ViatorOmnium
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- Comment on Zero-hours contracts: Peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’ 18 hours ago:
said the Lords was “doing the bidding of bad bosses” and ought to “get out of the way” of the plans.
I think someone didn't notice who the "lords" are yet.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 days ago:
In terms of private banks, a basic savings account wouldn't really be a big risk for them nowadays because it's a bare bones account. It doesn't include things like access to credit cards or other forms of credits, or any form of long term investments.
If anything, banks might even like the idea, because it gives them a way to offload their riskier (and let's be honest less profitable) customers without making society fully collapse.
If the system is implemented properly it's a win-win for everyone.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 days ago:
For all other Europeans out there, avoiding this situations is another thing the EU did for us.
For the Americans, write to your representatives demanding the same rights.
Excluding people from having a bank account in 2025 is basically condemning them to ostracism even without sending to concentration camps.
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 5 days ago:
It's almost like most customers prefer function over form.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 1 week ago:
Journalists are not the source of the claim the LLMs are the path to AGI.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 week ago:
They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 1 week ago:
Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?
- Comment on Parents urged to get children vaccinated after measles death in Liverpool 2 weeks ago:
If a child dies of measles in a school all parents of all unvaccinated kids at school should be jailed for manslaughter.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That's why monitoring and digital calendars exist.
- Comment on New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Of the SI system. The metric system started with cgs (centimeter, gram, second) and evolved from there.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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.
- Comment on Yeah failed successfully 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 5 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 5 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.