artifex

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The hunt for the world’s rarest duck in c/science@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

So it's a... Duck Hunt ?

(sorry, I'll see myself out)

Elon Musk just opened a restaurant in Los Angeles. This is the menu. in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 10 hours ago

Fuck Elon, but man do I love all-day breakfast.

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Betelgeuse’s companion star revealed in new images (www.sciencenews.org)
 

Supergiant Betelgeuse was recently discovered to have a companion star - it's bright blue, not yet fusing hydrogen, and actually orbiting so close that it's inside Betelgeuse's outer atmosphere! I wonder what it'll be named.

Through the window, Rocky Mountain National Park in c/photography@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago

It’s like a Bob Ross painting!

It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] artifex@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, one real concern is that bottom-of-the-barrel lawyers will continue to just use their $20/month chatGPT subscription, and not something more lawyer-centric that will (eventually) be able to weed out the true stupidity almost 100% of the time.

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It’s “frighteningly likely” many US courts will overlook AI errors, expert says (arstechnica.com)
 

While the thought of lawyers lawyering with AI gives me the icks, I also understand that at a certain point it may play out like the self-driving car argument: once the AI is good enough, it will be better than the average human -- since I think it's obvious to everyone that human lawyers make plenty of mistakes. So if you knew the average lawyer made 3.6 mistakes per case and the AI only made 1.2, it's still a net gain. On the other hand tho, this could lead to complacency that drives even more injustice.

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One of my weird, purple avocados (files.catbox.moe)
 

There are several old avocado trees on my corner, including the one that makes these small (tho not usually this small) green avocados that turn purple and shiny like an eggplant when fully ripe. The taste is pretty typical for a green avocado -- so much less fatty than a Haas -- but with a nice floral note that I haven't come across in other varieties.

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ESA's Invictus spaceplane project revives the SABRE hypersonic engine (thenextweb.com)
 

When Reaction Engines went bankrupt a few years ago there was much speculation about when -- not if -- their technology for a supercooled hybrid ramjet/rocket engine would be picked up by another entity. It seems we now have our answer as the ESA hopes to revive and complete the ambitious project for a single-stage-to-orbit, air-breathing spaceplane.

Florida's plan to replace migrant workers with children falls apart in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 26 points 1 day ago

Maybe that was the case 20 years ago, but today there native son Gen-X and Millennial shits are voting just as hard R as the old folks used to. I’ve been here the whole time and watched the whole state transition from “haha” dumb to “dude, wtf?” dumb.

Infinite "prove you are a human" loops on archive.is with Firefox + VPN? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] artifex@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

When this happens to me it’s usually a cloudflare problem. Sometimes it fixes itself in a day or two. A few times it has been broken for weeks and I’ve had to use a VPN to reach it.

Car and Driver magazine, June 2025 in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] artifex@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s choice as in “choose your weapon,” and not “muh freedoms”. Either way tho, material from a magazine literally called Car and Driver seems a bit low effort for this community :)

Revised estimates of temperature changes under net zero CO2 emissions | Our findings indicate that 50 years after abrupt emission cessation, the multi-model median temperature change is −0.19 °C in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago

As long as we haven’t already hit any of the important tipping points that cause runaway effects of their own, right? (Eg methane clathrates, minimum albedo, etc)

tell me your outlook on human nature and i tell you who you are in c/memes@slrpnk.net
[–] artifex@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

Humans will almost certainly bring a solution. Might not be a good one for most people though.

tell me your outlook on human nature and i tell you who you are in c/memes@slrpnk.net
[–] artifex@piefed.social 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We can also be the solution.

There are more options than just capitalism (and especially the weird kind of klepto-capitalism that we're falling into globally now).

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] artifex@piefed.social 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's John Henry all over again. Dębiak should make sure he gets some proper R&R now, just to be safe.

the other side in c/unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] artifex@piefed.social 18 points 4 days ago

Too close to home.

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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit to build Nostr-based social media apps (techcrunch.com)
 

Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

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