You know I hate to ask
But are ‘friends’ electric?
Only mine’s broke down
And now I’ve no-one to love

Bots together strong.

Thank you. 📺 How To: Leaving Enough Slack In Your Service Loop (Overview & Examples)

The source is open, so either put up or shut up.

100 GW means nothing without knowing how long you’ll run it. One second at 100 GW is about 28 MWh, and 1 MWh of electricity in the US costs about $25, so that’s around $700 per second.

Actually no: microwaves are non-ionizing. It will thoroughly cook you, though.

I know I’m running out of material, but I haven’t made reference to Real Genius in at least a year. https://youtu.be/rthHSISkM7A

Propaganda of the deed.

I’ve only been impatiently anticipating this for the last twenty years, though I didn’t anticipate it would come from China back then.

Two or three lifetimes ago I worked with an expert systems platform that NASA released to the public domain https://www.clipsrules.net/index.html

It’s apparently still actively developed & used, over thirty years later.

However it was involved in some controversies where the dev team showed themselves biased

This is meaningless without specifying what bias.

This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.

It’s an old post. I know the Reddit link is broken because Reddit banned & censored r/TheDeprogram. Reddit censoring socialists is why Lemmy was created in the first place: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy#Formation

Oh, sorry. The poster deleted their post which broke the link to the comment. Copypasta:

Would you class the western oppression of dissent to be on the same level as that famous student protest in China?

Only someone misinformed about the 1989 protest and US/CIA/NED-orchestrated, murderously violent riot would ask this, which to be fair is 99% of Westerners.

• 📺 The Tiananmen Square “Massacre” Never Happened: part 1, part 2, part 3 — [Sources]
  • Edit to add: YouTube took the original video down for “violating YouTube’s terms of service,” but I found a reploaded a copy, splitting it up into three pieces. This is why you don’t know what really happened, because Western corporate media don’t want you to know. They were reuploaded just today; who knows how long they’ll stay up.
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• CBS, 1989: There Was No “Tiananmen Square Massacre”
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• Tank Man video footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Washington Post, 1989: Rebel Without a Magazine

  [Chinese Intellectual’s founder] Liang [Heng] had come from his New York office, where he serves as the magazine’s foreign editor, to Washington Thursday and Friday to address the board of directors at the National Endowment for Democracy – a substantial financial backer of the magazine – to tell it what he knows, what he thinks and what will possibly happen. After his arrival in the United States, he earned his master’s degree in literature from Columbia University and secured an initial $200,000 grant from the NED, a private corporation created in 1983 to “strengthen democratic efforts worldwide,” to start his magazine.

• The Seattle Times, 2011: Quiet scholar who inspired uprisings

  That is not to say [Gene] Sharp has not seen any action. In 1989, he jetted off to China to witness the uprising in Tiananmen Square. In the early 1990s, he sneaked into a Myanmar rebel camp at the invitation of Robert Helvey, a retired Army colonel who advised the opposition there. They met when Helvey was on a fellowship at Harvard; the military man thought the professor had ideas that could avoid war.

• The blueprint of regime change operations - How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

Previously:

Are you also going to claim that DeepSeek isn’t censored?

You can download DeepSeek and run it yourself to get uncensored answers.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are not truth machines. They are garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models are largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. So the DeepSeek company is in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. They can either refuse to answer certain questions, in which case Western media will accuse them of censorship; or they can answer them, in which case (a) their model will perpetuate Cold War I & Cold War II falsehoods and (b) Western media will parade those false answers around in a victory lap. They chose the former for the cloud version of their app, and the latter for the local version.

Previously. We’ve covered this dozens of times. I’m surprised that you’re surprised given that your account is over two years old.

OpenZL takes a description of your data and builds from it a specialized compressor optimized for your specific format.

It provides a set of primitive codecs that can be composed in a DAG. Additionally, it allows for user-defined control flow to modify the DAG based on the data, at any point in the compression. OpenZL also provides a universal decompressor that can decompress anything produced by the compressor, independent of the compression DAG.

Conceptually very cool. Information theory says that the more one knows about a dataset’s format, the more one can compress it. If you describe the data’s encoding and overall shape using non-recursive enumerable languages, then you can safely use them as compression hints.

Instead of making twenty custom compressors for twenty different data formats, they’ve generalized it, and presumably decompression doesn’t require separate copies of the same hints used for compression.

First make sure Babashka is installed and on PATH

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It’s a fork of https://github.com/Maxteabag/sqlit which was inspired by https://github.com/jorgerojas26/lazysql.

*Except when all you need is SQLite.

The most reliable way to know is to run Mint on a USB stick and try it.