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by makomk 3y ago
Whilst it's not that easy to discover you shouldn't have to be holding shift before you start dragging, it's generally only whether you're holding it down when dropping the items that matters in KDE from what I've s
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by makomk 3y ago
If I'm reading the article correctly, the headline claim is about a bug that was discovered in the original Horizon system right as it was about to be replaced with a new system, Horizon Online, at which point the bug fix would be comp
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by makomk 3y ago
The same thing sort of happens with humans teaching humans though: you get things like linguistic drift where the structure of language and the meaning of words changes over time, and artistic styles and musicial fashions gradually shift as
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by makomk 3y ago
Quite a lot of what news publications like the New York Times do is precisely regenerating articles that roughly approximate source material from some other publication. If I remember rightly, a lot of smaller, more local news organisations
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by makomk 3y ago
Wealth is indeed power rather than simply a collection of material goods, and most of all the wealth this article talks about is the power to run specific large businesses in the way those specific wealthy people want. That is, the way capi
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by makomk 3y ago
Yeah, Oxfam have been pushing a bunch of similar misleading claims using the same trick, such as arguing that people across the world lost vast amounts of pay during the pandemic even as the rich got richer by a vast amount and insinuating
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by makomk 3y ago
Yeah, the big headline claim of Forbes' billionaires list from 2023 at https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ is that half the billionaires on the list lost wealth over the previous year and that in total they were
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by makomk 3y ago
This article does not provide any actual evidence for that idea though. In particular, the richest person in the world - and I think possibly also the one whose wealth grew the most - wasn't even a billionaire until fairly recently, an
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by makomk 3y ago
I do wonder how many distinct artistic styles Midjourney and other similar image generators actually have. Say that you you were to cluster all the styles it knows about based on similarity and then generate images of the same things with
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by makomk 3y ago
Last I heard, everyone was struggling to fine tune SDXL on furry art too. The only community fine tunes that seem to have succeeded are ones aimed at taking things it was already designed to generate and trained on and making it actually go
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by makomk 3y ago
It's basically impossible for the developing world to copy the route to replacing coal usage that the developed world has taken though, because that relies heavily on natural gas and there simply isn't enough of it being produced,
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by makomk 3y ago
Yeah, it's long been common for more traditional hosting providers to limit egress traffic and charge overage fees for going over that but have no similar limit on incoming traffic for basically the same reason: their network-wide traf
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by makomk 3y ago
ROCm is also incredibly fragile and buggy at the best of times, so anything not actively tested by them stands a good chance of not working. Hell, I remember that a while back people were having problems with machine learning code giving ga
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by makomk 3y ago
If there's any policy which people are calling for but which the government doesn't currently support - for example, passing a law that blanket overturns all of these convictions - it tends to get portrayed as an obvious win with
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by makomk 3y ago
Which is a distinction which basically doesn't matter for air purifiers like this one - it's only really relevant to stuff like whole-room positive or negative pressure systems which ensure all of the air goes through the filter.
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by makomk 3y ago
The Met's had an investigation open over this since 2020, all that seems to have happened as a result of this popular four-part series is that they've confirmed they're looking into specific possible criminal offences by the
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by makomk 3y ago
One of the big problems with British politics at the moment is that lots of people seem to think that if the BBC is less willing to pretend there are easy solutions with no downsides the government is ignoring than other parts of the media
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by makomk 3y ago
I don't think that poses the same problems for judicial independence because the courts were correctly applying the law at the time - it's just that we've now decided that law was morally wrong - and of course it's alway
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by makomk 3y ago
While the LAION data set is sloppy in a whole bunch of ways, this is also just a mess in general. The researchers found apparent CSAM hosted on a bunch of mainstream sites - Reddit, Twitter, Blogspot, Wordpress, XHamster and XVideos. Also a
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by makomk 3y ago
As far as I could tell, the policy allowing artistic nudity never existed in practice and Twitch doesn't seem to have been serious about it. Even though it was supposedly allowed, basically everyone who drew art with genitals or fema
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by makomk 3y ago
Yeah, but if the media did that rather than cherry-picking then it wouldn't be possible to create an endless stream of headlines like this which make it seem like the richest people always win and this must be somehow at the expense of
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by makomk 3y ago
The big practical obstacle to this is that the things this flags people as potentially committing fraud based on look to be the same things an actual fraudster would manipulate in order to get payments they're not actually entitled to
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by makomk 3y ago
Yeah, I'm sure the performance of this must be pretty bad. As I understand it, non-batched LLM inference is generally limited by the bandwidth required to read the entire weights from GPU memory for each token produced. This trick inst
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by makomk 3y ago
As the original article explains, whilst the inactivated polio vaccine used in developed countries like the USA does provide good protection against being paralyzed by polio it's not terribly effective at preventing transmission. So it
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by makomk 3y ago
The server-side Matrix code developed by Element is no longer going to be released under the Apache 2 license. It's going to be dual-licensed AGPL/proprietary from now on and released from Element's own GitHub repositories wi
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by makomk 3y ago
This reply about how in reality there's very little benefit to the community from the copyright being assigned to the foundation is a lot more perceptive than that comment, especially now that exactly what it foresaw has come to pass:
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by makomk 3y ago
That's a clause from the standard GPLv3 covering something different: "An interactive user interface displays “Appropriate Legal Notices” to the extent that it includes a convenient and prominently visible feature that (1) display
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by makomk 3y ago
The AGPLv3 is designed to ban versions with proprietary alternations full stop. In order to do that, it places some pretty daunting requirements on any modification - even open source ones. The moment you make any change, you must ensure th
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by makomk 3y ago
Note that one of the projects on this list - Element - recently changed their license to one intended to make it impractical to deploy the open source version and make users buy commercial proprietary licences instead for the specific reaso
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by makomk 3y ago
From what I can tell the star that it occulted in September was much too dim to be visible with the naked eye, whereas this is one of the brightest and most easily visible and distinctive stars in the night sky.

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