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Salvo@aussie.zonetoHacker News•There's no reason for software to be slow anymoreEnglish
41·3 days agoThe only reason for software to be slow is drive hardware sales.
You can’t have a rat race if the rats don’t run.
Newsflash; LLM datacentres have OCR.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump keeps embracing data centers even as they become toxic in midterm racesEnglish
6·4 days agoThey must really think their gerrymandering and voter suppression endgame has been achieved for them to push this bullshit through.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Week of action planned against license plate readersEnglish
1·4 days agoCrack it open and take out the GPS and cellular module.
Or relocate the entire unit to somewhere it will actually provide civic good like somewhere prone to Illegal Garbage dumping or as a trailcam for wildlife.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Week of action planned against license plate readersEnglish
10·5 days agohttps://www.cehrp.org/dissection-of-flock-safety-camera/
This article may be out of date, but it is quite clear that Flock just ordered a bunch of parts off AliBaba, slapped them together in an injection moulded enclosure, added some vibe-coded software and pumped them out after greasing some palms.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Week of action planned against license plate readersEnglish
20·5 days agoThey are free electronic components and modules that can be used for your own projects. Just make sure they are completely erased and serial numbers removed before reusing.
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politics @lemmy.world•US gas prices reach highest ever recorded for August amid stalled talks with IranEnglish
210·7 days agoIt has nothing to do with the “war”. It has everything to do with Datacentres and a neglected grid.
As a Part Interpreter, I find its estimate to be accurate. 21% chance of 2040 before 80% unemployment.
All the current LLM-based quoting and estimating products are absolutely atrocious, despite what Insurance Companies and Panel Shops assume.
When repairing a vehicle, you need intimate knowledge of how the vehicle is manufactured and assembled.
Assembly by robots can be automated, but fixing the problems associated with collisions requires experience and knowledge.
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politics @lemmy.world•DESMOND LACHMAN | Trump faces midterm reckoning as economic promises go unfulfilledEnglish
61·13 days agoTheir game plan is to not let anyone vote.
All US citizens who are eligible need to go out and vote in force for the Democrats, regardless of their own feelings.
Once the Democrats win by an unqualified landslide, and the GOP are completely eradicated, The US will finally be able to rebuild their democracy.
It will be a long, difficult journey that will take multiple decades to recover from the last decade, but it must be done.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers'English
2·13 days agoBut it doesn’t work! You hear all sorts of anecdotes about a business who retrenched their workforce to replace with LLMs, everything comes crashing down and they have to rehire all their workforce at higher rates.
It would be interesting to see actual verified numbers. I am sure that a lot of useless people can be replaced with computers, but most of the time, all it requires is a very small sh script, it doesn’t need a monstrous data centre that uses more water and power than a human.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump hid in catering cart to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat – reportsEnglish
7·14 days agoMore like one of these;
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Technology@lemmy.world•Winona police want to know who stole their Flock surveillance camerasEnglish
1·19 days agoIIRC they are common SBCs and components. They can be broken down and components resold.
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Technology@lemmy.world•BMW is putting Spider-Man ads on your dashboard, after promising it never wouldEnglish
1·21 days agoA lot of manufacturers sell vehicles at cost price in the hopes of making it up in after sales (parts and servicing). Most EVs require very little regular expense (cabin filters, brakes and tyres), so they try to make up the difference in subscriptions and “value added” services.
Sometimes those “value added” services aren’t adding value to their customers; they are “adding value” for business partners.
You would think that a car that is sold at a premium price would be exempt from these nasty little scams.
Salvo@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlashEnglish
8·26 days agoReading the article makes me feel like it should be in Not The Onion.
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Technology@lemmy.world•New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlashEnglish
451·26 days agoIt is interesting that they couldn’t replace sex workers with their unskilled robots, but they think they can replace teachers!?
These companies are so out of touch with reality that they deserve to go bankrupt. Their investors are so out of touch that they deserve to loose their investment.
All the GenBS systems do is generate crap so their logos are quite appropriate.
The problem is that their generated crap is being published and then fed back into them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive EquipmentEnglish
3·2 months agoThey replaced the security guards with
the smell of their own fartsAI.
Salvo@aussie.zonetoHacker News•Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026English
2·2 months agoAI Tokens = Non Fungible Tokens v2.0



Poor Charlotte.