Print Version of ActivityPub Book
O’Reilly Media asked me to collect expressions of interest for a print version of the ActivityPub book I wrote. I’ve added a form to the ActivityPub book page at evanp.me/activitypub-book/#pri… that you can use to let me know that you’re interested.
Even if you’ve told me before in person, over email, or on the Fediverse that you’d like a print version, it would help me a lot if you could add your name to the form. It’s just for counting names and notifying people when the book comes out in print; I won’t use the email for anything else.
Thanks so much to everyone who’s shown interest so far. I hope to get a print version happening soon!
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But its statistically significant that most abortions happen as a result of the potential babydaddy doing a blow-n-go and leaving the female with a hard decision
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statistically significant that most abortions happen as a result of the potential babydaddy doing a blow-n-go and leaving the female with a hard decision
what? I'm not even going to bother asking for a source. That is incorrect.
I know I'm probably wrong here, and I'm willing to be better informed, but I don't like the phrasing of abortion as mere "birth control," as if it were equal to methods that prevent conception or implantation.
Do people really feel it's not a different sort of act, or would people be comfortable using abortion as their sole means of birth control (if it were safe and inconsequential to the woman)? And yes, I understand that the morning after pill is something of a gray area.
Also yes, I am a Christian. But I understand that there are good reasons for abortion remaining legal.
Absolutely understand, and while it's hard for me to believe that anyone doesn't know about condoms, a religious person who chooses abortion over condoms really makes me scratch my head.
But I guess you mean a kid living in a "religious" household. Man, I wish there was a way to communicate to kids that feeling your old enough for sex means feeling you're old enough to make good decisions about preventing pregnancy.
I mean frankly the whole thing's just too damn big for me. My heart goes out to everyone who finds themselves with these kinds of choices.
You're making some huge assumptions about the quality of sex and health education that those kids have had access to. It's easy to point a finger and say, well you should be more responsible, but the reality is that adolescents are still learning and developing. So even with great education, they make bad decisions. They won't have adult brains until their early to mid 20s. And there's no reason why those decisions should ruin lives, when modern medicine can resolve the dilemma in minutes.
In other words, you're making an argument for much better and more widely available sex and health education. Which religious types are likely to oppose. Can't have it both ways- either the kids are fully informed and made an error, or their guardians failed them and set them on a track with a veil of ignorance.
Yeah, I was getting at living in a religious household, but I can say from experience that it goes far deeper than that. There is way too often a toxic and parasitic mentality that constantly says things like birth control are evil and aren't to be talked about. When that kind of thinking permeates every aspect of one's life or community, it can make it difficult, humiliating, or outright dangerous for people to seek out things like contraceptives.
Also, I know this thinking doesn't hold true of all religious folks, and it's refreshing to see someone genuinely curious and asking questions rather than judging automatically, so thank you.
Well depends what you mean by birth control... is it a way to prevent pregnancy or children?
Since birth is in the name i'd say the term is better suited for referring to anything preventing the birth of a children. But what the term refers to has no barring on what's happening.
It never meant people don't make a difference. Any reasonable women knows and feel the difference.
The fact it's less safe and has worse effects on your health is just another way we realize how serious an abortion is. It will never be inconsequential even if it was safe.
Please do not trust anyone who says people disagree with this. They all have a political reason to lie.
Abortion as birth control is a lie they've been harping on for decades. No one does that. No one says, "Aw crap! Preggers again, off to the abortionplex!"
I've impregnated two women that had abortions. I won't go into the details, but we talked about it, decided to do it, and they were both emotionally crushed. The second woman lost her ability to ever have children from the procedure.
Abortion is not a thing to be taken lightly, and no one does.
And thanks for sticking your neck out and asking around here. Surprised you weren't excoriated.
The worst part is draconic abortion bans also hurt those trying to have children. No one's getting recreational third trimester abortions. You picked out a name, painted the nursery. Late term abortions are tragedies to all parties, and only ever happen because of life threatening conditions.
I wouldn't want to plan a child when any complication could mean death.
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One issue (and hear me out, I do support abortions, birth control and bodily autonomy!) is that, once given a choice when and how to reproduce, people don't do it as much.
Having pleasure of sex without consequences is screwing the natural incentives for reproduction.
Whether we like it or not, there should be something to support fertility if we don't want to end up in a population crisis, with a few young folks supporting the ever growing army of the elderly.
Now, this should NOT be laws prohibiting abortions, or banning any sort of contraception, but there should be some incentives for people to go, and, well, make babies. This part Republicans got right (wow), they screwed with the suggested methods.
Fixing the financial clusterfuck and letting people live in a bright and predictable world where they know their tomorrow will be good is certainly one way, but I'm afraid it's not enough. What could be the other options? I'm interested in people's opinions.
What do you mean by population crisis?
In the world it's the other way around, the demographics are still booming.
You know what came before having better birth control and lower birth rates in most developed countries, medicine and lower death rate. In most of them now both are pretty close (most because there are exceptions like Japan).
I'm not really sure i see a problem with a slight decrease in population in a place where there is already a lot of people.
Demographics is mostly booming in underdeveloped countries, with some exceptions. It is likely many of them will follow the same path going forward, and UN predictions expect just that, as far as I remember. For developed countries, the fertility rate typically sits somewhere around 1,5-1,7, significantly below 2,1 required to have a stable population. I could of course cite something like South Korea with 0,8, but that's an obvious outlier. It's bad enough as it is.
As the world remains divided, this will likely exacerbate the issue for particular countries with lower birth rate. Immigration is one answer, but it doesn't always cover the population loss, and immigrants are likely to send a lot of their income back home anyway (again, this is absolutely not a case against immigrants, I for one welcome them).
Evening out population growth over time would go a long way to maintain a healthy future.
Those are unrelated, unfortunately.
An orphan, economically speaking, is still a productive member of society.
Of course, from the position of empathy, it is extremely sad people don't commonly adopt children, and I would welcome everyone to do so - along with having their own. Adoption is important to give everyone a family and save them from the horrors of orphan life. New births are important to keep human population stable and the world continuously running.
As much as I want to only come from the empathetic "adopt first" (and I consider doing so myself in a not-so-distant future), we have to have other considerations as well if we don't want to live in a dying world where everyone - from kids to seniors - faces insane, never-before-seen economic crisis, destroying life for everyone. It already gets worse, and we only dropped fertility a little. There are objective economic factors to this, not only capitalist greed (which, however, is also present).
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Or not get pregnant. Everyone has a hand, but no one wants to use it.
I got a wave of Kamala activity in the past hour. Must be California coming home from protesting.
Everyone has a hand, but no one wants to use it.
Using that hand to dial a phone to schedule an appointment to get an abortion counts as not wanting to use it? I took responsibility when I paid for the abortion, like a gentleman should.
The simpler the 'fact', the more likely it is to be an oversimplification and largely untrue.
In this example, you have to overlook any time someone became pregnant without consent. They never chose it to begin with, so blaming them for "not taking responsibility" for something they never wanted is oversimplifying a complicated subject to the point of falsehood.
It's also especially funny how often this argument comes from people who, in the same breath, will talk about their savior being "of virgin birth". You can't argue that chastity works for everyone when it didn't work for Mary.
Pro-lifers don't care.
All they care about is the fact that the white population will decrease as no one can afford/wants children, so the best way to remedy that is to force them to.
For the Fifth Time - US Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UNSC
This marks the fifth time since October 2023 that Washington has prevented such a measure from advancing amid Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
The resolution called for an “immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire” while also urging the release of captives currently held by Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip.
Despite 14 member states voting in favor, the US, as a permanent member of the Council, exercised its veto to nullify the resolution.
For the Fifth Time - US Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UNSC - Palestine Chronicle
The United States used its veto power at the UNSC to block a resolution advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Logan Paul used impersonator to dodge crypto questions in BBC documentary
Logan Paul used impersonator to dodge crypto questions in BBC documentary
Logan Paul reportedly used an impersonator in an attempt to avoid questions for a BBC documentary about an alleged crypto scam.Ben Axelrod (Awful Announcing)
It's always a bit strange to see right-wing douchebags try to use subversive techniques like this. This is him trying to Borat the situation. But it just looks entitled and guilty. I guess maybe someone should tell him, people like seeing someone speak truth-to-power, not using power to crush truth? Can he tell the difference?
I guess for the next four years we'll see all kinds of people feel emboldened to act their most awful like this.
That is both so shocking stupid and entirely unsurprising for Logan Paul. More importantly however, this event will absolutely not change the opinion of any LP fan. Just one more cult of personality the rest of society has to collectively deal with.
I truly wish I was joking but decent chance Logan Paul is going to be president someday.
Believe me, a lot of people do it! Mostly unemployed people and kids I think.
I watch his stuff very rarely, but usually not to see him. He had xQc on Impaulsive recently I plan on listening to that episode soon.
Logan Paul used impersonator to dodge crypto questions in BBC documentary
Logan Paul used impersonator to dodge crypto questions in BBC documentary
Logan Paul reportedly used an impersonator in an attempt to avoid questions for a BBC documentary about an alleged crypto scam.Ben Axelrod (Awful Announcing)
Qualcomm plans to bring Snapdragon chips to $600 laptops
The first Windows laptops to ship with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite chips sold for $1,000 and up when they first hit the streets earlier this year. But in September Qualcomm introduced a new a lower-cost (and lower performance) chip designed for laptops with prices starting as low as $700.
Now the company has indicated it plans to go lower with a new Snapdragon processor that’s “coming soon” for entry-level laptops priced as low as $600.
At this point Qualcomm hasn’t said anything about the upcoming processor’s specifications. But given that Snapdragon X Elite processors feature 12 CPU cores and higher-performance graphics than the 8 and 10-core Snapdragon Plus processors, it seems like a safe bet that an upcoming entry-level processor could cut back on CPU and/or GPU resources.
But the new chip will have the same 45 TOPS NPU as all other members of the Snapdragon X family, which means PCs that ship with the new processor may still qualify as Microsoft Copilot+ PCs with support for on-device AI processing.
So while you could certainly make the case that $600 laptops aren’t exactly “entry” level at a time when you can find plenty of notebook computers selling for $500 or less, Qualcomm’s new chip could be used to bring down the starting price of so-called “AI PCs” substantially… if that’s a thing that matters to you.
At this point, it’s unclear if there are any killer apps that make on-device AI a must-have feature in personal computers. But Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are also energy-efficient chips that long battery life while offering strong single-core CPU performance. Laptops that ship with the processors aren’t great gaming PCs at this point, but that becomes less of an issue in a $600 laptop than it is for one that sells for twice as much.
Qualcomm hasn’t said when the new chips will be available or when you’ll be able to buy a laptop that has one inside.
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China no longer top source of international students in US, political atmosphere, opportunities at home among reasons: expert
China no longer top source of international students in US, political atmosphere, opportunities at home among reasons: expert
While India and China still make up over half of all international students in the US, India has overtaken China as the top source for international students in the US for the first time in about 15 years, according to new data released on Monday.www.globaltimes.cn
Crosspost: Ideas and Tips for Dual Boot and Audio Things on Linux (2011 Laptop)
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Ideas and Tips for Dual Boot and Audio Things on Linux (2011 Laptop)
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--> Before you contribute anything to this post, please be aware that I research a Music Production related topic on Lemmy/Mastodon.Hi there,
not even sure if this community is still active, but I will give it a go ;)
I'm looking for distro ideas and tips for setting up Audio.So, here's the situation: I've been thinking about switching DAW for a while now and just tried LMMS so far, which I didn't like at all. I'm curious to check out Reaper and/or Ardour next while also considering Bitwig as another option.
Currently I use an old MacBook Pro (~2011) for Music Production - running MacOS and Ableton Live 10. The plan is to Dual Boot this machine for now, but I'm unsure which Distro to go for. SSD is new, I can dedicate around ~250 Gigs to this install, which is a lot since I mainly use external storage usually. 4 GB of RAM, I think some swap space would be ideal.
On my main machine I've so far tried Ubuntu Studio for about 3 Weeks, so this is absolutely not an option. Then I've tried Mint for literally just 3 Days because I really hated the look of it (maybe no surprise as a long-time Mac user). I'm on arch-based/Arch with Plasma 5/6 + pipewire now since around 2 years. Haven't been touching on anything Music Production related on here, just the average everyday use to play Videos and Music (which just worked out of the box) so I'm not really familiar with anything Audio-related on Linux.
I want the Music Laptop to just be pretty minimal, a bit of Note-taking and Office stuff besides the DAW's. The Laptop is usually offline, so I think going for Arch/ a rolling release is not very ideal. I thought about just Gnome or Plasma 6 on Debian, as I wanted to try out Debian for future projects anyways. Not sure how this will play out on that old Laptop, so just thought I'd ask if there's any experience with older machines before I get into it. Also open for other recommendations in case I missed some other good distro option, I feel like I'm also in an experimental phase currently and wouldn't mind distro-hopping for a bit.
Then, I feel a bit overwhelmed by the whole audio thing, so I would be very thankful for useful tips, videos, websites or similar that might help me to figure things out.
I own a Focusrite Audio-Interface, and it will be a problem if I can't get this running, but I will definitely try it out before I buy a new one. Another issue with this Laptop is that the Audio jack broke years ago inside the machine, so it's not even possible to get any sound out of this thing if not via the Interface lol. Well, actually there is: Bluetooth Speakers, which I also do own but... meh. Usually on Headphones for Music Prodcution, so I kinda need the Interface. Not a huge VST user, so this is less of an issue for me. I mainly use my Interface to record Instruments/Mics or just my field recorder and Samples.
Hope I can get some feedback on my throughts and recommendations, thanks a lot in advance!
i used to have a 2013 macbook air from the electronics disposal bin and used it for five years as my daily driver. i don't know how well it would do considering all your audio related constraints; but in your shoes i would do some quick and dirty testing with a live linux distribution on usb drive.
i would go with elive because it comes preinstalled with proprietary software; including things for multimedia, like codecs. you could also do it w any other distro, but why not save yourself the extra steps; since we're only looking for breadcrumbs to follow anyways.
i used to use a headset w a usb audio dongle circa 2002 on red hat linux and the breadcrumbs i found back then led me to discover that getting it to work required the proprietary software that the distros wouldn't carry because of the licensing. so i spent days tearing apart my new installation trying to get it to work with the help of strangers on internet linux forums and ultimately failed; i later succeeded with mandrake linux and ran with that for about 3ish years before switching to debian and later elive.
elive has already figured out all the intricate details necessary to get that software to work and i'm inclined to believe that they made significant improvements over the last 20ish years. you can use the fruits of their labor for a quick and non-invasive test that can be the first breadcrumb that leads you to whatever you end up using for your two machines while ensuring your audio requirements will be met; maybe elive can also help with other proprietary software or maybe it's people on the software that they use that are like yours.
also: you lost me on Focusrite Audio-Interface paragraph so i don't understand how it fits into any of this.
Oh and I probably mentioned the issues because I could not get Wifi/Bluetooth to work before and because I don't use one of the mainstream ones of the focusrite product line, and this could be an issue, maybe not.
On the DAW, the three are good, I use Ardour cause it's a free software, but I've been told the other two are good, specially for people coming from ableton who want something close. Ardour is really a old-fashioned saw like pro-tools.
Check Librazik it's a distro based on debian made for musicale production.
I'd say you don't need a specific distro for what you want to do : a Debian or Arch with KDE could do the trick, but I would recommend to use a lighter desktop environment like Xfce. You may not like it coming from mac but it will preserve machine resources for your audio work.
Ardour runs pretty much on it's own on any distro, you can still do some conf, I suggest to go to linuxmao.fr the website is mostly in French but have a lot of configuration documentation.
This audio interface will not be an issue as it's plug and play on Linux since a while now.
Thanks for mentioning Librazik. I'll take a look at it later.
You are right with KDE as DE, and I am happy you mention it. I guess I'm just being lazy with this as I am familiar with it and I like the looks of it. But true, given I really won't do much else on there, it's pretty much a waste of resources, so I'll take that into account.
I will go with Reaper first and hope this will be a good Ableton alternative. Ardour I'm generally just really curious to try out, so I will give it a shot too, maybe later. The website you mention will be great for this, hope I will be able to read through this ;)
It's good to hear about the inteface just working, will see how it goes. I remember searching info on that model I have back on reddit and there was one person who tried to get it to work on linux and it sounded complicated, but that was already a few years back
With 4 GB of RAM you will be limited, so either XFce or Mint are your best bet (and edit their StartUp pref panel to disable some services -- that will save you 200 MB of RAM). I wouldn't put Gnome on a machine with 4 GB of RAM, it'll start swapping before long.
Not sure why you say that "ubuntu studio is absolutely not an option". You don't give any reason why it's not an option. Ubuntu studio has special scripts to make things like jack2 work in pipewire correctly, for one. I couldn't get Presonus StudioOne to get any sound on my Mint installation without that ubuntu studio setup script, for example.
Reaper is nothing like Ableton, it's its own thing, and you'll need to get used to it. Ardour is another option, Bitwig, and some others I mention here: mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/1…
LMMS is mostly for electronic/midi music (the UI is like FL Studio's). For recording, you'll need to download their .appimage dev-build (they implemented it a few months ago). Still no vst3 support in it though.
And you'll need to get a supported audio interface, you can't judge audio quality via BT.
Personally, I'd go for Linux Mint and do these things: 1. Install a theme that pleases you visually, 2. Edit startup sessions to not load useless things (I've even turned off bluetooth) 3. Uninstall fwupd (you don't need that on a mac), 4. Uninstall the evolution-data-server 5. install the ubuntustudio pipewire config script, 6. install the daw you like, and use the pipewire connection kit to make sure you get sound out of it.
On my Mint, I've been able to get it down to 700 MB of RAM on a clean boot (out of 1.3 GB by default). That gives some headroom to do better web browsing or media work.
Thanks so much for answering, this is really helpful, even if I feel pretty indecisive now.
What do you think about LMDE? This would have been my second idea. I'm also not mad about going with Mint for a second time as you recommend. My disliking was purely because of aesthetics, which wouldn't be as important for this Laptop.
As I mentioned in the reply to Noo, I have already changed my mind about DE's. Honestly, I always assumed this Laptop had 8 GB of RAM just like the other - and there I've had the Laptop freeze installing stuff from the AUR - seems this is always the worst part of these Macbooks, but I'm never gonna buy one again anyway. But yeah, I dont have any clue about how much those 4 GB affect my Distro/DE choices, I'm here to learn :D I also saw your post on Mastodon about RAM on Debian Gnome a few Days back, which was one of the reasons why I began second guessing my initial ideas.
I know if I'd look for a substitute for Ableton it would probably be best to just go with Bitwig. But there's also aspects of Ableton I'm not happy with. I generally got bored of it a bit tbf, so it's allright if I feel I start from scratch for a while. Reaper was recommended to me by a few people already, so Reaper it is. Shortcuts and navigation will be hard for a while I assume, but nothing you can't get used to ;)
Yeah LMMS really felt close to FL Studio, used FL a bunch in my youth.
Ubuntu ran really bad on my other Laptop, and I felt overwhelmed by the amount of stuff pre-installed. So I doubt it will be better.
Concerning the Interface, I don't have the extra money to buy a new one currently, so this either works or not.
Ok, so I'll maybe wait on your opinion on LMDE in case you will have time to reply. Will keep Mint on my mind!
Because LMDE runs on Debian, you won't have the extra fixes for audio that ubuntustudio offers (mint runs on the same repos as all ubuntu flavors). Also, LMDE is debian, and their packages are older.
Regarding ram, reaper uses way, way less ram than any other daw, because it's the most optimized of all. The creator of it, who also did winamp back in the day, is known for his optimization black magic.
[News] Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends
A shared meal, a kiss on the cheek: these social acts bring people together — and bring their microbiomes together, too. The more people interact, the more similar the make-up of their gut microorganisms is, even if individuals don’t live in the same household, a study shows.The study also found that a person’s microbiome is shaped not only by their social contacts but also by the social contacts’ connections. The work is one of several studies that raise the possibility that health conditions can be shaped by the transmission of the microbiome between individuals, not just by diet and other environmental factors that affect gut flora.
What if we shared our microbiomes under the moonlight
Associated research article (open access): Beghini, F., Pullman, J., Alexander, M. et al. Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks. Nature (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-082…
Another relevant research article cited by the news (also open access): Valles-Colomer, M., Blanco-Míguez, A., Manghi, P. et al. The person-to-person transmission landscape of the gut and oral microbiomes. Nature 614, 125–135 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-056…
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Saudi Arabia's wealth fund 'facilitated displacement, torture and killing'
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which is chaired by its crown prince, is being used to facilitate and whitewash a wide range of human rights abuses, according to a new report.
The report, titled "The Man Who Bought the World: Rights Abuses Linked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Its Chairman, Mohammad bin Salman", was published on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.
It found that the fund was effectively controlled by one person, Mohammed bin Salman, and was being used to enable mass rights violations including forced displacement, torture and the killing of a high-profile journalist.
Just months after becoming crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman used the wealth fund to tighten his grip on power, the report noted, during the Ritz-Carlton purge launched in November 2017.
In what was dubbed an "anti-corruption drive", 200 powerful Saudi businesspeople, royals and senior officials were initially arrested and taken to the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh.
There they were detained, and some were abused, until they handed over proportions of their assets to the wealth fund.
Saudi Arabia's wealth fund 'facilitated displacement, torture and killing'
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which is chaired by its crown prince, is being used to facilitate and whitewash a wide range of human rights abuses, according to a new report.Rayhan Uddin (Middle East Eye)
AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing
AAA - Analytical Anti-Aliasing
How to fix jaggies the analytical way with some juicy secretsblog.frost.kiwi
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In addition to conventional call-ups, conscription teams patrol public areas or stop cars on highways to draft eligible men into the army. Dozens of men have died and hundreds were caught when trying to illegally cross the border. Other are already abroad. Some don’t leave their apartments for weeks to dodge the draft.
And some people will read that, and think "oh no, we gotta send Zelensky more money and support his murderous regime even harder so that he can catch and kidnap and send all of them to the meatgrinder"...
And those same people claim to have the moral highground.
Actually, it seems that it's official now, Zelensky has confirmed it... :(
"If they will cut [aid], I think we will lose. Of course, anyway, we will stay and we will fight."
So even if the defeat will be obvious, he will continue exterminating us till nobody is left...
Average age of Ukranian Army 42.
Average age of the 1st Galician Grenadier Grandpa Battalion: 55.
Zelenskyy trying so hard not to draft anyone under 25 so that the war support doesn't crater and he doesn't cause a demographic crisis for Ukraine's labor mix.
Greece faces general strike as workers protest cost of living squeeze
Greece faces general strike as workers protest cost of living squeeze
Unions demand ‘dignified wages’ as unequal recovery from debt crisis has left many struggling with higher costsHelena Smith (The Guardian)
Greece faces general strike as workers protest cost of living squeeze
Greece faces general strike as workers protest cost of living squeeze
Unions demand ‘dignified wages’ as unequal recovery from debt crisis has left many struggling with higher costsHelena Smith (The Guardian)
An opinion piece describing how greece bailed out germany.
Here's the wikipedia on the same topic (1). Examine the chapter "causes".
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Greece is free to grexit, if they perceive eu to be the problem.
The reverse is harder.
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Exactly. All the more reason to grexit! There's russia, brazil, china, india to look up to.
Just imagine the average indian, russian, brazilian, chinese life. That could be you.
Why? - Weird Pi 5 RAM upgrade
This madman upgraded his Raspberry Pi 5's RAM from 4GB to 8GB, and it works great
Why buy an 8GB Pi 5 when you can just upgrade a 4GB one?Simon Batt (XDA)
Tax Dodging by Super-Rich, Big Corporations Costs Nations Half a Trillion Per Year: Study
Tax Dodging by Super-Rich, Big Corporations Costs Nations Half a Trillion Per Year: Study
“The U.K. and the U.S. are both among the biggest enablers and the biggest losers of this lose-lose tax system,” said the chief executive of the Tax Justice Network.scheerpost.com
How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations
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#DavidStreitfeld has written about Google since it was a start-up.
Nov. 20, 2024 Updated 9:19 a.m. ET -
How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.David Streitfeld (The New York Times)
employees should refrain from speculation and sarcasm and “think twice” before writing one another about “hot topics.” “Don’t comment before you have all the facts,” they were instructed.
There is one core aspect of humanity that is missing in the modern world, ephemeral communication. If two people physically meet and talk. That conversation only exists for the length of the breath in their lungs.
It makes sense for businesses, to establish standard recording practices, including those for ephemeral communication. Think of signal and the auto expiring messages. As long as it's your standard business practice, that's okay. If you turned it on when you're trying to be sketchy, now you're not following business practice, and that's wrong...
This is the same reason lots of companies will have email auto delete after 3 months if not archived manually.
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None of this has to be inherently evil, any lawsuit will include discovery, which means every little textual conversation in the company chat will be examined and published to slander the company. Even if the company did nothing wrong. There will be some a****** in chat who says some s*** that looks bad as a headline. And that's exactly how it will be used
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •I don’t normally get mad at genAI art. This one makes me mad. A huge part of Bosch is the tiny detail. There’s scholarly debate about how we interpret the detail; it’s incredibly wrong to say something is in the style of Hieronymus Bosch without clever little details. This AI garbage just has a bunch of repeated lens flares, age marks, and blobs. Also in the style of Bosch implies something we can interpret, be it a dark take on office work or capitalists teaching us lessons. I don’t know what the fuck we can take away from this.
This is more “someone with the title ‘prompt engineer’ spent three minutes hunt-and-pecking the name ‘Hieronymus Bosch’ into midjourney and grabbed the first image that was sort of muted earth tones” than “remotely in the vicinity of the style of Hieronymus Bosch.”
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Oh my goodness simpler words would be nice since we’re struggling with “non sequitur” and “strawman” and “basic connections to underlying language.”
I appreciate your summary! Here’s mine:
- (original comment) this has nothing to do with Hieronymus Bosch
- (original comment) genAI slop is bad
- burning any energy for the current model is bad
- NFTs are bad
- making fun of people that swallow genAI proganda is always correct
- there is a fundamental misunderstanding about how capable the tech is, proganda aside, and a basic review of genAI art slop highlights this
- your blog contradicts your online persona
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in reply to thesmokingman • • •The only one struggling with “non sequitur” and “strawman” and “basic connections to underlying language” is you. Since you keep using these terms without evidently understanding them or even understanding the content of what's being said to you. The irony here of you exhibiting generative model behavior while raging against them is quite hilarious.
None of the points you've listed actually address my argument, and it's pretty clear that you're either incapable of understanding it or intentionally avoid engaging with it. My blog in no way contradicts my online persona, but I guess that's something you felt important to throw in as a way of ad hominem in lieu of having any actual point to make.
Cheers.
thesmokingman
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Since we’ve turned this into a gish gallop
- (original comment) this has nothing to do with Hieronymus Bosch: never countered ergo conceded; whole premise is pointless
- (original comment) genAI slop is bad: you say capitalism is bad not genAI, I say tech isn’t there and wasting energy is bad; you’ve yet to prove that capitalism being bad (your core argument) means genAI can actually work or that since capitalism is bad burning energy is okay
- burning any energy for the current model is bad: you say capitalism is bad; this addresses nothing
- NFTs are bad: we agree
- making fun of people that swallow genAI proganda is always correct: you conceded the original point and also dropped when I pointed out that making fun of NFTs made things better
- there is a fundamental misunderstanding about how capable the tech is, proganda aside, and a basic review of genAI art slop highlights this: you do not provide any analysis here; general tech consensus is that AI is very far from doing anything useful
- your blog contradicts yo
... show moreSince we’ve turned this into a gish gallop
We both agree that capitalism is bad, you provide no evidence aside from ad hominem to contradict the most superficial analysis of your midjourney, and you have swallowed way too much genAI propaganda (coincidentally called out many times and left unanswered) without applying any of your development critical thinking skills. You want to burn energy on dumb shit to support billionaires while saying billionaires are bad, I think that’s stupid and enjoy poking fun at any engineer stupid enough to miss the forest for the trees.
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in reply to thesmokingman • • •The only one doing a gish gallop here is you. I had a very clear and simple point all along, which is that it's not productive to perseverate over symptoms of the system. Evidently, you're incapable of addressing this point and instead proceed to keep making straw man arguments that have nothing to do with anything I said. Apparently you think that if you keep writing walls of text that will somehow distract from the fact that you don't have any actual counterpoint to the simple statement I made.
Seeing how you clearly need to have the last word here, I'm going to stop here so you can get it out of your system and move on with your life. Bye.
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