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paultimate14

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  • People who have been on Lemmy since the very initial reddit API debacle, or before even that, how much do you think it has changed?

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    1. It has gotten bigger. More active. More posts, more new content. When i first came over i would check the All page, sorted by eitber Active or Hot, and only find a couple of new posts per day. It is still nowhere near as active as Reddit was back then (probably a goos thing), but it has enough content to help me procrastinate at work now.
    2. LemmyNSFW died and has been replaced by FediNSFW recently. I am sure that it will be better in the long-term, but it still doesn't seem to be back to where it was yet. I think a lot of the old posters were bots, largely re-posting from Reddit, and not all of those have been rebuilt yet. I have mixed feelings about that.
    3. The Connect app has gotten better and better. Love it.
    4. For the past year or so, Lemmy has been of a size big enougj for patterns to ripple and promulgate through it bht small enough to notice them. For example, almost immediately after New Years several different communities on different instances started to see a drastix influx of webcomic posts. Usually 4-panel ones. Usually low-fidelity ones (XKCD-style, not Girl Genius for example). And usually oned with some sort of error or controversy. Rage bait to get the comments going, but nothing controversial enough to get banned or removed.

    There would be new accounts made that just posted a handful of these comics quickly, and sometimes argue with people in the comments. Once people like me started pointing out the pattern they started deleting the posts and accounts after a couple days. I'm not sure when it stopped, but i have not noticed one for probably a month.

  • Did we win? Google to continue to allow side loading

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  • Congratulations!

  • TIL that 53% of white women voted for Trump whereas approximately 7% to 8% of Black women voted for trump

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  • One of the most important pieces of Trump's 2024 election was getting the Hispanic vote. Sure, he spent years before, during, and after his first term talking about cracking down on immigration on the southern border, talking about how all of the people coming from Mexico or further south were a bunch of criminals and drug dealers. BUT he courted the Cuban population in southern Florida - mostly the descendants of people who were wealthy enough to have their wealth redistributed by Castro. By calling Harris a communist he was able to get their votes, win Florida, and that would have made the difference in the election.

    The very concept of who counts as "white" changes depending on what the racists of the time want. In the not-too-distant past, Irish and Italian people were not considered white. I still don't know if Bernie Sanders or other Jews are considered white or not.

    Even for data like this... Is it really a black women vs white women issue, or is it a rich person vs poor person issue? And yes, those economic division have deep roots in the history of racism, but that doesn't explain the whole picture.

    Look at the people around Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of those Cuban south Floridians. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is a Hispanic woman. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is part Samoan, born in Somoa. FBI Director Kash Patel is Indian - his family fled persecution in Uganada.

    And then there's foreign policy. Trump seems to largely be pushing the USA away from predominantly white European countries that have historically been allies. Trying to break up NATO and undermine the EU, making threats against Canada and Greenland. Cozying up to Muhammed Bin Salman.

    The people in power love when the masses fight amongst themselves.

  • My fellow 'Muricans, do you prefer metric or standard measurements?

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  • Whatever is the most appropriate for the task at hand. Sometimes it makes sense to make your own.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • I never claimed Uber was 100% safe. There's also plenty of cases of non-sexual assault and robbery. There's way more cases of simple negligent driving resulting in injury and death.

    Uber's own data indicates 99.9998% of trips in 2021-2022 were completed with no safety incident. Now if you want to discredit that self-reporting as biased, fair enough.

    What would you say is the threshold for justifying gender segregation? 99.9999%? 99.99999%? 99.999999%?

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • Transphobes will use any excuse to be transphobic.

    I'm not sure what your point here is.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • I'm comparing gender identity to other forms of protected identity: race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc.

    I'm not making any judgements about any group being superior or inferior to another. You're the one doing that. Being "physically imposing" is subjective and variable. There is significant overlap between the largest women and smallest men, and that's just staying withing the confines of binary cis people. Not to mention... Guns exist. Cars themselves are weapons far more dangerous than any human regardless of gender.

    Building a just society means we need to leave behind our biases and fears. To judge individuals not on the circumstances of their birth but the content of their character. That means discarding the luxury of pre-judging people, not just when it is easy, but also when it is hard.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • I'm sure a lot of anxious Nazi's got a lot of peace of mind in the early 1940's too.

    I sure a lot of anxipis transphobes got a lot of peace of mind when Trump banned trans people from military service.

    Giving anxious people peace of mind it's the point of segregation. That doesn't make it right or good.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • It's shocking to me how so many people I know who are woke as fuck and quick to shout down any bigotry are so quick to drop all of their principles to hate men.

    Segregation never works, and only serves to foster fear, hatred, and division within society You cannot define what a "woman" is in a way that excluded trans-women without also excluding some cis-women with them Your gender identity is what you say it is. Others should do their best to remember any pronouns or name changes Crime is too complicated and nuanced to be reduced to statistics, which are often used by racists and bigots to justify racist and bigoted policies It's racist to cross to the other side of the street when a person of color comes walking towards you on the side you currently are on. It's up to you to "Men" are evil monsters who cannot be trusted and need to be locked away

    It baffles me how so many people can have all of these ideas, including the last one, and not see the cognitive dissonance there. It's succumbing to fear and hatred, the same methods of divisive propaganda that has harmed every other group.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • Uber stopped doing then, but their own data through 2022 claims that 99.9998% of rides ended without a safety incident.

    Most sexual assault is committed by abusers who know their victims, not random strangers.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • The vast majority of sexual assault is by people who know the victim, not random strangers. This is Uber trying to capitalize on fear to sell a more "premium" product they will inevitably charge more for, not actually helping anyone.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • I can't help but I imagine JK Rowling tweeting some day about how she used this feature and was appalled to be driven by a trans-woman.

    A lot of white people are afraid of black people. Should we let people choose their driver by the color of their skin? Their ethnicity? The language they speak? Their sexual orientation? Their religion?

    Discrimination is bad for everyone else, but somehow for men we just say "eh they have it coming".

  • Trump more popular than Harris, Newsom: Survey

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  • He would have given us 4 years of government gridlock because the Supreme Court and Congress would have absolutely shut down anything he tried to do.

    Which still would have been great. I just don't think he would have accomplished much of his agenda.

  • In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump

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  • Source?

    Because that's not what things looked like in 2024.

    Harris supported the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action deal with Iran to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program. And she condemned a January 2020 military strike against top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and co-sponsored unsuccessful legislation to block further military actions against Iranian leaders and targets.

  • WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship

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    • owned by Israeli billionaire
    • based in the UK, subject to UK laws
    • chief tech officer was previously the CEO of a Bitcoin exchange company and was convicted of fraud for stealing from it

  • Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?

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  • For those who don't want to read several pages of unnecessary text telling you what you probably already know:

    The math, while pretty involved, may tell a straightforward story (if you’re interested in the details of our analysis, see the Appendix). OpenAI has contracted 900K memory wafers per month from Samsung and SK Hynix. Partner commentary seems to indicate that’s a monthly number, so that represents 10.8 million wafers over 12 months. In terms of demand, a fully built-out 10GW Stargate cluster would require 3 million GB200 Bianca Boards. Each board requires ~50% of a memory wafer in total; split between the HBM3e stacks embedded into its two B200 GPU (30%) and its 480 GB of LPDDR5X system memory (~20%). That puts total wafer demand for the entire cluster at ~3 million wafers.

    Therefore, according to our best estimates, OpenAI likely needs less than 30% of the 10.8 million wafers it's planning to buy

    So this is just putting some numbers to what a lot of people already guessed. The AI companies are not just buying a ton of RAM to build out their data centers. They aren't buying enough other components to even use that RAM. They're buying it so that no one else can.

  • Idaho Republicans want the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate same-sex marriages - LGBTQ Nation

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  • Wanting your own people to out-reproduce and conquer other people is a thought process that is thousands of years old. Heck, that might be why the Neanderthals and Demosivans went extinct.

    "Go forth and multiply" is a Christian doctrine for a reason.

  • I know which one I am.

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  • The biggest problem with a standard is competing standards.

    That being said, having different shapes makes it harder to measure things by eye. Even if all of your cups are the same volume, if they are different shapes that makes it harder to measure things consistently by eye. So I might make the same amount of coffee every day, using my carafe to measure the water and a scoop to measure the grounds, but unless I whip out measuring spoons for the milk I'm relying on a consistent container for that piece.

  • I know which one I am.

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  • I don't have ADHD (I know enough people who do that I can say that quite confidently) and I still find this extremely helpful. Decision fatigue is real, and eliminating trivial decisions is great.