HumbleHobo

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[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I think the article title is blown way out of proportion.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate that you haven't lost the context in which this election is taking place in which one of the candidates tried to overthrow the government. But I think slighting Stewart for not being more alarmist is misunderstanding him. He was never another MSNBC talking head that screams about how the world is coming to and end because of something that the right did. He was always a grounded voice of reason that would give insight into specific issues.

If he starts screaming about how Trump is the devil and going to destroy everything, whether that is right or wrong, it would be completely not his stylenand also be ineffective. He takes people down by criticizing people by using their own words taken in good faith to show them not acting in good faith.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago

He's back baby!

 

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell — and can be recharged in a matter of minutes.

I would love to see more dramatic research into battery tech, but steps like this are also welcome, as these are necessary stepping stones before even better steps.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

That sounds like a great idea for making an intelligent agent inside a video game, where you control all aspects of it's environment. But what about an AI that you want to be able to interact with our current shared reality. If I want to know something that involves synthesis of multiple modalities of knowledge how should that information be conveyed? Do humans grow up inside test tubes that only consume content that they themselves have created? Can you imagine the strange society we would have if people were unleashed upon the world without having any shared experiences until they were fully adults?

I think the OpenAI people have a point here, but I think where they go off the rails is that they expect all of this copyrighted information to be granted to them at zero cost and with zero responsibility to the creators of said content.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen the RetroArch? I'm playing NES and SNES games on my SteamDeck and that's easily another couple thousand. Hehehe

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

This is wonderful, I think buying all the stuff and doing all this might require a fair amount more effort, time and money than buying a SteamDeck though. But this is an amazing feat, maybe we can buy piecemeal SteamDeck knockoffs in the future.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'll need to think of "backup" as a different thing if you are looking at the free space. For instance, I can backup my data onto discs, but it costs buying discs. I can also make lots of copies of my images and videos automatically using SyncThing (which is open source), but it requires multiple computers to really be considered a "backup".

 

Bulk Crap Uninstaller (or BCUninstaller) is a free (as in speech) program uninstaller. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal user input. It can clean up leftovers, detect orphaned applications, run uninstallers according to premade lists, and much more! Even though BCU was made with IT pros in mind, by default it is so straight-forward that anyone can use it.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Did people really think a dictator would let a silly thing like an election get in the way of his ambition for power? It's hilarious that people thought Putin would give up his power without violence. The only way Putin will ever leave power is through violence. Look at those gigantic tables he sits at. Putin knows how "popular" he is, even in his own country.

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 10 points 10 months ago

I think the better ways of resolving it were impossible without more involvement from the platform itself. Because it seems that this is just the last of the plagiarism accusations, and just so happened to stick more than the other accusations. It's very likely that had a prominent YouTuber not made a take down video, nobody would have known that this guy and others were plagiarizing anything. And I mean, imagine how the people whom work was stolen for profit are feeling?

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This is one reason I have a "hibernate" shortcut on my desktop so I don't have to deal with the hassle of having to hunt for that button.

If you are curious, creating your own hibernate shortcut on windows is easy:

  • Right click desktop
  • Select new > shortcut
  • Copy this into the shortcut: "C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /h" obviously replace C:\Windows\ with the installation drive/folder on your machine.
  • (Optional: Change the icon for the shortcut to a useful picture)
  • Done
[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

I can't be the only one who read that article and didn't cringe a bit at the end. The woman thinks she is going to get through best care possible and she lives in Alabama, where they are currently shutting down maternity units: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/in-alabama-three-maternity-units-will-stop-delivering-babies-heres-why-it-puts-women-at-risk/ar-AA1ifxW3

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Look at Https://www.openrefine.org/

 

https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2Fsep%2F04%2Ftwitter-saudi-arabia-human-rights-abuses%3FCMP%3DShare_iOSApp_Other

"The lawsuit was brought last May against X, as Twitter is now known, by Areej al-Sadhan, the sister of a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared and then later sentenced to 20 years in jail."

This article goes into much more detail, but it shows Twitter (now X) has shown somewhat of a disregard for the Saudi links to the killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi and seems to only respond once the FBI gets involved.

 

"Regulators invited public comment on whether the US broadcast license for Fox Corp.’s TV station in Philadelphia should be renewed after a grassroots organization asked that it be denied, saying Fox knowingly broadcast false news about the 2020 election."

 

People mentioned in this article are very old.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), 81 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 90 President Joe Biden, 80 Former President Donald Trump, 77

 

This is strangely hypnotic for those 90's kids.

 

I've got a substantial library of games on GOG and Epic that I wanted to play on the Steam Deck, and I've used the Heroic Launcher with some success to access a lot of my libraries on those two platforms, but managing the compatibility per game is a bit frustrating and sometimes after an update things break.

Can anyone else share any success or failure stories here? The only other place I've seen this discussion was on Steam itself and I wanted a non-steam take on the practice of running non-steam platform games and what works.

 

I was under the impression that Beehaw was a fairly established instance of Lemmy.

 

"Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, the group's executive director, said the Supreme Court last week made clear that any policies that disadvantage racial groups are unlawful by noting that "eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."

"Your family's last name and the size of your bank account are not a measure of merit, and should have no bearing on the college admissions process,” he said in a statement."

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