Saleh

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Putin cant visit most countries anymore. Netanyahu neither. Exceptions are the US who want to destroy the ICC anyways and recently Hungary who now want to leave the ICC to suck up to Netanyahu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As an internationally active company there is many jurisdictions, where Microsoft can be held accountable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jump on in.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Serotonin can’t past the blood-brain barrier.

  You have two serotonin households and it serves different regulation purposes in your body and brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contractsIt’s the biggest escalation yet of the protests at Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Helping a genocide is very much illegal. If you sell precursor chemicals for poison gas to a death camp operator, you are also complicit.

  After Oct. 7 the usage by the IDF exploded. In early 2024 reports about the AI tools used to justify slaughtering Civilians en masse came out, employees have been raising alarms through the “proper” channels and then went to public protest as Microsoft ignored them and cracked down on any mention of it in Forums, Town Halls and the like.

  They absolutely know that they are complicit and would rot in prison the rest of their lifes if this goes to court properly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As fiber is rolled out more, i see less and less why it would be cost prohibitive?

  All you need to do to connect a remote place is lay a cable. More expensive if you need dig a trench and put the cable in there. But if it can be done for electricity it can be done for fiber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which are based on LLMs or other statistical language models. It is kind of the thing that language models are good at.

  See DeepL for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

  The service uses a proprietary algorithm with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)[3] that have been trained with the Linguee database.[4][5]
  According to the developers, the service uses a newer improved architecture of neural networks, which results in a more natural sound of translations than by competing services.
  The translation is said to be generated using a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 petaflops and is operated in Iceland with hydropower.[6][7]
  In general, CNNs are slightly more suitable for long coherent word sequences, but they have so far not been used by the competition because of their weaknesses compared to recurrent neural networks.
  The weaknesses of DeepL are compensated for by supplemental techniques, some of which are publicly known.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that's a sunday night⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Birds are dinos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder of how many out there are completely clueless⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Flying straight over the arctic is a great idea (for Putin and Trump only).

  I once had a flat-earther use this as an argument that the earth must be flat. “if the earth was round, why don’t they fly over the arctic?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. As a lack of proper inspections is a key aspect to the issue, i wouldn’t trust it not to be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can only speak about Germany, but Germany is one of the largest pork producers and consumers.

  There is at least one mayor scandal every year about malpractice, lack of hygiene and/or abuse of workers at industrial animal farms and slaughterhouses. The number of government inspectors only is enough to allow for inspections about once every 20 years or so per business. Also in many cases inspections are done by the local veterinarians, who also have the farmers/slaughter houses as customers and have a clear conflict of interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with “just works” in monopolies is that it eventually stops working. I already have terrible excel bugs all the time on my work computer. Left clicking a cell sometimes just selects half a dozen adjancent cells. You vlick something and all of a sudden the rendering just goes completely haywire… You have two larger tables open and it just crashes…

  Things will only get worse from this, until the global economy will loose trillions to being stuck with Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever noticed no one ever looks at a penis and then says, "wow, he must have big feet."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The feets are growers not showers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man what is it with people these days?

  "Hi, nice to meet you. Honestly this is the first time i go on a blind date and i am a little nervous. Anyways, did you arrive well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they managed to find someone. So at least in their time and place they managed to do something right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Labour won in a landslide after the Brexit mess rightfully fucked up the Tories. They do this because they aren’t center left, but a right/far-right party by their ideology now. They don’t have to do this. They want to do this.

  The “Labour/Social Democratic” parties all over Europe have been sliding into right/far-right authoritarianism and Racism over the past decades, after many of them slided into Neoliberalism at the end of the 90s and in the 2000s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would have to cut off the UK government and politicians from the rest of the worlds politicians, rather than cutting off the internet though. The idea to make these authoritarian laws is the contagious problem, not the people using the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe check!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am dissapointed that noone came up with ACDC yet.

  Anyways here you go:

  1. A
  2. C
  3. D
  4. C
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This also goes to an entire new level. Before it was “only” censoring digital products and events. Now it is directly censoring media outlets.

  This screams for an antitrust lawsuit, if a company has this kind of power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But they aren’t tied to any public information that relates back to you, unless you voluntarily make this information public yourself. You have the exact same “privacy (maybe even physical security)” risk, like when you use reddit. Just that with reddit you have to trust reddit to use the platform, while in the Fediverse you only have to choose one instance to trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The recognition of the pattern is done by the machine learning. That is the core concept of machine learning.

  For the interpretation you need to use your domain knowledge. Machine learning together with knowledge in the domain analyzed can be a very powerful combination. What we see with ChatGPT and other LLMs is kind of doing the opposite by detaching the algorithm from any specific knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not true. Most votes irl are in fact public to the audience. Did you ever participate in a democratically organized group? Local council votes are usually done by raising hands. Votes in HOA meetings are usually done by raising hands. Your sports club deciding on a new executive and treasurer? Guess what. Raising hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only one tying your votes to your IP-address or the E-Mail you registered with, is your home instance. This is identical to reddit. If you don’t trust your home instance with your IP-address, use a VPN and/or switch to a different instance.

  You are making up an issue for lemmy, which you are willing to accept with reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which only has rather limited information derivable from it. The most “identifying” would be to vote regularly on a community dedicated to your local area.

  If you don’t trust your instance with knowing your IP-address, then the issue is not going to be solved by “anonymous voting”. Because your instance has to know if you voted on something or not, so votes cannot be done multiple times. This is unavoidable and equal to the situation when using reddit. Except that you can choose a different instance if you distrust the current instance.

  OP either did not think through what he is claiming or he is driven by an agenda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you on almost everything.

  It’s like the opposite of classic ML, relatively tiny special purpose models trained for something critical, out of desperation, because it just can’t be done well conventionally.

  Here i disagree. ML is using high dimensional statistics. There exist many problems, which are by their nature problems of high dimensional statistics.

  If you have for an example an engineering problem, it can make sense to use an ML approach, to find patterns in the relationship between input conditions and output results. Based on this patterns you have an idea, where you need to focus in the physical theory for understanding and optimizing it.

  Another example for “generative AI” i have seen is creating models of hearts. So by feeding it the MRI scans of hundreds of real hearts, millions of models for probable heart shapes can be created and the interaction with medical equipment can be studied on them. This isn’t a “desperate” approach. It is a smart approach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, if you set a bios password either way, which benefit does secureboot give?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel | An IDF soldier just exposed that Israel deliberately let October 7 happen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When Israel “assasinates” a “high value target” usually dozens if not hundreds of people are murdered alongside. Heck they have an AI tool to make sure that targets are hit when they are home with their family to maximize the casualties.

  If you are Palestinian, Israel will probably try to kill or abduct and torture you. So people rather die fighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"ok, imagine a gun."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Weren’t these coaches a thing in the 19th century US, from which time the term comes? From what i could find quickly, Highway robbery became less of a thing in the UK and mainland Europe by the end of the 18th century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is levomethamphetamine less controlled than levoamphetamine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of the receptors as keyholes and the molecules as keys.

  The “correct” side is the right sided keys (D). The Meth-Key is larger and fits the hole nicely. The normal Amphetamine key is a bit smaller. This way it fits less well, but it is easier to fit the “wrong sided” key (L) because it is also smaller.

  Now obviously what happens on the molecular level is different, but maybe this helps illuminate, why for one stereo-isomer the one substance is more potent and for the other stereo-isomer it is the other way round.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a shocker!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still enjoy TF2. You can play seriously, or do some completely whacky stuff. even when you get steamrolled you can have fun. In TF2 i never minded having a good K/D or so. just going for hilarious kills, even if they only work one out of five times makes the game awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they extra expensive? More complex install?

  Like with an AC you need a place for the outside unit and do some piping. They are also more expensive, but the costs usually amortize well before a new unit is needed. They don’t heat as hot, so you might need a bigger tank.