BlueÆther

@BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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Joined 1 years ago

well the "new desktop edit mode" was refining the user experience and fixing bugs

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I suspect it is so that they can place ads / AI at the top of every page

come on, clicked through and auto logged in to slashdot...

but my last comment was (oh shit) 17 years ago

I like it, lots

let me guess, the didn't fill it with iron that would corrode and expand and blow out the concrete? or the fact that it has an excess of fired lime that re-seals cracks?

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Quick lime as a 'concrete' is nothing new, or newly rediscovered though... The story seems to come up every few years, and anyone that has used a fluidised lime boiler knows how good quick lime is at forming concrete.

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But all life is given by God, is it not?

If the above is true, then you can't shoot some random stranger

If the above is not true, then give women autonomy over their bodies

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and that one guy (Lasse) was burnt out and pressured [by jia?] to step back and let jia be the person that the whole internet infrastructure relied upon

I've been on reddit, I don't know that I would like to use a LLM trained on much of the content there (excluding tech/DIY space)

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I work in food manufacturing and get the local water test results emailed to me monthly - they are alway well within limits

woosh?

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You can get really good weather proof zips that wont fail like a 'zip-loc bag' would. The seals on those bags fail bad if they get a bend or kink in them

Mr pillow's https://electioncrimebureau.net/ was hacked the other day

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They look like they are having fun on line:

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I process insect vomit for a day job

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I would say "Why don't these old farts just turn over and die", but they are not that much older than I am - so it cant be an age issue. This only leaves them as bigoted arseholes - I still wish that they would turn over and die

it's worse than that, the article talks about img2img using AI. so these click farms are ripping real images and using that as the img2img prompt

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I would suggest to auto seed anything until 2x or more, then if then if it is still seeding well keep it going... any torrent that uas under 10 hoasts in the swarm I'll keep seeding, like forever. My top 10 seeds (all with under 10 in the swarm) are all over a ratio of 50 and one is in the 100's

Keep the hard to find stuff alive

The fact that there isnt one is useed as proof of a flat earth, I wonder what they will come up with when this goes in?

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No Stupid! Questions?

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Why are you asking, did my wife get you to ask?

But around 300w with 24 port switch, dish shelf (3.5" disks) and server with ssd's and 2.5" disks

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If I cant remember what dir I'm in, then rm is mot very memory safe is it?

[edit: spelling]

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Can I introduce you to hand crafted spoons and spatulas:

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The Au and NZ experience with guns and pop culture vs the US is vastly different.

NZ is up there with gun ownership (in the top 20 per capita), but we have a very different culture around them, they are a hunting tool and not a misogynistic tool here. There was a bit of backlash with our last tightening of our laws - but to be frank, I got my licence after the law change with little difficulty, and who needs a semi auto AR style rifle other that those that can apply for for the appropriate licence?

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is it broken now?

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As a beekeeper of 30 odd years, that hurts

ps welcome

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I'm a white heterosexual guy, Grew up in New Zealand through the 80's and 90's - long hair on guys was not uncommon even in small town NZ, and I rocked full head of hair 1/2 way down my back...

I moved to northern England in 2000, I think I heard all the fag/gay/poofter... terms thrown at me, more often than not with vitriol.

Ps I finally cut it all off last year after having long hair for around 35 years

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They are all insulated

I love the place the title was truncated - often how Linux seems to be when the new start to tinker

I went to work for a MS only company and had a work issued laptop.

Helped a lot with my addiction - at least for a while.

I have relapsed though and have a rack with 3 2 unit servers running that OS that I shall not mention and countless VM/Containers and docker images - I also have several VPS in data centers and run a small Lemmy instance, Blog, online shop...

Um, I think I need help again.

They are taking an artist work and reproducing it - changed slightly. If you did that to a Disney work (AI or not) would they consider it copyright or fair use?

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come on man, us instance admins are more or less doing this for free and we have to protect ourselves where we see the need. In this case Germany Netherlands/Finland as quite strict rules around piracy. I have to put up with very strict rules around porn (not as bad as Asia and Arabia) that means I don't federate with Porn sites.

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meh, it's those of us that are entering into our 50's that drove piracy in the early '90s and '00s. Hell, we were copying floppies in the 80s.

You youngins don't know how lucky you are, we had to push our bits up hill in both directions, in bare feet and the rain

Good on them for having/gaining the strength to come out and go through a process that must be very difficult. Shame on people that call it out as a posable bad thing and attempting to shame them

but waht was the issue and the fix?

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or it's watched all of "Real Civil Engineer's" polly bridge videos?

I hear you, I have 5 rifles about the same distance, locked in a safe. The bolts and ammo are both in seperate lock boxes and not stored with the firearms; the keys to all are not store with any normal keys.

I think Australia has about 15-20 firearms pr 100 people and New Zealand about 25-30 (depending on where you get the stats from), compare that to the US where it's above 150.

The whole culture around firearms is screwed there - you have senators posing for Christmas card photos with the whole family posing with a small arsenal of military firearms, or a guy guys caught on camera (clearly carrying side arms) saying "I feel threatened", in a power pose/alpha-male stance, while advancing on some other guy in a mall.

From here, on the outside, the whole US feels quite fucked; and it's not just gun violence...

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I read that earlier and commented to my wife the RS was not pulling punches