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600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days
IMO fediverse is big enough now to serve as reddit replacement.
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32 percent of Americans believe a military regime or authoritarian leader would be a good way of governing the country.
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AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15%
It's pretty impressive that integrated graphics can perform this well.
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World passes 30% renewables milestone for the first time, decline of fossil inevitable
Additinal bonus: Since both EU and China are shifting away from fossil fuels, this will fuck Russia forever
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New memory tech unveiled that reduces AI processing energy requirements by 1,000 times or more
This constant shuttling of information back and forth is responsible for consuming as much as 200 times the energy used in the computation, according to this research.
Press x to doubt. I know moving data costs more energy than computation itself, but that sounds like a pure BS.
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There's really no point unless you work in specific fields that benefit from AI.
Meanwhile every large corpo tries to shove AI into every possible place they can. They'd introduce ChatGPT to your toilet seat if they could
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Proton VPN’s no-logs policy confirmed by an external audit
Well if it wasn't Id cancel the subscription.
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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID
And I imagine everyone wants a picture of your ID. Which is horrible on so many levels...
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Hungary demands EU action against Ukraine as Russian oil spat escalates
sparking fears of supply shortages in Budapest
Nobody saw it coming...
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Police recruit who lost both legs in ‘barbaric hazing ritual’ sues Denver, paramedics and officers
Minor injuries are common and occasionally recruits die, often because of an underlying medical condition.
What. The. Fuck.
Moses told them he had the sickle cell trait
How was he even cleared for police training in the first place? This is a serious medical condition.
This sounds like an entire chain of lethal fuckery going on
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No Man's Sky 5.0 Update: Worlds, Part 1
Good to see the redemption arc going even further beyond :)
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Do you take a shower after you swim?
Chlorine remains on your skin if you don't - and causes constant irritation. Also if you care about hair, you should wash it out with shampoo - water alone won't remove the chlorine entirely
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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
Requires ring 0 access to the system in the first place. So for any normal user it's a nothing burger
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Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland
Expect safety inspectors suicides over this
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Why doesn't the American market provide efficient and effective health insurance like it does for car insurance?
Because it's rigged against you. US has the most expensive health care in the world - It's not natural, this is crafted oligopoly to gouge the prices
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Technically Correct
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As long as it's being held in magnetic confinement!
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Trump Cryptically Declares, ‘You Won’t Have to Vote Anymore’ If He Wins Second Term
So he wants to be a permanent dictator? Sounds legit considering the SCOTUS verdict about no criminal reponsibility
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All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought.
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It was grabbing a toehold even when our world was a literal hellscape.
Actually this makes sense in the context of autocatalytic sets hypothesis - you'd need large variety of inorganic compounds and a strong energy gradient to kickstart a metabolism.
There's great video on the subject from Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yOiZLHDV3U
Part I'm talking about starts at 15:48
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‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections
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it may be possible for an attacker with ring 0 access to modify the configuration of System Management Mode (SMM) even when SMM Lock is enabled.
If attacker has a ring 0 access he can already screw you up any way he wants
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Senators propose “Digital replication right” for likeness, extending 70 years after death
Why not 700 years? It will save Disney 10 lobbying campaigns