Comment There is no requirement for a 50-50 split. (Score 4, Insightful) 149
And yet almost every vote on anything everywhere these days seems to result in exactly that: A near-perfect 50-50 split.
That's weird, isn't it Mr Zuckerberg
Comment Open source used to be fun (Score 2) 106
The reason people made open source projects and devoted time to maintaining them, was purely because it was enjoyable to do so. In the age of AI, that is gone. I no longer want to release my work for the benefit of others, because now it is only feeding this infernal bullshit machine, which will steal my work and sell it as its own. And if that wasn't bad enough, it will send a deluge of slop bugreports and phishing attacks.
AI needs to die. The bubble can't burst soon enough.
Comment Re:More like "head of appearing to do something".. (Score 1) 42
Why not make it $666k?
Comment Re:At least they are consistent (Score 1) 66
> Technically, the encoded text made its way in some lossy form into the model, but it's not really there either.
Wouldn't that be the same as saying that lossily-encoded audio, an MP3, say, would not impinge copyright either, since it is not an exact copy of the original?
Anyway, it's a case of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Pass the popcorn.
Comment Entirely plausible (Score 1) 92
And anyone who has ever used a $2 ESP32 microcontroller should know just how plausible this could be...
Those things are scarily powerful for their price (likely a dumping strategy) and could quite easily embed a BLE or WiFi backdoor into anything from a disposable vape (which contains a microphone for your puffing convenience of course) to a car to an industrial robot, and so I would not be at all surprised to find them in Solar inverters.
Quite frankly, with its roughly 1MB of obfuscated/encrypted ROM, and radio in applications that shouldn't need radio, espressif ought to be treated with as much if not more suspicion than Huawei
Comment Oh dear (Score 1) 22
What a shame
Never mind
Comment Re: Not exponential growth (Score 4, Interesting) 150
I suspect, much of this is driven by Microsoft, who are aggressively pushing features that absolutely nobody wants e.g. ads in the Start menu, Recall, and forced use of a MS-cloud account.
Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 74
What they don't tell you, is that AI will be "managing power outages" simply by causing them
Comment Where's the "none" option? (Score 5, Insightful) 78
Or at least I could ask CowboyNeal
Comment Re: Seriously, it's worse (Score 1) 103
It wasn't their fault. Cancel Cutlure and Wokeism is a Psyop by Russia and China against the Western System, you know.
Comment Re: Seriously, it's worse (Score 1) 103
Definitely hasn't tried.
By default you can use Ctrl or Shift or mouse-drag to select multiple files. But what OP is looking for is the KDE-wide option (NOT a Dolphin setting because it applies to other KDE things like file open dialogs) that says "select a file on single click, open on double click" (i.e. Windows style) instead of "Open a file on single click" (i.e. Mac style, which is the default for whatever reason).
The point is, YOU CAN CHANGE IT. It's under System Settings -> Workspace settings -> General Behaviour
Comment Indeed (Score 1) 77
The audience are twits, and the speakers are twats.
Submission + - Scientists clone extinct frog that gives birth from its mouth (gizmag.com)
cylonlover writes: Australian scientists have successfully revived and reactivated the genome of an extinct frog. The "Lazarus Project" team implanted cell nuclei from tissues collected in the 1970s and kept in a conventional deep freezer for 40 years into donor eggs from a distantly-related frog. Some of the eggs spontaneously began to divide and grow to early embryo stage with tests confirming the dividing cells contained genetic material from the extinct frog. The extinct frog in question is the Rheobatrachus silus, one of only two species of gastric-brooding frogs, or Platypus frogs, native to Queensland, Australia. Both species became extinct in the mid-1980s and were unique amongst frog species for the way in which they incubated their offspring.
Submission + - As US Cleans Its Energy Mix, It Ships Coal Problems Overseas
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Thomas K. Grose reports that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions in the US have fallen 8 percent from their 2007 peak to 6,703 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent, due largely to the drop in coal-fired electricity which in 2012 generated 37.4 percent of US electricity, down from 50 percent in 2005. But don't celebrate just yet. A major side effect of that cleaner air in the US has been the further darkening of skies over Europe and Asia as US coal producers have been shipping the most carbon-intensive fuel to energy-hungry markets overseas. US coal exports to China were on track to double last year and demand for US metallurgical coal, the high-heat content coking coal that is used for steelmaking, is so great in Asia that shipments make a round-the-world journey from Appalachia as they are sent by train to the port of Baltimore, where they steam to sea through the Chesapeake Bay, then south across the Atlantic Ocean and around Africa's Cape of Good Hope to reach Asian ports. The Tyndall Center study estimates that the burning of all that exported coal could erase fully half the gains the United States has made in reducing carbon emissions and if the trend continues, the dramatic changes in energy use in the United States — in particular, the switch from coal to newly abundant natural gas for generating electricity — will have only a modest impact on global warming, observers warn. "Without a meaningful cap on global carbon emissions, the exploitation of shale gas reserves is likely to increase total emissions," write Dr John Broderick and Prof Kevin Anderson. "For this not to be the case, consumption of displaced fuels must be reduced globally and remain suppressed indefinitely; in effect displaced coal must stay in the ground (PDF).""
Submission + - Big Eyes Using Too Much Brain Power Got Neanderthals Extinct
An anonymous reader writes: Bigger eyes and a corresponding greater allocation of the brain to process visual information is the most recent theory about the reasons that led to the extinction of Neanderthals, our closest relatives, brought forward in a new study. Neanderthals split from the primate line that gave rise to modern humans about 400,000 years ago. This group then moved to Eurasia and completely disappeared from the world about 30,000 years back. Other studies have shown that Neanderthals might have lived near the Arctic Circle around 31,000 to 34,000 years ago.
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