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Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter funded by the US government. She supports Israel as it commits genocide and is key to Trump's regime-change war.
Given the state of Venezuela's economy I find is highly implausible that Maduro could've actually won. This isn't to support invasion or Machado, just realistically speaking there's no way the voters agreed to more Maduro.
I don't think even 5% of Venezuela's economic issues derive from Maduro's government. Not that I like him particularly. We severely underestimate -or pretty much ignore- the actual implications of being subjected to the sanctions and isolation Venezuela has been. And the huge social fracture derived primarily from the middle to upper class being annoyed at having to redistribute wealth for decades ain't helping. I know this first-hand and the insolidarity, entitlement and neoliberal kool-aid drinking from that part of Venezuelan society is a fucking bleak reality.
Daily reminder that the Nobel Prize was (still is) purely a marketing move to scrub the reputation of the Merchant of Death, Alfred Nobel. Because he got butthurt that the newspapers had the audacity to shed light on the truth about his horrible legacy.
The first Nobel Peace Prize went to the woman he had a crush on and never got over even decades after she dumped his explosive peddling ass.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government.
“We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached budget to reopen the government and pay our federal workers,” Johnson said in a press conference on the 13th day of the government shutdown.
Congressional leaders have been locked in a standoff over government funding as Democrats demand that Republicans make concessions on health care, notably Affordable Care Act tax credits that are expiring at the end of the year. Republican leaders have refused to negotiate on health care during a shutdown, arguing that that Democrats must accept the “clean” funding stopgap the House passed in September — and which has failed to advance in the Senate seven times.
Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent
An AI bubble requires actual AI capabilities to be built and to fail to be called that. A stock trading scam on AI stocks is just a stock trading scam.
36GW is 36 times current US corporate owned AI datacenter capacity. All of it made at TSMC which runs full tilt as it is. TSMC's current plans is to 2x (over 3nm today) 2nm node by 2028. 4x by 2031 would still mean 2038ish to satisfy just OpenAI demand.
A big problem with having so many partners that OpenAI has no actual money to pay, is that no one has the confidence to place big TSMC capacity unless they are sure OpenAI actually buy from them, with money they get on time to buy from them. There are definitely consumer AI/gaming capabilities that can have more certain demand than the datacenter impossibilities.
Each additional announcement makes the joke more impossible to believe. CISCO did not do this during 1999 bubble. People just assumed its growth would continue.
Fine, OpenAI revenue growth may reach 3x at end of this year. At losses equal to its revenue number in 2024. OpenAI already has the most expensive models.
Knowing that it's just seven companies propping up the US economy, and the private ones don't have to publicly report if they just lost half a trillion dollars, it gives one pause. I'm definitely reevaluating if and when I want to move my investments to cash.
that is how OpenAI measures all of its deals. the GPU providers DGAF about that measure, and "real deals" will be for x number of gpu's instead. OpenAI PR make stonk go up, is vagueness everyone else seems to enjoy. It makes 0 sense in any deals these companies can make. It just scares the rest of us for how much the power bill go brrrr.
There was a link in the article about that, it was saying that they are just requiring self reporting, I don't know the political context in California, but it seems like you wouldn't push this and then turn around and try the id thing, but I am by no means an expert at predicting the idiocracy of politicians.
Probably will get it anyway, companies don't like to build and maintain software for two different markets so they tend to just follow the regulations of the strictest market, especially if those regulations don't really cut into there bottom line like this one.
When I read that shit as a kid, I thought Asimov's laws of robotics were like natural laws, so that it was just naturally impossible for robots to behave otherwise. That never made any sense to me so I thought Asimov was just full of shit.
Actually seems easier (probably not at the state level) to mandate cameras and such digitally sign any media they create. No signature or verification, no trust.
And the people that are going to check for a digital signature in the first place, THEN check that the signature emanates from a trusted key, then, eventually, check who's deciding the list of trusted keys… those people, where are they?
Because the lack of trust, validation, verification, and more generally the lack of any credibility hasn't stopped anything from spreading like a dumpster fire in a field full of dumpsters doused in gasoline. Part of my job is providing digital signature tools and creating "trusted" data (I'm not in sales, obviously), and the main issue is that nobody checks anything, even when faced with liability, even when they actually pay for an off the shelve solution to do so. And I'm talking about people that should care, not even the general public.
There are a lot of steps before "digitally signing everything" even get on people's radar. For now, a green checkmark anywhere is enough to convince anyone, sadly.
It could be a feature of web browsers. Images would get some icon indicating the valid signature, just like browsers already show the padlock icon indicating a valid certificate. So everybody would be seeing the verification.
But I don't think it's a good idea, for other reasons.
An individual wouldn't verify this but enough independent agencies or news orgs would probably care enough to verify a photo. For the vast majority we're already too far gone to properly separate fiction an reality. If we can't get into a courtroom and prove that a picture or video is fact or fiction then we're REALLY fucked.
I get what you're going for but this would absolutely wreck privacy. And depending on how those signatures are created, someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images and then we would be back to square one.
Privacy concern for sure, but given that you can already tie different photos back to the same phone from lens artifacts, I don't think this is going to make things much worse than they already are.
someone could create a virtual camera that would sign images
Anyone who produces cameras can publish a list of valid keys associated with their camera. If you trust the manufacturer, then you also trust their keys. If there's no trusted source for the keys, then you don't trust the signature.
The problem is that "AI" doesn't actually exist. For example, Photoshop has features that are called "AI". Should every designer be forced to label their work if they use some "AI" tool.
This is a problem with making violent laws based on meaningless language.
This sounds about as useful as the California law that tells ICE they aren’t allowed to cover their face, or the California law that tells anyone selling anything ever that they have to tell you it will give you cancer. Performative laws are what we’re best at here in California.
Has anyone been able to find the text of the law, the article didn't mention the penalties, I want to know if this actually means anything.
Edit: I found a website that says the penalty follows 5000*sum(n+k) where n is number of days since first infraction, this has a closed form of n^2+n= (7500^-1)y where y is the total compounded fee. This makes it cost 1mil in 11 days and 1bil in a year.
Yeah, this is an important point. If the penalty is too small, AI companies will just consider it a cost of doing business. Flat-rate fines only being penalties for the poor, and all that.
How do you figure, I haven't seen the actual text, is it written ambiguously? If not, I would imagine that they be able to enforce it, the only thing is the scope is very small.
Okay, but when can the law straight up ban companies who don't comply with the law from operating in the state instead of just slapping them on the wrist and telling them "no" the same way a pushover parent tells their child "no". Especially after they just ignore the law.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
My LinkedIn feed is 80% tech bros complaining about the EU AI Act, not a single one of whom is willing to be drawn on which exact clause it is they don't like.
That’s not actually the case for most companies though. The only time you’d need a full time lawyer on it is if the thing you want to do with AI is horrifically unethical, in which case fuck your little startup.
It’s easy to comply with regulations if you’re already behaving responsibly.
That's true with many regulations. The quiet part that they're trying to avoid saying out loud is that behaving ethically and responsibly doesn't earn them money.
Yes... it's so bad that I just never log in until I receive a DM, and even then I login, check it, if it's useful I warn people I don't use LinkedIn anymore then log out.
Not a terrible resource when you're actually looking for a job. But that's because all the automated HR intakes are a dumpster fire, more than anything headhunters bring in value.
Did you seriously use LinkedIn? I always thougt that it was just narsisitic people posting about themselves never having any real conversations and only adding superficial replies to posts that align 100% with them
If I could delete it without impacting my job or career I would. Sadly they’ve effectively got a monopoly on the online professional networking industry. Cunts
Seems reasonable to me. If you're using AI then you should be required to own up to it. If you're too embarrassed to own up to it, then maybe you shouldn't be using it.
Prosecution: "Your Honor, the definition of artificial is 'made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally,' and as all human beings are themselves produced by human beings, we are definitionally artificial. Therefore, the actions of an intelligent human are inherently AI."
Defense: "The defense does not argue this point, as such. However, our client, FOX News, could not be said to be exhibiting 'intelligence.' Artificial they may be, but AI they are clearly not. We rest our case."
IMO if your "A*" style algorithm is used for chatbot or any kind of user interaction or content generation, it should still be explicitly declared.
That being said, there is some nuance here about A) use of Copyrighted material and B) Non-deterministic behaviour. Neither of which is (usually) a concern in more classical non-DL approaches to AI solutions.
Yeah for real, what does this mean exactly? All forms of machine learning? That's a lot of computers at this moment, it's just we only colloquially call the chat bot versions "AI". But even that gets vague do reactive video game NPCs get counted as "AI?" Or all of our search algorithms and spell check programs?
At that point what's the point? The disclosure would become as meaningless as websites asking for cookies or the number of things known to cause cancer in the state of California.
If you ask ChatGPT, it says it's guidelines include not giving the impression it's a human. But if you ask it be less human because it is confusing you, it says that would break the guidelines.
ChatGPT doesn't know its own guidelines because those aren't even included in its training corpus. Never trust an LLM about how it works or how it "thinks" because fundamentally these answers are fake.
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I don't think linking a "China watcher" that exclusively makes videos on how China is going to collapse any minute now going back years is good evidencd.
Kinda? You can find videos of any car catching on fire, what matters is how they compare at a statistical level with their competition to see if they are doing better or worse, not evidence that at minimum failure rates are nonzero. I truly don't trust China Watchers to produce anything meaningful or useful.
Define "plenty." What's the fire rate compared to the total number of BYD cars in existance? How does that compare to Tesla? How's the historical trend, is it going up or down? Are they equally likely to catch fire across the board or are there problematic models or series? Different countries have different automotive regulations and therefore have slightly different cars even if they're the same model, are the fire rates different by country? Are domestic Chinese BYDs more likely to catch fire than cars exported to, say, other Asian countries, Latin America, or Africa?
This is why you don't draw conclusions from how many YouTube videos you can find. When there are billions of any product there will inevitably be tons of videos of it going wrong which doesn't inherently tell you whether it's actually likely to happen or not. If that was an acceptable statistical analysis method, then I can binge watch the hundreds of thousands of aviation accident videos and conclude that literally all planes do is crash.
Tesla stock price has always been valued on "Next Big Thing". Its robotaxi/fsd is falling flat so far. But robotics is new NBT. With 85% of robots sold in China, and massive manufacturing market share that is still growing, future robot sales will still take place there, and Chinese companies are already well ahead in humanoid and other robotics.
Also their gimmick, robot soccer and robot olympics events, even if not incredibly impressive, is a mass student training program in robotics future that just doesn't exist in the west. China's future robot dominance is completely assured because they care about making it happen. Tesla has 0 chance of success, and for a market, requires giving Tesla US monopoly on overpriced robots.
A better world is possible. Capitalism in the modern age is dying imperialism. Western supremacy is built on the backs of the global south, not any intrinsic superiority of capitalism to produce good results but for its systemic drive for plunder. Socialism, where humanity takes the reigns of how we produce and distribute away from the profit motive, is the way forward. If you want a place to start with theory, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list, feel free to give it a look!
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.
You think you can just go against decades of propaganda that built their worldview and to which they attach themselves like lifeboats in the raging sea so easily?
The problem I see often is moral "flexibility", and even on Lemmy I see an objectively morally wrong action being praised because it's done by people "on our side"/"who are European as me" and those same users will condemn the same behaviour (usually not even as egregious too, lol) coming from "the other side". Westerners are often too propagandized for us to have productive, informative discussions, and too weak and morally confused to admit they're wrong/X action is simply not good regardless of who's doing it.
Trade numbers confirm that Chinese exports to the United States fell, but jumped globally, as a new 100% tariff threat from US President Donald Trump promises a rocky patch ahead of trade negotiations between the world's two strongest economies.
Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
And in related news, worldwide ecosystems are already getting perma-fucked by billionaires' repeated and relentless wrecking of our planet for personal gain.
I mention billionaires specifically because the average Joe, the 99% of humanity being told to cut down their carbon footprint and delete emails to save water, is completely fucking blameless in this.
They didn't choose to have car-centric architecture forced on them for the past goddamn century, they didn't choose to have planet-wrecking crypto farms/NFTs forced on them a few years ago, and they sure as hell didn't choose to have planet-killing AI slop extruders forced on them, either.
(Anyways, unrelated hot take of the day: taking responsibility for something you're not responsible for is a moral failing, and needs to be treated as such)
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
Happy that we graduated from making military decisions based on what the Oracle of Delphi hallucinated to making military decisions based on what Oracle® DelPhi® Enterprise hallucinated
Reacting to J.D. Vance’s abruptly aborted appearance on ABC on Sunday, former GOP campaign adviser Rick Wilson ridiculed the vice president's latest “embarrassing” stab at getting out of Donald Trump’s shadow and casting himself as the MAGA heir appa…
Edit: So one is definitely going to be the Proselytizer Library Stick (OK I need a better name for it, fine). Going to test out some Debian options on there, just need to find a nice way to make it a user friendly portable library/reader, so feel free to mention whatever comes to mind there as well.
But I have more of these little suckers, so thats just one for now.
So I've got a few Intel compute sticks sitting on my desk here, and I don't know what I want to do with them (aside from throw them out, I'd rather find some value in them if I can).
They are STK1AW32SC, which have the atom x5-Z8330 chips, with a whopping 2gb ram, 32gb emmc, and a microsd slot.
A few things I've considered: - Take a few LCDs and the drivers and make a "household front end", basically just point to my locally hosted services (mealie for recipes, hass, etc) - Same thing but make it a digital picture frame - Compute to point to a magic mirror instance - Try out how terrible emulation is on them to make a little game console for the kids thats standalone? They already can use the living room one for that, which is a usff box with a lot more power. So probably not. - Automatically boots to rick roll to stick in TVs at my BILs house and drive him nuts?
Open to ideas! I've got tons of machines here, so I really don't need them to do anything - which means the silly and borderline stupid (see rick roll note above) are perfectly acceptable ideas.
Lakka is a lightweight Linux distribution based on RetroArch that transforms a small computer like a Raspberry Pi into a full blown retrogaming console.
If I think about it as a travel console for retro gaming, that actually feels mildly useful. Maybe I keep it to NES/Genesis era, and a couple of cheapie controllers? That could be fun
I mostly just like to avoid the landfill if it can be avoided, now to find something to do with the other ones that have been sitting in the bin for a while...
They used to do digital signage work, but they've long since been replaced in my lab use, thus the issue with what to do with them now 😀
How much storage does it have? Google search indicates it may just be 32GB. With a small distro, you just maybe just barely fit text only Wikipedia on there with Kiwix (or whatever the Wikipedia archive reader is called.)
Alternatively, you could put some books from Project Gutenberg on there. Throw in some public domain music recordings, a freely available movie or two (like the ones from the blender project), and maybe some light weight open source games... Then, you could have have yourself a portable offline library which could be shared with no legal repercussions.
Its just the 32gb emmc + whatever you shove on an sdxc - technically supports up to 128gb (officially), but by spec its sdxc v3, so untested/unsupported up to 2tb. I've got a bunch of spares at 128gb or less so thats what I'll likely toss in.
I like the idea of a mini library.... but maybe a step further and drop in a front end to navigate books, with a lightweight ebook reader application, and put some anti-capitalist works on there? With a bonus of the AFAQ? Ooh and some anti-fascist materials....
There is a group read of it happening that I am just now realizing I was probably tagged on my db0 account, and I totally forgot about it!
Anyway, I think something with both non-fiction works and fiction with a specific lean would be neat. Everything from The Iron Heel to The Conquest of Bread, a bit of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, etc.
So just for the record, I think this works quite nicely. Using foliate as the ebook reader, mx linux on the stick, its pretty responsive. I think I can trim it down further (maybe I'll go full custom build if I have the time), but its pretty good to go right now.
One thing I was thinking about doing, since its OPDS friendly, is setting up a custom catalog to be available publicly that it can access, for ease of adding new books. I'm also going to grab and load a bunch locally, I have some on my library server right now, but I'll probably focus and expand the collection a bit for this.
Maybe something with sections for economics, the environment, anti-imperialism, social progressivism, etc.
I also really like the idea of incorporating some of the piefed rational discourse kit (maybe including some videos in a different section, or links to a wiki? Not sure yet.).
Well that part it looks like will be a project unto itself, but either way - the anti-fascist proselytizer stick has a start!
Get a distro running XFCE, slap the Chicago95 theme on it, and try to convince your friends that their computer updated to the latest version of Windows.
A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux. - GitHub - grassmunk/Chicago95: A rendition of everyone's favorite 1995 Microsoft operating system for Linux.
About all they're good for is signage and maybe assist tasks with HA. You won't be able to drive a decent enough display to do normal desktop things for certain. Maybe use them as little seed devices or something.
Nah, they can definitely do a decent display, I've had a desktop running a stupidly fat web app (not mine) on those with 1440p at 60hz. And that stupid thing needed windows, which was even worse. Trying to do a second thing with windows + that stupid app? Waste of time, not going to happen, but the main app ran just fine as bloat on top of bloat.
But light desktop stuff they can do just fine, however that isn't what I want. A few ideas from the original: - Portable library (definitely going to happen, I'm installing now and going to build Bookworm on it) - Portable (not mobile) emulation station, may happen, toss some NES and Genesis games on it. May try that out tonight after the library build. - (not from the other thread) Portable kid distraction (basically boot to gcompris) - maybe, I'll have to see how well that works. Should only need opengl 2.1, but I think that chip supports 4.something, so should be good.
You must be mistaken. The sticks you mention have max out at 1080p, and with 2GB of mem, you're not going to be running any desktop for very long. The Atom chips and the memory limitations just don't make these useful candidates for anything with a DE.
The x5-Z8330 has 800 passmark points which is enough to run Arch with XFce without issues. 2 GB of RAM though is the sticky point. It is problematic with Debian/Mint as they consume about 800 MBs of RAM on a cold boot (don't even think of Fedora or Ubuntu that are dogs when it comes to RAM usage), but on Arch you can configure it to consume only 450 MB of RAM: files.mastodon.social/media_at… (here's my Arch/XFce with a BeOS theme using 585 MB of RAM with 3 apps open). That's a life saver on a 2 GB of RAM computer, because Youtube alone on Chrome can use up to 800 MB of RAM, while on Firefox goes up to 1.1 GB. Consider that 128 MB of RAM also goes to the integrated graphics card. But with other websites, or with a third party youtube front-end, or other apps, 2 GB can be enough (just make sure you give it a 4 GB swap file -- not zswap). Finally, make sure you use only a background color, not an image. Images, uncompressed in RAM, can use up to 80 MB of RAM if they are in high-res. A plain color takes kilobytes! Also, disable the BT service and any other service you don't use via XFce's startup utility. That one takes 45 MB alone, it's a dog... Load it only when you need it.
Running a 32 bit os might net you better idle. I run 32 bit debian on an ancient laptop and my idle is a bit lower, 300-400 mb. I'm also using openbox.
I run Volumio on one that's connected to my AV receiver. It integerates well into Home Assistant and can be used to listen to webradio and music streaming services (including your own). It can also play from its own storage.
I am actually quite impressed with mxlinux on there!
Edit: Oh, for the record the little hdmi extension cable (~6" or so) is super handy and what he was missing when he had it plugged into the back of that monitor. I might stick it into a video switch though.
I just bought one to use as a Magic Mirror dashboard. I can't think of any other real use for them other than as dashboards.
I like the Volumio idea though. You can set up a Music Assistant container and get a whole home audio setup without having to run a bunch of speaker wire. At my old place I had an Apple TV airplay movie audio into the kitchen so you wouldn't miss any dialogue while you ran into the kitchen.
Edit: Really specific hypothetical. If they're powerful enough to run Kodi, and you have a travel homelab with Jellyfin/Plex, I wonder if they could serve as a travel streaming stick 🤔
I always thought they were a cool idea, but never bought one. Idea-wise, IDK, use them for cluster-computing? I considered getting one as a retro gaming arcade...so maybe that?
Retro gaming I think is going to be good for one, cluster-wise I'd be better off with the old pi 3bs I have... somewhere.... I think in with the microcontroller bin (amidst of a pile of esp32s).
I've got a USB gamepad I picked up when radio shack was closing its stores, I think thats with the old consoles though (everything going back to n64, my NES, Genesis, and PS1 are long gone unfortunately), which is at my BIL's house as he is playing my old Wii and PS2. Which is now making me want to take the of Xbox shell and shove a PC in there for the living room, a good excuse to upgrade the living room PC... But a whole new project at the same time lol
Ah... forgot about them for a while, checking : last update from April "#58 - Dev Kits, Compute Packs, & 2025 Timeline" so in theory now they are on board certification. Good occasion to also check github.com/SimulaVR/Simula/com…
David Ellison, heir to the fortune of his father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, is said to have been attracted to Weiss and The Free Press specifically for the outlet’s pro-Israel stance. Dylan Byers, who broke news of the FP sale for Puck, reported that Ellison was “smitten by Bari’s unwavering support of Israel and preoccupation with the rise of antisemitism—issues that are as near and dear to David’s father, Larry, as they are to Paramount’s outgoing owner.”
Facing blowback for minimizing the famine in Gaza, The Free Press responded by saying that critics of the article, including Drop Site, are “journalists who oppose actual journalism.”
Weiss added: “You’ll notice one important aspect about the uproar: No one is disputing the facts in our piece.”
Well, we are. The Free Press claims in its investigation to have looked at the cases of 12 Palestinian’s photographs, as well as the child, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyouba Al-Mutawaq who appeared prominently in a New York Times article—and whose story they questioned in a previous Free Press article. Yet instead of reporting on the 12 Palestinians they claimed to have looked into, the article in fact only addresses nine, or arguably ten, an inexplicable discrepancy, and doesn’t provide original reporting on any of the cases.
The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.
Ryan Grim Oct 12, 2025
David Ellison, heir to the fortune of his father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, is said to have been attracted to Weiss and The Free Press specifically for the outlet’s pro-Israel stance. Dylan Byers, who broke news of the FP sale for Puck, reported that Ellison was “smitten by Bari’s unwavering support of Israel and preoccupation with the rise of antisemitism—issues that are as near and dear to David’s father, Larry, as they are to Paramount’s outgoing owner.”
Facing blowback for minimizing the famine in Gaza, The Free Press responded by saying that critics of the article, including Drop Site, are “journalists who oppose actual journalism.”
Weiss added: “You’ll notice one important aspect about the uproar: No one is disputing the facts in our piece.”
Well, we are. The Free Press claims in its investigation to have looked at the cases of 12 Palestinian’s photographs, as well as the child, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyouba Al-Mutawaq who appeared prominently in a New York Times article—and whose story they questioned in a previous Free Press article. Yet instead of reporting on the 12 Palestinians they claimed to have looked into, the article in fact only addresses nine, or arguably ten, an inexplicable discrepancy, and doesn’t provide original reporting on any of the cases.
The biggest child abuser in this law is the government. All they are doing is using up all the loop holes in the UNCRC and human rights to manipulate their way into their "ultimate truth".
The corpos and the government lick each others boots - it's a 2-way relationship. They care more about the abusers than the victims in this regard. Children is just a term designed to go against its populace, and more harm being done in the long run.
That could change, but you are probably right. I am the only person I know who thinks it is a civic duty to transition off facist media. Nobody else around me cares. I mean NOBODY. Not even the tech savvy folks I know.
Banning online anonymity tools like Tor won’t stop crime.
Prohibition has never been a deterrent to consumption. Laws and law enforcement do not prevent, they just prosecute. I do come down hard on the parental groups when it comes to the safety, security, and privacy of their children. Mandating laws that dole out heavy fines to parents for their unsupervised children's online and offline activities would seem to me to be a good point to deviate from. However, we legislate to the lowest common denominator, and this gives governments the inroads they crave to keep tabs on their citizenry.
What I would like to hear are some solutions that protect the children, keep the terrorists at bay, and still has room for individual privacy, anonymity, and security. I certainly don't want children to be involved with activities that will harm them. At the same time, I'd rather avoid a buccal cell cheek swab every time I want to see some flesh or engage in other adult only activities.
If your neighbor wanted to hear all your phone calls, just to make sure you're a safe neighbor to be around, people wouldn't tolerate it. So they certainly shouldn't tolerate the government wanting to see all your messages and what you're talking about.
The correct way to eliminate human trafficking and child abuse is capital controls. Bring the fucking bankers to heel. You don't have the credibility to talk like this while you work hand-in-glove with skinsuits like Jamie Dimon and the coterie of coin operated policymakers that calls itself western democracy. So the intention is not to use credibility, but something much quicker.
We USians often don't realize that the Guardian is a right wing publication. A frustrating number of people in US circles (especially liberals who don't know they aren't leftists) think anything European/UK is ideal and that conservatives don't have any influence there.
The fact that other publications are more right leaning than The Guardian doesn't make it left leaning. It's a liberal paper, supporting liberal positions and routinely expressing opposition to leftists like Corbyn. In my book, support for liberalism and opposition to leftism makes it a right wing publication.
Does anyone really believe it was ever about protecting the kids? I thought it was super obvious it's about mass surveillance. It's so they can link a database of *exactly who is saying what. And then do something evil af with that info, yeah? It's just being poorly framed as "protecting kids" so no one can object, then they look like they don't "care about kids". Even though there's so much proof it doesn't help kids. What would help kids is parents who are able to be with their kids, rather than have to work fingers to bone to just scrape by. They could do information packages for parents, informing them of the risks and how to mitigate, as has been done before. This empowers no one, even if you believe their whole diatribe.
Child abuse, terrorism, national security were always a good alibi for surveillance and control, while pedofiles, terrorists and criminals in the goverment, destroying the national security and basic rights, wishing us to eat cakes.
They are emphatically anti-nazi/anti-fash. If you check out their homepage, the footer has links to "Nazi Punks: Fuck Off" and Black Lives Matter. The favicon for the site is a LGBTQ+ pride flag.
I've read a lot of tech docs through the years. Hands down, this is my favorite.
I do not recommend installing their OS, unless you have time to kill and curiosity. 9front is completely useless. It's a programmer's toy; a sandbox to develop some OS build ideas.
U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.
Cavallo and researchers Paola Llamas and Franco Vasquez have been tracking the price of 359,148 goods, from carpets to coffee, at major online and brick-and-mortar retailers in the United States.
They found that imported goods have become 4% more expensive since Trump started imposing tariffs in early March, while the price of domestic products rose by 2%. The biggest increases for imports were seen in goods that the United States cannot produce domestically, such as coffee, or that come from highly penalised countries, like Turkey.
These price hikes, while material, have been generally far smaller than the tariff rate on the products in question - implying that sellers were absorbing some of the cost as well.
Prosecutors in Tallahassee are convening a grand jury relating to the Hope Florida Foundation, reinvigorating a scandal that has engulfed the charity spearheaded by Casey DeSantis, the governor’s wife.
The investigation began after revelations, first reported by the Herald/Times, that the DeSantis administration directed $10 million from a legal settlement with the Medicaid contractor Centene through the foundation for political purposes.
Nearly all of the money ended up in a political committee controlled by DeSantis’ chief of staff, James Uthmeier. The committee’s purpose was to defeat last year’s recreational marijuana amendment. DeSantis later named Uthmeier as Florida’s attorney general.
On Friday, the White House budget office announced that as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, reductions in force (RIFs) across agencies have begun.
However, over the weekend, the administration rescinded more than half of the 1,300 termination notices it sent to public health officials at the CDC, according to Axios and Reuters, citing sources familiar. Around 600 people at the agency remain fired.
On Saturday, the New York Times reported that members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), informally known as “disease detectives”, as well as the team that compiles the widely respected scientific journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, were among the employees reinstated.
Harvard University is investigating a data breach after the Clop ransomware gang listed the school on its data leak site, saying the alleged breach was likely caused by a recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Oracle's E-Business Suite servers.
This garbage grifter state will consume itself. These dummies are crying abut "antifa" while their computers are totally vulnerable. All of these trash companies: Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, etc. Phony fucking losers.
Following public outcry, the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, about a month after cutting it.
But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness, the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization that will provide funding for those vulnerable students.
Grants to the four agencies total about $1 million a year. The department started funding state-level programs to help deafblind students more than 40 years ago in response to the rubella epidemic in the late 1960s. Nationally, there are about 10,000 children and young adults, from infants to 21-year-olds, who are deafblind and more than 1,000 in the eight affected states, according to the National Center on Deafblindness.
While the population is small, it is among the most complex to serve; educators rely on the deafblindness programs for support and training.
Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.
“I want my MTV” è stato il grido di una generazione. Quarant’anni dopo, MTV archivia un altro capitolo della propria storia: entro il 31 dicembre 2025 verranno spenti in UK i canali tematici MTV Music, MTV 80s, MTV 90s, Club MTV e MTV Live; resterà in onda solo il flagship MTV a programmazione d’intrattenimento. La stessa strategia tocca altri Paesi europei (con ulteriori chiusure nell’Europa centrale e nel Benelux), in linea con un consumo dei video musicali ormai migrato su YouTube, Instagram e TikTok. In Italia, invece, al momento sopravvivono sia MTV (intrattenimento) sia MTV Music su Sky/NOW, un lascito che tiene accesa la fiammella della “Music Television” per gli abbonati.
The power train (and other vital components) of a car should be air-gapped from the internet. It's crazy car manufacturers are even able to brick a car like this.
Is your car going to get security updates 5-10-20 years from now? No. The power train should be air-gapped from the internet.
Companies dont even give a shit about cybersecurity with their internal systems why would they dare put a cent into thinking about security for systems their customers use
Apparently it was supposed to be. They have the core functions in a "can't OTA" container, with less important functions like AV/etc in a "can OTA" model.
This update was pushed to the "can update" side and fucked the "can't update" side, which is its own can of worms. Another can? Jeep pushed a silent, emergency update "to all Jeeps even those who have automatic updates disabled."
So the issue is not that they have no security model, it's that it clearly doesn't work and they can and will push secret updates even when you decline all updates.
I just got a text from my dealership saying my oil light was on. Super pissed off about it... When I got the Jeep 2 years ago I asked Jeep to turn off ALL remote access/phone home capabilities to the vehicle. I was on the phone for a couple hours with them until I finally got someone who said they did it.
Weather alerts, contextual ads on my console, distant recording of my travels, whatever, I wanted everything off.
It has a 4G cellular module in the head unit, which connects to a separate 4G antenna via a port on the back of the head unit. Unplug the antenna from the head unit and it cannot communicate to anything. Obviously you have to remove a bunch of trim and the unit.
Now, it's possible that during maintenance, the process might involve uploading or downloading data to/from the manufacturer. That's hard to avoid.
In most push to start modern cars, it isnt really one central computer like how cars used to be. You still have an ECU, like the computer that is relevant to the drivetrain. But then you also have one or two others separate units that have to have authority over the ECU by nature because of other things they do. Like if the unit that communicates with your key to say “its okay to allow you to use the car” doesnt have authority over operating your powertrain, then it would be much easier to steal your car (i.e. kia and hyundai from a certain period of time). In many cars it also monitors engine performance and can make live adjustments to the operation of the engine, prevent some catastrophic failures, etc.
So having some smarter computer aspect of your car rule your powertrain is a pretty good security and operational thing, even if it leads to the potential for inconveniences. Like if your electric key dies you could lose the ability to start your car, which would never happen with a physical key
That said, I think all updates for cars should be done at dealerships, and not be an over the internet type of thing
My push to start has an RFID slot for the key so even if the fob battery dies it still will recognize and start, push to start may be convenient but I’m more worried about adding additional wires between ignition switch and battery/starter. I absolutely do not want my vehicle connected to the internet, I want gas brake and steering, OTA updates are just a terrible idea
I worked for AAA during this program and literally every single weekend someone would take a car up into the mountains or down the coast and lose cell service…which would then brick the car and leave them stranded in the woods with a Prius they couldn’t even open to get inside. Add fires (thanks PG&E) and mudslides and it was a massive clusterfuck just getting a tow truck to them, which could take hours or days
Can confirm; used to indirectly work for them. Stellantis holds nothing but contempt for their employees, suppliers, and customers. Their products are inferior and overpriced.
This was an update to the entertainment system that somehow had the side effect of disabling the power train while driving. You'd think these would be two entirely separate computer systems, but they must be sharing something.
Ci sono libri che aprono passaggi, come una porta che si spalanca sul respiro profondo delle storie. Libri che sono un invito ad ascoltare prima di spiegare, a guardare senza imporre cornici, a riconoscere la dignità delle voci indigene là dove i racconti diventano memoria viva, canto, preghiera. “Nativi Americani. Guida a Miti, Leggende e Preghiere – Abitare il mistero, decolonizzare lo sguardo” di Raffaella Milandri è tra le guide più ampie e aggiornate dedicate alle tradizioni spirituali e mitologiche dei Popoli Indigeni del Nord America; coniuga rigore filologico e scrittura limpida, restituendo contesto, lingue e prospettive alle cosmologie delle nazioni native. Il libro dialoga con il lavoro pluriennale dell’autrice e si affianca idealmente ad una sua opera di riferimento, “Nativi Americani. Guida alle Tribù e Riserve Indiane degli Stati Uniti”, tracciando un dittico complementare: da una parte la mappa dei popoli e dei territori, dall’altra il cuore simbolico dei miti e delle pratiche spirituali. Ne scaturisce un percorso che non folklorizza né semplifica, ma accompagna con precisione e rispetto studiosi, docenti, studenti, operatori culturali e lettori curiosi e appassionati. Questo titolo si inserisce nella vasta collana che Mauna Kea Edizioni dedica da anni alla cultura nativa, un progetto editoriale che preferisce la cura alla fretta e la responsabilità all’effimero. Non un marchio che “presenta”, ma una casa editrice che continua a farsi tramite: scegliere i testi, ascoltare le comunità, offrire strumenti affidabili e accessibili, sostenere la lunga opera di divulgazione che Raffaella Milandri – insieme ad altri autori come Francesco Spagna e il poeta Lance Henson - porta avanti con molte pubblicazioni e con un impegno coerente sui diritti umani e sulla decolonizzazione dello sguardo. Il volume è disponibile da ottobre 2025 con distribuzione nazionale in libreria e online.
Ci sono libri che aprono passaggi, come una porta che si spalanca sul respiro profondo delle storie. Libri che sono un invito ad ascoltare prima di spiegare, a guardare senza imporre cornici, a riconoscere la dignità delle voci indigene là dove i racconti diventano memoria viva, canto, preghiera. “Nativi Americani. Guida a Miti, Leggende e Preghiere – Abitare il mistero, decolonizzare lo sguardo” di Raffaella Milandri è tra le guide più ampie e aggiornate dedicate alle tradizioni spirituali e mitologiche dei Popoli Indigeni del Nord America; coniuga rigore filologico e scrittura limpida, restituendo contesto, lingue e prospettive alle cosmologie delle nazioni native. Il libro dialoga con il lavoro pluriennale dell’autrice e si affianca idealmente ad una sua opera di riferimento, “Nativi Americani. Guida alle Tribù e Riserve Indiane degli Stati Uniti”, tracciando un dittico complementare: da una parte la mappa dei popoli e dei territori, dall’altra il cuore simbolico dei miti e delle pratiche spirituali. Ne scaturisce un percorso che non folklorizza né semplifica, ma accompagna con precisione e rispetto studiosi, docenti, studenti, operatori culturali e lettori curiosi e appassionati. Questo titolo si inserisce nella vasta collana che Mauna Kea Edizioni dedica da anni alla cultura nativa, un progetto editoriale che preferisce la cura alla fretta e la responsabilità all’effimero. Non un marchio che “presenta”, ma una casa editrice che continua a farsi tramite: scegliere i testi, ascoltare le comunità, offrire strumenti affidabili e accessibili, sostenere la lunga opera di divulgazione che Raffaella Milandri – insieme ad altri autori come Francesco Spagna e il poeta Lance Henson - porta avanti con molte pubblicazioni e con un impegno coerente sui diritti umani e sulla decolonizzazione dello sguardo. Il volume è disponibile da ottobre 2025 con distribuzione nazionale in libreria e online.
My stupid company doesn't give me separate types of leave. I get one type of leave that I have to use for both and so really, I basically only have sick leave because no way do I earn enough to actually afford using it for an actual vacation.
I've never tried my own home brew before and I've been sitting on two kits for years now (got them sitting the pandemic but never found the time) and I wanted to try to start something
The original juice and hops are probably toast by now so I'll have to purchase some new, but I've got two of those jugs and the other bits that come with them.
I also have a small orchard in my back yard and wanted to try to use the thousands of plums in get every year to make some kind of lambic ale.
Depends on a kit, the malt sirup is shelf stable but hops and yeast is definitely bad. Just try something, follow the instructions for start and you will see if you like it.
I don't know much about plums other than distillat so can't suggest much on that.
You haven't tried it before, so I'll suggest just brewing one of the kits you have. Use it to figure out some process and hey, you might still get something drinkable. If not, you'll still be setting yourself up for success with fresh new ingredients.
Edit: oh, and a plum wine is super easy: rock sugar (Belgian candy sugar), vodka, plums. Let it sit for 6+ months.
This is a great idea. Use the kit ingedients to practice the PROCESS and test your existing equipment, even if it's just a stock pot and strainers on your kitchen stove, that's a great place to start. The main thing is sanitation. Got any brewing sanitizer?
The two major things to tackle. My advice would be to just start making beer. The more you make, the better you will get at it. Join a forum to get advice. Don't be put off if it doesn't come out right at first.
On top of what other said, there is a trick to plum: they usually ferment quite nicely (I recommend Lalvin RC212 yeast) but the trick is to bottle condition them for 5 years minimum. It is absolutely worth it.
Don't go for lambics though, they are tricky and until you understand exactly why, I don't recommend it. They are totally not newbie stuff. But aim for plum christmas ale, that's very easy and just in time to try!
If the juice is concentrated, like molasses it'll be fine. Hops might be ok if they're vacuum sealed and freeze dried as they often are.. they look like little pellets. If they're just dried then get some more.
Just follow the instructions.
If you're bottle conditioning, (adding a bit of sugar in the bottle to carbonate) I would recommend using plastic coke bottles. They're pressure safe and don't explode like glass does if you add too much sugar.
The pop top ones are great and I love them but it's easy to mess something up and make them pretty dangerous.
If you have a hygrometer you can measure the sugar content of your brew which takes out the guess work, get one of them before glass bottling. Hygrometers are like $10 and well worth having.
Another way that prevents bottles from exploding is corking with wine corks slightly slices across to hold a thick thread that wraps around the neck to hold the cork against pressure. It's quite weak seal that should pop before the glass.
My friend once had some bottles of sparkling hard cider bottled like that (naturally explosive), left for a trip in winter (Texas), temperature went below freezing, so his landlord (old redneck lady with confederate flags and deer skulls on her house) went into his place and turned on gas stove. Sure she forgot to turn it off when weather normalized to regular +10C, so when he came back, it was hot sauna with apple flavor, but no broken glass at least!
Actually, I remember how I started: I've got a kit and waited for a while with it. Then dumped all of it and just bought fullgrain ingredients, no regrets at all. Starting with a kit seems like harder path with less sure result from my current experience. Maybe it's a way you should consider too?
Just go with the least expensive but still fresh stuff, just enough for one batch. Don't let the brew shop sell you a ton of stuff you don't need right away. Careful. 😀
Hang on to the hops, aged or "cheesy" hops can be great for brewing certain styles, like lambics. They can add desirable flavors because they are aged. Just makes sure that they're not moldy. The good oils/volatiles may still be in those cones!
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