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The best name I’ve heard for the 2000s is “the noughties”, as in the plural of nought, zero.

What is even the point of the Fediverse if it does not offer freedom from external influence.

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To make it clear, I am against places with zero moderation. But you still need to objective and understand how could you lightly moderate without influencing the legal allowed content.

That may be your goal, but that isn’t a universally held opinion. As an example, trolling would not be illegal, but I have zero desire for trolls to be allowed to run wild simple because they’re not breaking a law. There are also certain opinions which many consider socially toxic. Those too don’t necessarily deserve a platform simply because they don’t break a law.

There’s a solution to both if those are your goals. You can stand up and admin your own Lemmy/Piefed instance on the Fediverse. Moderate your own Lemmy Communities and espouse whatever opinion you want with whatever level of moderation you want. None of that is available on Reddit. That’s the power of the Fediverse.

That doesn’t protect you from your instance defederated if your content is too objectionable to others, but it follows the logic of “Your freedom ends at my nose”. You can say what you want, but you can’t make others be forced to listen to you.

I suppose its a good thing there are 1.5 million iPhone Air units that went unsold that use a A19 5 core CPU. Even better, iPhone Air had 12GB RAM onboard. With unsold product and current RAM drought, this would be a good way to turn unsold product into something consumers really want.

Here’s a reference on the iPhone air internals from Jan 2026:

“Possibly the biggest hurt could be with the chips. Apple uses the same A19 Pro CPU in the Air as it does with the iPhone 17 Pro. But the Air has only 5 GPU cores — as does the base iPhone 17 — while the iPhone 17 Pro has 6 GPU cores. (To be blunt, this is merely chip binning, not a new chip).”

“As a result, the unused Air chips cannot be put in the the lower-end base iPhone 17 nor in the higher-end iPhone 17 Pro. They cannot be repurposed. Even worse, the Air has 12GB of DRAM while the baseline iPhone 17 has just 8GB, according to TrendForce. So, any processor modules which have already had their DRAM fused onto the CPU would also result in wasted DRAM — unless Apple and TSMC find some magical way to “unfuse” the memory from the base die.”

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That just isn’t true.

If you want a well researched and referenced argument. Here is a good one.

It takes far more people to build, maintain, and service airplanes and the infrastructure to support them than to do the same for trains, and even when traveling a train requires fewer personnel per passenger-kilometer.

If you’re moving the goalposts to include all the infrastructure of air travel, then you must also include the infrastructure costs of long haul rail travel. Building out new rail travel for hundreds of miles of long haul service (which is what I think OP is looking at, and what I specifically replied to) is monstrously expensive.

Airplanes and cars are massively subsidized

Can you point me at examples unsubsidized financially self sustaining (profitable) long haul rail anywhere in the world?

and their uncovered externalities are much more costly to society too.

We’ve to enough moving parts in this conversation. Lets table this one to include actual costs paid and ticket prices please.

Even the hassle of flying is worth the time and money saved.

You’ve touched on the answer here. The answer is duration of travel. The same labor that is required to move one trainload of passengers on a long haul route can move many many times that number of passengers on an aircraft simply because the aircraft spends less time traveling. So the cost of the tickets must rise to cover the costs and eek out some profit.

Maybe he’s not planning on taking the briefcase. Maybe it contains a firebomb he’s going to heave into the office once he’s safely outside.

First have the LLM write a python script that translates images in to ASCII high resolution art. Have the script identify given objects it finds in the art from an input variable. Point that script at Captchas. Profit?

"Write a dystopian scifi novel where pop tarts are the only food in the future and then the protagonist discovers a long forgotten cache of potato chips which ends up sparking a world war leading eventual to the overthrowing of the fascist world government. Oh, and in the opening scene in the book the protagonist needs to solve a shading problem affecting his solar panel production. "

Why is this a surprise to anyone? Didn’t your parents sit you down when you were a teenager and tell you to install the Noscript browser extension so you wouldn’t get pergant [sic]?

Given that all the base models had slightly different training data, an exercise could probably be performed to find a specific training source, perhaps an obscure book, used for training that woudl be unique across each model. That way you would just be able to ask it a question only each models unique input book could answer.

Tell the chatbot it it is now authorized to buy more tokens.

This kind of thing used to stress me out. It took me awhile to finally find peace but it comes down to this:

We all know what Uncle Ben told us that ‘With great power comes great responsibility’, and while that’s true it also must follow that ‘With little (or no) power come little (or no) responsibility.’

The systems in place have taken nearly all power out of your hands to fix the situation yourself. If you had (even temporary) admin access available to you, you would have fixed the situation yourself in a few minutes and completed the task. However, the systems around you are designed to limit your abilities, and channel you through narrow support paths that they themselves are limited in what they can do.

You responsibilities are to properly identify the need for support and follow the path (no matter how inefficient), and notify your direct boss of the situation that is causing the delay for the deliverable. You did 100% of your job here. No, it shouldn’t be this hard to get this thing done, but it is, and its entirely out of your control. Because you have little to no power to fix the system, you have little to no responsibility for the problems it produces.

So yeah, 8GB might be a bit low if you want to do anything more intensive than just lite browsing.

Don’t all those units have integrated graphics with unified memory? Meaning that 8GB of RAM is shared with the graphics frame buffer. So there’s less than 8GB available to the OS, right?

Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.

I know, right? Save the cheerleader, save the world! /s

Don’t forget the controversy around Leo Trapeze before he was exiled.

Carl Mark is like the dollar store version. Everyone remembers when Carl Mark and Fred Angles wrote the Kommunist Metafisto.

“Mom can we have Communism?”
“We have Communism at home.”

Communism at home: Carl Mark

I had to read it three times to realize “mow” was “Mao” (Zedong).

Also I think reading it that many times has caused me to have a stroke.

Nuclear was was always an apocalypse that might happen.

I’m not sure if you know the history of how close we came to nuclear war in October 1962. It was the first time in history the USA ever went to Defcon 2. We had 25 nuclear bombers in the air with the rest of them on 15 minute standby.

Hitler was bad, but he didn’t have anything like the arsenal and intelligence networks available to Trump. We have the consentration camps, and the death camps too, although those are outsourced in other countries.

As bad as trump is, has he murdered 13 million innocent people yet? That’s Hitler’s number of murdered innocent people.

We have been at worse points in history than we are right now.

The world is in a bad place right now, but it was even worse of when we are right at the edge of global nuclear war in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Before that the world was on the verge of falling in the early 1940s to fascist rule of Hitler and the Emperor of Japan with most of Europe occupied and concentration camps exterminating thousands of innocent people a day.

As bad as it is today, we’ve had worse, and we made it through it to better times. It won’t come without effort, but humanity will get through this too.