Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.
Ask me anything.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
There's multiple layers of scum going on there:
- They were opted in by default
- Only given 3 weeks to opt out
- Can only opt out during certain windows of the year
- Threatening language in the form of "By opting out, you'll lose access to all AI features and benefits, which may affect your course visibility and potential earnings."
Teachers are surprised they have been opted into having their classes scraped for AI training.
Udemy, an e-learning platform with more than 250,000 online classes, recently announced that it would train generative AI on the classes that its users contribute to the site. Not only were class teachers automatically opted in to having their classes used as training, Udemy said teachers would have only a three-week "window" to opt-out of training. That window has now passed.
"We want to officially announce that the opt-out period for our Generative AI Program (GenAI Program) begins today, August 21st, and goes through September 12th. The choice to participate in the GenAI program is yours. If you want to participate, no action is needed!," Udemy said in a post on its community forums August 21. In an "Instructor Generative AI Policy" document, it says it plans to offer "Annual Periods designated by us" during which instructors can opt-out of having their classes trained on, and said that when people opt-out of training, it will remove the instructors' classes from its dataset "by the end of the calendar year." It has also told instructors that "By opting out, you'll lose access to all AI features and benefits, which may affect your course visibility and potential earnings." With the first opt-out window having passed, instructors are now seeing a grayed-out option in their settings if they didn't know about the window or would like to opt-out now.
Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily.
Some go gently into the night. Others die less prettily.
Billions of cells die in your body every day. Some go out with a bang, others with a whimper.
They can die by accident if they’re injured or infected. Alternatively, should they outlive their natural lifespan or start to fail, they can carefully arrange for a desirable demise, with their remains neatly tidied away.
Originally, scientists thought those were the only two ways an animal cell could die, by accident or by that neat-and-tidy version. But over the past couple of decades, researchers have racked up many more novel cellular death scenarios, some specific to certain cell types or situations. Understanding this panoply of death modes could help scientists save good cells and kill bad ones, leading to treatments for infections, autoimmune diseases, and cancer.
“There’s lots and lots of different flavors here,” says Michael Overholtzer, a cell biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He estimates that there are now more than 20 different names to describe cell death varieties.
In mobile FF, yes, it works natively. The "Add to home screen" works the same as it does in Chrome. Later versions, or at least Fennec, will open them as "apps" even if they don't have a PWA manifest.
On desktop, lack of PWA support in FF continues to be a thorn in my side as well. I've resorted to using Web App Manager which is part of Linux Mint (you can install it on any distro, though. I've got it working fine in Debian Bookworm).
https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2021/01/install-linux-mints-web-app-manager-ubuntu-20-04/
The former President's plan to bring water to the California desert is, like a lot of his promises, a goofy pipe-dream.
The former President's plan to bring water to the California desert is, like a lot of his promises, a goofy pipe-dream.
>In an apparent effort to address the pressing issue of California water shortages, Trump said the following: “You have millions of gallons of water pouring down from the north with the snow caps and Canada, and all pouring down and they have essentially a very large faucet. You turn the faucet and it takes one day to turn it, and it’s massive, it’s as big as the wall of that building right there behind you. You turn that, and all of that water aimlessly goes into the Pacific (Ocean), and if they turned it back, all of that water would come right down here and right into Los Angeles,” he said.
>Amidst his weird, almost poetic rambling, the “very large faucet” Trump seems to have been referring to is the Columbia River. The Columbia runs from a lake in British Columbia, down through Oregon and eventually ends up in the Pacific Ocean. Trump’s apparent plan is to somehow divert water from the Columbia and get it all the way down to Los Angeles. However, scientific experts who have spoken to the press have noted that not only is there currently no way to divert the water from the Oregon River to southern California, but creating such a system would likely be prohibitively expensive and inefficient.
The red planet's' early atmosphere could be locked up in the planet's clay surface, a new study suggests.
Mars' missing atmosphere may be locked up in the planet's clay-rich surface, a new study by MIT geologists has suggested.
According to the researchers, ancient water trickling through Mars' rocks could have triggered a series of chemical reactions, converting CO2 into methane and trapping the carbon in clay minerals for billions of years.
Billions of years ago, Mars was a very different place—likely wet, with rivers flowing across its surface and a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide (CO2) insulating the planet. However, around 3.5 billion years ago, the red planet's atmosphere thinned and its water dried up, leaving behind the cold desert we see today.
A central mystery in planetary science has been: where did all that carbon dioxide go?
Yeah, I read that the other day. Wish it would do more than that, but it's a start I guess.
I can't wait until a Senator or comparable "it's not a problem until it happens to me" lawmaker loses access to their digital library and goes on the warpath. That's the only way out of this "you will own nothing" hellhole we're in and moving deeper into.
Honestly, I have no idea lol.
They compare the mass of it to an asteroid, but that's a pretty big range of possible masses. Assuming it's the mass of a small, "survivable" asteroid, it wouldn't burn up in the atmosphere since it's atom sized.
If a regular asteroid of the same mass is like a sledgehammer, I would imagine the similarly-massed, atomic-sized black hole would be like a bullet?
But I'm just throwing stuff at the wall with that guess.
The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by
The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by
Black holes the size of an atom that contain the mass of an asteroid may fly through the inner solar system about once a decade, scientists say. Theoretically created just after the big bang, these examples of so-called primordial black holes could explain the missing dark matter thought to dominate our universe. And if they sneak by the moon or Mars, scientists should be able to detect them, a new study shows.
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If primordial black holes are responsible for dark matter, they probably zip through the solar system about every 10 years, a new study found. If one of these black holes comes near a planet or large moon, it should push the body off course enough to be measurable by current instruments. “As it passes by, the planet starts to wobble,” says Sarah R. Geller, a theoretical physicist now at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-author of the study, which was published on September 17 in Physical Review D.* “The wobble will grow over a few years but eventually it will damp out and go back to zero.”
Is There A Rainforest In West Virginia? (There totally is)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13805380
with Google's assault on Invidious leaving it inoperable, consider watching this video with FreeTube, a nifty open source program that lets you watch youtube videos privately!
Found it in "Unsaved Document 4.txt" LOL
MERCER: I have to pee. Bortus, you have the conn.
BORTUS: Aye, sir.
MALLOY: Why not just use the teleporter?
GRAYSON: You pee in the teleporter booth? That's disgusting!
MALLOY: What?! No! Of course not. Watch.
[The bridge crew watch as Mallloy presses buttons on his console to initiate a site-to-site teleport. He then switches the main screen to display a view off the starboard bow where an amber blob of liquid materializes and begins to boil and freeze into an icy nebula]
MALLOY: Ahhhhh.
MERCER: Did you just...? Gordon, you're relieved.
MALLOY: You bet I am!
MERCER: No, I mean get out.
GRAYSON: Wait a minute. I remember right after we got the teleporters installed, we spent two months in orbit around Galavar VI. During that time their moon mysteriously and miraculously developed a ring system. That was you?
LAMARR: Yeah, I, uh, might have helped with that.
ALARA: Me too.
MALLOY: Yeah, and even Issac got in on it.
ISSAC: That is impossible as I am an artificial lifeform and do not produce urine. However, I do require periodic coolant flushes which could be considered crudely analogous.
MALLOY: And do you have any record of coolant flushes during that time?
ISSAC: [BEAT] I do not. To use your parlance: You. Bastard.
BORTUS: Is that why my Ja'loja is late this year? Dr. Finn was unable to determine...[INTERRUPTED BY MERCER]
MERCER: [PICARD FACEPALM] Oh my God. [BEAT] You know what? It's fine. Gordon, you're fine. Return to your station and set a course for Galavar VI. We've got to go tell them their holy miracle ring is just a bunch of piss. It's fine.
GRAYSON: Ed?
MERCER: You know what they say: there's a good story and a bunch of idiots behind every warning label.
I'm now considering this both 30 Rock and Star Trek canon: Lower Decks is a prequel to 30 Rock. Who says immortal beings have to obey linear time?
Keller Williams style! Love it.
Saw Keller live when I was in college; probably the best show I've ever been to. Also didn't hurt that the crowd was a bunch of hippies, and we collectively hotboxed the Warner Theater. 😆
It probably smelled like the art teacher's office in there for at least a week after.
ENT did a little bit of body horror with the transporters since they were still new in-universe. One of the away team was beamed up during a storm, and some branches and leaves blew into the beam and became integrated into him when he rematerialized. He got better.
I'm hazy on the specifics, but in DS9, someone sabotaged the transporter and the contact they were supposed to meet burned alive during rematerialization. That was pretty gory for Trek.
Galaxy Quest went all the way and turned the pig-monster inside out lol ... and then it exploded.
The new 6-mW open-source plastic chip can run machine learning tasks and operate while bent around a pencil
The new 6-mW open-source plastic chip can run machine learning tasks and operate while bent around a pencil
For the first time, scientists have created a flexible programmable chip that is not made of silicon. The new ultralow-power 32-bit microprocessor from U.K.-based Pragmatic Semiconductor and its colleagues can operate while bent, and can run machine learning workloads. The microchip’s open-source RISC-V architecture suggests it might cost less than a dollar, putting it in a position to power wearable healthcare electronics, smart package labels, and other inexpensive items, its inventors add.
It's them got dang vidya games, I tell ya whut.
VOY 4x10 "Random Thoughts"
I've always interpreted this episode as mocking the parents who claim their kids would be angels if not for video games.
The Mari. Mario. Coincidence? lol
Lol, a few years ago on the alien site, I wrote a scene for The Orville as a "what if The Orville suddenly got transporters" That was basically the premise of it.
If there's interest, and I can find it (I saved it to a text file somewhere before nuking my account), I can post it here.
I can do all that with my X1 Carbon which isn't much thicker than an M1 Air. It's got the same two USB-C / Thunderbolt ports but also has full-size HDMI, 2xUSB A, and wired headphones.
It seems like Apple's main method of innovation is finding new ways to get people to buy $29.99 dongles over and over again.
They like to make things appear sleek until you actually have to use them. All that sleekness goes out the window as soon as someone hands you flash drive and you have to break out a dock.
Yep. IMO, Year of Hell is probably the best episode of Voyager and in the top 5 of all Trek, and a Smith was definitely a large part of that.
When you're at the grocery store with your parents and see your teacher outside of school. Same energy lol.
Oops!
VOY 3x26: Scorpion Part 1
Is there some kind of Starfleet form I can sign to opt out of transporter hacks you "just came up with"?
Am also layman, but my understanding is that "dark matter" is just kind of a placeholder for some unaccounted for mass that's detectable by inference. i.e. we can't see anything that would produce that gravity, but we can detect that something out there has mass.
with black holes still an option for the behaviors we are seeing accounted to 'dark matter' why are we bothering with another, seemingly ephemeral type of 'matter'?
That's actually a theory that's gaining traction again. Primordial black holes left over from the Big Bang are one contender for "dark matter":
https://www.space.com/tiny-black-holes-big-bang-prime-dark-matter-suspects
The jets of material that spew from black holes catalyze stellar eruptions, surprising astronomers and raising questions about the jets' role in the universe.
Black hole jets, which spew near-light-speed particle beams, can trigger nearby white dwarf stars to explode by igniting hydrogen layers on their surfaces. "We don't know what's going on, but it's just a very exciting finding," said Alec Lessing, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and lead author of a new study describing the phenomenon, in an ESA release. Gizmodo reports:
In the recent work -- set to publish in The Astrophysical Journal and is currently hosted on the preprint server arXiv -- the team studied 135 novae in the galaxy M87, which hosts a supermassive black hole of the same name at its core. M87 is 6.5 billion times the mass of the Sun and was the first black hole to be directly imaged, in work done in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. The team found twice as many novae erupting near M87's 3,000 light-year-long plasma jet than elsewhere in the galaxy. The Hubble Space Telescope also directly imaged M87's jet, which you can see below in luminous blue detail. Though it looks fairly calm in the image, the distance deceives you: this is a long tendril of superheated, near-light speed particles, somehow triggering stars to erupt.
Though previous researchers had suggested there was more activity in the jet's vicinity, new observations with Hubble's wider-view cameras revealed more of the novae brightening -- indicating they were blowing hydrogen up off their surface layers. "There's something that the jet is doing to the star systems that wander into the surrounding neighborhood. Maybe the jet somehow snowplows hydrogen fuel onto the white dwarfs, causing them to erupt more frequently," Lessing said in the release. "But it's not clear that it's a physical pushing. It could be the effect of the pressure of the light emanating from the jet. When you deliver hydrogen faster, you get eruptions faster." The new Hubble images of M87 are also the deepest yet taken, thanks to the newer cameras on Hubble. Though the team wrote in the paper that there's between a 0.1% to 1% chance that their observations can be chalked up to randomness, most signs point to the jet somehow catalyzing the stellar eruptions.
Fiber cut in my area. FML.
Fiber's shitting the bed, apparently a cut. We're on backup WAN. ETA from ISP is 5am tomorrow
Upgraded the backup connection last week, so will leave pict-rs enabled for now and see how things go.
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Update: Fiber came back online around 4:30 this morning and the auto fallback seems to have worked. Yay.
"Don't you judge me. Do you know how hard it is to cook for this family? Not very, but I can't handle much."
Francine Smith aka Wendy Schall in VOY 3x22 "Real Life".
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Proposed guidelines aim to inject badly needed common sense into password hygiene.
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On September 24, 1979, Columbus-based CompuServe launched its online service for consumers. Its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online chat, digital newspapers and the ability to share and download files.
Silicon Valley has the reputation of being the birthplace of our hyper-connected Internet age, the hub of companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook. However, a pioneering company here in central Ohio is responsible for developing and popularizing many of the technologies we take for granted today.
A listener submitted a question to WOSU’s Curious Cbus series wanting to know more about the legacy of CompuServe and what it meant to go online before the Internet.
That legacy was recently commemorated by the Ohio History Connection when they installed a historical marker in Upper Arlington — near the corner of Arlington Center and Henderson roads — where the company located its computer center and corporate building in 1973.
The plaque explains that CompuServe was "the first major online information service provider," and that its subscribers were among the first to have access to email, online newspapers and magazines and the ability to share and download files.
Voyager takes a wrong wormhole at Albuquerque: Part 2
(Lwaxana voice) Previously on Star Trek Voyager... And now the continuation....
Captain's Log - Supplemental: We have successfully traversed the wormhole back to where we entered, rescued the prisoner from the surface, and secured the weapon known as the "melt stick". We haven't yet concluded our analysis of its capabilities and mode of operation, but I've asked Seska to join me in cargo bay 2 to confirm several hypotheses.
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Note: It's really hard to write Jeff Goldblum dialog with such a small text area. Pretend there are more "um"s and pauses in there.
Edit: I'm thinking about doing a "What if..." series with Voyager and some of the space elements from the MCU. Have a few ideas, but nothing fully fleshed out.
Voyager takes a wrong wormhole at Albuquerque
Mashup / parody of 1x10 "Prime Factors" and MCU's Grandmaster. Inspired by Sikiarians and Sakaaran sounding similar and Gathorel Labin giving off Grandmaster vibes.
Just paint the old prop grey and turn it on its side. No one will notice.
Top: Lateral vector transporter from the Walker-class USS Shenzhou
Middle: Phase discriminators used to trap the Red Angel in the titular episode
Bottom (left): Exocomp
Bottom (right): Medical device from the Automated Repair Station from Dead Stop