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    Trump declines to call for unity after Charlie Kirk killing in stunning move

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  • But I have the impression that I am watching it becoming a "both sides issue" in realtime... I don't like that.Don't give up your humanitarian values just because parts of the other side do.

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  • Nothing drastic necessary, just a lot of little steps:Step by step establishing a normal dialog again.

    Something drastic would be a civil war, and that would also not unite you instantly again, but just would let you reconsider the tiny-step-by-tiny-step talking-to-each-other-thing from a different perspective again.

    Please don't choose the drastic way. Also because the rest of the world still relies on you too much (speaking as someone from outside the US)

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  • I have to say, reading all those comments during the last two days here, I also don't get the impression that the left are eager to unite the US again...Please, get your shit together over there. BOTH sides.

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • what is needed to run win 11.

    And that would be?x86 processors are fairly standardized, I don't see anything that could be the reason for such exclusions..?

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • Well there is a big difference between switching the CPU architecture altogether and just arbitrarily declaring a slightly older CPU with the exact same instruction set to be "outdated".Also, the customer profile of Apple users and Windows users is somewhat different. You won't find a lot of Macs at normal peoples homes in e.g. Indonesia...

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • Well, we are talking about half the active PCs still running Windows 10 instead of Windows 11.That's a lot more than just the few "I don't care"-people.

    Instead it consist mainly of the "I don't have the means" people, that don't have the Hardware required to upgrade and also not the money to quickly change that.

    Microsoft screwed up here. There simple was no need to demand such harsh hardware requirements and especially no need to enforce them that hard.

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • I agree that would have been the sensible way to go... Together with an "Install at your own risk" message when trying to upgrade a PC containing an older CPU...I really don't know what their reasoning is to enforce the requirements so hard for everyone.

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • First major requirement is the presence of a recent TPM module, which is absolutely not required performance-wise, but only for DRM-reasons (and read that as "Digital Restriction Management").Second even more arbitrary one is that they excluded all CPUs before at least Coffee Lake generation. Perhaps half of the PC stuff people I know to be running at home is still from the mid-2010s, so practically completely pre-Coffee-Lake.And the IT infrastructure of the e.g. the German executive government branches is on average probably more in the range of 15 years old. A surprising lot of that isn't even fully switched to Windows 10 yet... (hey, at least we are increasingly migrating away from Telefax...!)

  • Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

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  • Wait...Excluding half of the active PCs or so from upgrade due to arbitrary hardware constraints didn't push upgrading?How can this be??? 😯🫢

  • This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

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  • Well, a mindless, repetitive task prone to errors and a task requiring obscure knowledge ("d" as a synonym for dick... one of those self-censoring Gen-Z things?)Nice to now have tools to solve these tasks and gain some time to do more interesting stuff instead. Lively discussions on Lemmy, e.g. ;-)

  • If a YouTube video is watched using a frontend such as Newpipe or Indivious, does it count as a view for the video? Why or why not?

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  • Good idea, I could publish a podcast and have a look on how it behaves!So, just need to think of a podcast topic nobody is likely to want to listen to... hmm...

  • If a YouTube video is watched using a frontend such as Newpipe or Indivious, does it count as a view for the video? Why or why not?

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  • Test has actually been done in 2025, just 2 or three months ago.And yes, it took until the next day for the count to increase.

    Background for the test was, that I am not using paid streaming services any more (and use ad-blocking apps) but wanted to see if the artists still get the views counted.

    Although actually I am more interested if this is also true for YT-music (which is the main one I am using a lot without paying or watching ads).One might assume it is the same as for the videos, but I don't know how to test it... So if anyone has an idea...?

  • This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

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  • I didn't understand your comment, so I asked the same LLM as before.It explained it and I think that I get it now. Low-grade middle-school-"Your Mom"-joke, is it? Ha-ha... 🙄

    This also means that AI did better than myself at both tasks I've given it today (I found only 9 states with "d" when going over the state-list myself...).

    Whatever. I'm gonna have second lunch now.

  • If a YouTube video is watched using a frontend such as Newpipe or Indivious, does it count as a view for the video? Why or why not?

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  • Yes, it does.I had the same question a while back and tested it with an obscure video I had published myself (20 views within 10 years or so....)

    Views using Newpipe were counted.But only once (when watching multiple times in a row).

  • This is the technology worth trillions of dollars huh

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  • No, this is Google throwing the cheapest possible shit at you that is barely capable of stringing together 5 coherent sentences and has the reasoning capability of a tapeworm.

    Here is the output of the minimalist open Chinese model Qwen3, that runs locally on my 6 year old mid-end PC: 

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The US states that contain the letter "d" (case-insensitive, as state names are typically capitalized) are as follows. I've verified each state name for the presence of the letter "d" in its standard spelling:

    Colorado (contains "d" in "Colorado")  
    Delaware (starts with "D")  
    Florida (contains "d" in "Florida")  
    Idaho (contains "d" in "Idaho")  
    Indiana (contains "d" in "Indiana")  
    Maryland (ends with "d" in "Maryland")  
    Nevada (contains "d" in "Nevada")  
    North Dakota (contains "d" in "Dakota")  
    Rhode Island (contains "d" in "Rhode")  
    South Dakota (contains "d" in "Dakota")  


Total: 10 states.

  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • Thanks, will try that!

  • Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

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  • And Reddit completely.blocks you from reading when coming from a VPN exit, unless you are logged in (at least with. MullvadVPN).Brave new world... :-(

  • Devils Panties 09/08/2025

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  • That and 2x23 coin-flip-like random chromosome selections.

  • Does blocking javascript make web browsing safer?

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  • Yes, as it basically is just foreign, untrustworthy Code executed on your own PC.But total blocking will make most of the web unusable.I use a selective Script blocker extension (Noscript), that lets you instead choose which domains are allowed to use Javascript.Works great after the initial try-and-error setup phase.