Ohio police are part of the deep state! Republicans must oppose the police!

I also haven’t used it in a few years. Chat systems in general don’t cooperate with the way my brain works.

It’s kinda like lemmy here, but a little more pain because not only do you have to pick your provider, but you also need to be very mindful of how your key pair is managed. Like… don’t just uninstall a client without going through the effort of trusting and verifying a new one first, or you may lose the ability to decrypt a lot of history and also break trust with relationships you have.

Security first is a major concern in the system, so it doesn’t leave a lot to the imagination unfortunately.

That said, once you convince yourself to set it up, and convince anyone else to do the same, it works pretty nicely. It’s like an inner venn diagram of discord, telegram and IRC.

Matrix works pretty good.

That’s a really long prompt just to have it roll a d2

That slippery mf in trouble? I’ll believe it when I see it.

You wield the power. Wield it well.

I can’t speak to your experience but I’ve been farting around on the Internet since the mid 90s and I promise nothing ever changes.

Smaller communities tend to be more concise, that is true.

But what you have here is the hand you’re dealt. Complaining isn’t going to change anything any more thank joking. You can be the change you seek here by suggesting a course of action that isn’t asking others to suggest a course of action to you. If you’re seeking a course of action, you can try asking here.

But commenters on tech news aren’t likely to be expert activists, especially in whatever issue is your top concern.

My best advice to you is

• practice acceptance of reality, not as defeat but as the first step to understanding and deciding an action

• determine how much capacity you, as a person, have to contribute to a cause

• determine one cause you care about and can be effective at contributing to

After doing those things, SEEK OUT like minded groups who have leadership and self discipline and are effective.

Let me reframe my previous comment:

If you don’t want to network in person locally, you will need to find a forum whose sole purpose is activism and direct action.

It will not be brought to you, and you will not be recruited. You have to actively go seek it out.

The forum you’re on now is called “technology”. Similar ones, like “news” or literally any other topic that doesn’t solely focus on mobilizing activists will not get you what you’re asking for here.

I appreciate your position. I don’t think you’re going to start a cultural revolution on any comment section. If you’re looking for a place to make real change, you need to network with local communities.

The the best you’ll get for “town square” value from internet forums is the expression of sentiment. People are angry, like you are, and they are using humor to literally reframe the narrative to point out the state’s fallacy.

Thank you for stopping the massive expansion of surveillance in Texas.

Dying from all causes sounds like a really rough last page.

I want him on mute forever. He’s proved that he’s got nothing left to teach us.

I agree, LLMs have been helpful in pointing me in the right direction and helping me rethink what questions I actually want to ask in disciplines I’m not very familiar with.

Agree, and the point I always want to make is that any LLM or neural net or any other AI tech is going to be a mere component in a powerful product, rather than the entirety of the product.

The way I think of it is that my brain is of little value without my body, and my person is of little value without my team at work. I don’t exist in a vacuum but I can be highly productive within my environment.

From a business perspective, no shareholder cares at how good an employee is at personally achieving a high degree of skill. They only care about selling and earning, and to a lesser degree an enduring reputation for longer term earnings.

Economics could very well drive this forward. But I don’t think the craft will be lost. People will need to supervise this progress as well as collaborate with the machines to extend its capabilities and dictate its purposes.

I couldn’t tell you if we’re talking on a time scale of months or decades, but I do think “we” will get there.

I’m my experience they do a decent job of whipping out mindless minutea and things that are well known patterns in very popular languages.

They do not solve problems.

I think for an “AI” product to be truly useful at writing code it would need to incorporate the LLM as a mere component, with something facilitating checks through static analysis and maybe some other technologies, maybe even mulling the result through a loop over the components until they’re all satisfied before finally delivering it to the user as a proposal.

Yeah my original comment here was a lot more breathy than it should have been. I’m not critical of the article it’s definitely uplifting and accurate. But I think new battery tech on the grid would see usefulness even if renewables weren’t inconsistent, but that’s a whole different topic I suppose.

I guess my point is that I don’t think batteries necessarily compete with natural gas, but they do help make renewables slightly more competitive with natural gas.

Batteries and gas aren’t really comparable so I’m guessing this means batteries are expanded at a rate 10x higher than natural gas is being expanded, which makes sense because natural gas is such a mature staple that it doesn’t have that much opportunity growth.

Batteries are also not an energy source, but storage.

(Yeah I guess that’s technically true of all energy sources, but batteries are more like a tank than a consumable…)

Of course adding batteries to store energy from off peak renewables to ready them for the peak is the point of this, but I would point out I don’t think anything prevents charging batteries from fossil-fuel generated electricity. I wouldn’t be surprised if an economic equilibrium dictates this to be the case, even.

I think batteries will be highly valued equipment as a smoothing function to help reduce heavy load wear on any kind of generating equipment to help with peak loads, regardless of what’s charging them… possibly allowing fossil burning plants to run closer to a base load level at all times.