Indeed. I have been hearing a lot of bad things are in the pipeline with Android being laced with “AI” plus as you mentioned Google is trying to close the doors. FDroid has been screaming bloody murder but I bet you the majority of people who read this sentence probably don’t even know what that is, never mind Google is trying to shut it down.
disclaimer: I am not on anyone’s “side”. This is a horrible conflict that needs to stop before it gets worse and escalates to include other countries.
Some of the backlash maybe over feeling the USA is walking away without enough concessions.
A big question is likely along the lines of “Will the USA withdraw military forces from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, plus all of the smaller sites?”
What guarantees that the USA and Israel won’t stockpile arms, rebuild a new targets of opportunity list, and resume hostilities at a future date of their convenience?
The new supreme leader of Iran lost his wife of almost 30 years, his father, and I believe another sibling. That’s not something that can be easily patched up quickly, even with 300 billion.
Another thing is the hardliners believe that Iran can keep this going plus inflict more damage at the cost of the average Iranian civilian’s life… which doesn’t seem to be high on their list of concerns.
If you go to the USA’s white house government page, and click on the Iran peace deal; if my enemy was posturing like this I would tell them to go fuck themselves. Never mind whatever new shit that idiot is rage tweeting in the middle of the night.
I love how blissfully ignorant Microsoft is being about how much they have doomed themselves to IBM status. Still a meaningful entity but no longer a leader in anything.
Really interested to see what emerges from the chaos. Lisuan seems like a very viable upstart to fill the void Nvidia and AMD are currently leaving open if they can scale up their fabs and do the standard Chinese business tactic of flooding the market. Apple has only spent a fraction of what Microsoft and Google has while still maintaining their ocean of cash so its possible the ghost of Steve will have the last laugh? Linux is getting a lot of praise from notable tech influencers aimed at the general market, for example LinusTechTips, which may nudge Linux into stratospheric heights like 8% market share. Or perhaps it will become like metric vs imperial where the planet uses some flavor of Linux while the USA grudgingly holds onto Windows?
The really big one to watch is if the EU can digitize its monetary system enough to replace the VISA/Mastercard GDP vampires.
I appreciated https://www.youtube.com/@TheInfographicsShow for the person that does their narration to do a short introduction to show they’re a human. Also all new videos start with a short 10-20 second clip of him narrating so you know its him. Otherwise they’ve been using the same art style for so long that I imagine they recycle 90% of their graphical assets.
They’re literally building the logistic and transport ships to secure a beachhead.
As this one security analyst put it, if the confederates had stolen all of our gold and setup shop nearby, do you think the US would let that go?
AI has already and is actively making a substantial chunk of things worse.
OpenAI has made war crimes legal
Youtube is a sea of slop
Book industry is drowning
FOSS is being openly robbed while also drowning under slop
Anti-AI paranoia is really ratcheting up and its also being exploited by AI. USAA the military savings bank has a flood of AI bots accusing humans of being bots to stifle criticism of the bank enshitifying itself. Meanwhile pre-AI video reposts have people screaming “That’s AI slop!” In other places, too thorough of a text post is probably AI but it also might just be some poor neurodivergent person who is an actual expert on the subject and is excited to share.
Then there is all the layoffs and firings.
Health insurance scams are using AI to target those who are less lightly to appeal.
Stuff like the people shut out of part of the job market because an AI decided they had been rejected from too many prior applications.
Oh and the computer electronics parts market is fucked. I have a few spare DDR5 memory sticks that would now pay for a third of what my current computer cost me! Never mind the NVME spares I have on the shelf.
Actually most of the consumer electronics market is fucked. Didn’t they postpone the next play station while Valve is trying to figure out if people will be cool donating a kidney or part of their liver for the VR goggles and the steam console box.
Only saving grace for me is my spelling and grammar skills seriously atrophied after using grammarly for a few years so most people look at my writing and never think “This sounds like AI!”
Boeing is the poster child of what killed the USA.
Boeing went from an engineer centric company and was poisoned by a “reverse-merger” that put people who already killed one manufacturer in charge. These parasites proceeded to stick to the same playbook that drove them into the ground plus double downed on their greed. I added up all the stock buybacks which looks like legal embezzlement and it was more then the research and development costs of the 777 and the 787 combined. I didn’t bother with adjusting for inflation as the buybacks are spread over decades, so the true cost is definitely worse.
Yes there are a lot of dark sides to this but I am still somewhat hopeful for people whose body have betrayed them.
Unfortunately the unmentioned horror of this technology as it currently stands is similar to “Flowers for algernon”. The brain is extremely territorial and doesn’t like weird metallic stuff stuck in it. In response, I believe the astrocytes build encapsulating scar tissue around the probes that eventually deafen them. I have been following this tech since the early stages in the late 90’s and no one seems to have solved that. Truly bitter experience for epilepsy and near terminally depressed patients who have been given some semblance of normallacy only to have it slip away.
A currently insanely expensive probe design has something like a magnet on a mems platform so a less reactive and normally insulating material can be used to “sense” electrical impulses. Sadly it has something brutal like a sub 5% production yield and can be damaged almost anywhere along the journey from a fabrication laboratory to a operating room.
Fundamentally models based on an LLM structure are never going to be remotely performant with current technology.
Part of the problem is that as you increase parameters, in some parts of the model the amount of digital processing time is increased close to or more likely above and beyond a magnitude. Absolute best case is somewhere around N^2 per sequence of layers where N is the number of neurons.
additionally floating point multiplication is involved which is like turning two numbers into their own matrix multiplication operation.
Agentic is really more like taking a crappy slot machine that does multiple rolls in one go to improve the odds of a more desirable outcome.
So to simplify the problem, this is like a bunch of stupid monkeys rubbing two rocks together hard enough to create enough friction to make it seem like they have discovered fire.
Taking that analogy a step further, so much effort is being put into rubbing rocks together faster that other important issues like food and shelter are being ignored.
Trying to remember what I can of the B-52, I would be absolutely gobsmacked if it was a fuel and or engine problem considering it has 8 turbines. Considering there doesn’t look like any secondary explosions would rule out some sort of payload shift. That seems to leave just an unintentional stall or indeed a jammed control surface. Considering the contractors, there is a non-zero chance they were instrumental in this.
Anyone know if they use chloramine for treatment? Very likely as chlorine doesn’t do well against UV. It would be funny if they somehow pumped directly from the Potomac.
A drug dealer with a heavily armed escort delivers a package of white powder. New problem: is it cocaine, cleaning detergent, anthrax, or some mixture of the former?
Definitely a few unfortunate victims to stuff like libyami if using some sort of shell autocomplete. Few others would likely catch younger people, eg the implied apk side channel deployment packages.
I have no artistic skills so freebie: Arch is like Russian roulette where the odds are good but there is still a non-zero chance some update is going to shit the bed. I don’t even know how to convey that in meme form either.
Among my millennial friends the majority do not own their own home, gave up family ideas, and are basically just fucked. Major reason I have a house is because when I was younger I killed a bunch of strangers for the government. Now even that isn’t enough for an increasing part of the country. Fuck, replacing my roof is going to be thousands of dollars which I only have part of right now.
On that note, I can’t tell if Musk has fired whoever it is that has gotten Space-X as far as it has so far. Maybe the starship project will turn out to be their cybertruck?
Maybe they’re onto something with these illegal immigrants ruining America? Elon has boasted how his brother and himself violated their student visas to work on a tech startup that would eventually become PayPal. I am not a lawyer but that feels like well into felony territory?
no need to burn them down, just focus on the chillers. if they use evaporative coolers a water balloon partially filled with oil and soap will fuck that entire system.
also better to cripple then destroy as they get a full insurance payout where just drastically degrading facility performance is harder to prove the monetary value.
This is fascinating. Most of those are indeed elder millennial double spaces after the punctuation but the inconsistency is odd. Also I don’t see them on my computer.
That’s what this article was about actually. Explaining hibernate, the consequences, giving a realistic impact of using it, explaining sleep and the benefits.