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Here’s an idea: a worldwide universal basic income paid for by a carbon tax. A study found that it could boost the global GDP by 130%.
A study found that implementing a global universal basic income could boost global GDP by 130%.
Funding a global UBI with a carbon tax would also promote sustainability, the study’s authors say.
https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-carbon-taxes-global-gdp-sustainability-2024-6
The Doge Dog is dead. Sad Day
A survey of more than 2.4 million people finds that being online can have a positive effect on welfare.
A global, 16-year study1 of 2.4 million people has found that Internet use might boost measures of well-being, such as life satisfaction and sense of purpose — challenging the commonly held idea that Internet use has negative effects on people’s welfare.
Fritz.Box Domain is not owned by AVM and Fritz Boxes configure it as a default domain suffix via DHCP. So either don’t allow it to overwrite your resolv.conf or stop using your Fritz Box DHCP. And use alternative DNS Servers.
https://crapts.org/2024/04/21/all-fritz-box-modems-have-been-hijacked/
TL;DR: Every Fritz!Box has been compromised by DNS hijacking and using a Fritz!Box is unsafe. Every user of a Fritz!Box should immediately stop using their Fritz!Box or set up their own DHCP server.
edit: looks like they even redirected it to an NFT site sometime early this year according to heise.de. So it’s even worse than I thought. No idea if they now bought it or who owns it. Just play it safe and make sure you don’t use the suffix anywhere.
That’s what my dad said when I asked what was wrong with our home internet connection. “The Wi-Fi only works when it’s raining”
Let’s back up a few steps, so we’re all on the same page about the utter ridiculousness of this situation.
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Mit starken Worten und Superlativen gilt es in Fragen Computersicherheit immer sparsam umzugehen, nicht jede schlimm klingende Lücke stellt in der Realität auch eine Bedrohung dar. Bei dem, was nun rund um eine viel genutzte Open-Source-Komponente bekannt wird, können die Worte aber gar nicht stark genug sein. Geht es dabei doch um den jahrelang vorbereiteten Versuch, eine Hintertür auf hunderte Millionen Systeme einzuschmuggeln. Ein Versuch, der nur dank eines einzelnen, besonders aufmerksamen Entwicklers gestoppt werden konnte, bevor es zu größerem Schaden kommen konnte
That’s what OpenAI’s latest release is supposed to provide. The company is starting to roll out long-term memory in ChatGPT—a function that maintains a memory of who you are, how you work, and what you like to chat about. Called simply Memory, it’s an AI personalization feature that turbocharges the “custom instructions” tool OpenAI released last July
Maybe I should think about my Youtube Strategy,
Seems like people want to see something different these days.
https://www.politico.eu/article/youtuber-arrested-poo-brussels-metro-passengers-yanike-stib/
Blackrock Bitcoin Spot ETF approved.
And this time it’s for real.
Here’s the key: ask yourself which spiral you’re on right now.
Are you on the upward spiral? Keep going! Make one small change at a time, continue to help yourself feel better and better, work on your habit and mindfulness skills, and you’ll only get better at this over time.
Are you on the downward spiral? Ah, well, it’s good to recognize that. And it’s important to remember that you can turn it around. I turned my spiral upward, and many others have too. You can do this.
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html
To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation!
ChatGPT Explained: A Normie’s Guide To How It Works
Probability Distributions and Token Windows
Once you understand a few core concepts, modern chatbots are less mysterious.
https://www.jonstokes.com/p/chatgpt-explained-a-guide-for-normies
Australian scientists have their hands on a groundbreaking supercomputer that aims to simulate the synapses of a human brain at full scale.
The neuromorphic supercomputer will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/human-brain-supercomputer-coming-in-2024
GPT-4’s performance may have dropped in December as it learned to do less work during the holidays
AGI Achieved ??? xD
