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- Comment on A sovereign Microsoft 365 alternative: Nextcloud and IONOS join forces - Nextcloud 6 minutes ago:
I think they’re looking for local “AI” anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there’s no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.
There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn’t be that bad.
- Submitted 1 day ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 68 comments
- Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealedwww.404media.co ↗Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on I've just created c/Ollama! 5 days ago:
There is also !localllama@sh.itjust.works ;)
crossposting between the communities can help grow both
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 1 week ago:
Being able to compare between options would help me pick which one I want to use :)
Alternatively, a way to filter the full list would be helpful. That way I can select the items that I need and see everything that has what I need.
This for example:
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 1 week ago:
It would be cool if there was a table to compare them with, since right now you’d have to open each of them to check.
Thank you for putting it together though!
- Comment on I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternatives 1 week ago:
You can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)
- Comment on Noob Q's: How do I find a place to print miniatures? What to expect? And more 2 weeks ago:
Check your local libraries, or search for maker spaces
For example
- Comment on Israel says to block Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg 2 weeks ago:
These are two comments that you have made, and I think people are pointing out the contradiction:
Israel is not a single person. The Israelis being held hostage are certainly victims. Antisemitism in the west has reached a point where it’s no longer safe to raise awareness that Hamas is still holding Israelis hostage, see the Boulder, CO attack. You’re being told you should dehumanize all Israelis (along with anyone that even has empathy for Israelis) so you can believe a simple narrative where all Israelis are evil. Likely you’re also being told that anyone that has empathy for Israelis being held hostage are evil (aka the “Zionist Jews”). You’re probably just not to the point where you’re believing all Jews are evil, but you might be willing to look the other way about the actions of those that do.
Yeah Italy just rolled over in WWII while Germany fought to the bitter end. Do you think it was better that Germany continued fighting when it was obvious they’d lost because some authoritarian asshole convinced them they should own all of the land they wanted with no more Jews?
Look at the photos of German cities at the end of WWII and look at Gaza. This kind of senseless hatred doesn’t accomplish anything other than getting a lot of people killed.
Palestinians are dying because of the hatred of Hamas and it will accomplish exactly nothing.
Also, in your opinion, what should people do in order to end the suffering and violence? Not just for any particular side, but for everyone.
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 3 weeks ago:
Right at the end of the video, there is a twist that may raise the graying eyebrows of Commodore fans around the globe. Perifractic reveals that he received a message direct from Commodore Corporation B.V. that states “yes we can grant you an exclusive license, but your team seems to know Commodore better than we do, we might like to sell you the whole company.”
What 😄
Sadly, we are left with this cliffhanger. Viewers are told to stay tuned for Part 2 of this video, “live and Let Buy.” But we don’t have a date for the video publication. Stay tuned, indeed.
:(
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 3 weeks ago:
Since the PieFed API was only enabled recently, there aren’t that many apps out yet. !interstellar@kbin.earth is the one that people recommend right now. Voyager has plans to add it.
As more people use it, hopefully more apps will support it :)
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 3 weeks ago:
Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)
Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams
fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/…/detailed-overview
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then
They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons
- piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
- An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.
I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works
Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user’s profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca
Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.
- Comment on We have launched a PieFed instance! 3 weeks ago:
It’s nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on Material You/Material 3 Expressive Wallabag App 3 weeks ago:
selfh.st/apps/?directory=Companion&companion=Wall…
The selfh.st directory only has that one app. If you do find something, you could submit it there as well :)
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to imadethis@lemm.ee | 25 comments
- Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technicaarstechnica.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 57 comments
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 4 weeks ago:
I believe Waymo has a better set of sensors (Lidar + Radar+ Cameras instead of just cameras), more processing power, and more research / time / resources spent on it compared to Tesla.
So I think this is less about not being ready for self driving taxis, and more about which cars are ready to provide that service
- Comment on Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site 4 weeks ago:
A big part of this site’s pitch to its clients, including the “hyperscale” customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wiped or destroyed. The process, commonly called ITAD, is used by larger businesses, especially when they upgrade fleets of servers or workers’ devices. ITAD providers ensure all the old gear is wiped clean, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on A Gaza doctor was at work. At home, nine of her 10 children were killed in an Israeli strike 5 weeks ago:
www.statista.com/…/gaza-fertility-rate/
I also find your comment insensitive, and I think you know better. It trivializes a tragic event by making an offhand observation about family size in Gaza.
- Comment on This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii 5 weeks ago:
We haven’t hugged the Wii to death yet
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on A New, Shape-Shifting 'Flapjack' Octopus Has Been Discovered in the Deep Sea Off the Coast of Australia 5 weeks ago:
Neat
- Comment on Alternatives to MZLA Pocket? 5 weeks ago:
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven’t tried it yet
- Comment on Microsoft bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails and fires the employee who protested Microsoft during event. 5 weeks ago:
I saw this on another post earlier: theverge.com/…/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-ema…
- Comment on 'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims 5 weeks ago:
Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.
“They handcuffed a young boy and shot him,” recalled one veteran who served with the SAS in Afghanistan. “He was clearly a child, not even close to fighting age.”
Killing of detainees “became routine”, the veteran said. “They’d search someone, handcuff them, then shoot them”, before cutting off the plastic handcuffs used to restrain people and “planting a pistol” by the body, he said.
The new testimony includes allegations of war crimes stretching over more than a decade, far longer than the three years currently being examined by a judge-led public inquiry in the UK.
The SBS, the Royal Navy’s elite special forces regiment, is also implicated for the first time in the most serious allegations - executions of unarmed and wounded people.
A veteran who served with the SBS said some troops had a “mob mentality”, describing their behaviour on operations as “barbaric”.
“I saw the quietest guys switch, show serious psychopathic traits,” he said. “They were lawless. They felt untouchable.”
Special Forces were deployed to Afghanistan to protect British troops from Taliban fighters and bombmakers. The conflict was a deadly one for members of the UK’s armed forces – 457 lost their lives and thousands more were wounded.
Asked by the BBC about the new eyewitness testimony, the Ministry of Defence said that it was “fully committed” to supporting the ongoing public inquiry into the alleged war crimes and that it urged all veterans with relevant information to come forward. It said that it was “not appropriate for the MoD to comment on allegations” which may be in the inquiry’s scope.
- Comment on "Subscribe pending" after importing into a new account 1 month ago:
This was a UI bug a while back, and it might still be present in cases like account imports. Maybe someone can make a bug report / GitHub issue about it
There is no other method from what I can tell. Until it’s fixed, I guess someone can write a script that does the same action to quickly go through your list and fix it
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 1 month ago:
No problem, I’ve seen it happen a few times so I thought I’d ask 😄
- Comment on Is it normal for people to ask where you are from online? 1 month ago:
Anyone can label themself as a bot in the Lemmy user settings, sometimes users do so mistakenly
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