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I hope the leaders of this genocide are brought to be accountable. Apartheid Israel have killed 10s of thousands, stole their land and dehumanised the Palestinian people; all supported by the so-called enlightened West (especially the US). This leaves a huge black spot on their morality.

So there's a Carnarvon in Australia that has to do with radio telescopes and a Carnarvon in South Africa that has to do with radio telescopes? In South Africa, the Square Kilometre Array telescopes (and others) are situated within the Meerkat National Park outside of Carnarvon.

You left out politicians. As far as companies like this are concerned, they are functioning within the limits of the law.

I've just come across this, Planetary boundaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

We've impacted the Earth to our detriment, I feel, for the sake of chasing money. We need to rethink what it means to live in peace and harmony on this living planet of ours.

Some of my polyester t-shirts have lasted more than 10 years without any loss in colour or quality, it's a damn shame they cause microplastics since it's probably better that people don't buy clothing every month if clothes lasted longer.

They have $118.4 billion in USD reserves?

Slowly, more citizen rights are being eroded by so-called democratic countries by weaponising legislation to get what the few elite in government want.

Another example was US sanctions against Russia, which led to the Linux kernel maintainers removing Russians. Not all Russians support or endorse the war criminal Putin. Are we going to see Western-allied countries like Apartheid Israel also sanctioned? Probably not. Legislation should not be used as a weapon to promote state propaganda.

Are we really going to block freely-available content on the internet? It seems like decentralisation is key to citizen liberty divorced from any one country's legislation.

Only the US government can allow corporations to beta test unproven technology on the public.

Governments should carry out comprehensive tests on a self-driving car's claimed capabilities. This is the same as cars without proven passenger safety (Euro NCAP) aren't allowed to be on roads carrying passengers.

LLMs are the type of junk AI that these corps think will succeed? They are spending billions and consuming a large amount of resources and energy for this. Seriously, what a waste.

France needs to give back sovereignty of so many islands around Madagascar. It's galling that they still act like a colonial state.

They don't say much about data privacy.

I really dislike how AI is used for everything. To me, AI means a dumb LLM spewing out half-truth and whole lies.

But in this instant, it's machine learning in the form of regression analysis: Multivariate adaptive regression spline

Israel had 4000 hostages before Oct 7, and more than doubled it since to 10 000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_prisoners_in_Israe...

Apartheid Israel really are terrorists. This was representative of that, killing 2 children in the process. There could be 186,000 deaths since October in their current Genocide of the Palestinians. No wonder Hamas and Hezbollah exist, the same way uMkhonto we Sizwe existed in Apartheid South Africa. They need to be sanctioned and their leaders put in a court of the ICC.

Lol, I searched it found it's somehow the email for the "Jukskei River Revival Collective". Also, I'm surprised to see Joburg but not the other cities; it's not really notable for rivers, at least in the city centre areas. At least it's a the biggest metro not built around a river or something like that.

They should import data from Mapillary as I see the whole of South Africa is missing. Although most libre licensed products have poor image quality; I hope that improves.

> we identify the root cause to be high receiver-side processing overhead

I find this to be the issue when it comes to Google, and I bet it was known before hand; pushing processing to the user. For example, the AV1 video codec was deployed when no consumer had HW decoding capabilities. It saved them on space at the expense of increased CPU usage for the end-user.

I don't know what the motive was there; it would still show that they are carbon-neutral while billions are busy processing the data.

Hundreds of millions of perfectly good PCs are going to be end-of-life due to this.

DMCA is a weapon abused by corporations. These laws are written solely for corporations.

What I do an end-user is my discretion; if I want to remove or alter data sent to my endpoint, I should be able to without some corporation dictating what can be done.

Everything on the web needs decentralisation as we're nearing some sort of dystopia where corporations dictate how we live. Git itself it decentralised, but the hosting of files shouldn't be so easily removed.

I'm on the Firefox snap on Ubuntu but don't get any freezes.

The biggest bully on the world stage is the United States. I'm no fan of Russia or China, but they aren't in conflict with the US. If anything, the military industrial complex that the US bolsters, is the reason for conflict around the world; the US government buys from private US companies with tax money, which it then donates to states like Apartheid Israel to commit genocide. There's no defence with the US, only death, terror and destruction.

The fact that YC is supporting this is reprehensible.

AV1 really consumes CPU but x265 and VP9 are easy on the CPU with software decoding.

I still can't believe the sham of current "AI" is just brute forcing LLMs to seem intelligent. I use ChatGPT almost every day which is supposedly best-in-class and it is dumb. Valuation of these companies are in the billions and all we get is unethical / not-safe-for-humanity AI companies popping up everywhere. I'm scared to see what the future holds with these companies scraping all sorts of our data.

It's a shame JPEG XL isn't listed. I've converted all my family scanned photos to make it future proof; editing and saving an image multiple times doesn't degrade it as much as jpeg. Lossless with higher compression means lower file sizes.

See:

https://www.twicpics.com/blog/why-the-web-needs-jpeg-xl

There's the fraidycat extension that I use to do exactly that:

https://fraidyc.at/

Can conclusion of the results be made after 20 days when the effects of minoxidil are seen after a few months? Or is this one of those rosemary-esque studies?

I'm no scientist / biologist and I'd like for this sugar to save my hair. (It recently started to fall and I've been researching on what can be done to save it.) If true, this would be a considerably cheaper way to tackle androgenic alopecia for most of the world.

Also, anyone try aminexil?

I contribute to OSM, and I've seen it in my own local town. It's not so much nefarious as it is negligent. They don't have local knowledge, see a satellite image of what seems like a road and decide it connects to existing residential roads. If you spend time on it, you'll notice it too as it was common enough for me to notice it.

That's still around 200 million people using Firefox.

I just tried it on Firefox with https://beta.maps.apple.com/abc, and all the POIs are incorrectly placed (at least in South Africa) and the roads are right-angled and un-named.

Also, Apple makes an absolute mess when contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. For example, their contributors make any informal / illegal shortcut part of a residential street when it isn't.

This is how we did Shakespeare in school; left side original text and the right side, an explanation. It made it much more bearable than trying to decipher what's being said.

Great project! I just wish it were in epub format to read on a smaller screen.