Nice, first I’ve heard of Slate. Privacy-focused EV and looks like they offer customizable trucks and SUVs.

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Looking at it further, it appears it’s a pick-up truck with an optional SUV conversion kit. I like the tinkerer aspect of it, but the “SUV” would have 2 doors instead of 4, which is certainly not ideal. It’s already a pain in the ass to strap a child into a car seat with 4 doors. I’d also be curious about the passenger safety of those riding in the back seat with regard to how securely the rear roof and frame are attached. I also wonder how this vehicle will get around the U.S. law coming into effect in 2027 where vehicles must have a kill switch. Overall, it seems like a $20k truck would be compelling, but the SUV concept needs more work.

I don’t have an EV, but I can imagine it would be nice to not have to go to the gas station once a week.

I get the feeling the 3,000+ data centers aren’t being built so everyone can generate slop, but instead are going to end up being the infrastructure for the digital cage. AI won’t replace humans, but it can certainly spy on them quite effectively. Big tech and the U.S. government have been trending towards a fascist merger of state and corporate power for quite some time, and the FBI’s recent partnership with Flock and OpenAI becoming an official member of the military industrial complex are not good news. I fear we are headed towards a historically unprecedented ability for governments to track and control the populace. No matter what, these data centers are not for the benefit of the average citizen.

Carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the galaxy. Silicon is twice as rare, so maybe spend 6 month’s salary on a quartz ring instead? Either that, or save up for a down payment on a house. Nah, who needs a place to live when you can have a hunk of mineral, right?

Where I work, Chinese models are banned due to legal concerns. Not just in production, on any company-owned machine. That basically eliminates all the decent open weight models. I’m imagining this type of policy will be more widespread. I suppose it’s because of the potential for legal woes if systems and people are dependent on these models and then federal or state laws impose harsh penalties with little time to react.

I guess they’re running g out of places to pirate training data and they’re desperate because their models aren’t particularly competitive.

SoCs like this will definitely be an improvement over power guzzling discrete GPUs. Not sure what kind of crack they’re smoking marketing LLMs as a replacement for a keyboard and mouse. I’m interested in self-hosting LLMs for agentic coding and this looks like a good fit for that, but I won’t even be bothering with OpenClaw, and proprietary Micro$lop is garbage is absolutely out of the question.

When I was a kid, I used to turn over the landscaping timbers around the house to find lizards and such to catch. One time, wasps had built a huge nest under one and I ripped the nest open when I turned it over. Man, did those things sting the ever-loving shit out of me. My whole body was covered in stings.

Any nest I found after that, I made it my mission to get rid of it. I’d put on whatever clothes I had like winter gloves, long sleeve shirts helmets, etc. Of course, whatever I put on always seemed insufficient to protect me and I’d still get the shit stung out of me. What a dumb kid.

If Israel honors the ceasefire, then it’s going to take longer for The Chosen People to own the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, etc. All those darkies aren’t going to genocide themselves, you know.

MSI Thin 15 B13VE is the model. The only place I see it for $800 is Amazon at the moment.

I got a Steam Deck LCD 64GB for $350 and then put a 1TB SSD in it, so like $430 total. I love the SD, but it’s just not worth double that. A gaming laptop with a 4050 goes for about $800 now, so the current pricing isn’t really that good of a deal even at today’s prices.

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KDE Plasma Bigscreen is joining the Plasma release schedule next month and will then be available in distro repositories. That at least will be a big deal for Linux HTPCs.

Yeah, 3,000 data centers aren’t being built in the U.S. to generate profits from slop. They’re infrastructure for the digital cage.

Over 3,000 data centers are planned in the U.S., and I am not imagining they’re being built so everyone can generate slop to their heart’s content. Recent events like OpenAI becoming an official member of the military industrial complex and the F.B.I.’s deal with Flock make me think they’re largely being built as infrastructure for the digital cage.

DDG is not too bad, but when I click the sources from the AI search results, they often don’t contain the info from the search summary, so why even have it if it’s mostly a hallucination?

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Tried to sign up once, but it wanted my real phone number and a fake one from a temp SMS site wouldn’t work. Private messaging? Sure, Jan.

The NAACP never changed their name, so I assumed the term just fell out of use, but wasn’t necessarily offensive.

insider traitors

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