Damn, I didn't figure out you're supposed to click on the releases. Thank you.
Since I'm not a programmer - how do I get it running?
Maybe you shouldn’t even have had your account on the largest server to begin with?
Maybe I didn't have my crystal ball nearby when I was creating my Lemmy account.
Maybe many users will have an account on the largest server, because by definition it's the largest server, with the most users. 🙄
I live in a country with a relatively similar political climate as Poland (highly religious, post-communist, wannabe central Europe). And I used to use the same argument when I was surrounded by more conservative people. The argument is IMO frequently invoked not by people who are truly worried about children (which I'll write about below), but by conservatives who need a civilised, "agnostic" argument for their homophobic stances. But ofc it's better to assume good intentions, at least if you don't know anything about the person using the argument (as e.g. here).
The biggest problem with the argument is that it's purely reactive and, under the hood, disingenuous. Children bully each other horribly already for a million stupid reasons - their shoe brand, their phone brand, their behaviour, etc. or just so, for no detectable reason at all. They also bully their teachers and professors. What is done against all this? Absolutely nothing, as far as I see (and I've seen and heard plenty while I was growing up). It is never brought up as a problem in public discourse, nobody seems to care too much. Bullying somehow becomes a big problem and relevant for the lawmaking only when gay parents are a possibility.
In general, from what I've seen, bullies will find just about any reason to target a kid. Adding one more to the roster seems borderline trivial. E.g. a lot of existing bullying is class-based - my younger sister was mildly ostracised in the primary school for a while because she wore the clothes my mother sewed for her, without a brand or anything, suggesting we don't have the money to buy "proper" clothes. Should we, then, try to separate poor kids from the rich kids, so the poor don't get bullied? Or just forbid poor kids from going to school?
Thus, instead of doing anything against the actual problem – that is, bullying as such – the laws of the state, the fundamental right of a child to a family, etc. should all buckle down before some child bullying? A child should be denied growing up with a potentially good and loving family with LGBT parents, and instead be adopted by a potentially inferior heterosexual family (assuming the adoption centres have some sort of system to judge the adopters in advance), or stay without a family at all indefinitely, because someone could/will bully them based on their most intimate and safe space, that is their family? Just as it would be monstrous to forbid poor kids from going to school to "protect" them from bullying, it is monstrous to propose "to protect some kids from bullying, we'll deny them from having a family". The whole argument is actually (or should be) an argument for aggressively rethinking and reworking your educational system , parenting and culture in general.
because why should these children be victims of war that is not even theirs to fight
Under the current system they're also victims and involved in this same war - a part of their potential adopters is denied by default, and they stay without a family for longer. Are they not victims here? (Not to get into the issue of measuring potential benefits of having a family against the potential negatives of bullying, it's purely arbitrary and depends on the given culture too.)
On the other hand, I do think the whole discussion has been derailed by overly focusing on this as an LGBT issue rather than an issue of children without families. So there's some merit at least in the general approach of the argument you present (the children are those whose well-being is most important here), but it leads to the wrong conclusion, usually because it's invoked by people who really just want to get to that conclusion one way or another, rather than helping the kids.
The process is not over yet. IA has been ruled against, but they announced they would appeal. Though I haven't been following the case in the recent months, and according to the WP article the situation is unclear right now, the parties seem to be negotiating...
Either way, the outcome will definitely affect IA as a whole, and not selectively with regards to the user's location. If the digitally lended books were distributed illegally in the USA, and IA is located in USA, they have to cease the illegal distribution in general. (It would be absurd if the plaintiffs would have to reassert their case in every country with internet access.)
If the outcome is negative for IA and the court fully accepts Hachette et al's demands, IA will both have to recuperate the publishers' supposed losses and legal expenses, and "destroy" all "unlawful copies" of the books under the publishers' copyright. I paraphrase from the initial complaint by Hachette et al. (see here, first document, from 1st June 2020). This would mean that the books under copyright by publishers other than the four included in the process would not be directly affected. But the ruling may set a precedent, so other publishers might follow suit and demand the same - compensation, and removal of their books from the database.
I am not a legal expert, and not a native English speaker so I don't know the terminology too well, I just followed the case for a while and this is what I've concluded.
Personally, I think IA was horribly stupid to play with fire with the "emergency library", their legality was in a grey area even before that... And I don't remember anyone asking for such a measure. But, as far as I've seen, the scans themselves will survive even if IA goes down.
Edit: I just saw https://lemmy.world/post/3077301, Jesus Christ...
Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting social media messages accusing Russian soldiers of committing crimes in Ukraine.
>Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown.
it would reject invalid answers
Not quite. When I used to care and kind of tried to distort the training data, I would always select one additional picture that did not contain the desired object, and my answer would usually be accepted. I.e. they were aware that the images weren't 100% lined up with the labels in their database, so they'd give some leeway to the users, letting them correct those potential mistakes and smooth out the data.
it won’t let me get past without clicking on the van
That's your assumption. Had you not clicked on the van, maybe it would've let you through anyway, it's not necessarily that strict. Or it would just give you a new captcha to solve. Either way, if your answer did not line up with what the system expected (your assumption being that they had already classified it as a bus) it would call attention to the image. So, they might send it over to a real human to check what it really is, or put it into some different combination with other vehicles to filter it out and reclassify.
besides the elite class of your country controls what happens in your country (media included), you have no say in it.
Is there any state, current or historical, that was not a dictatorship according to this metric?
Edit: ignore the question, I noticed the Stalin profile pic
This is the first time in my life I've seen dislike of the userbase of an another site called 'xenophobia'.
Especially weird since 90% of Lemmy is fresh off reddit themselves.
Personally I just don't want the shitty aspects of the reddit community seeping over here. It's a fact that reddit userbase has been facebookised, to the degree where I frequently see people who are outright stupid (repeatedly posting threads to wrong subreddits, ignoring mod messages, unable to comprehend basic English... stuff that I'd expect to see on Facebook and not reddit), or focused on memes and quips to the point where any discussion is flooded with such moronic content. There's still (at least) tens of thousands of people on reddit who I'm sure would be great contributors on Lemmy too if they decide to switch, and I hope they will. But I don't want all of reddit here. Is that really so bad, to not want to look at unfiltered normie crap? Reddit was good (if it ever was good) precisely because it was a bit elitist in its design and its culture.
We can’t argue about federation on the net, avoiding corporate control, or whatever while sticking our hand out and stopping people from joining.
Maybe people can join somewhere else too? Make a Fediverse equivalent of Facebook/Instagram or something. Lemmy is not all of Fediverse and doesn't have to be for everyone.
Like half of your complaints are literally good things. Yes, people want to be heard and not practically hidden from 90% if they don't get enough upvotes on their post/comment during the crucial early time frame, as on bigger reddit subs. Lemmy is not a social media platform anyway, its goal is not to facilitate socialisation among the users and it doesn't need many millions of users to work well.
That's two twitter clones from two tech billionaires in just six months. Capitalism truly breeds innovation.
What's the other Twitter clone (other than Threads)?
Bookwyrm is open-source, works similarly to Lemmy (i.e. is a federated platform). Storygraph and LibraryThing are also popular alternatives, but IIRC they're both closed source.
Personally I think just creating a spreadsheet file with your reading data is better. (In LibreOffice, of course.)
These are the same types of people that caused the civil war.
I'm far from an expert on American history, but I'm 100% sure that no civil war was caused just by unorganised morons who like to wave their guns.
The existence of Lemmy is a testament to this.
Lemmy has existed before the reddit shitshow.
over the past 2-3 years Amazon has slashed its budget
The site is now run by a skeleton crew
TBH it felt that way ever since I registered there, much more than 2-3 years ago. It's been largely stagnating for over a decade with regards to design and functionality. It's impressive if they somehow managed to reduce their budget even more and employ even fewer people. Which makes the recent half-baked redesign and similar interventions even weirder, they clearly don't have the capabilities to do them properly...
Goodreads never made money
Was it meant to, though? I assume Amazon planned it to work (dunno if it really did) as a platform to advertise the books sold on Amazon.
It could be kind of lame to poke fun at a site that I don't use (anymore), but I find this funny enough to share: Goodreads has started changing and updating their site last year, but apparently they've broken a ton of things in the process, and now they've published an announcement with the list of 12 bugs they're (supposedly) trying to deal with.
https://help.goodreads.com/s/announcements/a031H00000QxZ5SQAV/known-issues-july-2023-includes-language-search-and-sort-issues-731
In short, literally the most essential functions aren't working. In the iOS app some people can't shelve books. On Android people can't see all reviews. On desktop the search and sorting are completely random, the default editions that represent each book are also apparently random, though it seems the selection favours the editions in any language other than English, preferably also in a non-Latin script. The database is borderline impossible to navigate.
So if you search for Harry Potter, the first result is Random Harry Potter Facts You Probably Don't Know: 154 Fun Facts and Secret Trivia. If you open the page of William Shakespeare, the first books that are presented to you are Romeo and Juliet in English, Hamlet in Italian, and Macbeth in Arabic. And after a while instead of showing his actual plays, the site just lists weird collected editions such as Romeo and Juliet; Hamlet; Othello; An Index (The Works of Shakespear, Vol. 8) by some scammy publisher that prints PDFs from Google Books.
I've spent enough time on GR to see how it's held together by duct tape and inertia, and now it really seems to be crashing down. Still, kudos to the admins who are keeping up with the recent trends in technology, such as actively ruining your website, as also seen on reddit and Twitter. In fact I'd say GR has better chances of actually dying (i.e. having a massive user drain) than the other two sites.
Is there anyone here who's still active on GR? Not trying to judge, but I really have to ask -what's making you stay there? Are the alternatives too lacking in book data/users?
It would be useful to list and analyse those few cases where writing was invented, i.e. were there any particular circumstances that were especially conductive to creating a writing system that weren't present elsewhere.
My guess would be that trade and territorial spread of the given state are very useful for inventing it, since it's needed to calculate and store data, to communicate across greater distances (sending messages to other towns that you trade or have some relationships with - not necessary in tightly-knit tribal communities)...
And once someone invents writing, which is a pretty difficult thing to do (especially to teach it to others and make it actually durable), it's obviously much easier for anyone who comes into contact with that culture (which is likely to happen if the culture trades a lot or covers a large territory) to just imitate and adapt their writing system rather than invent everything from the ground up.
This is ofc just my theory based on what I know about the Near East (e.g. Phoenician alphabet > Greek > Latin & Cyrillic).
Human language change happens first of all because the reality that the language is meant to represent changes. I.e. you create a new thing, you create a new name for it too.
ChatGPT does not intend to represent a reality when it uses a language. It does not even know of a reality outside of its language.
Human language also changes due to various rather vague "economic" reasons, e.g. simplified pronunciation, merging sounds, developing some new habits in grammar that spread within one community but do not spread elsewhere... For example, we have extremely obvious proof that Latin developed into Italian, French, Spanish, Romanian, etc., so language change clearly isn't some magical process. On the other hand, if you fed a ton of ancient Latin into ChatGPT, it wouldn't even develop the pronunciation of medieval Latin used by priests, much less the totally different descendant languages that developed at the time.
https://esavjetovanja.gov.hr/ECon/MainScreen?entityId=24809
S Katarinom Penđer i Bojanom Tarabićem Dinko Kreho razgovarao je o prijevodu Liua Cixina, prevođenju s kineskog uopće i mnogim drugim zanimljivim temama.
I have a nasty tootache right now, so... seeing this thread and your post feels like some ironic joke that the universe arranged for me :D
(Thankfully paracetamol is helping, but most likely they will have to pull it out.)
Donosimo dionicu rukopisa novog romana Kristiana Novaka koji je u posljednjoj fazi rada, za sada nosi naslov "Slučaj vlastite pogibelji", a trebao bi biti objavljen krajem rujna, nedugo uoči premijere kazališne predstave koja po njemu nastaje. Riječima samog autora: neobična situacija
>Donosimo dionicu rukopisa novog romana Kristiana Novaka koji je u posljednjoj fazi rada, za sada nosi naslov "Slučaj vlastite pogibelji", a trebao bi biti objavljen krajem rujna, nedugo uoči premijere kazališne predstave koja po njemu nastaje. Riječima samog autora: neobična situacija.
they are often expensive and not everyone can afford those
the average costumer and mobile data plans which are **mostly certainly inevitably caped **
I'm sure you know a lot about the pricing and internet caps across the entire world. 🙄
Ministar Ivan Malenica i njegovi kolege u Vladi proslavili su završetak štrajka, zadovoljstvo su izrazili i sindikalni predstavnici, no članovi se osjećaju izigrano i to ne skrivaju.
Ministar Ivan Malenica i njegovi kolege u Vladi proslavili su završetak štrajka, zadovoljstvo su izrazili i sindikalni predstavnici, no članovi se osjećaju izigrano i to ne skrivaju.
Prijete prekidom članstva, otkazima, daljnjim akcijama… U nevjerici su zbog svega što se dogodilo i smatraju da osam tjedana štrajka za tih 12 posto povećanja plaće, što je oko 70 eura u prosjeku, nije bilo vrijedno.
U konačnici, presudilo je svega stotinjak glasova na razini Hrvatske, 22 od 47 podružnica bilo je za ostanak u štrajku, pritom sve najveće. Što je i logično jer na većim sudovima u Hrvatskoj radi se nerijetko dva ili tri posla za tako malo plaću, koja nekome pred mirovinom iznosi oko 750 eura.
“Voljela bih da oni koji su bili za prekid štrajka dođu samo tjedan dana raditi ovdje pa bi brzo shvatili o kakvom se poslu radi”, rekla je djelatnica jednog zagrebačkog suda i izrazila nezadovoljstvo dogovorenom povišicom pa bez zadrške izjavila:
“Osjećamo se izigrano!”
Da su sindikati sudjelovali u zakulisnim igrama misle i mnogi drugi dojučerašnji štrajkaši.
“Nosim crvenu mašnicu oko glave jer su me sindikalni predstavnici dali kao poklon vladajućima. Razočarani smo, osjećamo se izdano… Na našem sudu, koji broji puno članova sindikata, većina je bila protiv. Žao nam je što se prihvatila prva ponuda. Ne moraš ići po stočnim sajmovima da bi znao da se prva ponuda odbija”, kazala je još jedna djelatnica i nastavila:
“Ministar Malenica voli spominjati 2016. i povećanja plaća… Bilo nam je teško 2016., 2023. nam je još teže.”
I druge djelatnice rekle su da se osjećaju prevareno, razočarano i izdano.
“Netko se ispod žita dogovarao. Žao mi je ovih mladih cura, koje će uskoro otići, a kako i ne bi? Ne znam kako su skupili te glasove i kako je došlo do ovoga. Htjeli smo ići do kraja jer smo umorne, potplaćene…”, složne su djelatnice, kojima će sindikalni predstavnici morati objasniti jako puno toga.
Građanima će se olakšati ishođenje osobne iskaznice i izbjegavanje gužvi u velikim policijskim upravama, jer će moći podnositi zahtjev za izdavanje osobne iskaznice u okolnim policijskim postajama ili u drugim policijskim upravama. Izrađene osobne iskaznice građani će preuzeti u policijskoj upravi i...
How do you plan to train the AI to recognise CP?
So you understand the system very well, yet completely ignore the ethically dubious aspects of the system.
People are not born desiring harmful garbage. They are, at least in part, taught, conditioned to desire it.
When you say that a site "feeds you whatever you want", you're ignoring the chicken-or-the-egg pattern of desire and satisfaction on the market. The site teaches you want you want. Internet addiction and the ways in which contemporary media and tech affect your mind (most obviously by reducing people's attention spans) are fairly well known today.
Imagine a drug dealer who sells his garbage to the same person so much that they develop an addiction. With your logic, we can just blame the junkie who keeps returning to the dealer, while the dealer is pretty much innocent - surely it's not his responsibility if someone else develops an addiction and destroys their life!
You can relativise things all you want, it's a fact that online insanity does leak back into the reality. For example see Qanon, or Brenton Tarrant, who used to frequent 4chan and 8chan. Not to mention the more trivial things such as people openly agreeing with Andrew Tate, or becoming fans and voters of Donald Trump due to his online presence, etc.
If you know people IRL that believe lgbt people shouldn’t exist, I guess I feel bad for you and who you associate with.
Did you just spin this into a covert ad hominem? Nice job, but I don't "associate" with every person whose views I hear espoused IRL.
I don’t know anyone at all like that, not even close to that.
Ok? But why assume that every community and society is exactly like yours? From your other comments I notice you're from Canada, I hope you're aware your political culture isn't typical for the rest of the world, not even for the entire "west".
I don’t feel the need to defend the most extreme examples of dumb things you’ve read online that someone else posted.
Right, so you didn't have to claim such people and such extreme positions literally don't exist - with caps lock, no less. I probably wouldn't think of replying to you if you didn't formulate it so categorically.
Ideja Hrvatske u sastavu EU nije isključivo novijega datuma, nego u hrvatskoj političkoj misli i praksi postoji od samih početaka modernog europskog projekta
>U to vrijeme [kasne 1940-e] su i službena HSS-ova iseljenička glasila snažno podupirala ideju ujedinjene Europe s Hrvatskom kao sastavnicom, istovremeno kritizirajući Tita zbog njegovih izjava da je ujedinjena Europa „američko-britanski imperijalizam“, a kritike su bile upućene i prema bivšem jugoslavenskom kralju Petru, koji je tada iz emigracije tvrdio da je nacrt ujedinjene Europe „utopističan i nepraktičan“. Važno je naglasiti da su haesesovci, pogotovo Krnjević, bili svjesni tadašnjih koncepcija međunarodnih čimbenika koji su zagovarali stvaranje velikih teritorijalnih jedinica na srednjoeuropskom i zapadnoeuropskom prostoru, odnosno gospodarsko i političko povezivanje država i okrupnjavanje europskog prostora, a ne njegovo rastakanje, što je bilo u suprotnosti s hrvatskim koncepcijama razbijanja Jugoslavije i stvaranja samostalne Hrvatske. Stoga su haesesovci tražeći samostalnu Hrvatsku odmah pretpostavljali njezin ulazak u srednjoeuropske i zapadnoeuropske integracije, što su nudili kao nadomjestak za jugoslavensku zajednicu.
Možemo! -- politička platforma
>“Zajedno s 30 tisuća građana koji su se potpisima pridružili našoj kampanji ‘Nije dobro za pomorsko dobro’, uz snažan angažman civilnog društva i mnogih pojedinaca, uspjeli smo natjerati HDZ da odustane od najspornijih odredbi Prijedloga Zakona o pomorskom dobru i morskim lukama. Iako je i tekst prijedloga Zakona koji ulazi u drugo čitanje i dalje loš i manjkav, spriječili smo otimanje i uništavanje naših plaža”, poručili smo danas na konferenciji za medije.
Odgajana sam da živim u trenutku. Kad sam s Karlom Metikošem od 1977. do 1979. živjela u SAD-u, nikoga nije zanimalo tko si, što si, bitno im je samo koliko vrijediš sada / Sve je improvizacija / Koncert je najbolja proba, način da iz sebe ispucaš sve to znanje i izbaciš taj san / Album Dnevnik jedn...
https://www.zagreb.info/aktualno/zg/nova-osoba-na-celu-lisinskog-tomasevic-otkrio-ime-nove-ravnateljice-koncertne-dvorane/530119/
Ponešto konteksta, kako i zašto je smijenjen prethodni ravnatelj: https://www.jutarnji.hr/kultura/glazba/smijenjeni-ravnatelj-lisinskog-odgovorio-tomasevicu-odluka-vise-govori-o-njemu-manipulacije-i-obmane-nisu-nasa-liga-15310607
Spominjalo se ponegdje da je Siriščević "cancelled" zbog toga što je doveo Placida Dominga, koji ima ozbiljne optužbe za napastovanje kolegica. Ali u realnosti vjerojatno je puno bitniji problem bilo što je koncert bio užasno slabo posjećen, pa su da to nadoknade podijelili 300 besplatnih karata mimo pravila.