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azimir

@ azimir @lemmy.ml

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  • Is there any other means of surfing the world wide web without the internet and services of companies like cloudflare ?

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  • Yes. All surfing is between your client and the server running the web services.

    The problem is that many many companies/developers used cloud services to host their websites. It's where they out their computers/services that determine the reliance on the big hosting platforms or not. Your client really has no say in the matter.

    I use the Internet all the time without cloud platforms, but it's because I host tools on non cloud systems. Having Cloudflare or AWS down doesn't affect my own tools because I'm not hosting them on those platforms.

  • A record number of Americans are anxious about health care costs going into next year

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  • Duh. People are finally noticing just how bad it's gotten. Even the well off middle(r) class are feeling just how horrible prices in the US have gotten.

  • How to differentiate between a AGI and an LLM that has read every book in existence?

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  • You're sitting on the Chinese Translator problem, and to some extent the basis of the Turing Test (mostly the translator problem).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

    Knowledge != Intelligence

    Regurgitating things you've read is only interpolative. You're only able to reply with things you've seen before, never new things. Intelligence is extrapolative. You're able to generate new ideas or material beyond what has been done before.

    So far, the LLM world remains interpolative, even if it reads everything created by others before it.

  • Strike at University of California: "Be aware of transportation issues, but don't allow management to weaponize your frustration to target striking workers."

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  • Go get em! Unions are the only thing that start the ball rolling to better lives for workers, including the ones not striking today.

  • Trump suggests there was a cover-up about Joe Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis

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  • But they were put in there 14 years ago after they were left alone with him at his mansion.

  • In many cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver 🇨🇦 , Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door.

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  • Yeah, that'd be way too far. With a 50 minute walking radius from here I could hit about 20 grocery stores. Using the public transit that doubles or triples.

    Nah, it's almost visible from our apartment's front door. We have to cross one street where traffic really never gets above 15mph and the biggest danger is tripping on one of the tram tracks (did I mention the multiple railed transit routes here as well?).

  • A ‘Small War’ Against Venezuela Is a Really Big Mistake

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  • The first 5-7 Honor Harrington books are a phenomenal read.

  • Shots fired at Border Patrol agents on Chicago's West Side, DHS says

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  • Was it a group of well identified law officers with a warrant and identification or a gang of heavily armed, masked, and aggressive people trying abduct someone?

    These days we only see the second group and they should be treated as the criminals they're acting like.

  • In many cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency. In Vancouver 🇨🇦 , Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door.

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  • We finally moved to a city with actual local businesses. Bring able to walk 50m to a reasonably priced grocery store is a game changer. It's so much better than having the weekly 3-4 hour long Costco + WinCo trip to stock up a huge pantry.

  • Caption this. Wrong answers only.

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  • When the seal on the diaper slips...

  • Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’

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  • It's the richest country in the history of humanity and all we did with it was oppress other nations, build a massive military, and sell the nation off to the rich. So far it's not a winning plan for anyone outside of the top 1%. Same shit, bigger piles of gold.

  • This is incredibly stupid. It will drive up the cost of housing

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  • The city I just left is almost through that entire arc. How did you guess the history of a city you've probably never looked at!?!

    The latest wave of city council leadership is actively trying to build out more public transit and it's amazing just how horrible people can be when you ask them to make a tiny percentage of the roads (often 3+ lanes wide in the city core) have a bike lane or even a few blocks of bus priority lane so the busses can arrive on time during rush hour.

    At the same time it's in the top 5 most dangerous cities for pedestrians in our state, but the mutilation of fellow city dwellers is okay as long as people can drive fast through downtown to get to the big box store 20+ miles away. Strangely, the City Council's old members keep yelling about how the city downtown is dying because we added a few bike lanes and therefore people don't want to be there since it's harder to drive (but only during major rush hours).

  • The Trump administration is nearing a deal to lower prices for weight loss drugs

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  • What did this regime do to both insulin and insurance prices?

    But at least some people could lose some weight along with their lost insurance.

  • Why did you delete your post after getting an answer?

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  • I used an auto-cleaning script on my Reddit account. It went through and deleted all 13+ years of posts, comments, and activity before nuking the account itself.

  • U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine

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  • It doesn't matter to my perspective. The history of religion is for sub groups to spilt off over inconsequential differences, make up different doctrines and eventually go to war over them. It's an expression of Authoritarians and cult behavior, and what leads to some of the greatest suffering that mankind has ever inflicted upon itself.

    These families wanted to filter themselves to a sub group that's a distinction without a difference.

  • GTFO

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  • In my gaming circles roflstomp was quite entertaining during it's hayday.

  • U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine

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  • But that's the wrong kind of religious.

  • Raspberry Pi E-Ink To-Do Display Disguises as Framed Desk Art - Yanko Design

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  • I'd live to have one of these. The display costs are out of range at the moment for me. Once I can get one, I'll frame it up for both the todo lists, but also for local public transit departures.

  • Reddit CEO says chatbots are not a traffic driver

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  • Of course they're not. They're just annoying noise on your site.

    I go to places for chatbots, but having them randomly replacing real services or human interaction is bullshit and a waste of your money.