It can’t do anything to help anyone, but it’s essentially a mobile Flock camera with license plate tracking and facial recognition. It’s a privacy nightmare, and a massive legal liability for the city (Benn Jordan has an excellent video on his YouTube about Flock cameras and how bad they are). Best case scenario is it drives through a deep puddle during the next hurricane and shorts itself out.

I have a bunch of different zigbee models, but my overall favorites are the Sengled Zigbee plugs. They have power monitoring, which can be really useful for automations.

For example, my computer monitor makes an annoying high-pitched squeal when in standby mode, so I have it and my PC on separate Sengled smart plugs and if the PC plug is drawing low enough wattage for 10 seconds that I can be sure it’s off or asleep, my automation turns off the monitor smart plug, and when the PC plug wattage jumps back above the threshold, the monitor plug gives power to my monitor again.

Obviously that specific use is a bit niche, but the ability to know when not-smart devices are using more or less power and run automations accordingly can be really useful.

There are other brands besides Sengled that have power monitoring, but I’ve found theirs to be pretty reliable, just make sure you get the zigbee plugs, because they also make wifi plugs that look basically identical to the zigbee model.

That’s just the Emacs logo in the top-left. At least I assume Emacs has a terminal since there’s that old “Vim proverb” about Emacs being a “great OS, it just lacks a good editor.”

I’ve heard they are generally accurate but that there are better sources, unfortunately I haven’t heard specifically what those better sources are.

With as much as I’m ready for the AI bubble to burst, Sabine Hossenfelder isn’t a very reliable source on much of anything - especially her newer videos from within the past year after she got called out for some unscientific takes on transgender care. Since then, she has kinda doubled down on her anti-science-establishment takes acting like she knows more than actual experts.

I’m not really criticizing any of her takes in this particular video (I’ll be honest I’m at work and haven’t had a chance to watch it yet), but just want to caution anyone who may watch this and start getting her videos recommended a bunch by their YouTube algorithm that she’s not considered a reliable science communicator by anyone who is.

Without hardware decoding, it will take more compute to decompress, but sites usually wait to fully roll out new codecs until hardware decoding is more ubiquitous, because of how many people use low-powered streaming sticks and Smart TVs.

It’s not for the end user at this point, it’s for YouTube/streaming companies to spend less on bandwidth at existing resolutions. Even a 5% decrease in size for similar quality could save millions in bandwidth costs over a year for YouTube or Netflix.

I agree, this doesn’t look like a deepfake. There does appear to be a quick crossfade that also explains the shifting leaves outside the window, there’s some motion blur around the time of the edit that contributes to the confusion. Admittedly, I haven’t had the time to give it a full analysis, but the rest of the video looks fine to my eyes as a film school dropout. I’m only a very part-time mod of this community so I hesitate to take down the post on my own. But if another mod wants to, I’d agree this isn’t clearly a deepfake, and probably doesn’t belong.

I would imagine they mean something like jellyfin/plex, which don’t necessarily get you away from torrents. Unless you want to go the slightly more legal route of ripping DVDs and Blu-rays and re-encoding everything for yourself. I say “slightly more legal” because while you are legally allowed a backup or archival copy of your own media (in the US), you still usually have to violate the DMCA to break encryption so you can rip your archival copy.

I know the Navy does march (despite the general uselessness of it for their operations), and some of the Navy vets I’ve talked with did consider it a point of pride that they could march better than other branches. But I have no clue if that is still a thing, and even if it is, I’m sure enough will deliberately do less than their best effort since it’s clearly more about Trump’s ego than honoring the Navy.

Honestly the DMCA strikes are probably way better on YouTube than the alternative of getting hit with lawsuits and cease and desists on a specialist site. The amount of things that are considered normal now on YouTube that were just straight up considered copyright infringement prior to YouTube getting massive is wild for anyone who was in media and used to having to get clearances and pay royalties for anything that wasn’t public domain. Those expectations haven’t changed, and the laws haven’t either, it’s just YouTube has done a lot to normalize things, and license things for the whole platform where they can, because they know it helps keep the site alive. But if you aren’t under the protection of the platform and their agreements, the consequences can get way worse.

I went to college for filmmaking. Being a field that revolves around communication, we ended up learning some fundamentals of communication theory. By definition, communication happens when the “listener” percieves a message - whether that message was intended or not. No matter how much work and thought you put into your message, if you shout it into the void, it isn’t communication. Likewise, you can say nothing in a room full of people, and still unintentionally communicate just by being seen.

The percieved intelligence of LLMs very much feels like a result of this. There is no intelligence in the machine, we’re just percieving communication from a probability machine, and thinking that it’s intelligent and trying to communicate with us.

It can be, but sometimes packages are removed from the official repos, but still available in AUR, only running yay -Syu will install the AUR versions of dependencies that are no longer needed, and can leave you with a bunch of unnecessary packages from AUR.

If you run pacman -Syu on its own the unnecessary dependencies will be removed and you won’t get the AUR versions, and then yay -Syu will only update things you actually want from AUR.

Unfortunately the phone call is the most important thing on my list. Bright side is I might get the house tidied.

It took me a second to realize you didn’t mean github.

It’s been revised since this edition. I was homeschooled with the “for Christian Schools” textbooks (and was sent to college at the University that produced them) I was just young enough to get the newer editions as they were being rewritten, my cousins who were 4 grades ahead of me weren’t as lucky and had the version shown in the picture. The versions I had were slightly better, they at least didn’t have this particular nonsense in them. But they still all taught a very warped view of science, and I was in my mid-twenties before I stopped believing in Creationism. The last ~10 years since then has taken both a lot of work to learn about reality, but has also been quite a lot of fun. Science is really cool if you aren’t stopping all the time to try to fit God in somehow.

Based on the attempts we’ve seen at censoring AI output so far, there doesn’t seem to me to be a way to actually do this without building a new model with pre-censored training data.

Sure they can tune models, but even “MechaHitler” Grok was still giving some “woke” answers on occasion. I don’t see how this doesn’t either destroy AI’s “usefulness” (not that there’s any usefulness there to begin with) or cost so much to implement that investors pull out because none of the AI companies are profitable, and throwing billions more to sift through and filter the training data pushes profitability even further away (if censoring all the training data is even possible at all).

Thought I might be one too, until the “tangents and nonlinear storytelling” as evidence of being human and the scene from Megamind where he goes “being bad is the one thing I’m good at” came to mind.

I’ll admit I tried talking to a local deepseek about a minor mental health issue one night when I just didn’t want to wake up/bother my friends. Broke the AI within about 6 prompts where no matter what I said it would repeat the same answer word-for-word about going for walks and eating better. Honestly, breaking the AI and laughing at it did more for my mental health than anything anyone could have said, but I’m an AI hater. I wouldn’t recommend anyone in real need use AI for mental health advice.

Wild that there’s an AI-generated summary of the article before the article, on a story about the problems with AI. Also, is it that hard to ask your writers to write a summary of their own articles? Hasn’t writing tweets (or similar microblog posts) already allowed most writers to develop the skill of writing a concise, simplified version of a story? Why are we entrusting this to AI when a human will be able to more accurately summarize their own article, and include appropriate nuance.

Apologies for the mini crash-out that isn’t really related to the real story here. Thank you OP for sharing, and kudos to the MP for taking a stand.