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  • There’s plenty of long form AI content lately too. Wikipedia articles make for great YouTube videos, and there’s no shortage of them. I’ve run into several channels lately where it took me about 30 seconds to realize something was off, and checking the channel’s history you can usually tell by finding older videos which actually have a person in them who is clearly very different than the narrator in the newer videos, or by just not having any older videos at all.


  • My controversial opinion is that if he’d never run in the first place and made sure Harris played a significant role in his administration, she could have had a shot at winning it with a full campaign. If she were a white male it would have maybe even been easy. The Democrats will never run a truly progressive candidate, and as proven in Kentucky this week the over 60 voting block still matters most.

    And yes, if you can’t tell I have absolutely no hope for US politics. But I’ll still at least vote for whoever isn’t the fascist every time.





  • You can go far below $300 with very little practical performance compromise, but I wouldn’t even look on Amazon with memory prices being what they are lately. Get an old DDR3 era Optiplex desktop on eBay, throw a $25 Quadro P400 in it for transcoding, and transfer your existing SSDs over. Tons of eBay listings have 2-4 day shipping. With DDR3 you can easily get 16GB of RAM for like $30 if it doesn’t have enough already. Avoiding DDR4/DDR5 will save a ton of money so it’s essential to buy used.

    The SSDs and hard drives for the array are by far the most expensive part. I’ve been using an underclocked and undervolted Ryzen 1700 in my server for 6 years now and have zero complaints around CPU performance. I did eventually need more than 16GB of RAM last year, but the only outright failures I’ve had are on the various component’s fans.


  • COASTER1921@lemmy.mltoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldTrains
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    1 month ago

    For now yes, but the one from Oklahoma city to Fort Worth TX will be ending in 90 days.

    The trains anywhere in the US except the Northeast are far too slow, infrequent, and unreliable to plan around. Delays frequently are measured in 10s of hours on Amtrak.





  • COASTER1921@lemmy.mltoFuck AI@lemmy.worldBehold: A vibe-designed pcb
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    2 months ago

    As an electrical engineer I’m reasonably confident my job is a very long way from danger. Analog electronics never made their way to internet forums at scale, and for humans the only real reference you need is an old book called the art of electronics. AI needs a ton of training data to be good, and outside of code and potentially law, I just don’t see what other fields have sufficient training data.





  • If this is really as straightforward as it sounds then I’d consider this the best case scenario. Google could have gone full Apple style lockdown or even just have implemented this flow on a per app basis, but needing to wait 24hr one time to enable unverified app installation isn’t a bad idea from a security perspective. It prevents a bad actor with temporary access from being able to do much while not getting in the way of us power users after the initial 24hr period.

    My bigger problem is how Google is leveraging their monopoly to implement this single-handedly and only for themselves. If they had instead gone through AOSP this perhaps could have been implemented in a better way to allow other parties than just Google to be the verifier, and that 24hr waiting period could be applied to any verifier that is not the phone’s default. I’d argue this would be an equally reasonable security measure considering how many scams are out there preying on those who aren’t technologically savvy, yet would maintain transparency.