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in reply to NightOwl

Seems like a sensible policy. They do get a bit confused about traditional ML vs genAI but so does everyone else at the moment.


RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific


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RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific




RSF attacks kindergarten in Sudan; U.S. strikes another boat in the Pacific




'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting


A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts.

If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.

To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe. The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet "Will Russia capture Myrnohrad."



Belly of the Beast video channel hosted on PeerTube.wtf




Im sorta a computer hoarder but what can i do with some older desktops?


Over the past few years ive gotten desktops from various smaller thrift stores but not i feel like i have too many and im not sure what to so with them? Do i save them and turn them into a bugger project? Do i make a nas out of one of them? Im stumped theres so many things to do with a pc that i dont know where to start, or if this is even the right place to post in?

I pretty much saved theses from e-waste and scalpers but most of the machines are devices nobody wants or has a issue.

in reply to Grumpy404

Turn them into a little server that you can host self hostable services on
in reply to Grumpy404

A suggestion: if you can't find anything else for them, keep them around as parts machines.

There should still be useful components in them. For instance, a lot of the Wi-Fi modems may still be perfectly good for other things as long as they're mini-PCIE (I don't know if they use those in desktops). They may not be the absolute newest standard, but should still do the trick; it certainly came in handy when my sister's laptop's Wi-Fi modem decided to be a brat - I just swapped in an Intel modem from a laptop from 2016.

I might not fully trust the SSDs or the HDDs, but they can still have their uses. There's one SSD from an old desktop that I currently have hooked up to my Wii U.



me trying to find common sense in newspaper/yt comment sections


::: spoiler spoiler
people who comment on newspapers or on yt are usuallh lacking of this for some reason
:::
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in reply to dosuser123456

i just do ls -R / | grep -i "common sense"

i know it's super inefficient but i'm the only one who uses it so dude who fucking cares

in reply to dosuser123456

I only see

500 Internal Server Error

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Cloudflare

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I was given a steam giftcard for my b-day, what now?


Not sure if this goes here but i have a steam giftcard, but i also like free stuff for example piracy even if i barley do so and dont know much about it.

Its only 20 bucks but im not sure what its worth putting into.

Should i just get like a steam deck or something with a mix of my money and the gift card?

What would you advise?

in reply to Grumpy404

Pick something that interests you but is made by a small, indie, maybe even solo dev. Check out some of the stuff made by people on lemmy in the Godot community maybe. Lots of cool projects to consider.




How to work around RAM prices?


I want to build a new PC, but avoid buying RAM until prices are sane. What are my options?




4x6 thermal label printers on linux


Does anyone have 4x6 thermal label printers working on Linux?

I have tried several thermal printers, zebra and off brands, none of them work on Linux, also tried arch, mint, manjaro, Ubuntu, and a few others.

Printers all detect and install, but never prints. I messed with CUPS settings, didnt help. I also tried LPrint. Didnt work. Nothing comes out any of the label printers. Not even the sample test labels.

Been using Linux for about 2 years full time. I only have windows to print shipping labels.
I HATE using windows 10 and refuse to use 11. Now with no updates it’s the last thing I need to replace.

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in reply to Retro_unlimited

Phonemo has linux drivers on their website. i have the 241BT and it works well with usb. did not test with BT
github.com/PMCSilva/phomemo_PM…
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in reply to Retro_unlimited

Just a questions, are such thermal printers useful for home users? I find them quite interesting since they are fast. They could make sense if one just wants to print a tiny snippet of information like a shopping list, a street adress, or a password, and one does not want to fire up a laser printer and print a whole A4 page.

(Thinking about that, passwords are an interesting use case... often a paper copy makes sense and the copy needs to match exactly.)



In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet


As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.


in reply to NightOwl

I find it astounding that the U.S. went on to devastate Libya before they had concluded Afghanistan. Apparently I'm in the minority of people who understood that all of this was bad - even back in 2009-2011.


Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026, as Israel allowed to compete


Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands will boycott next year’s Eurovision after Israel was given the all-clear to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls by several participating broadcasters for its exclusion over the war in Gaza.

No vote on Israel’s participation was held on Thursday at the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the body that organises the hugely popular international annual singing competition.

Instead, participating broadcasters voted only to introduce new rules designed to stop governments and third parties from disproportionately promoting songs to influence voters.

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in reply to geneva_convenience

there should be more and i suspect this lack is indicative of mainstream sentiment about this topic.
in reply to eldavi

Support to boycott it is actually fairly big but the political lobby gets in the way. Israel has a massive grip on Europe. The Netherlands is a bit of a surprise in this lineup, they are pretty strongly infiltrated by Israel. Guess they didn't appreciate what Israel did to Joost Klein.


WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]


Well, that's just really shitty.