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smegforbrains

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  • My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

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  • It's the year of the Linux desktop.

  • Back when AAA game developing was a fun process

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  • It is of course to good a story to be true:

    In 2018, a faked snapshot of a UESP page was shared online which falsely stated that, during production of Morrowind, Kirkbride was found under the influence of psychoactive drugs by Todd Howard after being absent from work, paired with a photograph it claimed was taken by Howard of the incident.[49] In truth, no such UESP page ever existed; the story is a fabrication.[49] The image was taken from a music video, fat, that Kirkbride had filmed and uploaded to YouTube in 2013, many years after his time working on Morrowind (the video depicts Kirkbride lethargically overeating as Wesley Willis' I'm Sorry That I Got Fat plays).[50] Lady Nerevar said of the video's misuse, "If you told me that a dumb video we made for fun was going to generate a wholeass conspiracy theory that real life people would ask me about [...] None of that happened in any way, shape, or form".

    With regard to the hoax and exaggerated accounts of his writing The 36 Lessons of Vivec, Kirkbride said "You know that comes from a Photoshopped image, right? [...] that’s all a lie. I’ve already given an account of how the 36 [Lessons] were written: a week of bourbon, smokes, and solitude."[52] Kirkbride has repeatedly refuted internet myths that he used recreational drugs[52][53][54][55] and has said that the myths annoy him "more than a little bit".[56] Related rumors that he was dismissed from the company are likewise unfounded; Kirkbride left Bethesda for Zenimax's studio in California,[1] remained involved in the production of Morrowind after leaving the studio,[25] and continued to contribute to subsequent titles.[1][5][9][11]

    Source: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Michael_Kirkbride

  • Of all movies that you gotta watch more than once to really understand, what is your favorite and why?

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  • My first theory was that it was just Naomi Watts' character's masturbation fantasy laid out on film. I still have to watch it a second time to confirm though 😬

  • British elections vs Soviet elections - Two Commonwealths by K.E. Holme

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  • Nuclear Power

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  • CANDU reactors are pressurized heavy-water reactors not Fast-neutron reactors.

  • Nuclear Power

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  • Since there are economic, ecological, conceptual and engineering problems, only five Fast-neutron reactors are operational at the moment. Three in Russia, one in India and one in China. Not surprisingly these are countries that also have an interest in producing weapons grade Plutonium, which FNRs are capable of.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2968/066003007https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-breeder-reactorhttps://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs15glaser.pdfhttps://energypost.eu/slow-death-fast-reactors/https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/report/

    And while nuclear energy production peaked 1996 at 17% and was nowhere near overtaking fossil energy production in it's 70(!) year long existence, Renewables will overtake fossil fuel power production in 2025, with only minute risks for the biosphere.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/renewable-power-set-to-surpass-coal-globally-by-2025/https://www.renewable-ei.org/pdfdownload/activities/REI_NuclearReport_201902_EN.pdf

    So why cling to an outdated technology when there are viable solutions at hand, which are nowhere as complicated and dangerous as nuclear fission? It's the monetary interest of a dying nuclear industry and its lobbyists.

  • Nuclear Power

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  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Nature article suggests that we cannot afford the rich

    www.nature.com /articles/d41586-024-00723-3

  • Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update

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  • It's the year of the Linux desktop! Great time to make the switch 🤩

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Google hacking was yesterday. German television hacking is so hot right now.

  • The Depopulation Bomb

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  • This is referring to the paradox of tolerance.

    1. It's a paradox because if you suppress other opinions you yourself become intolerant.

    2. I agree that actions have to be regulated as they are by laws. But opinions and thoughts are free and this freedom is absolute.

    Even Popper acknowledged that it's a paradox and stated: I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

    These thought are also formalizef by Rawls: Rawls asserts that a society must tolerate the intolerant in order to be a just society, but qualifies this assertion by stating that exceptional circumstances may call for society to exercise its right to self-preservation against acts of intolerance that threaten the liberty and security of the tolerant.

    The dedicated reader might notice that he refers to acts of intolerance but not to opinions.

    Popper, Karl (2012) [1945]. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Routledge. p. 581

    Rawls, John (1971). A Theory of Justice. Harvard University Press. p. 220

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  • Everyone is entitled to an opinion. If a Nazi wants to think and articulate nazi things, it's on us as a society to argue against it, not to forbid thoughts. Here's a interesting article of the culture of denouncing during Nazi and GDR times:

    https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/creating-a-culture-of-denunciation/

    And about the concept of freedom of thought: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_thought You might recognize that especially repressive regimes resorted to curtail freedom of thoughts in the past.

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  • Don't denounce. Everyone is entitled to have an opinion.

  • Tag yourselves I'm Scandinavian - the international weather equivalents drawn in North America

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  • the Apple curl security incident 12604 | daniel.haxx.se

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  • Apple adheres to the principle of form over function, instead of the old but still valid form follows function design principle. But TBH I never liked their stuff or their over the top big cheese attitude. So it's not a disgruntled apple user writing this.

  • What was a book so good that you have ReRead it?

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  • Pick One

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  • Perfect synopsis. Thank you.

  • The lethal doses of 55 substances

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  • Germans be like

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  • Hers an interesting article on the dangers of Thorium reactors, including nuclear proliferation concerns: https://www.nature.com/articles/492031a

    Here's an article detailing why nuclear power production is not climate neutral. There a lot of CO2 emissions involved in nuclear power production: https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-nuclear-energy-good-for-the-climate/a-59853315

    Fossil fuel is IMHO no alternative and will only play a minimal role after 2038. Most of the countries, that have pledged to become climate neutral by 2050 will build new nuclear reactors to achieve this. So there will probably be enough energy to go around and Germany can buy such energy if the transition to 100% renewables did not work out as planned. But if it works out we will have a viable way to produce energy in climate neutral way without the hazards that accompany nuclear power production. If this can be proved to work, other countries would be able to emulate this strategy. IMHO this is an opportunity we can not let go to waste.

  • Germans be like

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  • Deutschland @feddit.de
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    Erneuter Terroranschlag der Letzten Generation: 34 Leicht- und 5 Schwerverspätete

    www.der-postillon.com /2023/05/lg-anschlag.html
  • Technology @lemmy.ml
    smegforbrains @lemmy.ml

    LLMs like ChatGPT are not intelligent. They're just regurgitating information, making them susceptible to spreading misinformation like a fake moonlanding.