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"Businesses and charities call for UK to scrap VAT on refurbished electronics"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology

@… good luck dealing with the NBN today Dropsey 🤞
#Peopling #Technology #NBN

Title: Will you EVER stand up for yourself?
Topics: #Jobs #WorkingClass #Technology
Channel: @…

👊 Building my own paper tape punch
#hardware #technology

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
#technology

Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports.

Yes Hitler, would be a reason to be cautious, Microsoft. 🤦‍♂️
Maybe even ask yourself a deep question about whether this technology is suitable at all for the general public.
But no..
That venture capital says go go go!
#hitler #fascism #socialresponsibility #technology #AI #Grok #Microsoft
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114988351652802386

"‘It’s cheap but it’s not disposable’: why fast tech is a growing waste problem"
#Technology #EWaste

"Google’s data center energy use doubled in 4 years"
#Google #Emissions #Technology

Google’s data center energy use doubled in four years | TechCrunch
Google has pledged to use only carbon-free sources of electricity to power its operations, a task made more challenging by its breakneck pace of data center growth.

The Best Tech You Don’t Know About!! by Snazzy Labs
#technology

"Google inks $3bn US hydropower deal as it expands energy-hungry datacenters"
#Google #Technology #Energy

"Safe and easy ways to recycle electricals – and even get money for your old gadgets"
#Electronics #Technology #Recycling

Update on my stance here: I’ve changed my mind after reading way more about #AI. Stopped using #LLM products, cancelled paid subscription to #ChatGPT and am currently exploring smaller, specialized, and open-source alternative language model solutions to keep business functioning where needed (tldr because of client requests for certain types of automation I can’t say goodbye to LMs completely).
Planning to write up how my thinking developed soon.
#technology #artificialintelligence #genAI

Every bug a feature a bug.
(Nothing new but just sayin'.)
#technology #saying

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
"This is like the AI equivalent of the Marshall Plan."
https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence

Zuckerberg's Meta Just Made a Huge Investment in a Very Dark AI Company
Zuckerberg is said to be hand picking a team of nearly 50 AI researchers to launch a shadowy "superintelligence group."

When a WhatsApp message says "Forwarded many times", in India it often means the message has been forwarded (tens/hundreds of) millions of times. 😳
The speed and scale are both just mind numbing.
#technology #information

"Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find
No matter which questions we ask an AI, the model will come up with an answer. To produce this information—regardless of whether the answer is correct or not—the model uses tokens. Tokens are words or parts of words that are converted into a string of numbers that can be processed by the LLM.

🦾 HELENE: Six-Axis Accessible Open-Source 3D-Printed Robotic Arm for Research and Education
#robots

"MethaneSat: the climate spy satellite that went quiet"
#Technology #Climate #ClimateChange

MethaneSat: The climate spy satellite that went quiet
MethaneSat was developed to spot emission hot spots of invisible methane pollution from space. Without it, accurate methane monitoring will be incredibly difficult.

Copilot: Stubbornly argues back and forth about something in a picture.
Me: "Who am I going to trust, you or my lying eyes? 🙄"
#Copilot #AI #LLM #technology

"AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI is gobbling up water it cannot replace – I’m working on a solution
AI is turning up the heat on datacentres, causing their water use to soar.

"Apple commits $500M to US-based rare-earth recycling firm MP Materials"
#Apple #Technology #Recycling

Apple commits $500M to U.S.-based rare earth recycling firm MP Materials | TechCrunch
The factory will develop a series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designed for Apple products.

"How your old phone could become a ‘tiny data centre’ helping researchers to track marine life"
#Ocean #Evironment #Technology

Old smartphones turned into ‘tiny data centres’ to track marine life
For just €8, researchers are turning old smartphones into devices capable of tracking marine life and buses.

It is awesome that #WordPress posts can syndicate to the #Fediverse but the syndication can add some really long posts to the Fedi timeline, like 21-pages-if-you-print long. Not to mention formatting issues.
Ain't nobody reading that on Fedi. 🙂‍
E.g.: #UX #technology

"Report: Data centres exposed to climate risks that could cost billions"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Technology

Maru OS. Make your smartphone also your desktop: #technology #smartphone #desktop #Android #Maru

With this kind of rabid and mindless adoption of Artificial Intelligence, there's no stopping the slide to Natural Stupidity.
#AI #LLM #society #technology

When someone starts by saying something that makes you shake your head, but they end by saying something that makes you nod.
I bet there's a German word exactly for that feeling/experience. Something like "shakennoda"? 🤔
#AI #LLM #energy #technology #German #dilemma

"Brits increasingly choosing second-hand furniture and gadgets"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Technology #Furniture

I have a lot of cool pictures to share from hikes and such, but first I have some stylesheets with cascading speculations to fight, I mean write. 😟
#technology #webdev #programming #life #nerd

A large chunk of client JS code is just this over and over and over again. In case *I* removed a necessary element when *I* wasn't watching. 🤦‍♂️
```
const x = document.getElementById("X");
if (!x) {
console.error("X element not found.");
   return;
}
//later
alert("Check console.");
```
#technology #programming #JavaScript #defensiveProgramming

Any code segment is a 1-liner if you have composition. 🙄
#technology #programming #complexity #complicated #sarcasm

"Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Energy

Practical changes could reduce AI energy demand by up to 90%
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be made more sustainable by making practical changes, such as reducing the number of decimal places used in AI models, shortening responses, and using smaller AI models, according to research from UCL published in a new UNESCO report.

"Musk’s 'ChatGPT moment' may soon be here"
Not that ChatGPT is any sign of success, but this will probably be more like "CrashGPT" and "CollateralGPT". 😟
#Tesla #robotaxi #Musk #technology

Promises are a JavaScript programmer's way of saying "I promise you this code is complicated." 🤓
#technology #JavaScript #programming #nerd #joke #nerdJoke

I asked Google #Gemini, Microsoft #Copilot, and #ChatGPT to translate a Kannada flyer to English. All three mostly just transcribed text to English instead of translating. And, Chat GPT just made up a whole lot of things not in the source, like total #fantasy. 🤦‍♂️
#AI #LLM #technology

Telling it like it is (to Copilot just now).
#AI #LLM #Copilot #softwareEngineering #programming #technology #AI_slop

Lemme grok this:
> xAI launched "SuperGrok Heavy," a $300-per-month subscription
Um. No.
#Grok #xAI #GrokAI #AI #LLM #technology #business #Tesla