Seems a bit weird that they immediately jump to CO2 did it, as opposed to looking at mineral depletion in soil. Wouldn't you expect the mineral content to go down over time as the plants absorb minerals and get harvested over multiple generations?

What did they expect would happen? This is why Channel Partner discounts exist. This is why TAC is offshored so they can hire foreign workers in and lock out the locals. Same thing is happening in Australia. TAC went offshore to Bangalore and China and now we have a desperate "Skills shortage" and are running infinity migration. Corporate HR loves it. They pick up any women they can get their hands on and then trumpet about how diverse they are while the locals get worthless uni degrees and $40,000 debt. In Australia at least you should ditch IT and go pick up a trade. CFMEU tradies are on $180,000/year+ way more than 90% of IT workers.

The death of internet freedom is already here, it's being pushed out rapidly now. Soon you'll need ID to communicate on any platform. Anonymity is being crushed out by governments everywhere. Fuck em.

They do realise that the next level of AI is binary analysis/conversion LLMs. Everything will be open source going forward.

Simply: Tax the absolute shit out of these people. They should not have this level of money, they don't deserve this level of money and so many more people would benefit from that money.

Call Manager 15 SU4 got released this month and it is now supported when hosted on Nutanix. This includes Unity Voicemail and Jabber IM & Presence Servers.

I'm using AI currently to make Descent 1 and 2 as VR applications, I used AI to repair a broken package and make it usable again. I'm using AI to fix a lot of things that are broken or that need updating in the open source ecosystem (especially with the Wayland transition which is requiring a lot of re-engineering of outdated packages). It's getting good enough it can now generate Meson build files from old autogen configurations. I see AI as the greatest multiplier for open source software. The license is what matters, as long as people still release their code under Copyleft Open Source will thrive.

Society needs to adjust so that people can continue to exist without being tracked by an electronic device in their pocket.

I would rather buy and use a Chinese computer than subscribe to an American compute service. This financialisation/rentier model needs to die.

The Fed has already returned to Quantitative Easing (printing money to buy US government bonds). The US Economy is facing collapse like it has been since 2007. There is no growth in the economy, just share prices being pushed up by new money being pushed into the system. It's why cost of living is in a crisis. Only the wealthy are getting richer and they're doing it at the expense of the poor and middle classes. Watch gold and silver prices. The price of both is going to continue increasing as countries look to dump the US Dollar and hedge the inflation the Federal Reserve is creating.

IRC is set to make a massive return to Australia.

Shouldn't they just wash out the donor face leaving behind the collagen matrix and grow a new face based on the recipient's own stem cells? Seems counter productive using a face that's not bio-compatible with the recipient.

Went to Cisco Live, saw their AI strategy, none of it is generative AI, all of it is about making processes automated/more tools for administrators/users to leverage existing data sets. Everything Microsoft/OpenAI has done has felt like a solution looking for a problem. The Cisco AI tools look nothing like that. Active threat defence, using Splunk and AI to drill down and find people abusing networks and locking them out before automating the PIR write up. The tech demos were impressive as hell. They've also stated their AI processes have to be repeatable and predictable unlike OpenAI's generative mess.

I don't think people hate science but they should and do hate when scientists abuse their position for personal gain. Perfect example: Michio Kaku. This guy's background is in Theoretical physics yet he goes on and talks out of his ass about AI, Computers and the techno-rapture. It's ridiculous. You wouldn't ask a mechanic about your house's electrical work what the hell would a theoretical physicist know about microchip design/trends in computing? There has been zero evidence that AGI is about to exist and the people hyping it up are frauds.

A great example of this is the theory that the universe is a 4-Dimensional particle falling into a black hole in a 4-Dimensional Universe. As it falls it's undergoing spaghettification. This neatly explains the Inflation at the start of the universe, and even explains the heat death/giant rip theory of universe death as it suggests the entire universe will convert into Hawking radiation and evaporate off over time. It's a neat idea. But it's not science. There's no way to prove that this is what's happening. At best it's an untestable hypothesis.