It is not even close to a good enough reason. First of all, I don't really give a shit about what other people do or don't do on their computers. It is not my responsibility. Second, sneaking in their cloud solution isn't the right move ever.
Let the user decide if they want it, enable it by default I don't care, but don't sneak it in like it's a fuckin trojan lol
I see where you're coming from but you aren't really speaking for the majority on lemmy. We are more open to open source projects and linux around here.
Unfortunately, I also have to use windows for some things, but microsoft and windows 11 are hot garbage, just like your attitude.
Man I hate coming in and whatabouting but you do realize that the entire EV industry is committing some major atrocities against the people of the Congo right? Western corporations are ruthlessly vile down there. Everything you named and more.
How about we clean up our own yard before telling on the neighbor?
Yeah, sure clean all yards but start with your own.
Your statement here and your reaction to how the community has responded is ignorant. Not sure how self awareness is dehumanizing unless you fancy yourself a champion for corporations but okay.
Because you are speaking english and you are focusing on China instead of somewhere your voice might be heard. What are we supposed to do, bomb their civilians so they stop treating their civilians poorly? lol come on dude
Jfc, can't we just fire all of these demon encrusted maggot sacks already? The military industrial complex is a cancer on the world and basically all of our politicians are corrupt pieces of shit.
To be honest, we should be pushing for peace there too. Ukraine is taking hits that they won't recover from and it is quickly turning into a much bigger global conflict. We need less war and less war machines in the world, not more.
Throwing gasoline at a fire is not going to put it out.
The US and NATO recently authorized Ukraine to use Nato controlled weapons offensively. That is a global escalation that involves Nato member states for coordination. If you don't think the escalation is growing then you aren't actually paying attention.
There has been peace talks but there has been western pressure to decline the deals. The US doesn't give a shit about what happens to Ukraine. Come on, they don't even care about us (americans), their own citizens. Ukraine has been proxy to the US for a while and the US will use whatever proxy they have to do battle with Russia no matter the collateral damage.
There is a lot of propaganda on both sides of this conflict but everyone on lemmy and reddit gobble up the western propaganda without a doubt. Let's put away the military boners and try for some actual fucking diplomacy.
Sorry, but both sides of the coin are the same. The military industrial complex has been abusing its power over the world for far too long. It is a cancer and it is terminal.
"The only democracy in the middle east" is a piece of shit and just as rotten as the military industrial complex. AIPAC is basically the military industrial complex using Israel to further its needs. It is not good for the Israeli citizens, Americans, or the Palestinians. It is also damaging to Jewish people worldwide because Israel is hiding behind fake antisemitism claims to shut down people speaking against their atrocities. Pretty obvious how that will be damaging in the long run.
Look at the UN findings on your dearly beloved. The "most morale army" practices systemic sexual abuse. And what do you know, ethnic cleansing?! It's a bunch of Europeans/Americans cosplaying as middle eastern so they can do nazi shit.
I don't expect you to comment on what is important because you routinely avoid topics you can't twist to spin more propaganda out of. You need some flair that reads "Izzy shill" or "Fed" so people know what kind of person they are engaging with.
The US backed coup in 2014 and the threat of NATO expansion on it's borders are some fairly obvious pieces of that puzzle but everybody here just claims "russian propaganda" when those facts are brought into the discussion.
Yes, both the US and Russia use proxies in the middle east to fight each other and have for years. But that has little to do with Israel's active genocide.
Conveniently, Israel treats all Palestinians as if they were Hamas militants (who themselves are a resistance group resisting modern settler colonialism). Hamas is a convenient reason for them to ethnically cleanse a whole people. How is that difficult to see as the wrong side?
You can't just handwave Israel committing atrocity after atrocity after (but especially prior to) October 7th. It isn't that difficult to see which side is the wrong side for anyone with a couple brain cells and a functioning moral compass. Colonialism was terrible in the past and it is terrible in the present. Genocide and apartheid are bad for anyone who are not racists. Pretty easy line there.
edit: also the person I responded to poorly defends Israel in every thread and regularly uses bad faith argumentative tactics to spin out more propaganda. That is partially why I felt the need to respond.
I didn't stalk anyones comment history, I have just interacted with that person a bit. Come on lemmy is not that active, especially on beehaw. It is basically the same names commenting on this shit lol
But Israel is a settler colonial project which is a type of colonialism and is still valid. And I don't understand your point, it doesn't make sense.
It isn't even apologetics, it's just analysis that isn't "russia bad america good". My point in the other thread you called me out in is just as valid here, nobody can talk about this shit rationally without spewing western propaganda and even when actual facts and valid criticisms are brought up, this is the rhetoric people retort to. "This person said something that gives a sliver of doubt to the active liberal thought pattern therefore he must be a russian shill."
I just have to assume you are a bunch of children or state actors at this point because it is infuriatingly ridiculous and naive.
Fitting but a little ironic to bring that up. The Bay of Pigs and everything that lead up to that is a great example of what the US gets up to globally and exactly the kind of thing that makes me question the western narrative. They (the CIA) didn't just stop doing shit like that.
That being said, I don't support Russia either. I am not apologizing for their actions just providing pieces of explanations. Let's not pretend that they haven't had NATO expansion as a big red line on their list for a long time. The threat of more NATO at their border within an arms reach of their major cities is obviously fair. But I do think they are using that as an excuse while at the same time I think the US is taking major advantage of this situation. That is, in my opinion, a problem for peace.
Sure, countries have the right to self determine but you can't ignore the diplomatic consequences of that. Shit doesn't exist in a bubble. And the populist uprising was not so free from western influence. Come on thats CIA playbook 101 😅
Anyways, it is obviously a complex situation but the instant overnight prowar stance everyone has had since day 1 of this invasion is steeped with propaganda and people are immediately shutdown for questioning any part of the narrative and being labeled "putin's puppet". That is my real issue with this discourse. You cannot look at history and honestly think America is the good guys at pretty much any point post-ww2 so question the fuckin narrative.
lol you are always jumping to the extreme whenever I criticize the US even a little.
I didn't "defend a dictatorship", I correctly pointed out that the pandemic was handled terribly in the states, especially from the president, so it was a dumb thing to use as a metric for how a leader is doing. Trump was a fucking joke. He created a terrible situation and reaffirmed the antivaxxers. He was basically telling people to take crazy doses of ivermectin instead and implying it was all "fake news". Maybe you don't understand the entirety of that since you said yourself you "aren't a US citizen" but for some reason you are always reaffirming our propaganda.
In regards to numbers, should we just believe state sponsored media or confirmed CIA startups like Radio Free Asia instead? They are usually listed as a source for these kinds of things despite the fact that their sole purpose for being created was to combat the spread of socialism.
The US is just a beacon of truth that would never lie about a socialist country or attempt to manufacture consent. /s
I mostly see US based consent manufacturing propaganda and the military industrial complex foaming at the mouth. Maybe you have some credible sources that aren't from a CIA cutout or state sponsored media? I will dig into it so don't be shy.
But considering that we (the US) have surrounded their borders with military bases, would you blame them if they felt the need to bolster their military? (Probably, because you're a hypocrite.)
As if the US isn't exactly the same. It gets a little tiring that all the western countries are so sycophantic towards the US and post this garbage propaganda.
I hope you don't need to draw conclusions in your line of work because that was pathetic. What an insane response to a very casual recognition of the American police state.
I am not even defending Russia, its just the same neo-liberal police state bullshit that happens to also exist in the US. Not all states are equally in your face about it but your rights barely exist and if you can't see that then you aren't paying attention.
I am not a tankie, just a person that is capable of observation. But that is the most typical anti-socialist rhetoric just because I point out that the US is just as vile as all the oppressors.
The fact that you included Hamas and not Israel in your shit stain of a comment means I don't have to take you seriously though.
No, they are trying to imprison peaceful protesters for speaking out about another shitty country instead. Some scary shit happening with libraries too but that depends on the state.
The US is beautiful. Many of the people are great. The policies, politicians, military industrial complex, infrastructure, healthcare, and the police are all shit though.
The surveillance state and the propaganda is everywhere. It is eerily similar to Orwells 1984. Has been for a while. Thats all I am trying to point out.
The US literally has slave labor as a punishment for crime in for profit prisons. The place is a joke as far human rights go.
I didn't defend russia. Its just the tone of the article and the fact that the states are almost in parity with Orwells vision of a police state. I find it kind sycophantic that BBC will point out this russian thing but they won't touch the police/surveillance infrastructure in the states which might as well have been modeled after that book.
You are the one who started accusing me of some BS. I never once lied. Your conclusion jumping and implied accusations are very revealing to what type of person I am talking to.
You have to ignore what the US has been doing around the world for 70+ years to come to that conclusion. Doesn't matter if some states are okay if the feds start wars and coups and destabilize regions in the name of profit.
As far as Israel goes, being pro-LGBTQ doesn't mean anything when the entire basis of zionism and their state is xenophobic as fuck. You don't get to cherry pick which human rights to respect in order to seem progressive.
Israel's history is full of oppression and lies and I am not going to have it out with you when it is clear that you are absolutely unreasonable. No one should take you seriously.
They are also afraid of real democracy which is why they have infested the US with the shittiest politicians through AIPAC.
Don't try to teach me about Palestine via Israeli propaganda lol
I just don't think most Americans realize the extent that they are propagandized. I don't think most Europeans understand the full extent of it either. It is pretty crazy. I say this as someone who spent my first 30 years growing up in the US and then moved to Europe.
This is an extremely pathetic and ignorant take that reveals very little understanding of the history of Palestine. Israel flavored koolaid must take like shit.
- An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court....
You can't expect an ounce of altruism out of agencies that train dictators to overthrow real democracies. The CIA and Mossad pretty much have the sole purpose of ruining other peoples lives for imperialistic endeavors.
On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
This sentiment is idiotic. There are plenty of reasons not to vote for Biden. Don't blame people who actually vote with a spine for the shit political problem in America. Voting for the "lesser evil" has just been a slide further and further right for decades.
No representation, no vote. People can and should vote for who they feel aligned with and everyone should be okay with other people doing that. You know, actual democracy and shit. Fuck this team sports shit. Third party is an option. If the dems actually wanted to win they would offer basically any other candidate.
Biden dropping a $37bn package to bolster police forces in response to peaceful student protests should show you that its fascism on both sides of the coin.
If Trump wins, at least the liberals and the leftists might actually realign and then maybe something decent will happen before we are all obliterated/enslaved by our corporate overlords.
I'm new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I'm really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I'm not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner....
If you just want to use a local llm, using something like gpt4all is probably the easiest. Oobabooga or llama.cpp for a more advanced route.
I use ollama with llama3 on my macbook with open-webui and it works real nice. Mistral7b is another one I like. On my PC I have been using oobabooga with models I get from huggingface and I use it as an api for hobby projects.
I have never trained models, I don't have the vram. My GPU is pretty old so I just use these for random gamedev and webdev projects and for messing around with RP in sillytavern.
Maybe because they are killing a fuckton of civilians as they target said civilian infrastructure. It is a warcrime. Pretty fucking clear violation of the Geneva convention. Do better.
In this thread, people who think it is okay to bomb civilians in the name of stopping "terrorism".
If Israel are the good guys, why do they need to push legislation through in the US to make it illegal to criticize their government (antisemitism awareness act)? Why are cops all across the US beating peaceful protestors for chilling in the name of peace? Why is the US government's response to crack down on this so extremely? Why are they arresting legal observers and press at these student demonstrations?
I am certain that peaceful students that suffer rubber bullets, flashbangs, and teargas at the hands of the state will be on the right side of history.
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission ( www.neowin.net )
China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say ( www.intereconomics.eu )
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Key Democrats allow US sale of F-15 jets to Israel in $18 billion deal ( www.cnn.com )
Just in case you thought maybe the Dems had finally seen the light after Rafah. Nope! How about even more bombs for Israel?
'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? ( www.dailydot.com )
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Xi Jinping claimed the US wants China to attack Taiwan, FT reports ( www.yenisafak.com )
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Israeli authorities, Palestinian armed groups are responsible for war crimes, other grave violations of international law, UN Inquiry finds ( www.ohchr.org )
I have no problem vocalizing my views in comments but I don't usually post this kind of content. These UN findings are important to share though....
'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library ( www.bbc.com )
If the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places....
Israel has encroached on 32% of Gaza ( www.aljazeera.com )
Israeli journalist says he was threatened by senior intelligence officials if he reported on attempts by the country's spy chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor ( www.theguardian.com )
- An investigative reporter with Israel’s leading leftwing newspaper, Haaretz, has said unnamed senior security officials threatened actions against him if he reported on attempts by the former head of the Mossad to intimidate the ex-prosecutor of the international criminal court....
Biden is dramatically out of touch with voters on Gaza. He may lose because of it ( www.theguardian.com )
On the issue of Gaza, Biden is dramatically out of touch with the voters he needs to win re-election. If he will not be moved by morality to stop his support of this war, he should be moved by vulgar self-interest. Gaza is not a distant foreign conflict: it is an urgent moral emergency for large swaths of voters. Biden will lose...
Chinese, Iranian, and Russian cyberattacks against water utilities across the U.S. becoming more frequent and more severe, officials say ( fortune.com )
- Attacks against water provider’s websites aren’t new, but now attackers are increasingly targeting utilities’ operations...
Advice - Getting started with LLMs
I'm new to the field of large language models (LLMs) and I'm really interested in learning how to train and use my own models for qualitative analysis. However, I'm not sure where to start or what resources would be most helpful for a complete beginner....
Hamas accepts cease-fire proposal for Gaza after Israel orders Rafah evacuation ahead of attack ( apnews.com )