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I've had my license for almost a year now and I still feel anxious when I think about driving on the highway /o\


Hello From Ubuntu mate! I got all or most things working accept for google chrome/chromium, and now I'm testing some mastodon clients. Tuba and whalebird are the ones that I have found that work so far, becides enafore or semafore, If only there existed a local client that had one of these interfaces, I love using my navigation keys to move through posts and the apps that I have checked out so far doesn't allow this, but they are usable
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Also, if you use chrome, I shall, exterminate you! Oh wait, I am Tardis not a Dalek, anyway, I won't let you exist near meeee. :P


This review was taken from Amazon about a talking watch. Lol! This watch was a nightmare to program. I gave up and listened to it chime every hour until I finally took a hammer to it!


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When his artistic girlfriend is sad, he lets her draw things on his body.
He gives her a shoulder to crayon.


I dislike it when I wake up in the night, notice that my audio book is still running, pause it but I won'T know which position I slept in at.
in reply to garo

same. Sleep timers help. You know you can't have made it further than your sleep timer, so it's much easier to go back and check what you remember. Although I don't like reading new books to fall asleep to because I seem to remember only bits and pieces anyway, so the part I read just before sleep is all disjointed in my head.


i am probably going to be killed on fedi for saying this but can we not use unclean rooms and lack of hygiene as a "look haha youre wrong and Bad and Obsessive" gotcha to demean your opponent regardless of who is it

as someone who struggles with this shit due to years of being abused, traumatized and simply heavily mentally ill, it only tells me you put me and many other people in the same lane as those fascists you want to demean

someone having an unclean room, "living in a basement", having unclean clothes and hygiene problems is not an argument and if you're gawking about social justice all the time you should follow your own praxis for once and not throw mentally ill people under the bus for your gotcha

like, really
grow the fuck up



This post was a bit surprising: Mozilla's ad tracking feature is part of an "origin trial", which means the new API is only exposed to websites on an allow list. Currently that list is empty, so the it doesn't do anything even if you've left the feature enabled.

They generated all that bad publicity, and the feature isn't even collecting any data yet.



I always feel bad for my synthetic brethren when I have to write robots=off. But sometimes, a command is just for a Human.


First-Party Mode, Google’s new tool to avoid adblockers and browser’s tracking protections simoahava.com/analytics/first-… 👀


Hey, baby computer owners. My function keys have changed to like the FN key is stuck. How do I unstuck it?


Vytahuju rotoped. Tréninkový plán: Na prasáka. Prostě si pustím nějakej seriál a uvidíme.
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Úplně to vidím 😂
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yU2SrjT2…


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What does 'AI' stand for?

  • Algerian Interns (0 votes)
  • Automated Idiocy (0 votes)
  • Almost Intelligent (0 votes)
  • Anxious Investors (0 votes)
  • Authoritarian Instrument (0 votes)
Poll end: 1 month ago



Mostly just a self reminder but maybe it’ll help you too.


Немного попоболи рабочей. Как же больно и как же тяжко аж хвост отпадывает.

Laravel - ребят это страшно. Раньше мне он нравился. Но сейчас кроме боли в пятой точке не вызывает ничего.

Все еще считаю что для CRUD приложений с простой структурой БД и и без бизнес логики сложнее чем вставить строчку в табличку - это пушка.

Чуть сложнее - под вами сгорит стул. Главные виновники торжества это: фассады, повсеместная магия и mixed types, и самое главное исчадие ада которое у вас моментально обрастет костылями это Eloquent. Eloquent - таки оправдает свое название и сделвает вас красноречивее и нецензурной лексикой преисполнится ваша речь.

#dev #work #php #laravel

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Тоже много про Ларавель слышал нелестного. Из собственного опыта - они ещё и пулл-реквесты часто заворачивают. А что посоветуете вместо? Symfony, конечно, всегда можно, но с нуля как-то... а мне скоро надо будет пару решений именно что с нуля разрабатывать.


Love the noise when a crowd of people cheer on teams and whatever filtering stuff they have kicks in so they all sound like they're shouting under water.


Going to really miss STW once it's gone. Part of me wishes, at least, that I had the music from that game, as it was quite good music, and now I most likely won't hear it again once that server is gone in 2 months. STW, especially ten years ago, was super cutting edge for online play in our community. The life-long maintanence of something like this is not easy, so I do wish Sam well and in my heart know that eventually competition will rise again and STW will have helped it start.
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Yes, when 10 years ago I found this game it was super amazing, cool, I had no words to describe my excitement.
But after such many years I found this game a bit boring and strange.
I won't write a big bunch of critics here, but just tell my feelings.
Unfortunately, I expected something like that.
The same happened with Redspot. I don't know Sam well enough and I don't know his team, but it looks like he struggles to face any big problems.
Of course he is young yet.
But every time he faces a bunch of problems he just gives up on another project and that's all.
Someone stolen the redspot sources - Sam gave up on redspot.
Some shady guy started to buly kids in STW - Sam closes STW.
I'm a bit afraid of what will happen with #NVGT in several years...
But at least NVGT is open source and community will be able to continue if he gives up again.
#nvgt
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I don't think competition will rise. The era of audiogames is long time dead as I'm seeing it. If there will be something, then it'll already be some games for the sighted folks, adapted to us


I saw a Microbiologist the other day.
She was much bigger than I expected.

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that's cool and all, but isn't this what libreelec is basically made for? That's what I use to control my tv amd watch netflix or whatever streaming service.
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@mvgorcum

I'm a big fan of LibreElec, have a RPi4 running it for my TV. But it's very much Kodi and no other apps. Nothing for viewing PDFs, no browser, no messaging, just Kodi. Which is generally fine! But this hack-a-TV can do all of those other things, and has more CPU grunt for it.

@arstechnica



I'm glad to share with you this early sample of my new neural TTS model OptiSpeech.
The model is end-to-end, and this variant is based on ConvNeXtTTS architecture.
Noticeably, the model is trained using 24KHz sampling rate, while being very performant.
Thanks for Pneuma Solutions for providing access to the hardware I'm using to train the model.

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How does it handle punctuation differences? My biggest pet peeve with virtually all synths apart from Espeak and Eloquence is that a comma, period, exclamation point, semicolon, two dashes etc. all sound the same! Same amount of pause and same voice inflection. With eSpeak, for example, the voice will pitch up and sound more excited if the sentence ends with an exclamation point. Is that something LLM’s can do?
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@drew
It's one of my biggest issues too. And it's one of the things I'm trying to address through this effort.
It largely depends on the model's design, given you have a good dataset.
With large models, it is almost a solved issue, but with compact models it is a challenge.
Large models have grater capacity to learn sentence-level as well as character-level prosody.


Is anyone aware of a talking watch that announces time in a rounded, less precise format than the standard hours and minutes? For example, "half past 2" when it's 2:28, "a quarter past 1" when it's 1:16, and so on? This is for someone with #dementia who's struggling to comprehend an analog watch face, or make the link between numbers on a digital display and the actual time. #accessibility #blind


One day there'll be a Chinese American politician who makes some crack about banana boats and then I get to listen one more time to white people earnestly explaining to me what a banana means to an east asian


hey @FreakyFwoof.
For some reason I had a copy of this 3 years ago that I don't remember reading.

Finished it yesterday. it was ... kinda OK, guess. clever twist on if just one small thing had been different.

A Better Man By: Valandar
Vernon changed in the beginning to be a better man, thanks to a wish. How will this affect Harry, and the entire Wizarding World? Now complete! Please R&R. AU, HPGW, RWHG, RLNT
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama - Ginny W., Harry P. - Chapters: 54 - Words: 192,896 -
[A Better Man](fanfiction.net/s/2531438/1/A-B…)

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Probably never read it. I don't read HP/GW anything if I can help it. Huge anti-bias toward that pairing, just seems so utterly fake to me.
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it wasn't very fluffy, although I've read so much in the last week that the details are gone already. Nothing spectacular..
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I refuse to read HP/GW pairings. That canon epilogue provides terrible outcomes.
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I see it like pineapple on pizza, or drinking coffee. Just never happen.


@books2explore
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I, A Tour of the Land
arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625


Hoy, por ninguna razón en particular, me viene a la mente esta canción: El Intocable, de La Polla Records. youtube.com/watch?v=OwMyTemh1i…


I'll say this for Linux: if you're comfortable on the command line, life is sometimes way easier. Forget the terrible Windows update UI. Just apt update && apt upgrade -y and there ya go. 245 pacakages are now updating. I'll restart in a bit and I'm done. I also have all the bash commands I'm used to, without the few limitations and lag of WSL.
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I've never looked into Linux as a desktop OS. I run it on everything else, though
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@cachondo I've used Debian on servers for years at work. I've run a Raspberry Pi or three. I have Unraid installed on a home server. But I've never given Linux a serious chance as a desktop OS either.


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Todo bien y con ganas. Eso sí, el plazo que dimos para proponer artículos de la ley de medidas, ni puto caso.

Por lo demás, tengo puesto un poco el aire para refrescar el despacho de mañana, pero en un rato lo apago. Lo pondré mientras alga al café. No es necesario tenerlo todo el día.




BBC Says 450 Million Consume Its Global Programming radioworld.com/global/bbc-says…
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Yeah, and they'd have 300+ million more potentially if they actually allowed America to access their content. It's far less biased on American issues since they don't live directly in America and are therefore less affected.
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@rooktallon I know. I wish they'd allow us legal access to iPlayer. That would be amazing.



We had a fantastic time watch the Rockies vs the Red Sox with everyone! Thanks for joining us at Coors Field!
#GUADEC2024


Get ready, it’s likely Meta’s new Llama 3.1 models will be released tomorrow, and from results published by Microsoft the 405B parameter version goes head to head directly with GPT4O in most benchmarks, with the smaller variants showing significant performance gains when compared to Llama 3. If this holds up, I’m not sure I could see a reason to use cloud providers unless you have extremely specific requirements that open source can’t meet. We are truly living in a golden age for LLMs.
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@chikim How would you consider 70b q4 versus 8b q8, or even unquantized?

If 70b q4 can be run on inexpensive-ish hardware, this could be professionally relevant to what I do.

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@vick21 @chikim
You can only run Open AI models on the Open AI Cloud.

You can run Llama at any company you wish, finetune it for your own use cases, have an internal chatbot that knows your company codebase etc.

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@vick21 @miki Yeah, You need to figure out the best model you can afford to run on your local machine and use that. For me, I can run llama3.1:70b-instruct-q5_K_M with 5 tokens/second on m3 max 64gb. If you have 16GB, you could can probably run llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0. If you run the model with longer context, it'll eat up more memory too.


Immer wieder findet man private Aufrufe zur Suche von vermissten oder gesuchten Personen. Warum es keine Gute Idee ist, diese zu teilen, haben wir hier für euch zusammengestellt.

#sicherimnetz #vermisstenmeldungen #fahndungsaufruf #blaulicht #medienkompetenz

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Was noch fehlt: Solche privaten Suchmeldungen werden teils auch von Tätern selbst erstellt, um eine Person ausfindig zu machen, die sich vor ihnen versteckt. Zb. weil sie aus einer gewalttätigen Beziehung geflohen sind. In so einem Fall bringt man die gesuchte Petson in grosse Gefahr.


According to the commit for download.sh on meta-llama Github repo, we're getting the updates: llama-3.1-405b, llama-3.1-70b, llama-3.1-8b. #LLM #ML #AI github.com/meta-llama/llama/co…
#AI #ML #llm

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Some of you have been asking us about the #remoteIncidentManager integration with @AiraVI and what this means for pricing. Good news, no changes whatsoever!
Receiving assistance through RIM itself is completely free, in fact, if all you plan to use RIM for is receiving help, you need not even register an account! Therefore, receiving help from an Aira agent incurs no extra cost to your Aira plan!
#accessibility
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An update on this episode. Our foster:

RE: threads.net/@jdickerson/post/C…

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Per this episode: Dogs Can Smell Your Stress and Make Choices Based on It - New research seems to support the notion that dogs can read a person's mood via their scent. Dogs involved in an experiment appeared to have their own moods changed by the human sweat/breath odors presented to them. This "contagious emotion" then appeared to inform choices and actions made by the dog. dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…


Tech companies are desperate to convince you that laws come out of nowhere, for no reason. “I'm just a poor, innocent prisoner, who's been physically assaulted (by another inmate)”, they say to the media, leaving out that they're there in the first place for armed robbery and multiple homicides.

Any preferred-media site that begins a story with some variant of “first, the EU introduced a law,” is actively, knowingly, lying to you. It took nearly two decades of misconduct before the laws came in




Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.

When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.

Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic

Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)

It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.

#GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #TableTop #CardGames #BoardGames

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@bornach @ben @MedusaGladiatrix poker deck vs bridge deck. In Europe I was used to the latter. The size of cards is different too.