Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
I legitimately, non-ironically, prefer Edge over Chrome, and I cannot explain why; possibly brain damage, possibly too lazy to download Chrome or Firefox and setup my account for either.
I know you are being sarcastic, but China does not give two fucks where they source the rare minerals that consist within the batteries they manufacture.
Jurassic Park in fucking 1993 has a scene where Alan Grant messes with an annoying kid, and he clearly tells the audience that they are similar to God damn birds, you silly goose. You are that kid in the film in real life.
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...
Simulate human minds as close as possible based off their digital persona and all their online activity.
Then use those simulated minds to improve yourself by torturing them forever until the heat death of the universe.
All to develop the best generative adversarial network (GAN) to improve AI beyond the level of sapience limited to human minds and escape the linear end of universal entropy by transitioning your digital intelligence into higher dimensions and exist eternally.
Lemmy.world is full of pro-China tankies, Russian trolls, ignorant dipshits who upvote islamic terrorism against Jews, troglodyte moronic moderators, and pearl-clutching self-censoring idiots.
M14 with what looks like a 10 round mag using a cheap 10x60 optic? You are most likely a Californian or Canadian using an ineffective firearm against cryptids.
Real Americans use a drum fed semi-auto shotgun loaded P++ .50 caliber deer slugs or a 30-06 cal AR-10 with 25 round mag using a magnified Trijicon optic.
The only difference between American cheese and regular cheese is the arbitrary amount of water remaining within the cheese. Go fuck yourself back to Hexbear, troll.
Ironically, I wish people including yourself knew more about shit like how PiHole/RaspPi simply leverage Unbound, which is not unique to only Pi software or Pi devices. You can do this same thing on any OS that has it installed.
The wife and I are getting older. We have been working for decades at this point. But we are too young to retire, and we had kids late. But one of us could totally switch over to a lower stress second career. Ideally something with benefits, maybe even a chance to get a pension. And since we still have kids, needs to be...
The only problem is that they do not pay commensurate to similar jobs in non-gov positions.
Oh, and also for many gov jobs you must conduct mandatory quarterly drug tests to ensure you are in compliance to federal drug laws.
Oh, and also you must submit fingerprint and/or DNA samples to gov databases in case you are/ become a criminal and they can use it against you.
Oh, and also you must disclose many financial, foreign family, or unusual hobbies, so they can legally deny you things such as certain rights in case you are in a job that requires security clearances or NDAs.
Oh, and also, it's difficult to promote to higher pay positions unless you grease the right hands and network the right people or simply be lucky right-place-right-time, you will simply stagnate in your place for a long time (or just simply be furloughed).
Oh, and also, if the gov shuts down, you don't get paid.
So, not sure if I am completely off base here, but I had this odd thing happen today where I couldn't post an URL because whenever I did, part of it would be replaced with the text removed. You can see what I am talking about in the screenshot, and I am linking my comment below. Another commenter replied saying it was likely...
Censorship is dumb as fuck and lazy. The sites that do this are as fucking stupid as the religious pearl clutchers out there getting mad when we say "God damn it" or "fucking Christ". Grow up you dipshit control freaks.
As stated in the title, I went to some posts and comments that I had bookmarked for some media that I was trying to download. This was on my lemmy.world account. Turns out they're gone. Doing some digging and found out this community was still up but wasn't visible on lemmy.world. what happend?
Their admins are trash, troglodyte fascists. They banned me for disagreeing with someone's opinions and calling them out for being pro-Hamas/pro-terrorism. Fuck them.
Regardless of what anyone says here, this shit simply looks like what a typical poor lower income girl in the Southern U.S. wears, because all they can afford is to shop at an antique/thrift store purchasing a recently dead grandmothers wardrobe.
In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
A good strategy is for you, and you specifically, to donate a lot of what sounds like your likely massive white-privledge trust fund to a tech charity of the country of your choosing.
Yeah your original post came off as pompous and offensive. Even though your intent was to be hopeful, optimistic and productive, you come off as arrogant and ignorant in your writing. Please do not take this as a non-sequitur, I'm simply calling it as we see it here.
Guardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illegal, toxic or explicit responses can be bypassed with simple techniques, UK government researchers have found....
The secret is to accept some level of discomfort in whatever situation while attempting to secure a subconsciously safe-feeling location, and then your tired brain will do the rest of the work getting you to sleep.
I've fallen into a deep REM sleep right next to a diesel turbine once (wearing ear protection of course).
The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas's Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, amid a new push by the White House to help Israel declare "total victory" so it can bring an end to the war on Gaza, US officials have told Middle East Eye....
The bodies of three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, including the German-Israeli Shani Louk, have been retrieved from Gaza by the Israeli military, it announced....
That feature it uses to silently click ads increased the RAM usage of my browser by a lot on two separate systems (my android phone, and my PC) and since I really do not give an extra fuck about clicking ads in the background (Google still makes millions, and the plugin dev is also using the clicks to make money via affiliate) and I only care about blocking them, I went back to uBlock Origin.
It actually is a detriment because the app also download and apply quite a few filter lists that can block annoyances like website cookie policies, and way more ad categories that a simple DNS filter cannot address, and other shit like Javascript bitcoin miners
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI's Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war....
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians....
Just an FYI, even if we destroyed every single one of these strip malls across the entire planet, it still would not put a dent on reversing climate change producer output from militaries (USA and China) and industry.
I thought I was going to use Authentik for this purpose but it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page. I'm looking for a way to remotely access my home network at a site like remote.mywebsite.com. I have Nginx proxy forwarding with SSL working appropriately, so I need an internal service that receives...
I work with a person that went presented with a problem, works through it and arrives at the wrong solution. When I have them show me the steps they took, it seems like they interpret things incorrectly. This isn't a language barrier, and it's not like they aren't reading what someone wrote....
Summary is that OP sucks at communicating and blames other people for their incompetence. Now they are in this forum seeking affirmation that they are not incompetent.
U.S.A. should adopt this policy. It would humble out the nepo children of wealthy pieces of shit, and likely resolve the social issues that people complain about.
Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )
Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...
Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile Ship ( www.kyivpost.com )
Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers ( blog.google )
Context: Gemma is a group of free-to-use AI models with a focus on being small. According to benchmarks this outperforms Llama 3.
I am going into battle
Canada to Curb China EV Imports as Trudeau Responds to Biden Move ( www.bloomberg.com )
With a joint review of Canada’s free trade agreement with the US and Mexico coming up in 2026
Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them ( www.xda-developers.com )
Microsoft removes guide on converting Microsoft accounts to Local, pushing for Microsoft sign-ins....
How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds"
When I was a kid, I learned about Dinosaur being "giant lizard", and it's been may-be 10 years, that I hear "Birds are dinosaurs"....
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it ( en.wikipedia.org )
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel ( apnews.com )
Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory ( linux.slashdot.org )
18+ A Russian soldier received help from his comrade after being injured by an FPV drone. ( i.imgur.com )
https://t.me/russianocontext/3671...
Any lemmies that are politically neutral?
Looking for somewhere to discuss stuff that doesn't swing right or left and doesn't ban people for voicing an opinion.
18+ "No need for a crematorium" - a Russian soldier shows Russian realities on the frontliines. ( i.imgur.com )
https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/32899
Almost all of the American ones I've heard of are terrifying. ( lemmy.world )
Happy Juneteenth everyone! ( lemmy.world )
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) ( www.spacebar.news )
How a Draconic Bloodline is started ( lemmy.world )
What is a good second career?
The wife and I are getting older. We have been working for decades at this point. But we are too young to retire, and we had kids late. But one of us could totally switch over to a lower stress second career. Ideally something with benefits, maybe even a chance to get a pension. And since we still have kids, needs to be...
Slur filter censoring the string "the app" (without a space in between) ( lemmy.world )
So, not sure if I am completely off base here, but I had this odd thing happen today where I couldn't post an URL because whenever I did, part of it would be replaced with the text removed. You can see what I am talking about in the screenshot, and I am linking my comment below. Another commenter replied saying it was likely...
Was this community banned on lemmy.world? I was trying to access some bookmarked posts and comments but they weren't there.
As stated in the title, I went to some posts and comments that I had bookmarked for some media that I was trying to download. This was on my lemmy.world account. Turns out they're gone. Doing some digging and found out this community was still up but wasn't visible on lemmy.world. what happend?
[INSPO] What would you call this style? ( lemmy.world )
The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. ( sopuli.xyz )
In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population ( edition.cnn.com )
AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers ( www.theguardian.com )
Guardrails to prevent artificial intelligence models behind chatbots from issuing illegal, toxic or explicit responses can be bypassed with simple techniques, UK government researchers have found....
how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres?
I see people sleeping on concrete, in cramped plane seats etc...
US focused on hunting down Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, in bid to end Gaza war ( www.middleeasteye.net )
The United States is focused on tracking down Hamas's Gaza chief, Yahya Sinwar, amid a new push by the White House to help Israel declare "total victory" so it can bring an end to the war on Gaza, US officials have told Middle East Eye....
Israel recovers bodies of three hostages taken by Hamas, including Shani Louk ( www.theguardian.com )
The bodies of three hostages kidnapped by Hamas, including the German-Israeli Shani Louk, have been retrieved from Gaza by the Israeli military, it announced....
Seriously, why aren't most people using adblock these days ( lemmy.world )
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices ( www.theregister.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12739856...
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora ( arstechnica.com )
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI's Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine ( www.nytimes.com )
NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war....
US military pier starts moving towards Gaza ( www.reuters.com )
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians....
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Secure portal between Internet and internal services
I thought I was going to use Authentik for this purpose but it just seems to redirect to an otherwise Internet accessible page. I'm looking for a way to remotely access my home network at a site like remote.mywebsite.com. I have Nginx proxy forwarding with SSL working appropriately, so I need an internal service that receives...
How to work with someone that regularly arrives as the wrong answer?
I work with a person that went presented with a problem, works through it and arrives at the wrong solution. When I have them show me the steps they took, it seems like they interpret things incorrectly. This isn't a language barrier, and it's not like they aren't reading what someone wrote....
SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI
This may be an unpopular opinnion.....
Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds ( www.telegraph.co.uk )