Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Fri 24 Oct 2025 12.50 EDT
A joint statement published on the Hamas website said the groups had agreed in a meeting in Cairo to hand “over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent ‘technocrats’, which will manage the affairs of life and basic services in cooperation with Arab brothers and international institutions”.
The statement also called for a meeting to “agree on a national strategy and to revitalise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people”. Hamas is not part of the PLO, which is dominated by its longtime rival Fatah.
It comes as the wife of the Palestinians’ most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, appealed on Friday to Donald Trump to intervene for her husband’s release from an Israeli jail, after the US President said he would “make a decision” on the matter.
Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Fri 24 Oct 2025 12.50 EDT
A joint statement published on the Hamas website said the groups had agreed in a meeting in Cairo to hand “over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent ‘technocrats’, which will manage the affairs of life and basic services in cooperation with Arab brothers and international institutions”.
The statement also called for a meeting to “agree on a national strategy and to revitalise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people”. Hamas is not part of the PLO, which is dominated by its longtime rival Fatah.
It comes as the wife of the Palestinians’ most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, appealed on Friday to Donald Trump to intervene for her husband’s release from an Israeli jail, after the US President said he would “make a decision” on the matter.
Palestinian factions say they agree to let independent technocrat committee run Gaza
Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Fri 24 Oct 2025 12.50 EDT
A joint statement published on the Hamas website said the groups had agreed in a meeting in Cairo to hand “over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent ‘technocrats’, which will manage the affairs of life and basic services in cooperation with Arab brothers and international institutions”.
The statement also called for a meeting to “agree on a national strategy and to revitalise the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people”. Hamas is not part of the PLO, which is dominated by its longtime rival Fatah.
It comes as the wife of the Palestinians’ most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, appealed on Friday to Donald Trump to intervene for her husband’s release from an Israeli jail, after the US President said he would “make a decision” on the matter.
Conservatives say the contract's cancellation risks making Canada appear as an unreliable ally to Ukraine and undermines commitments to bolstering the domestic defence industry.
Bill Gates recently shared his forecast on the future of work, saying that advances in technology, particularly in artificial intelligence, will likely lead to a reduced two-day work week
Bill Gates a lucky autismo with a privileged upbringing that never gets mentioned. If he knew what he was doing, be would have nuked davos and the G7 decades ago
It‘s phrased „warns“ because it is just assumed that no one will eat. Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society. That we‘ll all just starve to death soon.
I don‘t think we will but it‘s telling that a lot of rich and influential people do and are not only letting it happen but actively supporting it.
Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society.
It's just very difficult to think outside of society , to think of a working society without the organizing power of money and labor. And even more difficult to think about the path to get there.
He's been out for years. While I can't condone his methods in the late 90s (IE vs Netscape), he had nothing to do with the MSFT strategy in the current AI fad.
He hasnt been CEO for decades, but he was on the board up until 2020 when MS's current AI strategy was being developed and executed. His current big push is energy projects, all intended as AI power sources, along with actual AI companies.
That's what I do. Used it to replace a shitty boss and then use it to make my work easier. My new boss is so high up in the clouds he has no idea how much work I actually do and how long it takes, as long as whatever they want eventually gets done.
The economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote an essay titled "Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren." It was 1930. And in the essay, he made a startling prediction. Keynes figured that by the time his children had grown up, basically now, people might be working just 15 hours a week.
For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!
"Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" (1930); appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum (1930)
Basically, had we decided to leave our standard of living where it was in 1930, we could have worked two days a week. But...that's not generally what people wanted to do. We wanted to take advantage of new stuff that people produced to appeal to us, jack up our standard of living.
In the past, we've always managed to come up with new, appealing things that wind up making use of that new productive capacity. Climate control or anime video games or more space per person in housing.
Is it possible that in the future, we will be unable to make use of scarce human labor to provide something that humans want? Maybe! And that's something to think about. But simply the fact that human labor is finite, that things that involve human labor can be used like a status symbol, might itself fill the problem. We shall see.
One thing that I do agree with is that transition from the world of today to a world with AGI is going to be a very disruptive transition.
The one thing that this whole analysis is missing is this: There is a ton of work to do. The oceans are dying. The planet is boiling. The garbage is stacking up, endless and endless. There are crimes big and small going undiscovered, or un-processed and dealt with in a trustworthy fashion if they are discovered. There are wars, there are dangerous materials that need to be removed from the soil and the rivers, and the policies need to be set up and enforced to stop their cousins from replacing them within the year. WE'RE NOT FUCKING DONE. This illusion is wholly wrong that capitalism has created, that it is fine to drive the car off the cliff as long as we keep paying salaries and dividends up until the moment of impact comes
Yes, we've gotten more efficient and powerful in our ability to translate a human into an effective change in conditions at the earth's surface. But the problems have gotten bigger, too, and more urgent to the point that they threaten our entire species. Just because we can now keep growing the food and doing layout for the advertisements with only 15 hours a week, doesn't mean that's all we need to fucking do.
OK but Maynard James Keenan said that some say we'll see Armageddon soon; certainly hope we will. I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three ring circus sideshow.
So it sounds like he's saying no one will work enough to qualify for employer sponsored healthcare... Or at least be able to afford it.
So congrats, don't ever get sick or lose a job! Plus your taxes are going up. Fuck you, you should have been a rich pedophile if you wanted differently!
Thanks for spending billions on malaria, asshole. If you would have paid your fucking taxes and supported the country we wouldn't be in this mess.
Oh yeah, a politically unstable US will directly lead to local conflict between factions in African countries. Thanks to your malaria funding there's now more rape victims and child soldiers than ever!
No clue why this article is being downvoted to hell. Is this not relevant to c/technology? 🤷🏻
Worked at Lowe's last year. No AI is going to replace what any of us were doing except maybe making the scheduling lady's life easier, but we would still need her.
People still need to buy household goods, need advice from experts, need help and labor in 1,000 ways that AI cannot replace.
Until we have relatively inexpensive, multipurpose robots, much of this talk is moot. Humans are the AR-15s of the animal kingdom. Not the best at anything, weak in many ways, but we're reliable, tough and suited for many roles. I cannot imagine an AI powered robot that could work all the tasks I was faced with.
Are we on the same website? Lemmy as a rule hates AI with a blind passion and will downvote anything that isnt frothing at the mouth hatred of it. Hence the downvotes on this post, people see it has AI in the title and isnt calling it slop or saying its cooking the planet and so it gets downvoted.
On re-reading it seems like thats quite possible! The first and second line seem to agree with me but the third is taking the opposite postion though so who knows.
No clue why this article is being downvoted to hell.
The title has the word “AI” in it - the hivemind is practically trained to reflexively downvote and leave a mean comment anytime those two letters show up.
Earlier this year, Geoffrey Hinton, dubbed the "Godfather of AI," highlighted the severe wealth disparity that AI developments could generate.
"We're talking about having a huge increase in productivity. So there's going to be more goods and services for everybody. So everybody ought to be better off, but actually it's going to be the other way around," Hinton stated during a panel discussion. "And it's because we live in a capitalist society."
"And so what's going to happen is: this huge increase in productivity is going to make much more money for the big companies and the rich, and it's going to increase the gap between the rich and the people who lose their jobs. And as soon as you increase that gap, you get fertile ground for fascism," he continued. "And so it's very scary that we may be at a point where we're just making things worse and worse."
This seems spot-on to me. All you downvoters obviously didn't read the article.
Far be it for me to point out that the "godfather of AI" has a vested interest in AI being seen as more capable than maybe it actually is. But more to the point we know that AI systems like loose on an environment cause absolute chaos and fail disastrously.
There was an experiment a couple of months ago where they tried to get an AI to run a small business and I think at one point it ended up sending emails to the FBI claiming it had been defrauded because a product it ordered didn't instantly materialise.
This means if you lose your device, you can use methods like fingerprint, face, or the screen lock code of your previous device to access WhatsApp's backup.
Another kitchen will take its place; always have. Now, whether you agree or not, the next kitchen is likely to be China.
And not to completely dismiss your point, but like I said in another comment, it's important to decouple from the kitchen that is US to minimise the consequences. I don't want another repeat of the Roaring 20's and the countries too economically intertwined with the US also collapsed when the Great Depression hit. One of those countries who was dragged down the worst was Germany, when American investors pulled out their investments from the country. That severe aftershock gave rise to the Nazis, and the rest is history.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the province will “pause” its U.S. advertising campaign on tariffs as of Monday so that trade talks can resume after U.S. President Donald Trump broke off trade negotiations with Canada over the ads.
Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.
Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.
Hello, lemmy.world! First time posting here, hope you'll find it somewhat useful.\ \ In an attempt to protect my personal info from data-hungry cloud-infested madness that comes from app stores of various kinds, I decided to establish a routine of scraping health metrics from... myself. This particular example requires manual input, however it proved to be working reliably and much more precise than any other mood journaling app.
You might easily think I’ve lost my mind—and you’d be right. It happened a long time ago and hasn’t let go since, so tracking mood changes via a graph isn’t just a quirk anymore, it’s more of a life necessity.
Gadgetbridge allows automatic SQLite database export to the location you specify.\ \ Navigate to Settings -> Automations -> Auto export database, and from there you can configure the details.\ \ You can put it into a shared Syncthing folder, or something alike, or process it with Termux + Tasker. Personally, I hesitate to send megabytes of data over the wire every couple of minutes, so I rigged up a script that extracts the required metrics (for now its my steps only, the rest does not seem to be accurate) and sends a payload to my queue, where a consumer script later adds it to the DB.
Does gadgetbridge have something like an API? It seems like it should already have something along these lines, since health wearables not having one is what gave birth to gadgetbridge in the first place...
I’ve been experimenting with something similar the last two months. My workflow involves self reported health data via NextCloud forms. The api feeds a sql db that’s modeled using grafana. I also have a python tool in open webui to chat over the data with gpt-oss:20b. Fun project. Happy to hear others are tinkering too.
As Ireland's $1,500-a-month basic income pilot program for creatives nears its end in February, officials have to answer a simple question: Is it worth it?
With four months to go, they say the answer is yes.
Earlier this month, Ireland's government announced its 2026 budget, which includes "a successor to the pilot Basic Income Scheme for the Arts to begin next year" among its expenditures.
Ireland is just one of many places experimenting with guaranteed basic income programs, which provide recurring, unrestricted payments to people in a certain demographic. These programs differ from a universal basic income, which would provide payments for an entire population.
This should be the default for anybody in the world. From there on work if you want more. We are social, economical and technologically capable of doing it. Is the 1% the ones preventing it from happening.
In Switzerland, 77% of the population voted against. Granted, the 1% may have influenced the voters by spending money on campaigns, or even by creating a narrative over decades. And maybe that proposal was too ambitious. But in the end, it was not just the 1% who voted against but 77%. There is still a lot of skepticism against UBI, despite all the positive evidence.
this week’s fediverse news:
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[li]on how the environment and context in which the fediverse, bluesky and the open social web exist is changing and getting more intertwined with politics [/li]
[li]some thoughts on the recent FediForum keynote by @ben@w
this week's fediverse news:
on how the environment and context in which the fediverse, bluesky and the open social web exist is changing and getting more intertwined with politics
some thoughts on the recent FediForum keynote by @ben@werd.io
new activitypub projects being funded by @nlnet@nlnet.nl
A programming note and context: Fediverse Report will now appear on Friday (instead of Tuesday), for some personal planning reasons as I fit this in with my other work. Fediverse Report will also shift in a slightly different direction, where for the foreseeable future I’ll give more context and thoughts on the shifts in the state of social networks and the open social web. It is becoming increasingly clear that the future of the open social web is getting intertwined with how the Trump administration is (and will) interact with the open social web. The Trump administration is putting an increased focus on Bluesky to troll. Erin Kissane wrote an excellent overview of the situation this week that I highly recommend.
Kissane highlights the risk that the Trump administration will suppress Bluesky in some way, echoing my own writing on the subject. Furthermore, the arrival of the White House social media accounts on Bluesky places Bluesky moderation in a tough position, with no good options to take. For Kissane, that leads her to conclude: “On the individual level, people seeking private social networking may be better off, for now, finding a trustworthy Mastodon server and maintaining their connections with accounts on Bluesky via network bridges.“
I agree with Kissane’s assessment, and for me this also points to how intertwined the futures of the fediverse and the ATmosphere have become. Bluesky is currently top-of-mind for the Trump administration in a way that the fediverse is not, but any potential actions by the administration will impact not only Bluesky, but the fediverse and the wider open social web as well. It is impossible to predict if these second order effects are beneficial or harmful for the fediverse, since that depends strongly on both the details of any action of the administration against Bluesky, as well as how people on Bluesky will respond in practice.
For now, it means that I’m shifting my writing for Fediverse Report to include this larger political context of the open social web.
The News
During the recent FediForum, Ben Werdmuller gave the keynote speech about “why the open social web matters now”, and the keynote and transcript are now available online. Werdmuller makes the point that we’re seeing a shift into authoritarianism in multiple places, with the US being the most high-profile. He points out that the first step towards dealing with the threat is to have open information ecosystem, and that ecosystem is in decline both on social media (with all Big Tech companies capitulating) and in a decay of journalism. Werdmuller makes a distinction here between social media and social networks, where social media is for scale and broadcasting, and social networking are for trust and collaboration.
Werdmuller then describes how social communities can be build, which starts from a private community, that then connects with other peer communities. All these groups have their own secure (encrypted) spaces. This archipelago of connected places ( 🙂 ) can then step into the public network (the fediverse) and share their messages with the broader world.
What stands out to me is how the process described by Werdmuller is pretty much opposite to how development on both the fediverse and the ATmosphere has happened so far. Development on both networks have started from the ‘big world’ social media approach, by creating public microblogging platforms. The assumption seems to be that over time, once there is an initial group of people who use these public network, private networks will emerge. In the case of ATProto this is fairly explicitly visible, the protocol does not support private data currently, and the developers are only now starting to work on this, once the public version of the protocol is deemed to be completed. For ActivityPub and the fediverse there is more possibilities for people to build such private communities, but there has been little interest in building it out. Mastodon does still not support the possibility for local-only posts for example, posts that are only visible to people on the same server, even though community forks of Mastodon (such as glitch-soc) do support local-only posting.
In the keynote, Werdmuller suggests a radically different approach, saying: “For the open social web to thrive, we need to go back to real communities with real-world use cases and solve their problems better than anything else. Not the needs of individuals within them, but of the interconnected communities themselves.” It is important to be specific here, not by helping abstract groups like ‘journalists’ or ‘organisers’, but specific concrete individual communities. Werdmuller urges to be specific in the solutions as well: “Open source or federation are not solutions in themselves. They’re characteristics of a solution. We need to be concretely meeting needs. Not what you think their needs are or what they should be, but what you’ve learned they are from getting to know them deeply.”
NLnet has completed their latest grant round, and with it, there are a number of ActivityPub-related projects that have received a grant. With the latest grant round, NLnet further cements their crucial role in the ecosystem, funding a large number projects and platforms (as well as this newsletter!).
NLnet funds five existing projects for further development:
Microblogging platform GoToSocial gets a grant for performance as well as additional moderation features. GoToSocial also states here that the goal is to get to a 1.0 version at the end of 2026.
Further improvements to the connector that addsActivityPub to CMS platform Drupal.
GoActivityPub is a set of libraries for ActivityPub in Go.
Flohmarkt is a marketplace platform on ActivityPub that people can self host.
NLnet also funds a new project, with Mirlo. Mirlo is an existing platform for artists to sell their music and merch. The grant from NLnet is to add ActivityPub support to Mirlo and to turn it into a federated, self-hostable platform. This makes the platform fairly similar to Bandwagon, which is also a place for artists to sell their music. Both platforms will likely gravitate towards one ‘main’ instance, with the possibility for artists to self-host their Bandwagon or Mirlo instance, that federates with the other platforms. The main part to watch here is if there will be interoperability between Bandwagon and Mirlo. While ActivityPub allows for the possibility of interoperability between different softwares, it does not guarantee it, and it requires active efforts from developers to make it happen. If and how this interoperability will evolve here, with both Bandwagon and Mirlo tapping into a new market of artist music sharing, is worth a keeping an eye on.
Some updates
The Links
A short video explaining ActivityPub Fuzzer, “a program designed to emulate data across the Fediverse to enhance interoperability between social media platforms”.
A reflection on how to name and describe the new type of app of Newsmast, which combines news articles with the fediverse.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading! Next week I’ll dive deeper in to the developments regarding open science and the fediverse, with work by Bonfire and connecting ORCIDs with the fediverse.
It's stuck way down at the bottom, but the ActivityPub Fuzzer project looks really interesting. I have accounts across so many different fediverse platforms just for testing piefed interoperability and it is kind of annoying. Being able to simulate different kinds of activities from a range of platforms without managing so many accounts and doing things in a local environment would be a game changer for interop testing.
Looking forward to the public release @darius@friend.camp
China hits out at UK as PM Starmer interfering in £1.5bn Scottish factory
Chinese firm wind turbine firm Mingyang announced in October its plans to build the UK’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility in Ardersier in the Highlands.
However, the proposals may be blocked by the UK Government on national security grounds as experts are concerned that the factory could give China “enormous” power over Scotland and the UK’s electricity grid, posing “an enormous threat” over Mingyang's links to the Chinese Communist Party
Now China hits out over what a spokesman called "absurd, ridiculous, and ignorant 'China threat' fallacies" that could seriously impact how Chinese companies assess the investment environment in the UK
Scotland's government said it will be working in close consultation with the UK government, stating the issues of national security are relevant to be addressed in this particular case
The UK Government has yet to confirm whether it will allow the project to go ahead, saying that “this is one of a number of companies that wants to invest in the UK" and "any decisions made will be consistent with our national security”
[It is noteworthy that the Chinese government has frequently been banning European and other non-Western companies - recently, for example, Nokia and Ericsson - from its domestic markets over national security concerns - exactly for the same reason Beijing now is trying to slam the UK.]
Hi, This is my first post here, pretty intimidating! haha
I shared this on reddit, and one of my community members told me this is a good place to also share it, so here we go!
A couple of months back I have built a checklist/note taking app for myself and called it rwMarkable, posted it on reddit and a lot of people seemed to resonate to it, so I kept adding new features and enjoying the small but very involved community that has built around it.
For anyone who hasn't heard of the project before, here's a quick bullet list of some features:
Checklists: Create task lists with drag & drop reordering, progress bars, and categories. Supports both simple checklists and advanced task projects with Kanban boards and time tracking.
Text Notes: A clean WYSIWYG editor for your notes, powered by TipTap with full Markdown support and codeblock syntax highlighting.
Sharing: Share checklists or notes with other users or publicly with shareable links.
File-Based: No database needed! Everything is stored in simple Markdown and JSON files in a single data directory.
User Management: An admin panel to create and manage user accounts with session tracking.
Customisable: 14+ built-in themes plus easy custom theme support.
API Access: Programmatic access to your checklists and notes via REST API with authentication for various integrations.
OIDC integration: Use any provider to authenticate, follow this tutorial on how to
There have been a lot of requests to change the name due to it sounding a little too close to reMarkable (the tablet - which, btw, i had no idea existed at the time lol) and after getting some amazing community suggestions we landed on jotty.
You can find all the info (and a demo) here: jotty.page/
Let me know what you think, the app is very much still in development and every week new features get added (that said, I really value the simplicity and lightweight nature of it, so I will not add anything that compromises it).
There is no dedicated native mobile app yet (though there is a bounty for it), so the mobile experience happens via a PWA that is decent for browsing and quick editing, but lacks offline support
When the caught up with Mengele, they drugged him, and shipped him back to Israel to stand trial in a wooden box, like he was just inanimate cargo. I'd love to see Trump subjected to that kind of treatment.
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Yeah, they're legit. Bought a few servers from them over the years. No major issues, packing was good, reasonable ship time.
Had one case where they sent a different NIC than what was listed. They just shipped me the correct one and told me not to bother sending the old one back.
Stopped buying from them though because I prefer off-the-shelf modern consumer hardware nowadays. The real cost is always power consumption, and I prefer to shell out more money up front in exchange for huge savings on power usage down the line. I can always run over to microcenter and replace a part same-day as opposed to ordering it online and hoping it comes soon.
If you're a home-labber, I'd strongly suggest doing the same. Some of those old enterprise servers just gobble power for not that much compute relative to current day consumer machines.
If I was still buying older servers though, I'd probably be looking at their prices.
This is an interesting take. I prefer the other way around, because of redundancy in things like PSU and raid etc. So your take is really interesting to me. I am rethinking my setups for sure.
I get that, that was also something I used to like about old servers, but let me float a few of the things that I've come to realize through my home-lab career to you:
Raid is perfectly feasible in consumer hardware. If your motherboard doesn't have enough SATA ports, you can always get an HBA or a JBOD to support for more disks. There's really no good reason (that I have heard of) for hardware raid today. Just remember raid is not a backup 😀
There are consumer ATX PSUs with redundancy. However, the only reason for PSU redundancy is when you cannot tolerate downtime due to a PSU or UPS failure, and that redundancy might save you a few hours of uptime over 10+ years in comparison to a non-redundant consumer PSU that you can go out and buy if it fails. When was the last time you had a (reputable) PSU fail on you? What kind of uptime are you targeting? If you don't have an answer for that, 99% is very easy to reach even on consumer gear, and is a strong indicator that you don't need enterprise levels of redundancy. 99% is literally 3 days of downtime per year. Also keep in mind that redundant PSUs are just going to gobble more power and increase operating costs.
KVM features - this was the big one for me. I wanted to be able to perform out-of-band remote maintenance on my servers. Then I took a leap and got a Sipeed NanoKVM, and I haven't looked back. there are plenty of them out there - PiKVM is another reputable one. When buying old enterprise servers, you often have to pay for the remote management license, and that is just another added cost. Not to mention that they lose support pretty quickly, and you end up running out of date software on one of your most critical interfaces to the machine. A NanoKVM, PiKVM, and others aren't built into the machine, so they continue to be supported for much longer.
One other thing that I'll mention and you probably already know - enterprise servers are LOUD - even just a single one can literally sound like a jet engine. That's not a hyperbolae. If this is your first one, don't underestimate it. I had my servers in the basement with decent insulation, I used IPMI to throttle the fans back to 10%, and I could still hear the whine on my first floor when everything is quiet. If you end up having to turn down the fans due to noise, you're going to start having heat issues, and then you're losing out on performance and shortening component lifespan. Noise-proofing a server is non-trivial - you have to allow air flow still, and where there's air flow, there's a path for noise too. My current setups all have 120mm and 140mm fans, and I can barely hear them when I'm working right next to them. My 3D printers are the loud ones in the basement now!
Thank you for all the information. I have had servers now for 7 years already, and honestly I still love them. I run a bit more than just seflhosting home-based applications, but I totally get your point. I am a bit older, and therefor a bit more old-school 😀 I sleep safely to the hum of redundant PSUs and Hardware RAID SSDs, haha.
Especially thank you for PiKVM and NanoKVM. I am looking into that a bit.
I am fully off-grid, so power cost is not that big of a deal, and the servers are far enough away for the noise not to bother me.
I am not against anything you said, honestly. And I got a lot of new info. I am going to say this though: I am still not too convinced on the software RAID thing though. Maybe I am just too stupid, but I have not been able to get this going with the same ease, and have it recover as easily as proper hardware RAID. One day I will take the leap again and try to "get with the times".
Thanks again for all the info! Honestly appreciate it.
What's your general self-hosting setup and what machines are you building for that? I'd like to have HA Proxmox running all the time on three nodes with a low power bill and lots of memory available (like 256GB) but space for memory seems to be difficult to find in a reasonable priced consumer board.
Mainly just the HDD's. I already have a server, but having a bunch of extra drives for cheap is really tempting, especially since I haven't filled out all of the bays
Well then very little of what I said actually applies!
Unless you know the hours on a drive, you might get brand new ones, or you might get ones with 50k hours on them. They may also be from the same batch, which isn't ideal for data durability. If you're ok with all that, then go for it. I generally don't buy used drives because I don't want to take the additional risk.
I'd be surprised if you can't find a better deal on used spinning rust though... the shipping alone is probably half the value on a good chunk of sales from SmS.
Yeah they're fine. TechMikeNY usually has better deals though, at least in my experience. Have bought from them several times both for work and homelab, no complaints.
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Just wanted to know if any of you got the same issue: everytime there’s a new version of Nextcloud available (package version at download.nextcloud.com/server/…), it’s EXTREMELY slow to download (70KiB/s or less) to the point that my automation just fails miserably to update my current install.
Am I alone here? Is there some kind of official mirrors I’m not aware of that can speed things up?
The Netherlands is set to get its first openly gay prime minister, Rob Jetten, following strong results in the country's recent election, which saw his party gain 17 seats, and Geert Wilders' far-right party lose 11.
Frankly quite surprised to see this has not been mentioned on Lemmy yet. Have been working on migrating away from Spotify to Navidrome for a while now, but wasn't completely satisfied with the UI of Navidrome. Luckily I stumbled upon this project and having used it for a week or so now i thought it would be a good idea to share it and give the project some love! ❤
I plan on doing a detailed write up of how i went along with migrating to Navidrome as soon as I have all my playlists and discoverability in order, stay tuned 😀
Subsonic Integration: Aonsoku integrates with your Navidrome or Subsonic server, providing you with easy access to your music collection.
Intuitive UI: Modern, clean and user-friendly interface designed to enhance your music listening experience.
Podcast Support: With Aonsoku Podcasts you can easily access, manage, and listen to your favorites podcasts directly within the app. Enjoy advanced search options, customizable filters and seamless listening synchronization to enhance your podcast experience.
Synchronized lyrics: Aonsoku will automatically find a synced lyric from LRCLIB if none is provided by the server.
Unsynchronized lyrics: If your songs have embedded unsynchronized lyrics, Aonsoku is able to show them.
Radio: If your server supports it, listen to radio shows directly within Aonsoku.
Ur welcome! AFAIK no i dont think it can do that atm. If I were you I'd host multiple instances and maybe throw different themes at each instance to tell the difference more easily maybe 😀
Congratulations on developing this beautiful client 🤩 I would love to see a full offline mode to be able to: make individual songs available for offline playing make entire albums available for off...
After setting up Navidrome and being very happy with it apart from the web interface i went looking for a better one so i've looked at a few of these now. Aonsoku does seem to be one of the better ones.
Though i still feel Feishin is currently the most fleshed out and is still getting active development.
It has multi select everywhere, lots of options for sending things to playlists and queues. You can have the playlist docked to the RHS. You can drag stuff around in the queue. Just lots of nice quality of life options.
This tension, of course, is not new. China’s “overcapacity”—the shorthand term for producing more than demand calls for—has long led other governments to complain. In the past, China produced too much steel, coal, cement, and other goods, which crowded out competitors elsewhere and drove global prices to unprofitable lows.
China’s tendency toward overcapacity has traditionally been blamed on a fundamental mismatch in its economy; government subsidies and investment in manufacturing and infrastructure are unusually high compared with those in other advanced economies, and the country’s household consumption as a share of GDP is unusually low. Simply put, China lacks enough domestic demand to soak up what the country’s factories produce, which then causes a glut of exports.
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The real challenge, then, lies [...] in an extraordinary and seemingly uncontrollable surge in supply—one that Beijing is struggling to get its arms around. Since mid‑2024, central government authorities have warned repeatedly about “blind expansion” in solar power, batteries, and EVs. This summer, after a brutal price war in the solar industry saw prices fall around 40 percent year-over-year, Chinese leaders directed officials to tackle overcapacity and “irrational” pricing in key industries, including solar. Shortly thereafter, high-level officials met with industry leaders to collectively urge companies to curb price wars and strengthen industry regulations.
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Unlike earlier bouts of [Chinese] overcapacity, today’s top offenders are private companies, not state-owned enterprises. If Beijing were to step in and force consolidations or shutter factories, it would risk sparking unemployment and potentially stall local growth engines that depend on these industries. Moreover, exports have become one of the few remaining bright spots in otherwise slowing GDP performance. If Beijing were to meaningfully curb production and exports, it could cause significant damage to China’s overall economy.
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By rewarding speed and scale over productivity and differentiation, the internal plumbing of China’s political economy incentivizes businesses to produce too much stuff. Although that has always been the predictable outcome of China’s political and financial system, the dysfunction was kept in check during much of China’s spectacular rise. Changes in the Chinese economy since 2020, however, including the cratering real estate market and a crackdown on private businesses and investments, have compounded the structural incentives that lead to overcapacity.
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China’s tendency to overproduce starts in an unlikely place: the Chinese Communist Party’s performance and promotion system. In the CCP bureaucracy, local officials are evaluated primarily on their ability to deliver growth, employment, and tax revenues. But China’s largest single tax, the value-added tax (VAT), is split evenly between the central government and the local government of the place where a good or service is produced, not the place where it is consumed. Since the system allocates tax revenue to regions based on production, it rewards the decision to build larger industrial bases. Local Chinese officials try to retain as much upstream and downstream activity as they can to expand their tax base.
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This system effectively encourages provincial and municipal leaders [China] to act like industrial investors or venture capitalists. And in many cases, it has produced profound efficiencies. Over the past decade, for instance, Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, has poured about $25 billion of state capital into various struggling companies, including the EV maker Nio and the flat-panel display manufacturer BOE, to great effect. By acting as an early investor and bearing the initial risk, Hefei stimulated about $96 billion in follow-on investment and generated around $9 billion in tax revenues. The Hefei model has since been widely imitated, with other provinces racing to assemble their own industrial clusters.
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Firms rarely close down operations altogether [if they become unprofitable], however, because the state-backed banks prefer to roll over existing loans so that the firms appear solvent on paper. That way, even if those companies are only servicing their interest payments and not generating strong returns, the banks avoid having to book immediate losses—and avoid potentially contributing to the collapse of a large local employer. Credit keeps flowing into these “zombie” sectors and companies with declining productivity even as they are dragging down the broader economy in the long run.
Private firms not chasing government-backed industries, meanwhile, have long struggled to access affordable bank credit, which means they tend to seek capital from costly nonbank channels, such as venture capital, private equity, and initial public offerings. These channels helped fuel much of China’s record growth in the first two decades of the twenty-first century: by October 2020, 217 Chinese companies were listed on major U.S. exchanges with a combined $2.2 trillion market cap, illustrating how deeply private firms tapped global equity markets. Leading venture capital platforms scaled as well. Sequoia’s China arm (now HongShan), for instance, backed hundreds of private firms, including some of China’s most prominent success stories, such as the social media company ByteDance and the transportation platform Didi.
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The price wars are a mere symptom of the overcapacity problem. Beijing can’t hope to make meaningful progress without reengineering the underlying incentive structure that is causing overcapacity. Consider, for example, how the CCP evaluates local officials. At present, cadres are promoted largely based on how much growth they deliver; that means judging them based on how much new factory space they build and how many roads or industrial parks they pave. Such measures favor scale over quality.
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To create a more sustainable model—one that encourages innovation but doesn’t spiral into overcapacity—China will have to undergo an institutional reckoning. The logic of speed over quality, of scale over innovation, and of investment volume over returns is deeply embedded in the system. Reversing that logic means making long-deferred tradeoffs and moving past the structures that once powered China’s incredible rise.
In the past, China produced too much steel, coal, cement, and other goods, which crowded out competitors elsewhere and drove global prices to unprofitable lows
Again doing exactly what capitalist economic theory claims is best, and the capitalists complain they're not playing the game "right."
There's no such single theory. Rather they are using the mechanism that worked in western nations' favor for much of history. The western progress looked like "now we can produce more and better and faster and with less", and the step to "now we are doing intellectual work than nobody else can do, while others produce stuff for us" is not linear.
And the point of global logistics is to help those who produce the most. Like China.
I mean, OK, the point is to control the flow, but the quote basically complains that using that control is expensive. Oops.
For the quote, sure. But dropping the market until it's not profitable for anyone isn't capitalist but has happened a few times there. Capitalism isn't a single theory but most I'm aware argue the market should rebalance (ie. they stop building before this point). Their empty skyscrapers being a prominent visual of this happening
Dumping is a local-optimization tactic. Globally, it makes things worse, but can benefit individual capitalists in their own markets.
And even if it's not profitable in the short run, driving competitors out of business can be quite lucrative once they're bankrupt and you can then start hiking prices without competition.
The objective of dumping is to increase market share in a foreign market by driving out competition and thereby create a monopoly situation where the exporter will be able to unilaterally dictate price and quality of the product.
Sounds like someone didnt read the link they sent, a monopoly is a capitalists dream. It can hurt local enconomies, but that doesn't matter to the capitalist, only governments.
Although the bill still requires several rounds of approval to become law, its preliminary passage has embarrassed Benjamin Netanyahu, who had earlier urged lawmakers to delay its presentation during US vice-president JD Vance’s visit – an effort to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire. Washington has repeatedly said that any annexation of the West Bank would cross a red line.
“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” Donald Trump told reporters at the White House in September. “It’s not going to happen.”
“I think the president’s made clear that’s not something we can be supportive of right now,” Rubio said of annexation as he boarded his plane for a visit to Israel.
Although the bill still requires several rounds of approval to become law, its preliminary passage has embarrassed Benjamin Netanyahu, who had earlier urged lawmakers to delay its presentation during US vice-president JD Vance’s visit – an effort to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire. Washington has repeatedly said that any annexation of the West Bank would cross a red line.
“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” Donald Trump told reporters at the White House in September. “It’s not going to happen.”
“I think the president’s made clear that’s not something we can be supportive of right now,” Rubio said of annexation as he boarded his plane for a visit to Israel.
Marco Rubio warns Israel not to annex West Bank after Knesset vote in favour
Lorenzo Tondo Jerusalem Thu 23 Oct 2025 05.31 EDT
Although the bill still requires several rounds of approval to become law, its preliminary passage has embarrassed Benjamin Netanyahu, who had earlier urged lawmakers to delay its presentation during US vice-president JD Vance’s visit – an effort to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire. Washington has repeatedly said that any annexation of the West Bank would cross a red line.
“I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank,” Donald Trump told reporters at the White House in September. “It’s not going to happen.”
“I think the president’s made clear that’s not something we can be supportive of right now,” Rubio said of annexation as he boarded his plane for a visit to Israel.
I'm just curious how it got like this. What leverage does Israel have that it's got such a strong hold over USA than any influence it might have in the rest of Europe?
AIPAC managed to get in before they began banning international lobbying.
And if you want to put on a tinfoil hat, I would personally would not be surprised if there is a lot of blackmail involved. with plenty of conspiracies about Epstein being a mossad agent.
Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
As soon as you leave the big languages, esp. English, Wikipedia can be very problematic for all sorts of reasons. Mostly because of a lack of eyeballs. But it doesn't end with merely badly written/generated content but also with narrative manipulation that - unlike in the English version - remains unchallenged.
Sorry, but English-speaking countries have basically invented "narrative manipulation". For most of history it was normal that there are many competing narratives from interested parties on anything. But such sophistication at making one side's narrative seem impartial, perpetually contested and self-healing has never been achieved before.
It's as if you paint a lake red, it's expensive, and people may get used to it and even believe that's kinda normal, but one can still see that it's just one lake. If you paint the world oceans red, so that it rains red and mists red, that's far more persuasive, and that's what the "collective West" has achieved.
To make a lake painted red seem normal, you need to prevent most of your population from looking at other lakes. But when you've managed to paint the ocean red, you don't need to limit them at all. The fence and the punishment would hurt trust, but without them your and other people looking at the red oceans and rains will think they are also free.
Despite being just one alliance of former and current colonizing powers on this planet.
It's very sad to live in an era of frustration where we can see that it can't reform itself further in humanist direction, than it already has by about year 1988.
Sort of like a planetwide revolutionary situation by Lenin, where the dominating powers can't keep the order the old way (that persuasion still slowly dies), and the dominated can't live the old way. But, as we know, revolutionary situations by Lenin generally don't lead to what one would hope for.
EDIT: Oh, I forgot. The point is that it's actually nice sometimes to have alternative pages in smaller languages on niche subjects, explained better to my own taste. And in the bigger languages articles are sometimes removed for no good reason, say, Hotline\KDX have been butchered simply for being not popular anymore.
Sorry, but English-speaking countries have basically invented “narrative manipulation”.
You have no idea how wrong you are. I could claim it was the roman catholic church and there'd probably still be older examples. More likely, no entity "basically invented" it.
Nothing against you personally, but this is not the edgy take you think it is.
Oh, I forgot. The point is that it’s actually nice sometimes to have alternative pages in smaller languages on niche subjects, explained better to my own taste.
No, the point is that there are countries where people speak these languages and they want to read things in their own language. Sheesh.
"Basically invented" here meant the last huge leap, to having one cluster of narratives perceived as "normal and clean" almost globally. Of course literally not. The roman catholic church didn't have such means.
I wonder if language and other cultural fields are the only areas where Linus's law are impossible to safely apply. Programming seems quite easy by comparison.
Hmm, the law begins with "Given enough eyeballs". So it's explicitly not about small-language Wikipedia sites having too few editors.
It also doesn't talk about finding consensus. "All bugs are shallow" means that someone can see the solution. In software development, that's most often quite easy, especially when it comes to bugfixes. It's rarely difficult to verify whether the solution to a bug works or not. So in most cases if someone finds a solution and it works, that's good enough for everyone.
In cultural fields, that's decidedly not the case.
For most of society's problems, there are hardly any new solutions. We have had the same basic problems for centuries and pretty much "all" the solutions have been proposed decades or centuries ago.
How to make government fair? How to get rid of crime? How to make a good society?
These things have literally been issues since the first humans learned to speak.
That's why Linus' law doesn't really apply here. We all want different things and there's no fix that satisfies all requirements or preferences.
For most of society’s problems, there are hardly any new solutions. We have had the same basic problems for centuries and pretty much “all” the solutions have been proposed decades or centuries ago.
That's because people generally don't know or understand these solutions. One can't raise above separate human's ability to understand any system. And I mean any. Doesn't mean a housewife has to know electrical engineering, but enough people in any group reliant upon any system should have passive knowledge and understanding.
So, thanks to AI translators and such, I can now link kvant.digital/ here.
The very first problem in the very first issue of that journal is very enlightening.
Does it really matter? I think the extreme amount of languages in the world right now is not helping us communicate. I don't view language as a cultural heritage thing, just a communication protocol. And I have moved around a lot in the world, it's very difficult to be constantly adapting to different languages. That causes a societal integration barrier for me.
I think if we had a universal language (note that it wouldn't have to be English) we would be able to understand each other better and have less wars.
PS: I'm not advocating to ban languages or something, just to have a universal one. A bit like what Esperanto tried to achieve. Mutual language means more mutual understanding and thus less "us vs them" underbelly feelings that the fascists thrive on.
Yeah I'm just not really wed to any language. I guess it is also because I have moved around so much. I'm from Holland but I don't consider myself a Dutch person, more like a citizen of the world. I've become too different to fit in in my home country (also because it's become an extreme-right cesspool lately 😢 ). I've spent about half my life elsewhere. And the places I've lived where I spoke the languages I fared noticeably better.
Don't forget that a lot of today's problems center around not understanding each other. The hatred of immigrants for example.
But I know a lot of people do view language as a cultural thing, it's just my point of view.
Languages have their own quirks and characters, representative of the people's cultural values and history, and express ideas not even present in other cultures. As many languages have to be preserved as possible for these reasons.
It's profoundly chauvinistic to think that people who speak other languages don't have the same depth of literary resource as English-speakers because Wikipedia has fewer users.
Books. They're called books. Every nation speaking every language has them.
I understand you're trying to be nice to minority languages, but if you write research papers you either limit your demographic to your own country, or you publish in English (I guess Spanish is pretty world wide as well). If you set out to read a new paper in your field, I doubt you'd pick up something in Mongolian.
Even in Sweden I would write a serious paper in English, so that more of the world could read it. Yes, we have text books for our courses that are in Swedish, but i doubt there are many books covering LLMs being published currently for example.
I'm not "trying to be nice to minority languages", I'm directly pushing back against the chauvinistic idea that the English Wikipedia is so important that those without it are somehow inferior. There is no "doom spiral".
As for scientific papers, it's called a translation. One can write academic literature in one's native langaue and have it translated for more reach. That isnt the case with Wikipedia which is constantly being edited.
I’m not “trying to be nice to minority languages”, I’m directly pushing back against the chauvinistic idea that the English Wikipedia is so important that those without it are somehow inferior. There is no “doom spiral”.
I think you missed the problem described here.
The "doom spiral" is not because of English Wiki, it has nothing to do with anything.
The problem described is that people who don't know a "niche" language try to contribute to a niche Wiki by using machine translation/LLMs.
As per the article:
Virtually every single article had been published by people who did not actually speak the language. Wehr, who now teaches Greenlandic in Denmark, speculates that perhaps only one or two Greenlanders had ever contributed. But what worried him most was something else: Over time, he had noticed that a growing number of articles appeared to be copy-pasted into Wikipedia by people using machine translators. They were riddled with elementary mistakes—from grammatical blunders to meaningless words to more significant inaccuracies, like an entry that claimed Canada had only 41 inhabitants. Other pages sometimes contained random strings of letters spat out by machines that were unable to find suitable Greenlandic words to express themselves.
Now, another problem is Model Collapse (or, well, a similar phenomenon in strictly in terms of language itself).
We now have a bunch of "niche" languages' Wikis containing such errors... that are being used to train machine translators and LLMs to handle these languages. This is contaminating their input data with errors and hallucinations, but since this is the training data, these LLMs consider everything in there as the truth, propagating the errors/hallucinations forward.
I honestly have no clue where you're getting anything chauvinistic here. The problem is imperfect technology being misused by irresponsible people.
Is it even getting misused? Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating. As long as there is transparency so people can judge the results …..
And ai training trusting everything it reads is a larger systemic issue, not limited to this niche.
Perhaps part of the solution is machine readable citations. Maybe a search engine or ai could provide better results if it knew what was human generated vs machine generated. But even then you have huge gaps on one side with untrustworthy humans (like comedy) and on the other side with machine generated facts such as from a database
Is it even getting misused? Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating. As long as there is transparency so people can judge the results
Sure there are limitations. The point still stands: an imperfect machine translation is better than no translation, as long as people understand it is.
Can we afford to allow a high bad deprive people of knowledge just because of the language they speak?
The article complains about the affect on languages of poor machine translations, but the affect of no translations is worse. Yes those Greenlanders should be able to read all of Wikipedia without learning English and even if the project has no human translators
Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating
Have you not read my entire comment...?
One of the Greenlandic Wiki articles "claimed Canada had only 41 inhabitants". What use is a text like that? In what world is learning that Canada has 41 inhabitants better than going to the English version of the article and translating it yourself?
Perhaps part of the solution is machine readable citations
The contents of the citations are already used for training, as long as they're publicly available. That's not the problem. The problem is that LLMs do not understand context well, they are not, well, intelligent.
The "Chinese Room" thought experiment explains it best, I think: imagine you're in a room with writing utensils and a manual. Every now and again a letter falls in to the room through a slit in the wall. Your task is to take the letter and use the manual to write a response. If you see such and such shape, you're supposed to write this and that shape on the reply paper, etc. Once you're done, you throw the letter out through the slit. This goes back and forth.
To the person on the other side of the wall it seems like they're having a conversation with someone fluent in Chinese whereas you're just painting shapes based on what the manual tells you.
LLMs don't understand the prompts - they generate responses based on the probability of certain characters or words or sentences being next to each other when the prompt contains certain characters, words, and sentences. That's all there is.
There was a famous botched experiment where scientists where training an AI model to detect tumours. It got really accurate on the training data so they tested it on new cases gathered more recently. It gave a 100% certainty of a tumour being present if the photograph analysed had a yellow ruler on it, because most photos of tumours in the training data had that ruler for scale.
But even then you have huge gaps on one side with untrustworthy humans (like comedy) and on the other side with machine generated facts such as from a database
"Machine generated facts" are not facts, they're just hallucinations and falsehoods. It is 100% better to NOT have them at all and have to resort to the English wiki, than have them and learn bullshit.
Especially because, again, the contents of the Wikipedia are absolutely being used for training further LLM models. The more errors there are, the worse the models become eventually leading to a collapse of truth. We are already seeing this with whole "research" publications being generated, including "source" material invented on the spot, proving bogus results.
No one is saying those who can't access or reqd English wikipedia is inferior. The issue here is when what is on a non-english wikipedia article is misleading or flat out harmful (like the article says about growing crops), because of juvenile attempts at letting machine translations getting it very wrong. So what Greenland did was shut down its poorly translated and maintained wiki site instead of letting it fester with misinformation. And this issue compounding when LLMs scrape Wikipedia as a source to learn new languages.
... the repression was not about defending “order and social peace” but about sending a message to imperialism and the multinationals operating in the country that the new government would defend capitalism and guarantee the profits extracted from the exploitation of Peruvian workers.
The repression sends a message to imperialism and the multinationals that the new government will guarantee the profits extracted from the exploitation of Peruvian workers.
KUALA LUMPUR: Hundreds of protestors gathered in Malaysia’s capital on Friday afternoon (Oct 24) to rally against United States President Donald Trump’s attendance of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.
Pope Leo is literally American, so presumably some US Catholics trust in his leadership and agree. Not all Catholics are like Cardinals Burke and Dolan.
It certainly doesn’t hurt. There are still plenty of Catholics listening to what the Pope says, especially at the Catholic schools and colleges across the country.
the thing is, is that in North America, alot of people are christans now, and follow the bible VERBATIM and dont consult the pope or other religious figures for clarity or, if you could call it this, errata. There's a video going around of some christian dude saying that its christian to say slavery is not wrong, yet this is not true for roman Catholics, there needs to be a hard line drawn between the two, as the former is what is a majority of trumps voter base, the the later find what they do is a bastardizaion.
I mostly agree, although I would say they follow the Bible verbatim™, where in reality they are just following what their local pastor or grandfather is saying the Bible says. Some common things they do take literally such as the Earth being only 6,000 to 10,000 years old, there being a literal Garden of Eden, and a literal Noah’s Ark.
Whatever whacko is trying to say ‘slavery isn’t wrong’ is not a Christian imo.
I feel that many Catholics I know call themselves Catholic first, rather than saying they are Christian and then clarifying that they are Catholic.
Off-topic: I feel a lot of these issues unfortunately came about from Christianity fracturing around the wrong thing. Christianity fractured around people having to do good works to go into heaven, as those leaving the Catholic church thought that faith alone was sufficient. The Catholic church of that time was greedy, they were letting people buy their way into purgatory, so that they could then go into heaven. The original Martin Luther, saw that greediness and called the Catholic church out, but he was calling them out and fractured the church over the wrong reasons imo.
Because they went off the basis of faith being sufficient; it opened the door for “Christians” to be genuinely awful to others since all they had to do was ask God for forgiveness right before they died and it was ‘All Good™’. The Bible calls on Christians to love one another, even people they might call their enemy they are called to love. I feel more of these people need to actually read the words of Jesus, because he is not condoning any of this type of hateful behavior.
the Bank for International Settlements estimates that overseas bank lending in renminbi to borrowers in developing countries rose by $373bn in the four years to the end of March.
“The year 2022 marked a turning point away from dollar- and euro-denominated credit and towards renminbi-denominated credit” to such borrowers, the BIS said.
Taiwan officials reach out to conservative US media
June, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim, a fluent English speaker and formerly Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the United States, gave an interview to the Shawn Ryan Show, while in May, then Presidential Office spokesperson Lii Wen wrote an op-ed in the conservative Washington Times.
Hi, this is a post for you to rant on your sore points on technology
See I am trying to think of a good project idea one that people actually want solved, is there an app you wished existed, a site u wanted, put it down here and hey what do you know you may just see an ad in some while that now it exists
I'll start the conversation and hope its useful to some other dev, I hate that there aren't any sites where I can just paste a link of a paid service like Veo and get a free alternative
After the latest Android update, When I turn on the torchlight on my phone, I get a notification with a text AND A blingeling sound. I often use the torch when going to bed, and the audio notification is EXTREMELY annoying since I'm trying not to wake my wife.
For fucks sake, a notification for tuning on the torchlight? I would think it's kind of obvious since first I pushed the button to turn it on, and for fucks sake it a TORCHLIGHT, how could I miss having turned it on?!?! That notification is insanely moronic, and I can't find anywhere to disable it??? Stupid Android updates always fuck up something.
PS: My phone is a Xiaomi 13T Pro. If this is a Xiaomi thing, it could be reason enough for me not to buy Xiaomi again.
This is a very stupid rant and I already know people will downvote me(it has happened before)
The internet is no long just a network of computers. It has at least 2 centralized points - icaan controls names and numbers. That includes DNS and IP addresses. When the Ukraine Russia war started they were asked to disconnect Russia from the internet by rejecting their IPS. They said no, but COULD have yes. Also, companies like google and amazon can get their own TLD (.aws and .ggl) you you and I can't because we are not buddies with them - certificate authorities: there is a fucking huge list of companies that are allowed to sign certificates. No, you can't just get on that list, you have to ask permission and be audited. If ONE of them fucks up, there are serious consequences for EVERYBODY (yes, I know certificate pinning is a thing, but still)
Edit: oh. Also email. Want to host your own email? Good luck, everything is marked as spam, and you can't do it on a home connection because the port is blocked
Most of mine are things like setting a default for things like wifi or Bluetooth devices.
I want my phone to connect to my home wifi and know it's the home wifi? I want it to prefer that wifi to other networks.
I want my Bluetooth headset to stay connected to the device I'm currently using rather than changing to a separate device when that device is powered on.
I'm sure there are others but I think these may not be solvable without changing the way these devices handle connections in their firmware.
Israeli airstrikes have targeted multiple areas in eastern and southern Lebanon, claiming to hit Hezbollah targets. Israel has been carrying out regular attacks on Lebanon despite a nearly year-old ceasefire between it and Hezbollah.
The ceasefire includes the requirement of Hezbollah completely withdrawing from southern Lebanon and gives Israel the right to attack them, if they don’t. So this is in accordance with the ceasefire deal.
Lol you think the israelis wouldn't have found a pretext to bomb Lebanon? They repeatedly bombed Syria even though the new leader is a CIA puppet who is desperate to lick Netanyahu's boots.
The ceasfire deal has already been broken multiple times without enforcement actions from any third parties. There is no ceasfire, only a document not being followed.
The semi-emotionless, or at least restrained emotional delivery of the lines always hit me really hard. They never screamed, never cried, but the matter of fact way they said Kharak was burning, and how you needed to hunt down the perpetrators… it was chilling. The emotion was somehow bleached out of the voices, yet so, so, so powerfully deep and present nonetheless… I don’t know how they managed it, but it was incredible.
I agree, that's the genuine beauty of it, their layered performance. We could hear their emotions as much as we could hear them hiding their emotions. Genius
This seems like a cool project. I especially love the UI's similarity to Discord, but it still has a long road ahead to be a viable chat platform IMO.
I've been periodically checking in with ~~Revolt~~ Stoat for about a year now, and personally, the two things that I'm waiting for are: 1. Voice chat - It seems like this is coming, but they had to clean up a bunch or tech debt first 2. Federation - Self-hosted chat is great, but not being able to talk to other servers is incredibly limiting for a social tool. AFAIK they're not planning on implementing this. This is likely a deal-breaker for a lot of folks.
I'm currently running Matrix synapse, and while matrix is kinda a messy ecosystem, it's really hard to compete with its maturity and adoption in the FOSS / Self-Hosted space.
Also, not super important, but this blog post reads like it's AI generated.
i honestly think that if revolt had federation, then it would be the obvious choice for me, but alas. personally i'm still hopeful for polyproto getting off the ground, but the boring realistic choice for the time being is probably something like XMPP + mumble
i think for my purposes i'm fine with hosting that through a separate service, so instead of XMPP + mumble i would run polyproto + mumble (or some other voip solution, screen sharing seems to be a decent way away in mumble)
but (as i understand it), polyproto isn't a chat protocol per se, but more a protocol for federated message authentication. as an application of this protocol, they're building polyproto-chat, which is a chat protocol. in theory, one could then also build a polyproto-voice so you can use the same account for both chatting and voice calls. i still think this is pretty far away, considering how young polyproto is, which is why my current vision is chat and voice as two separate services (which i also prefer because i imagine it makes the technology simpler and hosting easier)
What resources, suggestions, and support can those of us who are already here provide to potential newcomers? And what can we do to prepare for – and encourage – a potential influx?
Media Revolution's Media Liberation Day on November 5 is encouraging people to liberate themselves from malignant corporate media to explore decentralized social networks. It's a great opportunity to bring people to fedi ...
I would say the main thing is being nice and letting people explore, and providing spaces/communities for people to come back and ask questions when they have them. When people bring up issues or suggest things that they want to see, we shouldn't crap on what they prefer their online experience to be (ex. preferred algorithms, content they want to block, etc.)
Resources wise, we created this guide and I like to link these two particular pages for fediverse/lemmy. I feel that they help give a high level overview of how things work:
That would probably help. Do you want to become a mod on !newcomers@piefed.zip ? If yes, should I appoint @otter@piefed.ca ? Cross platform moderation can probably be a bit finicky
As a digital comms and usability professional, I'd suggest you do some testing and refinement of these materials. I commend your efforts but these are not something I would ever hand out to a 50yr old volunteer if I want them to sign up to use a fedi community instead of FB
"When you want to send an email, you don't need to use the same email provider as the person you're sending it to." is not a helpful thing for a newbie (though I understand why you have included it)... This sort of content indicates the gulf between the (user's) mental model and the (system designer's) conceptual design is too great.
I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you're interested, DM me.
I think engaging with people on a human level rather than giving unsolicited advice on how to use fediverse to every new face around could be a place to start. Half the time I see a new user here they seem to get flooded with technical advice that, while well-meaning, is somewhat off-putting.
A simple "Welcome! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about how to make the most of your time here" is plenty for most people. And if they do ask questions, go wild.
Is there a good community in which newcommers can ask basic questions, like a fedi help desk community/no stupid questions fedi edition? I feel like that could be useful to point people to. Edit: Blaze linked !newcomers@piefed.zip in another comment.
Probably just by having fun in your own communities and in general. When people see a group of people laughing and posting memes its naturally a place they want to lurk and join in on. I think the worst part we can do is give long winded explanations of federation. Best just keep it simple and tell them to join a generic server
I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It's a "pick your adventure" kind of scenario, IMHO.
It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It's not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot and I like the concept of a 'home instance'.
Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it just is what it is.
Observe while participating is what I meant. The intent is to give a person a heads up that cliques still exist on Lemmy and it may take a bit to understand them. In my case, I found the first instance I wouldn't participate on when I was classified as a fascist baby killer for some reason. (Some instances hadn't been mostly defederated back then.)
Do some usability testing and improvement - Recruit volunteer UX / usability professionals to run studies with users and recommend usability improvements. - Be prepared for some critical feedback. - Organise and prioritise the feedback - Recruit some volunteer UI designers, graphic designers and devs with experience of working with UXers to refine and implement the usability fixes
Provide more user-friendly onboarding, signup, sign-in, password management etc. The barriers are very high even for those of us with good tech confidence.
Provide better approaches and platforms for small groups (volunteer organisations, hobby and interest groups and neighbourhoods) to replace Facebook Groups and similar.
Gain more experience of working with non-tech users, e.g. volunteer at your local library, seniors' IT classes, to understand the challenges that 80% of users would face in using fedi products and gain some insights into how to resolve those issues
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is terminating all trade negotiations with Canada over an advertisement by the Ontario government that uses the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's own words to send an anti-tariff message to American audiences.
In a late-night post to his Truth Social platform, Trump attacked the ad, which he attributed to Canada rather than Ontario, as fraudulent and fake.
"TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A." Trump wrote. "Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED."
This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a c
This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).
Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.
Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.
More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.
Its a solar powered webserver. Its running on an old beat up pixel 6a worth about 20$ and a 10w solar panel. I'm going to make a more formal writeup at some point but for now, it works!
I have it set to 80% forever so the battery will last. Without any charging it can last around 2 days. So we shall see if 10w is enough.
There's a lot I can improve about the setup. Its on WiFi so it can be slow well 300ms slow on load). And has absolutely no chache other than what comes with Apache. The site is very minimalist to save both power and time (I spent maybe 2 hours doing all this, most of the coding last weekend). The stats page needs to be updated, there's a couple bugs in the WH side of things.
I cannot keep track which models have issues but isn't the 6a one of those with battery bloat issues? Might remember wrong. Definitley a cool project! Is the phone not getting super hot in that plastic box?
postmarketOS, mobian, etc.. these are 'real' linux distros that work without the android parts. as your device doesn't have a (near-)mainline kernel port i believe you can boot postmarketOS with the stock downstream kernel, though many peripherals won't function.
halium based distros like ubports and droidian use a part of the android userspace to make those peripherals work, which can be better if mainline is not possible.
You’re looking at a completely rebuilt version of the solar powered website, which now allows you to turn off the dithering compression and see the original images.
Depending on the dongle, that would increase power consumption. I think that is difficult in the current state, seeing that there is not much power to spare at the moment.
That sounds like way too much, unless you have a really congested network or interference in the area. Should be able to get it at least 10x faster, unless you're taking the web server page load time into account in your latency numbers and not just the network.
Its the entire request. Its definitely not the software, that takes > 20 ms if its direct connected via Ethernet usbc. You are entirely correct, it can be much faster like my other services are.
Its wifi 2.4 across multiple walls. Im frankly surprised its only 200+ ms delay with the amount of signals in the area.
I'll assume it's cool, but currently hugged to death for me. Just wanted to point out batteries are replaceable even if glued, fixed my GrapheneOS Pixel7 after it killed itself (spicy pillow) charging in heat in a warmer country. iFixit kit + video worked, then got a Chargie which lets you set a temperature above which it will not charge (33C for me, only charges at night in summer). Probably relevant in your case.
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Has anyone figured out how to make android use a static IPv6 address? If I have to run a reverse proxy on a real PC, I may as well just host the website from that PC.
Does it do that even if you set it to "use device MAC" for the wi-fi network you're on?
The exact location might depend on brand/OS, but in stock Android it's in Settings > Network & Internet > Internet > gear icon next to active wi-fi network > Privacy.
I had the idea to use an old phone as a server recently. Phones are pretty energy efficient, so it seems like it'd be a smart way to recycle one. Does anyone know if this is actually a good practical idea for a lightweight personal server, rather than just a novelty? I haven't heard of anyone doing it before so I'm assuming there's a reason it isn't a good idea, but I don't know what that'd be.
I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’
A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.
Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.
And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.
Im not sure I want to host more on the phone (yet?). Its a nice novelty but I have other self hosted platforms that are much more robust. This is more of a "can I do it" kind of project. Your seeing my free time right now.
Super cool project. I visited, and I hope you keep building the site stats views out. So many people are curious about self hosting and solar, if you just kept it as a demo that shows how the system holds up over longer term, well I know I would appreciate occasional reminders to check it out. It may inspire others to try similar things.
And I would have happily signed any digital wall you implemented.
I have bad experience with self-hosting termux server on a Samsung-Android device. The background process would be terminated after one week of hands off runtime. I tried to rectify this in the power-saving settings to no avail. Still this is really cool:
[quote]I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here, and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis, who have no f**king clue. I mean those guys are corporate terrorists. Lemme explain the core problem h
I just don’t feel comfortable building a robot army here, and then being ousted because of some asinine recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis, who have no f**king clue. I mean those guys are corporate terrorists. Lemme explain the core problem here, so many of the passive funds vote along the lines of what ISS and Glass Lewis recommend. Now, they have made many terrible recommendations in the past that if those recommendations had been followed would have been extremely destructive to the future of the company. Now, If you’ve got passive funds that essentially defer responsibility for the vote to Glass Lewis and ISS, then you can have extremely disastrous consequences for a publicly traded company if too much of the publicly traded company is controlled by index funds. It’s de facto controlled by Glass Lewis and ISS. This is a fundamental problem for corporate governance, because they’re not voting along the lines that are actually good for shareholders. That’s the big issue, I mean, that’s what it comes down to. ISS Glass Lewis corporate terrorism. -Elon Musk, Tesla Q3 shareholder conference call, October 22, 2025
Marketing and fund raising. Doesn't matter how much you, well we, hate him he's still genuinely excellent at it. Sure it's absolutely destructive to... literally everything except his bank account, but it works. Very annoying.
But is he actually particularly stand out at that or is he just leveraging his pre-existing family wealth and connections to do so? In another universe a lot of these people are deadend used car salesman types that no one takes seriously.
Fortunately he isn't going to build a robot army. His cars can barely follow the road so I can't imagine his robots would present much in the way of of a threat, except quite possibly in the extent that they would stand on your foot although even then they'd probably fall over.
There has never been another individual who's ability and ego are so at odds
I learned some advisors at firms who usually follow Glass Lewis recommendations are taking unusual steps to request investor input specifically on Tesla. Apparently enough passive investors are dissatisfied enough to want a direct say on Tesla.
It was interesting to learn about shareholder voting. - Apparently, shareholders get a non-binding vote on executive pay due to say-on-pay legislation. - The SEC carries juicy documents on shareholder voting proposals & letters to shareholders by other shareholders urging them how to vote.
Voting proposals from shareholders & their letters reveal great dissatisfaction with Tesla.
Major shareholders (investment groups, pension managers, state treasurers & comptrollers) wrote a scathing letter urging other shareholders to vote against directors up for re-election & to vote against proposals the company favors.
We write urging you to oppose the reelection of Directors Ira Ehrenpreis, Joe Gebbia, and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson (Proposal 1), the Amended and Restated 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (Proposal 3), and the 2025 CEO Performance Award (Proposal 4) at Tesla’s Annual Meeting on November 6, 2025.
Since the last annual meeting, we have unfortunately witnessed both the erratic performance of Tesla, Inc. (the “Company” or “Tesla”) and the Board’s failure to provide meaningful real-time oversight of management. The Board’s relentless pursuit of retaining its CEO seems to have harmed the Company’s reputation, led to extraordinarily high levels of executive compensation, and delayed progress on meeting key goals like full self-driving (FSD). The Board, a majority of which is made up of directors with close ties to the CEO, now asks for Tesla shareholders to approve a series of proposals that grant it broad discretion to execute an estimated $1 trillion pay package, as well as grant awards through a new reserve created specifically for Elon Musk. These pay packages provide so much discretion to Tesla’s Board that shareholders cannot be confident of impartial treatment. In summary, there is an urgent need to address these issues to preserve long-term shareholder value for all Tesla shareholders, which we believe justifies voting against all directors up for election this year, as well as the Amended and Restated 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “A&R 2019 Equity Plan”) and the 2025 CEO Performance Award (the “2025 Performance Award”). We believe that approval of these items is not in the economic or financial interest of Tesla shareholders for the reasons set out below.
Their clarifications are interesting: they highlight issues with the conduct of the board & CEO - declining company performance (sudden decline in sales) & waning competitiveness with rivals like BYD & other manufacturers - board's lack of independence from CEO jeopardizes shareholder value - board members are CEO, friends of CEO, or have served long tenures - the CEO lacks focus on the stable, sustainable returns of the company & its shareholders while the board still awards him extraordinary pay packages & shares at discount - has leadership roles in several companies - leadership of US DOGE negatively impacted company’s performance & brand - the CEO fails to focus the company's own resources on the company (diverting them to other companies), and the board "seems uninterested in getting concrete commitments from Mr. Musk, and unwilling to develop a CEO succession plan of their own" - the board of directors is overpaid by earning 8 figure compensation when the "Average director compensation in the S&P 500 in 2024 was $327,096.13" - the board ignores mandates from previous shareholder votes, and acts to weaken accountability (supermajority voting rules, not all board seats up for reelection each year) & erode shareholders rights (adopted a Texas law to increase requirements for shareholders to sue the board for breach of fiduciary duty prohibitively far above federal standards) - their proposal for a $1 trillion award in shares to the CEO lacks stringent conditions - undemanding product goals - vague terms - conditions open to board discretion
Given the Board’s historical willingness to allow Tesla to commit substantial resources to projects that are personally beneficial to Mr. Musk but that fail to produce benefits for Tesla shareholders – most notably the Solar City acquisition – we lack the confidence that this Board will only recognize the accomplishment of these goals by the CEO in the fullest and most demanding way. - the award increases power of an unaccountable CEO at substantial expense to shareholders of earning & voting power. outside Tesla shareholders could experience a dramatic long-term dilution in both their voting power and the value of their equity relative to opportunity cost
If Tesla were to experience similar ups and downs over the next decade, outside shareholder value would increase at 10.8% per year, inferior to the price return for the S&P 500 from August 2015 to August 2025.
If Proposals 3 and 4 are approved, this year may be one of the last times that public shareholders have a meaningful voice in the Company and its leadership given the level of dilution that is likely to take place. Beyond that, the Company’s own disclosures make clear that the motivation to deliver these pay packages is driven by increasing Mr. Musk’s voting power, with no formal commitment to focus his time, attention, and Tesla’s own resources on Tesla. Further, we lack confidence that this non-independent Board can oversee the CEO toward a future that maintains stable and sustainable returns for Tesla shareholders.
This SEC 14A filing lists all the proposals up for shareholder vote. A good number of shareholder proposals the board opposes concern board accountability to shareholders - assert shareholder rights: either repealing restrictions or safeguarding them from restrictions enabled by Texas that would disqualify the vast majority of shareholders from submitting proposals or suing the board for breach of fiduciary duties - elect each director annually - require only simple majority approvals.
The others concern better public reporting & oversight on senior executive pay & transparent audits on child labor dependence throughout the supply chain.
To promote an independent board of directors accountable to shareholders & to restore shareholder rights, I suspect Glass Lewis and ISS will vote against all board members & company-favored proposals and vote for all shareholder-favored proposals. Seems about right to follow their recommendations & oppose Musk on this.
hes a negligent, absent father, he only cares about breeding to sire male children, because of his eugenics fetish. he doesnt care for them otherwise, remember the kid he was using as a human shield for a few months? where is he now.
Elmo Musk literally is not an engineer or even understands basic engineering. All the real world engineering done at his company is done by actual engineers
What is his part in all those processes at jos companies, you ask?
Lying.
Literally lying. Its the only talent that Mr. Elmo has. Its the one thing he constantly does, at levels comparable to Trump.
Most claims he makes about any of his companies products are just plain lies. Tesla full self driving? Not even close, and by now i wonder if they're actually capable of getting a Tesla off a parking lot without crashing it, let alone do a full cross country.
Same for SpaceX, where we definitely will go to Mars!never mind that reaching low earth orbit is about 1% of that task and he still can't do that without blowing up his starshits. Hey, at least they blew up a banana over the Indian ocean.
Wanna know what Elmo's contributions are?
Cyber truck.
Launching the car that was supposed to be for the founder of Tesla into low earth orbit just to he an asshole
The "idea" to use intercontinental ballistic rockets to transport people to the other side of the world "in 30 minutes". This one I really really really do want him to try because tickets are CEO only expensive and nothing would make me laugh more than a bunch of stealing assholes all paying a million or so to just blow up on the launchpad.
Talking about launchpads, remember that Florida launch with a starship with a boat load of engines that also ~~failed~~ was a complete success because "it left the launchpad" and anything beyond that was extras? Yeah, that launchpad was absolutely obliterated, cars parked various kilometers away got pelted by concrete debris, an ecological area got polluted, and the launchpad was left in rubble because Elmo decided that flame diverters, you know, those things used since like the sixties of the previous century really weren't necessary.
That is of course keeping in mind that he US tax payer paid 3 billion to take the US to the moon and well, that too is about at 1-2% mission completed, there is nothing remotely ready.
Do I even have to mention Hyperloop? "Its just another air hockey table, its not that hard!"
Meanwhile he keeps asking Tesla for a trillion dollars as well, even though he just got a gold package from Tesla that was light the highest payout in human history, even though Tesla makes a fraction of the cars that large brands make, ans even though he sent the extremely overvalued company (overvalued thanks to his constant lying about aaaalll the great things that are right there ready, just around the corner if you only pay me more money!!) right of a cliff with his Nazi antics combined with the laughable Nazirustbucket he designed..
This is the guy asking for just a trillion dollar bro, I will make this work, bro! TRUST ME!
a well known fact is upper managment shields the employees and the company from Elons meddling in thier internal workings affairs. at least for spacex.
This is so stupid. If he has an issue with shareholder control, he has the money to buy the fucking shares. Sure, he has to pay the inflated bullshit price, but he can do that. Buy it and make it private, Musk. Then you can do whatever the hell you want with it, but it'll be your money on the line. If you actually believe in the product than it should be fine, right?
Actually he doesn't. Most of his 'wealth' is Tesla shares already. Even if he could toss everything he has just toward controlling more of Tesla, and if the shareholders accepted it at current market value, he'd only have a third of the company.
Tesla is crazy over valued for a company that has only been able to be a car company that is in 14th place, yet assessed as being more valuable than all the 13 more successful car companies combined...
Did you do the math including the shares he already owns? Anyway, he can take out loans with the shares as collateral to buy more shares. I'm pretty sure he could get back 50% control if he leverages his assets. If he actually believes what's he's saying, this is a reasonable move.
Yes. Musk's net worth including his stock is a bit shy of 500 billion, and Tesla market cap is about 1500 billion. His net worth includes all his assets that he could possibly leverage.
Sociopathic Oligarchs have a serious form of OCD/ Hoarding Disorder, that makes them crave even more money, no matter how much they have.
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
But if they are hoarding money on a historically mind-blowing scale, they call them a successful businessman, and give them government grants and tax breaks.
If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.
This is a common misconception.
“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.
If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.
Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.
But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.
In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.
Perhaps, but it doesn't change the fact that these people have a very serious mental illness so massive that it literally affects the rest of the world. They must be dealt with properly, not encouraged to lean into their destructive mental illness by funding their follies with taxpayer money.
Was there ever a hope that the customers buying the robots would control them?
MechaHitler controlled robot in my home or business is not a good marketing plan. Chinese companies are well ahead in robotics, and they have manufacturing customers, battery and motor research/leadership, lower bill of materials, plenty of AI skill. No reason to believe Tesla will be first or better.
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Absolute fucking MORONS have taken over the world, and are wrecking it.
IF we ever get our country back, we have to go forward with a national strategy that we no longer have to be polite to treasonous MAGA scumbags. Everytime they open their mouths they should be shouted down with screams to shut the fuck up.
We should never have to tolerate the opinions of stupid, violent traitors.
MBAs are mortal enemies of software engineers. Couple that with what one former CEO of mine said: "engineers have very well tuned bullshit detectors" and you arrive at the problem...
This happens with any disruptive tech. In the 80s, Old white CEOs were computerizing everything without understanding computers. 2025 every grey CEO throws around A1 without having the first clue how it works.
And that's when we have to scream the loudest, and absolutely refuse to give their gaslighting any credibility at all. If you were a Republican during this era, then you are a MAGA Traitor, racist, rapist, incompetent, intolerant, violent, stupid, pedophile.
More likely their hamfisted return to work layoff scheme has caused them to bleed experienced staff. The only people left are less experienced and give less of a shit. It took them over an hour to realize the database of their DNS system was the issue.
Most of my work in DevOps isn't in front of my text editor writing scripts. It's spent hopping between dashboards, drafting emails, doing RCA, teaching dev team members how to use pipelines, and getting requirements from them for designing new pipelines. Then inevitably debating with them about design considerations when they ask for a set of procedures that won't pan out.
Until your AI is a fully fledged team member who everyone can feel comfortable engaging with as if they were a real human, you cannot possibly begin to automate this.
Most of my work in DevOps isn’t in front of my text editor writing scripts.
Mine either - we use azure devops, octopus, etc - tools that automate devops. Most of devops is automated across the board - no big companies are manually kicking off builds for every PR and pushing the files around the place and then manually deploying them - it's all automated using devops tools. Having AI build and manage these pipelines seems like a logical place to use it, as they are all just about creating steps using pieces from previous steps and other systems.
You absolutely could have AI create a pipeline to build, test, and deploy a solution, and then test the actual deployed solution. The AI is essentially just the coordinator here, tying together the other devops tools.
Why do you think AI can't easily be the supervisor for pipelines and create new ones? It's basically just creating steps that are well known from building a branch to deploying it.
Tried to figure out yesterday why a user couldn't ssh into a server, tried LLMs to figure it out, completely useless. Had to go into some log file somewhere to find out the one who set up the server made a specific group for ssh and if a user wasn't in that group they couldn't connect. The LLMs (ChatGPT and Gemini) gave me bullshit about changing flags in the sshd config...
Cool story. LLMs can't see error messages in logs if you don't give them access to it. Had you given the AI agent access to those files? Or were you just using a standalone LLM with no access to the system?
While the job does deal heavily in automating things, it only automates Boolean things. Looking at a platform and seeing why and where it's failing is not a Boolean thing, and never will be. It's the same reason we still don't have machines that repair cars over 100 years after their introduction.
Okay bud, go and tell AWS, Google, Salesforce, and any other of these companies who think "AI" is an answer to everything, because they've all had very public outages due to this exact same thing in the past few months.
You have no idea what DevOps is or how it works if you think any of this is easily done or solved with these junk tools.
Been running Ops teams for decades, kid. Look at alllll the people agreeing with me, and disagreeing with you. You have the unearned wisdom of a struggling Junior Dev. If you had any experience, you'd know how embarrassing it would be to attempt to brag about working for "multi-billion dollar companies" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, those big, big companies are where ALL the good engineering jobs are at. Where all the interesting work is being done 🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you think that DevOps isn’t one of the most automated parts of software then you’re doing DevOps very wrong. Do you do manual builds and deployments every single time? No CI/CD?
You are not reading or understanding comments, child. That's not what I said whatsoever.
You're of the opinion that DevOps engineers can be automated away. I proved you wrong. Now you're talking about the tooling, which is in my first comment to you. Automated tooling is NOT all DevOps is, and the fact you think shows me you're unseasoned in whatever it is you do, have no concept of the role.
It would be people like you who would not pass the first round of interviews from answering a question about this topic exactly as you've stated, because you don't understand the core function of the team, and you're role in it.
You make some code, and obviously have no idea how to run it, let alone at scale. All the working pieces of a platform at large need to be understood and vetted by a DevOps team in order to make it run, and run well. That's understanding everything from start to finish, in ways you wouldn't be able to comprehend being one part of team that is building one part of a platform. You can't make an agent that understands all the underpinnings of all the services or metrics, and why they fail, that then takes action on them, because it's not something AI does. Case in point, the AWS outage and others I mentioned.
Now, you could make MANY agents that take actions on many things, but that doesn't give situational awareness or comprehension to any singular agent, something AI also doesn't do. That's what DevOps teams do.
I don't even need to keep arguing with you about this, because the down votes on your comments speak for themselves. I'm just trying to educate on your false understanding about how it all works so you don't stumble through your career making the same comments and mistakes.
Look into this source for like 2 seconds, it is a marketing research company, not journalists, with extremely suspicious and likely generated team. 80.lv/contact-us#audiencemy.linkedin.com/in/arti-sergee… the "Head" of 80 level doesn't even seem like a real person, definitely not a real picture.
Literally everything about that site is generated. It is possible it is the real picture of a Russian guy who went to online school that lives in Malaysia but considering that all the articles, all the stock photos look generated, I'm going to assume the faces are too.
I know there's doubt as to the validity of the claims. I only want to say this: when "AI" takes jobs, who is there to plug things in to make the "AI" machine go?
Sounds like Amazon fucked around and found out.... Allegedly.
The thing is that Amazon needs to get broken up way more than Ma Bell did. Most people have never heard of AWS before, but it's crazy to have one company own so much of the internet, even before you get into their stranglehold on internet commerce (which also should be broken up).
Amazon has laid off or scared off the vast majority of their most experienced people. Those that weren’t laid off quit over stupidity like “RTO”. I don’t doubt that their underpaid junior staff and Kool-Aid drinking upper management decided that AI is a great way to replace all the lost knowledge and expertise. As with the downfall of civilization, this will get much worse before it gets better. It will be interesting to see how huge companies react to another companies enshittification actively damaging their business and reputation.
If a tiny 2 foot long cookie cutter shark can take chunks out of people, then any shark bigger than that with sharp teeth is equally if not more dangerous.
You just said the reason why I don't go in the sharks' homes. They live there. Sharks are gonna shark. Don't wanna get eaten by a shark? Don't go in the water!
The article is saying that these sharks aren't really sharking though. The sharks behavior has been changed by environmental factors (regular human feeding and humans raising the local sea temperature by dumping warm water from the desalination plant).
Sharks are attracted by usually warm water from desalination plant.
Tourist guide boats start chumming the waters to keep the sharks around for tourists.
The attraction of so many mostly harmless sharks changes their feeding dynamic. Ever tried eating an ice cream cone near a small child? Ever tried pushing an ice cream cart through a crowd of small kids? Way different dynamic as supply and demand changes as the crowd grows.
Formerly mostly harmless and "shy around humans" sharks start directly approaching humans as a source of food.
Sharks investigate human, beg for food. How do sharks investigate? By biting, nibbles really, or bumping into people swimming.
The first bite generates a predictably violent reaction from the humans, which triggers a feeding frenzy response. Humans aren't equipped to defend or escape this.
The point is that at every step of the way, these sharks are acting in a very strange way (for them) as a direct result of human action. We've seen this kind of thing before when people feed wild animals, strange and dangerous human seeking behaviors develop: alligators, bears, moose, etc. Dangerous animals? Yes, but the behaviors that result in human deaths are in no way natural.
Al concerto tenutosi per il lancio di "Eska", lo scorso 16 maggio 2015 al Rich Mix di Londra, tra il pubblico sono state avvistate delle estasiate Laura Mvula, Alice Russell e Lianne La Havas. Accompagnata da una band stringata ai limiti del garage-rock, Eska ha tirato giù il tetto della sala, dando prova della sua portentosa voce, ma... Leggi e ascolta...
Al concerto tenutosi per il lancio di “Eska”, lo scorso 16 maggio 2015 al Rich Mix di Londra, tra il pubblico sono state avvistate delle estasiate Laura Mvula, Alice Russell e Lianne La Havas. Accompagnata da una band stringata ai limiti del garage-rock, Eska ha tirato giù il tetto della sala, dando prova della sua portentosa voce, ma soprattutto dell'incredibile verve di emotiva quanto spiritosa interprete e polistrumentista, una leonessa da palcoscenico capace di stravolgere le proprie canzoni saltando dal folk al rock al blues al soul al gospel con una facilità da mettere in soggezione... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…
Un viaggio nel profondo dell’essere, tra introspezione, arte e psiche. Con “Autopsia dell’io”, Giuseppe De Grado firma un libro che è confessione, ricerca e poesia.
AUTOPSIA DELL’IO
GIUSEPPE DE GRADO
AUTOBIOGRAFIA/SAGGIO
Kimerik EDITORE
27 FEBBRAIO 2025
128 PP
15 x 21 x 1 cm
Un viaggio introspettivo che tocca tematiche sia puramente intimistiche che antropologiche e sociali. Un unico lungo racconto con tappe ben definite, caratterizzate da continui salti temporali, che l’autore propone per far meglio immergere il lettore nel proprio mondo presente e passato. La linea di confine tra mondi visibili (la realtà delle cose) e invisibili (i pensieri e le forze implicite che li scaturiscono) è molto sottile, ma ciononostante si riesce sempre a restare perfettamente in bilico tra i due. Si potrebbe facilmente pensare a un labirinto della mente esposto narrativamente ma, seppur la sensazione primaria possa essere tale, una bussola concettuale è sempre presente per evitare il disorientamento. A far da padrone è l’autore che al contempo è protagonista di un’idilliaca storia d’amore con lo sfondo del tempo che passa e che corrode cose e persone, senza però intaccarne i significati; un romanticismo palpabile e accattivante, che quasi tende a contaminare chi ne legge, data la sua avida veemenza. In conclusione, volendo sintetizzare in poche parole l’essenza di questo libro, resta da dire che il percorso di esso è lungo, tortuoso ma morbido, con zampilli di marcata malinconia verso un’epoca vicina ma comunque lontana anni luce, in cui sembrava che i valori fossero mastodontici e i sensi molto più svegli a favore della vita e di un cuore sempre messo in prima linea; insomma, un viaggio a ritroso nel tempo che tende a sbiadirsi, con una velocità sempre maggiore, tra l’autobiografia e l’autoanalisi.
In Autopsia dell’io (128 pagine), Giuseppe De Grado si mette a nudo in un percorso di introspezione che mescola prosa, poesia e immagini. Non un semplice diario, ma una mappa emotiva in cui dolore e speranza convivono, dando voce a quella parte di sé che spesso restiamo a ignorare.
De Grado racconta con delicatezza e precisione i tormenti e le gioie di un uomo che non ha paura di guardarsi dentro. Ogni pagina diventa uno specchio in cui il lettore riconosce la propria umanità imperfetta, tra perdita, desiderio di appartenenza e bisogno di autenticità.
“Scrivere significa scendere nei miei abissi: ogni volta non ne salgo intatto, ma trovo la via di casa passando vicino al cuore.”
L’io come bussola della coscienza
Uno degli aspetti più interessanti del libro è la riflessione sull’io — il centro della coscienza, quell’equilibrio fragile che media tra pulsioni, regole e realtà esterna. De Grado intreccia la sua narrazione personale con richiami a Freud, Jung, Erikson e Rogers, esplorando l’identità come processo in continua costruzione.
L’autore ricorda che l’io non è una struttura immutabile ma un flusso, un processo cerebrale e psicologico fatto di memoria, emozione e percezione. La parte dedicata alle neuroscienze amplia la visione: l’io non è solo psiche, ma anche materia viva, movimento, esperienza.
“Comprendere il mio io è stato come scoprire una presenza silenziosa: non qualcosa da giudicare, ma da ascoltare. È lì che si nasconde la mia verità.”
Questa dimensione teorica non appesantisce il testo, anzi, lo arricchisce di profondità. Autopsia dell’io diventa così un ponte tra letteratura e psicologia, tra conoscenza e emozione.
Fragilità e immagine
La fragilità è il filo conduttore dell’intero volume. De Grado la descrive in versi e in prosa, con una lingua limpida e musicale. Le illustrazioni di Roberta Lanzi, realizzate con penna, matita e acquarello, accompagnano e amplificano il testo, raffigurando l’autore come figura sospesa tra realtà e sogno, in atmosfere che ricordano Monet, Van Gogh e Degas. L’arte, qui, diventa introspezione visiva: ogni tratto rivela qualcosa che le parole non dicono.
L’autore si confida: la risposta completa
Nell’intervista che chiude il libro, De Grado racconta la genesi del suo lavoro con una sincerità rara:
«In questo libro ho dato tutto me stesso — i miei sentimenti e i miei pensieri — e l’ho fatto anche grazie alla forza dell’amore per mia moglie. Scrivere significa scendere nei miei abissi: ogni volta non ne salgo intatto, ma trovo la via di casa passando vicino al cuore.»
Quando gli si chiede cosa significhi spogliarsi così tanto davanti al lettore, l’autore risponde:
«È stato un momento, e come tutti i momenti si va incontro a una trasformazione: come dal bruco nasce una farfalla. Mi sono spogliato delle mie paure e ho accettato di mostrarmi. È stata una liberazione.»
E aggiunge ancora, con intensità:
«Scrivere Autopsia dell’io è stato come tornare a casa dopo anni di smarrimento. Ho scavato nella mia memoria e nei miei silenzi per ritrovare la voce che avevo perso. Non ho paura di chiamare questo percorso con il suo nome: guarigione.»
Le sue parole, autentiche e vibranti, restituiscono il cuore pulsante del libro: la scrittura come atto terapeutico, come possibilità di rinascita.
Il tempo e la presenza
Il tempo attraversa il libro come tema ricorrente: tempo che passa, tempo perduto, tempo da ritrovare. De Grado invita a rallentare, a riscoprire la presenza, a smettere di vivere per abitudine. È un messaggio che risuona forte in un’epoca dominata dalla distrazione e dalla corsa continua: solo fermandosi si può davvero ascoltare.
“L’attitudine all’abitudine, alla paura del cambiamento, fa sì che l’animo non si evolva.”
Estratto significativo
«Non volevo richiudere questa crepa, non volevo farmi sopraffare dalla paura… L’attitudine all’abitudine, alla paura del cambiamento, fa sì che l’animo non si evolva.»
Questo passo riassume la filosofia dell’autore: accettare la crepa come parte della crescita, trasformare il dolore in consapevolezza.
Conclusione: un viaggio da condividere
Autopsia dell’io non è soltanto un libro: è un’esperienza di autenticità e coraggio. Un invito a riscoprire se stessi, a riconciliarsi con la propria vulnerabilità e a comprendere che la fragilità è parte della bellezza umana. Giuseppe De Grado ci regala una testimonianza toccante, fatta di parole e immagini che sanno parlare al cuore e alla mente.
Per chi: ama la narrativa autobiografica, la psicologia del sé, l’introspezione poetica e i libri che fanno riflettere.
Il regno di Enrico VIII Tudor (1509-1547) è generalmente ricordato per le sue sei sfortunate consorti e per il suo leggendario appetito. Tristemente noto per aver mandato a morte due delle sue regine, è però fin troppo facile immaginare Enrico come il pingue mostro della sua vecchiaia.
L'intelligenza artificiale di Google ha privato la Lanterna del primato assoluto, definendola «uno dei» simboli e non più «il» simbolo del capoluogo ligure, anche perché probabilmente lo è sempre meno nella testa dei genovesi.
L'intelligenza artificiale di Google ha privato la Lanterna del primato assoluto, definendola «uno dei» simboli e non più «il» simbolo del capoluogo ligure, anche perché probabilmente lo è sempre meno nella testa dei genovesi.
Nel logo della prossima adunata nazionale degli Alpini che si terrà a Genova dall’8 al 10 maggio 2026, la Lanterna appare stilizzata proprio accanto alla inevitabile penna nera, ma alla sua base è raffigurata pure la Biosfera del Porto Antico, disegnata dalla matita di Renzo Piano
There have been no donations for days… and winter is almost here. We’re still sleeping under the open sky with nothing to keep us warm. They announced a ceasefire, but the bombing hasn’t stopped, and our suffering continues.
All I want is to protect my family — to buy a tent, warm clothes, and some food. Every night, I watch my family shiver from the cold, and it breaks my heart.
Your donations can save us from the freezing nights and hunger. Please, don’t let us face this winter alone. 💔
🕊️ Your kindness can bring us warmth, safety, and hope.
More than 100 police officers are under investigation after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were "falsely or erroneously recorded", RNZ can reveal.
"From the audit which covered over 4.6 million breath tests performed between 1 July 2024 and 17 August 2025, the initial analysis suggested there were tests conducted that were simulated without the involvement of a driver.
The audit indicated that some staff had recorded breath screening tests that hadn't occurred.
Johnson said that despite this, Police's obligation to deliver 3.3 million tests for NZTA and Ministry of Transport had been met and was not compromised.
Le aspirazioni e desideri di un popolo possono costituire un’energia del cambiamento, soprattutto ai fini di dar forma a cognizioni spirituali oltre le mere aspettative del quotidiano.
If you say you want apples you have to accept the continued existence of apple trees. If you want a peaceful life for Palestinians you support Hamas who are the embodiment of the resistance to zionist violence.
Nobody with two braincells to rub together thinks that Palestine can coexist with the expansionist racial supremacists zionist state, or that the expansionist racial supremacists zionists will just cease to be without a fight. So in order for a person to think that Palestinians can live in peace without the armed resistance who Hamas are the largest group they have to be irrational or just dumber than shit.
Until settler colonialism dies, this will continue, not as some cruel threat by a crazy terrorist organization, but as revolutionaries understanding full well that the alternative is rolling over and dying. We cannot withhold support because of methods, though we may attempt to persuade in other directions, we are not those who decide how resistance to genocide occurs, we merely control ourselves. If the world wishes for no October 7ths to happen, fight with every fiber of your being against settler colonialism and the imperialist scourge!
Hi! You're in lemmygrad. Support for Palestinian's right to struggle for freedom and self-determination is typically a given here. That means an amount of support for Hamas. And Hezbollah. And Ansarallah.
During WWII and the holocaust if one said they are for only for peaceful protest against the Nazis or one said they are against the resistance fighters or soldiers fighting the Nazis what would that effectively mean for those in the concentration camps?
During decades of ethnic cleansing including where children have been captured, tortured and killed; where non violent protestors have been been repeatedly shot and killed, kidnapped and tortured to death; where journalists have been tortured and killed; where there have ongoing blockades to starve and murder people; where israel regularly "mows the lawn"; where medics have been routinely killed; where the Gaza strip has been a test bed for weapons sold at arms fairs; where the largest organ trafficking per capita against the palestenians is ongoing; where palestinians have been reguarly sexually tortured and abused; where the homes and livelihoods have been regularly razed for settlers; and THEN followed by the last few years by a genocide what does it mean to be against the palestinian resistance fighters?
What does it mean to believe what the West and Israelis say about said resistance fighters fighting a genocide where the West and Israelis are active perpetrators? What does such lack of support effectively mean for palestinians?
It means effectively supporting their death.
There is a reason why the west lionises the likes of Gandhi and MLK and strips them of any real radicalism (especially the latter) and forgets their context in history - their "non-violence" had leverage because of the alternatives of "violence" the oppressors faced from their contemporaries lead by Baghat Singh/Fred Hampton/Malcolm X etc to name the most famous of them.
In liberalism often the violence of the oppressor is normalised and the resistance to that is considered exceptional; one has to reflect why that racism should ever be consider acceptable if one wants to consider consider the oppressed as fully human.
In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. - Kwame Ture
We are marxists. A lot of used us to be liberals. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant chunk of us used to think like you. Marxism is a science. Consider reading around on the science of liberation struggle. Ask any question you like.
Shhhh! No no no no no! You can’t compare the State of Israel to Nazi Germany, you’ll get on the Canary Mission for that!
During ~~WWII and the holocaust~~ the reinvasion of Ethiopia if one said they are for only for peaceful protest against the ~~Nazis~~ Fascists or one said they are against the resistance fighters or soldiers fighting the ~~Nazis~~ Fascists what would that effectively mean for those in the concentration camps?
That same mentality would mean you wouldn't have supported the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Interesting how all these "non-violent" types think the oppressed resisting their oppressors is actually just as bad and condemnable as the oppressors mutilating, bombing, starving, displacing, for the past 80 years.
the passive resistance people always ignore that throughout history there was always a violent resistance waiting in the wings for if the pacifist shit didn't work, which was most of the time
JVP is pretty active at protests. There aren't many real organizations that explicitly support Hamas in the west - I don't think even PSL do. It's basically illegal here, and means having issues with employment etc.
By the time Trump arrived, corruption had been normalised as realism. Trump merely stripped it of its polite fictions – not only in domestic politics but in foreign policy, where the US has long cloaked its violence in the language of democracy and human rights. Trump’s extrajudicial killings of unidentified individuals via unilateral military strikes in Latin American waters, for example, are not a break with American precedent but its most naked expression, the open performance of practices that past administrations enacted beneath the cloak of deniability and euphemism. Likewise, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brutality and cruelty under Trump are not new. It is instead largely a dramatised, made-for-TV version of what Barack Obama – who earned the title of “deporter in chief” – pioneered over the years in which he built the career of Tom Homan, now Trump’s so-called border czar. Like Trump, Obama was a great admirer of Homan, awarding him a 2015 Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Service to honour his passion for rounding up immigrants, separating children from their parents and caging people in detention camps.
The brazenness of Trump’s corruption and cruelty – the nepotism, the grift, the self-dealing, the open auctioning of government contracts and justice – does not shock us because it feels like an honest expression of what we already knew: that American government and institutions serve the wealthy individuals who own them, whether directly or indirectly through their donations and lobbyists or via networks of influence, bribery and extortion. The outrage that might once have followed is replaced by a weary recognition that things have always worked this way.
John Oliver . It's not good. She brands herself as a moderate but is essentially in lockstep with most MAGA views. The owners of CBS are gutting everything that's left of the storied CBS brand to enrich themselves.
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King, who has fronted the broadcaster’s morning show for over a decade, is expected to step down from her anchor role on next year, according to a report
supersquirrel
in reply to Mereo • • •JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
in reply to supersquirrel • • •shalafi
in reply to JohnnyFlapHoleSeed • • •It's common knowledge that his parent's wealth opened doors for him.
I think you're 20 or 25 years out of date on that one.
PattyMcB
in reply to supersquirrel • • •Xanthobilly
in reply to supersquirrel • • •PhilipTheBucket
in reply to Mereo • • •There is a vital question coming up. When the machines do all the work, does that mean everyone eats? Or no one?
Right now it is "no one" roughly speaking. That must change. There is no future for anyone there, just nightmares unfolding and unfolding.
CosmoNova
in reply to PhilipTheBucket • • •It‘s phrased „warns“ because it is just assumed that no one will eat. Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society. That we‘ll all just starve to death soon.
I don‘t think we will but it‘s telling that a lot of rich and influential people do and are not only letting it happen but actively supporting it.
WanderingThoughts
in reply to CosmoNova • • •It's just very difficult to think outside of society , to think of a working society without the organizing power of money and labor. And even more difficult to think about the path to get there.
SreudianFlip
in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •Echo Dot
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in reply to JeeBaiChow • • •LAN_Mower
in reply to Skeezix • • •JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
in reply to LAN_Mower • • •Em Adespoton
in reply to Mereo • • •Sounds good to me.
I get to keep the same salary and just use AI to make my work easier, right?
Right?
tidderuuf
in reply to Em Adespoton • • •gilindoeslemmy
in reply to Mereo • • •tal
in reply to Mereo • • •That's possible.
That being said, John Maynard Keynes also made a similar prediction:
NPR Planet Money:
The specific quote:
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_May…
Basically, had we decided to leave our standard of living where it was in 1930, we could have worked two days a week. But...that's not generally what people wanted to do. We wanted to take advantage of new stuff that people produced to appeal to us, jack up our standard of living.
In the past, we've always managed to come up with new, appealing things that wind up making use of that new productive capacity. Climate control or anime video games or more space per person in housing.
Is it possible that in the future, we will be unable to make use of scarce human labor to provide something that humans want? Maybe! And that's something to think about. But simply the fact that human labor is finite, that things that involve human labor can be used like a status symbol, might itself fill the problem. We shall see.
One thing that I do agree with is that transition from the world of today to a world with AGI is going to be a very disruptive transition.
British economist (1883–1946)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)PhilipTheBucket
in reply to tal • • •The one thing that this whole analysis is missing is this: There is a ton of work to do. The oceans are dying. The planet is boiling. The garbage is stacking up, endless and endless. There are crimes big and small going undiscovered, or un-processed and dealt with in a trustworthy fashion if they are discovered. There are wars, there are dangerous materials that need to be removed from the soil and the rivers, and the policies need to be set up and enforced to stop their cousins from replacing them within the year. WE'RE NOT FUCKING DONE. This illusion is wholly wrong that capitalism has created, that it is fine to drive the car off the cliff as long as we keep paying salaries and dividends up until the moment of impact comes
Yes, we've gotten more efficient and powerful in our ability to translate a human into an effective change in conditions at the earth's surface. But the problems have gotten bigger, too, and more urgent to the point that they threaten our entire species. Just because we can now keep growing the food and doing layout for the advertisements with only 15 hours a week, doesn't mean that's all we need to fucking do.
individual
in reply to tal • • •OK but Maynard James Keenan said that some say we'll see Armageddon soon; certainly hope we will. I sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three ring circus sideshow.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_…
American singer
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in reply to Mereo • • •JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
in reply to Mereo • • •So it sounds like he's saying no one will work enough to qualify for employer sponsored healthcare... Or at least be able to afford it.
So congrats, don't ever get sick or lose a job! Plus your taxes are going up. Fuck you, you should have been a rich pedophile if you wanted differently!
Thanks for spending billions on malaria, asshole. If you would have paid your fucking taxes and supported the country we wouldn't be in this mess.
Oh yeah, a politically unstable US will directly lead to local conflict between factions in African countries. Thanks to your malaria funding there's now more rape victims and child soldiers than ever!
PattyMcB
in reply to JohnnyFlapHoleSeed • • •individual
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in reply to Mereo • • •solrize
in reply to Mereo • • •Lol, it will be more like "Soylent Green is people".
etchinghillside
in reply to Mereo • • •MagicShel
in reply to Mereo • • •shalafi
in reply to MagicShel • • •masterofn001
in reply to Mereo • • •Don't fret peons!
The billionaires will become trillionaires and you will become poorer.
Win / win.
TheDemonBuer
in reply to Mereo • • •MisterMoo
in reply to Mereo • • •shalafi
in reply to Mereo • • •No clue why this article is being downvoted to hell. Is this not relevant to c/technology? 🤷🏻
Worked at Lowe's last year. No AI is going to replace what any of us were doing except maybe making the scheduling lady's life easier, but we would still need her.
People still need to buy household goods, need advice from experts, need help and labor in 1,000 ways that AI cannot replace.
Until we have relatively inexpensive, multipurpose robots, much of this talk is moot. Humans are the AR-15s of the animal kingdom. Not the best at anything, weak in many ways, but we're reliable, tough and suited for many roles. I cannot imagine an AI powered robot that could work all the tasks I was faced with.
Tomtits
in reply to shalafi • • •Most anti AI posts/comments get downvoted.
Probably because the bulk of people on here work in some shitty IT job that can easily be replaced by AI?
Or they think people who are anti AI are Luddites?
Who knows
Womble
in reply to Tomtits • • •shalafi
in reply to Womble • • •Womble
in reply to shalafi • • •If we are, then I entirely misinterpreted them.
On re-reading it seems like thats quite possible! The first and second line seem to agree with me but the third is taking the opposite postion though so who knows.
Tomtits
in reply to Womble • • •I added the who knows so other people could chime in with their own opinions, I see you point though.
Usually who knows is added after two opposing suggestions
Perspectivist
in reply to shalafi • • •The title has the word “AI” in it - the hivemind is practically trained to reflexively downvote and leave a mean comment anytime those two letters show up.
shalafi
in reply to Perspectivist • • •Fucking ridiculous around here. Seen 20-yo images, "Is this AI slop?!" It's the cool kid thing to do now I guess.
"I'm so smart! I hate AI and can spot it anywhere!"
Naich
in reply to shalafi • • •xxce2AAb
in reply to Mereo • • •krimson
in reply to Mereo • • •This seems spot-on to me. All you downvoters obviously didn't read the article.
Echo Dot
in reply to krimson • • •Far be it for me to point out that the "godfather of AI" has a vested interest in AI being seen as more capable than maybe it actually is. But more to the point we know that AI systems like loose on an environment cause absolute chaos and fail disastrously.
There was an experiment a couple of months ago where they tried to get an AI to run a small business and I think at one point it ended up sending emails to the FBI claiming it had been defrauded because a product it ordered didn't instantly materialise.
Echo Dot
in reply to Mereo • • •Why is it that every time they say stuff like this it always sounds like an advertisement.
"Our product is going to bring about the end of days, buy it now!!!"
MonkderVierte
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