crispyflagstones @ crispyflagstones @sh.itjust.works

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At first I was like "hahaha" but then I looked it up and yes: https://www.floridabeef.org/raising-beef/cattle-in-florida

I didn't realize the market was so fragile and needed conservatives to control it so closely. You learn something new every day!

Yeah, it's not that I like this state of affairs, but right now the vendor lock-in is so one-sided that it's hard to say there's a viable alternative to CUDA. I hope that changes one day.

The completely different software stack is a killer. It's not that you can't find versions of a model to run, but almost everything that hits the GPU for compute is going to be targeting CUDA, not RocM. From a compatibility standpoint alone this killed AMD for me. I just do not want to spend my time fighting the stack to get these models running.

The Lifeline program is still available. The way they explain it is confusing, but the "discount" covers the complete cost of service for most Lifeline providers, so it works out to free. You just need to be receiving any federal public assistance -- Medicaid, food stamps, TANF, anything.

ACP was more of a broadband program with phone service attached, Lifeline is more of a phone program with some data attached. If you happen to have an unlocked phone, many lifeline carriers support bringing your own device to some extent.

https://www.fcc.gov/lifeline-consumers

Bet a killer feature for this would be pluggable recommendation algorithms.

EDIT; Clarity

It's utterly disturbing how easy it is to get into so many networks and devices just by looking up their default password or plugging in the default password on the side of the box. Absolutely the first thing you need to change on a new device if it comes with a preset PW.

It never went away.

They're probably going to find themselves having to explain what it means that a social media platform is itself engaged in speech, instead of functioning as a platform for others to speak. TikTok users, whose voices are allegedly curtailed by the ban, aren't exactly prevented from going to another platform.

If they say that it's Tiktok's speech that's curtailed, they're going to have to explain carefully how they're not a foreign influence operation.

The language of the first amendment is pretty stark, but the courts have always understood it has various limits.

Fun fact: tons of wheat and corn farmers had shit yields last year in my area. It's not even that the temperature was higher, the weather was just all over the place and it fucked the plants.

Of course, it's government policy to overproduce so much wheat and corn we can feed a substantial chunk of the world, so it'll take longer before the basic staples start getting hit, but just you wait.

:'(

A dwarf planet is a type of planet, right?

Somebody's gonna make a federated TikTok, aren't they? We're gonna have TikTokers flooding the Fediverse. We're so fucked.

Misinfo! How can he argue against misinformation laws when he actually died five years ago and has been played by a stunt double this whole time?

Yeah, they do the compatibility mode thing for older apps, but it seems like a lot of work to maintain separate shims for each older version that still have compatibility problems when you could just refactor everything with a reasonable amount of legacy support, and push all the users of really old software to start using VM instances of their old OS's. Surely these enormous financial institutions running bespoke financial apps using a custom COBOL interpreter that only works correctly in Windows 95, have the wherewithal to load up a VM.