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Saleh

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  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • The thing with "just works" in monopolies is that it eventually stops working. I already have terrible excel bugs all the time on my work computer. Left clicking a cell sometimes just selects half a dozen adjancent cells. You vlick something and all of a sudden the rendering just goes completely haywire... You have two larger tables open and it just crashes...

    Things will only get worse from this, until the global economy will loose trillions to being stuck with Microsoft.

  • Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force

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  • Labour won in a landslide after the Brexit mess rightfully fucked up the Tories. They do this because they aren't center left, but a right/far-right party by their ideology now. They don't have to do this. They want to do this.

    The "Labour/Social Democratic" parties all over Europe have been sliding into right/far-right authoritarianism and Racism over the past decades, after many of them slided into Neoliberalism at the end of the 90s and in the 2000s.

  • Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force

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  • You would have to cut off the UK government and politicians from the rest of the worlds politicians, rather than cutting off the internet though. The idea to make these authoritarian laws is the contagious problem, not the people using the internet.

  • Respect fire guy

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  • You all laugh until the fire is in the oven of a hut with freezing temperatures outside and the fire guy is the one getting up in the middle of the night to keep the fire going. You then wake up to a cozy hut instead of spending the first two hours awake freezing in your sleeping bags.

  • Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams

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  • This also goes to an entire new level. Before it was "only" censoring digital products and events. Now it is directly censoring media outlets.

    This screams for an antitrust lawsuit, if a company has this kind of power.

  • Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

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  • The recognition of the pattern is done by the machine learning. That is the core concept of machine learning.

    For the interpretation you need to use your domain knowledge. Machine learning together with knowledge in the domain analyzed can be a very powerful combination.

    Another example in research i have heard about recently, is detection of brain tumors before they occur. MRIs are analyzed of people who later developed brain tumors to see if patterns can be detected in the people who developed the tumors that are absent in the people who didn't develop tumors. This knowledge of a correlation between certain patterns and later tumor development could help specialists to further their understanding of how tumors develop as they can analyze these specific patterns.

    What we see with ChatGPT and other LLMs is kind of doing the opposite by detaching the algorithm from any specific knowledge. Subsequently the algorithm can make predictions on anything and they are worth nothing.

  • Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

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  • I agree with you on almost everything.

    It’s like the opposite of classic ML, relatively tiny special purpose models trained for something critical, out of desperation, because it just can’t be done well conventionally.

    Here i disagree. ML is using high dimensional statistics. There exist many problems, which are by their nature problems of high dimensional statistics.

    If you have for an example an engineering problem, it can make sense to use an ML approach, to find patterns in the relationship between input conditions and output results. Based on this patterns you have an idea, where you need to focus in the physical theory for understanding and optimizing it.

    Another example for "generative AI" i have seen is creating models of hearts. So by feeding it the MRI scans of hundreds of real hearts, millions of models for probable heart shapes can be created and the interaction with medical equipment can be studied on them. This isn't a "desperate" approach. It is a smart approach.

  • Millionaire big game hunter gored to death in ambush by "Black Death" buffalo

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  • You gotta do some pretty stupid stuff to get killed by a deer imo.

  • The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

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  • We know that our current way of economic growth and consistent new "inventions" is destroying the basis of our life. We know that the only way to stop is to fundamentally redesign the social system, moving away from capitalism, growth economics and ever new gadgets.

    But facing this is difficult. Facing this and winning elections with it is even more difficult. Instead claiming there is some wonder technology that will safe us all and putting the eggs in that basket is much easier. It will fail inevitably, but until then it is easier.

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  • What about the vulture girls?

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  • Gendering bacteria is a bit difficult though.

  • How do you deal with the left over fat/oil in your pan?

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  • I don't cook with that much that there is relevant leftovers to begin with. I just wash my pan with soap and hot water.

  • Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order

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  • Somewhat better but not great. In Spain there seems to be a strong regional divide as well. Northern Spain is having a lot of racism too. Southern Spain has its problems too, but it seems to be less strong and is quite absurd as people look more like Arabs than like White Europeans. I also find this silly with Italians and how they are strong on Fascism again. In Germany they are also considered more as part of the "brown people" than of the "Europeans".

  • Denmark zoo asks public to donate unwanted small pets or horses to feed captive predators

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  • The tiger got to eat and they need a meat based diet.

    Option A: Feed them animals that have to bee euthanized and die either way.

    Option B: Bury the animal that had to be euthanized and on top of it kill another animal so the tiger can eat.

    Option A means less animals killed. Now of course we can talk about whether zoos should exist in the first place, for which there are good arguments that they should not.

  • Sweaters

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  • Why is she using a stinger launcher though? Those are for aircraft.

  • AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

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  • Yeah, but he was paying the provider for providing the redundancy on this level.

    We shouldn't blame him on the technical level for what is a problem with the provider on the organizational level. If this had happened to a Fortune 500 company, Amazon would have had an army of lawyers descend on them.

  • St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

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  • Did you consider that project managers often have to follow all sorts of company standards, have to figure out a way to get a dozen departments with conflicting standards together, on top of that have to catch the stupid ideas from the upper-management and marketing without telling the upper-management that they have no idea what they are talking about, on top of getting something actually done in the project?

    Because often the level of tech competency has very little to do with the decision corridor that the project manager has, given everything else.

  • TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

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  • Imagine you had 2hours more every day so you could work through the todo at home and enjoy the rest of your time at home or anywhere else that is neither your work nor your car.

  • A Society Governed by Whiny Rich People Throwing Tantrums

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  • The article ends with

    This is not the arrangement of a free society. This is the stuff of kings and feudal lords ruling over serfs. It is not befitting a democracy. And for a country so devoted to the principle of freedom and so proud of our history of rejecting illegitimate monarchical authority, we should be pissed off about it. Americans shouldn’t have to grovel pathetically before oligarchs to prevent them from nuking our economy as punishment for trying to attain an infinitesimal fraction of the privilege they enjoy — privileges which, of course, are already more lopsidedly distributed to the wealthy than ever.

    If he wins the general election, Madani will have to proceed carefully, calling the wealthy’s bluff enough to pass meaningful reforms without setting into motion a devastating process in which those bluffs become reality. The rest of us, though, should be clear about one thing: what we’re seeing now is a tiny minority trying to hold an entire city — an entire society — hostage to its own interests, using its structural leverage in the economy to undermine the democratic will of ordinary people.

    Surely there’s a better economic and political system than one where we have to coddle these villains every time we want to raise the standard of living for the majority. We don’t have to put up with this.

    Imo. they aren't buckling to it. The article points out that under the current system it is a real threat to the politician Mamdani. So it is up to the people to back him up in pushing for meaningful change as well as put the pressure for real change to the corrupted system.