I spend so much time trying to escape from this terrible world we live in right now.
I reminded myself that all the "escapes" are the product of the same world, the same 14 billion years of history and evolution. The same species that's causing a mass extinction event due to greed; that's ruled by wealthy, white nationalist, performative Christofascists; that's perpetrated countless genocides also created every work of art; every poem, play, and novel; every movie; every video game; every medical miracle and scientific advance. We've put people on the moon and landed ships on other planets. We know the speed of light and what black holes look like.
I have to remember that being under a hateful regime doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is hateful. It's not one or the other, it's not all our nothing.
There are kind, thoughtful people out there right now who are thinking up the next thing that will bring us together and give us peace. There are people who would love and accept you. There are writers, artists, musicians, coders, scientists, etc doing good work. Yes, there are terrible, short-sighted, people who think little of others, but they are not all people even if they are often the loudest.
I have to remember that what I see, what those in power want me to see, are the things that support their narrative. It's why they want genAI so badly: it lets them churn out propaganda at an unholy rate. But it is propaganda, not reality.
If you live in the United States (or the UK) and are non-white, non-male, non-hetero, non-cis, non-neuerotypical, non-ablebodied, or non-"Christian", the government wants you and everyone else to believe you are less than human.
You are not.
I am not.
The government is lying. They are wrong. I can't fix it. You probably can't fix it. We can at least find each other and support each other, remind us that we are not alone and that we matter.
El Espaรฑol: ยซEl IVA de la vivienda con Feijรณo serรก del 4% para "jรณvenes de hasta 40 aรฑos" y se pagarรก en los mismos plazos que la hipotecaยป
Joder! Parece una buena iniciativa!
O no? Veamos.
El 78% de los jรณvenes que acceden a la compra de una vivienda, compran vivienda usada, no nueva, y esas compras estรกn exentas de IVA.
Del 22% restante, los mรกs desfavorecidos, los que compran vivienda de protecciรณn oficial, ya pagan solo el 4%. Tampoco les beneficia esto en nada.
Entonces, a quiรฉn beneficia? El comprador joven de vivienda nueva tiene un perfil socioeconรณmico alto o medio-alto, con estudios universitarios, nรบcleo familiar con dos trabajos estables y dos sueldos superiores a 2.500โฌ netos cada uno, es decir, un total de mรกs de 5000โฌ netos mensuales.
En resumen, reducen impuestos al 20% de la poblaciรณn mรกs rica y dejan que se joda el 80% de la poblaciรณn mรกs pobre.
Oh man Marval realm fell into a trap. The reason I don't have my games post to social media is for the precise reason that I don't want people having to see 5 to 10 "I just finished a game of Scramble!" in their timeline within an hour from the same person. Cool in theory, annoying in practice.
They let you choose whether you want to post it. People just completely overuse it for scores no one gives a shit about and don't use it for when they've actually achieved something.
We need to rehome some of our kitties because my partner and I are both experiencing health challenges that are both costly and impacting our ability to adequately care for all our kitties.
I have no idea how to go about this. We have ten cats right now. In no particular order (and little alt-text, as I'll describe in the postsโI can't add more than four pics). We're in the Houston metro area, kinda near where 290 comes off 610. My partner used to know folks who did this, but not currently.
The front cats. There's a door between the kitchen and other public areas and the rest of the house. It stays closed.
Spike: He's in his late teens. He's incredibly shy and distrustful of strangers. He's a white and gray tabby, but with a white area on his back (not visable). He stays
Kitsune: I call her Kiki. She's a 13- yo calico who will accept attention from anyone, so long as you don't try to pick her up. She stays.
Freya: She likes to sleep on a cat bed in the front window. Entirely white except for tiny black dot on her nose. She used to bully Squirrel, and would be okay as an only cat or as an addition to a household, as she was an addition.I believe she was born in 2019, and littered young. Her kittens went to forever homes before I moved in. She's waving friends with both Spike and Starโthey greet each other by batting at each other for a bit. She's available by herself.
The Interns: These three were born in January, 2020, in a cat enclosure on my stepdaughter's porch. There was a fourth who didn't make it. Their mother wa TNR, and, due to quarantine they ended up staying.
Star: She was named because she's entirely black with small groups of white hairs that resemble a starfield. She is super friendly with people. She has recurring ear issues. When she's dealing with that she over-grooms, and we support her with special gooshy. She would be available with Squirrel as a pair.
Squirrel: She's a chonky bullseye brown tabby with a bobbed tail that her mother must have bitten off by accident. She is afraid of everything and everyone, though she will sometimes join Kitsune and Weasel in my lap. She is available with any of Star, Weasel, or Squeaker, or with Star and Weasel as a trio.
Weasel: She used to climb into the dishwasher and lick at the dishes when I was loading it. She's the mackerel brown tabby in the picture with Kitsune, Star, and Spike. She will use her paw to move her treats bowl away from interlopers. She has a unique raw element to her meows, and prefers being near my feet when I'm in the recliner. She's available with Squirrel or as a trio including Star.
The Backsters:
Noodle: She's a tortoimese. The photo where her eye looks like a laser captures her personality best. She was rescued at fourish months, and hid in a ramen noodle box. I am her human, and she is finally accepting attention from my partner (we moved in in February, 2020). She didn't meow or play until I adopted Fur Elise. She stays.
Fur Elise: She likes laundry and little catnip mice. If you throw one of her meeses, she'll chase it and pounce on it. She's large, and a very dark gray tabby. She stays for Noodle.
Squeaker: He's an ambassador, and would be happy with the frontsters or the backsters. We had to restrict him to the back because he needs Hill's prescription c/d urinary diet. As an accommodation, we cut the Hill's kibble with the non-prescription ProPlan urinary support kibble, and free-feed all the backsters. He's not a gooshy eater, which may be why he developed the crystals. He squeaks instead of meowing (although he yowls when he's in the carrier on the way to/from the vet). our youngest, and was born iv the summer of 2022. He's available with Squirrel or Ma Ma Ma, or by himself if he's moving in with other cats. He absolutely gets along with every cat here.
Ma Ma Ma; Her meow sounds more like she's saying, "Mah! Mah! Mah!' She's very pretty, and the pic I have is her on the top of a bookshelf, with my unshaded warm LED lamp shining up at her. Noodle and Ma Ma Ma are frenemies; if I'm petting one, the other will casually wander up and interpose herself. She is available with Squeaker or alone.
#OpenAI wehrt sich gegen Herausgabe von 20 Millionen ยปanonymisiertenยซ ChatGPT-LogsโฆDas Unternehmen argumentiert, dass 99,99 Prozent der Chats nichts mit dem eigentlichen Fall zu tun hรคtten und eine Weitergabe die Privatsphรคre der Nutzer gefรคhrden wรผrde. โฆund ich dachte immer, der Kackladen speichert keine personenbezogenen Daten. ๐คก๐คก๐คก #chatgpt #KI #AI
There are a lot of guides about how to use async Rust from a "user's perspective", but I think it's also worth understanding how it works, what those async blocks actually mean. Why you get all those weird pinning errors.
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0:00 Road to Kutnรก Hora 1:09 Breakfast place 2:18 Gallery of Central Bohemia 4:44 Park with funny activities 5:53 Bobsled track and Go-karts 7:10 Lunch & coffee 8:18 Chรขteau Kaฤina 12:24 Dive bar U Tupouna 13:22 More travel tips
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Thank you for your support! Janek Rubeลก & Honza Mikulka, Prague-based journalists #HonestGuide
Hey! I hope you're not just stealing somebody's videos. I would like to have Honest guide videos on peertube, but I much more don't like stealing somebody's content.
Wir mรผssen dringend diesen einen Schmetterling finden, der auf der anderen Seite der Erde mit den Flรผgeln schlรคgt - und ihn stoppen. Sonst hat das Chaos hier nie ein Ende.
Two of my favourite languages have something you could call ghost consonants. In Italian and Brabantian, consonants that were lost long ago still have an eff...
๐บ๏ธ Bikerouter now runs on new server hardware. Since Saturday routes are computed on dedicated physical hardware instead of shared virtual machines. This makes the calculations about 40% to 50% faster. Youโll notice the difference especially on longer rides.
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I'm proud to release the first early version of the high-level audio engine I've been working on for the past months! GraphAudio.Kit is a high level 3d audio game engine for your dotnet, using SteamAudio for great hrtf! Very understandable and hackable. It's built on top of GraphAudio, which is a set of libraries I made that let you create your own audio engines by giving you a graph-based audio framework, webaudio for your dotnet basically! Please take a look, and tell your friends.
Industriestrompreis, aber keine Entlastung fรผr private Haushalte. Billiger Fliegen und Verbrenner forever. Lieferkettengesetz mit Faschos zerbrรถseln.
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Well it would appear that Iโm going to be embarking on a crash course in learning the ins and outs of #NVDA in a big hurry. #JAWS is initiating some hocus pocus that Iโm not the least bit happy with. They are going to start requiring all of us who use JAWS to create accounts and sign in. JAWS is not Microsoft 365. Itโs a screenreader, not a suite of programs. What would be the purpose of requiring this? Iโm just not comfortable with this, so it looks like Iโm going to stop using the screenreader Iโve been using for 20 plus years. Iโm told that #NVDA is as robust as JAWS, I most certainly hope so. Iโm disappointed that there arenโt more options out there. For not the first time over the years, Iโm finding myself missing good old WindowEyes. #A11Y
It might depend what you're doing, in terms of which screen reader is better, although familiarity is a factor, and learning how to use NVDA is a good idea. I'm glad now that I don't use or depend on JAWS. I don't use Windows primarily, but, when I do, I use NVDA, and I would rather give my money to the NVDA developers and support a screen reader that is freely available (it might be different if I had a need to use JAWS--I'm not a purist and have to live my life, but I feel like I have enough screen readers without it).
I'd have to search for it, but Chris Hofstader wrote a blog post a long time ago where he commented on the irony of Freedom Scientific salespeople trying to dissuade people from using NVDA by saying that it was "too guys in a garage" and could go away at any time, and then the VFO Group acquired GW Micro (if I remember my history correctly) and killed Window-Eyes. So much for proprietary software being reliable where OSS is supposedly not.
The E.U. in particular is really becoming controling when it comes to Internet use. I suspect more countries will follow. They want to know the age of people using more andmore programs, from games to social networks, so I think you're going to soon see this in just about everything. I was originally opposed to Tweesecake's requiring an account to use their app, but I've since decided that it's the way of the future and I might as well roll with it. You're not looking for an argument, I know, but for anyone who is, don't bother. Ultimately I don't know any more than you do.
@SyHoekstra @MikeGorse @Bruce Hi everyone! Firstly, for those new to NVDA, Welcome! And you might find this page on Switching from Jaws to NVDA useful: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/โฆ - if you hit anything not covered there, please ask.
Re account, no we don't have any intention of going in that direction. NVDA is completely offline at least in that regard (you need to be online to access the add-on store or use NVDA Remote, but for most features it doesn't need internet access) - any "online" content you read in your web browser etc with NVDA is the content that browser or other program has already downloaded to process and display.
:boost_appreciated: Looking for recommendations for vegan condoms
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Any recommendations for vegan condoms? After a situation involving a beautiful woman the other week, I feel like having condoms on me would probably make things easier,,
For those unaware, casein, which is derived from dairy, is often used to soften latex condoms, making them not vegan. There are other chemicals like glycerin in condoms that may be of animal origin.
I'm writing something (I'll post it once it's finished) and just realized that I used the word "present" twice in the same sentence, and the word has multiple meanings, some of which are distinguishable when spoken aloud, depending on which syllable is accented. And I wasn't even trying to make a pun or anything like that, but I think I'll keep the sentence as-is; I'm not sure how I'd re-word it anyhow. English is weird.
I seem to recall there being some fancy term for the English words where the noun and verb are typically written the same way but accented differently. I can't remember what it would be though, and it's hard to look up.
Znรกte nฤjakรฉho YouTubera z #YouTube, kterej to nedฤlรก jen pro prachy?
Dostaลte ho k nรกm na #VHSky a dostanete doลพivotnรญ #PeerTube premium zdarma! ๐
Co nรกm jeลกtฤ chybรญ? - #cviฤenรญ doma i venku - #gaming a recenze - #hudba a klipy - #vฤda a technika, "vysvฤtluje vฤci" - vรญce #vaลenรญ - vรญce #DIY - a vlastnฤ vลกechno dalลกรญ! ๐
ล iลte, mluvte, zmiลujte. Potลebujem vรกs
Druhรก varianta je "tvoลte!" .. budeme rรกdi ๐
Jรก se ptรกm zรกmฤrnฤ jen po tฤch, kterรฝ YT neลพivรญ, protoลพe ty, kterรฝ ลพivรญ reklama, รบplnฤ nejsou cรญlovkou PeerTube.
Jsou lidi, co maj svobodnรฝ mรฉdia bez reklam a trackerลฏ rรกdi - jen o nich jeลกtฤ nevรญ. Neฤekรกm, ลพe k nรกm najednou masovฤ pลemigruje celej YT :)
pลรญjmy z YT jsou dost overrated. Podle mฤ si na smysluplnรฉ penรญze sรกhne <1% autorลฏ. Petr ล imรกฤek mi ลรญkal, ลพe mรก sice tisรญce zhlรฉdnutรญ, ale reรกlnฤ jsou z toho desรญtky korun mฤsรญฤnฤ. Takovรฝ Gardiner Bryant mรก na YT 130 tisรญc sledujรญcรญch a mรก z toho 200 dolarลฏ mฤsรญฤnฤ. Zaฤal publikovat i na PeerTube, vyzval lidi, jestli by mu nepomohli nahradit pลรญjem z reklam na YT, a uลพ je na 180 dolarech a to pลi pouhรฝch 1600 sledujรญcรญch. YT je vlastnฤ dost mizernรก platforma z pohledu pomฤru pลรญjmลฏ/divรกci. Takลพe penรญze bych ani neลeลกil. Oni spรญลก ลeลกรญ poฤet divรกkลฏ a jestli se otravovat s novou platformou, kterรก jim pลinese tลeba 10 % divรกkลฏ, co YouTube. ล koda, ลพe nefunguje spolehlivฤ to automatickรฉ zrcadlenรญ z YT, to by byl pro nฤ dobrรฝ argument. Pak by mohli bรฝt na PeerTube, aniลพ by s tรญm mฤli prรกci navรญc.
Jasnฤ, pokud se bavรญลก jenom o ฤeskรฉm Webu, tak to je asi tak. Jรก kdyลพ jsem psal, tak jsem mฤl na mysli youtube.com/@t3dotgg a podobnรฉ lidi, a tam je to trochu o jinรฝch penฤzรญch.
Vhsky.cz jsou ฤeskรก instance, zajรญmรก nรกs primรกrnฤ ฤeskรฝ obsah, i kdyลพ tam mรกme i zajรญmavรฝ obsah v angliฤtinฤ federovanรฝ z jinรฝch instancรญ. Nicmรฉnฤ nebavรญm se o ฤeskรฉm webu, bavรญm se o Youtube obecnฤ. Jinde majรญ รบplnฤ stejnรฝ problรฉm: 99 % tvลฏrcลฏ dostรกvรก od Googlu za obsah na Youtube รบplnรฝ pakatel, takลพe tฤch, kteลรญ mลฏลพou zvรกลพit i jinou platformu, protoลพe to na nฤ nemรก ลพรกdnรฝ finanฤnรญ dopad, je poลรกd hodnฤ. Jak jsem psal, problรฉm podle mฤ nejsou prachy, ale urฤitรฝ mentรกlnรญ blok z toho jednoduchรฉho monopolnรญho svฤta, kdy se videa prostฤ dรกvajรญ jen na YT, vystoupit.
S tรญmto souvisรญ i to, ลพe videa na Peertube nejsou vลฏbec indexovanรก vyhledรกvaฤi. Moje pลednรกลกky z OpenAltu nahranรฉ na YT jsou pฤknฤ dohledatelnรฉ. Google ve vรฝsledcรญch videa nezobrazuje nic mimo YT. A i DDG/Bing tam majรญ z 95 % jen YT. Tohle hodnฤ smrdรญ zneuลพรญvรกnรญm dominantnรญho postavenรญ na trhu. @mcepl
To je proto, ลพe Searxng pouลพรญvรก jako jeden ze zdrojลฏ Sepia Search, kterรฝ vytvoลili pลรญmo vรฝvojรกลi Peertube na indexovรกnรญ PT videรญ. Ale pokud nรกm jde o vฤtลกรญ publikum, tak nรกs nemลฏลพe utฤลกovat, ลพe to Searxng zvlรกdne, zatรญmco ostatnรญ vyhledรกvaฤe, kterรฉ majรญ dohromady podรญl na trhu 99,9 %, ne. :)
Pฤknฤ. Lรญbรญ se mi, ลพe Kagi umรญ u i videรญ z PeerTube zobrazit poฤet lajkลฏ. Zajรญmalo by mฤ, jestli ty zรกznamy z PeerTube majรญ z indexu Googlu a jen to na rozdรญl od nฤj ve vรฝsledcรญch hledรกnรญ neskrรฝvajรญ, nebo to je nฤjakรฝ dodateฤnรฝ zdroj.
tohle bych oฤekรกval, ลพe bude spรญลก jejich index. Obecnฤ se snaลพรญ brรกt i nemainstreamove zdroje (majรญ i kategorii small web).
Jednak majรญ vlastnรญ index, jednak berou data ze vลกech hlavnรญch vyhledรกvaฤลฏ a pak i z rลฏznรฝch okrajovรฝch zdrojลฏ a vรฝsledek je pak kompilace tohohle vลกeho.
Ani velcรญ zahraniฤnรญ tvลฏrci si YouTube reklamami nevydฤlajรญ moc. Vฤtลกinu pลรญjmลฏ majรญ ze sponzorovanรฝch segmentลฏ, prodeje vlastnรญho merche, nebo pลรญmรฉ podpory pลes YouTube Membership, Patreon a dalลกรญ pลedplatitelskรฝ sluลพby.
Prรกvฤ proto (jak pรญลกou ostatnรญ) je pro nฤ hlavnรญ dosah. BTW Jiลรญ cituje pomฤr YT / PT sledujรญcรญch u Gardinera Bryanta jako 10%, ale on mรก coby Linuxovรฝ tvลฏrce hodnฤ specifickรฝ publikum. U jinรฝch tvลฏrcลฏ by to nejspรญลก bylo mรญล.
pomฤr sledujรญcรญch je i u toho Gardinera poลรกd skoro 100:1. Zajรญmavรฉ na tom bylo to, ลพe i ta setina sledujรญcรญch dokรกzala na pลรญspฤvcรญch uลพ prakticky vyrovnat pลรญjem, kterรฝ mรก od Googlu. Pro samotnรฝ pลรญjem podle dosahu by to nemusel bรฝt problรฉm. Ti lidi budou samozลejmฤ dรกl publikovat na YT, PT by pro nฤ byl navรญc. Nevรญm ale, jak ty kontrakty v praxi fungujรญ. Jestli tลeba platรญ za poฤet zhlรฉdnutรญ videa, kde byla jejich reklama, tak ฤรญsla z YT mลฏลพou brรกt jako vฤrohodnรก, zatรญmco ta z neznรกmรฉ PT instance ne. Ale to hodnฤ pลebรญhรกme. Podle mฤ nemรก aktuรกlnฤ smysl cรญlit na lidi, kteลรญ z toho majรญ nฤjakรฝ zajรญmavรฝ pลรญjem. Na YT jsou tisรญce autorลฏ, kteลรญ z toho nemajรญ nic a dฤlajรญ videa, protoลพe se chtฤjรญ o nฤco podฤlit. Pokud jejich tรฉmata majรญ cรญlovku ve Fediverse jako u toho Gardinera, mลฏลพe to mรญt pro nฤ smysl.
Moin Mastodon, Ich bin #neuhier , #Psychologe notorisch neugierig, begeistert von #wissenschaft und schreibe in diesem Bereich auch einen Blog. Davon abgesehen bin ich, einfach nur eine Person mit Gedanken und Meinungen im Internet, die keine Ahnung hat, wie man einen guten ersten Post verfasst und daher unbeholfen in die weiten des Internets trรถtet.
For years, Single Page Applications (SPAs) built with frameworks like React have dominated the web development landscape. They promised fluid transitions, dynamic interfaces, and app-like experiences.
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If AI/LLMs are cut off from stolen human labour, their outputs turn to meaningless gibberish due to model collapse.
If AI/LLM owners are forced to pay for human labour instead of stealing it, they go bankrupt.
If AI/LLM data centres are forced to stay within energy consumption levels compatible with fighting climate change, they have to close down the overwhelming majority of their capacity.
AI/LLMs are just not sustainable, they can only function through labour theft and burning the planet. They're not so much new technology as a new type of ponzi scheme.
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