It’s full of dodgy VPN ads and the links I tried too.

Not just students…postdocs too :/

…because of anxiety from doomscrolling and notifications

Every generation needs to learn what microsoft is all over again, but they only learn the hard way.

I think this explains his stance a bit https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=rRDEkMAcwrQ I agree with some bits (because code quality does matter more than being nice when it is your profession), disagree with some (because being a grumpy idiot will harm your ability to build on collaborative projects).

PS: but yea, then there is also the video about the tech industry where he cherrypicks outrage and contradicts himself and agrees that Linus is rude and divisive…which sort of discredits him, because he only seems to like angry but competent people when they agree with him.

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yes https://earthsky.org/space/first-wooden-satellite-wisa-woodsat/ this is the first one built by japanese researchers, that explains the convoluted headline :D

This is what you get when you mess with the S’pore police.

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So let me see if I got it:

Lemmy in web 1 would have been like geocities: website replies to website message from link

Lemmy in web 2 is Lemmy

Lemmy in web 3 is Lemmy with an instant cryptocurrency/liberapay tipping button in each post/comment, like steemit 7 years ago?

Blade runner. Much better than “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” but it is only loosely based off it.

PS: when reading a book after watching a film, it usually feels like the book is much better, fills in details, separates scenes which a film had mixed together or altogether done away with. E.g. The Shining, LotR, Dune…but for Androids I just felt “what, that’s it?”

Anybody know if it is hard to make a synthetic voice, just like you can make a synthetic face or synthetic music? Or is that the point: that a synthetic voice ended up sounding like her?

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Backdoors are bad, 'mkay?

No need, they can just lie :)

Apparently, that causes radio interference, but I don’t think it lasts that long (days to hours)

If after all this shit we end up with retarded AI and lose libgen in the process, we’ll end up with less than we started with…

China did it…https://www.youku.tv/ probably the EU could do it too, if it cared about owning its own critical infrastructure.

why is this better than just icinerating it for baseload power? That is the only truly safe way to dispose of plastic, plus pyrolisis adds an extra step, which costs more energy.