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"But what we learned, and this bears going forward, is that she wasn't calling the shots," Kaine said. "Stephen Miller is calling the shots, and as long as he is calling the shots without reforms, this is going to continue to be a very, very rogue, renegade department."

So his issue is that she was not calling the shots? Does he think miller masterminded the horse ad too? I'm sure there's some more to that quote, but he's an idiot for thinking that anyone under Trump was going to be good for the country. One of 7 Dems to break and support her and he complains that Miller is the issue. I'm glad he can admit a mistake, but he clearly doesn't understand it. I wish he was the one paying for it instead of all the innocent people who have lost their freedom, family, and lives.

It's Florida, so it feels like the point is moot, but in case it's not exceedingly obvious, do not vote for this guy or the one running for senate.

I've not seen people Lemmy advocate for any of these kinds of bills and have seen several posts against this kind of thing. Judging by the upvotes, this seems to be generally supported. Can you provide some examples of what you're referring to?

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Thank you for this comment. I have backups I tested on implementation and rummaged through two years ago after a weird corruption issue, but not once since. I still get alerts about them, so I just assume they're fine, but first thing Monday I'm gonna test them. I feel stupid for not having implemented regular checks already, but will do so now.

Not sure what you're considering as "modern", but as someone why cut their teeth on C++ and still actually enjoys it, plenty of modern languages have their uses. It really depends on what you're looking for, but I've spent years in C++ and will still use python as a go to for small projects.

I think my main point of contention is dessert. If I've just eaten chocolate cake, would I prefer to see boobs or eat garlic bread? It's admittedly one of the few scenarios with a definitive answer for me, and unfortunately I lean towards boobs. I love and respect all who would choose garlic bread, but I just cannot. I hope I'm still allowed at pride.

Upvoted you anyway, because it's the hard conversations like this that are necessary in the queer community. I appreciate your advocacy.

Nah. The meaning of life is banging hotties. That holds regardless of sex or gender of either party.

Maybe aro/ace exclusionary

but I've seen the way they look at garlic bread. If shoving warm garlic bread into their needy hole is what they're into, then good for them.

Yea, I mentioned in my comment that there was a confluence of issues, but the article does point out that the AI translation made the statement more definitive.

Edit to add:

As part of our post-mortem on this article’s evolution, PCWelt’s executive editor pointed out that the translation makes the article sound more definitive than its native German. He says that in the context of the article, the German word “soll” signals a rumored expectation, but the English translation used “will” instead of something more akin to “is rumored to.”

I thought this was a very well written, transparent article that took accountability as seriously as it should. I am still not sure why people are using AI for translation when translation software already existed. People mention that AI is more context aware, but I feel like when you saw those friction points in old translation software it prompted you to look further into the context, whereas AI will just make an executive decision and people feel like it must be right because it's AI. I guess it's possible old language software, or even a translator, would have done the same thing, but I still think people would have less inherent trust in the old software alone. I do want to point out that this AI issue was just a small part of the problem and they addressed plenty of other issues and how they plan to remedy those.

Name and shame. From the USA Today article:

Two Republicans, Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio, voted with Democrats to immediately halt American hostilities against Iran. Four Democrats bucked their party, guaranteeing the resolution would fail. They were Reps. Jared Golden of Maine, Henry Cuellar of Texas, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Juan Vargas of California.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/05/iran-war-powers-vote-house-fails/89000084007/

Not sure if something new is coming out covering the legends, but presumably people aren't taking issue with things building off known IP, just that most sequels today are cheap cash grabs of objectively lower quality than the original. Most works coming out about Arthurian legends now tend to be a new analysis applied to the existing story, thus introducing new themes and adding layers, not just doing simple mimicry. But maybe I'm not aware of the specific media you're referring to.

I agree to a certain extent, but also would point out that the longer something exists, the more likely it is to be exploited by capital and then just be objectively worse. A lot of the good things are still there, just pushed aside and hidden by people with ulterior motives. Plenty of queer youth still find a lot of community and comfort online when it's absent in their lives. There is definitely something to be said about how things shape people vs how people shape things though.

As far as the detect magic thing goes, I think it depends a bit on the individual setting. I'm usually not playing in official WOTC settings, but per the PHB, a single cast of a low level spell can be 10-50 gp. A mercenary is 2 gp a day. Let's say for whatever reason that a spell caster was willing to take a midrange single spell cast payment for an entire day of work since it's a prestigious position, you're still looking at 30gp a day. That's equivalent to 15 mercenaries. That's just for a single spell caster who has 10 minutes of a spell that has a range of 30 ft, and can be blocked by the thickness of most castle walls. I don't know pricing difference for different wizard levels, but let's just say that you have level 1 wizards cast it as a ritual and have 2 wizards so they are switching off sentry/casting every 10 minutes. They work in shifts, so to be covered 24/7 you're looking at 3 8-hr shifts for two wizards per shift. So now you're employing 6 wizards, and you're still only getting 30 ft at a time. You could station them only in your treasury or whatever other important room, or you could have them walk the grounds on patrol. Unless you're switching to multiple sets patrolling you still won't be able to cover the full grounds all at once. At a certain point, security is just security theatre. Locks are a deterrent more than anything, so unless the person under attack is very very wealthy or is actively making high powered enemies, they probably don't actually need that level of security. I would guess that a place with less than 20 guards would not opt for that level of security. Anti-magic fields are not unheard of, and the above is certainly a thing that can be done, but I don't think most jails or bandit camps will have that level of security. Probably not even local mayors or city leaders.

If I was running a security heavy coronation or something, maybe the above would be relevant and the wizards would have something conferring invisibility, so the path they take would be unknown and random every time. Maybe they party heard through some rumors of an opening for a wizard position at the castle, though the monarch doesn't have a court wizard so they'd have a chance to know it's for security or something secret at least.

It might also be that it's unfun to make a heist where the shapeshifter is useless for stealth because every inch is covered by detect magic, or even if not every inch it adds unnecessary overhead of "where's the wizard casting now?" because someone has their familiar watching them anyway. No one is stopping you though, and I could definitely see it being fun to do for a big event.

As far as the guard thing goes, it probably depends on what is being guarded. A bandit camp in the woods will probably be accustomed to lots of animals. Maybe a castle grounds with a garden too. I think unless the location is known to house the Crown Jewels or something, the guards are probably just bored and aren't on high alert for those kind of things, especially if the PC is passing on stealth/nature checks to act natural. If a guard saw a butterfly in the middle of the castle in a room with no windows, that's cause for suspicion in a way that just seeing a butterfly outside would not be. Maybe a monarch would have overly zealous guards though.

Most pricing info from roll20: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Expenses

You are not mistaken. I have them tagged due to that same behavior. Some Lemmy clients allow tagging of users. I know voyager is a popular option that does. You might already know that and just didn't think their previous comments warranted tagging, but just fyi.

What do you mean steal it? The article makes it clear that the errors are likely the result of AI hallucinations that arose during translation and that accounts that have submitted multiple articles with these errors will be subject to additional review or banning from this program. It seems likely that underpaid people using AI to translate things aren't paying as much attention to the output as Wikipedia expects.

I know it's not as fancy as other IDEs, but it is still my go to for anything that I plan to perfect within a week or two. It's also my go to for txt files. Anyone that is savvy enough for notepad++ could get a lot of use out of it in my opinion.

Yes, I saw that, I just didn't see them say that's what happened to them. If that's what happened then this should be an open and shut case. Like I said initially, Google is a bad company doing bad things and this change was an objectively greedy and evil thing.

I understand mutual aid as a concept, but my local anarchist groups seem happy to just do random mutual aid. They will just stand on a corner, distribute food to anyone that comes by and say "great job team!" It feels ineffectual and the lack of planning really hobbles them. I suggested doing a more organized approach and they were all "you can do that if you want", which I already knew I could do. I was wondering if WE should maybe be a little more organized and they just aren't interested. They'll do a toy drive and then just go to a random park to give them out. It feels more like a random act of kindness group than a group trying to build parallel systems of power. I understand that it may just be my local groups, but I would love to hear about other groups experiences. Is there maybe a more anarchist friendly way of organizing that I'm not privy to? I can do some reading if necessary. I'm not really an anarchist, but I believe mutual aid is important, I'd just like to see it done more purposefully. Is your mutual aid group a chapter of one I'd be familiar with? I'd be interested in trying a different group if it felt more helpful.

Google is a bad company with bad policies, but I'd love to have them explain what caused the compromise. They dispute that it was uploaded publicly to GitHub, but don't seem to provide any information as to what happened. They also didn't have 2fa on, which is strange to hear because AWS (they're using Google) required 2fa on all accounts at least a year ago, regardless of permissions if memory serves. Really sorry to hear this happened to them, and the fact you can't set a hard cap on spend makes Google the party ultimately responsible here, but I'd appreciate having more information on the actual cause.

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