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Personal, dreams, sad
I don't know if I am capable of dreaming anymore. What are dreams, anyway? How are they different from desires, aspirations and efforts?
But I can consider what I could dream of.
I could dream of not being angry all the time. Of not being filled with hatred.
I could dream of feeling secure. Of not worrying all the time about food and shelter. Of losing health insurance and access to medicine.
I could dream of having someone to rely on, of someone who'd take care of me and the things I can't handle. Of not feeling guilty of not meeting the expectations of others and my own, all the time.
I could dream of being able to experience all that stuff that I read about in books and see in movies. Of it not being too late for me anymore.
#ActuallyAutistic

If we don't fight back, car repair will go the way of the broader trend we have seen in electronics "repair":
https://www.404media.co/the-car-repair-apocalypse-could-soon-be-upon-us/

The Car Repair Apocalypse Could Soon Be Upon Us
The widespread availability of independent car repair needs to be protected from software-based DRM.

New drone footage shows Chasiv Yar
— set amid green fields and woodland
— pounded into an apocalyptic vista.
The destruction is reminiscent of the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka,
which Ukraine yielded after months of bombardment and huge losses for both sides.
The strategically important city has been under attack by Russian forces for months.
Capturing it would give Russia control of a hilltop from which it can attack other cities that form the backbone …

Drone footage shows devastation in Ukraine's strategic eastern city of Chasiv Yar as Russians near
Drone footage exclusively obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine. Chasiv Yar is a strategic high ground, and capturing it would set the stage for a potentially broader Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine that Ukrainian officials say could come as early as this month. The footage shows a skeletal ghost town, with few residents left. Apartment blocks are reduced to charred facades, and streets are pockmarked…

> That’s right, no more logging into the router with http://192.168.1.1 with user root and the password as mentioned on the sticker at the bottom. Instead, you use something called The Internet to navigate to the ISP site, log into the client portal, drown in a series of dubious links and menus, to eventually find your internet connection, click on that, and locate a button “configure”.

Happy Easter friends!
My stats from yesterday's #cycling loop.
It's been a really nice 2.5h out in the sun. Lots of head wind in one direction but also nice tailwind on the way back.
The photo is taken at the #sylvenstein reservoir with Lot's of

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
from Doron Taussig @…
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/the-fa…

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
The Letter from the Editor that ran on March 23, 2021, did not shrink from acknowledging the challenges the Bucks County Courier Times faces reaching conservative readers in its politically diverse community. But Shane Fitzgerald, then the paper’s executive editor, still managed to take a hopeful tone. “We’ve been called biased, fake news, a liberal […]

Former Las Vegas Raiders' weapon could be retiring early in his career very soon https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_las_vegas_raiders_weapon_could_be_retiring_early_in_his_career_ve…

Former Las Vegas Raiders' weapon could be retiring early in his career very soon
The Las Vegas Raiders really dodged a bullet not long ago. A decent portion of the fan base was upset when the Raiders traded away one of the best tight ends in the league. He was easily a top-three guy at his position. But, after some recent news, it feels like it was obviously the right decision. On a Monday, a series of reports emerged indicating that former Las Vegas Raiders tight end Darren Waller was considering retirement. These reports specified that Waller was contemplating this decisi…

Behavior Generation with Latent Actions
Seungjae Lee, Yibin Wang, Haritheja Etukuru, H. Jin Kim, Nur Muhammad Mahi Shafiullah, Lerrel Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03181

Behavior Generation with Latent Actions
Generative modeling of complex behaviors from labeled datasets has been a longstanding problem in decision making. Unlike language or image generation, decision making requires modeling actions - continuous-valued vectors that are multimodal in their distribution, potentially drawn from uncurated sources, where generation errors can compound in sequential prediction. A recent class of models called Behavior Transformers (BeT) addresses this by discretizing actions using k-means clustering to ca…