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DeepSouth (www.westernsydney.edu.au)

A supercomputer capable of mimicking the human brain is set to be activated in 2024. The DeepSouth system, developed by researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, uses spiking neural networks to efficiently emulate large networks of neurons, rivaling the rate of operations in the human brain. This...

guitarsarereal,

I also gagged when I saw the name, but it’s a team of researchers at Western Sydney University in southern Australia, who are probably simply too high up in their ivory tower to realize/care what Deep South means in America. According to them, it’s an homage to a couple other systems:

The supercomputer is aptly named DeepSouth, paying homage to IBM’s TrueNorth system, which initiated efforts to build machines simulating large networks of spiking neurons, and Deep Blue, which was the first computer to become a world chess champion. The name is also a nod to its geographical location.

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Yeah to this day Windows probably still makes a better workstation OS overall. I use Linux on everything cause I like it, and everybody always expects me to tell them to switch, but I only do that if I think there’s a chance it’ll be a good experience for them.

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Well, you see, nobody else is saving anymore, so we have to save for the rest of you obsessively saves page

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Drinking porridge out of cups? That’s sick.

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Considering that the web was explicitly architected to allow users to control how they render documents, arguing that adblocking is bad or should be prohibited is exactly as arbitrary and ridiculous as claiming that Google is trying to “steal” my bandwidth by forcing me to download ads. That’s literally not how the web works. That’s why they had to consolidate a near browser monopoly so they could force this on everybody as a product policy.

guitarsarereal,

Okay, but what did you want the bereaved mom to say to the media, “thanks Israel for murdering my kid because of what someone else did!”?

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or maybe it’s trying to highlight that it’s also secure?

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I wish more content creators would upload to PeerTube (or something like it). I get it, there’s no instances with good monetization options, it just sucks we’re all stuck in various walled gardens because of how expensive video delivery is.

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It was a really bad look to scramble to get him back once he triggered a mass exodus. Having him at the helm is either so dangerous for AI safety they had to push him out with a bureaucratic coup, or it isn’t. Doing that severely hurts their credibility on multiple levels (did they really not realize how popular he was within the company and that the price was going to be some of their top researchers?) and after pushing him out the way they did, they should hardly be surprised that Microsoft hoovered him up before the weekend was even over. Why would they give him a few days to process the betrayal and maybe come back around?

After this, we shouldn’t be surprised if Microsoft suddenly starts sabotaging OpenAI until it has no choice but to sell itself off to MS, at which point Altman gets all his toys back.

Stuff like this is why I never took their safety mission all that seriously. It was going to bump up against the business imperatives before long, and given the level of interest business has in AI… what else was the outcome going to be other than corporate sabotage and malfeasance?

Hate that Altman guy, he’s Zuckerberg with more important technology, but somewhere in the mix of articles I read one of the board members complained that “this board is not the group of people you want to see spearheading AI safety.” Yeah, I guess not!

guitarsarereal,

You know, I appreciate Chomsky, but his work is mainly intended to get you reading and thinking more on your own than to give you all the answers. Not everything that happens in the news media is a distraction from something else just because he broke down that one propaganda trick really well. Sometimes, events stay glued to our screens because they really are the main propaganda event of the day, and they really do want you to spend all day and all night thinking about it.

In this case, Israel needs tons and tons of people frothing at the mouth supporting genocide, and Palestinians are needing just as many, if not more, to consider that genocide may be wrong, and they’re playing tug-of-war in the media. That’s all I’m seeing.

guitarsarereal,

Exactly, It’s a commonly cited example from Manufacturing Consent because he broke it down really well there. But everybody who just read Chomsky for the first time then goes out and tries to correlate every single front-page story with the back-page story it’s supposed to be covering up, like they’ve only ever used a single propaganda technique or being predictable wouldn’t undermine the value of the propaganda.

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Misinformation is a numbers game. For every 10 people that see the misinfo, only maybe 1 or 2 will ever see the followup proving whatever the misinformation was was in fact misinformation. And out of those 2, half will assume the followup is itself misinformation and have their belief in the propaganda reinforced. Out of the 8 who will never see the correction, maybe two will reject it, four won’t really know what to think (itself a useful propaganda outcome), and maybe two will accept it.

Concerted efforts to combat misinformation can help, maybe nowadays the number of people who see the followup is closer to 3 or 4, but it’s the same basic dynamics behind the Gish Gallop, but on an industrial scale. Making up bullshit is easy, analyzing and explaining why it’s bullshit on average takes longer than spewing out some new piece of bullshit.

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They want to throw this OS on smart home/automative/IoT type things. Android works in these situations, but it’s not necessarily ideal. Thing was designed for phones. It’s likely the only phone firmware in history that’s also been put in cars, espresso makers, washer/dryers, microwaves, and TV’s.

I completely get why the first waves of smart devices tended to just use Android – it’s easy to develop on and “lightweight enough” that the tradeoffs involved were generally acceptable. But those qualities only take you so far. Companies moving on to develop their own in-house OS’s for all these devices was the obvious next step.

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Every other Zionist makes it a point to argue that the Palestinians were never a “people” because it was never an independent nation-state, but the only reason you’d split hairs about that in such an arbitrary way (point out where in the UN Convention on Genocide it says "it’s not genocide if they never had a modern nation-state of their own? Y’all) is to muddy the waters as to whether or not clearing out Palestine amounts to genocide. Blows me away people can look at this conflict and not conclude that Israel is committing genocide.

While we’re here, Bibi uses Hamas to weaken the Palestinian Authority and make independent statehood impossible. They don’t dislike Hamas. Hamas makes it very easy for Bibi to accomplish his party’s goals in Gaza, which include ethnically cleansing it. Why would they ever want to actually get rid of Hamas until Gaza’s been completely destroyed?

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Immutability is useful from a sysadmin standpoint because it solves a couple problems. It’s a little easier to secure a system if you can know that, in fact, files outside the home directory have not been modified, and also, it’s a little easier to keep systems running because programs can’t just shit on each other’s files etc.

Unless these two are problems for you, you’re signing up to re-learn how to use Linux, and tbh not very elegantly, for basically no real gains at this time. Immutability has potential as a concept, but Red Hat’s approach is super weird and not very efficient. They have a tool that allows you to manage filesystem trees, and then they extended this tool with RPM to allow you to compose custom filesystem trees at install/upgrade time. This approach, in my experience, is shockingly inefficient if you need to add any custom packages to your base tree and you install updates with any frequency.

If you’re a sysadmin rolling out updates to workstations maybe once a month, these aren’t really issues, but for daily use, it didn’t seem worth it to me just yet, especially since we don’t really have any neat separation of code and config like you get with Docker. You can’t just zip up your home directory and move it to a new Silverblue installation and have your user back yet (there’s work in this direction with systemd-homed, likely once it’s good enough this will become standard, but also, that’s not an “immutability” feature). I believe /etc is mounted rw, which is a step in this direction, but until lots of stateful stuff gets moved out of /etc that isn’t going to be portable in the same way a Docker config is.

EDIT For a comparison of a different approach to immutability that includes a different bundle of tradeoffs, you can also look at OpenSUSE’s MicroOS. The TL;DR is that it’s easier to customize the base system, but it locks you into btrfs and it’s not as robust overall – ypsidanger.com/comparing-opensuse-microos-to-fedo…discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/…/3

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I mean, is this true in any way that hasn’t been true of Linux since nearly forever? You can always put your /home folder on a separate partition, install a new system, and as long as you make sure the UID of your new user matches the UID of the old user, the process is exactly the same. Just reinstall your apps and you’re good to go. I used to do this to keep configuration/data between reinstalls. EDIT – as opposed to a genuinely stateless user config, as systemd-homed is working towards

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Although, Marx’s critique still stands, in that the Luddites, while they generally correctly noticed the problem that within capitalism new technologies generally serve to further disempower workers and devalue their labor even further, didn’t have a shred of an answer. As it turns out, solving problems is more complicated than smashing things that are pissing you off.

Hence why the Luddites are a fondly-remembered image but the march of technology hasn’t slowed down literally at all.

guitarsarereal,

Sorry, who are we talking about here? If you’re trying to say Marx had more sophisticated answers, true, but I was saying the Luddites didn’t have an answer. If the Luddites had a more sophisticated answer, they never acted on it.

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if you use yt-dlp or youtube-dl’s -F flag you can get back a list of available formats. There are typically separately encoded audio tracks for most content on youtube, meaning you can just give it the stream id and get an m4a or webm file with no extra work.

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Your intended playback device impacts which format you’ll want. Or maybe I’m just fussy, I dunno.

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It’s a nostalgia fave, it’s got things in there I like (I’ll never get over that ritual where Stilgar chants out the terraforming plan for Arrakis), but damn if the best parts of it aren’t almost footnotes. To me, it works really well as the Tragedy of the Ecologists Who Almost Got the Point Across.

RIP Liet Kynes, may they put you out of earshot of your dad in the afterlife.

guitarsarereal,

It kills me that these days going to a library is treated as an interesting alternative to giving Amazon all your money. When I was younger, the library was the place you started looking for something to read.

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Libraries are (generally) not for profit. There’s not really the revenue stream to strike deals like that. Publishers are likely only getting a pittance from licensing to libraries, hell for most publishers they likely only do it as a PR move, and if they start charging per read… well, libraries may as well not bother with ebook licensing at that point and just put a book scanner in the library.

I had a dream about windows and have decided to setup Linux on my laptop. What distro should I use?

I used Ubuntu once a few years ago but had compatability issues so I went back to windows. Not a great programmer but I’d like to learn. I’m not looking to do much gaming beyond DOOM2 and factorio. Mostly looking for privacy and a way to get back into programming (I have this pipe dream of learning Assembly). I’m not to...

guitarsarereal,

Don’t overthink it. You’re not likely to pick the best first distro for you out of the gate, because the best distro for you depends on a whole pile of factors. Like – what hardware do you have? Did you win the hardware lottery and you just by chance have a fully working setup with libre drivers out of the box? In that case, you could use most anything and be up and running without much difficulty. Have some device that needs proprietary firmware or just a third-party, closed source driver? Might want to start on one of the more beginner-friendly distros, like Mint or PopOS. These won’t give you a great view of the possibilities of Linux, but they will get you up and running fast.

Best approach is to take a guess, install it, try it for like a week, and if you’re more angry at the end of the week than you were at the beginning, try a different distro.

Popular first choices are Ubuntu, Mint, Pop_OS or Elementary, I’d recommend trying Kubuntu as the UI is the most similar to Windows and it has a different development team than mainline Ubuntu. There are annoying things about Ubuntu that are less awful on Kubuntu.

Red Hat was bought by IBM a few years ago and they’re quickly moving to kill off everything that made the Red Hat ecosystem cool and useful for end users, so tbh I’d avoid Fedora or anything Fedora based. There’s a risk you’ll get comfy and then have the rug pulled out from under you.

Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent corporation, is drawing closer and closer to Microsoft and I honestly don’t trust that, especially with some of the decisions they’ve been making around software management, but using Ubuntu will get you ready to try Debian, which is the cool and community-oriented distro Ubuntu based itself off of.

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KInda blows me away how people don’t acknowledge the overt genocidality of Israel’s position towards Palestine. Just call them rats, Yoav Gallant, we all know that’s what you mean. People all over social media are celebrating the actual ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

And after everything since the Nakba, we’re supposed to be surprised that the political situation in Gaza has deteriorated to the point where the government is just a pack of terrorists. We’re supposed to be confused as to how that could happen.

The attack by Hamas is chilling, but punishing all Gazans for what their government has done is collective punishment, and also presupposes a lot of things (ie, “they voted for Hamas” – 44% of the electorate voted for Hamas, which means 56%, the actual majority, voted against Hamas, and they voted once, 17 years ago, so really, less than half of the electorate ever approved Hamas, but also, collective punishment is a war crime)

It seems likely Israel will succeed in clearing Gaza, because they’ve had the upper hand here and have since they stole the entire country at gunpoint with UN backing. This is depressing, but I don’t see how massacres will help anything. If anything, further violence just seems to play into Israel’s hand.

EDIT: it’s been 17 years, not 13, since the last elections in Gaza

EDIT: Corrected typo, this was early in the day for me sorry everybody, also fixed slightly incorrect info re elections, admittedly not the most up to date on the current situation over there, but at this point I believe the info in my post is at least overall correct

guitarsarereal,

Typo, actually, but interpret it any way you like, make up stories, whatever you want, okay?

guitarsarereal, (edited )

Thanks for the updates, I wasn’t aware there had been scotched election plans in the last few years. I follow various global situations but Israel-Palestine is so hopeless it’s honestly hard to keep up with. It’s worth noting Hamas has also scotched attempts to hold elections since 2006. Interesting to note they called for municipal elections 10 days ago and apparently intended to discuss with the PA such elections at the same time as they were planning an actual massacre whose only strategic merits I have even heard suggested are “Israel’s response will galvanize Gaza against Israel,” except I’m not sure what iron resolve does against a military with IDF’s resources and lack of restraint.

Anyways, they can fight if they think it will help, but given how more or less every single armed conflict has panned out ultimately in Israel’s favor, I’d question if in their case going even harder and massacring civilians even harder is really going to help anything.

Since legislative/presidential elections haven’t actually been held since 2006, we can’t really know if the 44% of the vote (in a vote which had 76% turnout, so really, about 33% of all eligible voters, similar democratic mandates as GW Bush or Trump) would even still support Hamas today, so it’s a little generous to say Hamas massacring civilians is the same as “The Palestinian people fighting”

guitarsarereal,

yeah, so it’s a link to Inside Edition, which is the longest-running syndicated news program and has been running since 1989 and is currently syndicated by CBS.

You can verify it’s the same channel as their official channel because Inside Edition’s website (www.insideedition.com see YT link in top-left corner) links directly to it.

Media Bias Fact Check rates them generally factual – mediabiasfactcheck.com/inside-edition/

It’s not especially highly rated as TV news, saw it described as “the fast food of TV news,” but I didn’t see anything that described it as substantially non-factual.

What’s your issue with Inside Edition, again?

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:surprised_pikachu:

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Doritos!

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Depends on the software you’re using and how it’s being packaged by the vendor. Flatpak works pretty well. Snap sucks. AppImages are easy when done right, but with lots of downsides/no security mechanisms.

If the vendor recommends using their repo, I’ll use it. If they recommand using my distro’s packages, I’ll do that. Generally, I get the best experience when I install software the way the developer wants me to. It makes for a “lumpier” distro (flatpaks, appimages, downloaded binaries, actual packages… jesus, it’s a mess) but honestly all the software works without a hiccup.

If you buck the developers, weird stuff can happen. If they want you to install their packages, but you install your distro’s packages instead, be ready for a rough time.

guitarsarereal,

Decentralized architecture is a pretty good middle-ground between centralized and distributed, though (see). Moving to a fully distributed social media – which would look something like everyone running their own servers – would carry costs and problems of its own, one of which is very few people have the time and inclination to learn how to do that and massive duplication of effort (everyone becomes responsible for creating and storing their own archives for posterity’s sake, which means lots and lots of data will just go to the bit bucket to die)

The data being shared across federated servers allows people to set up 3rd-party archives, which is beneficial, without needlessly burdening instance operators with archival work (sort of a problem for sites like MySpace, there’s nothing in it for them except maybe good PR, except digital archiving for posterity is such a niche interest there would likely be little PR benefit to doing so)

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