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  • South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth

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  • Computer vision to track inventory and expiration of food in a refrigerator could be useful for busy households. A dishwasher could cut its cycle short if it sees that dishes are clean, saving water and energy.

    In addition, robots are home appliances that require AI. Robotic vacuum cleaners learn their surroundings and navigate using machine learning, so much so that ML textbooks commonly use them as teaching tools.

    We’re also likely to see humanoid robots(or similarly flexible platforms) becoming household appliances in the near future.

    It’s not unreasonable for countries to be investing in new technologies and AI is one of the more promising.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I was being facetious mostly.

    You can use the Arch Linux Archive to get older versions of software: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive but it isn’t a simple process like it is in some other distributions so I only use it as a last resort.

  • Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%

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  • They’re talking about instability in the electrical grid. If we could just snap our fingers and have instant fusion power tomorrow we still couldn’t actually use it because the demand of electricity wouldn’t keep up with the supply.

    I’m not sure I understand. Our problem isn’t that we have too much electricity, it’s that the demand for electricity exceeds the production from renewable sources and forces us to rely on burning fossil fuels.

    If we replaced all of the coal and gas generation with fusion it would be an immediate improvement. The energy output of controlled fusion can be adjusted in real-time to match the grid needs, exactly like fossil fuels generation.

    One of the points of space based solar was that you don’t need batteries.

    Terrestrial solar needs energy storage technology because the sun doesn’t shine at night. That’s not true for space based solar, it is always in the sun so the power output is reliable and controllable.

  • Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome

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  • That’s not how non-profit profits work. 100% of the surplus might be invested in green causes but that’s after operating costs, salaries and a plethora of minor expense posts are handled using their profit/income.

    It is a fact that the company is registered as a non-profit.

    Being a non-profit means that the owners of the company can collect a salary but cannot collect profits(income in excess of operating expenses). The owners of the company cannot collect profit, it is a non-profit company.

    All of the income, in excess of expenses (aka profit) is given to charitable causes. If it were a for-profit company, the all of the income in excess of expenses (aka profit) would be divided amongst the owners and shareholders.

    Every non-profit company in every western country has operating expenses including salaries. Unless you’re trying to say that non-profits don’t exist, then this argument is also nonsense.

    If legitimizing polluting technology by saying we’re doing such a great job at combating pollution isn’t green washing, perhaps I’ve misunderstood the term?

    A private jet is polluting technology because it directly generates tons of carbon in order to operate. It is used in place of other transportation methods which would generate less carbon

    How is AI polluting technology?

    Just declaring it is polluting doesn’t make it true. A computer takes in electricity and emits heat and data.

    This company generates twice as much renewable energy as they consume. They also plant trees (over 200 million) which capture carbon, reduce aridification and increase rainfall. The net result is that this non-profit adds, carbon free, electricity to the grid, increases carbon capture and storage and adds water to the hydrological cycle.

    Sometimes the divide between worldviews is simply too big to try to bridge.

    That’s often the case when you consume misinformation.

  • Judge Releases Teens Charged in ‘Big Balls’ Assault in Blow to Trump

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  • The President of the United States defending a member of his administration named Big Balls, this shit is surreal…

  • U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector

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  • If tax payers are going to be investing into these businesses and they're avoiding taxes taking a share of the company is better than nothing.

    I mean, it's socialism, but don't tell their voters

  • Ok, new question, Updates!

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  • You guys are talking about two different things.

    Ubuntu provides maintenance on LTS versions for up to 10 years.(you) They do not provide tech support to users.(borari)

  • Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification law

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  • Yes

  • Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome

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  • You're focusing on their use of AI, and that doesn't make sense. AI is a technology that exists. Search engines and RAG is one of the better ways to use it. They are a search engine, why would they not use it?

    They've planted over 200 million trees, produce twice as much energy than they consume and have given over €90 million to green causes. They're a non-profit company that gives 100% of their profits towards green initiatives, planting trees and investing in solar. It's hardly greenwashing.

    What does the power usage of their search engine services matter if they're producing more energy than they consume? Your complaint just doesn't make sense.

  • Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome

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  • They could offer AI served off of a single RaspberryPi3 powered by a 2 gigawatt solar installation and the anti-AI crowd would find some other angle to attack it. The goal is to get people to think 'AI Bad', not any of the other strawmen that they stand up.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • It’s a very neat system.

    It’s a lot like switching to Linux, it’s weird and doesn’t feel intuitive until you’ve been using it for a few months when you start wondering how you ever lived without it.

    Come to the dark side: https://www.vim-hero.com/lessons/intro-to-modes

  • The Guardian has obtained a classified IDF database claiming five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians

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  • and was only later appropriated into the proper noun you reference to describe the Nazi’s systematic persecution and extermination of Jews, Poles, Romani and other ‘undesirable’ minority groups.

    Yes, that’s my point.

    After 1930 it became a proper noun. We’re not speaking Ancient Greek and it’s after the 1930s.

    I see Lemmy is filling up with people (not you, the downvote brigade that exists around politically charged topics) who conflate disagreement about minor issues with being on the other side of the argument. Nuance isn’t Ancient Greek either, but you’d think it was given the way people react on social media.

  • FBI raids home of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton

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  • Don’t forget the Federalist Society and their decades long campaign to groom law students to be placed in the Supreme Court

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I’m a stereotype, my first bounce off of Linux was getting stuck in vim flailing around and overwriting some critical config file before powering off and coming back to a terminal prompt.

    Not having a second device to search for answers, I just went back to Windows.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • Yeah, I think we’ve all been there.

    Just starting a new OS, deep in imposter syndrome, every problem seems to require fixing two other problems and you’re trapped in vim.

    It gets easier.

    Don’t be afraid of the terminal, it’s the most powerful tool you have. Look for things that you can script, everything you do in a GUI you can script, anything that you do repeatedly should be scripted(and bound to a keyboard shortcut.) LLMs are decent at making simple scripts, but use them to learn how to write scripts, don’t just vibe code everything.

    Any tool that you hate probably has 4 other projects which do the same thing, so go look for alternatives if one frustrates you. Awesome Lists are a good place to start: https://github.com/luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I was too noob to figure how to roll back the drivers there.

    I think the official method is to check your pacman cache and pray that it’s still in there. Arch only rolls forward, for good or ill.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I also use Arch/NVIDIA without issue.

    The last major NVIDIA issue I had was trying to use gamescope to get HDR. But after Proton 10 I just use native Wayland which supports HDR (in KDE Plasma).

  • Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%

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  • Trivial amounts compared to the solar energy hitting the entire surface of half the Earth.

    The problem isn’t incoming energy, it’s outgoing energy. Greenhouse gases reduce the amount of energy radiated back into space and that’s what increases the mean global temperature.

    Adding a few hundred square miles of surface area wouldn’t change much.

  • Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%

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  • That’s a real genius plan.