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>If an instance is too small, it will easily be at risk of getting attacked and overloaded with users, with the instance falling over and having to close signups.

Co-admin of https://functional.cafe here. Mastodon lists us as having 213 active users currently, so I guess this counts as a small instance. Haven't seen our instance fall over for more than a day or two except for hitting hardware limits, mostly hard disk space.

Also, I have no idea why you perceive closing sign-ups as a sign of failure. Closing sign-ups or going invite-only protects the current users and state of the instance (and, indirectly, the rest of the Fediverse) both from the dangers of attacks from new users and from explosive growth. Is it some sort of measure of success, to be able to always invite new people even at the expense of already existing ones?
Yeah, it's kind of ironic that there's all this concern that LLMs will automate content to an extent that there'll be an unfathomable amount of text material on the internet that it'll be impossible to distinguish but in a way... it kind of already happened with crypto. There emerged a class of people who were financially incentivized to just constantly pump out bullshit about crypto- fake projects, fake coins, fake nfts, fake metaverses, all this crud, and because there was nothing underlying it it just raised the noise floor incredibly. Well now crypto is mostly dead and those same people have moved onto noisily bullshitting about AI.

There's genuinely some amazing stuff happening, but it's being damaged by a class of morons who want to run to the front of the crowd and shout "follow me!". The important thing is to just focus on the level-headed reporting of what's really going on - places like Hard Fork, TechMeme, and Pivot are doing great thoughtful reporting on what actually matters. It's amazing to see the contrast between All-In's hosts frothily making absurdly overstated claims based on some research paper that was just published, and then you hear about the same research from actual tech reporters and guess what... you get to actually find out about the research was and what they found rather than hear some no-knowthing gleefully spew about how he's going to make the entire middle class unemployed and sit on his pile of money like a fictional dragon.
By far… not so. Just, marginally, as of the last year, perhaps - but the total cost over the lifetime per Wh of storage is still on a par with lead, because lead acid batteries are cheap as chips, require little or no maintenance if you’re sealed, and if you get something like OPzS cells and treat them well, you will get 20 years of life from them. LiFePo4, you’re looking at a decade, maximum, before they’re trash.

I set us up here, totally off grid, three years ago, using a bank of OPzS cells, giving us 42kWh of usable storage. I rarely take them below 70%. Their performance has barely budged since installation, and with the condenser caps, they have required zero maintenance - I check the specific gravity of the acid once a year, and go “yup”, and that’s it.

LiFePo4 I am considering for a booster bank at our cabin, which is 500m from our power shed, as the cable limits us to ~2.5kW here before we see significant voltage drop - it’s either that or step-up/step-down at either end, but transformers are surprisingly expensive. Main reason I’m leaning towards them for this application is mass, as our only access is either by foot or an aerial cableway - our lead bank weighs about 2000kg, equivalent LiFePo4 is about 450kg.

So - LiFePo4 is a decent choice, but depending on your application, a pile of big lead acid cells can be better. See, for instance, storage at various solar projects - it’s virtually all OPzS cells, as the amortised cost is still favourable.
There must have been some very surprised cetaceans caught up in the torrent.
Building your own SSG is a fun project if you enjoy yak shaving. Then is can be as simple or complex as you want/need it to be.
the current culture is complaining about the culture, "back in my day", damn youngsters!
Aren't there safeguards around that notion ?

For instance, someone
should probably be barred from paying a personal debt of 1000 dollars in 1 cent coins. I couldn't google my way through the US code, for illustration this is the Singapore limits:

https://www.mas.gov.sg/currency/circulation-currency/accepti...

Unsurprisingly France also has rules on what limits can be set on accepting cash:

https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F10999#...).
> This is pretty specifically a Nintendo thing.

It used to be very much a Japanese game developer mentality (Sony excluded) to strike or at last claim gameplay videos. SEGA used to pull this all the time two back in the day, and still do for certain elements of games, like cutscenes in certain games like Persona (Atlus is a subsidiary).

Nintendo just never stopped like you've articulated really well. They seem to hate that their most avid fans show how much love they have for their IPs.
dont have to refine. but it needs multiple answers as the code is too long. but i have managed a 3 or 4 response tetris clone in HTML/JS
If I have to enter passwords I use Keepass' keyboard, also because I store them in that password manager and its keyboard has one User and one Password key. I switch with a small button to the right of Android's back button.
Simple, just build in some escalation mechanism. Pilots should be able to get to talk to a human, and be listening in on the exchanges in case their attention is required. Of course, insisting on heavy handed, laborious, and error prone human exchanges all the time has its own risks.

ATC getting overloaded with more traffic is a given either way. Loads of electrical drones will start showing up in the next decades. Some piloted, some autonomous. ATC will have to adjust to that. And keeping everything the same with more human controllers is not going to scale.
> ...during a time when companies were throwing tens of millions of dollars to get into the esports scene, Nintendo was refusing a handout on a golden platter.

The E-sports scene is kinda awful, to be honest. Historically, Nintendo has been interested in making fun and interesting toys for people to play with. E-sports people are usually VERY SERIOUS about what they do, and often VERY PARTICULAR about how games work, and VERY VOCAL about changes to a game that radically changes how they've become accustomed to playing the game.

Catering to money-making E-sports is generally incompatible with making fun and interesting toys... they're just two radically different and largely incompatible audiences.
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Not all are, but the Simpliphi batteries are designed to be plug-in replacements more or less
>if LLM-generated content outpaces human-generated content, the useful data proportion will diminish

I guess I’d ask why the author thinks that training LLMs on their own output will make them worse. Like, if the problem is that LLM-generated content is less useful than human-generated content because it’s “just averaging out inputs” (paraphrase of common argument, not quote from TFA), how does adding more data at the average change the distribution?

>As is now, LLMs regularly hallucinate, generate biased content or fundamentally misinterpret the task even though nothing in the wider world has been adversarial to them.

This really got me thinking about what is meant by “adversarial”. As in, adversarial with whom? The model itself? Its deployers?

If I successfully trick ChatGPT, the system, into telling me some secrets about its inner workings, we can call that an attack on the commercial project as released by OpenAI, but can we call it an attack on the model itself?

All the text used to train LLMs is heavily processed and filtered already. I think it’s more likely that, rather than LLM-made text diluting out the good training data, it will simply add to the corpus. Might add a few cycles to the line-level duplication step
Use the networks for what?

Maybe I've just been out of school for too long, but I can't think of anything particularly interesting a campus would want an IoT network for beyond maybe motion sensing for automatic light turn-offs and run-of-the-mill security systems.

I can't imagine a low-frequency IoT network being good for broadband access for people walking around (a la wifi) because of bandwidth limitations.
"larping" is different from being in an active military unit performing military maneuvers
Google May Lose Search on Samsung Devices to Microsoft Bing
To be fair, if you don't use Twitter then you are already well removed from the target demographic that might find Mastodon useful. That said, there are a lot of really useful takes on Mastodon on various topics. Politics is probably the area where you will find the most number of takes. But in infosec, and game development at least, there's a lot of interesting info. The biggest issue with Mastodon or the fediverse rather is the lack of full text search and the cultural push back against it. I don't view the push back as negative. It's a sign that the community has strong opinions and that's a good thing. But the lack of search does make it hard to peek into a conversation around a topic which to me takes away from the experience of jumping into communities of interest.
While Fairtalk's focus on politics and world issues is admirable, it may limit its potential impact to a specific group of people who are already passionate about these topics. To create a more sustainable and diverse community, Fairtalk could consider expanding its scope to include a wider range of topics that can connect people across different generations and cultures.

By encouraging conversations that bring together people from different backgrounds and age group, Fairtalk can help to bridge gaps and promote greater understanding and unity.

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok - are similar on the backend, but what sets them apart are their unique communities of users. So your initial community will also decide the future of Fairtalk.
> Software copyright is good enough.

To play the devil's advocate: Is it though?

Especially recently we've seen the widespread acceptance of copyright and license laundering through large machine learning systems such as copilot and chatgpt, backed by enough microsoft laywers to prevent meaningful push back from the copyright owners. They'll output verbatim copies of what was previously copyrighted code.

If it is true that software copyright can be cleaned away in such a fashion, maybe patenting the algorithm itself actually is necessary to avoid big tech companies like microsoft from forcibly strip mining the ideas of independent creators.
Awesome, thanks for the correction. At least I've proved my personal humanness. :)
Read Paul Graham's essays at http://paulgraham.com

You will get answer to your question.

But always remember, one size does not fit all.
Everyone feels that way, that's why WFH took off when it was given a chance.
Other than the things it does well, it has great ergonomics. On large Android phones it lets you raise the keyboard so you can type in the middle of the screen. Everyone else makes you type at the bottom of the device which is unbalanced.
Someone linked the law below, but even without checking it, it is widely accepted at conventions that people make money from doujin works on IP they do not own, for example.
but the point is people won't do this.
Not sure what zoo of parts you’re referring to? I have two multiplus 5kva 48v, a bmv-712, a venus gx, and a pair of their biggest MPPTs - and for our pretty large install it shook out at about €4,500. Without the redundancy, it would have been more like €2,500.
> The most prominent of these creators will now be very wary of posting content about the upcoming Zelda Tears of the Kingdom game which will most certainly hurt initial sales of the game.

Eh, that _might_ hurt initial sales of the game.

Or it might promote sales of the game, given that prominent video game streamers won't be streaming it, so it'll be more difficult to "play" the game by watching someone else play it. I know that I've not purchased many games that I otherwise would have (and would have had a good time with) because I watched someone's recorded gameplay video.
That's a small fall considering they removed more than 60% of their staff costs.
It is supported on true Xeon systems.

I believe that it is not supported in Core CPUs, not even in those of them which were branded as Xeon E or Xeon W.
> In Chicago, Walmart is closing in both low-income and high-income areas, a sign that it’s struggling across the city. But it’s the stores in low-income areas that will feel the loss most.

This isn't about crime, it's simple; Amazon is eating their lunch.

When I visited family in the west chicago suburbs last summer, Amazon deliveries on our block were as frequent as the post man. Walmart was consolidation 1.0, Amazon is consolidation 2.0. These people don't bother going shopping irl anymore unless it's in a pinch, and that's not enough to support the huge urban retail presence.
What Happened When The IRS Got [IT] Audited
Link to original GAO report: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-104719
"IRS Needs to Complete Modernization Plans and Fully Address Cloud Computing Requirements"

"The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) legacy IT environment includes applications, software, and hardware, which are outdated but still critical to day-to-day operations. Specifically, GAO's analysis showed that about 33 percent of the applications, 23 percent of the software instances in use, and 8 percent of hardware assets were considered legacy. This includes applications ranging from 25 to 64 years in age, as well as software up to 15 versions behind the current version. As GAO has previously noted, and IRS has acknowledged, these legacy assets will continue to contribute to security risks, unmet mission needs, staffing issues, and increased costs."
I agree. I find it interesting that we took search on Twitter for granted and only realize later that it is probably more important than expected. Maybe a search engine for Mastodon can fix this.
Excitement guaranteed!

My bet is that it won't launch today and that when it does in a few days, some Starship's heat tiles somehow fall off and the reentry fails.
What's with the comments on that site? Bunch of right wing paranoid reactionists. It's like a disease.
Soros this Mao that Communism blah, wtf?
Is this what ~50% of America is like in real life as well?
Those terms are not a license despite what the video says. Those are just some guidelines that detail what Nintendo may be looking for in videos they take down. Legally Nintendo is still free to take any of the content down that isn't licensed (eg. Some esport events get proper licenses).
The connection is that Mastodon is just one of the "applications" built on top of ActivityPub protocol. Others are Pixelfed, Pleroma, Peertube, Writefreely, and several more.

Being based on the same protocol, they are all to some extent interoperable - e.g. you can follow Pixelfed users from your Mastodon account.

"Fediverse" is the umbrella term for all of these applications working together. It is a portmanteau for "federated" and "universe". The "federal police" association is unfortunate, but it is something USA only - rest of the world doesn't really see this.
Our Deep Blue Moment
The Fed is short for Federated. Fediverse is an ensemble of federated servers. It’s use more broadly than mastodon.
True, very underrated

But in general I think Destin's latest videos have been a bit "trying too hard" and everything is "genius" etc

It's all "Prince Rupert's drop" or "Non-newtonian fluid" (and Oobleck is the only one they know about) or "Air cannon" or "shooting slow motion". It's the same topics going in a circle.

(But do watch the coast guard videos if you want to know how to whistle)
So don't live with the freedom you have by right, and just live with artificial extra legal boundaries set up by a paranoid cooperation.
Unless Samsung's keyboard changed recently it should also use Swiftkey's engine.

Gboard is worth a try, it feels more responsive to me. Its predictions aren't always good though, at least in languages other than English.
My reading of British popular culture is that having an elite disdain for maths and engineering is not disqualifying.

The engineer, while appreciated, is not admired in Britain.
The copyright law that applies to a work is the copyright law from the country the work was created in. Japanese works fall under Japanese copyright law for all customers worldwide.
Most people don't browse the internet with an adblocker, let alone know how to write their own bookmarklet.
I think there's another side of this that is being glossed over. While Nintendo are being a bit overbearing (and IMO self-defeating), they're sending these takedowns to YouTube who are happily executing them, and are seemingly uninterested as to whether they're without merit. Now I know that this is nothing new, YouTube and Google generally are famously indifferent to their users, but I think it's important not to ignore this.
Most charge controllers made for serious applications allow for the selection of battery chemistry.
A lot of product companies are closing user forums from the early 2010s.

My guess is that there's some legal issue involved. Maybe the lawyers were convinced that somebody posting illegal or confidential info on an unmoderated forum is a big risk, and deleting the entire things is cheaper than paying some moderators.
Just playing devil's advocate, literally everyone is worried about the tiles so surely they aren't launching without massive confidence that they are working properly? Or have the team said that there are still issues with the tiling?
That's what a robot would say...
I agree with the sentiment of not elevating selfish human desires over the health of an existing ecosystem. (But practically, there are many great ways to camp to minimize the habitat impact.)

But defining "the health" of an ecosystem is tricky. An invading invasive species is better adapted after all, and it is part of nature.

We need clearer understanding of what we mean by nature and what we are protecting.

* Are we just trying to hold on to some moment of time in a dynamic ecosystem? Maybe. Protecting the status quo might be practical in terms of human survival, but this doesn't feel like a moral invariant that some people hold it up to be.

* Are we protecting nature in proportion to its ability to feel pain? ... or sentience? ... over what perceptual time frame?

* Practically, so far, when enough people like or find value in certain aspects of nature, we may see some collective action.

As for me, I feel a deep connection with nature, and I recognize this most likely comes from us evolving alongside it. But I recognize my own bias; I care less about mosquitos than birds.

And as to "home territory", mosquitos don't seem to constrain themselves to their homes, whatever that might be. They multiply in little spots of water and go forth seeking blood. To oversimplify, I value human life more than mosquito life. Malaria is a terrible disease. Is this human-centric? Yeah. Do I want humans to continue to grow and destroy nature (whatever that means) as we have done so far? Not really, but I don't know how to practically slow population growth nor development in a way that people will go for. It is a collective will and action problem on a global scale.
This changes with HTTPS DNS records, browsers can make a H2/H3 connection straight if they get the hints.
It is but you have to make very sure that you actually get what you ordered and not some substitute with lower grade cells than what's advertised.
Private 5G: As Easy as Wi-Fi [Some Restrictions May Apply]
Google Pinyin Input was recently discontinued.

They want you to use Gboard instead, but the functionality is worse. I don't get it.

Google Pinyin Input made it very easy to enter punctuation, by doing a minor downward swipe on the virtual key associated with the symbol you want. (You can also swipe up on keys to quickly produce capital letters.) On Gboard, as far as I can tell, you have to do a long press instead, which is a gigantic pain.

I resorted to pulling the apk off my old phone and manually installing it on my new phone, but this feels ridiculous.

Can anyone recommend (a) a pinyin input method that doesn't force you to long press for punctuation, or (b) a setting I've overlooked in any major input method that removes the insane long press requirement?
Yeah, hopefully its plugin architecture will continue to develop and make changing things easier in the future.
> Don't forget everyone who feeds on bugs

Is the OP killing them because s/he has no other alternative to feed himself/herself, or is it because of the annoyance even though s/he is in their habitat?
There was considerable appetite for socialism immediately after the war, and the US officials of the early occupation were notably progressive (New Dealers, basically). As US-Soviet relations soured over the next 5 years, a lot of reforms were walked back or discarded, but some were obviously irreversible.
It does not really matter, they are basically all the same. Only thing to watch out is that they should be build with half-cell technology and monocrystalline (which almost all of them are, technology does not differ that much in solar panels). 400 W Panels are pretty much standard.
These creators are almost always benefitting from Nintendo voluntarily turning a blind eye to the creator’s use/sampling of Nintendo IP in their content without any kind of IP licensing agreement. Whether some behavior is legal or not, if Nintendo doesn’t like it, they are free to respond by taking issue with the actually-illegal thing you’re doing (using their IP without licensing it.) A.k.a. “If you don’t want to play by my rules, I’m taking my ball with me when I go home.”

(Keep in mind that by a strict interpretation of IP law, everyone making gameplay videos of Nintendo’s games owes Nintendo royalties on revenue from those videos, just as much as musicians that sample other artists’ music owe those musicians royalties on revenue from that music.)
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Is there some tutorial about Fediverse for organizations, in a way that is really simple for non-experts?

I mainly use Twitter for town-level information (as a glorified RSS), and the local administration barely masters Twitter, let alone more complex tools. But if there is a simple way to copy their messages towards the Fediverse, that could help bootstrap it.
... so different formats exist because people want different things out of images, for instance for print, or for web, or for editing, and because all compression algorithms have their own tradeoffs. That's not a web engineer thing.

I can't really imagine a world where you don't have to choose what format files should be in, and I can't really imagine a more easy way to do that conversion.
That's what a patent is though. Protection for the idea, not the implementation.

You can disagree that software concepts can be patented (I tend towards this view), but you can't have a patent that only protects a particular implementation. That would be copyright.
that would be lovely and I would install it right away, too. I see the time and effort it takes, tho. Would you be able to provide a css ruleset one could add to their browser of choice?