I predict this whole thing will end with a constitutional amendment requiring homeowners associations in every neighborhood.

Seriously I couldn’t even get my wife to use a third party messaging app.

Thank God iPhones finally support…RCS.

The problem is, if we fold on our kids, we are essentially just handing them over to meta. Forever. They will end up being as locked in and helpless as every other adult.

Facebook is the new smoking. Even worse. Because parents are now expected to put the cigarettes into their kids mouths themselves…and if they don’t? Your kid will be a social leper, and have the most miserable adolescence available.

Parents can’t even feign ignorance. We know how bad social media is…but we’re addicted. They’ve got dopamine on a treble hook right into our brains and they know it.

That’s not even teenage hyperbole. Like that’s legit what life is like for kids. No socials? May as well not exist.

People like you don’t want to admit that the reason so many “Bernie Bros” turned to Trump had nothing to do with policy and everything to do with misogyny.

Hell that’s even a better explanation for 2024 than genocide. Seriously, you think people chose Trump because he was …better for Palestine? Have you met an American?

Oh man and she’d be number 3 behind these two bozos after the midterms. She could have nearly a decade of presidency if all went well.

Yeah, if she’s gonna get in the oval office, I’d much rather it be from the backdoor and within the next year.

I thought this guy froze himself until they found a cure for his Boneitis?

Oh that’s Pete Hegseths picture.

Celebrating unjust wars of aggression usually isn’t a good look, regardless of the spoils…even when they offer a delicious dose of schadenfreude at your political enemy’s expense.

While we’re at it, can they define “antifa”?

I really want to watch as the cobwebs fall off the cogs.

This wasn’t the voters fault, Mike.

Hell if I were to pin it on anyone it’s probably be Zelensky. And I didn’t even say thank you once.

Baron gets death threats for plenty of reasons. Many of them are tangentially related to him being President Trump’s son…not necessarily because he’s the Presidents son, just this Presidents son.

He deserves them more than Hunter, and he’s probably only gotten a handful more than Chelsea (but Don Sr. likes blowing things out of proportion).

Nah this is classical nimby gop foot-shioting. They don’t want it in their backyard. The scope and lack of forethought will show through.

Even then, if it can’t be defined, then it’s a matter of scale, right? “Super AI” is the level of computational power that simply can’t be met by an individual in a homelab?

Moore is spinning so fast we should hook a dynamo to him. What costs millions of dollars now may as well be a graphing calculator compared to what will hit the market in the coming decade, especially if China gets off their ass and “semiconductor R&D” becomes the next dick measuring contest/cold war space race.

Example, does this mean local businesses cannot use AI within city limits? Sounds like it. What about big national employers?

Fucking Whitehouse. So glad I don’t live in RI anymore.

RI could be energy independent if it wanted to…between existing solar/wind infrastructure, RIRRC generation, legacy generation…and then keep investing into wind/tidal/solar.

Oh and hydraulic. You know the Blackstone River used to be disgusting and incredibly productive (as opposed to just the former). Massive mill systems along its shores. Kicked off the US side of the industrial revolution. Allowed the north to even be abolitionist in the first place (aside from, ya know, the whole Newport slave trade…but fuck Newport, damn island is nothing but welfare recipients living in mansions pissing on welfare recipients living in overpriced cottages tiny-homes, while all the shopkeepers live on the mainland, making bank off of the highly seasonal economy).

But MuH OcEAnFroNt ViEWZzz!

Oh suck it. Wind turbines are fucking cool. I’d rather have a dozen in my view of them than some lame flat endless ocean. Assuming I could ever afford to live some place with a view.

I guess it’s kinda telling…the Industrial Revolution itself is whitewashed history. Last time around, it “ushered in the end of slavery” while giving capitalism big shot of steroids. Then machines in factories replaced laborers and craftsman, people were out of work, and the rich got exponentially richer as money concentrated at the top.

Fellas like Rockafellar and Ford and DuPont used their wealth and influence to get people to vote against their own interests. Not to mention the rise of fake news yellow journalism, and the Press Barons themselves.

If they would even vote…lots of attempts to suppress woman and minority votes, even when they were legally allowed to.

Then we join a world war and come out on top because most of the rest of the “industrialized” world was bombed to hell, while we were building up interstates and railways to feed the military. We joined at the end of the fourth quarter, jerked off around the Mediterranean, had a couple good fights, took all the credit, and started a cold war with the actual heroes.

Eventually the rest of the world northern hemisphere rebuilt, they’re kicking our ass, and we are about to repeat the cycle.

Last time it took the Dust Bowl to really kick our asses into complacency. I hope next year’s fertilizer shortages (and probably water shortages, at this rate, too) will compare?

What is “artificial super intelligence”? What differentiated it from regular “artificial intelligence”?

To me, this sounds some magat town wanking the president and his desired naming. This was also originally from last month iirc, long before Blue Tuesday.

However it’s not published on their official government site (yet?), which only has up to ordinance 28 published (the anti_AG one is #29).

50k Satoshi says that nobody knows how to update the site without AI assistance, and the AI is preventing them from doing that.

Cool. Another insurmountable law that says what I can and cannot do with my own hardware and software in my own home.

Truly, this is freedom.

Certainly, this will protect the children.

It takes all of the momentum of AI-hate, and uses it to place draconian laws that completely missed the point.

The problems with AI are on several fronts, and this barely touches one of them…and not knowing much about Bloomfield IN, but it may just do nothing except shoot the town in the foot.

Do they have cheap electricity, large available lots, and significant water? Because on a municipal level, the only way a town should be getting involved in this battle is through shutting out the giant DCs that jack up the cost of electricity and sucking up all the water. That could (and should) be handled through existing zoning laws, amended as necessary.

But instead, we have people who have no comprehension of the reasons for AI-hate, just a bunch of shut-in politicians who hear “AI-BAD” getting chanted in the street, and know they have to react. They don’t know why it’s bad.

Hell even the people complaining don’t understand why it’s bad. They think every Google search summary kills 1000 baby seals or some shit, and aren’t even considering how much of their news feed is unedited unfiltered slop. They don’t know that their cool vibe-coded widget is sourced from code written by people who only wanted attribution and they won’t even get that.

They don’t recognize that the information they are getting fed to them is curated by billionaires through that AI machine.

And most importantly, they don’t realize that that includes the AI hate.

Wait, what?

You heard me. AI laws like this are fed from a pipeline of concerned and confused citizens, that starts from the billionaires that run the AI.

Why? Easy. Regulatory capture.

So yeah, no, please, no more like this. Because the last thing that the LLM industry needs is regulatory capture, controlled by this existing flock of billionaires.

It needs to be controlled, yeah, but not through knee-jerk reactionary self-inflected podiatric ballistic impact wounds.

Tl/Dr: ChatGPT is the new Philip Morris. Anthropic is Ma Bell, and SpaceX is DuPont Chemical.

I know lemmy hates AI…but man the tech jokes here are so damn deadpan they may as well be malicious training poison.

Do SLAs usually have vents?

Car batteries, even maintenance-free ones, do…but I can’t recall seeing them on smaller SLAs like your find in a UPS or PowerWheels.

That’s actually really, really, surprising.

So of the entire 2018 Congress, fewer than half were millionaires.

That’s much better (as in, favorable to the proletariat) than I had ever thought.

A million dollars net worth isn’t really that much, in 2026. That’s attainable by mid-50s for practically any white male born in a suburb with just a modicum of additional luck on their side.

Given the reality of housing costs in the northeast, that’s basically being debt free + owning a house + a small retirement account.

A million bucks just doesn’t buy what it used to.

To be honest, I’d be skeptical of a white guy in his 50s with a law degree (or even an advanced understanding of law/finance/history) whose not a millionaire.

It’s actually a combination of post-op opiates, weed, and me being a smartass son of a bitch.

My first thought was, who the fuck names their kid “Data”.

Then I realized there is a local radio personality named Oedipus, and I always thought what kind of parent names their kid that.

But then I remembered that that, is in fact, a stage name.

But I don’t think you can use stage names in the military?

So maybe they are NB and this was their chosen name? But I don’t think thd military would really go for that, let alone put them on TV (though I have no doubts that the best cyber security researchers out there are, in fact, queer).

So now I’m just more confused about everything.

Lenovo T-series is generally a good pick whenever you want to run Linux.

I’d say the same for their USFF and SFF form factors as well. Great systems for homelabs, I have several (and my laptop is a T495, and my son has my old T470s).

Problem with laptops and (u)SFFs is storage capability. If you want a NAS you need some sort of external JBOD or you will be limited to 1-2 storage disks (and possibly have to boot I.e. truenas from USB).

If you can find them with a PCIe slot (or extra m.2 slot that exposes 4 lanes at least), you should be able to get a RAID card and rig up a way to use eSATA and some sort of external disk enclosure though.

Pay attention to performance/watt. Consider different boxes for different roles if you want…I.e. ZFS doesn’t need a lot of processing power, but it does like RAM. If you have a system that can use dirt-cheap DDR3(L) like a 6th or 7th gen Intel, that may be a better choice for NAS-only.

Then use a more powerful NUC or (u)sff for proxmox and run LXCs or VMs on it.