Natanox
@Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Ancient Historians v. Modern Historians 22 hours ago:
Now writing is very easy, though I’m somewhat glad the whole bullshit going on on social media is rather easily lost as well. 🫠
- Comment on Grow your own 5 days ago:
You’d need a toilet paper plant though…
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 5 days ago:
You forget another cost: hard dependency (= “Soft Power”). Sure, selling uranium rods might not be as lucrative as other things. But e.g. France is completely dependent on uranium rods for their grid not to go dark, so the very few countries who sell those have a lot of political influence over them. Like Russia.
Russia had Europe at their balls with energy almost completely (Uranium, Oil, Gas) which is one reason why they thought they could get away with even starting the invasion of Ukraine. The price shock for energy in Europe was brutal in 2022, one of my best friends here in Germany had their heating bill quadruple because it was Gas, thereby lost their home and “temporarily” lived on my couch (for 2.5 years). Meanwhile France ALSO had to scramble finding another provider of Uranium rods, which are quite rare. This caused them having even more issues than Germany over a longer period of time, which sounds absurd given Germany famously made themselves almost completely dependent from Russian gas.
Right now nuclear only goes up in price, running cost and thereby electricity costs. The idea of building some new ones can really only be justified in terms of CO² output in a combined strategy with renewables, nothing else. And at least in regards to the awful dependency thing and crystal clear cost calculations every politician of any country should be on the same boat. Unfortunately a lot of them replaced their brain with various other stuff.
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 6 days ago:
Possible. Though I’d wager there’s also a lot of culture war and actual war involved (Russia sells both Oil and Uranium, Iran also sells Oil).
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 6 days ago:
With renewables being branded as “woke” (or “western degeneracy” for the few people in Russia with access to Lemmy), political LLMs being rampant, misinformation being spread as efficient as never before, the industrial interest of certain nations to either sell their Uranium or being able to build nukes, Nuclear Power being ~kinda~ more clean than Coal, Gas and Oil at least (but hellishly expensive and water-gobbling like hell, which apparently most people didn’t get the memo of), the price of refined oil products going through the roof, data centers making energy almost scarce…
I don’t know what you’re talking about, sounds like a great foundation for civilized discussions! 🥴
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 6 days ago:
Ugh, all the nuclear nonsense popping up lately… such nonsense, and now with the “but it’s so clean” bullshittery too… 🙄
- Comment on Stupid evolution 1 week ago:
It seems to me humans have two states in this regard.
“Uuuh, shiny!” Derived from our desire for beauty.
“Uuuh, rare!” Derived from our desire for financial contentment.
There might as well be a third when something looks useful (as a toy or otherwise useful tool), but I don’t think that fits here.
- Comment on You had me at "free" 1 week ago:
“Just our way of giving back”
By mutilating children? Weird flex but… no, not okay.
- Comment on Dr. Thanos, PhD. 2 weeks ago:
sigh Yeah sure, scientists surely said that like this…
I keep wondering how those Journalists from Daily Mail, Fox News, Bild etc. can look into the mirror each morning without punching themselves.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 weeks ago:
As long as they’re not routed through main commute hubs. Where I live (near a major german city, so there indeed is at least something) all the bus connections to the closest subway station of the city are routed over a small portion of a major street. That alone causes massive delays every morning and often also in the evening when everyone pours in- and out of the city in their gas guzzlers.
I’m very much for having waaay more (semi-subway) trains even in rural areas. Even if it’s just small ones that never exceed 50kmh or something, having a trustworthy schedule would be worth it. Connect every milk can! (After giving it 5G)
- Comment on Carenheit 3 weeks ago:
Something tells me that ISO was created to make programming easier. Time/date stuff on computers are a menace in general.
- Comment on Not a single one 5 weeks ago:
It can’t. It takes WAY too long to build, and for what it is the whole work isn’t worth it.
The volume of renewables and batteries (Incl. Sodium-Ion, great tech for the grid) we can produce outpaces nuclear by a long shot, is safer, cleaner, available quicker, easier to install, easier to regulate (once the batteries are up, it’s a combo deal) and especially more “for the people” (you can carry and install smaller units of solar and wind anywhere).
I also thought nuclear (fission) made somewhat sense a few years ago, but it really doesn’t in any way shape or form. Countries who’re dead-set on nuclear such as France are already running into SO mamy problems. They’re building a huge financial pile of shit for the current and next generation to be fucked over by.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s impressive how some people have absolutely zero moral sense and gonna upload AI crap immitating actual artists. This is just abhorrent.
- Comment on Sony 1 month ago:
Uuuhm, not quite. The Playstation ecosystem absolutely is a walled garden. Their proprietary flash memory cards aren’t a thing anymore because they failed to win against more open standards (SD, microSD) and it would’ve been super expensive to stick with it on their own for no good reason.
- Comment on Attack on Prime 1 month ago:
Those “epic deals” are mostly scam. I’ve looked at different stuff, and e.g. the beyerdynamic Amiron was supposedly 30% off or sth. but that was just the normal price for months. Same with TVs, just the normal price that sits well below MSRP suddenly praised as “Prime Day Deal”. Genuine reductions are usually merely ~5% and for e.g. blu-rays and stuff.
The only two things that were truly cheaper I found was a Brother printer, which went from 250€ to 200€, as well as a 9k BTU Monoblock AC (300 -> 230. Completely sold out within a day). All the other things were not worth it or just lies.
- Comment on no chances for life around red dwarfs 2 months ago:
DR. OCTOGONAPUS, BWAAAAH
- Comment on The math of infinite quarterly progress towards the nearest wall 2 months ago:
No, they fucking don’t. These differences matter a lot especially because LLMs behave so human-like (as it was trained on us) and we got way, WAY too many people already treating them like equals, work buddies, friends or even fucking falling in love with a tool (ever heard multiple people genuinely fall in love with a power drill or a toaster, or killing themselves because the table saw told them they’re the messiah?). Words matter, especially in regards to what we call “Medienkompetenz” in german (lit. “media competency”, meaning bring educated in how to safely consume and use any kind of media or digital tool). And even more especially with AI, where not just the salesmen but even the tool itself tells us it can do shit it certainly can not while trying to abuse our emotional weaknesses.
Collaboration (merriam-webster.com) “to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor”
You do not “collaborate” with a fucking toaster. If you think you do with an AI then your Medienkompetenz is lacking and you will eventually, even accidentally, put too much trust in what is essentially a game of chance and the machine will fuck you over, on which it will just say “You’re absolutely right!” while you have to witness all the consequences of your action (an AI can’t take responsibility because it’s just a bunch of complex math). The fact this tool uses natural language doesn’t change anything except your impression of it.
Stop subtly treating LLMs like a god damn entity, you’re fooling yourself.
- Comment on The math of infinite quarterly progress towards the nearest wall 2 months ago:
You can not “collaborate” with an LLM as it has no agency on its own, merely the simulation of it. You use it as a tool, that’s it. It also has no inherent expertise on anything (let alone a deep one), it merely generates the closest match which is why it will confidently do total nonsense so often. To use AI as tool safely and correctly you can only ever use it in domains you already know enough to understand when the LLM completely derails. Therefore I (as an example) can use and understand it for research on coding (but not letting it generate code for production, oh my god), but could never use it for finance advise as it could tell me any kind of nonsense without me being able to pick up on it.
You’re right on some things, like that AI is marketed and used the wrong way. It’s also made the wrong way by stealing literally the collected works of mankind, so to have reasonable approach to AI / LLMs as tool you have to be really cautious, use it carefully and quite frankly skip the media (pictures, audio) generation completely. That one is morally corrupt even in small amounts, plain and simply.
- Comment on Non-political meme 2 months ago:
These guys always watch with extreme sports.
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 3 months ago:
Ouff, this article hits hard… and makes me rather glad I’m trying to do my own thing.
- Comment on Behold: A vibe-designed pcb 4 months ago:
I guess the idea was to get more social media attention this way.
- Comment on Radioactive Steel 4 months ago:
You won’t get the same purity. Not because of worse industrial processes, but because with ancient lead any radioactive impurity normally introduced by the ore had enough time to decay.
We simply can’t filter out trace amounts of radioactive material naturally existing in or around the ore as reliable as time can.
- Comment on Witness 4 months ago:
And of course even in this meme the ESA logo was omitted.
- Comment on Witness 4 months ago:
Have you seen the fucking 'Murica ads before launch? They literally justified and propagated US Exceptionalism by name and talked about how all of this (which they were at least nice enough to mention was a collab with ~50 other countries) creates jobs in America.
It was a god damn propaganda show.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
ok so tell me why I’m waiting for networking to come up before I’m allowed to interact with my computer
Because your distro sets up stuff weirdly? At least I never noticed networkd to be a dependency of multi-user.target, could be wrong though.
Also, its monolithic as heck, its a giant squid into my networking, time management, access control…
That’s all optional though, many distros just use it because it’s easier than the alternatives.
Ontop of that… binary logs ew.
Yeah, that’s indeed stupid. No clue why they did that.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Why though, I sure love having a load of script files in a folder doing the boot things.
I can easily add another.
Why system not boot, help
/s
- Comment on Trying out the meme that The Last Leg are trying to launch 5 months ago:
I literally had cancer in my 20’s while being piss poor. If that was the best I wonder what kind of sick shit is coming up next.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 5 months ago:
connecting interpersonally with the humans
You could’ve stopped right there and it would’ve still made sense, which is sad.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 5 months ago:
Touched grass. bold_omi is correct (offensive, but correct).
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 5 months ago:
Also known as a deadly laser