Which would mean either a subscription model, ad model, or somewhere in between. In all cases, it’s doomed from the start because who the hell wants to deal with that when YouTube provides the same.
Privacy enthusiasts, maybe, but there’s 10000 proles for every one of them.
I have a nebula subscription because there’s a handful of creators that I like.
Oh it goes deeper. I encourage you to read about the Trojan Room Coffee Pot at University of Cambridge. This was, essentially, the invention of the webcam.
Also, the Linux Coffee Howto
Yeah but as long as you download CSAM you’re on this governments “nice” list. Use that to throw them off your scent.
Oh they like cheese pizza? Must be a god-fearing republican like us. Move along.
That first picture is great. That’s essentially generative AI, right? You cast out a problem and have it solved multiple times asynchronously, then find the (mean/median/mode) value.
I do wonder how many of those ladies (weird how “computer” was a largely female profession, and then IT quickly became a largely male profession. Not making any commentary here, just kind of a showerthought observation) got laid off because of the computer. I wonder what they did after their jobs were replaced by it, and if that in turn was a net positive for them/their families.
I guess this was right around the peak of the babyboom, so I think I know what they did. And for a while there, it was feasible for a typical family to do well on a single income.
That’d be nice. Maybe next time around we can get it so that families can do well on a single part-time income. Or more gender-equality for who stays home and who works. Hell, I think a lot of families would be happy to be able to do well on two full-time incomes now. But this is getting into the devaluation of human labor now, instead of the evolution of technology.
On the one hand, I get it. I really do. It takes an absurd amount of resources for what it does.
On the other hand, I wonder if people said the same of early generation comptuers. UNIVAC used tubes of mercury for RAM and consumed 125KW of electricity to process a whopping 2k operations per second.
Probably not. Most people weren’t aware of it, nor did they have a care for power consumption, water consumption, etc. We were in peak-American Exceptionalism in the post-war era.
But, had they, and computers kinda just…died. Right there, in the 1950s. Would we have gone to the moon? Would we have HDTV? iPhones? Social Media? A treacherous imbecile in charge of the most powerful military the world has ever seen?
Probably not.
So…I do worry about the consumption, and the ecological and environmental impact. But, what if that is a necessary evil for the continued evolution of technology, and with it, society? And, if it is, do we want that?
And, to go a step further, could AI potentially aid in finding realistic ways to undo the harms that it had caused? Or those of anthropogenic climate change? Or uncover new unforseen dangers?
Did the inventors of UNIVAC ponder if its descendants would one day aid in curing terminal illness, or predicting intense weather, or realize how much it would evolve in the coming decades? Moore wouldn’t have even coined his iconic law for another 14 years.
What I don’t like…what I really don’t like…is that this phase of technological evolution is coinciding with rampant pro-capital/anti-social rhetoric and governance. I like that it’s forcing conversations around modernizing copyright law, licenses, etc…but I don’t like who is involved in those conversations.
Better Nate than lever.
Science now has two outlets:
you can pay money to publish in a scientific journal and get critiqued by other scientists…
or you can get paid to publish on Amazon and get praised by idiots (while also getting critiqued by other scientists…which won’t matter because by the time your book is popular enough for peers to notice, you’ve already got an army of idiots to drown them out)
Take a wild gander as to which this likely is.
Is there something bad about nginx that I’m missing?
I prefer it for reverse proxy over apache…I’d just always found it to be much simpler.
But going forward I’m more likely to use caddy or traefik.
P could very easily be python now. At least as a surrogate for Django.
Not too indecent though…
Republicans blaming the victim? Inconceivable.
proceeds to fart on cake
You know what I like the most?
When I paste a 250k-line log to console.
I’ve been quite happy with moonlight/sunshine on Wayland. Is that an option?
I never heard of those bands, tbh.
Did the first one do “Killer Tofu”?
That’s a shame. I saw Offspring last summer (first time I’ve ever gotten lawn/GA seats, best time I’ve had at a concert since like my first concert at that venue (Godsmack 2002 I think). Awesome show. I think they had a brief intermission where some pickup band played for a bit before coming back out, but can’t really remember, as I was really fucking stoned.
Sign into Roblox and it’s just a bunch of GPU Farms trying to get NUCs to send them pictures of their dongles and/or ports.
My MIL went to see Frankie Valli recently. Dude is 91 years old and still performing…but doesn’t have the stamina he used to. She said this show was like that…he’d do a couple songs, go backstage and rest, come back out.
Side note…several years ago I had a season pass to the local theater all the Broadway shows tour at. Out of all the shows that season, Jersey Boys was the one I was least looking forward to.
It ended up being my second favorite show of the season, behind Hamilton. Great show, highly recommend. Least favorite that year, iirc, was Miss Saigon. I think Anastasia was also that season, another really great show.
I have a few, some fractional shares in a company I used to work for (3-letter US pharmacy chain), that got lost in the ether when porting my 401k out to my next employer. Estimated value < $200
They need a fucking proof of residence matching my address at the time…my early 20s bachelor pad, nearly 20 years ago. My old landlord is dead. My roommates at the time…one went off-grid and disappeared himself, other was and remains a deadbeat and I don’t think he was actually on any bills or the lease anyway.
Is it even worth the effort of trying to track it down now? It’s almost just on principle at this point.
You’ll only see when you open your
xeyes.