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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thank you for the work you do! Quick question: why was the icon changed to a black background vs the previous blue one? I have noticed many roku apps seem to be shifting to a black background, maybe it's just a strange coincidence but curious if there was any specific reason for that change.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't they use quantum dots in some OLEDs? Isn't that what QD-OLED is?

 

Today in "The US Government is looking for ways to imprison political opponents":

A contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individual’s publicly available data from a wide array of sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web at once, including Bluesky, OnlyFans, and various Meta platforms, according to a leaked list of the sites obtained by 404 Media.

The news comes after ICE detained Mahmoud Khalil, a prominent Columbia University protester and green card holding legal permanent resident of the U.S., on Saturday with the intention of deporting him. It also comes as Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly launching an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to scan the social media accounts for tens of thousands of student visa holders’ social media accounts, looking for what Axios reported as foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

seems strange for you to criticize the quality of Wikipedia, then? you have personal experience that demonstrates why these volunteers are putting their time towards this instead of towards editing articles - editing articles is a difficult and sometimes contentious process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

honestly you aren't wrong. I'd guess it's just a case of the Wikipedia photo being a bottom priority for them, but then you would think "update Wikipedia photo" would be somewhere on every publicist's to-do list. Maybe this project will encourage more publicists to explore how to do this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

and none of those are the ones currently used on his article lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wikipedia focuses on those other issues as well, they just happen to be a group of volunteers trying to manage the most comprehensive repository of information that the world has ever seen. If you see issues with articles, you are always welcome to sign up and edit the articles yourself!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Wikipedia does such a solid, unmitigated GOOD service for the world, especially the English speaking world.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Lol EXCELLENT example of the kind of photo Wikiportraits is trying to replace. It's hilarious, but not great for the internet's most reliable resource.

 

WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.

Since last January, WikiPortraits photographers have covered around 10 global festivals and award ceremonies, and taken nearly 5,000 freely-licensed photos of celebrity attendees. And the celebrity attendees are often quite excited about it. Dixit, for example, found Jeremy Strong of Succession at a New York showing of the new The Apprentice and asked to take a new headshot of him for Wikipedia.

“His publicist said no,” Dixit said. “But Jeremy said, ‘Wait, you’re from Wikipedia? For the love of God, please take down that photo. You’d be doing me a service.’ So he stood and posed, and I got a shot of him.” Strong’s old photo was from 2014.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

I hate how likely this is. I can't imagine any scenario where the Trump DOJ does something like this unselfishly, and Google has already kowtowed to the Trump admin. There must be a specific Trump ally they have in mind that would buy that from Google, Musk is just the most likely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i would feel okay about it if the energy cost of AI wasn't so astronomical. It would be a fun quirk to play an open-world game full of characters that can sort of hold a conversation with you like this. But if we have to boil oceans to do it (and we still do as of this writing), then it just seems beyond frivolous. I love video games, but nothing in a video game is important enough to justify that energy cost.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

last time I did that, I caused a friend to have a nervous breakdown and start like… rewriting his childhood memories to match what I accidentally said, since it contradicted his lived experience

I think maybe you've figured this out already, but that really is more about the other person than it is about you. I guess we really can't say without knowing all the details, but I can't imagine anything you would have said that would justify that response. You need friends that go to therapy. lol

 

[alt text: a two-panel comic meme. The first panel is a photo of Jaden Smith, who is wearing a strange helmet that is shaped like a house, with his face poking out of a cutout where the front door of the house would be. The second panel is a photo of Will Smith from 2022 Academy Awards show, where he is shouting at Chris Rock on stage. The caption on this second panel says,"Keep my son's head out your fuckin' house!"]

 

[alt text: A WW2 propaganda poster that has been edited. The poster depicts a 1940s American man driving a car, and a ghost of Hitler is in the passenger seat. The text on the poster says: "When you ride TESLA you ride with Hitler. Join Public Transportation TODAY!"]

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53392091

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/53392082

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18143916

TL;DW: At 4K, the RTX 5090 hits 20-50% uplifts in raster as compared to the RTX 4090, and 27-35% uplifts in RT as compared to the RTX 4090. Power efficiency is roughly equivalent to the 4090. The new dual flowthrough cooler design seems to perform exactly as advertised, providing remarkable cooling for a card that is only two slots thick.

 

TL;DW: At 4K, the RTX 5090 hits 20-50% uplifts in raster as compared to the RTX 4090, and 27-35% uplifts in RT as compared to the RTX 4090. Power efficiency is roughly equivalent to the 4090. The new dual flowthrough cooler design seems to perform exactly as advertised, providing remarkable cooling for a card that is only two slots thick.

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