I’ll say probably yes, but the world will look very different for them than it did for us. There will be far fewer younger people than today on most continents besides Africa.

They’ll have far more power to shape and change society than most previous generations. Boomers will be almost entirely dead when they Alphas reach adulthood. GenX would be next on the death chopping block, but GenX is far smaller. So lots of jobs will be open and Alphas and Millennials will be holding those positions with GenX mostly in retirement homes. Millennials are saddled with debt and a lack of lifetime earnings while Alphas are looking like they’re skipping a good chunk of that debt burden.

Taxation on working Alphas and Millennials will be monstrous dealing yet another setback for then aging Millennials. Climate change will also wipe out lots of opportunities. Alphas I think might be the generation to finally give the finger to the generations prior that kicked the can down the road and simply let parts of society they don’t care about fall away. Part of that will mean not caring for multiple generations of aging parents and grandparents where the declining birth rate means a single Alpha may have 8 to 10 aging relatives still alive and in need of some kind of support exclusively relying on the Alpha. This would mean 16 to 20 aging relatives for a married Alpha couple. There’s just no way they can support that.

This is a pretty decent article and answered some of the exact questions I had when I heard about the recovered video.

or a cloud service that offers end-to-end encryption, which means not even the provider can access your footage.

That’s not what “end-to-end encryption” means. End-to-end encryption means only the sender and receiver have the ability to decrypt the message. The definition the author provided would be a match for “Zero-Knowledge Encryption” instead.

I’m not sure how much you follow the history of IT, but this has happened at least 3 times in history, and it has always swung back to local processing. What has always been the force that brought local computing back is that compute power gets cheap. RAM and GPU costs are pushing the distributed (cloud) model right now.

Wasn’t she born this way?

Too criminal to fail?

Moderna also has a vaccine production facility in Canada. So maybe a family vacation north might be a good idea this year.

If the invited GOP governors were allowed a +1, I would have liked to have seen each Republican governor bring a Democratic governor as their +1 thereby meeting the original mandate of having all governors present.

Oh, don’t mistake my post for support for your downvoting. Its not exactly criticism either. Your downvoting doesn’t really affect my life. The stats I posted are just facts. My goal was to offer evidence that would possibly explain the ban because its likely far more than just the 2 downvotes you cited so that others could form their own opinions.

You obviously disagree with that mods “serial downvoter” title. What, in your opinion, would qualify someone for the title of “serial downvoter”?

Its only a problem if you want to run AI. If you don’t want AI locally or cloud based, then no need to spend the money on the high end 32GB model (for AI purposes) or paying for a cloud subscription. No one is required to get the 32GB model if they don’t want it.

Lummis, 71, told Capitol Hill reporter Pablo Manriquez on Monday, Feb. 9, that while she previously had said, “I don’t care” about Congress’ efforts to force the release of Epstein evidence, she now believes the issue was “worth investigating.”

The cynic in me thinks she ignored pages and pages of trump named referenced crimes and saw Clinton’s name at least once, so now she’s wants to make political hay only against Clinton.

I have nothing to do with that Lemmy instance, modding, admining, or anything, but you are what I would consider a prolific downvoter on Lemmy.

Here’s some statistics for others to arrive at their own conclusion:

• In about 1 minute you issued 4 downvotes on that Lemmy instance in the most recently recorded data.
• Today you’ve already downvoted at least 17 comments
• Just yesterday you’ve issued at least 127 downvotes
• Since you joined in 2023 you issued 14282 downvotes on comments and 952 on posts
• You have a 1:2.2 upvote to downvote ratio

Instance admins have programmatic access to this kind of data. They also have the power to shape the contributors to their instances to foster the community they want.

Ah gotcha. Yep I understand that level of concern or security on their side. There’s lots of fraud perpetrated by new cloud computing accounts. I wonder if an impossible to solve puzzle is intentional. As in, have they modeled human behavior to know what a human would do next that bot wouldn’t.

If it helps, some cloud providers are even more stringent. If you ever try to open an OCI account you might have to wait a week or more for a human operator to approve before you can get into your account. Some have waited upwards of a month.

What is this test protecting? Is this for an admin console of DO or simply a site hosted on DO?

yea, i’m surprised, 32GB is goddamn ridiculous for anything, let alone for a shitty hp branded autocorrect

32GB is actually considered the bare minimum for most of the common locally run LLM models. Most folks don’t run a locally run LLM. They use a cloud service, so they don’t need a huge pile of RAM locally. However, more privacy focused or heavy users with cost concerns might choose to run an LLM locally so they’re not paying per token. With regards to locally run LLMs, this would be comparable to renting car when you need it vs buying one outright. If you only need a car once a year, renting is clearly the better choice. If you’re driving to work everyday then clearly buying the car yourself is a better deal overall.

You are perfectly fine not liking AI, but you’re also out-of-touch if you think 32GB is too big for anything. Lots of other use cases need 32GB or more and have nothing to do with AI.

I agree with your frustration with subscription laptops. I hope people don’t use it.

I can almost guarantee you that nobody under the age of 30 gives a singly flying fuck about having an antenna on a television. They’re probably watching more than half their media on their phone or tablet anyway.

…and…

if you asked a kid in their twenties if they even knew what an antenna for a television was they’d probably go “what the fuck are you even talking about?”

I’m not sure that’s accurate. Gen Z and younger are apparently re-embracing OTA TV.

"The study found that younger viewers now over-index on digital antenna usage compared to their older (50+ year-old) counterparts (23% and 15%, respectively). " source

I’m much older but OTA TV is still a nearly daily use in our house even if the same content is available on various streaming services. DVR means skipping commecials while also getting a much better image quality than highly compressed streaming.

We found OTA TV is a great compliment to streaming. There’s no need to pay a cable/satellite subscription, you don’t have to constantly worry about that bill going up year over year or a local channel being blacked out because of contract disputes. There’s no “service” to have to worry about going out.

What is surprising about this? LLMs are giant memory consumers.

TVs, game consoles

Lets say the theft is successful of a TV or game console. The thief likely wants cash, not consumer electronics. So they need a way to convert stolen goods into cash. Any TV worth money worth bothering with is also very large and fragile which is a problem for offloading it. Sure, there’s craigslist and facebook marketplace, but there aren’t many that will buy a TV off of those because of the likelihood something is already wrong with it, and TVs just aren’t that expensive new. Many consoles also have a theft reporting function that will block or limit how the console can be used. I imagine this also make theft of a console a high risk, low reward path.

I’m very glad to hear that! Thank you for correcting me on this.

China is successfully preparing Russia as a vassal state of China. Putin and Kim Jong-Un will be sitting next to each other as equals at the kids table at a meeting in China in the years ahead.

In Asahi Fedora Remix (KDE) the tool is built in:

I know you mentioned you’re using GNOME so I don’t know if its available in that Window Manager by default.