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whaleross@lemmy.worldto Buy European@feddit.uk•Birkenstock making consumers around the world pay for US policies1·3 days agoblocked Birkenstock ads
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media”English9·4 days ago*not all humans. Apparently. Like billionaires and the presidents they bought.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Buy European@feddit.uk•Birkenstock making consumers around the world pay for US policies13·4 days agoGuess my current Birkenstock will be my last.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Buy European@feddit.uk•Greenland dangles rare earths partnership with EU as Trump looms272·4 days agoSo Trump has managed to expand the yet dormant exploitation of resources from Greenland in favour of the European Union - without the need to
bribegift any aeroplanes. Trump sure keeps generously making favors for everybody except his own country.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action againEnglish120·5 days agoFor anybody else curious;
Voyager 1 uses hydrazine (N₂H₄) as fuel for its small attitude control thrusters. Hydrazine is a hypergolic monopropellant, meaning it doesn’t require an external oxidizer—it decomposes exothermically upon contact with a catalyst, producing gas to generate thrust.
The thrusters are not used for propulsion, but rather to rotate and stabilize the spacecraft so that its antenna remains pointed toward Earth and its instruments can be properly oriented. Fuel consumption is extremely low—only a few grams per year—and Voyager 1 still has some hydrazine left, although it’s running low. Once the hydrazine is depleted, the spacecraft will no longer be able to control its orientation, which means communication with Earth will cease.
The Voyager spacecraft have no engines for linear acceleration; instead, they follow the trajectory and speed gained from gravity assists during planetary flybys in the solar system.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How does generative AI handle creoles? Does it get confused and respond like it's one of the parent languages?1·6 days agoYeah but not one “master” language. All knowledge it can relate across languages is available in all languages. LLM (and computers) don’t care about the data, they just process it. Humans would translate it and compile it in ordered encyclopedia. For LLM it is all just an insane number of references and cross references all over that is available from anywhere that the link has been established. The input/output of desired language and formulation and whatever is a different part of it.
As far as I understand it.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English30·6 days agoI hear a whisper in the wind about file size being a distinct though not foolproof hint of quality.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How does generative AI handle creoles? Does it get confused and respond like it's one of the parent languages?2·6 days agoI know that the current generation of LLM have a language agnostic knowledge base, which is damn awesome, but I don’t know how the language layer works.
Bringing back the absurdum to Reduction Ad Absurdum.
While applying this technique, the caller may well hang up, so the quandary is solved regardless.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreakEnglish9·8 days agoUh, so it begins with blocking piracy. What’s next? Which public DNS can still be trusted to not be kept on a leash?
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfillEnglish3·8 days agoIt all comes down to plausibility. A repeat offender that clearly doesn’t give a flying fuck or somebody that pays for trash collection services and has no reason to dump their garbage but they also have an asshole neighbour with a personal vendetta. Or it is building materials and that address just had work done Or they paid a contractor for work and cleaning up and the contractor dumped it on the forest. I’m sure the authorities won’t bother with it if it happens once but when it’s the second or third time with the same suspect, well then you actually have a case.
Nah, I have the paid feature Multiverse Sync. It is enough.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The road they drove to dump this trash literally takes to the landfillEnglish6·9 days agoCarefully check for labels with name and address and then contact the authorities.
Afaik it is still just some dude that made a distro and this is what he called it. It is not in any way an EU project other than this is his place is residence.
I could make a distro called Planet Earth OS and it still means absolutely nothing.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your plan for the Zombie Apocalypse?3·9 days agoif cannibalism/societal colapse/megetables are going on, people are going to notice.
Fake news and xitter would like to have a word.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted?3·13 days agoDeleted by berator.
whaleross@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What crazy pickup line worked on you? (or for you?)5·14 days agoBring me a pair of crocks and the milk of a lemur.
Almost, but close enough. It had hardware to draw background solid blocks, two one-pixel dots and two sprites that had width but interestingly no height. The background was repeated or mirrored by hardware registers so if you wanted different patterns on left and right half of the screen, you need to switch the correct values at the right time at every line. Any positing of graphics would be in X position only so you’d have to do it by the line when the raster hit it. It had no interrupts except that you could forcibly wait for next frame to render and then you keep track of the clock cycles to render each line. And it has 128 bytes of RAM, less than the number of characters in this comment, while games were 1,2 or 4 KB on ROM cartridges, needless to say very efficiently coded directly in 6502 machine code. Oh, and the sound chip had no chromatic division of frequencies but weird intervals that aren’t even close to any scale we know. Yet programmers managed to create great games on the platform. It’s absolutely crazy.