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Ruigaard

@ Ruigaard @slrpnk.net

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  • Good question

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  • Honestly, for me, limiting my phone use is harder than it was to quit smoking. One main part is of course that for many things you need your phone, so its often on your person. I do try living more without it, but it can still suck me in.

  • Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain

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  • yeah it's great we can have this conversation, one of the things I love about Lemmy. There is room for listening, discussing and trying to understand each other.

    Do you think that people like Alex Karp believe themselves? I mean, does het just follow the billionaire script, and thinks he does good (while doing a lot of harm). Or that this is intentionally masking the bad motivations of himself and allies?

  • Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain

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  • Fair enough, I'm myself am from the netherlands (where polarisation and rise of the far right does happen, but we still have some semblance of normalcy and social welfare and cohesion), so my context is a bit different. That's maybe why I saw the merit of discussing some of these points.

    But you are right, this coming from an AI surveillance company CEO and all the other weird shit happening in the US, and more places in the world, does warrant a heavy dose of skepticism and alertness.

    I just was taken aback what people were reading here (like eugenics), what I totally couldn't glean from the original tweet.

  • Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain

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  • I'm definitely not pro eugenics (or pro Palantir and billionaires), but that was not what I read in there. Taken on itself it had some merit to engange in discussion. I don't agree with a lot of the points, of the tweet but there are, in my opinion, some are pretty valid. "The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service." for instance.

  • The Amazon is approaching a critical tipping point, where deforestation, degradation, fire, and climate change together risk pushing large areas toward irreversible ecological collapse.

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  • I believe for rainforests in Indonesia it is palmoil that causes most deforestation, in the Amazon cattle and their feed (mostly soy). Regardless, two big drivers of deforestation that need to be haltes.

  • Solar alone is now competitive with fossil power on a pure capital expenditure (capex) basis, and solar-plus-storage is expected to follow by around 2030

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  • Plus, usually they are written off after 25 years, but in practice they can provide up to 40 years of electricity. With less efficiency, but still almost free power. Only need some replacement in some cables and inverters.

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    NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte just spills the beans live on air: "NATO is a platform for the United States to project power on the world stage."

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  • Part of the critique on him, on which I totally agree: "he is a manager, keeping the ship afloat, not a leader, setting a clear course"

  • India’s electrotech fast-track: where China built on coal, India is building on sun

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  • true, but they first build out coal to power their country. As this article is showing, India is skipping past the coal part mostly, and electrifying via solar faster than China did. But yes, they do use the Chinese solar products they developed.

  • Americans Are Leaving the US in Record Numbers

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  • Good to have you!

  • ‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets

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  • Yeah, why wouldn't I just call or text the restaurant I want to order from, instead of coding my own app 😂. What a weird example.

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • Thanks for the source, interesting read. Makes me question sanction more. Haha, well here on Lemmy you can have a conversation when asking clarification, so thank you as well :)

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • Where do you base the number of half a million deaths due to US-EU sanctions on? Because I know the EU uses sanctions, but not (at least explicitly) with the intention of causing wide scale hunger.

  • Technology Connections - You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

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  • Love the rant

  • TikTok users freak out over app's 'immigration status' collection

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  • I agree, but the bad thing is, a lot of people (especially kids) are addicted to TikTok and other apps. They crave it. So similar to smoking, they know it's bad but still can't quit.

  • Anyone tried 'Zeitkapsl' as alternative to Google Photos?

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  • Thanks for the explanation, I get it a bit now

  • Anyone tried 'Zeitkapsl' as alternative to Google Photos?

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  • How do you like their service for photos?

  • Anyone tried 'Zeitkapsl' as alternative to Google Photos?

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  • Thanks for your review, I saw they have a developer roadmap as well which showed some nice features for the future. With a young company like this, I hope they make it and don't go bust down the road.

  • Anyone tried 'Zeitkapsl' as alternative to Google Photos?

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  • so for me as a layman, what does that mean, the AI training is still routed via Google or shared with them?

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    Ruigaard @slrpnk.net

    Anyone tried 'Zeitkapsl' as alternative to Google Photos?

    zeitkapsl.eu /en/

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Isn't there plenty of research it's the opposite of a cognitive amplifier, people get cognitively lazy using ai.

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    Stellar, a very convincing vision of how we can move towards a Solar Punk world.

    stellarworld.com