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unfitted2545on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Zebras_Don%27t_Get_Ulcers

Sapolsky goes into great detail about the positive affects of stress in short durations, then demonstrates how these positives turn into negatives all over our body after being stressed for too long. Highly recommend!

unfitted2545on Not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly

There's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better

unfitted2545on A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

Are patents a necessary evil?

unfitted2545on In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices

We could call it: Train!

unfitted2545on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

> the work itself is pure waste. Fighting entropy.

Would you not say that this is essentially labour holding up the value?

And I agree about low maintenance products being necessary, the example of the static site is good because the files could be described as becoming a stateless transformation of data!

unfitted2545on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11241-from_managerial_feudalism_...

Timestamp is: 36:42-39:55

I believe Graeber perfectly predicts the problems, in 2019, with vibe coding creating immediate "value" from production, but failing to produce true value through maintaining the system (like one continually washes a cup to give it value over time).

unfitted2545on Waymo in Dallas

If it was popular, it would remove cars from the road. Would that not decrease congestion for everyone?

unfitted2545on Position: LLMs Can't Jump

If would be interesting to see 5 billion LLM's working together, each with random mutations (temperature ig). Would we essentially be looking at a society through a petri dish? Ofc 5 billion is quite a lot of compute.

unfitted2545on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Nationalised LLM? As long as the state doesn't decide what information the LLM shares (from an output and privacy perspective).

unfitted2545on The old-school way of keeping the summer heat out of your home

Passive measures should always be in place first (and often do enough), with active as the last resort.

unfitted2545on Count Binface

I think it's so interesting he was a scriptwriter for "The Thick of It", a satirical comedy about British politics

unfitted2545on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera

Cars aren't friendly to cities

unfitted2545on Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

Yeah, the internet was originally an extension of the real world, and it probably should have stayed that way.

unfitted2545on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

It will be fun running into this scenario where it's run without democratic control, be proprietary and for profit.

unfitted2545on Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

I think I've got this from growing up with a narcissist. Thoughts are constructed and seemingly endlessly whittled to try and create a sentence that can avoid getting belittled.

It's hard to talk in groups, because you have to have a sentence mentally critiqued by 3/4 people in turn, so the topic has usually changed before you can say your piece.

unfitted2545on GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

How many chief constables aren't white? Cognitive dissonance isn't a fact

unfitted2545on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

Mark Fisher in Capitalist Realism touches on this concept, where there's a constantly shifting opposition to the market that itself becomes engulfed in its own market, to be advertised.

So for example all the productivity/digital detox channels and videos are themselves a consumer demand to be watched on YouTube, on phones. And now we have anti-AI products marking themselves higher for a feature that didn't previously exist. It's like the tree of capital gets split at every turn.

unfitted2545on Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens

Eggs are IaC.

unfitted2545on A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being

It's also crazy how slow countries have been to build solar panel roofs on car parks, this should have been done so long ago with the budget that car infrastructure gets.

unfitted2545on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers

The reason it's trending right now is because it's a convenient price, simple to use and making people read more because of its size. If it helps people cut down on phone use then it's a good product.

The build quality could be better, but there doesn't exist a similar product with better build quality.

Can you build a DIY version that's significantly cheaper?

Well, this was my thinking for getting one, we shall see when it arrives :P

Edit: Also you can choose to install a nice open source community firmware

unfitted2545on Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug

There's also the fact that using digital devices negatively affects our breathing a lot: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/10/1247296780/screen-apnea-why-s...

Considering how much we use them now it could change the default state significantly, and maybe we do have to consciously relearn the best way to breath.

unfitted2545on 'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech

Wow. Tell that to the cobalt miners in the DRC.

unfitted2545on SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

If we use world models to train AI systems, are we not essentially forcing something to live so it can gather data for us?

Yes, we haven't gone that far with creating consciousness yet, but there is gonna be a lot of money around neural computing devices for consumers in the coming decades, so that will speed up knowing what sense data you need for consciousness.

unfitted2545on Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer

and gave a gold trophy to the current US president

unfitted2545on Life During Class Wartime

Being poor in a capitalist country is still slavery - you don't work, you don't eat (as well as have access to accomodation, healthcare, public transport).

unfitted2545on NSA Warned Everyone to Reboot Their Routers

OpenWRT One? Not sure about AP's though.

unfitted2545on Craig Venter has died

A complete human experience is to have relatively little time, no point in doing anything if you have 500 years to do it IMO.

Edit: Maybe there wouldn't be nilihism, but I don't think you could get more fulfilled with the extra time. I feel like an insect that lives 24 hours and a shark that lives several hundred have an equal feeling of accomplishment.

unfitted2545on Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds

Could this not be the sublingual absorbtion of sugar rather than seemingly random "brain signals" the article suggests?

unfitted2545on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0

From an end user perspective, I think the best thing the Asahi team could have done was solely focus on getting the M1 Air/Pro working 100% before moving onto other devices.

But that would probably result in burn out from the crazily talented dev team :P