🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨
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🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨
From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.
Who will win? You decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
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🚨 THE FINAL TWO 🚨
From thirty-two candidates, we’ve now made it to the final round where Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will face off for the crown.
Who will win? You decide!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
Live results are not available this round. The winner will be announced on our livestream for Patreon supporters after voting closes at 7pm ET, and soon after on social media.
Become a supporter: https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus
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Live results are not available this round. The winner will be announced on our livestream for Patreon supporters after voting closes at 7pm ET, and soon after on social media.
Become a supporter: https://patreon.com/techwontsaveus
Here’s the full bracket to see how we got here! Plus, you can also cast a vote for third place this year, between Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.
Vote now: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
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Here’s the full bracket to see how we got here! Plus, you can also cast a vote for third place this year, between Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg.
Vote now: https://twsu.forms.app/wpit25-final
@parismarx as European I need to say Elon Musk is the worst of the worst.
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@parismarx as European I need to say Elon Musk is the worst of the worst.
@lontrachen @parismarx As someone from the EU living in Denmark, definitely Peter Thiel.
Elon Musk is a petty loser with too much money to express his small dick energy, but Peter Thiel is instrumenting EU countries to become police states.
I know Elon Musk has made a lot of damage in the USA with DOGE, but that is none of my business (especially according to most USA citizens I interact with).
Anyway, I feel for the South Africans, represented by these 2 nazis.
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@lontrachen @parismarx As someone from the EU living in Denmark, definitely Peter Thiel.
Elon Musk is a petty loser with too much money to express his small dick energy, but Peter Thiel is instrumenting EU countries to become police states.
I know Elon Musk has made a lot of damage in the USA with DOGE, but that is none of my business (especially according to most USA citizens I interact with).
Anyway, I feel for the South Africans, represented by these 2 nazis.
@fabriziob @lontrachen @parismarx The governments are expanding their surveillance capabilities with or without Thiel. Take it from someone working in the industry, in EU.
Musk, on the other hand, is actively trying (and succeeding at) influencing global politics, social consensus, the Overton window, etc. He owns and actively influences the discourse on one of the biggest social media sites in the world, finances and promotes fascists worldwide (like the AfD in Germany), etc.
I'll admit, when you're not in a position where your human rights are being debated, Thiel and his surveillance may be more of a threat, but to marginalized communities, Musk is far worse.
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@fabriziob @lontrachen @parismarx The governments are expanding their surveillance capabilities with or without Thiel. Take it from someone working in the industry, in EU.
Musk, on the other hand, is actively trying (and succeeding at) influencing global politics, social consensus, the Overton window, etc. He owns and actively influences the discourse on one of the biggest social media sites in the world, finances and promotes fascists worldwide (like the AfD in Germany), etc.
I'll admit, when you're not in a position where your human rights are being debated, Thiel and his surveillance may be more of a threat, but to marginalized communities, Musk is far worse.
@engideer yepp. Peter Thiel can develop the shit he wants, but it is the european leaders who want to use it. They don't need to, they want.
Musk is actively manipulating european politics, the last federal election in Germany, UK, his public feud against the EU, the war on labor rights in sweden etc.
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@engideer yepp. Peter Thiel can develop the shit he wants, but it is the european leaders who want to use it. They don't need to, they want.
Musk is actively manipulating european politics, the last federal election in Germany, UK, his public feud against the EU, the war on labor rights in sweden etc.
@lontrachen @engideer @parismarx
One thing that many do not realize is that Peter Thiel is making totalitarian surveillance extremely affordable.
Stasi used to cost 25% of the GDP of East Germany. By 1989 it relied on 500,000 to 2,000,000 collaborators as well as 100,000 regular employees, and it maintained files on approximately 6,000,000 East German citizens—more than one-third of the population.
Palantir Gotham is priced at $141K per core, for a perpetual license, easily hidden.
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@evan @mayintoronto wow. You made me realise I have not used a word processor for the past month! Woohoo! That was fun!
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We shouldn't forget that the movements in memory manufacturers are because datacenter demands pays more compared with consumers demands.It's kinda "race". If consumers pay more, datacenters would pay even more.
This means "cost pressures" on datacenters become higher and it should cause the fee for datacenters to be more expensive.So I think keeping data "in premise" being still competitive.
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Hardware Store Marauder’s Map is Clarkian Magic
The “Marauder’s Map” is a magical artifact from the Harry Potter franchise. That sort of magic isn’t real, but as Arthur C. Clarke famously pointed out, it doesn’t need to be — we have technology, and we can make our own magic now. Or, rather, [Dave] on the YouTube Channel Dave’s Armoury can make it.
[Dave]’s hardware store might be in a rough neighborhood, since it has 50 cameras’ worth of CCTV coverage. In this case, the stockman’s loss is the hacker’s gain, as [Dave] has talked his way into accessing all of those various camera feeds and is using machine vision to track every single human in the store.
Of course, locating individuals in a video feed is easy — to locate them in space from that feed, one first needs an accurate map. To do that, [Dave] first 3D scans the entire store with a rover. The scan is in full 3D, and it’s no small amount of data. On the rover, a Jetson AGX is required to handle it; on the bench, a beefy HP Z8 Fury workstation crunches the point cloud into a map. Luckily it came with 500 GB of RAM, since just opening the mesh file generated from that point cloud needs 126 GB. That is processed into a simple 2D floor plan. While the workflow is impressive, we can’t help but wonder if there was an easier way. (Maybe a tape measure?)
Once an accurate map has been generated, it turns out NVIDIA already has a turnkey solution for mapping video feeds to a 2D spatial map. When processing so much data — remember, there are 50 camera feeds in the store — it’s not ideal to be passing the image data from RAM to GPU and back again, but luckily NVIDIA’s “Deep Stream” pipeline will do object detection and tracking (including between different video streams) all on the GPU. There’s also pose estimation right in there for more accurate tracking of where a person is standing than just “inside this red box”. With 50 cameras, it’s all a bit much for one card, but luckily [Dave]’s workstation has two GPUs.
Once the coordinates are spat out of the neural networks, it’s relatively simple to put footprints on the map in true Harry Potter fashion. It really is magic, in the Clarkian sense, what you can do if you throw enough computing power at it.
Unfortunately for show-accuracy (or fortunately, if you prefer to avoid gross privacy violations), it doesn’t track every individual by name, but it does demonstrate the possibility with [Dave] and his robot. If you want a map of something… else… maybe check out this backyard project.
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@evan Collabora {Online, Office} and AbiWord.
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@jtonline excellent, no notes.
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Latest idea for the 2025 Christmas tree name...
Volodymyr Zelenstree
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@evan At work, we're a Microsoft shop. In my personal life, I use a text editor.
