ViatorOmnium
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- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
So does not allowing food companies to sprinkle lead and uranium in food. What's the point?
- Comment on Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers 1 day ago:
I hope they are not hiring people's bodies to build their houses. Or to move their furniture. Or to do any other job that's damaging to the body.
- Comment on Is there a federated LinkedIn? 2 days ago:
If you work in tech in Europe, lots of people are already on mastodon.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 3 days ago:
If any work it's a bug. "Dating" apps don't want to be dating apps, they want to be hookup apps because that's how they can keep repeat customers.
The only way dating apps would remain dating apps under for profit companies is if they found a way to charge a subscription for long term relationships. - Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 1 week ago:
That's why monitoring and digital calendars exist.
- Comment on New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch 1 week ago:
The problem with most dumphone modes is that "normal" Phone and SMS (RCS makes the latter better, but your provider needs to support it, and it usually adds one more Google dependency) are useless if your social network extends past one country, and that's not that uncommon in Europe. I would need to at least be able to include Signal for it to work for me.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 1 week ago:
You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That's the vernacular meaning of dignity.
In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.
You don't infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to black people, or that gay people don't have right to love who they love, etc.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 1 week ago:
The same way your right to wave your hands ends before they reach other people's faces, free speech can't include speech infringing on other people's dignity (in the legal/philosophical sense).
Regulating speech within this frame is as bad as stopping a bar fight by dragging the participants away.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 1 week ago:
Of the SI system. The metric system started with cgs (centimeter, gram, second) and evolved from there.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 1 week ago:
They were all done by scientists or engineers.
The meter was defined based on what they calculated as the length of Paris' meridian.
The second was 1/86400 of a day, which makes sense with the angle/circle nomenclature on the clock.
The gram was initially set to be the mass of 1cm³ of water at 4°C - which is why 1l of water ≈ 1kg.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 1 week ago:
There's nothing in the SI system that says ratios have to be between base units. Units that involve mass are defined against the kilogram not the gram.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 2 weeks ago:
Because neural networks aren't known to suffer from model collapse when using their output as training data. /s
Most billionaires are mediocre sociopaths but Elon Musk takes it to the "Emperors New Clothes" levels of intellectual destitution.
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- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 2 weeks ago:
The same legal terms might mean vastly different things in Germany and the US. This is often the case in arbitration and warranty clauses.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 2 weeks ago:
EFF's lawyers don't have the legal expertise to help a company based in Germany.
- Comment on Why does Dairy Queen sell food? 2 weeks ago:
Amd they need to do something with calves. Cows only produce milk after giving birth, and dairy producers are not going to keep a freeloader around. /s
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 3 weeks ago:
I'm betting on Google destroying Google instead.
- Comment on What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution 3 weeks ago:
The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.
I think
phi3:minion ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it's a small model, but was trained on python codebases. - Comment on I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet. 3 weeks ago:
Les Miserables ends with the revolution being crushed and more than half of the cast dead.
- Comment on I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet. 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn't call that song auspicious for people trying to overthrow a tirant.
- Comment on Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement 3 weeks ago:
Paraphrasing Churchill, if AI companies were plagiarizing hell's works I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil.
- Comment on Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm for Copyright Infringement 3 weeks ago:
In this case that's exactly what we need, someone with more money than god that can set precedents to protect the authors and artists that need it the most.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 3 weeks ago:
For English yes, but there's no equivalent in other languages.