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FluffyPotato ,

Ah yes, nazi kindergardens. If you believe that I’m sure you support Israel too because they only bomb civilian buildings containing Hamas fighters.

FluffyPotato ,

For some reason posting pictures on Connect just doesn’t work so let’s say I post a picture of a Hamas fighter in a hospital, does that mean Israel is now allowed to raze Gaza like they have?

Also my neighbor is a refugee from Ukrain and her husband was executed during the Russian invasion. The husband wasn’t in the military so fuck you too.

FluffyPotato ,

So if I find a picture with enough Hamas fighters in a civilian building then what Israel is doing is going to be OK?

Also how can you unironically say Ukrainians are guilty for Russia invading them? That literally the same rhetoric used by Israel to kill Palestinians and sounds like you’re no better.

FluffyPotato ,

Oh wow, that’s some Russian propaganda there. The only point that was correct there is the one about Ukrain having some weird nazi shit in their military, which Russia has magnitudes more of. It’s weirdly common here in Eastern Europe, I would say it was because of the soviet occupations but Russia has the worst nazi problem so I doubt it.

I listened to that call in its entirety after someone else made the same claim and it’s just them saying the person most likely to be in power will most likely to be in power. The rest of the claims are literally Russian propaganda with no basis in reality. Israel also has some fucking crazy shit to say about Palestinians but I’m not going to believe or repeat that because it’s equally disgusting.

For some reason you seem to have swallowed fascist propaganda of a country just because it opposes a country you dislike and come to the conclusion that Russia is somehow good for doing the exact same thing as Israel but less successfully in all ways except in propaganda.

FluffyPotato ,

I hope you’ll analyse your biases and stop aligning your beliefs purely based on who is “the enemy”. It’s a dangerous form of thinking that often leads to fascism and supporting genocides.

FluffyPotato ,

FYI there’s already a solution: Public transit. I understand the US doesn’t have it but the solution already exists.

FluffyPotato ,

I can see why they would do this if their servers are in the US, Japan, Germany or another country with insane copyright laws. If not this move is stupid, almost as stupid as hosting your server in one of those countries.

FluffyPotato ,

In the US you can apparently sue software companies that make software sometimes used for piracy so it apparently doesn’t even need to be illegal there for people to shut it down if they are rich enough.

FluffyPotato ,

US politics is absolutely retarded but at least you aren’t going to fall out of a window for criticizing the president.

FluffyPotato ,

Oh yea, true but that less about politics and more about capitalist creed. The US also has a police system that seemingly runs on the ritual sacrifice of innumerable black folk and pets but that is also not relevant.

FluffyPotato ,

In Russia the olicarchs are directly ruling the country so you can’t criticise them without endangering your life. In the US the capitalist class heavily influences the politics but isnt the one directly ruling the country so you can criticise the politicians all you want. That’s the difference I was pointing out.

FluffyPotato ,

At least during the soviet occupation they gave you fruit to show up and vote for the one choice. I got my first orange that way.

FluffyPotato ,

They made a lot of errors but the greatest was probably appointing a guy in charge of agriculture who knew less than nothing about it. Forcing farmers to plant crops way too densely because “communist plants won’t compete for resources” causing several huge famines was probably worse.

FluffyPotato ,

Veebimajutus. They are a local registrar in my country and I like to support local businesses.

FluffyPotato ,

Depends on the moon stage, your horoscope and your palm reading.

I have tried it on several setups and I get different results every time.

FluffyPotato ,

My first impression on reading the title was UNGA was doing a vote to do some Islamophobia but India was like we can hate all religions equally. The article cleared it up but I liked my version more.

FluffyPotato ,

I have rotated between countless titles over several decades. What I do hasn’t really changed. Currently I’m not even aware what my official title is and when someone asks I usually say something along the lines of I make IT go but in my native language.

FluffyPotato ,

Yea, Singapore noodles are from Hong Kong and Tikka Masala is from the UK of all places.

FluffyPotato ,

Could entirely be. I just remember seeing the UK as a country of origin when looking for a slow cooking Tikka masala recipe and being disgusted with myself for enjoying English cuisine. Like there was no warning, no beans involved or anything.

FluffyPotato ,

Large centralised social media platform should all be banned. I miss the times when all you had was forums hosted in someone’s basement, the Internet was a better place. Short form video content is the worst of the bunch though.

FluffyPotato ,

I’m assuming every large country does this and has done this to every other country for the past like 200 years of not way longer. This is like saying the sky is blue.

FluffyPotato ,

If you mean movies and such then yea, obviously, but I’m not sure how that connected. I don’t think Hollywood is the puppet of spy agencies to spread disinformation, they are more interested in making money with the least amount of investment.

FluffyPotato ,

Like even if Hollywood only made pure propaganda on behest of the CIA and nothing else how is it related to every major country doing disinformation campaigns as long as spy shit has been the norm? Are you saying the US is the most successful at it?

FluffyPotato ,

Yea, I don’t disagree. I’m sure any country would take advantage of that. I’m just trying to figure out if you were disagreeing with me or were you just adding a random fun fact about the US?

FluffyPotato ,

The US definitely has the greatest advantage in spreading disinformation but in terms of who does it to the greatest scale would probably be Russia.

When I was young the soviet propaganda was more of a joke around here during the occupation since it was insanely obvious but currently Russia is very effective with it. They managed to basically take chunks out of 3 countries before any other country even did anything really and help quell to riots in Belarus that would have most likely lead to Russia losing dominance there.

All while the US has media dominance across the world and most countries still heavily dislike the US. In terms of effectiveness the US propaganda in their media is about as effective as the Soviet era Russian one. The US is definitely not getting their dollar value for propaganda.

FluffyPotato ,

Sure would seem that way if you stopped reading right there.

FluffyPotato ,

Nah, living next to Russia is a pretty good educator on that. I know there are way too many people on Lemmy who go the other direction with US exceptionalism and make the assumption that the US is the most powerful and everything bad is their fault while usually being American. I know you aren’t going to believe any country does bad things that are also anti US, I’m just shouting into the void when I’m waiting for something or another to pass the time.

FluffyPotato ,

Not in that study. The link you provided only has the abstract but it’s not even about how common detransitioning is.

It has a sample size of 25 so it couldn’t even draw an average with that but according to the study it’s goal seems to be to document the motives for transitioning for people who go on to transition and the ones who don’t.

Planning on moving over from Windows 10 to Linux for my Personal Work Station. Can't decide which OS I should switch to.

Windows has been a thorn in my side for years. But ever since I started moved to Linux on my Laptop and swapping my professional software to a cross platform alternative, I’ve been dreaming on removing it from my SSD....

FluffyPotato ,

Pop_OS is a good choice for a gaming machine, it was perfect for like 4 years until I upgraded my 1080TI for a 7900XTX and the Mesa version was too old to run it at the time so I switched to Manjaro.

Personally I hate most Arch based distros with a burning passion. Like I have used arch wiki to install Arch at least 3 times after it had shit the bed during an update. Now if I need to open a terminal to install a distro I’m not installing it. I just wish the people maintaining Manjaro weren’t so incompetent and also include common codecs (h264 and h265) in Mesa like every other distro.

FluffyPotato ,

I’m so glad amazon is useless in my country due to high delivery times and fees. Local stores never vanished and their online stores are so much better.

FluffyPotato ,

Unfortunately used EVs are still decades away from being viable since after 10 years you hit the point you most likely start needing to replace the battery. You aren’t buying used if you need to invest more in replacement parts than the car itself.

I’m fine with that though, we need vehicles on rails instead. 80% of all microplastic are from tires.

FluffyPotato ,

They don’t seem to mention how fast batteries actually degrade, how old those vehicles are, what climate conditions they are used or how many charging cycles are on those. It’s all well and good if the 15000 cars have a low amount of battery replacements but without knowing the conditions it’s kinda useless.

Like where I am the temperature goes from -20C to +30C pretty much every year and in those conditions the makers rate the lifespan from 8 - 12 years.

FluffyPotato ,

It would be smart for Europe to prepare to work together militarily without the US. Politics in the US seem to be insane and unpredictable so it would be good to have a contingency.

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FluffyPotato ,

I don’t think I even know what the brand names are, like only active ingredient names are on the packaging here.

FluffyPotato ,

Macaroni with enough Heinz ketchup to question your sanity and a glass of milk.

It’s also my hangover cure.

FluffyPotato ,

The DMA took effect since yesterday I think and the fine for it was like up to 20% of global revenue if I remember correctly. The EU has enforced GDPR very well so far so I don’t doubt them enforcing this.

FluffyPotato ,

Removing DRM and archiving is perfectly legal here in Estonia, only thing that counts as piracy here is distributing copyrighted materials without a license. I’m pretty sure it’s not in the US but check your local laws.

European Union: Designated gatekeepers must now comply with all obligations under the Digital Markets Act (ec.europa.eu)

As of today, Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and ByteDance, the six gatekeepers designated by the Commission in September 2023, have to fully comply with all obligations in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)....

FluffyPotato ,

Even if something like this passed the majority of EU governments wouldn’t adopt it. Like the EU copyright directive, only about 4 countries adopted it. The EU is a trade alliance, not a federal government, it doesn’t have the authority override local law unrelated to EU wide trade.

FluffyPotato ,

Crypto has usefulness related to data transparency and integrity but not as a speculative investment and scams, just like AI is being used for shitty art and confidently incorrect chatbot.

FluffyPotato ,

An NFT is pretty much just some data put on a blockchain, it has the same use case as most other blockchain tech: Data integrity and transparency. NFTs specifically could be useful as a framework for showing ownership of something, for example vehicle ownership could be stored in this manner. It would give you a history of previous owners and how old the vehicle is. My country has something like this but making inquiries for a vehicle’s history is pretty annoying and could be improved with this tech.

FluffyPotato ,

As I said: Having the vehicle register stored on a blockchain would make it very easy to access a vehicle’s history. Currently you need to submit a request and it takes days for them to get back to you.

FluffyPotato ,

The current LLM version of AI is useful in some niche industries where finding specific patterns is useful but how it’s currently popularised is the exact opposite of where it’s useful. A very obvious example is how it’s accelerating search engines becoming useless, it’s already hard to find accurate info due the overwhelming amount of AI generated articles with false info.

Also how is it a good thing that most energy will go to AI?

FluffyPotato ,

LLMs should absolutely not be used for things like customer support, that’s the easiest way to give customers wrong info and aggregate them. For reviewing documents LLMs have been abysmally bad.

For gammer it can be useful but what it actually is best for is for example biochemistry for things like molecular analysis and creating protein structures.

I work in an office job that has tried to incorporate AI but so far it has been a miserable failure except for analysing trends in statistics.

FluffyPotato ,

A blockchain is a form of database that would be really good for this because of how it maintains all database transactions while being human readable easily. Most databases aren’t human readable and you need to design an interface for it. How NFTs are stored in blockchains is a good example of a very specific purpose that would make this better. Vehicle databases also don’t have a clear connection to previous owners and that data needs to be retrieved manually while a blockchain keeps every modification easily visible.

Obviously don’t use a blockchain used for speculative investment like Etherium but the government can just host their own without any stupid finance shit on it, just a database for vehicles.

FluffyPotato ,

AI doesn’t exist currently, that’s what LLMs are currently called. Also they have been successfully used for this and show great promise so far, unlike the hallucinating chatbot.

FluffyPotato ,

Oh, yea, of course companies will take advantage of this to just replace a ton of people with a zero cost alternative. I’m just saying that’s not where it should be used as it’s terrible at those tasks.

FluffyPotato ,

Have you seen like an MSSQL database? That is a lot more readable and easier to display on a frontend. Also like every blockchain have an existing open source frontend you can redesign the look a bit and just use.

A blockchain to manage a database for vehicles takes as much resources as a classic database. What causes the huge and ridiculous power drain is mining, which is not something you would be doing for a database to store vehicles.

FluffyPotato ,

Pretty much anything Google is giving me says they are using deep learning LLMs in biology.

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