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byGilgaron
2026 @11:28AM
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Attached to: Extremophile Molds Are Invading Art Museums
Sure the atmosphere starts inert but then the art itself, the sealant on the joints in the chamber, etc will offgas into it. It's like putting milipore water in a plastic jug and figuring out how long it stays pure for before the jug contaminates it, and if that matters (probably not for wetwork cellular biology, maybe if you're testing for microplastic).
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byGilgaron
2026 @11:24AM
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Attached to: Seven of the World's Ten Best-Selling Smartphones in 2025 Were iPhones
Yeah I was wondering that... like I'd assume you'd see similar bias in numbers of specific laptop models sold even though total sales for Windows or Chromebooks is likely higher.
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byGilgaron
2026 @10:23AM
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Attached to: Extremophile Molds Are Invading Art Museums
That would help with mold, but paintings are going to be complicated layers of fabric, paints with pigments based on various organic and inorganic sources, and binders that could be protein or resin. So you'd want to have an atmosphere incompatible with microbes while not oxidizing or reducing any of the other components of the art, all at an ideal humidity, and enclosed in something that allows the public to view the thing. Each requirement has an easy solution that isn't necessarily compatible with the others.
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byGilgaron
8, 2026 @10:03PM
(#65955842)
Attached to: Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
Yes but if Line Must Go Up means you gotta lay some folks off then whats a C Suite to do?
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byGilgaron
8, 2026 @01:26PM
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Attached to: Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
That doesn't really benefit the corporation, they don't want the most desirable staff to get spooked and jump ship, they want them to feel 'safe and valued' after the cuts and stick around.
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byGilgaron
8, 2026 @01:24PM
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Attached to: Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
I haven't found it good at any sort of data analysis that would be required for identifying fat. It can search document repositories well and read a user the manual conversationally but feeding it an org chart is bound to get a useless hallucination back. Unless you're trawling Teams for "who didn't actually interact with any coworkers this week" but if you have incompetent enough management that doing so would improve things then you're in deep trouble.
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byGilgaron
2026 @03:37PM
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Attached to: France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns
Because Visio is also the name of a MS product.
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byGilgaron
2026 @02:27PM
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Attached to: France To Ditch US Platforms Microsoft Teams, Zoom For 'Sovereign Platform' Amid Security Concerns
Internally, large outfits will use whatever IT procures and small outfits will use whatever is free. Externally everyone will use whatever their clients demand them use or their partners can be convinced to peer with.
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byGilgaron
2026 @12:56PM
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Attached to: Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US
Yeah but you'd be surprised how rarely you'd unfold a folding phone with an external screen. I open mine less than 10 times a day, and that'd include going to the gym and opening it to watch shows while on an exercise machine.
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byGilgaron
2026 @10:44AM
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Attached to: Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US
That is a good point, I can't imagine finding an excuse to upgrade an iPhone or Galaxy candy bar frequently, it's like in the early aughts when a PC upgrade year to year was a significant upgrade to now where there's not much reason to replace a laptop until the hardware is failing.
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byGilgaron
2026 @10:38AM
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Attached to: Samsung Galaxy Z Trifold Will Cost $2,900 in the US
It was weird that the last Fold didn't support a stylus because it is one of the better use cases for the larger screen. I've tried some of these folding phones and while the extra real estate is nice sometimes the fragility is more of a drawback on something that ties into all of your 2FA accounts, mobile payments and all that has become rolled into the phones. I intend to go back to a solid phone once this Fold4 I'm using becomes obsolete.
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byGilgaron
2026 @12:30PM
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Attached to: New Linux/Android 2-in-1 Tablet 'Open Slate' Announced by Brax Technologies
That's the problem with a lot of these form factor devices. You can get nearly get a locked down crappy Amazon device in your Cheerios box, and if you're spending this kind of money you can pay a little more for a laptop. The e paper stylus notepads look super useful to me but $700 and a subscription and I'm better off sticking with my rocketbook for general use or my phone or laptop if I really want direct e stylus into OneNote or so on.
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byGilgaron
2026 @12:24PM
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Attached to: Fixing Retail With Land Value Capture
I have some hobbies that used to be trades and reading blogs for ideas sometimes the guys that run theirs as businesses get asked about how to turn a hobby into a real business and the most important advice seems to be "own your own buildings, don't have a mortgage, have a spouse with benefits" because even in niches where people would pay a premium for local goods there's way too many pitfalls even before you get into supply chains.
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byGilgaron
2026 @12:15PM
(#65937430)
Attached to: Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?
Oh I don't think experience is limited to biological systems, I'm not a dualist. They're the easiest systems to reach for because thermostats and crystals seem bit too simple. Even then, like recording a feedback loop like a radio preset doesn't seem like an experience the radio has. But it's been a long time since I had philosophy electives maybe I need to research and reflect on some newer ideas.
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byGilgaron
2026 @08:44AM
(#65936848)
Attached to: Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?
You just have to look up how they're made and work. Our brain works with electrical differentials in synapses but you'd be confused if someone said a AA battery could only be approached agnostically from a sentience standpoint. "Oh a sufficiently complicated battery could achieve sentience" I guess? But not in any realistic context. And, hell, I'm even of the opinion that a Chinese Room understands Chinese for all practical purposes and definitions as far as thought experiments go, so I think I'm as amenable to the idea of machine intelligence as any, but an LLM being sentient is like a Rosetta stone being sentient.
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