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Why does nobody here ever recommend Fedora to noobs?
  • if you like fedora, have you tried endeavour?

  • AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor during her time at IBM
  • oh okay, i see what you meant now. but:

    • switch sold 125 million by march 2023
    • ps4 and xbox one sold 117 + 58 million by september 2023
    • wii u, which had amd gpu, also sold 13.5 million by its discontinuation

    amd did win, it seems

  • Julian Assange Free on Bail, Departs UK for Australia!
  • More precisely, he's accepted a plea bargain that would guarantee immediate release; he still needs approval from a judge on the 26th before he's officially home free. He's currently heading for (or at) some US territory that's closer to China and Australia.

    sauce

  • Julian Assange Free on Bail, Departs UK for Australia!
  • More precisely, he's accepted a plea bargain that would guarantee immediate release; he still needs approval from a judge on the 26th before he's officially home free. He's currently heading for (or at) some US territory that's closer to China and Australia.

    sauce

  • Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
  • 3GB, actually. That was on iPhone XR, which is basically the only budge iPhone Apple has made.

  • Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough
  • We already have that since iOS 15 if you have a phone that released after the iPhone X. It's time to become woke, sheeple.

  • breaking news: melroy of mbin is moving to linux mint from ubuntu!~1 twist of the microcentury!
  • One of the maintainers (and possibly the founder) of mbin, a fork of kbin, which is a fediverse platform that combines lemmy and microblog while lookin' gr8. The fork is actually maintained and has actual versions and changelogs while kbin has 3 other very great features and extremely sporadic maintainership (kbin.social, their flagship instance, is currently down as we speak.).

  • breaking news: melroy of mbin is moving to linux mint from ubuntu!~1 twist of the microcentury!
  • Well, you don't need to understand all of the context; I just spotted melroy in the wild, that's all.

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  • exactly

  • What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?
  • No. In fact, I quoted the first-hand accounts of the people in charge of the broadcast.

    Yes, there may have been less of a panic than as advertised, but it wasn't a gross (or intentional) distortion. The drama was also only broadcast once.

    The offices of the city of Trenton, New Jersey, a location within the dramatization, had its communications paralyzed for 3 hours due to the calls made to ask the city well.

  • What ridiculous history fact is your favorite?
  • In 1938, Orson Welles adapted H.G. Wells's "The War of the Worlds" for the radio, apparently causing mass hysteria and a major part of the continental United States to believe that a martian invasion had occurred.

    "A few policemen trickled in, then a few more. Soon, the room was full of policemen and a massive struggle was going on between the police, page boys, and CBS executives, who were trying to prevent the cops from busting in and stopping the show. It was a show to witness."[26]

    During the sign-off theme, the phone began ringing. Houseman picked it up and the furious caller announced he was mayor of a Midwestern town, where mobs were in the streets. Houseman hung up quickly, "[f]or we were off the air now and the studio door had burst open."[4]: 404

    How many deaths had we heard of? (Implying they knew of thousands.) What did we know of the fatal stampede in a Jersey hall? (Implying it was one of many.) What traffic deaths? (The ditches must be choked with corpses.) The suicides? (Haven't you heard about the one on Riverside Drive?)

    This was a year after he adapted Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to be set in Nazi Germany.

  • EdinboRule
  • sign is opposite "Sen Viet Authentic Vietnamese Vegan" lol

  • Name one successful communist nation!
  • As I've already stated repeatedly, I see exclusion of parole completely arbitrary. You could argue that it's not equivalent certainly, but you can't just dismiss it.

    All you've said about it before was that you thought it was "splitting hairs" once. What do you suppose we do with probation then? Is there a Soviet purge-era equivalent with a measure we can compare?

    we're comparing peak incarceration rate in USS right after the revolution with incarceration in US when its functioning regularly

    Well, that's what we sought to compare. Both you and EgoCom claimed stuff like "US incarceration rate is higher than what USSR had during Stalin's purges".

    The fact that USSR numbers drop significantly over time while US numbers do not, is what's really key here.

    It's hard to have numbers drop a frick ton when you've had no arbitrary purging of ideas that led to gulag-levels of arrests.

  • Name one successful communist nation!
  • Soviet police archives and were able to establish well-documented estimates of prison and labor camp populations. They found that the total population of the entire gulag as of January 1939, near the end of the Great Purges, was 2,022,976.[3]

    [3] By way of comparison, in 1995, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the United States there were 1.6 million in prison, three million on probation, and 700,000 on parole, for a total of 5.3 million under correctional supervision (San Francisco Chronicle, 7/1/96).

    I don't think labor camps and prison are comparable to probation and parole. Do you still want to include probation and parole? If not, I think we can safely conclude that the Soviet Union was much more authoritarian. (If you adjust it by capita, you'd have a US prison population of 1.03 million Soviet heads, which is only a few ten thousands more than half the Soviet population.) If yes, why?

  • Name one successful communist nation!
  • Fine, we are both picking figures. If you think the numbers I gave are wrong, give me sourced numbers about the same thing that are right.

  • Name one successful communist nation!
  • Where is the incarceration rate? People getting held pre-trial is a problem, yes, but even then, the gulag held 2.5 million at their height in the 1950s, and that's not even counting anyone pre-trial or adjusting for the population difference between 1950s Soviet Union and modern day USA.

    I am comparing to the incarceration rate today. In 2022, the incarceration rate was 700 per 100,000. Unless you have evidence that that rate more than doubled in two years, I don't see how the US has a higher incarceration rate.

    Call me stupid all you want, do you still think incarceration vs. correctional supervision is splitting hairs?

  • Name one successful communist nation!
  • If you think I'm undercounting, show me a rate of incarceration per the same amount of heads for both the United States and Soviet Union. According to https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-009-9430-2, page 465, "At the time of Stalin’s death in 1953, the institutionalized population was over 2.5 million, or 1,558 prisoners per 100,000 population (Table 1). This incarceration rate was ten times that of the United States for the same year." I can email you a PDF of this paper if you want. Even in modern times, the population has been decreasing since 2013 until 2022, and according to Vox, the highest per 100,00 adults never passed 700.

    It's "amazing" how all you focus on is the intelligence part while completely ditching the difference between probation and incarceration. Of course there's a difference between being held in a cell and having what's basically a search warrant on you for every step of your life by court order. And on intelligence, even if you completely disregard the judicial vulnerability, the US surveillance agencies still hold far less domestic power than the KGB's domestic cell.

  • Name one successful communist nation!
  • USSR having double of course isn’t comparable, and the US prison rate has been going down (well, at least until 2019, after which we got COVID and prison rates saw a gigantic dip that has been climbing bit by bit since, but still lower than 2019).

    And no, it’s not just splitting hairs. There’s a difference between being constantly surveiled and watched by the state, temporarily (at least nominally); and getting locked up in a festering environment where they neglect your good feeding and, in the USSR’s case, your well-being and being forced to labor, with a much stronger KGB.

  • Ubuntu App Center adds a UI for installing third-party deb files
    github.com feat: implement UI for 3rd party debs by d-loose · Pull Request #1681 · ubuntu/app-center

    Adds a first skeleton for the local deb package UI. As we're in the process of refactoring the entire app to follow a more standardized riverpod-based architecture, things in this PR might change a...

    feat: implement UI for 3rd party debs by d-loose · Pull Request #1681 · ubuntu/app-center

    It's a merged pull request made by a member. Dunno which release it'd be in. This means people can double-click deb files to install again (with a warning). c.f. https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-disappointment/

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    cross-platform compatibility

    somebody draw a semi-transparent pufferfish or a penguin belly-sliding down the left hill or a random red tie y'know

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    TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it.

    The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website.

    > > > August 2014 – Photographer David Slater sent a copyright takedown notice to the Wikimedia Commons over a photograph of a Celebes crested macaque taken on one of his cameras, which at the time was being operated by the macaque, resulting in a "monkey selfie". The Wikimedia Foundation dismissed the claims, asserting that the photograph, having been taken by a non-human animal, rather than Slater, is in the public domain per United States law.[277][278] Subsequently, a court in San Francisco ruled copyright protection could not be applied to the monkey and a University of Michigan law professor said "the original monkey selfie is in the public domain."[279] > >

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey\_selfie\_copyright\_dispute :

    > > > In September 2015, PETA filed a lawsuit against Slater and Blurb, requesting that the copyright be assigned to the macaque and that PETA be appointed to administer proceeds from the photos for the endangered species' benefit.[6] In dismissing PETA's case, a federal district court ruled that a monkey cannot own copyright under US law.[7] PETA appealed. > >

    > > > In May 2018, Condé Nast Entertainment acquired the rights from Slater to make a documentary film related to the monkey selfie dispute. The project was being overseen by Dawn Ostroff and Jeremy Steckler.[55] > >

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    KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5

    Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

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    KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5

    Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

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    KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5

    Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.

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    GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites
    www.technologyreview.com GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites

    The problem, which is likely due to inadequate data cleaning, could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and misuse.

    GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites

    > > > Of the 100 results, only three of them are common enough to be used in everyday conversations; everything else consisted of words and expressions used specifically in the contexts of either gambling or pornography. The longest token, lasting 10.5 Chinese characters, literally means “\_free Japanese porn video to watch.” Oops. [Tokens are part of text ChatGPT combine to generate replies.] > >

    > > > Users have also found that these tokens can be used to break the LLM, either getting it to spew out completely unrelated answers or, in rare cases, to generate answers that are not allowed under OpenAI’s safety standards. > >

    > > > In his tests, which Geng chooses not to share with the public, he says he can see GPT-4o generating the answers line by line. But when it almost reaches the end, another safety mechanism kicks in, detects unsafe content, and blocks it from being shown to the user. > >

    > > > “The robustness of visual input is worse than text input in multimodal models,” says Geng, whose research focus is on visual models. Filtering a text data set is relatively easy, but filtering visual elements will be even harder. “The same issue with these Chinese spam tokens could become bigger with visual tokens,” he says. > >

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    OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson

    > > > The company says the voices in ChatGPT were from paid voice actors. A final five were selected from an initial pool of 400 and it's purely a coincidence the unnamed actress behind the Sky voice has a similar tone to Johansson. > >

    > > > In "Her," Scarlett Johansson voices an advanced AI operating system named Samantha, who develops a romantic relationship with a lonely writer played by Joaquin Phoenix. With its ability to emotional responses, the parallels from GPT-4o were obvious. > >

    > > > Voice is about to become more prominent for OpenAI as it begins to roll out a new GPT-4o model into ChatGPT. With it will come an entirely new conversational interface where users can talk in real-time to a natural-sounding and emotion-mimicking AI. > >

    > > > Unlike other multimodal models, it will allow for real-time conversations and even an emotional and adaptable voice. > >

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    Why do we associate reverby electric guitar with the ocean?

    c.f. surf music and spongebob's sound cues

    Did our ancestors find God playing the electric guitar standing next to the ocean or something?

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    stupidestAdvertisingEver

    Like, do they not worry about people just editing everything and inserting porn or something? I doubt that they were smart enough to use branch protection. To be fair, when you're sending a mass spam campaign, you already don't worry about your reputation anyway lol

    (The attached images: part 1: @QuantEssential-io has invited you to collaborate on the QuantEssential-io/Quant-Interview-Prep-2024 repository part 2: GitHub 404 showing the entire organization has been banned)

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    How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money
    www.theguardian.com How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

    From baby clothes to popcorn makers, borrowing items rather than buying them is a growing trend

    How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money

    The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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    Aatube Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

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    I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

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