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pgm_01, to news in NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens

Yup. Global Warming is literally burning and flooding people to death, but political leaders and citizens are focussed on UFOs and aliens. Where are the hearings on how the oil industry knew this was happening and covered it up? If you are looking for a conspiracy to hide something huge from the world, that would be a good place to start.

pgm_01, to technology in The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA

Message sent. One of the cosponsors of this madness is one of my Senators. We need universal healthcare. Instead, we get a proposed universal tracking system for people to access the internet. Stupid, stupid, stupid!

pgm_01, to technology in Western Digital, SanDisk Extreme SSDs don’t store data safely, lawsuit says

I have used SanDisk cards for years, without issue. They are a huge manufacturer of flash memory, which is why their prices were always good. It is certainly possible and even probable that the quality has gone down. All kinds of companies lower their product's quality and reliability to make them cheaper to increase profits.

pgm_01, to technology in Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people

That's not good at all.

pgm_01, to news in Trump Violates Court Order with Attack on Federal Judge

I believe the phrase is:
"Lock him up! Lock him up!"

Seriously, put his ass in home confinement, slap on an ankle monitor and take away all of his electronics because he can't behave himself.

pgm_01, to politics in [Analysis] Republicans are talking up the possibility of impeaching Biden. Is it what voters want to hear?

I'm fine with Republicans attempting to impeach Biden. It will fire up the extremists on the right, but it will also fire up Democrats while turning off any moderate voters out there. It hurts republicans far more than it hurts Democrats, it makes them look like petulant children, and that should help persuade voters to push them out of power. If they are going to abuse the tools of power, which they will, I would rather have it happen with Biden, who is about as clean and boring as a politician gets, rather than having them going on a fishing expedition and finding something like Clinton.

pgm_01, to news in New COVID variant spreading in the UK as hospitalizations rise

Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years.

pgm_01, to kbinMeta in Are TERF-centric magazines allowed on this insurance?

The magazine name is Modern Misogyny and rule 1 is "No bigotry - misogyny...".
That is like dividing by zero.

Right now, it appears to exist only with one user posting to himself. It is not a big problem. However, if you don't clean these things up quickly, you end up with a Nazi bar. Voat started out very Libertarian, but by the time it closed, its front page was dominated by hard-core antisemitism, it literally became a Nazi hang-out. Tolerance of intolerance ends up allowing the intolerance to spread and become the majority. kbin.social can not end up like that.

pgm_01, to politics in [News]Rudy Giuliani may have assigned volunteer to Arizona 'audit', new emails show

Fixed. Sorry about that!

pgm_01, to android in Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover

It is unclear how long Amazon will continue to support their assistant in the future. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year

People use exactly as you are, to control various smart devices, but that doesn't pay for the infrastructure that makes Alexa run, and people are not using it to buy stuff from Amazon as envisioned.

Google's products are getting worse as they are now deep into the enshitification process, and making investors happy takes precedence over users. I would welcome an improvement in Google Assistant, but it will probably manage to make things worse.

pgm_01, to tech in Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken
pgm_01, to RedditMigration in Reddit app score changed dramatically

There are a bunch of new 5-star ratings, including some that mention the API, others put in language referencing other apps. Either fanboys brigading or paid shillery of the reviews is occurring.

pgm_01, to news in Inside the Republican effort to force millions of farm animals back into cages

We must protect high income individuals at all cost. It can't be considered an improvement if some rich asshole is less rich because of a law, and so the laws need to be rolled back. Republican obsequiousness toward corporations will get us all killed.

pgm_01, to tech in ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why

That's how human intelligence works. We assign a value to the source of the information. The fact that the AI's seemed to be trained without that explains why they "lie" so much. They simply reconstruct patterns without giving any weight to specific patterns.

For example, if you have the information "President Biden will launch a ground invasion of Russia." If the New York Times, BBC, and CNN are all reporting it, we would give that information a higher likelihood of being true than if the information was found on random blogs. However, if the random blogs reporting the information belonged to reputable reporters or bloggers on military and international affairs, we would assign the information a higher value of being correct than if the information came from Bob's Bigfoot and Alien sightings Index.

Without the ability to check the level of accuracy of source data, all the generative AI could be corrupted. If you fed an art AI photos of the Statue of Liberty but kept telling it that it was the Eiffel Tower, when asked to draw the Eiffel Tower it would spit out the Statue of Liberty. Right now, without the ability to assess the accuracy of a response, any of the chat-based AI are garbage for most of the use-cases companies are deploying them in.

pgm_01, to science in 'Breakthrough' geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power | Engadget

Nuclear is very expensive, which means it needs to be run for a long time to make up for the initial investment costs. There are not very many places where you will be able to have enough cooling water for 3 to 5 decades that is not on a coastline. However, if you build on the coast you have to build with 50 years of sea level rise, tsunamis and flooding in mind. All of that adds to the already high costs.

Cover everything with solar, build up on and offshore wind, improve existing hydroelectric and invest in geothermal, make the grid larger with more grid storage, and if you still need more energy sources then add nuclear.

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