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Greetings everyone, We wanted to take a moment and let everyone know about the !business@lemmy.world community on Lemmy.World which hasn't gained much traction. Additionally, we've noticed occasional complaints about Business-related news being posted in the Technology community. To address this, we want to encourage our community members to engage with the Business community. While we'll still permit Technology-related business news here, unless it becomes overly repetitive, we kindly ask that you consider cross-posting such content to the Business community. This will help foster a more focused discussion environment in both communities. We've interacted with the mod team of the Business community, and they seem like a dedicated and welcoming group, much like the rest of us here on Lemmy. If you're interested, we encourage you to check out their community and show them some support! Let's continue to build a thriving and inclusive ecosystem across all our communities on Lemmy.World!
www.techradar.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20289663 > A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play. > > The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.
Hard to believe it's been 24 years since Y2K (2000) And it feels like we've come such a long way, but this decade started off very poorly with one of the worst pandemics the modern world has ever seen, and technology in general is looking very bleak in several ways I'm a PC gamer, and it looks like things are stagnating massively in our space. So many gaming companies are incapable of putting out a successful AAA title because people are either too poor, don't want to play a live service AAA disaster like every single one that has been released lately, Call of Duty, battlefield, anything electronic arts or Ubisoft puts out is almost entirely a failure or undersales. So many gaming studios have been shuttered and are being shuttered, Microsoft is basically one member of an oligopoly with Sony and a couple other companies. Hardware is stagnating. Nvidia is putting on the brakes for developing their next line of GPUs, we're not going to see huge gains in performance anymore because AMD isn't caught up yet and they have no reason to innovate. So they are just going to sell their next line of cards for $1,500 a pop for the top ones, with 10% increase in performance rather than 50 or 60% like we really need. We still don't have the capability to play games in full native 4K 144 Hertz. That's at least a decade away Virtual reality is on the verge of collapse because meta is basically the only real player in that space, they have a monopoly with them and valve index, pico from China is on the verge of developing something incredible as well, and Apple just revealed a mixed reality headset but the price is so extraordinary that barely anyone has it so use isn't very widespread. We're again a decade away from seeing anything really substantial in terms of performance Artificial intelligence is really, really fucking things up in general and the discussions about AI look almost as bad as the news about the latest election in the USA. It's so clowny and ridiculous and over-the-top hearing any news about AI. The latest news is that open AI is going to go from a non-profit to a for-profit company after they promised they were operating for the good of humanity and broke countless laws stealing copyrighted information, supposedly for the public good, but now they're just going to snap their fingers and morph into a for-profit company. So they can just basically steal anything they want that's copyrighted, but claim it's for the public good, and then randomly swap to a for-profit model. Doesn't make any sense and just looks like they're going to be a vessel for widespread economic poverty... It just seems like there's a lot of bubbles that are about to burst all at the same time, like I don't see how things are going to possibly get better for a while now?
In my humble opinion, the Technology community should only contain text news/articles or even news pictures. I simply think that tech videos does not belong to this community, as there is already a videos community which would be more suitable for this. What does the mods think about this?
arstechnica.com
OpenAI does not want anyone to know what o1 is “thinking" under the hood.
www.theverge.com
This is dope.
www.scmagazine.com
hackaday.com
haveibeenpwned.com
> **Breach date:** 12 Sept 2024 > **Compromised accounts:** 319,613 > **Compromised data:** Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Passwords, Usernames
mashable.com
Surprised pikachu face
Anyone sane has left Xitter already and the crazies stay on their own platform, making the Web generally much more pleasant, as less and less sites link to Xitter.
annas-archive.org
>We can only expect these trends to continue to worsen, and many works to be lost well before they enter the public domain. > >We are on the eve of a revolution in preservation, but “the lost cannot be recovered.” We have a critical window of about 5-10 years during which it’s still fairly expensive to operate a shadow library and create many mirrors around the world, and during which access has not been completely shut down yet. > >If we can bridge this window, then we’ll indeed have preserved humanity’s knowledge and culture in perpetuity. We should not let this time go to waste. We should not let this critical window close on us. > >Let’s go. > >- Anna and the team
www.voanews.com
> The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.
www.seroundtable.com
As the name implies, just wanted to ask whether it is normal to not to see posts from the communities where your subscription request is still pending. I checked the page of the community and found that there had been activity there, but none has shown up, leading me to believe that it might be a federation issue. Never used Lemmy until now, so any and all advice is very much appreciated.
South Korea convened an international summit on Monday seeking to establish a blueprint for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military, though any agreement is not expected to have binding powers to enforce it. More than 90 countries including the United States and China have sent government representatives to the two-day summit in Seoul, which is the second such gathering. The first summit was held in The Hague last year, where the United States, China and other nations endorsed a modest "call to action, opens new tab" without legal commitment.
 [Source.](https://agora.echelon.pl/objects/c76d6989-9fd3-4be3-8f46-dd87243a1dc5)
arstechnica.com
# Neofetch is over, but many screenshot system info tools stand ready ------ **Dev behind a popular screenshot tool checks out, but the successors are good.** Almost nobody truly needed Neofetch, but the people who did use it? They really liked it. Neofetch, run from a terminal, displayed key system information alongside an ASCII-art image of the operating system or distribution running on that system. You knew most of this data, but if you're taking a screenshot of your system, it looked cool and conveyed a lot of data in a small space. "The overall purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screen-shots of your system," wrote Neofetch's creator, Dylan Araps, on its Github repository. "Neofetch shows the information other people want to see." Neofetch did that, providing cool screenshots and proof-of-life images across nearly 150 OS versions until late April. The last update to the tool was made three years before that, and Araps' Github profile now contains a rather succinct coda: "Have taken up farming." Araps joins "going to a commune in Vermont" and "I now make furniture out of wood" in the pantheon of programmers who do not just leave the field, but flee into another realm entirely. As sometimes happens, the void was filled not by one decent replacement but many. ----- ## The neo-Neofetches Fastfetch seems to have captured the default forum/thread/blog recommendation as a Neofetch replacement. It is under active development, with changes occurring just hours before this post was published. It's highly customizable, available across most major platforms and distributions, and extensible through modules. It supports Wayland, provides more detailed memory and storage statistics, and, as the name suggests, is generally faster. It's FOSS and has a tutorial on customizing and extending Fastfetch. NerdFetch gives you the kind of icon customization you might expect if you're the type who takes meticulously arranged screenshots of your desktop. By installing one of the glyph-packed Nerd Fonts, you can replace text inside your readout with icons readable at a glance. It's available on POSIX-compliant systems ("Anything but Windows"). It lacks a lot of customization and module options, and it's missing the big, custom OS logo (it seemingly shows a very abstract ASCII Tux in both MacOS and Asahi Linux). But it's also compact and a bit different. What else? There's hyfetch, which is "neofetch with pride flags," but it also contains inside it "neowofetch," which is an updated neofetch sans pride coloring. The macchina system info tool is written in Rust and offers themeing, being "basic by default and extensible by design." And cpufetch is, as you might imagine, a lot more CPU data, along with a logo. Curiously, cpufetch showed an "arm" rendering when I ran it under Asahi Linux on a MacBook, but then an Apple logo while inside MacOS. Works either way! Just interesting. If you've put time into getting a Linux desktop just how you like it—or just getting Linux onto a device that really doesn't want it—it follows that you'd want to show it off. These are not the last of the apps that will try to make fetch happen, but they're a strong start.
www.pcgamer.com
Getting your game noticed is a tricky business when you have to punch through the noise of the [more than 10,000 new Steam games](https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/) releasing each year. Young Horses, the developer of Bugsnax and Octodad, have found itself in an even trickier spot: Thanks to Google, people are expecting a Bugsnax sequel that doesn't exist. "We are not working on a Bugsnax sequel right now and I need AI bs to stop telling kids we are based on a wiki ideas fanfic," Young Horses co-founder and president [Philip Tibitoski tweeted](https://x.com/PTibz/status/1834555767220732011) earlier today. It turns out, through the wonders of algorithmic search result curation, Google's featured snippets have been informing people that Bugsnax 2 will be releasing in October 2024, despite the fact that neither Young Horses or any other developer are making it.
www.servethehome.com
United Airlines to Provide Starlink-powered Wi-Fi For Free on all flights [https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125346](https://www.united.com/en/us/newsroom/announcements/cision-125346) [@technology](https://lemmy.world/c/technology)