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- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 day ago:
I see
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 days ago:
Interesting, though Goanna is still a Gecko fork.
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 2 days ago:
It’s…complicated.
On one end, a clear sign of “f*** you” with such decisions is important. On the other, Mozilla is already in a rough place, and with so many genuinely good projects, including Waterfox, depending on Firefox or at least Gecko, this is akin to biting the hand that feeds you.
All these teams cannot maintain their own browser engine, and without it, they may as well turn to dust. Thereby, maintaining their upstream is in their best interest.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 3 days ago:
The classic ones are “шиншилла” and “лишишься”, although the latter could be extended to “лишившийся”. 11 u’s for the latter, if my calcultations are correct.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
You were telling about cultures worth preserving - and by your definition, most of the cultures you list were not worth preserving and should have become extinct. Good thing that they were preserved even through the worst of times.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
About half of these countries were militaristic authoritarianist shitholes, some even not that long ago by historical measures.
Yet, all these cultures have proliferated, and you consider them worthy of studying. Same idea here. Give it time.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
True lol
But figuring out just how much “u” you need to write, or how many are there, is a bit tedious without the language experience.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
Name me one major culture that was not poisoned by dictatorship, misinformation, and hate
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
You need to Polish your joke a little
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
A casual reminder is that Slavs are a diverse group of people not united by the same ideas and political agenda.
If your worry is association with Russia specifically, several Slavic countries are actively anti-Russia and are parts of NATO.
Ukraine is Slavic, too.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
I mean, actual Russians are native Russian speakers and majority sees through Chekist bullshit, so this checks out!
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
Shout out to Interslavic! This is a language that is comprised of common words and roots from all Slavic languages, all united under consistent rules.
Learning it will enable you to understand all Slavs to a good degree, and they will in turn understand you very well.
Knowing 2 Slavic languages (3 if we count basic Czech), I can confirm it works.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
Russian culture spans way beyond whatever Putin’s currently doing, and has given the world an immense cultural, scientific, historic heritage.
Trying to cancel and destroy Russian culture is akin to destroying German culture and heritage just because one German dude with a weird moustache decided to start Holocaust.
Would be a tragedy to lose either.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 4 days ago:
As a Russian myself, it depends.
Do you want to explore classic Russian literature without translation losses? Explore the cultural ties of Russians and how language and culture affects history and politics? Figure out what Russian politicians are saying? Hang out with Russians somewhere? Finally figure out how to wrote the word “лишишься” in cursive?
If at least one answer is “yes”, go ahead! It’s not easy, but quite rewarding. If you just want to dip your toes a little, however, and feel like you grasp something, there are better options.
- Comment on It was completely lost on me, at first. 4 days ago:
Loss meme
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 4 days ago:
If a glass platter really holds 360TB and can be made affordable, it wouldn’t really matter.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
They might be more common than you think!
Lemmy/PieFed isn’t all US and EU. People from all kinds of places can be found here.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 1 week ago:
So, Google could be allowed to have the tools to collect CSAM all over the Web without oversight?
Pretty much everyone else would get straight to jail for attempting that.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 1 week ago:
Your eloquence strikes me as unnecessary but beautiful - truly, it is in human nature to overcomplicate, but in such a special way that makes it unique and almost spiritual instead of verbose and obtuse. I compliment your decisiveness and ability - a distinctively human ability - to see through this thin line and turn your toilet habit into something so profound. Yet, I cannot help but note that taking out the phone while unloading your bowel - or bladder, for that matter - is yet another symptom - a very alarming symptom - of the modern age interfering with our ability to distance ourselves from a neverending steam of distractions, one that comes hand in hand with modern AI-powered enshittification. So, if you’d like to truly reconnect with your roots, to find human in yourself - perhaps it might be bright to create an intimate space where the only connection you experience is a connection with yourself.
Perhaps, I couldn’t express myself as vividly as you do; for that I apologize; yet, I’m not even operating in the domain of my mother tongue, so I hope I can be forgiven. Besides, one other distinctively human thing is to try regadless.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 1 week ago:
The worst part - through human communication, texts on the internet, etc. - it seems to propagate towards people who don’t even use AI.
I myself have strong aversion to it, but found myself using much more bullet points, cliché constructions, and yes - even em-dashes - when I don’t actively pay attention to how I write.
I’ve always been sensitive to language around me, naturally adapting to the environment around - and now it backfires.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 1 week ago:
- It’s a commercial product, what else could you expect?
- Comment on You didn't grow up yet, till you choose your power grain, what is yours? 1 week ago:
Rice. But lentils are nice too.
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 weeks ago:
Sad to know!
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 weeks ago:
Feel you - hope you’ll have safer ways to bike in the future! Maybe there are some kind of bike advocacy groups in your area?
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, US is one of these hard to reach places
- Comment on It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it 2 weeks ago:
People commonly have a choice not to drive a car in the first place.
Though cultural pressures, as well as some specific areas being genuinely hard to reach, pushes many people towards it anyway. But if you have a choice, choose public.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome and I want to talk aout it 2 weeks ago:
Afaik, you can set it up not to have any image, or have any other one.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 3 weeks ago:
Servo and Ladybird are both worth keeping an eye on, but neither is ready yet, unfortunately
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
We’re unlikely to see the grand price fall in the coming year. Can get a bit cheaper, though.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 3 weeks ago:
Fast lane is for driving at the speed limit. If the front driver goes by the limit, you hold no right to complain.
Do not normalize speeding.