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- on Overkill, really in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 4h ago
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on AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
What’s going to happen is:
- The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
- When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
- Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
- So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the “safety” card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.
“You see, it’s just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI.”
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on synergy rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4d ago
if they don’t know the expression to table that [idea] for now. Greenbeards sonetimes get confused by tabling used as a verb. I think it’s unintuitive.
This one is tricky because it goes opposite ways across the pond. In the UK Parliament to table a bill means they’re going to bring it up for consideration right now. In fact bills and motions under consideration are actually laid out on that central table in the House of Commons.
In US Congress, a motion to lay on the table is a request to halt consideration on a bill for an indefinite (and probably infinite) period. There is no physical table in the US Congress where dead bills are placed.
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on Flashlights IRL vs flashlights in games [meme] in c/gaming@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Lighting still really hard, yo.
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on Blew My Mind Into Orbit in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
But are sockets not files?
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 13 Sep 2026
pagefile.sys has entered the chat.
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on don't give them a rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 Sep 2026
They did this to Houston, but they did an extremely half-assed job. It was one thin layer of additional asphalt covering over the whole intersection. But you can still see the pride crosswalk peeking out from underneath at the edges.
I’m still very upset.
Especially now that the sidewalks have been defaced with hate messages, which were then blacked out with spray paint. Is there a way to get the spray paint off the concrete and go back to chalk?
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on OpenAI steals Human Mathematicians work to solve a Millenium Problem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026
This is still a big deal result with a lot of physical significance if it holds up.
Full Navier-Stokes are / were understood to model all of the important physics associated with continuous domain fluids. (Continuous domain here means we approximate the many, many particles of the fluid as a smooth, continuous substance).
In particular, Navier-Stokes are supposed to fully model fluids with turbulence. Turbulence is an everyday phenomenon that you can reproduce for yourself in your kitchen sink, and yet it is extremely difficult to formulate a mathematical function for it. Turbulence appears to be random if you look at it, and yet if it is produced by NS, then it is not random. Solving even the numeric approximations of NS for turbulent flows is difficult because the flows exhibit severe variation in velocity over wide ranges of time and distance scales.
Anyhow, if NS is a good physical theory it has to have a physically realistic solution to every physically-possible set of initial conditions and environmental forcing functions. In math terms this mainly means that all of the velocities, pressures, and forces have to be finite and smooth at all times. Step discontinuities don’t really occur in the real physical world (although they do approximately occur).
This result would mean that NS is not the end all final theory for classical continuum fluids. The scenario constructed by OpenAI is claimed to be one that can (at least theoretically) be setup and run in the real world. But if we did that, the real world is certain to do something else besides the infinite flow velocity vortex that OpenAI claims NS predicts. What would really happen in that experiment? Who knows. We’re gonna need to find some new physics to find out.
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on what to do with your phone on nternational travel? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
compel” limits bit is limited to US citizens
This is completely not true. The 4th and 5th amendments apply to everyone.
that even then, they can confiscate your phone
If they do this without getting a search warrant from a judge, you can sue for the return of your property. You can make them justify to a judge why there is probable cause that your property will yield evidence of a crime.
they can refuse to let you fly
This is a thing that can happen, but you can also sue the federal government to challenge your wrongful placement on the no fly list. People have sued and won and been awarded costs and attorneys’ fees
confiscate your passport,
This can happen if they think the passport is fraudulent, invalid, expired, stolen, or if you owe taxes, or are a sex offender that needs an annotated passport, or sadly if they think you are trans.
For many of these causes, the simplest solution is to apply for a new passport. For the trans victims, the issue is currently in federal court, and I am hopeful for a positive outcome.
deport you to the country of their choice.
At this point I assume you are talking about non-citizens, non-LPRs. If such a person is refused admission they are preferentially deported back to wherever they came from. At land borders, that is cheap and easy. Air carriers are required to transport passengers back to origin at the air carrier’s expense when CBP so demands. (This is why airlines check your documents thoroughly before they let you go.)
If for some reason the person’s travel origin refuses to accept them, then the next preference is a country where they have citizenship or strong residence ties.
With the exception of the original set of CECOT flights, which were done in actual contempt of court, true third country removals are the last resort both in law and in actual (however fucked up) practice.
The people who have been sent to the strange African countries have problems with no documents, no proof of citizenship, their true home country refuses to accept deportations from US because of bad relations, or they have withholding of removal because of a legitimate fear of torture or persecution in their home country. That’s not something that’s going to happen to the vast majority of people that show up at an airport with actual good documents.
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on what to do with your phone on nternational travel? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
Here’s an important point from the activist distress code case: CBP had a plan to target him for this treatment in advance before he showed up at the border checkpoint that day. The airlines send them passenger manifests 72 hours in advance.
100% of the time, if they take you to the little room, start asking you questions, and want to look through your phone, they already believe you’re guilty of something specific.
If that happens to you, you need to understand that you have already been the “target” of an investigation. There is nothing you can do or say in that room that will convince them otherwise. The best thing you can do is shut the hell up, do as little as possible, and don’t make their case for them.
And don’t believe anything they’re telling you either. The cops can lie to you, but you can’t lie to the cops. It’s a crime.
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on what to do with your phone on nternational travel? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
I think I’m at low risk.
I power my phone off prior to arriving in the US and keep it off until I leave the airport.
Under US case law, you can be compelled to give up a thumb print or face ID with a search warrant. But you cannot be compelled to give an unlock code, because the code information is testimony, and you have the right to remain silent.
If they insist on seizing my phone unless I unlock it, my plan is to ask for a lawyer, shut the fuck up, let them seize the phone or whatever, then sue them later to return it.
This plan works for me because I’m a US citizen, and I have an absolute right to enter the country. If you are not a citizen or LPR the local CBP officer has the discretion to refuse admission even if you have a visa. So that’s a real consequence to non cooperation.
Don’t lie to the feds about not having a phone if you really have one. That’s a separate crime all by itself.
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on I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Yeah. You gotta ask “what did you allegedly do?”
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on Flour Rules in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026
Used to be fabric bags. Then in the depression the flour companies realized their customers were making clothing out of the bags, so they started using cool prints for the bags.
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on I can definitely maybe do this! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 26 Aug 2026
The tcpdumps I’ve worked with can also dump UDP, ICMP, and even ARP.
Linux requires at least 32 bit machine words, and it always has. Linux was originally written for Intel 80386.
Linux requires a hardware MMU to support virtual memory. There are patches that can make a no-MMU kernel, but it drastically changes the experience to do so.