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  • Banned words

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  • Plus kids will find a way. Our english teacher didn't want us to say 'shit', but to use 'sugar' instead.

    There was a lot of 'bullsugar' and similar in that class.

  • What websites search function do you hate most?

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  • In general, anything that hijacks search shortcuts.

    Oh you wanted to search for text on this one page? Let me show you a search bar for the whole website instead, with a search that's strictly worse than the search engine that you came from in the first place.

  • What does 1000€ buy you in your favourite hobby?

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  • Maybe a third of a used or import lathe or mill.

    Machining is super expensive as a hobby to get started.

    Which is why I'm slowly upgrading my cheap CNC router to be more rigid and capable, bit by bit. Machined stainles for the first time last week. though i'll never get close to a 'real' machine, in hobby machining, everything is a finishing pass…

  • In court testimony, Bolsonaro and military chiefs acknowledge conspiracy to overthrow democracy in Brazil

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  • I only see two comments here with 1 downvote each, and those are by separate people. but maybe i don't see what you see because of federation issues?

  • Theoretical Private Age Confirmation -- Possible?

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  • This can work, but with cryptography instead of the porn site connecting to a government service.

    The swiss government wanted to introduce electronic id a few years back which was a complete clusterfuck, every party would get all your private data even if they just needed 'older than 18', it was supposed to be implemented by various private companies that then sell it to the individual states, not really with gov oversight, so you have like 20 companies all with all the data, each of which could be hacked at any point etc.

    we forced a public vote on it in 2021 and rejected it with 65%.

    the use cases are pretty valid, like online pharmacies, ordering booze online, though of course you never know what they would require it for in the future.

    so now it's 2025 and a new proposal, this time much more privacy focused, developed by the government, open source, seems like they did listen to a lot of the criticism.

    this blogpost goes into a bit of details on why unlinkability matters and that one-time-pads are one potential solution. And the whitepaper with more detail.

    i saw a presentation from the digital society on it earlier this year and from what i remember, you get a set of keys (and can create new ones if you run out) from which you can create derived keys that only contain relevant information. The other party can verify this directly, without a gov service. And since you use a new key each time, the porn site also cant crossreference with your booze site that you're the same person, that kind of stuff. It all sounded pretty reasonable and like it would adress your points.

  • Wenn Babyboomer ins Alter kommen, leeren sich Gemeindekassen

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  • Ist natürlich auch blöd, wenn dann die hauptsächlich aus Rentnern bestehende Gemeindeversammlung entscheidet, den Steuerfuss zu senken und gleichzeitig an der gleichen Versammlung Millionen für Rollstuhlgerechte Fahrstühle ausgibt, wie hier vor ein paar Monaten.

    Also die Fahrstühle sind ne gute Sache aber dann noch Steuerfuss senken, sich gegen bezahlbare Wohnungen aussprechen (man hat ja sein Haus) und bei Schulen Container oder die billigste Offerte für hässliche Betonklotzschulen ohne richtigen Pausenplatz annehmen usw.

    Wär natürlich nett, wenn mehr jüngere Leute an der Gemeindeversammlung wären, aber Dienstags von 19-23Uhr Zeit machen mit Job und Kindern ist deutlich schwieriger als als Rentner.

  • Are there other options than Prusa/BambuLab?

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  • I'm super happy with my formbot Marathon IDEX, works perfectly fine with TPU (though i did have to adjust one screw guide in the extruder so it doesn't eat the filament). it's not very well known, since they don't hand them out to influencers etc. The discord is pretty active and lots of helpful people there.

    made with all standard components, regular Klipper firmware, so i know i can replace parts if anything ever breaks.

    And IDEX in mirror/copy mode for printing multiple parts at twice the speed is great when you need it.

  • Exclusive: Tesla executives questioned Musk after he denied killing $25,000 EV project, sources say

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  • Selling fewer explosive vehicles seems like a good idea tbh.

  • The Dumbest Move in Tech Right Now: Laying Off Developers Because of AI

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  • I wonder a bit in how far the opposite is the plan. Like Klarna recently firing support staff for AI and then wanting to hire them back, but as gig workers.

    A company laying off thousands of engineers wont be nice for the stock. Saying you're doing it because you'll replace them with awesome AI might even pump the stock and is an easy excuse.

    if you can the hire them back cheaper later because the job market is shit because many devs lost their job, even better.

    It just reminds of this case from the 30s where a factory owner replaced skilled workers that wanted to unionize with machines and unskilled workers. The quality was worse and they produced less in a given time, and the machines were scrapped 3 years later. But it stopped unionization dead in its tracks and skilled workers got lower salaries afterward, so it all worked out even though the machines were strictly worse.

  • Sources of Non-AI Information in a Post-AI World?

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  • Books?

  • Is there such a thing as a manually curated search engine?

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  • It also allows you to boost/deprioritize/ban domains from your searches. Not seeing pinterest show up ever again is great

  • Elon Musk says it's ‘outrageous’ to ‘claim that I’m a Nazi’

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  • I mean, they helpfully provide ranking lists. Start at #1 and work your way down

  • Canada election sees record high early voting, figures show

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  • sort of. Having a system that allows multiple parties, like in many European countries, certainly helps with representation and discourse. But looking at Europe, it certainly doesn't prevent a right-wing drift towards authoritarianism. There's sooo many other things needed for a healthy democracy, like education/literacy, strong independent institutions, unions etc.

    You can just end up with two right wing parties, an extreme and a moderate one, but the moderate one catering to the extreme positions of the extreme party (and being mostly moderate in name only), and both of them forming a majority government and drifting to authoritarianism, even if there are many parties.

  • Is there a federated Strava alternative?

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  • After ther recent acqusition and firing of a lot of staff, it might not be the best alternative

    Edit: article with more details can't find a non paywalled version and not really any other pages that discuss the firing, just the acquisition

  • What's an absurd luxury you pine for?

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  • A proper (CNC) milling machine and lathe, like ones you can work hardened steel with. Lots of better things you could buy for that money, but with a mill and lathe i could make those things for even more money!

    Edit: oh and a proper garage/hobby room to put them in

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  • Actually, as to your edit, the it sounds like you're fine-tuning the model for your data, not training it from scratch. So the llm has seen english and chinese before during the initial training. Also, they represent words as vectors and what usually happens is that similiar words' vectors are close together. So subtituting e.g. Dad for Papa looks almost the same to an llm. Same across languages. But that's not understanding, that's behavior that way simpler models also have.

  • Reddit’s 50% plunge fails to entice dip buyers as growth slows

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  • Though half the time it's

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    thanks that really solved my problem, you're amazing!

    I still have mixed feelings about deleting one's whole comment history, though i also did that when I left reddit. it's the right thing to do, but the amount of information lost because of greedy leadership is super sad.

  • yikes

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  • Techies interested in privacy and fairness is just another target/focus group to be marketed to..

    But even given that every company sucks(eventually) and every ceo is an asshole. there's something to be said about about spreading out and e.g. using proton over gmail and other google services.they might both suck, but at least if it's spread out, there's not one asshole ceo that controls all our stuff at once. You can't vote with your wallet, but preventing monopolies (the natural end game of a free market) by supporting smaller alternatives can still be worthwile. Not that it solves the underlying issues, but i think it can at least slow the decay a bit.

  • How to get people to use Mastodon?

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  • Maybe email is a better comparison for federated stuff than phpbb? You wouldn't tell someone to 'just get an email adress'. You'd recommend a specific email provider.