From my perspective deep fakes will lead to a short but massive peak of harassment until everyone is aware of the technology and its capabilities. Once the technology reaches the mainstream and everyone is able to generate such content with ease, people will just stop caring. If these videos are everywhere, it's easy to play it off as a fake. It might even help victims of actual revenge porn. Virtual nudity will become less of a deal, probably even in real life.

From my perspective the bigger issue of deep fakes is news. We already have a huge issue with lies on social media and even TV and newspapers today and once we can no longer trust what we see it will be incredibly hard to build up trust for any sources.

Fake videos of politicians being spread to harm their credibility, fake videos of war crimes to justify an attack. Or vice versa if there's an authentic video of a crime the offenders will just deny the authenticity. But in contrast to Trump's "fake news" claims today, it will be more or less impossible for normal people to fake check anything.

As much as I'd appeciate a shift away from Reddit elsewhere, I have to admit that Reddit is often among my most helpful Google results. No matter how stupid the recent management decisions are, it grew to a massive knowledge database over the years. Banning it from search engines would have a negative impact on the overall internet experience.

For me that behavior was expected. E.g. if I open a link from incognito in a new window, then it obviously should also use incognito but share its context with the previous sessions, otherwise it would require you to login over and over again. If an independently opened incognito window behaved different from a link-click window, I'd find it even more confusing.

The fish sturgeon is called "Stör" in German. The verb "to annoy" means "stören".

Most of these memes that were posted recently are puns where random German words that contain "stör" or a simmilar sounding syllable is replaced by the fish.

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Personally, I tend to prefer apps on mobile and the web versions of services when working from a PC.

In German we also say it in the order as we write it.

12.12.2023 Zwölfter Dezember 2023 Zwölf = twelve ter = th

Stuff Made Here: Crazy talented maker with a huge set of skills, tools and ideas. Add a good portion of humor and a a slightly annoyed wife who has to test all the inventions. Very inspiring for makers and entertaining for non-makers. Hard to call it a niche as he has 4.4 million subscribers but as OP also listed the lock picking laywer I think it's fair. 😁 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1VqrHhDte54oLgPG4xpuQ

The problem with most crypto compared to regular money is that it's often seen as an investment. However, one of the most important factors for a currency that is used in everyday transactions is stability and predictability. Money is supposed to ease trading goods and services as a universal middleman. It's not supposed to make someone rich who invested first.

Of course there's also inflation and deflation with regular money but as soon as that's getting out of control, it typically leads to serious economic issues.

Isn't clear and transparent rules a pretty good way to tell users what to expect from a community? I mean, you are free to offer or request help elsewhere if you don't want to comply to the set of rules. You can even start your own community if you'd like. I think it's for sure better than individual moderators deciding based on a gut feeling and blocking random posts and users.

As per the statement all remaining instanced will go down over time, though not sure how long that will take.

In Boost for Lemmy you can see lists of everything you posted, commented, upvoted or downvoted in your profile.

If you can run EXE filles on your work PC and you just don't have administrator rights to install software, you should be able to download a portable version of your favorite browser.

I used portable Firefox, Chrome, Notepad++, Eclipse, Sysinternals stuff and many more without problems that way.

Disclaimer: Althought this probably works technically, it might still violate some company policy.

I often read that the UI is pretty unintuitive compared to the commercial competitors. I anyhow started with FreeCAD three years ago and never looked back. I design a lot of functional 3D prints with it and managed to solve all the issues I've faced so far. As I started with FreeCAD and never tried the alternatives, I also don't miss the possibly more intuitive UIs 😁

From my perspective you don't necessarily need a simplified Android but only a simplified launcher. There are plenty of senior friendly launchers in the play store.

I've always missed a rating/feedback/comment feature in F-Droid. A lemmy-based solution would be pretty cool.

Who is responsible to provide that fast food job? Does she have to apply for it herself? What if no one wants to hire her because of the bad media reputation?

I don't know about the real numbers but I feel like there's sufficient interesting content to check it several times a day. So if stays stable I'm pretty happy with status quo.

For people without IT background, I can recommend Mozilla common voice. They plan to release an advanced AI model for text-to-speech or speech-to-text conversion, e.g. for an offline, open source alternative to Amazon Echo, Siri etc.

To train the model they need at least 10000 hours of speech samples per language. So you can donate your voice by reading aloud small snippets, checking already recorded samples or making up new sentences.

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/

0% compression. Amazing what AI is capable of nowadays :-D

That doesn't sound a lot tbh... If you calculate with 2M people there, it's just 0.25 litres per person. I don't think that would be sufficient to filter vast amounts of water.

From my perspective mails are federated. If I want to explain federation as a concept to someone I always use mail as an example because everyone can write to everyone independent of the provider, you can selfhost it easily, you could move from one company to another (if you use your own domain), protocols are all FOSS.

So at least it's an open and distributed system. What would be missing for it to count as federated?

Some time ago a client of me was looking for a solution to add watermarks to PDF files from their local on premise ERP system. The ERP system itself is a standard software. Obviously, they have a license to use that ERP but they definitely do not own the source code of it. Thus, they cannot change the license to AGPL or integrate it somehow.

I thought about writing a little plugin with Java in iFile to do that which is published unser AGPL. Using something under AGPL would mean that we have to make the entire solution available under that license.

Question 1: What is the entire solution in that scenario?

• Is it the part of the plugin that deals with watermarks?
• Is it the entire PDF handling plugin?
• Is it the entire process in the ERP system?
• Is it the entire ERP system that calls the plugin?
• Would it include sattelite systems that are connected to that ERP system that indirectly use the PDFs and thus potentially 'infest' the entire IT landscape?
• If the PDFs are send automatically to business partners of my client and they process it internally in their systems, are their systems now part of the solution?

Question 2: AGPL says users must have access to the source code of the solution no matter if they use it locally, over network etc. But Who is the user in such a scenario?

• The IT department of my client?
• The end users of the ERP system of my client who are only interested in the PDF but definitely not in the source code?
• Everyone at my client?
• Including business partners who might have access to the PDFs?
• Everyone?

Question 3: My client is not a software company, so they never published ANY source code or software. Where would you publish the code?

• The plugin for PDF creation would be called only in the background. The frontend is only standard ERP so I couldn't easily put a link to the source code in the GUI.
• My client's intranet?
• My client's homepage?
• GitHub or a similar platform?

There is a lot of uncertainty when using AGPL software in a business context which will - in many cases - lead to the decision not to use the software at all.

Also, in the greek alphabet Alpha always comes first ;)

I think that question is hard to answer as there are very few topics of everyday life that aren't at least remotely political.

Big cars, weapons, traditional family models (e.g. stay at home moms), focussing on traditional industries such as petrol than new technology such as solar etc. are all typical conservative topics. I mean conservative already implies with its name that you want to conserve the 'as is'.

Contrarily, progressive and liberal people will be more open to changes and trying new things: food, new ways of transportation, new business models, other family concepts.

In German it's even funnier if you translate haunted with "besessen" as it means "occupied by bad souls" and "being sit on" at the same time.

I agree, so easy to sort stuff like that. :)

I don't think being interested in the (ancestors') race of a co-worker is necessary racist. I worked with people with all kinds of cultural backgrounds and it might be just an interesting topic to talk about. If someone has family in Iran, Senegal or Indonesia that's definitely more interesting to me than a conversation about weather or last night's football game.

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I quickly googled some numbers, so no guarantee for 100% correctness.

Desalination uses about 3.6kWh/m3 of water. A generator can produce around 1.5kWh/litre of fuel. 500,000 litres of fuel would result in 750,000 kWh. 750,000 kWh would result in 208,333 m3 or 208,333,000 litres of water. That theoretically would allow you to create around 200 litres per person if you use the entire amount of fuel on water desalination.

But this calculation only works in a hypothetical scenario and not in a real life scenario. Distribution of the water to all the people will require a lot of energy as well, e.g. for tank trucks. And I think in an active war zone you probably won't find world class logistics.

Furthermore, you also need fuel and electricity for other critical infrastructure: firetrucks, hospitals, phones, cooking, ...

As you're currently using Windows on your PC, you might have to do an extended reboot. By default Windows skips the UEFI/USB step in the boot sequence to make Windows boot slightly faster.

Check out this link for reference' https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/boot-to-uefi-mode-or-legacy-bios-mode?view=windows-11

Also elderly people want to take pictures from time to time. Or use WhatsApp to join family group chats etc. Furthermore, a big & bright touch screen is definitely easier to read and handle than the old dumb phones where the same key may have a dozen of features depending on the context.

Not for you today. Try again another day with proper shoes!

Thank you so much for sharing the results. Very interesting to see the outcome after participating in the survey.

Out of interest: do you know how many participants came from Lemmy compared to other platforms?

If you prefer pure text wouldn't you be better off with a news reader and the Usenet? I understand Lemmy to be a federated and open alternative to Reddit. So a community-driven, thread-based social media platform. I think with text-only media Lemmy would lose a majority of its users.

I also don't understand the comparison to piracy but I think being a vegetarian is definitely more ethical than being an omnivore as long as you don't overcompensate meat with other animal products. If you stop eating chicken and in exchange start to eat an additional 3 eggs a day, that's probably worse for animals and nature.

If you just cut back on meat and replace it with vegan alternatives while eating the same amount of cheese, eggs etc. as before it DOES have a positive impact and we should appeciate one's efforts.

Hell, even flexitarians have a positive impact. Right now, there's around 90% omnivores worldwide. If all these omnivores reduced their consumption of animal products by let's say 20%, it would have a far bigger impact than another 2% going full blown vegan.

Furthermore, it can be tough to go vegan all of a sudden. It takes time to change your diet, learn about healthy protein sources, essential nutrients and stuff. Going flexitarian first, then vegetarian and potentially vegan allows you to take one step at a time.

Also being vegan is not where it ends in terms of caring for the environment. You can keep reducing your personal footprint indefinitely. No more flights, no car, less electricity, less shopping. Everything helps. And everyone should try to contribute in the way that feels the most manageable for your personal circumstances.

Is that white phosphorous? If so and it's being used as a weapon that'd considered a war crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFzo0v-NKWE

And the middle one hugs the one in the back <3

So I guess ESH?

Becoming mainstream very fast might also go along with regulation and lots of pressure towards the mods and server admins (e.g. hate speech, discrimination, fake news etc.). That might make it very hard as there's no compensation for the work except of some donations maybe. I think it would be better to grow more natural with a slow but consistent pace to give the infrastructure and people some time to adapt to the bigger crowds.