Odd Stuff (Part 1)

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After 450 years, tiny Channel island Sark will finally earn the right to exist on the internet with its own top-level domain

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This guy?

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There’s a guy named Otto Lidenbrock who might have some insight into this.

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Same story everywhere in these neoliberal times. If it means profit for the 1%, then fuck the well-being of the 99%.

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Radiation is good for you, госпожа́!

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капитализм отстой , though.

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Adobe debuts disk-cleaning tool cleverly disguised as an arbitrary file deletion bug in Creative Cloud on Windows

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Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can’t understand black people as well as whites

As I’m slow on the cultural uptake, but I’ve recently been seeing things saying that grammar is colonialist.

I’m not sure how to breach that gap with software that does speech to text.

Strong AI using disruptive algorithms incorporating blockchains, developed using a leveraged agile dev-ops methology, running on quantum computers, powered by cold fusion. Obviously,
And it’s just around the corner!

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PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure

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It’s unfortunate they didn’t give a shout-out to the Rosetta@Home project (3D protein molecular modeling) as well - that one is also involved in the fight.

Note that Folding@Home has both CPU and GPU work units, while Rosetta@Home is CPU-only.

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It’s a shame that they don’t support ARM. I already have BOINC loaded, and since SETI@Home is parking at the end of the month, I could throw 20 cores at it.

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I have a couple of Pi 3 and one 3+, and I was also disappointed that I couldn’t throw those in. Still, I have fifteen threads of first-gen Ryzen 7 cranking away (setting max CPU from 100% to 99% effectively keeps one thread idle, making the system vastly more responsive for other things).

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Instead of acid flushes, maybe they could just serve chili twice per week?

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