I’m pretty sure Minnesota imports something like 60% of our energy - i’m at least glad we’re past the worst of the winter weather but holy fuck is it going to suck

Huh, it works great on my android os Nvidia shield

As a rule I don’t announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.

I’ll DM you

I get my linux distros via torrent networks, mostly

As someone who likes to have a fallback way of purchasing digital content that I can remove DRM from, this annoys me.

I can still purchase mp3 and flac files from various online retailers, and I can rip bluray for my movies and tv shows, but now I need a new place to purchase ebooks that are downloadable. Anyone have any recommendations? The first few independent retailers i’ve found seem to require their own apps.

It’s been a while since I’ve heard about libgen and aa - and actually i’m not sure how they operate with direct downloads of copyrighted material? I find my ebooks through more conventional p2p means, but i’ve always just assumed that was necessary to avoid sudden takedowns

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

Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937.

Ok now i’m gonna need an explain-like-i’m-not-a-quantum-scientist on what a ‘topological transistor’ is, and what it uses instead of electrons for its compute (and, like, what is the significance?)

My parents and school administrators’ attempts at blocking unsanctioned activities is what taught me computer literacy

There was nothing quite as satisfying as getting caught opening addictinggames on a web browser through a proxy when the teacher was convinced they had blocked it completely.

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.

An excellent game that was undercut by their exclusivity deal with Epic

Lmao

I feel like we’re watching some sort of brawl between different factions of liberal and conservative rags trying to decide which foreign adversary is going to be our boogeyman this cycle

In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

The easy answer is to follow fashion topics on socials, since trends pretty predictably follow whatever the brands are selling

Kinda begs the question as to why you’d want to do this, but that’s not really for me to ask

ah, ok that is interesting, thanks!

Can someone explain the significance of quantum teleportation in qbit architectures?

From what little I understand, it relies on quantum entanglement instead of electrical current to ‘pass’ logic states between qbits in different physical space, but I’m wondering why (in this case) they still need to be connected by fiber optic cables?

I thought the point was that it didn’t need to pass signals over physical media, and that was valuable because it was instantaneous and secure, but now it’s sounding more like conventional computing…?

Nono, i mean LoT posting this picture, not the protestor carrying the gun

Everything that account does is stochastic terrorism

I love the irony here but this is 100% meant to bait counter protestors with guns to show up to the next one, especially in Wisconsin, and especially with the current administration that has no problem holding a double-standard (liberal protestors with guns are dangerous, conservative protestors with guns are patriots).

Leftists don’t have the same privilege as white conservatives do walking around with an open carry. I hope anyone bringing their firearm to a protest understands the risks involved and is ready/willing to use it if things escalate.