@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-14 23:20:55
Sources: Microsoft ended production of its Surface Hub 3 collaborative touch displays and scrapped plans for a Hub 4; Hub 3 debuted in 2023 in 50" and 85" sizes (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscen…
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza2026-02-15 00:54:01
You may have come across the I-have-nothing-to-hide argument as a response to concerns about digital mass surveillance. It's a red herring; the real argument is about who gets to choose what to share.
https://theprivacydad.com/i-have-nothing-but-red-herring-to-hide/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-02-16 06:07:00
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-04-14 19:51:02
On the SIKP 2000 A1 Portable Induction Hob: Review (2010) - See how easy this one-pan portable induction hob is to use! How does it compare with a built-in induction hob? #cleanAir #induction #cutCarbon
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 15:54:21
Oil prices have climbed again amid mounting supply fears after the US struck Iran’s vital Kharg Island oil hub and Donald Trump demanded allies help reopen the strait of Hormuz.
Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose 1.8% to $104.98 per barrel during early trading on Monday.
Another weekend of violence across the Middle East compounded concerns over the conflict, and its ramifications for global energy markets.
Trump claimed on Saturday that US strikes had “totally …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-15 19:02:27
One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum
@outer@mas.to2026-01-16 02:00:24
Jane Fonda said, "Hope is activism."
Greta Thunberg said, "Don’t go looking for hope. Look for action and the hope will come."
Barack Obama titled his book "The Audacity of Hope (2006)."
Be audacious. Do NOT give up. Give hope.
#WeThePeople #HopeInHumanity
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-16 17:56:43
Uh, looks like one of my DualShock analogs is starting to fail (it keeps "jumping" left). My eco-awareness teels I should get a replacement part (for ¼ of the price of a new controller) and replace it. The problem is, I don't really have energy to disassemble it and hope I won't break anything, and manage to assemble it again. The instructions suggest you have to remove pretty much everything to get there, and I have no clue how small the solders are… And I have no clue what quality is the replacement part either.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-04-15 09:51:04
On the SIKP 2000 A1 Portable Induction Hob: Review (2010) - See how easy this one-pan portable induction hob is to use! How does it compare with a built-in induction hob? #cleanAir #induction #cutCarbon
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-16 05:03:29
Trump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states
The Centers for Disease Control plans to suspend grants to local public health agencies, hospitals, NGOs and universities in
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota
Attorneys general in the four states set to lose funding have sued to block the cuts,
saying the changes are retaliation over state resistance to the administration's immigration priorities.
In the suit, th…
