VeganCheesecake

@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Joined 3 months ago

Your instance is the address behind the @. So yours is lemmy.world, theirs is, fittingly, yiffit.net.

I don't have a lot of T-Shirts anymore, but my favourite is probably one from a youth club in eastern Germany with Boss "MyName" (but the wrong spelling) on the back, and the logo of my late father's long bankrupt company as a sponsor on the front.

It's funny, but more in a nostalgic way.

It's not a smiley.

That's a whole lot of words to say almost nothing.

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I'd go in a different direction - requiring someone to sing your national anthem is wrong. It's wrong when the U.S. do it, it's wrong when Canada does, it's wrong when China does it.

I find national pride hard to understand, but forced displays of national pride are really iffy.

I love how everyone is debating "Sells that information to companies", but no one's talking about "knows everything you do".

I wouldn't even say that. Even if they had a truly unique LLM that ran partially locally with a custom co-processor, Android might still have been a good choice. It's just hard to beat an open source base that's already compatible with most mobile hardware, and relatively easy to find Devs for.

Using Android as a base was honestly the most reasonable thing they did. No reason to reinvent the wheel. What they made with it is admittedly really shit, though.

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I think that one was fake, posted by the OperaGX Account. Still funny, though.

On that note, I'd advise against using Opera browsers, the company that is behind them now is kinda shady.

On another note, I'd also advise against Edge, but less so. Microsoft is just normal megacorp-shady, not ran-a-loanshark-bussiness-in-africa-shady.

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My ISP's a dick, but to my knowledge, unlimited has to mean unlimited around here. There where months where we had Problems with our fibre, so I did everything over a hotspot from my phone. Used 100's of GB's no one ever complained.

Get proper consumer protection laws, people.

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I'm male, and bi. I'm about equally bad at picking up on hints from men and women, but it seems more common with men to just flat out state what they want, either immediately, or after I miss their clue, which I'd presume to be cultural.

I'm bad with social clues in general, so I dunno if it's a male-thing, or a me-thing.

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Was that in question? I thought it was clear from the beginning that it does pretty much everything in the cloud.

Meh, I've seen a few of these pop up and get articles written about them over the years. They usually disappear soon after. Probably just trying to scam money from Investors.

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I thought it might just have been about a badly worded law, but no, at least from the translation given, the law seems pretty clear, and the opinion from the court seems extremely strange.

I don't really see the harm in that, if someone wants to erp an ai, they'll find a way. If I remember correctly, OpenAI already isn't all that rigorous with banning people who break the ToS in that way.

I think we as a society are too uptight about nudity, but that doesn't mean that creating pictures of people without their consent, which make them feel uncomfortable, is in any way OK.

I mean, if I felt morally obliged to disclose illegal or immoral practices to the public, I'd be sure to run so somewhere they can't get me. If there aren't proper whistleblower protections, you gotta make your own.

I'd assume that's a joke. I mean, she's an arsehole, but that doesn't change that.

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Uh, I understand the sentiment, but the model doesn't know anything. And it's legit really hard to differentiate between factual things and random bullshit it made up.

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I have been looking for something similar, and my current solution is to use an RSS Client like Feeder, and to subscribe to the RSS Feeds of some quality outlets.

Results in a feed that looks just about like this:

For the most part, I don't care about App Size. Storage is cheap. What I miss with the Signal Desktop App is the option to save everything in an encrypted container.

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That's an angry looking Blåhaj.

Because her audience was too stupid to get it? Dunno, I can't read the minds of arseholes.

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I'm proud of you, darling.

PSA: You can make a shortcut and place it on your home screen with most mobile browsers, on Android, and, as far as I know, on iOS. Don't let people trick you into installing apps for things websites can do.

Reuters say "Crashes in Mountains", which seems slightly more dramatic.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes in mountains, official says

I'm gonna keep not buying Teslas all year.

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Pretty sure every app has to request notification permission now, so it's pretty easy to opt-out.

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Haven't read into this too much, but I think the affected person that made this get attention was a solo dev that was prototyping a solution for one of his customers.

And the reason he raised a stink was because he had a huge bill, as the name he chose for his bucket was by chance the same an open source project used as a sample bucket name, so whenever someone deployed it without first customising the config, it was pinging his bucket and getting a 403.

Edit: Here's his original medium post / Archive

Isn't Telegram home to a lot of stuff that most people associate with the dark Web? I mean, there's groups you can buy illicit material, both digital and physical in, and some radicals as well as a lot of conspiracy nuts use it to organise.

I mean, you can probably find stuff like that with any messenger, but Telegram offers public discoverability for groups, so it's more visible.

It doesn't actually mean much in a technical sense, but I think you can write an article with that premise without most people seeing it as clickbait.

Why does that sound like a threat?

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High Voltage DC transmission system. So, not overly sinister, and probably needed.

Never thought about how many ways you can translate Anlage.

I got a used ThinkPad for that price a year ago. Needed a laptop, and was a broke student. Really repairable - it's easy to take apart, not glued, and most parts seem to be available at Aliexpress for reasonable prices. It's still doing it's job, and even though I could afford upgrading it now, I don't really see a reason to.

The last time I had a look at the market for new laptops, most things 300€ (which should be close enough to $300) would buy you where, judging by the components, bound to be painfully slow. If it really needs to be new, I'd look for stores that have discounts, and look up the model on iFixit or a simmilar resource to check how repairable it is.

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I mean, I don't see the point in not upgrading when your device supports it. The interface pretty much stays the same at this point, and they usually do improve on security, and other background stuff.

If you really want that for some reason, that sounds like a job for one AI Smart Assistant. Doing it by having a different App and LLM implementation for every appliance seems stupid in so many ways.

Especially if they don't run them local, but essentially bundle the completely different service of a cloud hosted LLM with a fucking Tumble Dryer.

Depends on the celebrity. Neil Gaiman is actually pretty chill online. Takei too, but the amount of articles he posts started to annoy me, so I dumped him. I don't really know what people see in Zuck, though.

A modern replacement for OpenScan. It's workable, but some features don't work on Modern Android, and a good Scanner app is probably something most people could use. Could look at Adobe Scan and Office Lens for feature inspiration.

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There's a lot of stuff from Sweeny I disagree with, but I don't think he's wrong on this.

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I mean, I've had a holiday last year where I was hiking for days, often meeting no one except for the group I was with.

That was hard from a certain perspective, it involved some technically difficult climbing, lots of different terrain, carrying your own supplies.

But I honestly found it a lot easier to just walk, one foot in front of the other, for hours and hours, than to organise my normal life. It was meditative, in a way.

Now I'm not saying that I'm some kind of pioneer, the people in those wagons didn't have mapped out places to refill their water, and I didn't have small children, diseases, or displacing natives along my route to do that I had to worry about, but I am saying that the clarity of purpose that just walking towards a destination for days on end can feel really freeing.

Water. Cold brew black or green tea if I'm feeling frisky.