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Dig deep enough and you'll find the lobbyist. > The University of Washington today announced that it is part of a multi-pronged grantmaking strategy from Ballmer Group aimed at dra…

We are in the "Bust" phase of the STEM Crisis Myth[0] > [Anxiety over the STEM Crisis] has tended to run in cycles that he calls "alarm, boom, and bust." He says the cycle usually …

I wouldn't worry about hardware. I've run the latest local models over the last year, including the recent Qwen 3.6 30B A3B, on a 9yo GTX 1080 and 32G RAM I have lying around[0]. I…

I want to come at this from another angle: We are about to tell the entire world wide web where all the kids are. The more these laws are enforced, the more we hand over this infor…

I'm not saying Japan was good, and this isn't a callout to you. I'm arguing that the erasure of US brutality in China and the Philippines, as well as Gunboat Diplomacy on Japan its…

Ignorance is a Weapon. Much of the US media is captured, so virtually nothing is fed back to us Americans. This also builds on top of US gunboat diplomacy going all the way back to…

The elephant in the room is 'unverified' users will overwhelmingly be underage kids, and that absence will be tracked across the internet. This whole thing inadvertently exposes wh…

I guess I'm earning my grey hairs in my beard, because everything old is new again. Today AI/outsourcing is Offshoring 2.0. In the post-2000 bubble crash companies rushed to outsou…

I'm also using Synctrayzor on my Windows 10 machine. I'm on Android using the official Syncthing app there as well as on Linux. It sometimes takes a while for them to discover each…

I sync the database to my phone, and a couple of other devices too with syncthing. I need it on my phone anyway to log into accounts while I'm out and about.

Not the parent, but a heavy user of Keepass. When you unlock your database, you can re-key it with several options for encryption algorithm, key derivation, and the transform round…

Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, and Dark Forces are my triumvirate of that era. Of all of them, Duke Nukem felt the most interactive. There are times I would clear a level of enemies, then pl…

I agree. I find it a bit ironic that this site regularly talks about banning whole countries and IP ranges on our servers, then acts shocked when users do the same. The fact that s…

I visited Munich back in 2013 and recorded several surfers on the wave [0]. For reference I was standing on the bridge just above the platform in the article's second photo. It was…

I have a use case just for this. Sometimes my internet goes down while I'm working on my desktop computer. I'll put my work in a branch and push it to my laptop, then go to a coffe…

The Drake Equation is filled with assumptions, like life must appear on a planet in the Goldilocks zone of a star. The whole equation has only one datapoint to extrapolate from. Tw…

10 years ago μTorrent tried to package a crypto miner as an install path offer instead of a toolbar and faced incredible backlash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent#Ads_a…

> The company, Zuckerberg said, has lately been involved in “the general idea of entertainment and learning about the world and discovering what’s going on.” This under-recognized …

I can confirm my FreeBSD, Debian, and NixOS boxes don't have it installed by default. It's also not installed on my TrueNAS box.

This is not correct. The copyright office itself doesn't recognize any transfer of works-for-hire [0] unless there's (#3) a written document of the transfer, (#4) signed by the rec…

The artist still owns the copyright. Payment by itself does not transfer copyright. To do that the artist needs to explicitly sign away those rights. This happens in employment all…

In many ways it's the same as it ever was. If you have a lot of gray hairs, you probably remember The Dot-Com era. Before the bust it attracted a lot of bad talent from programmers…

You might consider mirroring the (legal) BitTorrent releases of your favorite Linux ISOs or something to that effect. I personally mirror several OCRemix BitTorrent releases [0] in…

The group behind AI Dungeon released the Wayfarer model in 12B and 70B variants. The former is small enough to run on local hardware. 10/10 would get eaten by a giant sloth again. …

I like this idea quite a bit. It's lightweight and read-only, which makes it far easier to host. I'm in the process of publishing some of my own repositories so I'm going to give t…