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Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand ( newatlas.com )
Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?
So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I'm mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people who...
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd's "!" Is actually a great album
The New Propaganda War: Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world ( www.theatlantic.com )
Here is the archived version....
Why does a state like California that has supermajorities in both houses of the legislature not have a livable wage, housing guarantees, universal healthcare, and other very progressive policies?
I keep being told it's because of the Republicans that we can't have nice things. So what gives in California? We should be overflowing with progressive policies.
It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine ( steamdeckhq.com )
Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team ( electrek.co )
Ford and GM are probably regretting that switch to NACS...
A colleague sent a video of a murder at work today and I'm still seething. What rights do I have? (UK)
It's already well known at work that I don't just not like gore videos but that I hate them and actively avoid them....
Is complaining to open source project maintainers getting normalized ? ( lemmy.ml )
And how can this be improved ? Should "normies" be pushed into RTFM or ELI5 ?
Did you choose for Linux for freedom or ...
for gratis or other reasons ?...
Safety in typing, no cloud needed ( f-droid.org )
What is the next "big thing"? ( kbin.social )
Right now it seems like its "A.I.". Still big now are the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Recently we had COVID 19....
can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work?
cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/803244...
Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs ( www.pcgamer.com )
What ever happened to nanotechnology? Seems like it disappeared. ( kbin.social )
Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.
I have a IBM eServer xSeries 346, does anyone has experience with the ServeRaid-7k, to create a RAID array? Also, you can ask me anything about this 2005 beast! ( lemmy.world )
Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions ( mbin.grits.dev )
Credit to @bontchev
Pause alerts during the night
Well, as the title says, I've had a few notifications that alerted over night and I'm wanting to sleep instead...
Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off ( www.aalto.fi )
'Privacy. That's Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers ( www.theverge.com )
Books that are worse than the film (which was already bad?)
What's your fave "No thoughts, head empty" music to listen to?
The theme of the Impact Site area from Pikmin has been my fave for as long as I can remember
Does anyone else notice an uptick of extreme troll accounts?
I swear, every time most of the time I see someone being particularly rude, ignorant, and inappropriate on a post (usually political in origin, or they swing it to being political) I click on their profile and see it has been created that same day....
Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 ( www.pocket-lint.com )
Why stand in line to board an airplane?
The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?...
What is an interesting fact that you recently discovered?
Can someone demystify computer Ports for me? Please? Blocking, unblocking, opening, allowing, VPNs and their effect, what ports are and what they do, step by step, when you have to interact with them?
It's the one thing when I'm configuring things that makes me wince because I know it will give me the business, and I know it shouldn't, but it does, every time. I have no real idea what I'm doing, what it is, how it works, so of course I'm blindly following instructions like a monkey at a typewriter....
Could real neurons be used for LLMs?
There's a video on YouTube where someone has managed to train a network of rat neurons to play doom, the way they did it seems reminiscent of how we train ML models...
What is something the world would be better without?