And this is only one of like half a dozen notable instances of Russia doing this since the 90s.

I think the Estonian one (“Osta euroopat”) is wrong and translates to “Buy parts of Europe”.

I’m not fluent (just Finnish) so I don’t know what the actual correct translation would be, though looking into it I believe it might have to be three words rather than two. “Osta Euroopast” might be close but would AFAIK translate to “Buy from Europe” rather than “Buy European”.

I don’t really care to argue about this, but isn’t this logically flawed? If machines will give a harder fight than trans people have, then does that not mean that they might succeed to gain rights even if trans people fail?

Maybe you’ve never been hungry enough.

If I had to guess the evolutionary mechanism here would be to stop animals from eating too quickly after a period of starvation.

Isn’t the input lag going to be insane if the game runs at, say, 10 fps? This would have to come with some kind of new render pipeline where the simulation can somehow still run at a higher framerate.

I never understood why they put the monsters in the Stronghold of Security. They aren’t even good for grinding are they?

Both those links are about the same (fake) robot by Kaiwa Technology.

It is in the law. Or rather, an IP68 rating allows you to have a non-replaceable battery as long as the battery is rated to last at least 1000 cycles at >80% capacity.

Hey now, this only goes into effect from late February next year!

I broke a display. More specifically, a shoddy Chinese NVR box broke the display’s main scaler chip by sending a voltage spike down the HDMI cable as it was being plugged in. It wasn’t an expensive display nor even mine (it was at the local hackerspace), but I was bummed out because it was one of the few good displays we had over there so I figured I’d see if I can fix it.

My knowledge of electronics isn’t great, though I’ve seen enough Louis Rossmann videos to know the basic principles, so I spent some time troubleshooting it with, and I expect this’ll get some flak given that this is Lemmy, the help of AI. I described the problem and what caused it to the AI, took some measurements off the board with its guidance and even figured out how to measure it with an oscilloscope to confirm the diagnosis. This way I could narrow the problem down to the main scaler chip – by all accounts a pretty common problem with this brand of monitor, though this one hadn’t failed so spectacularly.

I ordered a brand new chip from Aliexpress for a total of 15€. I did also find a full logic board on eBay, but it came to over 30€ with shipping and the photo showed it having red marker on top of the very chip I was looking to replace which made me suspect it could have failed QC or was torn out of a broken monitor, so I didn’t want to risk it.

After a couple of weeks the chip arrived and it was time to try my hand at BGA soldering for the first time ever. I couldn’t find a hot plate so I had to do the whole thing with just the hot air station making it harder than it should have been. I managed to tear off three pads taking the old chip off somehow and had to very carefully fix those with some fine copper wire carefully manipulated with tweezers and a crafts knife under the microscope. Against all odds after I got the new chip soldered in, the display worked perfectly on the first try. The success felt pretty ecstatic.

That guy carrying all that bread with the seagulls in the background gives me anxiety.

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Was not this already known after the release of Switch 2?

Yes, which is why this article is from 2025. Why OP is posting it now is anyone’s guess.

Fans of the wizard series come to leave stones reading “Here Lies Dobby” despite being asked not to by the land owner, the National Trust, because the beach is an ecologically sensitive site.

But apparently not so ecologically sensitive that an undersea cable couldn’t run through it.

The actual article isn’t nearly as stupid as the tweet makes it seem. I recommend giving it a read. It’s behind a shitty paywall, but if you use Firefox’s reader mode (Ctrl-Alt-R, or the little papper icon to the right side of the address bar) as soon as the page loads, you can read it.

His argument is basically that LLMs are able to do things we previously thought only conscious beings would be capable of doing, and so, if they aren’t conscious, then perhaps consciousness isn’t as important as we thought it was:

Brains under natural selection have evolved this astonishing and elaborate faculty we call consciousness. It should confer some survival advantage. There should exist some competence which could only be possessed by a conscious being. My conversations with several Claudes and ChatGPTs have convinced me that these intelligent beings are at least as competent as any evolved organism. If Claudia really is unconscious, then her manifest and versatile competence seems to show that a competent zombie could survive very well without consciousness.

Why did consciousness appear in the evolution of brains? Why wasn’t natural selection content to evolve competent zombies? I can think of three possible answers.

Some people will surely contest his claim that LLMs are as competent as evolved organisms. There’s definitely a bit of AI boomerism at play here (we have benchmarks that show just how incompetent LLMs can be), but I don’t think that invalidates his point, because LLMs can be very competent in the domains they’re trained to be competent in – they just aren’t AGI.