That’s fair enough. I’ve gotten a number of non-devs hooked on docker containers for running self-hosted apps that didn’t have a desktop counterpart, but admittedly they were otherwise technically oriented. OP might want to look into it if they’re so inclined, but it’s easiest to just use Voyager from the website :)

Voyager can be run in windows as a webapp - you can try it at https://vger.app/posts/lemm.ee/all, or even run it locally in a docker container with no dev knowledge needed

There is one variant called Magnetized Target Fusion that kinda-sorta works like this, where the “cylinders” are made of liquid Lithium. On each “stroke” of the engine:

• A rotating chamber of liquid Lithium is spun to make a cylinder of liquid metal
• 500 pistons situated at the site of each spinning Li pool are precisely synchronized to push the liquid metal inward, turning it into a sphere
• Fusion fuel (H plasma) is injected into the middle
• The intense pressure forces the fuel to undergo fusion, pushing the pistons back out and distorting the Lithium back into a cylinder

I am torn. On the one hand, the SGI Indigo is an absolute masterpiece of product design, and cannibalizing one of the few remaining ones to make an espresso machine housing makes me tingle in a bad way. On the other hand, though, that is some damn clean-looking work… how much ya want for it?

Duolingo. My whole family has caught the bug. I hear the little ba-ding! noise from all corners of the house all evening long.

Y todavía no puedo hablar bien español 😕

I’m with you 100% from the privacy and cybersecurity perspectives. That said, if they can be solved (e.g. at some point there will simply be no need for any more training data, and computers will be fast enough to do all the fancy stuff locally), I’d vastly prefer having an appliance do my housekeeping chores than a cleaning service.

Use the Meta defense: as long as you don’t seed then it’s fine.

I’ve been carrying the same profile back and forth between Linux and windows for probably 15 years. Just copy the whole directory over. You can start Firefox with I think —profile manager and point your profile to the new folder.

It’s so easy. Just be too lazy. Dead inside also works.

Very slowly.

To me synthwave sounds like a lot of trance or progressive trance from the late 90s/early 2000s - Tilt, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha & Digweed, Tiesto, BT

In Florida it’s about 50-50

Yes! Slip the sound board guy your discman and $20 and get a perfect recording. I remember a few times where there were a stack of discmans and walkmans (Walkman?) recording.

I knew the punchline before reading it and still chuckled.

Ah damnit so I did. The rest of the numbers are true, just not as close to the 1kg’s worth as noted.

A kilo of gold is worth about $193k currently, which depending on where you live and how old you are means different things. For example, if that was your whole net worth and you are a Baby Boomer in the US you’d be about $1.5M below the average family. If you’re under 35, though, you’d be slightly above average. (Via kiplinger)

FWIW because the top 1% have so much wealth they skew the average significantly - overall the median net wealth in the US is right around that $193k number, but the average is just over $1M, which is pretty amazing.

$200K in net wealth would just about put you into the global top 10% and into the top 1% if those were your earnings for the year.

The main findings from the Economic Index’s first paper are:

• Today, usage is concentrated in software development and technical writing tasks. Over one-third of occupations (roughly 36%) see AI use in at least a quarter of their associated tasks, while approximately 4% of occupations use it across three-quarters of their associated tasks.
• AI use leans more toward augmentation (57%), where AI collaborates with and enhances human capabilities, compared to automation (43%), where AI directly performs tasks.
• AI use is more prevalent for tasks associated with mid-to-high wage occupations like computer programmers and data scientists, but is lower for both the lowest- and highest-paid roles. This likely reflects both the limits of current AI capabilities, as well as practical barriers to using the technology.

Interesting, not really surprising, and nowhere near as entertaining as when Pornhub does it’s annual introspection.

The “innovation” in the article is passive tech for fiber to the room (FTTR), specifically made to be low cost and easier to implement. It’s also how your computer might get that 50Gbit - it’ll have to be wired in with a fiber connection. It’s not happening over WiFi (or even Ethernet)

Neat. AI slop about AI slop.

I think “good” and “bad” are hard terms to apply to people objectively, but I do believe that most people value social coherence and are willing to do (the minimum amount of) something to maintain it. If you can’t believe at least that it means that all of those thin blue line people are right, and I’m just not willing to believe that’s true.