Silicon Valley's overconfidence in the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence stems from a combination of limited understanding of the humanities, an insular culture, and a business model that incentivizes exaggerated claims about AI's c…
"[...] we’re nowhere near AGI and the reason so many in Silicon Valley are convinced otherwise isn’t that they have some insider knowledge the rest of lack, but that their understanding of, and appreciation for, the full range of “cognitive tasks a human can do” is, to be frank, rather cramped."
"If the level of understanding you’re looking for is high school or maybe undergraduate, these tools can teach you a lot, and for a lot of people, that’s more than enough. But if your aim is graduate level analysis and output—a level surely included in “almost all cognitive tasks a human can do”—you’re going to quickly be led astray."
"The trouble is, the Silicon Valley tech bro scene is extraordinarily insular and epistemically closed. So they don’t have many people forcing them beyond their intro 101 level understanding of the “cognitive tasks a human can do” in the humanities. But there’s also an incentive towards exuberant narratives and over-confidence deeply embedded in the business model of Silicon Valley."
"In many ways, Silicon Valley looks less like capitalism and more like a nonprofit. The way you get rich isn’t to sell products to consumers, because you’re likely giving away your product for free, and your customers wouldn’t pay for it if you tried to charge them. If you’re a startup, and not FAANG, the way you pay your bills is to convince someone who’s already rich to give you money."
"When [...] the lack of deep understanding of domains of knowledge outside their narrow expertise [is combined with] an “I thought of it, so it must be brilliant” perspective, you get a culture where all ideas are big ideas—and all big ideas are unexamined."
Silicon Valley's overconfidence in the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence stems from a combination of limited understanding of the humanities, an insular culture, and a business model that incentivizes exaggerated claims about AI's c…
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HP will soon drop its first 18-inch mobile workstation, the ZBook Fury G1i, with Nvidia's new "Blackwell" RTX Pro 5000 GPUs for serious content-creation punch. We opened up this beast ahead of its reveal. pcmag.com/news/ive-seen-hps-fi…
HP will soon drop its first 18-inch mobile workstation, the ZBook Fury G1i, with Nvidia's new "Blackwell" RTX Pro 5000 GPUs for serious content-creation punch. I opened up this beast ahead of its reveal.
19 March 1943 | Polish woman Anna Smoleńska (b. 28 Feb 1920) - student of history of arts, creator of „Kotwica - Fighting Poland” (Anchor - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotwica) emblem - perished in #Auschwitz. She was imprisoned in the camp on 27 November 1942 (camp no. 26008).
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work —
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept. propublica.org/article/geo-gro…
Back before I switched from Windows to macOS (a decade ago), I was using TortoiseGit or TortoiseSVN (depending on if the shop I was in used Git or SVN). When I switched, I looked for an analog but couldn't find one, so I just learned the terminal client. I'll be curious to see what you land on.
I've seen folks be passionate about git-tower.com. However, I don't think there is a Linux version.
@joe I've used command line git before, but I do it so infrequently I'd forget everything.
I'm just releasing code a few times a year, maybe very minor updates. It's just to share/publish code I'm really not a proper software developer, so I want something simple.
GitHub Desktop is very well done for what I need, so I just want an open source client I can use on macOS and Windows that is comfortable for me to use. 😀
@joe I still need to use GitHub for some work projects, but if I can find a git client I really like I can also try to just use that instead of GitHub Destkop. (Once I get the auth stuff figured out.)
Okay! For now I will try Gitnuro. Despite the web site poorly explaining what Gitnuro is, it has a nice dark theme and I seem to understand how it is designed to work.
So next up will be moving any old repos from GitHub to Codeberg. Huzzah!
I remember that I had lots of troubles to find something suitable. Ended up using Github desktop for a while and then switched to integrated solutions in PyCharm, cli and Zed seems to have it now too. (With gitea)
I can highly recommend Sublime Merge. I’m very comfortable with the command line but have it running by itself on its own monitor as a real-time “what did I just do” view 😀
@aral Thanks! It looks nice but I don't know that I can justify the price as I just want to share code projects as a hobby and it's hard to fork out the cash for a git client. (I'm trying to support more open source projects this year, so...)
Not only is @meljoann a truly great musical artist and videographer, but the entirety of her artistic universe is just as weirdly great or greatly weird (plus, you get access to the great wisdom of Synergy Myers and Mustics®). mstdn.social/@meljoann/1141888…
My dream: 185 subscribers on mustics.com! For £38 per year, you get: - downloads & early access to all my music - exclusive Mustics® stuff - helping weirdo art in a world that HATES it
Totes understand if you can't afford. Consider telling a friend how great my music and vids are? They are GREAT.
I wanted a way to activate idle inhibition on Wayland, i. e. preventing screen locking and blanking, regardless of status bar or compositor (well, kind of). I did try some existing solutions without getting them to work, so I went and made wib, Wayland Idle Blocker. Maybe someone else will find it useful too: github.com/stefur/wib
Salting pasta water is the difference between good and great pasta. Learn why salting pasta water is essential, and how to do it properly so the noodles are well seasoned and ready for sauce.
Only 8.7% of #plastics are recycled in the US. Chemistry scholars explore how pyrolysis offers a way to convert more types of plastic waste into oil, fuel gases, and char – potentially reducing pollution and demand for new plastics. buff.ly/4xkVpAI #recycling
There is a guy in Japan who already has a product on the market that does this. We need to catch up. This has been available for nearly a decade and it works!
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the secondary GPU support in Wayland and Gnome 48 is wild to think about. I usually pass these cards through to VMs. But now the host system could presumably use both for powering a desktop.
Could you please make a video soon on how to set up Davinci Resolve? Or suggest a good video? It's quite hard to set up...
Thank you, love your videos a lot! Just also wanted to say, never miss the weekly news for the past year now, it really helped me shift from Windows to Linux...
I wonder how many people on the Fedverse are here specifically, so as to avoid all of those corporate sites including YouTube and will never go there or ever see that video? I know that I'm one of them. We have peer tube sites, although you can't make money off them.
Given you use Gnome vanilla without Extensions this looks great. However the advise that you can always modify Gnome with Extensions is a bad one, it becomes way too unstable too quickly. And if something breaks your whole desktop locks up, causing you to lose any unsaved work.
Happened to me multiple times over a period of a few months. Made me to over to KDE recently despite not liking its native apps, just to have peace of mind and a stable yet customizable desktop experience.
Salut Nick, bonne vidéo comme d'hab. Je crois que je vais essayer la nouvelle version, je trouvais que les ancienne était un peu lente sur mon vieux laptop et je vais en profiter pour redonner un coup d'essai à Fedora.
Got excited, no idea if I can make it work, but I need likes to feel better today, so here's my latest iteration of "I'm using up parts by ordering new parts and PCBs".
My main goal is to get the display to work. It's one of the adafruit qualia displays, that I want to connect to the RPi GPIO pins and control it with the RGB666 mode that the header offers. An onboard RP2040 xiao will help the RPi Zero to set up the display through SPI, something the qualia boards do through a port expander.
My testboard comes without the keyboard, which I would have to route and I'd probably use a RP2040 solderparty stamp instead then, that will also then take over SPI communication. Plus I'd then get stuck with the feature creep of adding LiPo charging and a stereo amp and what not.
This is a screen for advanced hackers who like the look of a loooooooong rectangular bar TFT screen with tons of pixels. The 3.7" rectangular display has 240x960 18-bit full-color ...
Learned a shit load of things while working on this project, but so far I have not figured it out completely.
The Raspberry PI zero is definitely sending data out through the GPIO pins! The newest raspbian release does the setup differently - almost all the tutorials are outdated.
The display speaks 9bit SPI, where 1 bit is telling the display if it's sending a command or data .The parsed Array that adafruit sends through a magic function and I2C expander - I've just shipped through SPI.
I could now look into how to bitbang 9bit SPI on the Raspberry Pi or continue to work with the RP2040 that will take over more things in the future anyways. Maybe I can figure out the state machine stuff in the RP2040s for that.
The hole "I can just copy the init array and send it through SPI with micropython" idea got me into programming my xiao board with my headless raspberry pi through SSH and figuring out how to work the micropython bits from the terminal.
In my latest video, I take a look at UTM, a free and open-source virtualization app for macOS that allows users to boot up Windows, Linux distributions, retro operating systems and even other instances of MacOS.
featuring: posting from your phone like it‘s 2008, posting from the file system, posting from the browser but in a very roundabout way, posting sideways, maybe more
The Fediverse should totally be more silly. Play around with the format more. Do shit that might not make sense on corporate platforms but that are human and weird and just some fucking fun. icosahedron.website/@halcy/114…
New blog post: Silly Mastodon Apps https://halcy.de/blog/2025/03/18/silly-mastodon-apps/
featuring: posting from your phone like it‘s 2008, posting from the file system, posting from the browser but in a very roundabout way, posting sideways, maybe …
1. Target an industry where people create actual value 2. Build an app that makes transactions marginally easier 3. Burn billions in capital to subsidize artificially cheap services & kill the competition 4. Bleed everyone dry
I've lost count of how many times I've been cornered at conferences by men in meticulously over-casual $300 t-shirts, evangelizing their startups with religious fervor.
The utterly stupid part is you'd have a perfectly ethical and zero expenses profitable business for decades if you did nothing but step 2 and took an 0.1% cut of transactions for existing providers who wanted easier transactions to get more business.
This was a fun one: an automatic safe lock manipulator! This little bot can crack a standard safe in 10-15 min: youtube.com/watch?v=PpTF6XCVEX…
Mechanical safe combination locks leak a little bit of information about their internal state; you can use this to do a directed search of the combination space and open them way quicker than brute force. I've been wanting to do this ever since reading @mattblaze 's Safecracking for Computer Scientists 20 years ago - but the planets didn't align for a while!
This is the softdrill I've been working on - it uses information leakage from a safe lock to map out the wheel pack and open the lock much, much faster than ...
Florida man eats feral pig meat, contracts rare biothreat bacteria It took nearly two years for doctors to figure out the cause of his chest pain. arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…
We’re presenting solutions to close critical capability gaps, build a strong defence industrial base, and preparing for all scenarios.
We’re also introducing the ReArm Europe Plan / Readiness 2030 to boost EU Member States' defence spending by over €800 billion, with:
🛡️Up to 1.5% of GDP for defence investments over 4 years 🛡️Up to €150 billion in loans for defence projects 🛡️Leveraging public and private capital for defence projects
loops will be ready to self host with a simple installation process (mysql, php, redis, ffmpeg) by the end of this month!
it will still be beta software, but it's been running pretty stable so far on loops.video and we're switching our approach to open first development, as it should be.
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Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on The Courts —
The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment. propublica.org/article/trump-i…
"In a follow-up email, he said he was “pleading with you to remove the clause,” adding: “It is not an immaterial false statement, because it is designed to improve the govt’s posture in #litigation (to the detriment of the employees that we are terminating today).”
Because it was not true, he wrote, “That renders it, as I see it, an anticipatory #fraud on tribunals of jurisdiction over these employment actions.” - @ProPublica
In 1948 "civilized" western countries donated Palestinian land to Jews who "deserve" a land of their own. The idea was that Palestinians and Jews would live together in peace.
Instead, the Jewish migrants renamed the land into Isreal and excessively terrorized the Palestinians. They hunted them down, stole their land and cattle and burned their olive trees. And they discriminated, humiliated, murdered, raped, tortured and/or took them hostage to lock them up without means of communication let alone access to a lawyer.
Zionists never stopped doing that.
After nobody listened and cared about the fate of the Palestinians, they started organizing and DEFENDING THEMSELVES.
Since then, "civilized" people started calling what PALESTINIANS did and do terrorism.
And now they call anyone who tells the truth an antisemite.
Before you become complicit to genocide by boosting Auschwitz propaganda, abusing Holocaust victims, please read the declaration at the bottom of
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In 1948 "civilized" western countries donated Palestinian land to Jews who "deserve" a land of their own. The idea was that Palestinians and Jews would live together in peace.
Instead, the Jewish migrants renamed the land into Isreal and excessively terrorized the Palestinians. They hunted them down, stole their land and cattle and burned their olive trees. And they discriminated, humiliated, murdered, raped, tortured and/or took them hostage to lock them up without means of communication let alone access to a lawyer.
Zionists never stopped doing that.
After nobody listened and cared about the fate of the Palestinians, they started organizing and DEFENDING THEMSELVES.
Since then, "civilized" people started calling what PALESTINIANS did and do terrorism.
And now they call anyone who tells the truth an antisemite.
Before you become complicit to genocide by boosting Auschwitz propaganda, abusing Holocaust victims, please read the declaration at the bottom of auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschw…, which includes: ❝ Threatened in its existence, the State of Israel has the right to self-defense in accordance with international law and the principles of humanitarianism. ❞
One of the board members is a former high-ranked member of the Israeli Destruction forces (auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschw…).
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Children, a doctor: Here are some of the people Israel killed in Gaza
Israel has left families bereaved and shocked across the Gaza Strip with a new wave of brutal attacks.
[Photo: a girl (approx. 4 years old), a boy (approx. 3 years old) and a woman - before being exterminated by Zionists]
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News | Israel-Palestine conflict
Children, a doctor: Here are some of the people Israel killed in Gaza
Israel has left families bereaved and shocked across the Gaza Strip with a new wave of brutal attacks.
[Photo: a girl (approx. 4 years old), a boy (approx. 3 years old) and a woman - before being exterminated by Zionists]
Layan, Omer and Dr. Majida Abu Aker [Screen grab/X/@RamAbdu]
By Al Jazeera Staff
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