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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

What is interesting about the device is not that you *should* buy it—the whole value proposition is that it is a very cheap, but also kinda bad, MacBook—it's that people *will* buy it. A lot. It fills a market gap. The only products that this is positioned against are Chromebooks and iPads; cheap refurb Linux machines are not in the same product category for most potential buyers, and I think the fact that Linux fans do not understand the different categories are endemic to why Linux struggles.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Macbook Neo Hot Take™, take 2. Earlier I was annoyed at tech reviewers who should *really* know better giving a *really* myopic assessment of its gaming potential. Now I'm seeing another bad take on Fedi, which is "all you Apple shills love this stupid thing, but a cheap Linux laptop would work better, don't buy it". I am much more sympathetic to this but it appears to be missing what is interesting about this device and why people are talking about it at all.

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argals@mstdn.ca ("Argals") wrote:

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

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Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

There is something really not right with that nation state....

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/orban-government-engulfed-explosive-child-abuse-scandal-after-dossier-reveals-3300-cases-state-1762689
#Orban #Hungary #Patriarchy #Misogyny

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mike@thecanadian.social ("Mike Fraser") wrote:

As you know we've taken over administrator of journa.host and newsie.social, two instances focussed on journalists and news outlets.
We've put together a news app that combines the feeds to give you the latest. It's a work in progress but you can find it at https://dispatchnews.net #news #journalism #journa #newsie

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annamam ("Anna Mamotiuk") wrote:

Hi! My name is Anna! I’m a traditional artist from Kyiv 🇺🇦 . I paint, I adore cats, and I love working out at the gym.

I’m always working on my English, but sometimes I might post in Ukrainian because I don’t always feel like double-checking every word. I hope that’s okay.

I’m not much of a talker, and I’m not quite sure yet what exactly I’ll be posting here, but I wanted to give it a try🫶

#Introduction #Знайомство

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alyx@frogs.lgbt ("alyx (dual-stack)") wrote:

so uh
we rescued a set of 4K movie film scanners

does anyone need a set of 4K movie film scanners

if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

"If you own a device with a camera on it, just assume it is always recording, and that footage will be stored somewhere, forever."

Bars. We love a techno-radical short king.

#Waveform
https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?T=1h01m50s

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jackel23gr@mastodon.world wrote:

Graphic explaining why this is not required.
SAVE America Act is not saving Americans, just the crooked Dump admin.

https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116227742389242857
#USpol #USpolitics #SAVEact

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iiradned wrote:

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Salespeople are confused, saying that all compute happens locally on the glasses. Which, if you don't know enough to know that's currently impossible for the size, you probably don't know the concept of local/cloud compute. So them saying it happens locally sort of implies that someone told them that.

It scares me how much Meta wants this to become a thing.

https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?t=59m50s

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Damn they are going *in* on Meta. Going as far to say the entire reason Meta sells these glasses is for data collection. That may not sound radical around these parts, but to the centrist tech cartel it is.

Again, Marques isn't contributing much but he's not shutting it down. I think that matters when it comes to access. MKBHD might not get to review the next unreleased bit of tech from Meta if they keep speaking like this.

Time stamped:
https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?t=59m03s

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

According to Waveform, Meta Ray-Bans doesn't turn on its indicator light when it uses the camera to process AI queries. Asking it a question that would require the use of the camera i.e. "what's the color of this person's shirt?" doesn't trigger the light but answers the question

El, oh, fucking el man.

Time stamped:
https://youtu.be/McfQrmbOvv8?T=56m15s

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

As a general media literacy tip: If the claim is that someone used "AI" or "ChatGPT" to do something, the real story is probably something else.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This idea fascinates me. How long can people ignore something before breaking that 4th wall, as it were?

Because no matter how strong your "no politics" rule is for your YouTube channel, you break that rule at some threshold.

You get what I mean? Ahhh, I feel like I'm not articulating this in a way that's compelling as much as it is in my head lol.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm not big on calling out influencers for not speaking up on things. But also, things are getting so conspicuously horrific, that not speaking out is starting to look silly.

But, of course, there is a line. Every podcaster in the world, big or small, has a threshold that if crossed they'd finally speak up. Even if that line is literal zombies breaking into their studio and eating them.

So, what's the line? Could a podcast go on during, say, an entire genocide at home and never speak on it?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

seriously though, you can learn loads from benchmark outputs. you'd be amazed how often i've found bugs in code this way. or inferred the behaviour of processors i haven't even touched.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The Wave Form podcast (MKBHD) is going through an interesting phase where the co-hosts are starting to get a little political. You'll get anti-surveillance, anti-big tech comments and even sustained conversations amongst themselves.

Marques doesn't seem outwardly interested, but he isn't shutting it down either.

Which leads me to my ongoing question, can podcasters podcast through a genocide? Meaning, how long can you keep your hand on the stove before acknowledging it's hot?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

don''t mind me, just doing numerology on benchmark figures

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

RE: https://social.afront.org/@stylus/116235651886344794

apparently SVE2 is on phones. and the bitperm impl is less than twice the time of the loop overhead.

and look at the difference in the third impl (there are four sets of three results, each followed by an impl number). the pdep (which is like a nanosecond slower on x86-64) is a full 4 nanoseconds slower. most of which seems to be because it does a less good job of compensating for the loop carried dependency than x86-64. most interesting!

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjo0iLssbI8

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

This is super neato, I love an ingroup/outgroup intervention lever, people overestimate the negative backlash they'll get from their political group for changing their minds on something and if you work through an intervention to remind yourself that you've cared for a group loyally, you have less of that disproportionate fear

Fits in self-affirmation findings, where self-affirmation helps us 'shore up the self' to take riskier actions

https://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/documents/working-papers/2024/wp-24-25.pdf

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mcc wrote:

If the computer is a prosthetic (and it is) then this means we legitimately have to be careful about what software we run, because we are deciding what to make part of our selves, part of our minds

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i had to explain that cats are not humans and thus are not subject to data protection. i can't believe this argument worked.

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

My first article from Wellington: it's about some weird things I've noticed about tech people and their weird phobia of observation and empirical thinking.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/tech%5Fempiricism%5Fproblem

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

so few people write about it that i wrote about it, even though i haven't had a blog in years.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

anyway, cross platform portability without sacrificing performance is very tedious. nobody writes about it, i don't think all that many projects take it seriously, probably because they've tried and the compilers and computers fought them.

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

The Ides of Mac.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

(context: it seemed hilariously unpossible and hadn't been encountered in my own testing and i was at the "reading the code through and guessing" stage until the issue author noticed something odd (as it ever is with these things))

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

this is actually a pretty hilarious bug if you're as much of a nerd as me.

totally my oops, i was using hardcoded flags to fiddle about for testing in qemu locally.

https://codeberg.org/jjl/bittricks/issues/4