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Unlike fern and tldrnews, I don’t think they declared no AI, but I feel most of there animation seems to involve a lot of human labors, at least on top of AI.

They have also never declared the use of AI either, so I guess I don’t know for sure.

Veritasium

Fren

Johnny Harris

Compterphile

3blue1brown

tldrNews (several channel each for different region)

RealLifeLore

Money and Macro (actual economist, not finance bro)

Elon is building both the “apocalypse-proof” (they are not) truck and the apocalypse (he really is)

I should specify I am referring to mainland China. Hong Kong has a different health care systems, and the health care is usually considered reasonably affordable for residents (could be because people in Hong Kong are generally more wealthy than most of mainland China)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Hong_Kong

No they don’t. They have state provided health care, supplemented with private options.

But they are not universal in the sense that (1) not the entire population is covered (2) health care is not close to free for most people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care_by_country#China

There is literally a hit movie couple years ago about the difficulty to obtain affordable Imatinib: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Survive

(Imatinib was later covered by state health care package because of this movie

It is optional field and can be unset and set to arbitrary value by the administrator. If you can build your own OS, isn’t it easier to just unset this value?

I think it is accessed through xdg-protal, and the usage tracking and permission etc. likely happen at that layer.

The xdg-desktop-portal project is adding an age verification portal (flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#1922) that needs a data source for the user’s age. userdb already stores personal metadata (emailAddress, realName, location) so birthDate is a natural fit.

I feel if everything they said is true, then this is a reasonable solution. But from my many Youtube scammer video experience, like people have already mentioned, most scammers use standard remote access software, not some bespoke APK.

I feel this reply is somewhat misguided and reiterate many of the (frankly, a bit frustrating) AI propaganda talking point.

“It is not AI, it is capitalism”: It is AI in capitalism, which is the reality we live in right now. If you take anything and put it in an utopia, then of course it will be great. But that simply is not the world we are living in.

Some people hate cars, because it is a inefficient, polluting, and unsafe way to travel. But what if cars are all running on renewable energy, is super small, and never collide with pedestrian or cyclist, then noone would hate cars!

Some people hate meat eating because it is inefficient and forces animal to live in inhuman conditions. But what if we can make animal photosynthesis and make them live happy, free, and full lives. Then no one will be against meat eating, but again, that is not our world right now.

Just because there is an alternative utopia where AI is perfect that doesn’t mean it is right now, and its flaws causes the hatred on the internet.

Now, most AI center are polluting, consume large amount of energy, and those AI that people mostly uses are built with stolen knowledge. Finally, society should optimize for the well-being of the people, and artist are people, AI are not. All the AI people use nowadays funnels the money to the richest few, while majority of the population, even AI experts, don’t have the means to train useful AI model as of now.

I have options to go to another country, but I choose to stay in the U.S. It certainly is not an easy decision given the many current and historical problem within the U.S. Like many of you, I believe Trump is the symptom, not the problem. The problem is much more deeply rooted and harder to get rid off.

Admittedly, my wife being in the U.S. is the largest driving force for me to remain in the U.S. Yet, here are some other advantages of the U.S. I have considered:

• EU tried to push chat control repeatedly, the vote is always close; and U.K. already have strict age verification law for porn (and possibly VPN). U.S. is heading there, but at least my state has not attempted any of these ridiculous moves.
• I really really enjoy the community in the U.S. city I live in, there is “real” farmers market, street fairs, local art conventions: there are fun events every weekend. Maybe I didn’t try too hard when I was in London, but I am not able to find as much event in the U.K.: there are “farmers market” in London, but most of them just sell low quality importted plastic decoration/toys instead of actual groceries…
• US is a top funder of scientific research: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20257/global-r-d-and-international-comparisons-2 . Now even China is out-funding EU and UK, but I am certainly not going to China any time soon. There is way too much politics in Chinese academia, as far as I know.
• I think education is a human right, and U.S. education is way more expensive than it should be. I don’t want to defend it. But I believe U.S. has better educations thanks to the libral art system, where student have much more chance to interact and learn from professors compare to many top UK schools.
• In general, even account for the out of pocket maximum for healthcare, many U.S. job still pays more than their U.K. counterpart. This means saving money in the U.S. and later move to a lower income country is easier than saving money in a lower income country and later move to the U.S. Working in the U.S. when I was young gives me more liberties and assets to move to other countries later in my life, if U.S. eventually collapse.

literally put shit on egg – enshitification

I teach computer science at a uni. I would much much perfer student to ask me the question instead of LLM. I will give them a much better answer because the LLM probably learned from my published stuff, which is already super surface level, and then they will distill again.

I understand this is not feasible for larger classes, especially introduction classes. But please, if you ever move on to upper level classes and professor welcomes questions, talk to the professor, not the LLM.

I got a lot of flipboard content on mastodon, but I don’t know if that “grows” flipboard.

I think this is already done in most part of computer science. In my field, Springer has very little shares left, and is actively being replaced by ACM and Schloss Dagstuhl, which are not only both non-profit but all open access.

I am also glad after 20 something years, our field has finally moved away from IEEE, which is not open access even til this day.

Why have we been talking about EU chat control for years. How many time have this been voted on? and can people just keep popping up chat control if the previous one fail?

“sciency people” is a huge community, I think even within computer science (which is not a science), each community have their own perferred platform.

Algorithm, foundation, and automata theory people often don’t have social media or on mailing lists; more foundational fields like programming language people often perfer Mastodon; more flushy system, network, and security people often are on bluesky; AI/ML people, of course, are often found on xitter.

I find the social media (piefed and mastodon) I use are busy enough to keep me entertained, not too busy to make me addictated.

BTW, it loads fine now :)

I am able to access it pretty consistently on interstellar and the web, but it is so slow it is not really a decent experience.

For me, connecting from the U.S., takes around 5 – 15mins, but I can barely vote on anything.

I remember there is a post stating that LemmyNSFW is eating up the VPS resource, and the provider throttled the VPS, which also include FediNSFW. My guess is that after LemmyNSFW is down, people are eagar to backup that instance, which created an absurd amount of traffic.

The recommended protien requirement is around .8g per day per kg of body weight, and double that is enough if you work out (you can go even lower to around 1.2g per kg, while still seeing significant gains), everthing above that get diminishing returns:

• https://blogs.cdc.gov/nchs/2010/03/03/953/
• https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/how-much-protein-do-you-need-every-day-201506188096
• https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/nutrition/protein
• https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/articles/how-much-protein-when-working-out
• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8978023/

Assuming you weight 80kg, then you will need only around 96g – 128g of protien per day, and everything above 160g will likely be a waste and they can even cause digestive problem for me.

One pack of super firm tofu https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/high-protein-organic-tofu-083089 or 500g of falafel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel#Nutrition provides around 70g of protien. Plus many daily food like grain, beans also provide a good amount of protien: https://www.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/files/page-files/Protein.pdf For example:

• one cup of all purpose flower gives you 12g of protien
• one cup of pasta, again, 12g
• one cup of long grain rice, 13g
• a bagel provides 10g of protien.

So I feel it is pretty trivial for me to reach the required protien in take if I just add some tofu and plant-based meat in my diet, and perhaps most importantly, eat 3 meals a day. If anything, I need to sometimes scale down a bit in protien intake, since it is very easy to go over board and cause problem in digestion.

For me, most of the high protien source are tofu, gluten, and plant-based meat. I also mainly eat mix grains, and add chickpeas in my rice.