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Hoimo

@ Hoimo @ani.social

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  • jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?

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  • X is under total control of that person. As long as the lemmy source adheres to fediverse principles, this developer can believe whatever they want and run their instance however they want, and no one else has to care. If his beliefs starts affecting the lemmy source, it's always an option to fork.

    If you exclude a branch of the fediverse because of one bad instance, you're missing the point of the fediverse.

  • Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors

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  • Downvoted for vague and unsubstantiated claims. Also, is point 5 the same as point 2?

    Instead of dumping AI output, consider giving 1 concrete example of something Anonymous did and what effect it had.

    Edit: and I just noticed you responded to the wrong comment. Good effort, champ.

  • Gerber

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  • That's German. The French say "á rit gateaux"

  • Fame

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  • Tesla still got a bunch of scientific cred, more than Edison actually. Edison is known as the inventor of a consumer product, Tesla got the unit of magnetic flux named after him.

    Actually, the comic names Lorentz, Minkowski, Hilbert, which aren't household names like Einstein, but anyone who knows anything about relativity will still know their names and what they contributed. Who cares about being known as "some kinda smart feller" by a billion people if none of them actually know why you're seen as smart. To them you're about as significant as a character in a newspaper comic; an easy reference to make to show they've read a newspaper once.

  • What successful or popular movie that many loved you just HATE?

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  • Riley's emotions aren't controlling her, they're more like the punishment/reward mechanisms of her brain. Riley decides to do something and then gets sad afterwards, or happy, or angry. It's only when her emotions are out of balance that she is overwhelmed by sadness and loses control. I do agree that the perspective of the film makes it seem like the emotions are calling the shots and we don't see enough external emotional regulation, like from her parents. I'd also have liked it if Riley herself could have turned the ship somehow at the end. I think having the emotions control the memories was a mistake, they should've been separate mechanisms, maybe feeding into each other at most. That way Riley could recall happy memories by herself and influence her emotions. But that is a bit of emotional regulation that a child might not have learned yet.

  • Always the last to know...

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  • Pluto was a planet, once. The crown jewel of the Plutonian Empire. But the Plutonians got greedy. They dug too deep in search of plutonium and awoke a terrible horror. Now all that's left of Pluto is a cloud of asteroids and a celestial dwarf, barren and uninhabitable.

  • Copyright Industry Wants To Apply Automated Blocking To The Internet’s Core Routers

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  • Torrents are already very hard to block. You don't actually need a tracker, because all modern torrent clients support DHT (distributed hash table). You only need some way to get the initial hash for a torrent, so that's where trackers are still useful, but once you're connected to the swarm, you can only be blocked if the entire swarm is blocked.

    Tracking though... It's too easy to get IP addresses for the entire swarm and I don't see how you could ever fix that. Tor doesn't really solve that issue either, it just moves it to places where you won't get in legal trouble or to people who don't mind getting in legal trouble, a bit like VPN providers.

  • Nom nom

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  • I always remember those as "knife" and "cup", but you have to know that I use my cups the wrong way around.When you have two things AB on a table and you come in with a knife or cup (NB: upside down) from above, the knife will separate them "A or B" while the cup will catch them together like a pair of angry wasps "A and B".

  • Nom nom

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  • Yeah, the symbol is the mnemonic. What does the crocodile even explain? Why doesn't the bigger number eat the smaller numbers?

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    Avatar is about capitalism

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  • This is infininitivelivy worse

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  • Not really true though. Computers are still better at math. They're even pretty good at coding, if you count compiling high-level code into assembly as coding.

    But in this case we built a language machine to respond to language with more language. Of course it's not going to do great at other stuff.

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    Avatar is about capitalism

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  • Are there even any indigenous people in Tarzan? I haven't read the book, but from the movie I only remember his gorilla buddy and the little elephant. I think Tarzan is more about rebelling against civilization in general, instead of colonization in specific (which James Cameron's Avatar is). It's very post-industrialization in that sense.

    Edit: Whoops, just read the synopsis on Wikipedia. I don't think Tarzan is the white saviour you're looking for...

  • Definitely don't ask for it in Spanish!

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  • Are there other types of percolators? I thought the recirculation and constant heating of the reservoir were required features.

  • if statement == false

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  • So in programming, you'd write 'if' as:not pizza or fart where the farting is irrelevant until the pizza is involved.

    While 'iff' would be:pizza equals fart where pizza means fart and no pizza means no fart.

    I actually wrote iff as (not pizza and not fart) or (pizza and fart) before, and I'm pretty sure that's the way I wrote an iff in production code in the past, but your comment made me realize that "they should be true at the same time" can be tested really easily with equality.

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • Available image generators are already capable of generating those images and they weren't even trained on it. Once a neural network can detect/generate two separate concepts, it can detect/generate the overlap. It won't be as fine-tuned obviously, but can still turn out scarily accurate.

  • Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images

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  • I don't think you even need the actual stuff to train a neural network to recognize it. For example, if I wanted to train a neural network to recognize pictures of lions, but I didn't have any actual pictures of lions, I could use pictures of lion-shaped things, lion-colored things and locations where lions might appear. If a picture is hitting all three of those, it's very likely to be a lion. Very likely is all a neural network can do, so it's good enough for my purposes.

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • That saying works for trees. We didn't make trees obsolete with better technology.

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • And much of the PR problem is related to waste. The main push towards alternative energy sources comes from people worried about the long term consequences of burning fossil fuels. These same people worry about the long term consequences of nuclear waste production, so nuclear sabotages itself on this front.

  • You seen the jank? I live in it.. molded by it...

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  • What are your jokes for younger children?

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  • Why shouldn't you go the forest at noon?That's when the ripe elephants fall from the trees.

    Why does the alligator have such a flat nose?Because he went to the forest at noon.

    Bonus points if you space them out a bit with unrelated jokes.