When I open my task manager I see flatpak-session-helper near the top of the list for ram usage and am suspicious

“It’s curiosity about a really sick and evil mind. We read it the way you read [Karl Marx’s] Das Kapital.”

hmmm

I don’t regularly drink coffee, one time I had a big cup made by someone who drinks a lot of coffee, what happened was my face went all tingly and numb and I felt like I was gonna pass out (I was on the highway and there were no bathroom stops so it was extra bad). People who don’t think of caffeine as a drug are just incorrect.

I very highly recommend getting a pressure cooker for this. Not only is it cheaper energywise and requires less planning ahead (don’t need to soak beans beforehand, much shorter cooking time), but you don’t have to keep tabs on a pot for hours. You just pour in the beans water and salt, press a button and come back later whenever you’re ready. Especially good for Garbanzo beans, which take a ridiculous amount of time to cook on a stovetop.

I love it, hate having to check my phone for these, brilliant choice to put the code onscreen

Well it is from the youtube transcript which interprets “ninety sixty” as 960. I didn’t want to watch the video either so there’s not much point trying to proofread for accuracy and I didn’t bother, but I’ll correct that detail. If you want to watch the video and come up with your own summary, feel free. To me the important details here are that it is $350 and 16GB vram.

Here’s a summary of the transcript generated with qwen3:

1. Product Overview:

   • The AMD RX 9060 XT is a mid-range GPU with 16GB VRAM, competing against NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 Ti (8GB VRAM).
   • AMD also offers an 8GB version of the RX 9060 XT, likely for cost-effective market strategy, but the reviewer strongly recommends the 16GB variant for better future-proofing and performance in memory-demanding tasks.

2. Pricing and Strategy:

   • AMD leverages NVIDIA’s higher pricing for the RTX 5060 Ti (which is more expensive than the RX 9060 XT) to position its card as a better value proposition. The reviewer advocates for 16GB over 8GB GPUs, even if it means slightly higher costs.

3. Performance Comparison:

   • Power Efficiency: The RTX 5060 Ti is noted for 30% lower power consumption at similar performance levels, a significant advantage for NVIDIA.
   • Ray Tracing: NVIDIA generally excels in ray-tracing performance, though AMD might edge ahead in specific scenarios.
   • Driver Ecosystem: Historically, NVIDIA’s drivers are more polished, but recent controversies around NVIDIA’s driver updates have shifted perceptions, with AMD now appearing more reliable in this area.

4. Hardware Design:

   • The RX 9060 XT features a simplified design with minimal VRM components and uses thermal putty (common in Gigabyte’s builds) on the GPU and memory ICs for heat dissipation. The PCB layout is basic, reflecting its mid-range positioning.

5. AMD’s Transparency Initiative:

   • AMD emphasized independent testing in its review guide, urging reviewers to conduct unbiased evaluations without interference. The reviewer confirms AMD adhered to this policy, praising the company for ethical practices amidst NVIDIA’s recent controversies.

6. Market Positioning:

   • The RX 9060 XT is framed as a strategic counter to NVIDIA, challenging its dominance through competitive pricing and VRAM capacity. The reviewer applauds AMD’s bold move, calling it a “slap in the face” to NVIDIA’s pricing strategy.

7. Conclusion:

   • The RX 9060 XT is recommended for users prioritizing VRAM capacity and value, especially in a market where NVIDIA’s pricing and driver issues create opportunities for AMD. While NVIDIA leads in power efficiency and ray tracing, the RX 9060 XT’s 16GB VRAM and lower cost make it a compelling choice for many gamers and creators.

Final Verdict: A strong contender in the mid-range GPU segment, the RX 9060 XT offers a balanced mix of performance, VRAM, and price, positioning AMD as a formidable competitor to NVIDIA in the current GPU landscape.

The video doesn’t mention it but I looked it up and apparently this card has msrp of $350, but comments on the video are predicting that in practice it will be more expensive than that.

Wild animals end up covered in ticks and sometimes even die from it

The officer said there had been a noise complaint about the medical center’s air conditioning units, and cannabis was possibly being cultivated inside, the complaint says.

He repeatedly surveilled the property in 2023 and reported the “distinct odor of live cannabis plant and not the odor of dried cannabis being smoked” — as well as tinted windows, security cameras and two people dressed similarly, according to the complaint.

The officer believed these were signs of a hidden marijuana growing operation, and efforts to expand it, the complaint says.

lol

Depends on the data, some data would be fine being deleted but not fine being leaked, some the other way around.

If successful employee owned businesses are formed and accumulate capital they should be able to perpetuate employee ownership

One issue is, that isn’t necessarily the priority the employee owners will have. I followed some news of a successful coop business where I lived, that sold the business because it had become worth so much that the payout was life changing money for all of those people, so they voted to take the money and potentially retire sooner rather than keep going as a coop.

This legislation makes the online environment for children worse, so it’s a moot point; whether you think it’s the government’s place to take a proactive stance on this or not, it’s still bad either way.

Doesn’t seem to be the case, some popular servers:

• Ollama written in Go
• llama.cpp C++

And then of course talking to these servers can be in any language that has a library for it or even just handles network requests, although Python is a nice choice. Possibly the process of training models is more heavy on the Python dependencies than inference is, haven’t actually done anything with that though.

Maybe she expected the interview to happen and had an article planned about it, and then decided to just write it anyway when it didn’t

That’s why Playtron is excited to announce Game Dollar, the stablecoin built for games and ready to handle massive transaction volume over the next decade,” said Kirt McMaster, co-founder and CEO of Playtron. “Game Dollar will unlock new economic models for developers and marketplaces while enabling consumer incentives only possible via programmable dollars.”

What’s wrong with the stablecoins that already exist I wonder?

as confirmed by a Reddit thread on r/ChatGPT

hmmmmmm

Not even just because people are idiots, but also because a LLM is going to have quirks you will need to work around or exploit to get the best results out of it. Like how it’s better to edit your question to clarify a misunderstanding and regenerate the response than it is to respond again with the correction, because there is more of a risk it gets stuck on its mistake that way. Or how it can be useful in some situations to (if the interface allows this) manually edit part of the LLM output to be more in line with what you want it to be saying before generating the rest.

all this data is made up lol

wtf

They mentioned Microsoft updating privacy agreements at the same time as other companies, and OP mentioned that the context was a discussion of a Windows ultra-keylogger type of feature, the implication is they’re in on this shit too, and Linux is a way to not use Windows.

The argument they make seems to boil down to, there’s various reasons to believe that social media can be a negative influence on teenagers, social media companies are intentionally manipulative and amoral, the idea of this type of social media ban is popular with the public in polls, and the Trump administration opposes social media regulation. So yeah, not all that comprehensive. Notably lacking is a case that a youth ban is actually the right solution and wouldn’t cause its own harms, an explanation of why teenagers and adults are so different here and what that implies, or an acknowledgement of the cases against such a ban (for instance they make an uncritically positive reference to last year’s ban by Australia which is extremely controversial and has a lot of good arguments against it, like the privacy disaster of making everyone prove their identity to post online). To be fair the whole thing seems like mostly a really brief summary of The Anxious Generation, maybe that book makes a stronger point.

It has to be acknowledged that much of what makes up human culture and society is online now, and will continue to be going forward. The real question should be, what do we want that society to look like, and how do we move in that direction? Probably there is a lot more to it than passing laws that ban things. Calling social media digital crack and demanding teenagers to go live in a past that doesn’t exist anymore seems like a very head-in-sand attitude to me.