Notices by Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to), page 5

A nice overview of LLaMA models you can run locally, and how they compare with models like ChatGPT

https://agi-sphere.com/llama-models/

BlueSky ToS gives Jack a 'perpetual' & 'irrevocable' license to all your content https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1651686218319425570.html

A debate on the topic "Is the Chinese system better than the American/European one at providing stability, prosperity, and freedom?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGa6i2DY3A

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Scientists from institutions including Mercator Ocean International in France, Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research collaborated to discover that as the planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years, the majority of the excess heat has been absorbed by the oceans.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ocean-warming-study

Food prices in Europe are rising at an accelerating pace https://archive.ph/pZDo5

adapting a legacy codebase to new business requirements

US media is now entering acceptance stages of grief https://archive.ph/uw0Jg

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A recent paper finds that ChatGPT Is consuming a staggering amount of water.

"While a 500ml bottle of water might not seem too much, the total combined water footprint for inference is still extremely large, considering ChatGPT’s billions of users."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271.pdf

Firefox rolls out total cookie protection by default

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-cookie-protection-by-default-to-all-users-worldwide/

‘Youtube-dl Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship’ https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-hosting-ban-paves-the-way-to-privatized-censorship-230411/

Housing in US is so unaffordable that banks are losing money for each mortgage they finance for the first time ever https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-unaffordable-banks-losing-money-014524600.html

The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing. If you look for reasons for why companies do layoffs, the reason is that everybody else is doing it.

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

Samsung plans to reduce chip production after experiencing a 96% drop in profits https://www.reuters.com/technology/samsung-elec-q1-profit-likely-plunged-96-chip-glut-slashes-prices-2023-04-06/

Major content creator with 5.7 million followers on TikTok had this to say about our government in Canada. It's particularly interesting to see such a large creator who’s platform isn’t political to speak out like this.

https://www.tiktok.com/@chezaidan/video/7216794209565838598

US has over 10k gun deaths this year, and it's only March https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

Bolivian President calls for a "lithium OPEC" in Latin America to deter "foreign meddling, in particular from the US":

"We don't want our lithium to be a reason for destabilizing democratically elected governments or foreign harassment"

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolivia-president-calls-joint-latin-america-lithium-policy-2023-03-24/

Yellen convenes an unscheduled meeting of U.S. financial regulators.

https://archive.ph/NGyWg

How fake news is created. To protect its market share, Facebook has hired a lobbying firm to demonize TikTok.

A company called Targeted Victory pays people to write op-eds in prominent newspapers; and recruits pay-for-play politicians to hype security threat of the “Communist China”.

https://archive.ph/DtU7h

The first direct observation of gravitational waves captured the merging of 2 black holes which emitted 36 septillion yottawatts of power (3.6×10⁴⁹ watts), greater than the combined power of all light radiated by all the stars in the observable universe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves