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- Comment on This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts 1 week ago:
Then provide a paywall free link from an archiver that doesn’t DDOS…
- Comment on Zelensky warns Iran war 'emboldening' Russia after Ukraine meets Trump officials 1 week ago:
Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity (although those are also precarious). Short-term they are diverting resources from their own frontline, but mid- to long-term it will allow them to increase their production capacity.
Being able to supply more drones to their frontline allows them to achieve more per deployed soldier. I recently learned that with enough drones, they need only a fraction of the troops they needed previously to hold the line. This means that selling equipment in the short-term could address their financial and reqruitment issues in the mid- to long-term.
Given that Ukraine is still holding on after more than 4 (or 3?) years of war, I think it’s safe to say that Ukrainian leadership has a good grasp of what they’re doing and that selling tech is a smart decision. With the worst of the winter behind them, they have less of a need for anti-drone drones. They just need to have enough of them before next winter.
- Comment on Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom 1 week ago:
I don’t think they are, at least not a major one. Helium is important in chip production, Qatar probably captures some from their oil/gas fields and exports it.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
Thanks! I appreciate the archive link, although I think it’s OP’s job to provide it.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
Paywalled
- Comment on Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats 3 weeks ago:
Hell yeah! Great to hear that
- Comment on A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction 3 weeks ago:
That can only happen if we stop giving a shit about impact factors (and remove it from legal hiring requierements in some countries) and when big name PIs stop giving excuses like ‘I want my research to be read’ as if that wouldn’t happen in the journals that are more appropriate for the topic they publish in.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 3 weeks ago:
csv is a pretty good data sharing format, but not very well suited for spreadsheets. Just because you can shove anything you want in there doesn’t mean you should.
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 4 weeks ago:
I love how there’s multiple species of birds that like to drop stuff from far up to break it open. Fucking chuck it!
- Comment on Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash 4 weeks ago:
I guess their own slop isn’t good enough as a communication platform
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the update!
What do the monthly expenses and income typically look like? And since I like all those graphs at the end, any chance you could take that question literrally?
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 4 weeks ago:
Yes! Result: PieFed > Lemmy
- Comment on Belgium boards and seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker 4 weeks ago:
He’s already been bought unfortunately
- Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke 4 weeks ago:
Alternatively, if it has worked for tens of millions of years, then why is no one else doing it?
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 5 weeks ago:
What is nodeBB? A lemmy or piefed alternative or a whole different thing altogether?
- Comment on The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being dismantled after almost 40 years 5 weeks ago:
So for a change a company is cleaning up after itself? That’s nice! (Not sure what’s up with the endless reminders that it’s not sharks)
- Comment on Liminal Space 5 weeks ago:
This is sick! The potential for basic research seems amazing to me. I think a system like this could be great for understanding some of the fundamentals of signalling in the brain.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 5 weeks ago:
You mean wear something generic, unidentifiable and add some body armor?
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 5 weeks ago:
Yep, that’s the direction I was thinking. The whole point of these cameras is to track people, including you, meaning that they can track everyone in the area before and after a camera is destroyed. It seems to me that the logical time to destroy a camera is when few other people are arround to stop/witness someone destroying a camera, but that also means there are few people to track and therefore it’s easier to single out whoever did it.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 5 weeks ago:
How would you take such a camera down without being spotted and tracked? Do they not look in all directions?
Not asking for all the technical details on how to take one down, just curious how so many can be taken down with so few arrests after. I guess it’s a matter of good disguises?
- Comment on I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer. 5 weeks ago:
Apparently the threats are still sufficiently strong that the author dares not mention the company’s name :/
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 1 month ago:
Ah yes, ‘best technologies in the world’ like the software giving Google and the USA full access to all our data?
- Comment on US | Epstein files suggest Trump laundered money for Russian oligarch 1 month ago:
No no no no, money laundering, what are you talking about? Trump is obviously a great businessman who saw an amazing opportunity. A consistent businessman like him who has even had business in the notoriously difficult casino world wouldn’t miss out on this.
- Comment on Google Translate is vulnerable to prompt injection 1 month ago:
From my understanding, most LLMs work by repeatedly putting the processing output back into the input until the result is good enough. This means that in many ways the input and the output are the same thing from the perspective of the LLM and therefore inseparable.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 month ago:
The title of this article just doesn’t match reality. It really only (maybe) applies to very high end systems that are already pushing the limits of all components. Most people don’t have the money to waste on that and have plenty of room to upgrade their hardware for a looong time.
If you don’t need much (e.g. no gaming, 3D rendering, etc.), especially if you don’t need a dedicated gpu, then you can upgrade for at least a decade before running into issues. To be fair, a laptop should last a decade as well in that case, but at a higher prices and while being less repairable.
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 month ago:
The previous comment gives a pretty clear argument for why desktops are more future proof, I think. Being more repairable is a pretty big deal for the longevity of the whole system.
- Comment on Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy 1 month ago:
Although I agree with the sickening greed part, I don’t think it makes sense to make educational use free without have another system in place that pays for the writing of educational books. There’s plenty of content that imo should be free for educational use, but educational books only have an income from educational use, it’s their whole target audience. No income, no book :/