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52·11 days agoI’d be curious why you think LLMs are dead ending? Is it that you think the Jepa models are likely to find success and win out or do you think the LLMs in generally are just hitting their peaks?
Your point on power usage is interesting, although I think that is mostly on training not usage correct?
0·20 days agoDepending on what you are considering as air quality, and if you also consider water/ground quality risks too? Landfills produce a large amount of methane which not good on greenhouse gases, as well as providing a large amount of leachate risk. This is compared to the much lower land use and Waste to Energy production capacity which incinerator provide, while also having some emissions, particulate, and ash disposal issues.
So if you are a big city or Island without enough land and enough budget to build a facilite to mitigate the negatives (San Francisco, Hawaii, Washington DC, New York, Boston, etc), then incineration begins to make sense if you can mitigate the negatives to a high enough degree. Islands can indeed have to do it as there is just no viable alternative. It can be incredibly well used to as the Shetlands have a WTE which also uses waste energy to heat homes and buildings replacing home furnaces and being more efficient.
11·1 month agoThe Article says:
A Note for Vaultwarden Users
Whether self-hosting stays viable long-term is the real question worth sitting with.
Right now it works because Bitwarden’s clients are open source and the server API is public. Vaultwarden implements that API, and the official apps can’t tell the difference. That depends on Bitwarden continuing to publish open source clients and not restricting which servers they’ll talk to — neither of which is guaranteed under new management.
The brake on the worst case: self-hosting is a listed Enterprise feature that generates real revenue. Killing it upsets paying business customers. That matters.
The catch: what Bitwarden sells to enterprises is their own official server stack, not Vaultwarden. Vaultwarden exists in a space they’ve tolerated but never endorsed. If the calculus shifts, the tolerance ends without any announcement. Just let the API drift until compatibility breaks on its own.
I don’t think that’s imminent. But I also thought the free tier commitment was ironclad, and “Always free” isn’t on the page anymore.The real safety net is that Bitwarden’s clients are Apache 2.0 licensed. A fork would need a rebrand to stay clear of the trademark — different name, tweaked UI, same engine — but that’s a speed bump, not a wall. The web vault works through any browser regardless of what happens to the apps, so worst case you’d lose autofill temporarily while a fork caught up. Inconvenient, not catastrophic. Vaultwarden itself is already proof the model works.
Watch the clients. If they go closed, the community will notice fast, and the fork will follow.
2·1 month agoTo your point it’s one of the levers regulators and governments have against corporate entities.
It’s a difficult venue, but it does work even if it seems like it has a minor effect. It creates disincentives and incentives which business are influenced by.
It would be better if regulators had more teeth, but capitalist defang whenever they can. Be it laws, regulators, or even just public influence.
The judge ruled that the MSNBC pundit was using hyperbole when he said Patel has “been visible at nightclubs” far more than at the FBI building.Kash Patel filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic, he has lost a different A day after FBI Director defamation claim, against news analyst and pundit Frank Figliuzzi.
U.S. District Judge George Hanks Jr. dismissed Patel’s lawsuit against Figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, who has been an analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
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”Hanks wrote, “A person of reasonable intelligence and learning would not have taken his statement literally: that Dir. Patel has actually spent more hours physically in a nightclub than he has spent physically in his office building. By saying that Patel spent ‘far more’ time at nightclubs than his office, Figliuzzi delivered his answer ‘in an exaggerated, provocative and amusing way,’ employing rhetorical hyperbole.”The judge wrote that because he found that the statement was “rhetorical hyperbole,” it cannot be considered defamation.
36·2 months agoAccording to Nilsson, the real inflation rate in Russia is closer to the key interest rate of 15% than to the Russian Central Bank’s official estimate of 5.86%."
The Russian economy can only go on one of two scenarios: long-term recession or shock," Nilsson said. “In either case, it will continue on a downward trajectory towards financial disaster.”
Long read here, but the story illustrates how the city attorney was scrambling less just to convict her than preempt a lawsuit she’s likely to file against the city. Doesn’t directly answer your question, but the context makes this clear that there were some desperation moves here.
Yes, but then you can fix it and keep it going for your life! That’s at least $80 or $160 saved direct, plus life lesson and future fixes… (Fuck MC) priceless!
You need to work on your searchfu, and dig more into your source credibility. At least until CNN newsroom is gutted by the WB takeover, they still have a fairly high factuality standard, if slightly progressive (American not European) bias.
Not all sat imagery is showing it as it’s new and imagery is expensive, so something like Apple maps, Yandex, and others aren’t updated enough. However google earth is and if you go straight to NASA Sentinel 2 shows it as of March 24.
https://www.google.com/maps/@46.878574,16.877323,17z/data=!3m1!1e3
https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/unfinished-roundabout/view/google/
Those two resignations in quick succession Monday night amounted to a stunning flurry of accountability, and a sudden turn in a months-long saga for the Texas Republican. Though Gonzales had faced calls from his own party leadership to abandon his reelection bid, he had until Monday been able to remain in his job.
House GOP leaders knew they couldn’t afford to lose his vote and had privately acknowledged that losing him would hurt their voting margin, making it much harder to accomplish Trump’s agenda. (Johnson has not been in favor of expelling members in the past, which he has said required a complete investigation by the House Ethics Committee.)But the calculation inside the GOP began to change as Democrats appeared increasingly likely to back expulsion for their own member, Swalwell, as he faced allegations of sexual misconduct, including from a former aide.
Many of the most vocal lawmakers — including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who had notably called to expel Gonzales even though it would hurt the GOP’s margins — are also involved in Congress’ ongoing investigation into how the federal government mishandled the investigation into serial abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
The dramatic push for resignations marked a stunning moment on Capitol Hill.
And here in lies one of the many problems with American exceptionalism. “It’s always from our perspective.”
As an American abroad, I have to say I really dislike the ignorance from where I was born.
In that, I congratulated you on your very Dutch directness in querying.
9·2 months agoThe president did not share any names as to the leaker, the journalists, or the media outlets that he believed had publicized the story. But after his comments, some members of the press pointed toward Fox News and The Washington Post for being among the first to land the scoop.
Yet those media companies were not the only ones to report that one member of the military had been unaccounted for after the initial rescue on Friday: Reuters also reported at the time that just one of the aircrew had been rescued. Hours later, the outlet reported that a search and rescue was underway.
Other journalists jumped to claim the scoop, even after Trump’s threat. Amit Segal—an Israeli journalist with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—said on his Telegram chat later Monday that he was the first to report the story.
“As you may recall, this was first published here,” Segal wrote.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former staunch ally turned Trump critic, said everyone in the Trump administration who claims to be a Christian needs to “beg forgiveness from God” and intervene in the president’s “madness”.
In a lengthy post on X, the former Republican congresswoman wrote: “I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.”
She went on: “The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.”
You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing."
You it’s a Mad Easter when MGT is the voice of reason you are applauding, even if she is nucking futz.
So that’s rumors of Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and now Gabbard. I doubt any changes will help Trump improve his ability to control reality… But I also doubt it until I see anyone dismissed.
3:31 seconds in is when she say it.
Satisfying, but verse others who believe in this it’s still disheartening.
While I understand the hypothesis, I am not sure it is working out that way.
Although Trump is trying desperately to find a way to subvert the elections, given the decentralized State based nature of it, it’s going to take more than an external war with Iran to justify an internal canceling of the elections. The SAVE Act is an attempt at nationalizing the Elections, but while it’s moving it lacks the capacity to jump the biggest hurdle in the Senate. Any Executive attempt at nationalizing the elections has very little judicial basis, which would make it hard to hold up in court. It’s dynamic and complex, but it’s not as simple as his declaration of marshal law.
That is not to say your sentiment isn’t correct. If he can find a way, or his backers can find a way, they will try and do it.
On the second point, Trump didn’t get a 9/11 style bump. Indeed it seems to have gone almost the opposite way based on polling. Given inflation and other economic impacts, it might cause more defections before it helps him.
What it has done is push Epstein out of the US new. This too might have been part of the calculus. It is still rippling through the UK and other political systems, but the US has put it aside for now.
You are correct, but that won’t stop them from trying to blame them.
Also the Dems are so ineffectual lately, they might just make it easy for him.
This is a La Nina for comparison: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/node/435
https://youtu.be/6bnUnkGwwTI