archomrade [he/him]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Lmao, yea I think they’re kind of playing a game with language here.

    After doing some reading of various explanations, what they mean when they say they aren’t using electrons for computation is basically that the ‘thing’ they’re measuring that dictates the ‘state’ of the transistor is a quasi-particle… but that particle is only observed through the altered behavior of electrons (i guess in the case of the majorana particle, it appears as two electrons gathered together in synchrony?)

    So the chip is still using electrons in its computation in the same say as a traditional transistor - you are still sending electrons into a circuit, and the ‘state’ of the bit is determined by the output signal. It’s just that, in this case, they’re looking for specific behavior of the electrons that indicate the presence and state of this ‘qbit’

    That is just my layman’s understanding of it



  • I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren’t soured by moneyed interests

    If work wasn’t so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren’t so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn’t also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.

    Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.





  • The sad truth is that turning on Israel would have done more damage to the democrats electorally than it would’ve helped.

    “Our country just wants genocide too much” is quite the take.

    I love this logic because it doesn’t even matter how bad the position is - we could be arguing against sending immigrants to gas chambers and you could still say “sorry, they can’t run against that because they’d lose more votes than they’d gain”. Nevermind the fact that they helped to create the political reality that they are now claiming to be helpless against. They spent the last 80 years making Israel into the centerpiece of middle eastern foreign policy and now they can’t speak out against an ongoing genocide because they might lose their control and influence in the region.

    Even better - some of the same people saying ‘gaza isn’t the reason we lost’ are also saying ‘we lost because we’re too woke’ - it shows just how much contempt the democrats have for their base that they dismiss the problem being with their genocidal foreign policy and instead blame their loss on being too friendly toward minorities.







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    • you need a lot of storage

    • you need a lot of processing

    • you are collaborating with multiple people/family members

    • you are sharing media with other people outside your network

    • you are sharing media across devices

    • you want a standalone backup independent of your mobile device without doing so manually

    • you want more advanced AI features that are not feasible to do on device (such as image detection or live security camera object detection)

    • you want your home IOT devices to work locally without a cloud connection

    • you have old hardware collecting dust and want to put it to use

    • you like to make things

    Seems like you might have understood the purpose of those apps, you just didn’t personally have those needs yourself, and that’s fine