I'm fascinated by the term agency as it better describes what many mean when they claim to want freedom. And I struggle to translate it to German or Spanish.

Is it really agency when you don't act on it? If you're very anxious, you might still be low agency.

Yeah, I'm actually happy it's still easy to detect generated content on dense scenes but the video is badass. Mad Max vibe. It's quite expensive to generate such short clips but it's probably nothing compared to generating a high poly model and rendering it with the necessary models to get the same vibe.

These Shahed type drones look like not having much impact if exploding on the walls of concrete buildings. Break windows and stuff but no structural damage, right? 5 drones do little more than scare the workers.

So it makes no economical sense to offer Starlink to all people in big cities. Starlink would be thousands of times more expensive than land based ISPs.

It's kind of wild to have these antennas occupying space in orbit instead of having a few more but ground based but of course there is limits to putting antennas into orbit. These limits are not hard very quickly but it's mainly "diminishing returns". Now, Starlink is offering global coverage. I guess it's the first ISP that can provide this. That's a huge value proposition and people pay for that but if all the world would start using starlink, the constellation would certainly provide terrible performance especially in densely populated areas. If all new york city would try to communicate via just 2 20Gb/s satellites, they'd get 5kb/s. With glass fiber, NY citizens get 1Gb/s so to offer that level of internet, Starlink would have to increase the capacity by x200k. Kessler Syndrome and diminishing returns aside, that would take a long long time to achieve.

The wind is strange. Blowing both ways for the flags and almost not at all for the smoking chimney.

It's one more isp. Starlink can never provide a significant portion of the traffic. No centralization risk.

Explain. How is it affecting you if you don't use the service? I see it as a competitor for all ISPs worldwide which should keep under control their offers.

With Equities, Real Estate, Cars and Art you can argue about their monetary premium but with Bonds, Money and Gold ... these should be direct competitors to Bitcoin. Imagine buying Bonds when you can buy Bitcoin? The issuer literally has to promise to outperform Bitcoin. And Gold and Fiat ... Gresham's law applies directly. That's $440T / $2T = x220 from here? That should be enough to get Bitcoin to $2.5million in today's fiat.

Why? Isn't it a net positive?

... that feeling when you `sudo shutdown now` and only then realize it was the cluster shell with the satellites and not your work laptop.

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3h down time ... has anybody confirmed they still have access to these satellites? I'm curious for that pos mortem. Crossing fingers it's resolved soon ...

That would be the most expensive accident ever. Imagine not only losing data from all these satellites but also losing control, having them all fall back to earth with zero correction. Kessler syndrome incoming.

"oopsie"

-- The Engineer that pushed the update that put the satellites into Airplane Mode

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Hmmm... Elon has not tweeted since the outage. Wonder why.

I'm reading an ai translated book to my daughter. The consistency is not great and the ai did a poor job using simpler terms. I asked it to convert the language for the vocabulary of 8yos. Ideally I'd also shorten the book in the process.

Amethyst zeigt mir hier alles auf Englisch an. Sehr böse.

Re-brand to purple pill app for a week :dancing_banana:

He said You might want to get some just in case it catches on but I just buy them for their utility.

But ... those are gift cards, aren't they? Fiat denominated gift cards.

My ice cream parlor has ice cream scoop denominated actual plastic coins since before Bitcoin. That's a stable coin. Went up against the EUR 120% since they were introduced!

Of course you did. And Chatgpt just "found" it for us.

Via bunker.

Self-assessment for paranoia doesn't work. If you're really paranoid, you'll have a counter-argument for each of the items on the first list and if you're in the "nothing to hide" camp, you probably won't care about cloud photos and your home address on your Facebook profile. You will never know before the fact if you've been "paranoid enough" and after the fact it's too late.

Opportunity cost is real.

"It costs $0 to study (any of the 12 million shitcoins)."

... large shipments of arms ...

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But why a skull? It doesn't convey anything privacy related.

Shit! An issue that was discussed since 5 years among a broad group of experts and it's actually more nuanced than I thought from reading 2min about it. Who would have thought? 🤔

Time for your pills?

Most wallet apps claim to be the most secure, probably because clients search for "the most secure". What do you want to do about that?

I was surprised to have found really quality ones made of plastic. My kid didn't destroy it in a long time. It was twisted up many times but always, removing the knots fixed it to perfection. The metal ones used to sit uneven after the first small accident.

People crossing from Germany into Poland? I'm confused now.

Uhm, I wonder how stopping worked out for him 🤔

Hmm ... the trailer looks intriguing (a genere I like: Zombies) but also a bit low quality with no hint at anything novel or deep.

TWD in the later seasons completely gets away from being about zombies to being a post apocalyptic society building exercise with the protagonists trying to mimic the US institutions cause meh, whatever.

I'm a bit irritated by this from "War Monitor". Clearly this man is sick but not part of any war. This is not why I follow this account and hope it remains an exception.

Interviews like that usually start with networks desperately looking for people who would tell them shocking stuff on camera for money. He probably got $300 for the gig and looked into LLMs yesterday.

Do you think you would comment on it under good protection of anonymity? Like "One of these 100 wallet developers thinks the following about this wallet product: ... -- signed with a ring signature".

There is no mention of AI or LLMs in that video. I know you can create renderings from 3D models but that's not how LLMs do it. Thus my question about tricky light mappings as these are generally not done acurately using LLMs.

At first I thought that was a kid. Had to re-watch to see the guy was taller.