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  • I think just a comment would get lost in all the answers but maybe a pinned thread with all the questions and answers from the previous month? Not really the same thing though.

  • Assassin's Creed boss discusses "devastating" impact of Shadows' diversity and inclusivity backlash
  • Everyone is pissed because they took huge historical liberties when it isn't needed.

    Diversity doesn't mean black samurais. This seems very two faced, it's as if they are trying to imply the anti-woke brigade is after them when the choices they made were just dumb.

    All they had to do was not white wash everything and aim for historical accuracy. Instead they made insane choices and dumped a bunch of other cultures into it (mainly china).

  • What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know?
  • This is mostly if doing outdoor outings.

    Dress in layers. If you find it cold, you can always add multiple pairs of gloves, socks, and scarves and take them off as you get hot. There are balaclava type things and long John's available as well.

    They sell little hot pockets you can activate and they stay warm for 2-3 hours or so, you can keep them in your gloves and boots. There are self heating gloves as well with batteries.

    Keeping a thermos with a hot beverage helps as well.

    Don't get wet, this includes sweating a lot.

  • I quit.
  • I'm not sure what extra features sync offers but most apps don't have ads? I'm using Jerboa personally. It was a bit unstable a year ago but it's fine now. Images don't load sometimes, but I'm not sure if that is the apps fault.

  • Is there a reminder bot on Lemmy?
  • It would be a great idea if added to an app, I just don't think it belongs in the comment section. It will needlessly bloat the comments for a seriously small minority and be detrimental to the experience.

    And lets be honest, its mostly laziness or not knowing how easy it is to use a calendar. The amount of users that can use lemmy but cannot share or copy/paste into a calendar because their brain works different is clearly very low and probably non-existant.

    Ask it from the app devs, I'm sure one of them will see the use in it. No need to force it on us.

  • Radiohead's Thom Yorke walks off stage in response to Israel 'genocide' heckler
  • I wish I could boycott my own country. I'm very aware of the terrible things that have been done and I will be the first to draw attention to them.

    That being said, staying silent about genocide just adds to the blood, it doesn't take it away.

  • Flaming Marshmallow (Machine of Death collection)

    The first story in this collection is my favorite and the one I wanted to share. It's sci-fi and the book is offered for free from their website which is honestly quite cool. You can also find a link to a free audio version of each of the stories, as well as the paid Kindle version or paperback.

    https://machineofdeath.net/ebook

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    any plans for the holidays?

    Tell us where you are going so I can live vicariously through you while I stare at the snow.

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    "Celestial Cloud Symphony" by makeitrad
    m.youtube.com "Celestial Cloud Symphony" by makeitrad

    "Celestial Cloud Symphony" by makeitradArtist Comment: "Here is the final piece for anyone interested. Credits in Pauls post a coupe above ☝️"You can find th...

    "Celestial Cloud Symphony" by makeitrad

    Beautiful piece imo. There's a higher res version on their site.

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    Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU

    Meta's issue isn't with the still-being-finalized AI Act, but rather with how it can train models using data from European customers while complying with GDPR — the EU's existing data protection law.

    • Meta announced in May that it planned to use publicly available posts from Facebook and Instagram users to train future models. Meta said it sent more than 2 billion notifications to users in the EU, offering a means for opting out, with training set to begin in June.

    • Meta says it briefed EU regulators months in advance of that public announcement and received only minimal feedback, which it says it addressed.

    • In June — after announcing its plans publicly — Meta was ordered to pause the training on EU data. A couple weeks later it received dozens of questions from data privacy regulators from across the region.

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    The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content)
    www.theverge.com The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal

    The new bill is the latest in a wave of AI-related legislation.

    The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal

    A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill to make it easier to authenticate and detect artificial intelligence-generated content and protect journalists and artists from having their work gobbled up by AI models without their permission.

    The Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act) would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create standards and guidelines that help prove the origin of content and detect synthetic content, like through watermarking. It also directs the agency to create security measures to prevent tampering and requires AI tools for creative or journalistic content to let users attach information about their origin and prohibit that information from being removed. Under the bill, such content also could not be used to train AI models.

    Content owners, including broadcasters, artists, and newspapers, could sue companies they believe used their materials without permission or tampered with authentication markers. State attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission could also enforce the bill, which its backers say prohibits anyone from “removing, disabling, or tampering with content provenance information” outside of an exception for some security research purposes.

    (A copy of the bill is in he article, here is the important part imo:

    Prohibits the use of “covered content” (digital representations of copyrighted works) with content provenance to either train an AI- /algorithm-based system or create synthetic content without the express, informed consent and adherence to the terms of use of such content, including compensation)

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    "Put this in your mouth son, it will help with the fever"

    I didn't have the heart to tell him what the gag was really for as I watched the bite mark ooze puss.

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    best app for lemmy?

    The one I'm using is becoming so buggy to the point of being unusable. It was never really great tbh, what are most people using?

    As an added question, are bookmarks associated with the lemmy account or the app?

    Edit: I'm on android, currently using Jerboa.

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    Sentient spiders

    I've just finished A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge. It was amazing and coincidentally my two last books where children of time(1 and 2) and (as to not spoil the reveal) a certain book involving spiders/crabs that live in high pressure environment.

    I'm thoroughly enjoying the theme I have going on even if it was purely accidental, what would be some good recommendations involving sentient spider to pursue next?

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)GR
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