It was trained on human text and interactions, so …

maybe that's a quite bad implication?

Wikipedia

I can't think of anything that comes even close to it - significance, quality, amount

JavaScript itself provides the functionality jQuery became popular for. So no. Check the standard lib first before considering helper libs.

The most relevant paragraph:

Now, using a new way of linking the clocks with ultra-fast lasers, researchers have shown that different kinds of optical atomic clocks can be placed a few kilometres apart and still agree within 1 part in 10¹⁸. This is just as good as previous measurements with pairs of identical clocks a few hundred metres apart, but about a hundred times more precise than achieved before with different clocks or large distances.

Firefox

An established foundation with good interests and goals running it (unfortunately it's not quite that clear cut - but the best, closest). The source of free software development. Extensive feature set. Robustness.

I haven't seen the need to use a fork, and like and prefer the idea of using and supporting the one that's investing in the engine development - even if it's largely only through free use. (Using forks does not support them this way.)

When briefly using chrome dev tools I've always preferred and went back to Firefox dev tools for web development.

Sharing my data with an independent org like Mozilla feels much better and safer than with Google. The services are free software and could be replaced if it ever need be. Still, Mozilla is big enough to expect stability across time.

Tech wise there's not much difference between the three big players Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.

If it weren't Firefox I'd feel more comfortable with Edge than Chrome.

You copied that function without understanding why it does what it does, and as a result your code IS GARBAGE.

AGAIN.

[...]

Debate continued for some time, in a cooler tone, with Torvalds offering suggestions on what he felt would be a better approach to the issues Rostedt hoped to address.

Harsh tone (in only two instances?), but he still invested in offering suggestions 🤷

I expected more behind the verb "flaming".

Mashable confirmed with Reddit that messages and chat history are no longer available if they were made prior to January 1, 2023.

Retain only half a year worth of content? What the fuck? That's absurd.

In our continued pursuit of empowering communities, we are transitioning to a new chat infrastructure, shared in our previous updates here and here. In an effort to have a smooth and quick transition to this new infrastructure, …

If you can migrate 6 months' worth of data, how is older data any different? The data is there, in the same form. The timespan should not matter at all. It's either the same form, or interfaced to transparently integrate into the existing system - which would allow migration all the same.

A Reddit spokesperson forwarded Mashable a changelog announcement(opens in a new tab) made on June 22 where the company shared that these messages would be removed.

Absolutely absurd.

announcing removal of 18 years of content, of central functionality, announced just 20 days ago, in an obscure place, and after random uninteresting flair navigation and chat channel announcements spanning multiple paragraphs and screenshots.

Baffling.

Acting as if they were managing a personal project that only they themselves use.

The article doesn't say much. So I checked the source for more information. It doesn't say much more, but IMO in a much better way, in two concise paragraphs. In the sourced financial report, it is in the intro, two paragraphs:

An example R&D initiative, sponsored by the Innovation team was Project Ava, where a team, initially from Electric Square Malta, attempted to create a 2D game solely using Gen AI. Over the six-month process, the team shared their findings across the Group, highlighting where Gen AI has the potential to augment the game development process, and where it lags behind. Whilst the project team started small, it identified over 400 tools, evaluating and utilising those with the best potential. Despite this, we ultimately utilised bench resource from seven different game development studios as part of the project, as the tooling was unable to replace talent.

One of the key learnings was that whilst Gen AI may simplify or accelerate certain processes, the best results and quality needed can only be achieved by experts in their field utilising Gen AI as a new, powerful tool in their creative process. As a research project, the game will not be released to the public, but has been an excellent initiative to rapidly spread tangible learnings across the Group, provide insights to clients and it demonstrates the power and level of cross-studio collaboration that currently exists. Alongside Project Ava, the team is undertaking a range of Gen AI R&D projects, including around 3D assets, to ensure that we are able to provide current insights in an ever- evolving part of the market

The central quote and conclusion being:

One of the key learnings was that whilst Gen AI may simplify or accelerate certain processes, the best results and quality needed can only be achieved by experts in their field utilising Gen AI as a new, powerful tool in their creative process.

Which is obvious and expected for anyone familiar with the technology. Of course, experiments and confirming expectations has value too. And I'm certain actually using tools and finding out which ones they can use where is very useful to them specifically.

the relevant quote:

it's about these special tax breaks that these companies can take in the immediate aftermath of a merger. So the company expects to write off something up to $3.5 billion connected to content costs as a result. And part of getting that tax benefit means they have to pull some of these shows from the service

In 2022, there were 608,601 reports of child exploitation on Omegle to the nonprofit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline. Of all the sites the center tracked, only Facebook, Google, Instagram, and WhatsApp ranked higher.

That's a crazy high number. Especially for a live content platform which I assume can only ever have individual reports of live interactions?

Ads get shown because they're paid. Regular posts compete with all other posts, and user filters and subscriptions.

Even though the Commission has fined the company concerned, damages may be awarded by national courts without being reduced on account of the Commission fine.

So if/after Apple's appeal is declined, Spotify - the driving force of this EU investigation - can sue Apple for damages with additional cost to Apple.

This comment could have been formulated in a non-aggressive tone, as a question or opinion, or reasoned criticism. Instead they chose a passive aggressive tone.

Really ironic and sad in the context of this topic, and right below the quotes like

people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity.

it often gets caught pulling anti-user shenanigans

I'm not aware. Can you list a few?

Receiving funding doesn't necessarily mean serving. Google is interested in funding to keep it's position. Mozilla still provides alternatives and regularly criticizes Google.

There is no rationality in speculating about the afterlife.

Please add text content for accessibility and discoverability to a post like this.

The image reads:

• Baldur's Gate 3
• Starfield
• Cyberpunk 2077
• ELDEN RING
• ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
• Stardew Valley
• Sea of Stars
• No Man's Sky
• Vampire Survivors
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Grand Theft Auto V
• DAVE THE DIVER
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Brotato
• Slay the Spire
• Fallout 4
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• Hades
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Top 20 Steam Deck games of September 2023, by hours played

Ubisoft has responded to the situation, claiming that the pop-up ad for Assassin's Creed Mirage was caused by a technical glitch.

tl;dr/highlight (to the titled fine):

While the verdict isn't public until its announcement "early next month", the report suggests Apple unfairly prevented apps from suggesting payment methods outside of the App Store.

Spotify submitted their (first) complaint in 2019.

Took quite a few years…

Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs

I doubt - or hope they don't - Reddit stores them for that long?

Containment is not tucking.

I didn’t know reddit gave out the personal details of their users, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

You make it sound like they have a choice, or do so freely and willingly.

The article is clear on that they don't freely share without assessment though:

Reddit wasn’t willing to go along with the request, at least not in full. The company objected, arguing that handing over the requested information would violate its users’ right to anonymous speech.

Recent legal activity shows that Reddit doesn’t intend to automatically comply with all user information requests.

In IIHS’ latest tests of car headlight systems, fewer than half (43%) earned a good rating. [...] “Vehicles that earn a good rating for visibility in our tests have 23% fewer nighttime pedestrian crashes than those that rate poor.”

That's a lot of room for improvement without new technology.

transcribe voice messages for free

Not really. It's limited to two per week.

With this update, all users can convert up to 2 messages per week into text

Official Telegram release blog post.

I just set up an HP Laptop for someone and Windows setup is horrendous. Fuck you Microsoft.

There's no way around using a Microsoft account, but when you enter an invalid login, you can proceed setting up a local account anyway. Then all the shit is set up to my disliking. And of course, Microsoft installs its own services adware and additional third-party adware you can't uninstall, and then, HP does the same, installing more scamware. Disgusting.

apply to ten categories of products that are currently covered by ecodesign requirements: smartphones and tablets, bicycles (including e-bikes), washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, fridges, displays, welding equipment, vacuum cleaners and servers.

http://wiki.torrentleech.org/doku.php/everything_about_invites

Invites are for giving to people you know and trust. Don't invite random people.

🤔

(I'm not saying it's good or bad. And I assume you made a conscious decision on it.)

Linked is an image of text. It's bullet points, but I assume it is ordered? Text content is:

Top 20 Steam Deck games of August 2023, by hours played

• Baldur's Gate 3
• ELDEN RING
• DAVE THE DIVER
• Stardew Valley
• Vampire Survivors
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Brotato
• Fallout 4
• Cyberpunk 2077
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
• ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™
• Hogwarts Legacy
• Slay the Spire
• Hades
• HoloCure - Save the Fans!
• Remnant II
• Halls of Torment

They complied to the law they had to? Is this any different from other hosters?

Now everything is X.

The product: X. The account and profile: X. The posts and comments and reposts: X.

Have you seen X's X? Yes I Xed it.

How little food intake is enough to sustain extensive (physical) activity.

The little birds running on the beach with every wave, eating mini things. How can those be enough to sustain that much running? And it'll have to sustain them when they're not eating too.

A human can not eat for several days and still stay active. An incredible adaptation. I food conversion, storage, and priority dissolution in a complex system.

Relative Lemmy link /u/elonjet@mastodon.social.

I guess Lemmy doesn't show users mastodon posts? :)

I was confused what boosting is. Docs said it's basically a repost/share.

So I think super like is misleading. Even if your super liking is the reason you share it, they're two different things.

(I may not necessarily want to share/share-promote hat I super-like. What I share is curation too.)

I feel like cross-posts should share comment threads…

Now comment threads are split across 6 communities.

Executing an innocent person is never just. A judge of the justice system must be just above anything else like politics or outside consequences.

The judge does not "let the people riot". Saying it like that misleads into thinking so. The judge is not the active part in that. The rioters are the actors and can and must be brought to justice when they can/later.

It's not on the judge to weigh on outsiders and outside consequences. They must gather and assess the concern at hand concerning a person at hand. Outside factors are irrelevant. Influences onto the case may be relevant, but not the other way around.

If a judge and by consequence the justice system loses it's justice and fairness it loses all of its most important, primary, and possibly single responsibility and trust. Without a just justice system, it is bound to end up will all manner of corruption, arbitrariness, and secondary factors of no societal trust in a justice system (leading people to execute self-justice; what the example tried to evade in the first place).

SMS verification?

Eeeeh… :-/

I don't think taking action to fill a hole is indicative of not caring.

How did you get from child porn that harms minors to dudes jacking off? That's not the same or equivalent.

I'm a bit confused by the title, which says

could be good, if it works

but the second half of the article lays out how access to digital anime can disappear.

Where's the good? The hope that good or equal value will be given? Is that still good when you lose other anime you already had?

yt-dlp has the -F parameter to list the available stream formats. (uppercase F to list, lowercase f to select)

I use -f 251 to download the opus audio stream, and afterwards use ffmpeg -i file -c copy file.opus to copy the opus audio stream in an opus file format file (codec copy so without encoding losses).

Do you know the difference between EU and Europe?

The EU didn't even exist yet during most of those. And where it does it's still something different.