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byEvilSS
26 @12:02PM
(#65959260)
Attached to: Unable To Stop AI, SAG-AFTRA Mulls a Studio Tax On Digital Performers
Apparently I can't use a less than symbol on here. Let's try that again
If ((AIActor.Tax + AIActor.Cost) LessThan (HumanActor.Salary + HumanActor.Residuals)) then Studio.Happy = True
180701306
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byEvilSS
26 @12:00PM
(#65959254)
Attached to: Unable To Stop AI, SAG-AFTRA Mulls a Studio Tax On Digital Performers
Let me try to simply this for you: If ((AIActor.Tax + AIActor.Cost) (HumanActor.Salary + HumanActor.Residuals)) then Studio.Happy = True
180700754
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byEvilSS
26 @10:28AM
(#65958966)
Attached to: Unable To Stop AI, SAG-AFTRA Mulls a Studio Tax On Digital Performers
I don't know, I can see a financial upside for the studios. The union fund payments would almost certainly be cheaper than an actor's salary + residuals. Plus it would be tacit permission from the union to let studios do this without getting into a fight with them. Which is why I can also see the union members NOT voting for it.
180700614
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byEvilSS
26 @10:14AM
(#65958922)
Attached to: Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11
Luckily this is a powertoy so unlikely. Plus most of the powertoys are open source so easy to remove if they tried it.
180699884
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byEvilSS
26 @09:44AM
(#65958840)
Attached to: Backseat Software
I hate those. I'm a consultant and I'm in Azure and 365 portals for various companies all the time. I swear it's partially responsible for my high bloodpressure. And whoever at MS decided to push out that change the defaults everyone to collapsed navigation menus in Azure needs to be tied to a post and whipped.
180680244
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byEvilSS
2026 @03:26PM
(#65955116)
Attached to: Cancer Might Protect Against Alzheimer's
The key here is the discovery of the protein they propose is involved. That could lead to a treatment. And if you read the summary, what you are talking about is one of the confounders they worked to control for. Obviously other studies are needed to confirm their findings but it's interesting.
180680198
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byEvilSS
2026 @03:17PM
(#65955084)
Attached to: 'Clawdbot' Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis
You don't need crazy hardware to run local models. gpt-oss-20b will run on a 24GB Mac Mini. Qwen3 8B 8 bit MLX will run on a base model mini. For the agenic stuff a lot of people are using Moltbot for either of those would be fine.
180680128
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byEvilSS
2026 @03:05PM
(#65955052)
Attached to: 'Clawdbot' Has AI Techies Buying Mac Minis
What are you even talking about? They have official documentation on using Ollama, LMStudio, vLLM, and others not to mention OpenRouter. Plus if it talks to OpenAI, then it can talk to most local models since many of the runtimes use the OpenAI API spec. As for why the Mac Mini, a bone-stock mini will give you about 8GB of high speed RAM (leaving 8gb for the system) for around $550. 24GB model gets you at least 16GB to play with. You can run a lot of decent local models on either one.
180679794
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byEvilSS
2026 @02:23PM
(#65954946)
Attached to: Apple Sued by App Developer Over its Continuity Camera
This wasn't even novel back in 2020 when they launched. There were a bunch of apps that popped up during the pandemic to do this.
180666150
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byEvilSS
026 @01:28PM
(#65952754)
Attached to: California Tech CEO and EV Pioneer Arrested, Accused of Murder
Murder for hire, I could maybe believe, but in the absence of a lot more detail, this is kind of stretching credibility here.
Well he was big into the BattleBot scene so.... murderbot?
180660896
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byEvilSS
26 @03:10PM
(#65950772)
Attached to: GTA 6's Physical Release Could Be Delayed To 2027 Because of Leaks
The answer to your question is literally in the title.
180645504
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byEvilSS
26 @03:23PM
(#65944994)
Attached to: Toronto Man Posed as Pilot To Rack Up Hundreds of Free Flights, Prosecutors Say
That is the maximum sentence possible. He most likely will get a way lighter sentence.
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byEvilSS
2026 @03:47PM
(#65942694)
Attached to: Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready'
Yep, this is why there are no building fires in Europe. Zero! And yet the US still uses wood.
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byEvilSS
2026 @03:45PM
(#65942686)
Attached to: Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready'
A highrise in Hong Kong that burned up that had a lot of bamboo in it burn up recently?
No. They had a high-rise with a lot of bamboo scaffolding around it and very flammable foam covering windows go up.
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byEvilSS
2026 @02:01PM
(#65942420)
Attached to: Schools, Airports, High-Rise Towers: Architects Urged To Get 'Bamboo-Ready'
This! There is a reason wood is banned as a building material folks!
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