We know it weakly interacts electromagnetically, which means one of the ways in which it is posited planets form, initially via electrostatic attraction of dust particles, isn't likely to work. This means dark matter will be less "clumpy" and more diffuse, and less likely to create denser conglomerations that could lead to stellar and planetary formation.

What this finding does suggest, if it holds true, is that some form of supersymmetry, as an extension fo the Standard Model is true. Experiments over the last 10-15 years have heavily constrained the masses and energy levels of any supersymmetry model, so it would appear that if this is the case, it's going to require returning to a model that some physicists had started to abandon.

If its true, then.... well yeah.

And we'll almost certainly get a better name for it than "Phrase which confuses non scientists into thinking scientists have an unprovable theory when scientists literally called it that to indicate that actually, they really dont have a theory yet, or more concisely 'dark matter' "

Where, prey tell, do you think humans get the vast majority of their "knowledge" in 2025?

I had a person yelling at me online this morning because I had the gall to point out that the only way vaccines could cause autism would be using time travel (your born with autism, clearly something that happens to you after you are born can't cause something that happened to you before you without a time machine of some sort), and it struck me that actually the internet IS how a lot of people are "learning" and its making people incredibly stupid.

I had a realisation a while back that it wasn''t AI research/dev per se thats driving this, its Nvidia thats driving it.

DeepSeek proved that you don't *need* the the "hyperscale" datacenters to develop good-enough AI. (Theres a lot of conspiracy theories about how DeepSeek must have had secret spooky mega sized datacenters doing all this, but they published their methods and training sets, and people have reproduced it, and it all checks out, you really can do this shit on the cheap).

And thats bad news for NVIDIA which needs for AI to expensive to justify their capital outlay, sales projections, and irrational market valuation. Hence all the circular investment. Pump money into companies with the provisio they buy a whole bunch of compute that honestly probably isn't needed if AI companies actually started thinking about efficiency instead of scale.

So we're gonna burn down the amazon for NVDA share prices. Yay 2025.

Who's going to do the booting? Certainly not "the will of the people". If the constitution can be freely ignored, and the Army proves to be loyal, then that can be freely ignored too.

Well, it aint over till the fat lady sings. You'll know either way late next year I suspect. Then you get to find out if that second ammendment is worth shit.

The thing is though,historically its not senior brass that coups govts, its junior officers. If the senior brass wants to engage in a bunch of democracy suppression and the junior officers go "Wait up, I didnt sign up to shoot my neighbors I signed up to uphold the constiution" then the govt will discover the military intervention they expected isnt the one they get.

And I really hope that isn't why the white house is shitting anger-bricks over the senators reminding the troops that they are forbidden under the UMCJ to follow illegal orders.

And basically all artists except a handful of irrelevant hipster ones

Yeah thats not 100% not true. Your confusing things like Ozone mastering and a few things like stem splitting with generative. These aren't generative algorithms, they use machine learning to balance eq and compression. And honestly, it kinda sounds like shit, but its not necessarily detracting from the creativity.

Almost no artists use however generative, partly because generative AI can't generate art so it offers no creative assistance, partly because it forfeits royalties since generative outputs are all public domain, and partly because most people are at their core good people who dislike stealing from other people.

Its WEIRD that you think artists are using Suno. Suno cant generate Art, so what do you think an artist would get out of it?

Very few I suspect. Grimes maybe. A few like that.

Every musician I know, and as someone who paid my way through university as a stage roadie, I know a few who have been reasonably successful, are horrified by this and see Warners deal as utter betrayal. God knows musicians had already gotten fucked by the record companies deals with spotify that effectively diverted independent artists royalties to the big labels (It resulted on lower royalties than before, except for the artists on a few big labels who got higher royalties. Or rather their labels did)

Without knowing precisely how Explorer is structured, it's conceivable that there may be different dynamically-linked libraries and/or execution points for running the desktop and for the file explorer, in which case just having explorer.exe running in and of itself doesn't mean that new modules have to be loaded if explorer.exe process fires up. The solution could very well be to load the libraries involved in file browsing when the desktop opens.

Just guessing here. There was a time when there was a lot more horsepower required for GUI elements than folder browsing, but this is 2025, and explorer.exe probably uses orders of a magnitude more resources now than it did in 1995, because... well, who knows really. Probably to sell more ads and load up more data to their AI.

That, on modern hardware, they have to preload a fucking file browser so that it pops up faster is just an indication of what a steaming pile of garbage MS is. They had sweet spots with Win2k-WinXP and with Win7, but their incoherent need to be a whole bunch of contradictory things --- with AI! has led what was a rather iffy OS and UI experience to begin with to become a cluster fuck of incoherence.

I do most of my day to day work on MacOS and Gnome, and fortunately the Terminal services version I have to RDP into is Server 2016, but every time I have to work with Windows 11 I'm just stunned by just how awful it looks and how badly it behaves.

Well... maybe with any luck in 1-3 years when this mindbogglingly ridiculous govt gets booted, that giant computer brain can be put to some sort of useful use, like climate change, or figuring out how to unfuck democracy or something

The capacity of the government of a large jurisdiction like California, or more particularly the US, could bankrupt someone like Musk, so I say, bring it on. Within a decade Musk would have abandoned all efforts, or, even better, be stone cold broke (frankly billionaires shouldn't exist at all, and we should tax the living fuck out of them down to their last $200 million).

We're too afraid of these modern day Bond villains when we should be aiming every financial, and probably every real, cannon straight at them and putting them in a sense of mortal danger every minute of their waking lives, so that they literally piss themselves in terror at the though that "we the people" might decide to wipe them out for good.

Thats a more high tech version of the thing they did with my dad when he was having his punchup with prostate cancer, some sort of tiny pelet of radiactive shit they implanted in the middle of the tumor. Thankfully ,before it hit stage 4, that and the hormone therapy managed to get it under control and they managed to nuke it.

And instead of losing my dad, I got to make fun of him for a year for being on feminizing hormones and having a fried asshole (radiotherapy is amazing, but it has...... side effects.)

I guess the one your refering to is a much more directed version of it. Less chance of inducing secondary cancers from cell and genome damage.

I think one of the big things I've learned from this stupid war is watching ukranians on social media , and Ukranians are *very funny people*. I guess when your dirt poor, and live in a part of the world that turns to bitter ice for half the year you gotta have a sense of humor to go with the vodka.

You can, although i dont recomend it. That said, repurposing old macs into home servers is something I've seen a fair bit of.

I *suppose* the mac minis could be quite useful for an office mac if you have a primarily mac infrastructure, but Apple have discontinued MacOS Server since 2022, so YMMV

Its shocking how ingrained this has become for some people. I still occasionally use twitter, although not much anymore because its become a shockingly hostile place for most people, but I saw the other day some poor woman getting the shit kicked out of her because she made the fatal mistake of posting about finally getting her PhD on a *very* interesting looking paper about the evolution of cooperative behavior in ants. And the comments where just stacked with people telling her its a stupid topic and how she should be having babies and getting married instead of being a scientist.

Now, yes some of that was *definately* sexist nonsense. But theres also an underlying massive hostility towards intelligence and intellectuals, and its so disheartening to see, because it feels like we're slipping back into a new dark ages. I saw one person refered to it as the "Endarkenment".

Just teeth grinding imbiciles raging against knowledge because it might contradict their idiotic views on vaccines or whatever.