[–] 13 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

Information comes drop by drop.

Currently the government is trying to put all the blame in a single human error. But multiple systems that shouldn't had fail in a well maintained system did indeed fail.

The problems with high speed trains in Spain are more than evident. Two massive fatal accidents are the most dramatic ones, but there are countless of non lethal problems every day.

The workers they are trying to pin the blame on are overworked to death, they doubled their responsibilities without giving them more people to balanced it. The workers had complain multiple times by formal letter that this amount of exhaustion and overwork was leading to security problems.

There is a systemic problem that has a lot to do with lack of funding. The reason of the lack of founding is more in the air, but the previous Transport Minister is going to jail for corruption, and the current one while currently has no open causes is close to too many corrupt politicians I don't trust him not to have taken public money thar were supposed to go to train maintenance and keep it to himself.

This is incredibly sad, because it puts the country in a very hard situation. These corrupt politicians are the current alternative to the alt right. The alt right and the right (which is also alt at this point) is going to win by a landslide, but it's very very hard to justify the vote for these people when these things keep happening.

For myself their current response is going to determine if I go to the polls on November or just go straight up to build resistance networks against the future fascist government. But if the Transport Minister keeps throwing under the bus overworked and understaffed workers, I'm not going to vote for them.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    // I don't know how this works, but it works, please don't touch it

    the most incoherent piece of code you have seen in your life, taken directly from the Book of the Death

    The OG blackbox

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    These big websites are all AI generated now.

    I don't even see the point.

    Why the hell would I want to go to your site to read the output of an AI. If I would like to do that I would go directly to ask the AI myself. It's stupid beyond measure.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    For the few people being able to have access to those lot gardens, maybe.

    The big thing is when you run the numbers.

    The minimum amount of lang needed to feed a person in optimal conditions is around 1000m².

    In a city like Madrid each person has available around 100m² and in that space it goes all the housing, public spaces, services, streets, etc.

    How much space could be taken from everything else to create urban farming land? It's really hard to think that it wouls be enough to even amount for more than a few percent points of what it's needed.

    And we have to take into account that all urban space dedicates to farm won't be usable for anything else. When you try to universalize it the numbers are just really hard to reconcile.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

    Back in uni I had some teachers that had actually done a scientific study on the possibilities of urban food growing, and the results were that it was unsuitable for anything more that just a recreational activity.

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    In the country I live the alt-right has a very strong hold over one of the biggest online communities of the country. The thing is that this forum is a business that lives out of advertisement, so I think there is a weakness there if they were to lose advertisement money.

    Do you know or have any successful stories about collective action being done to take the platform down or enforce heavy moderation changes so the alt-right gets deplatformed there?

     

    I used to buy them cheap in AliExpress, but since the new european tariff it's ridiculously expensive, you'll pay dozens of times the prize of the product in tariffs.

    Amazon and other big general retailers are ridiculously expensive as well.

    Local buying is not an option because in my city there is not a single electronics shop.

    Buying from small specialized online shops, the best option if it were not for the lack of selection, meaning that to order all you need for a project need to hit several shops and be buried in shipping cost.

    What do you hobbyists do since ali is not an option anymore within the EU?

     

    I'm looking for something that just gives good results with their own engine, not proxying google or yahoo, without LLMs being involved.

    I've used startpage and have my own searxng instance self hosted. But both use mostly google results with just a nicer frontend.

    I was looking Kagi as an alternative. But they seemed to move to become another AI company, bundling their subscription to the search engine with a subscription to an LLM, so I'm not paying for that.

     

    Imagine you would see a fact that contradict your deepest believes, the core of who you are. This fact is uncontestable, is evidence in its purest form, is something that happened and you know with 100% certainty that it happened. But this fact also is against what define you as a person, your most profound thoughts. Either political, religious , philosophical or moral believes, whatever sits deepetin you.

    Do you think this evidence would make you change your mind, or not?

     

    I you've got an old piece of hardware with nvidia hardware you know the pain. Nvidia stopped supporting 390 drivers back in 2022. Meaning that a few years later, as new kernels rolled in people will start being unable to install those drivers. Now in 2026 AFAIK there isn't any maintained distro that keeps supporting a kernel old enough to work with those drivers. So good bye old nvidia gpus.

    People here had several paths:

    1.- If you got iGPU you could use that, less performance, but usually still works. 2.- Use nouveau drivers. Nouveau it's not very performant now, with old hardware is even worse. This should be just the last resource as the experience would be miserable, my gpu even struggled with some desktop environments using nouveau, while igpu worked just fine. 3. Switch to windows. Windows usually keeps better retrocompatibility, and while the drivers are still unsuported, you can install them no problem in windows.

    I decided to move to windows 10 ioT LTSC, with support until 2032. Because I had an old laptop that I still liked to use for some lightweight gaming. Nouveau was completely unable to perform good enough for any game. iGPU worked better, I was able to play some games, but still I was missing the extra performance the dGPU gave to me. So I, sadly, moved to Microsoft OS.

    But lately I've been thinking, what if there were a solution? And keep looking deeper. And I found it. Te DKMS for the drivers could be patched to work with modern Linux Kernels. But it was DIY. There used to be some maintained projects and repos, but most are now archived. The only thing I found still maintained is this AUR repo:

    https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-390xx-utils

    Great, some people managed to get it working! My day was saved! But.. it was AUR, which means Arch or derivatives. And I really didn't want to go that route. This laptop is just for media and playing, all through GUI from my couch, I don't want to be messing with the keyboard. And I knew that with Arch, specially using AUR patches that was unlikely to go smooth.

    I had always use linux mint on this laptop and I was very happy, so I though. why no replicate whatever AUR is doing in linux mint? And I got to it. I installed mint, and lock the kernel to 6.8 (with support until 2029) and starting following the AUR to patch the nvidia drivers manually. But the kernel expected in arch is not exactly the same as is it's in Mint (which uses a Ubuntu kernel with backported security patches). So I hit a wall, it didn't work. Then is when I found the second most useful resource in this journey:

    https://github.com/earldodd/nvidia-390-kernel68-patches

    A guide on how to manually patch the DKMS, specifically made for linux Mint. It didn't include any ready to go binaries or scripts, but it was very well explained. Following that I managed to make what I thought it was impossible. And I finally got to see my old laptop running the nvidia proprietary drivers again (I almost cried here).

    So yes, it is possible. On linux forum most people said it was not possible. That it could not be done. But it is. And if you want to do it I found those two resources the better path to achieve it.

    Now we arrive to the bitter end. I think while possible I won't finally keep this config, and I probably just keep windows 10 ltsc and after that loses support switch back to linux mint and just disable the dGPU. why? Because the process to patch the driver was painful, hard to replicate, fragile, and led to a lot of missconfigurations and broken things. I spent two full days on this. I don't want to do it again each time an update messes something up. Maybe in the future I would try to create some installation script once I figure it out who to fix all the secondary issues that emerged with this Frankenstein, but by that time probably kernel 6.8 would be discontinue and I would need to start again for the next Ubuntu LTS kernel, a little discouraging, but who knows.

    I just wanted to share this penguin journey with all of you. And share those resources for anyone in need of them.

    UPDATE: Finally I decided just ditch the gpu all together. Installed my old good reliable mint and blacklisted nouveau. A little lost in performance in some games, but I think it will be worth it.

     

    Let's call the noisy coworker NoiseGuy for short.

    Situation, I work in a open office, in the same space there are some rooms with actual doors. NoiseGuy works in one of these rooms but he always keeps the door open.

    NoiseGuy is very noisy about everything. He is constantly stapling papers at full power, whistling, yawning out loud, singing, and sometimes he just shout up some words out loud like "WEEELL!!!".

    I'm quite sensible to noise so I thought it may be just me. But I've asked other coworkers and everyone is sick of it. When he shouts specially loud everyone look at each other.

    I did some research and he doesn't even work in my department. He apparently got demoted here for having issues with his old department and being sent to my office was, apparently, his punishment.

    He knows he is noisy, and I think he is doing it on purpose to bother everyone around him, that's why I also think he keeps his door open. Everyone in office have decided just not to acknowledge him very much in a "do not look at the monsters" way. But he is just not stopping, it's been years like this.

    I don't want to create a bad ambient in my workspace, but I'm starting to have a bad time each day when I hear him. I don't want to switch jobs as I have otherwise a great job.

    Options I have thought:

    1. Talking with my boss. My boss is not his boss so they have no power over him.

    2. Talking with his boss or human resources. They were the ones who sent him here, I don't think they would be doing more as he is impossible to fire or have any other work-related punishment.

    3. Talking with NoiseGuy. He has apparent personality issues. I don't want to mess with that. Most likely he would be even more noisy knowing he is bothering someone.

    4. Having a meltdown and going to his office and slam the door close. I fantasize about this, but he will just open the door again and I would be the crazy one in the office.

     

    This is not about any specific case. It's just a theoretical scenario that popped into my mind.

    For context, in many places is required to label AI generated content as such, in other places is not required but it is considered good etiquette.

    But imagine the following, an artist is going to make an image. Normal first step is search for references online, and then do the drawing taking reference from those. But this artists cannot found proper references online or maybe the artist want to experiment, and the artist decide to use a diffusion model to generate a bunch of AI images for reference. Then the artist procedes to draw the image taking the AI images as references.

    The picture is 100% handmade, each line was manually drawn. But AI was used in the process of making this image. Should it have some kind of "AI warning label"?

    What do you think?

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