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- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 23 hours ago:
Moving goalposts over and over, huh?
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 1 day ago:
Add that to the dangers of oligopolies. They can really just do whatever they want at this point.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 days ago:
I don’t think the point is about present.
More like, “back when these things were built, government had to build the most resource-efficient and mass-constructed housing, responding to a surge in demand for urban living due to industrialization”
It was either this or leaving people without any place to live.
Sure, modern situation is different, and we can have nicer homes.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 days ago:
I live in Russia nearly all my life, and I can tell it really is a matter of proper maintancnce. Many cities do a very poor job keeping these buildings in a good shape, but when they do, it looks fairly good.
Not to mention European neighbors where they are still common, but due maintenance makes them look actually good.
The sound issues are fair, but there are ways to limit them.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 days ago:
Moving to a countryside can give you both decent enough isolation and teach you to reconnect with others in a more healthy way
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 days ago:
Also part of why it looks depressing is because it’s old and poorly maintained.
Just a touch of renovation and the houses start looking way better: 1000103747 1000103748
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 6 days ago:
Crusts like this generally require a lot of steam in the oven
Fair enough!
And shaping/forming a loaf that stays tall when being baked on a flat surface takes skill, lots of practice and experience.
Or a fairly inexpensive machine that will do it for you. Of course though, there’s a special pleasure in making a truly artisan bread with your own hands. But hey, it’s not that hard if you know what you’re doing. Best to see it in action.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 6 days ago:
Lol, yes, it can be done, but it needs to be packed, otherwise it will likely fall apart.
(Also it’s an ungodly abomination and there are certainly better options to do this with)
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 6 days ago:
Baking in a rectangular shape allows you to make a space efficient bread that you can easily stack and transport.
Making bread on a flat surface allows you to minimize costs of entry (not only don’t you need the forms which are relatively cheap, you can go with simpler/cheaper ovens), and this kind of bread has a more pronounced crust, which many people like.
Also, rectangular bread is harder to leaven for a long period of time as it comes with numerous technological complications down the production line. This affects the aroma composition, making rectangular bread less attractive for those who want the traditional “bread” taste.
Baguette, as I already mentioned, has a unique crust and crumb texture defined by the shape and baking conditions. Many people like it that way.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 week ago:
ELI5: it depends on how you shape it.
You can load the dough into a metallic shape and close it with a lid, and you’ll get picture 1.
Or you can make a ball out of it and leave it be on a flat surface, and it will naturally expand to look like picture 2.
Side question: narrow shape makes baguette have a more crispy texture, which many people like. It’s also usually produced using a special kind of sourdough, which makes it have unique and rich taste. People eat it as is (just biting it from one end to another) or make small open sandwiches by cutting it in slices and putting all sorts of toppings on top of them.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 1 week ago:
Beautiful answer!
A small point from someone working alongside bread industry - small bubbles in toast/sandwich bread are not due to the type of yeast used, but due to intentionally low time for second stage mixing and, as you mentioned, low time for resting and leavening. You can absolutely create huge bubbles using the very same yeast, though, if that’s your goal.
- Comment on The holy journey 1 week ago:
It’s also not a cube!
It is 12x10,5x15 m.
- Comment on The holy journey 1 week ago:
Everyone talks about the drug part, but not the rest. So, filling in on this one.
The black thing right there is The Kaaba, the holiest place of Muslims. People on the background are completing Ṭawāf - holy pilgrimage to The Kaaba, which ends in going around it seven times in a counter -clockwise direction.
People there normally wear special clothes and chant holy phrases as they go around. For Muslims, it’s a very serious and spiritual event.
The dude poses in a way that says “hey, I’m gonna get spiritual with THIS” while completely disregarding every rule about being there.
(Muslims and other knowledgeable folks are welcome to correct me)
- Comment on Tradition is just bullying by dead people 1 week ago:
Beautiful
- Comment on RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update 1 week ago:
Most people don’t care as long as it’s not 100 GiB
The ease of installation, management, and removal is a higher priority for most. Hence, Flatpak is superior for an average Joe.
Doesn’t hurt to use native options if you like them.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 week ago:
Here on Lemmy I assume folks to be human unless proven otherwise beyond reasonable doubt.
It’s worth remembering Lemmy is so small that pushing bots just makes little practical sense. You’ll have better luck sharing propaganda on any of the subreddits with a population higher than this entire place.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
Quickly checking eBay, they now cost around $120-150 for SATA and around $100-130 for SAS in the US
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
In my country I got used 10tb for $150. Don’t know situation in your place.
- Comment on Tradition is just bullying by dead people 1 week ago:
I feel this way about religion.
It is literally being bullied by a supernatural creature that doesn’t even exist. Do X, do not do Y, else the entire wrath of the Almighty will be upon you.
And at the same time the Almighty can do absolutely anything they want - mass murder people, sleep with anyone, get everyone drunk, tell father to kill the son - because what, are you gonna defy or question someone who else destroys you and tarnishes your soul for the rest of eternity?
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
Backups and High Availability come to mind.
If there’s any other place you’d be allowed to install a second node on, ideally served by another ISP (since we talk about remote access), you can do that. This can be your friends, or family, or someone else you trust.
Just have 2 NAS devices with equal drives in each and let them work in a high availability cluster. This way, you’ll have near 100% uptime and a backup in case something goes wrong.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 1 week ago:
Made me buy a used 10tb drive recently.
Screw them all, I will have a place for my data and I won’t pay them a dollar for these shenanigans.
- Comment on xkcd #3195: International Station 1 week ago:
Yeah, Russians refer to space (the thing up above) as “cosmos” (which also happens to be present in English), and spacebar as probel (i.e. a white/blank segment)
- Comment on uhm 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to eat it upside down and you’re good to go
- Comment on Heave-ho! 2 weeks ago:
As a third party to the discussion, I don’t think “women” is the key part of it. “Customers” would do the same, but since we’re discussion womens’ clothes, it was changed to “women”.
Whenever anything bad is discussed and the word “women” is around, alarms go off too easily.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 2 weeks ago:
There are normally only a few points at which traffic enters the country. Shutting them down will effectively cut you from most of the Internet, and the rest that remains will be fully in the jurisdiction that oppresses you.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 weeks ago:
I’ll just leave it here:
openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/
(TL;DR OpenAI rolls out a section within ChatGPT specifically meant to answer medical questions)
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 3 weeks ago:
To me, it’s more like the Netherlands giving out free syringes and needles so that drug consumers at least wouldn’t contract something from the used ones.
To be clear: granting any and all pedophiles access to therapy would be of tremendous help. I think it must be done. But there are two issues remaining:
- Barely any government will scrape enough money to fund such programs now that therapy is astronomically expensive
- Even then, plenty of pedophiles will keep consuming CSAM, legally or not. There must be some incentives for them to choose the AI-generated option that is at least less harmful than the alternative.
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 3 weeks ago:
I think such matters should be kept strictly out of corporate hands
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 3 weeks ago:
Why though? If it does reduce consumption of real CSAM (which is an “if”, as the stigma around the topic greatly hinders research), it’s a net win.
Or is it simply a matter of spite?
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 3 weeks ago:
That would be true if children were abused specifically to obtain the training data. But what I’m talking about is using the data that already exists, taken from police investigations and other sources. Of course, it also requires victim’s consent (as they grow old enough), as not everyone will agree to have materials of their abuse proliferate in any way.
Police has already used CSAM with victim’s consent to better impersonate CSAM platform admins in investigative operations, leading to arrests of more child abusers and those sharing the materials around.
The case with AI is milder, as it requires minimum human interaction, so no one will need to re-watch the materials as long as victims are already identified. It’s enough for the police to contact victims, get the agreement, and feed the data into AI without releasing the source. With enough data, AI could improve image and video generation, driving more watches away from real CSAM and reducing rates of abuse.
That is, if it works this way. There’s a glaring research hole in this area, and I believe it is paramount to figure out if it helps. Then, we could decide whether to include already produced CSAM into the data, or if adult data is sufficient to make it good enough for the intended audience to make a switch.
