gtk apps are a pain in the arse
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Ebba Busch festade med gängbossar och antisemiter. Ebba Busch som är vice statsminister var på bröllop. Högerextremisten Jimmie Åkessons bröllop. Där var också den norska antisemiten och proryska aktivisten Rebecca Mistereggen.
Making climate models relevant for local decision-makers
Making climate models relevant for local decision-makers
A climate modeling downscaling method developed by MIT scientists leverages a machine-learning technique called adversarial learning to produce simulations faster and at finer resolutions, making them relevant to use on local levels for assessing ris…MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Kontroller tyder på omfattande avfallsbrottslighet. I alla fall enligt polisen. Myndighetsgemensamma kontroller av avfallstransporter i sex kommuner i landet påvisar stora brister. Enligt polisen indikerar det förekomst av en omfattande avfallsbrottslighet och arbetslivskriminalitet inom avfallsbranschen.
Found while poking around today: the Wikipedia club for cleaning up after AI.
Example: the article Leninist historiography was entirely written by AI and previously included a list of completely fake sources in Russian and Hungarian at the bottom of the page.
App developers think that’s a bogus argument. Mr. Bier told me that data he had seen from start-ups he advised suggested that contact sharing had dropped significantly since the iOS 18 changes went into effect, and that for some apps, the number of users sharing 10 or fewer contacts had increased as much as 25 percent.
aww, does the widdle app's business model collapse completely once it can't harvest data? how sad
this reinforces a suspicion that I've had for a while: the only reason most people put up with any of this shit is because it's an all or nothing choice and they don't know the full impact (because it's intentionally obscured). the moment you give them an overt choice that makes them think about it, turns out most are actually not fine with the state of affairs
A hurricane’s aftermath may spur up to 11,000 deaths
A hurricane’s aftermath may spur up to 11,000 deaths
Hurricanes like Helene may indirectly cause deaths for years. Stress, pollution and a loss of infrastructure could all contribute to tropical cyclone fatalities.Meghan Rosen (Science News)
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For the first time ever there will be a vote in Congress on blocking weapons to Israel
For the first time ever there will be a vote in Congress on blocking weapons to Israel
Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel recently approved by the Biden administration.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
Lilbits: PineNote, Office 2024, Snapdragon X2 Elite, and a fanless Intel N100 mini PC made for networking
The PineNote is a tablet with a Rockchip RK3566 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 10.3 inch, 1404 x 1872 pixel E Ink display with support for pressure-sensitive EMR pen input. First introduced in 2021, the tablet began shipping to early adopters in early 2022. But it’s been unavailable for purchase for a while now.
That’s because the pace of software development was slow. […]
#chips #fanless #firewall #glymur #goodtico #lilbits #microsoftOffice #miniPc #networking #office2024 #pine64 #PineNote #qualcomm #router #sc8480xp #snapdragonX #snapdragonX2Elite #windows11 #windowsInsiders
Study Links Hurricanes to Higher Death Rates Long After Storms Pass
Study links hurricanes to higher death rates long after storms pass
U.S. tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, indirectly cause thousands of deaths for nearly 15 years after a storm. Understanding why could help minimize future deaths from hazards fueled by climate change.news.stanford.edu
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Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for October - Fedora Magazine
Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for October - Fedora Magazine
Presents four applications to try available from Flathub in the categories Productivity, Games, Creativity, and MiscellaneousEduard Lucena (Fedora Project)
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Tidy: Find your photos, Fast and Offline
Tidy- Offline semantic Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image search on Android powered by quantized state-of-the-art vision-language pretrained CLIP model and ONNX Runtime inference engine
Features
* Text-to-Image search: Find photos using natural language descriptions.
* Image-to-Image search: Discover visually similar images.
* Automatic indexing: New photos are automatically added to the index.
* Fast and efficient: Get search results quickly.
* Privacy-focused: Your photos never leave your device.
* No internet required: Works perfectly offline.
* Powered by OpenAI's CLIP model: Uses advanced AI for accurate results.
GitHub - slavabarkov/tidy: Offline semantic Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image search on Android powered by quantized state-of-the-art vision-language pretrained CLIP model and ONNX Runtime inference engine
Offline semantic Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image search on Android powered by quantized state-of-the-art vision-language pretrained CLIP model and ONNX Runtime inference engine - slavabarkov/tidyGitHub
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Maybe your cache gets deleted automatically when you close the app on your device. Make sure you have no other app that may do so.
> Sending out a newsletter over ActivityPub to 5000 subscribers turned out to need 10 servers, which indicates how resource-intensive and expensive ActivityPub can be
I'm interested in the details. I'm guessing Ghost sent out 5000 documents full of bloated HTML markup, big fat images, and tracking cruft. Like people do with email newsletters. If so, not exactly an AP problem.
This is not compulsory, and there may more efficient approaches, requiring much less server power.
(1/2)
What would make more sense in theory is;
1) get the newsletter payload to lose weight
2a) send only metadata and ASCII text. Then... stop. Nobody needs the rest of the cruft.
2b) send only metadata and ASCII text, and have receiving servers DOFV (Down On First View) for the rest.
With a DOFV approach, timing of heavier downloads is staggered, as people view the post at different times. Instead of hitting the sending server all at once. Also, posts that are never seen, never need to be sent.
Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly’s neurons in exquisite detail
"... Researchers are hoping to do that now that they have a new map — the most complete for any organism so far — of the brain of a single fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). The wiring diagram, or ‘connectome’, includes nearly 140,000 neurons and captures more than 54.5 million synapses, which are the connections between nerve cells.
... The map is described in a package of nine papers about the data published in Nature today. Its creators are part of a consortium known as FlyWire, co-led by neuroscientists Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung at Princeton University in New Jersey."
See the associated Nature collection: The FlyWire connectome: neuronal wiring diagram of a complete fly brain, which also has links to the nine papers
All nine papers are open access!
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So can we model this now?
Can we use this data to essentially emulate a fruit fly's behavioral patterns?
Like can we just wire this up in a software neural network, feed it some inputs, and see what happens?
Audio is inherently analogue, but you can record it into digital formats just fine.
It's tempting to say "well, that's different though" but it really isn't.
Just like with audio, you'll need high enough fidelity encoding to make it all work, otherwise you end up with garbage.
Based on my understanding of how these things work: Yes, probably no, and probably no... I think the map is just a "catalogue" of what things are, not at the point where we can do fancy models on it
This is their GitHub account, anyone knowledgeable enough about research software engineering is welcomed to give it a try
There are a few neuroscientists who are trying to decipher biological neural connections using principles from deep learning (a.k.a. AI/ML), don't think this is a popular subfield though. Andreas Tolias is the first one that comes to my mind, he and a bunch of folks from Columbia/Baylor were in a consortium when I started my PhD... not sure if that consortium is still going. His lab website (SSL cert expired bruh). They might solve the second two statements you raised... no idea when though.
Well there is no "data" per se, there's voltages and a wiring map. And this article is talking about having the complete wiring map.
The neurons deliver electrical pulses across synapses. The thickness and length of the synapse can affect the voltage or amplitude transmitted across to the next neuron. And again, if we have this fairly complete map of synapses, we may have enough information to calculate the electrical outputs of each neuron when it fires.
My understanding is that neurons work something like transistors, they receive signals and when triggered by a strong enough signal, or by enough simultaneous signals, that neuron will also fire and transmit down its synapses. With this alone you absolutely have enough structure for very complex decision making, much like a microprocessor.
I guess the question is really how accurate is this map? If we have a clear enough picture of every synaptic connection, we could simply simulate behavior in software...
[PINE64] September Update: Check Your Notes
cross-posted from: fedia.io/m/pine64@lemmy.ml/t/1…
A new community update! New hardware to announced and previous hardware to return!
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in reply to ColdWater • • •Additionally, I think 3.18 onward doesn't even support theming engines. As said, though, GIMP is stuck on GTK2.
If you're having a lot of trouble, perhaps just go with the Flatpak.
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in reply to ColdWater • • •New main versions of software usually is not compatible with old versions. That's one of the points of new main versions. You cannot load Qt 3 themes into Qt 6 either.
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- What distribution
- What architecture
- What desktop environment
- What you have done so far to try to resolve the problem (e.g have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the package?)
Based on your host name, I'm assuming it's Arch. From what I can tell from the terminal output, Ghostscript is missing (thus the
libgs.soerror). Maybe try reinstalling it with Pacman. Did you update your system and it somehow got autoremoved (I don't know Arch that well)?ColdWater
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •(script-fu:2516): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: 14:13:54.547: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error Segmentation fault (core dumped)data1701d (He/Him)
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in reply to ColdWater • • •Rewrite it in Rust!
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in reply to ColdWater • • •Why are you running gimp as root lol?
Also they've been working on upgrading to gtk3 for a decade so hopefully that fixes everything
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