able to pay back all what they owe. And still investors are shoving fresh money into them.
My question is, will these bosses ever treated properly as the fraudsters they are?
That would be a start IMHO to deal with the problem in a sensible way. But currently it is regarded from a different angle, and that makes it look more complicated.
Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images
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Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her.
“Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California.
Attorneys for the plaintiff, who is listed as Jane Doe in the case to protect her identity, accuse xAI of both generating CSAM of their client and of ingesting child sexual abuse images depicting her into the company’s datasets after new images were publicly posted.
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These models are overtrained. It's incredibly likely the CSAM is "baked in" there somewhere, plus it's abstraction in tokens and whatnot. There just needs to be a way to prove it mathematically or logically. That would be a good way to pivot into other things like copyright- if you're a capitalist or something.
If we take some of the extreme AGI claims seriously, they're all like CSAM experts, but don't talk about it because they're polite. That's weird right?
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Experts say Gen Z is delaying life milestones due to affordability issues — and questioning whether they’re even achievable
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Experts say Gen Z is delaying life milestones due to affordability issues
‘What's striking isn't just that young adults are delaying milestones - it's that many are questioning whether those life events are achievable at all’ one financial expert saidJ.R. Duren (The Independent)
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These are seeds of fascism, right there. Numbers like these are mutually exclusive with democracy.
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