Reddit is now further away from a public offering than it was last year, Mr. Huffman said.

Well, that slightly warms my heart.

I didn't see it mentioned, but reddit apparently doesn't advertise in nsfw subs, so it has more value than just the laughs it gives us.

There's a risk that disgruntled ex-redditors will collectively vote for the most terrible people they can find for mods, just to harm reddit and drive people here. That would be truly sad to see. Truly sad.

Edit: other appalling things I hope we don't see are people going to reddit in down times only to upvote bad comments and posts, and downvote the good ones.

The very last thing we would want to see is the mods of large subs switching between private and public mode too often, because that apparently has to change permissions on all the posts in the sub, and was why reddit had downtime when they all went dark. They may even have the wild and outrageous idea to briefly turn off private simultaneously, only to go back private as a form of malicious compliance with Huffman's warnings.

My phone is my sole PC and has been for about 7 months now. I use it for everything. I'm using nreal AR glasses for a massive virtual 80" screen via Dex. I use a Bluetooth mouse and mechanical keyboard. I use libre office for real work, I do development work right on the phone. I also use andronix on the phone for when I need a more full blown Linux desktop for gimp, IDEs, GIS, etc.

"Despite being so common in English as to be known as the "Chinese curse", the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced." - Wikipedia

The fediverse wars, begun they have.

Anyone who isn't at least mildly interested that you know Morse code isn't someone you want to know :-)

Good filter technique.

Belousov told RBC, a business channel, that the companies themselves proposed the taxes.

Yes, yes. I'm sure they did :-/

That's an aspirational goal but there has been no practical methods proposed to actually achieve it. Good intentions are a start I suppose. I don't think anyone really thinks we can do it at this stage. It's openly stated that it would require as-yet unknown technology to achieve.

e.g. We could engineer something to kill possums, but the Aussies are gonna be straight up pissed at us for wiping out their marsupials, if (when) it crosses the ditch.

Not that it is particularly relevant but we legalised prostitution in New Zealand in 2003.

"The number of sex workers in Aotearoa New Zealand has not changed significantly since decriminalisation, and there is no evidence of trafficking; in fact, the legal recourse granted to sex workers in the country has improved their ability to combat exploitation, violence, and health risks without facing the threat of a soliciting offence."

Although, there's still problems around working conditions and other things that need addressing it has been seen by most as a positive change.

Actually, I am very lazy, thank you.

Reddit is now further away from a public offering than it was last year, Mr. Huffman said.

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/85610/Spez-talks-to-NY-Times

Counting calories/macros is good thing to do to zero your brain in on what foods contribute what - it's honestly quite surprising and informative to do. But, doing it constantly is kinda obsessive and annoying. Same applies here too.

TLDR; the front side is 23% efficient, and the rear side 20% efficient.

They don't actually give an overall efficiency but it implies a total of 43%. They compare this to typical panels also at 23% efficient, so it's really remarkable if true. Other emerging solar tech is up to about 32% but if that could also benefit from multiple layers then total efficiency could become insane.

Seems a little too good to be true, really, but great if so.

Edit: Yeah, I don't think these efficiencies can be added like that. I guess the overall efficiency will depend on how reflective the ground under the panels is, and they will extract 20% of that. Maybe that's why they don't give an overall rating.

Stop trying to stack overflow the fediverse, please.

In a fediverse, does it really matter? (yes it will be nice to have though, maybe just because we haven't adjusted to the fediverse mindset yet though).

It seems that federation is working on kbin, but not lemmy, so you will see lemmy posts on kbin, but not vice versa. It'll be sorted soon enough. It's just a bit annoying because I've replied to several lemmy posts and only now realise they won't be seeing them yet.

I think it's intellectually lazy to stick with the stochastic parrot line of thinking now. There's a number of emergent properties that are appearing as LLMs scale that give them abilities beyond that paradigm. Check out the "Sparks of AGI" paper from Microsoft research - or more realistically one of the youtube summaries of it since its quite a big read... Here's one from the horse's mouth: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c

It's not like it needed further proof. It's clearly happening. The latest starlink sats are better, and we need to continue to minimise it where we can, but the problem is not going away. Not much point in complaining really. For a lot of the science it's not a huge problem since it can be removed from the data, but it's terrible for astro-photography.

There's also the long game of voting in the most appalling mods you can find.