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  • Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

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  • There’s no way this was Cloudflare taking a stand for liberty and free speech. They are simply choosing to obey one less regulation. Less for them to do. Less to be accountable for. Less to special-case for one country.

    These corporations hate being regulated - it could be by a direct popular ballot, not politicians, and they would still resist. Let’s not mistake corporate obstructionism for libertarianism.

  • Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS

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  • That’s moderation. When there’s a law against it, that’s censorship.

    Frankly a couple of countries have passed laws against Nazi speech and paraphernalia, and after the Nazis plunged the world into the biggest war of all time and murdered 12 million people for their racist ideology, I’m cool with that. If that’s the bar: I can live with it. Murder 12 million, your little club no longer gets to meet.

    There have always been rational limits on speech.

  • Which healthcare would you choose?

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  • I was so disgusted by the Iraq invasion as a response to 9/11 that I felt sure the patriotic thing to do was get Halliburton out of the White House. But they managed to scare up all that WMD noise and then they invented “swift boating.” All this after they literally stole the 2000 election.

    I know what you mean though. And it was all extremely stupid. Hillary helped, which is why I never supported her.

  • Which healthcare would you choose?

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  • I am probably just older than you but this hit me big in 2004. I was like “oh… you want more of this? What the fuck…”

  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • I agree. I share my use cases mostly to put the critical thinking behind them on display. I’m sure the crowd here is very savvy. But in the general public I agree that many if not most people would be completely seduced by the obsequious & confident tone of the robot. It can do so many things that it becomes tempting to rely on it. You wish it worked better than it did, and if you let yourself get lazy, you can easily slip into trusting it too much.

  • Which healthcare would you choose?

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  • I can’t believe my fellow Americans who are so worried about how much a real healthcare system would cost when we are getting crushed under the most expensive fucking system in the world. It’s like they take all the current price tags from our corrupt, bullshit system that doesn’t serve everyone and apply them to the whole population, completely ignoring the price negotiation power of single-payer and all the gouging and waste we get from the corporations.

  • Just say what you want!

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  • Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"

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  • As time goes by I’m finding a place for AI.

    1. I use it for information searches, but only in cases where I know the information exists and there is an actual answer. Like history questions or asking for nuanced definitions of words and concepts.
    2. I use it to manipulate documents. I have a personal pet peeve about the format of most recipes for example. Recipes always list the ingredient amounts in a table at the top, but then down in the steps they just say “add the salt” or “mix in the flour.” Then I have to look up at the chart and find the amount of salt/flour, and then I lose my place in the steps and have to find it again. I just have AI throw out the chart and integrate the amounts into the steps: “mix in 2 cups of flour”. I can have it shorten the instructions too and break them into easier to read bullet points. I also ask it to make ingredient substitutions and other modifications. The other day I gave it a bread recipe and asked it to introduce a cold-proofing step and reformat everything the way I like. It did great.
    3. Learning interactively. When I need to absorb a new skill or topic I sometimes do it conversationally with AI. Yes I can find articles and videos but then I am stuck with the information they lay out and the pace and order in which they do it. With AI you can stop and ask clarifying questions, or have it skip over the parts you already know. I find this is way faster than laborious googling. However only trust it for very straightforward topics. Like “explain the different kinds of welding and what they are for.” I wouldn’t trust it for more nuanced topics where perspective and opinion come into it. And I’ve leaned that it isn’t great at topics where there isn’t enough information out there. Like very niche questions about the meta of a certain video game that’s only been out a month.
    4. Speech to text and summarization. AI records all my Zoom meetings for work and gives summaries of what was discussed and next steps. This is always better than nothing. I’m also impressed with how it seems to understand how to discard idle chit chat and only record actual work content. At most it says “the meeting began with coworkers exchanging details from their respective weekends.”

    This kind of hard-and-fast summarization and manipulation of factual text is much easier with AI. Doing my job for me? No. Hovering over my entire computer? No. Writing my emails for me? Fuck off.

    The takeaway is that specific tools I can go to when I need them, for point-specific needs, is all I want. I don’t need or what a hovering AI around all the time, and I don’t want whatever tripe Dell can come up with when I can get the best latest models direct from the leading players.

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    Link between diet and mental health ‘extremely significant’

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  • 6.15% of the US population live in food deserts. So this is real and significant but at the same time we need to stop talking about one serving of vegetables a day as an exorbitant, logistically impossible thing categorically.

    In 2017, the United States Department of Agriculture reported that 39.5 million people or 12.8% of the population were living in low-income and low-access areas.[8] Of this number, 19 million people live in "food deserts",

    From Wikipedia

  • Joint Statement on Greenland

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  • Hmm I didn’t see a commitment to respond with force. Just a statement of what is “right,” as if Trump gives one shit about that. Fail.

  • US discussing options to acquire Greenland, including use of military - White House

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  • NATO could end if US takes over Greenland — Danish PM

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  • Only country that ever burned down the White House? We won’t forget you! ;)

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    Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds

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  • Dirty little secret: advertising drives very little of what we know as capitalism. It’s honestly just kind of a drain hole in capitalism, out of which flows billions of dollars into the void.

  • Owning the libs or something

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  • Anyone who thinks the level of attractiveness has anything to do with this…

    He has no idea how hard we’ve worked to make people who look like plain old men in dresses feel beautiful.

  • All Ready, already???

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  • The president has already captured the only authorities that could check him: the judicial and congressional branches of government.

    That is why he is not being bound by laws.

    Until Unions can claim the same, they are vulnerable.

    I’m not saying I like it. Just that these are the facts.

  • Getting HR to cite local labor laws to an American middle manager

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  • I’m aware of what rent-seeking is. How does that relate to Product and how are companies eliminating it?

  • YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.

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  • What? It’s not. The point stands that mostly in the US you meet a very select group of people from other countries, usually of more means, usually with some reason why they left. You are working very hard to not understand something pretty basic. It’s like you’ve never known an immigrant.

  • It's not a question.

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  • If you are doing gods work, good for you. Do you think that describes Americans at large? You really went out of your way to take that personally.

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    YSK this woman is called Katherine Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance.

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  • How will you make it through life without the ability to criticize a woman’s eyebrows? I leave that grand challenge to you.

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Sam Bankman-Fried is angling for a pardon from Trump

    gizmodo.com /sam-bankman-fried-thrown-into-solitary-over-tucker-carlson-interview-report-2000573371
  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Sisters hanging out, holding hands (and feet)

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Cuddle train has left the station!

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    It’s not a proper gardening community without this posted at least once, so let’s get it out of the way :D

  • Gardening @lemmy.world
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    This potted succulent REALLY gave our doorstep some pizzazz this year