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The vast majority of papers that make serious errors and draw the wrong conclusions are never retracted. The sort of people needing to be told to check whether a paper was retracted before citing it are not likely to produce much that’s of value even if they do so.

Through Hawking Radiation. I believe that idea is still current.

They can be any mass, it’s density that matters. The smaller ones will not do much damage before they evaporate.

I didn’t start the day expecting to have the experience of suddenly wondering why I’d never thought before about the question of how many times you’d have to fold a piece of paper in half before you got a black hole and then knowing the answer in about three seconds, but given that I did it’s no surprise that it’s due to xkcd.

I have no idea about how people in the UK should react and I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding of it is that if no one involved in running your site is British, it’s not hosted in the UK, and you don’t have any kind of business relationships with people in the UK, you absolutely should not worry about it or take any action at all beyond making sure you don’t sign any deals or offer any products for sale in that country.

They cannot legally or practically do anything to you beyond perhaps blocking access to your site somehow I suppose, and in the extremely unlikely event that they tried something crazy you’d be an international cause celebre with plenty of legal support available. Doing their dirty work for them by trying to block British IP addresses seems inadvisable.

The dotcom bubble was based on technology that had already been around for ten years. The AI bubble is based on technology that doesn’t exist yet.

Is there some way we can use piracy to purge AI sites?

I’m willing to entertain the possibility that the linux world may be lacking in some things, but I’m pretty sure “configuration tools for sysadmins” is not one of them.

The .tar.xz format decompresses more than twice as fast as .tar.bz2, allowing you to get up and running in no time

$ time tar xjf firefox-134.0b3.tar.bz2 

real    0m9.045s
user    0m8.839s
sys     0m0.450s

$ time tar xJf firefox-135.0a1.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.xz                                                

real    0m4.903s
user    0m4.677s
sys     0m0.510s

Nice! Presumably it’d be twice as fast if disk was infinitely fast or something. Unfortunately by testing this I’ve already used up a hundred times more time than I’ll ever save as a result of it.

And then there’s Lemmy, where you can always count on some helpful stranger who’s completely missed the point chiming in to tell you why you’re wrong.

That’s not how it was as of yesterday when I signed up just to see what all the fuss was about. (I don’t think I’ll be participating.)

Bluesky: You are immediately and automatically welcomed into the warm embrace of an algorithm that entices you into a parasocial relationship with the synthetic community it has created.

Mastodon: If you’re lucky you’ll stumble across a warm welcome for new users explaining how posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.

Rule 1: Crushing people with tanks is fine so long as it’s our side doing it.

Literal fucking tankies. I wonder if they will ever come to their senses. Oh well, it’s not as if there aren’t Nazi instances somewhere on fedi as well.