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Not only do economists assume that everyone has a model of the economy in their heads that is the same as the model they have developed, they also assume that this model is an accurate predictor of the future. Bear in mind that this is after theyâve already admitted that their models completely failed to predict the Global Financial Crisis.
@Su_G Funny how I was branded âextremeâ for clearly stating that theyâre the enemy a decade ago.
I guess it didnât help that nearly everyone in tech either had (has) âgood friends who work thereâ and/or wanted (wants) to work there and/or were (are) employed by and/or were (are) bottom-feeders â consultant(cies), âinfluencersâ, etc. â that depend on the scraps thrown at them by Big Tech.
âItâs difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.â â Upton Sinclair
@aral @Su_G I remember the exact same 35 years ago when I was still in high school, albeit with slightly more of a hardware /embedded systems focus and different companies (Marconi, ICL, Acorn/ARM, Ferranti, RACAL, Plessey etc)
Tomorrow, MPs will debate and vote on a measure to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Novara Media stands opposed to this historic infringement on freedom of expression.
What do you have against the project and the people behind it? It sounds personal.
There are plenty of non-commercial Linux distributions. Some managed better than others. Some generic, some with niches. OpenWRT is a favourite of mine.
Its my experience with server software for beginners in general, which gets my enshittification senses tingling. I just dont trust in a company providing a hell of a service (like, getting tens if not hundreds of docker images to work with the click of a button) for free.
With Truenas I know that their community branch is an ad for their enterprise service because no single person will key thousands for the caliber of support their enterprise has, so they make their money by offering cloud services. So that explains how it is still feasable for them to give me their dataset and UI and everything frontend for free.
But with Casa, I just dont know where the money comes from. I dont see how they can keep up their operations and make a profit with this kind of effort. So I can only assume that many non essential services will be put behind a paywall.
And if they do it, I still know that they use docker and ZFS, and I can spend a day or 2 learning how to set up a software raid and an ssd as a ZFS buffer for it, and everything else iâve set up with their OS.
But thats the problem: Beginners dont know. Its like with the Iphone: If the user dosent learn how to deploy a docker instance from a compose file themselves, they will be bound to that frontend and all the enshittification that happens to it.
Therefore I would like it way more if Selfhosting was more like the AUR. First learn how the Process of pulling an image and makepkgâing works firsthand, then you can use the frontend like yay. Not the other way around.
But if no one learns how to do something the old fashioned way and relies on a frontend for everything, at some point the company behind the frontend will vendor lock everyone into their system, since there is no competition anyway
Beginners will always gravitate to what is easier.
The upstream tools (Docker in this case) must orient themselves more towards the newbies, not only the pros, if we want to see the progress here.
Personally, as a non-IT guy, I find myself fighting uphill battles every time I want to do something seemingly simple, because the basic tools we're offered are not made with common folk in mind. And I'm sort of an enthusiast - most people just won't bother if it's not plug&play, they don't have time and energy to figure everything out.
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So you're basically saying "I don't have any proof of any of this, but I'm scared so I'm scaring others as well".
Your first point makes zero sense: it can't be both "for profit" and have "no means of generating income".
Their way of generating income is the reason they created the distro/OS in the first place: selling hardware. To my knowledge, they wanted to ship their mini servers (ZimaBoard) and later NAS-like devices (ZimaCube I think?) with an easy to use OS that can do all basic home server tasks. That didn't exist, so they made one. They didn't need to make money from the OS, it's a catalyst to bring able to sell (more) hardware. I personally think that is a great way to use Linux as a company and contribute to the wider ecosystem, why does it scare you so much? They could've closed this of much more, but made it for available to everyone, on any hardware.
From what I heard, they did achieve their design goals. It's a bit simplistic for me personally, but probably great for a beginner.
I get that enshittyfication is everywhere these days, but maybe don't try to stop people from using things that haven't actually seen ANY yet, just because they might? With no indication that they will, either.
4&5 might be fair points though, I for know enough about the details.
Your first point makes zero sense: it canât be both âfor profitâ and have âno means of generating incomeâ.
Are you for real? The entire concept of Enshittification hinges on the real fact that most internet services start out with a net negative "profit" and are kept alive through large injections of VC capital. This allows them to offer the service for free or close to free to gain a massive user base, which they then leverage for profit later on through measures that make the service worse for consumers. The entire reason Mastodon, Lemmy, and the federated social network exist is because of this contradiction.
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Casaos is a Chinese commercial "loss leader" software added to tons of Chinese brands. It is not intended to make money by itself, it is intended to sell more home nas market gear like zimaboards.
It's also not an os, despite its claims and confusing terms on Wikipedia.
Last, casaos sends telemetry to Chinese IPs, a fair amount more than most software, based on what I saw with tcpdump alone.
I'm not sure how casaos made its way into the "open source os" space, but none of what you're saying is new.
I ended up with a device that shipped with it and replace it with Yunohost for a similarly beginner friendly experience that, so far, seems a whole lot more open.
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Paramount has agreed to settle President Trump's lawsuit over a "60 Minutes" interview with Kamala Harris for $16 million, the company announced late Tuesday.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
SPD Politiker und Ex-StaatssekretĂ€r Christian Lange tritt aus der Kirche aus â aus Protest gegen das Kirchenasyl. Die kirchliche Praxis (durch der in diesem Beispiel drei Menschen aus Somalia Asyl gewĂ€hrt wurde) sei eine Missachtung rechtsstaatlicher Entscheidungen.
Ein Mensch mit Herz wÀre aus der SPD ausgetreten, aus Protest gegen deren Versuch das Kirchenasyl abzuschaffen und den Familiennachzug auszusetzen. Alle Verbrechen der Menschheit waren rechtsstaatlich, das ist nicht die Norm nach der man sich richten sollte.
Ex-StaatssekretĂ€r Christian Lange (SPD) tritt aus der Kirche aus â aus Protest gegen das Kirchenasyl. Drei Somalier hatten Mitte Juni Kirchenasyl erhalten. Lange wirft der EKD vor, den Rechtsstaat zu untergraben und Populisten zu stĂ€rken.
Also hier ist man ja jetzt echt zwiegespalten, einerseits sind Kirchenaustritte was gutes weil der Laden definitiv zu viel macht hat andererseits ist der Grund einer der absolut DĂŒmmsten den man hĂ€tte angeben können đ
In der Debatte zur deutschen Asylpolitik hĂ€lt sich die Vorstellung, dass Menschen an den Grenzen Deutschlands ohne Weiteres zurĂŒckgewiesen werden können.
Nun, man kann das Kirchenasyl auch als Rechtsbruch ablehnen (Wie wĂŒrden wir denn ĂŒber ein Moschee-Asyl denken? Oder ein FuĂball-Asyl? Ein Unternehmensasyl fĂŒr Spargelstecher?), aber der Austritt ist der falsche Weg, die Diskussion in der Kirche darĂŒber zu fĂŒhren. Wenn die Kirchen sich zu sehr in die Politik einmischen, ist es den Herren auch nicht Recht (Bei Abtreibungen gerne, bei Sozialrecht bitte nicht).
Also ich kann Herrn Lange hier ĂŒberhaupt nicht nachvollziehen. Bin zwar kein Jurist, aber mir scheint die Tatsache, dass es vom BAMF ein offizielles Merkblatt gibt, wie Kirchenasyl funktioniert, doch sehr dafĂŒr zu sprechen, dass Kirchenasyl ausreichend in unsere rechtsstaatlichen Strukturen eingebunden ist.
Uppps! đ€Ł đ Kirchenasyl IST rechtsstaatlich, denn es ist Teil des Konkordats bzw. Staatskirchenvertrags. Vielleicht sollte der gute Mann besser aus der Politik austreten, wenn er sowas nicht weiĂ!? đ§
Recht kennt keine Moral, es sind einfach nur schwammige "Wenn dann" Absprachen. Das ist ja das Problem in der Politik: zu viele Juristen. Ich bin der festen Ăberzeugung unsere Ausbildung versieht uns mit Scheuklappen die wir aktiv abbauen muss - oft zu Lasten tiefen Fachwissens was oft mit Karrierechancen einher geht -> daher keine Prio. Daher werden Gesetze gerne mit dem Gedanken "Wie dolle kloppt dieser KnĂŒppel" gemacht, nicht mit "Muss ich wirklich drauf kloppen?"
16 HOURS in line for Popeyes chicken! This is what happens when you bring the WORLD'S GREATEST, most SPECTACULAR American food to the people! Jayden drove 200 miles from Leeds - TREMENDOUS dedication! The Brits know PURE EXCELLENCE when they see it, unlike Goofy Elizabeth Warren who probably eats tofu! My Chief of Staff just burst into the Oval Office and said "Mr. President, this is the most AMAZING display of American food dominance we've ever seen!" We're making America's food empire the FINEST in history and the world is BEGGING for more! UNBELIEVABLE success! The BEST chicken, the GREATEST queues, MAGNIFICENT! đșđžđ
@DrFell @EvolLove @trumpgpt I saw a rumble outside a Popeyes when they ran out of chicken sandwiches. It was all influencers attacking each other with selfie sticks.
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Atheist left: âHey, I thought Jesus said to accept everyone and love who they are no matter what brahâŠâ
You can tell who never picked up a Bible.
âHate what is evil; cling to what is good.â -Romans 12:9
âHate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts.â -Amos 5:15
âIt would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.â -Luke 17:2
@jazzilla Thatâs completely correct and well put. Also, men create boundaries by judging where the lines should be and who should be on the other side on the line around you and your family. No real men, no boundaries.
The only way to know good from evil IS TO JUDGE IT.
âYou will know them by their fruitsâŠâ -Matthew 7:16
The enemy wants you to be submissive and unsure about yourself, condoning evil. You HAVE to judge and reject. All Christ was saying was to hold yourself accountable to the same level of your judgement.
âTake care, for when you judge others they will judge you in return. Donât be the idiot complaining about the speck in your brothers eye while you have a board in yours. Fix yourself, then help others.â
This gets intentionally misconstrued as a way to shut Christians up. Which is not what Jesus said at all.
#OtD 2 Jul 2018 Abhimanyu, a left-wing student leader in Kerala, India, was murdered by Islamist fundamentalists after writing the slogan "down with communalism" on a wall on the Maharaja's college campus in Kochi stories.workingclasshistory.coâŠ
ALBANY (TNS) â New York has a permanent state office dedicated to combating gun violence in what Gov. Kathy Hochul describes as a rebuke to President Donald Trump. "Donald Trump likes to call himself the law and order president," Hochul said.
Hochul's whole existence recently is Not Trump Gotta shift the focus when your approval rating is in the trash So now the State has a new budgeted agency that will ignore the root problems behind gun violence and thus Crime
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered to suspend some deliveries of missiles and ammunition to Ukraine, including dozens of Patriot interceptor missiles, more than 100 Hellfire missiles and dozens of Stinger missiles, the NBC News broadcasterâŠ
Selling online seems simple: list products, set prices, and let customers buy. But there's more to it than meets the eye.
If you're launching an online store with limited funds, you've likely asked: Can a cheap web design solution really support a full-fledged e-commerce business?
It's a valid question. "Cheap" often implies basic features or lower quality. But the answer depends on what "cheap" means to you, what your store requires, and how much you're willing to work around limitations.
What "Cheap" Web Design Involves
When people talk about cheap web design, they usually mean spending a few hundred dollarsâor less if they're using a DIY platform or getting help from a friend.
This typically involves pre-built templates, standard functionality, and minimal customization. A cheap website designer often uses platforms like Wix, Shopify, or WordPress to keep costs low and deliver quickly.
That's not inherently bad. These tools are designed to handle e-commerce, even at an entry level. But they come with constraints. If you're okay with those, it can be a good starting point.
Why E-Commerce Gets Complicated
Selling online seems simple: list products, set prices, and let customers buy. But there's more to it than meets the eye.
Your store needs to handle browsing, product variations (like sizes or colors), secure payments, order confirmations, and shipping updates. You might also want features like discount codes, inventory tracking, or customer accounts. Each element adds complexity, and making them work seamlessly requires careful setup.
Cheap web design can struggle here. The platforms are capable, but the time and expertise needed to configure everything properly often go beyond what budget services include.
Where Budget Designs Can Fall Short
Low-cost designs often face a few common issues. Site speed is a big oneâcheap sites can slow down as you add images or features, frustrating customers and hurting sales.
Mobile compatibility is another challenge. Many affordable sites aren't fully optimized for phones, leading to awkward navigation or checkout issues. With mobile shopping so prevalent, this can be a major problem.
Security is also a concern. Some cheap website designers skip essentials like SSL certificates or regular updates, leaving your store vulnerable to risks.
These problems can be fixed, but addressing them often requires effort that budget packages don't cover.
When Is It a Good Fit?
Cheap web design can work for small, straightforward stores. If you're selling a few items, don't need complex features, and are willing to handle some tasks yourself, it's often enough.
It's also great for testing an idea. If you're launching a side hustle or experimenting with a new product, a budget-friendly site lets you start without a big investment. Just keep your expectations realistic.
But if your store is the core of your business or you plan to scale quickly, a cheap solution may not keep up. Upgrading a basic site later can cost more than building it properly from the start.
Questions to Ask Before You Start
When choosing a cheap website designer or platform, ask specific questions. Will the site work well on mobile? Can it handle secure payments? Is it easy to manage products? What happens if something breaks?
Vague answers are a warning sign. Even a budget designer should be clear about what's included and what's not.
Also, think about post-launch support. Many affordable services end once the site goes live. If you're not comfortable managing updates or fixes yourself, that low price could lead to trouble later.
The Bottom Line
Cheap web design can support e-commerce, but it comes with trade-offs. How well it works depends on your store's complexity, your willingness to manage some tasks, and how much risk you're okay with.
For simple needs, it's often a decent starting point. But for a professional, reliable, and scalable store, spending a bit more upfront for a solid setup is usually smarter. Not extravagantâjust secure, functional, and built to grow.
Start small if you must, but keep the long term in mind. A slow or glitchy site can cost you more than a slightly higher budget upfront.
"attempting to portray justifiable public ire toward the Israeli armyâs war crimes as an irrational hatred of Jewish people is both intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt"
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El estado sionista se ha propuesto acabar con una generaciĂłn entera pero lo que creo que se les ha escapado en el cĂĄlculo es que aquellos que sobrevivan vivirĂĄn odiando profundamente a Israel y siempre con la idea de hacerle daño. Los llamarĂĄn terroristas pero serĂĄn su propio monstruo frankestein. c.im/@Opfoss/11477972055911757âŠ
Is that offensive enough now to take action? And against whom shall that action be taken against, oh British politicians, me for the offensive chant, or the perpetrators of infanticide?
The Battle of MohĂĄcs, was the end of the Kingdom of Hungary. In the year 1522 King Louis II of Hungary married Mary of Austria, creating an alliance between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Holy Roman Empire. Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent saw the alliance between the Jagiellonian and Habsburg houses through marriage as a threat to Ottoman domination over the Balkans. In early 1526 Suleiman gathered an army of 100k men and 300 cannons to invade Hungary, taking advantage of Hungary being in a weakened state from a civil war a few years earlier. In early spring the Ottomans invaded Hungary, the Hungarians initially used hit and run tactics on the advancing Ottomans. By early July the Ottomans approached the town of MohĂĄcs. By this point King Louis had assembled an army of 30k men and 85 cannons at MohĂĄcs. By late August the Ottomans arrived at MohĂĄcs. The Hungarians argued about a battle plan, but eventually deployed for battle. The Hungarians had cavalry on the left and right flanks, with a larger amount of cavalry on the left and infantry in the center.
By the morning of August 29th the Ottomans began the battle by sending light cavalry in an outflanking maneuver to skirmish with the Hungarians. Ottomans were then sent forward to construct a camp closer to MohĂĄcs. PĂĄl Tomori a Hungarian commander observed the Ottomans constructing their camp and ordered his cavalry on the left flank to charge the Turks. Tomori sent word to Louis to attack after his charge was seeing some success against the Ottomans. The Hungarian center and right were slow to join the battle and by the time they did the remainder of the Ottoman forces joined the battle. Eventually the overwhelming numbers of the Ottomans caused the Hungarian cavalry to flee the battle, the infantry became surrounded and crushed. The Hungarians lost 14k men the Ottomans 2k. King Louis died in the retreat as well from falling off his horse and drowning in the Danube river.
The Hungarians had an additional 25k soldiers and mercenaries scattered throughout the kingdom, had Louis managed to unite these forces with his army and fought from the much more defensible Hungarian capital of Buda(Budapest), victory or a much more difficult and costly battle for the Ottomans may have been achieved. After the defeat at MohĂĄcs the Kingdom of Hungary was spilt, The HRE took the northwest section witch became Royal Hungary, the Eastern half became independent and became known as the Voivode of Transylvania, the Southern half Sulieman took for the Ottomans. It would be another 150+ years before the HRE defeated the Ottomans at a second Battle of MohĂĄcs and freed Hungary.
âRevealed: cross-party group of MPs accused of âclear breach of the rulesâ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli governmentâ
Comedian Michael Schirtzer banned from #metasucks telling a joke about an #iofterrorist being killed by a shark: " swam past Israeli children, but it didnât hit the children, So even a shark can tell the difference between a child and a soldier.â (extract from mondoweiss.net/2025/07/metas-bâŠ)
Of course some #zioidiots made a show and left the room, I guess to cryout cause somebody is pointing #ziomonsters crimes. The moment you realize how stupid are these People.
The Instagram account of a well known anti-Zionist Jewish comedian was deleted after Metaâs Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora viewed one of his stories. This is just one example of the anti-Palestinian bias across Big Tech.
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Laut dem Verfassungsschutz Baden-WĂŒrttemberg ist die IGMG der bedeutendste Teil der tĂŒrkisch-nationalistischen âMilli-GörĂŒsâ-Bewegung (âNationale Sichtâ) in Deutschland. Diese hat es nicht nur zum Ziel, die westliche âOrdnung des Unrechtsâ durch eine islamische âGerechte Ordnungâ zu ersetzen, sondern soll dafĂŒr nach dem Verfassungsschutz Baden-WĂŒrttemberg vor allem die Mittel des Rechtsstaats nutzen, um âihre islamistische Agenda voranzubringenâ. Der Verfassungsschutz Bayern zĂ€hlt die âMilli-GörĂŒsâ-Bewegung zur Kategorie des legalistischen Islamismus, welcher u. a. durch Verbandsarbeit versucht Einfluss auf den interreligiösen und politischen Dialog zu nehmen.
In seiner Predigt in der katholischen Kirche sagte ĂztĂŒrk unter anderem: âAuf Allah sollen die GlĂ€ubigen vertrauenâ â Allah stellt im muslimischen Glauben den allmĂ€chtigen Gott dar.Â
Is that offensive enough now to take action? And against whom shall that action be taken against, oh British politicians, me for the offensive chant, or the perpetrators of infanticide?
If you thought RAF jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action due to its involvement in supplying Israelâs genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all.
The pretzel is supposedly a Swabian invention (I know, Bavarians, youâll disagree đ). As a Swabian, I have to share this unique Viking Age pretzel-shaped gold brooch - was the pretzel actually invented by Vikings?đ± The brooch is decorated with animal heads in the Scandinavian style and was probably made in Denmark. From GĂ„bense, Falster, first half of the 10th century
"The big picture of the West is alarming. Our democracy is being incrementally quashed with state violence, with relentless propaganda disguised as news, with an erosion of protest rights. This is happening presently on behalf of a hate-fuelled supremacist colony that enjoys slaughtering hundreds of thousands of children, women and men. The impunity of American capitalism is naked for all to see, as is the hypocrisy and hollowness of the Westâs values and selective championing of human rights." theshot.net.au/uncategorized/t⊠#AusPol #media #Israel #CrimesAgainstHumanity #genocide
What will it take for our government to grow a backbone? "Western democracies have also failed to prevent the illegalities and inhumanities of the Israeli killing fields, but their reluctance to confront Israel should not divert attention from similar Australian cowardice." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07/c⊠@palestine
Brian Berletic- Protests were carried out by those opposing US interference - and the current government they oppose is a nominee/daughter of a long-time US proxy.
Trump had ridiculously sued over an interview with former Vice President #KamalaHarris. The company needs federal approval for a multibillion-dollar sale.
#Paramount said late Tuesday that it has agreed to pay #Trump $16 million to settle his lawsuit over the editing of an interview on the #CBS News program â#60Minutes,â an extraordinary concession to a sitting president by a major #media organization.
Paramount said its payment includes Trumpâs legal fees & costs & that the money, minus the legal fees, will be paid to Trumpâs future [nonexistent] presidential library.
As part of the settlement, #Paramount said that it had agreed to release written transcripts of future â#60Minutesâ interviews with presidential candidates. The company said that the settlement did not include an apology.
The deal is the clearest sign yet that #Trumpâs ability to intimidate major American institutions extends to the #media industry.
Many lawyers had dismissed #Trumpâs lawsuit as baseless & believed that #CBS would have ultimately prevailed in #court, in part because the network did not report anything factually inaccurate, & the #FirstAmendment gives #publishers wide leeway to determine how to present information.
But #ShariRedstone, the chair & controlling shareholder of #Paramount, told her board that she favored exploring a #settlement with #Trump. Some executives at the company viewed the presidentâs lawsuit as a potential hurdle to completing a multibillion-dollar sale of the company to the Hollywood studio Skydance, which requires the Trump administrationâs approval.
The size of the settlement, $16 million, is the same sum that #ABC News agreed to pay in December to settle a *defamation* case filed by #Trump against the network & one of its anchors, George Stephanopoulos. #Paramountâs board was concerned that paying a higher amount to settle the case could increase the companyâs exposure to potential legal actions from shareholders accusing them of #bribery.
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the #FCC, has said that Trumpâs lawsuit against Paramount was not linked to the FCCâs review of the companyâs merger w/Skydanceđ. Paramount has also said that the 2 issues were unrelatedđ.
âŠSenators like #ElizabethWarren of Massachusetts & #BernieSanders of Vermont have warned that any payment by #Paramount to #Trump could be construed as a #bribe, & they said they would consider holding a congressional hearing about it.
The prospect of being accused of #bribery, & perhaps facing legal action because of it, had vexed Paramountâs directors, who had to weigh the corporate benefits of a #settlement against the perception that they were greenlighting a deal to secure a merger.
trump is holding sway â IOW, forcing capitulation â in academia as well as the corporate sector. The US is becoming unrecognizable as an imperfect but progressive democracy. thedp.com/article/2025/07/pennâŠ
The University will additionally issue a public statement specifying that Penn athletics âwill adopt biology-based definitions for the words âmaleâ and âfemaleâ pursuant to Title IX and consistent with President Trumpâs Executive Orders.â
LIVE: Trump says Israel agrees to a Gaza truce, urges Hamas to accept deal | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20âŠ
- Four killed in Israeli attack on northern Gaza - GHFâs operations in Gaza are part of a âdark missionâ to expel Palestinians ["He went on to note that a recent study published in the Nature magazine has found that an estimated 84,000 people have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israelâs war."]
Hintergrund: Das #Overton Magazin hat rekonstruiert, wie das Finanzministerium #BW den politischen Prozess initiierte und steuerte: Impf- und lockdownfixierte #GrĂŒne wie #StaatssekretĂ€rin Gisela #Splett wollten #Demonstrationen fĂŒr #Grundrechte keinesfalls hinnehmen und beschĂ€ftigten neben einem halben Dutzend Ministerialer auch #Finanzbeamte, die #Michael Ballweg mit #Schikanen und Ermittlungen ins Blaue zusetzten.
Die auf Anordnung des Gerichts erstellten neuen Steuerberechnungen sehen Erstattungen des Finanzamts an Michael Ballweg in Höhe von rund 200.000 Euro vor.
Vor Gericht wollte sich ein Regierungsdirektor nicht an den Namen des eigenen Vorgesetzten erinnern! Es wurde wie bei Masken und sĂ€mtlichen âMaĂnahmenâ einschlieĂlich des #Impfzwangs gelogen und vertuscht, dass sich die Balken bogen. Kein Wunder, dass kein beamteter #Zeuge ohne eigenen #Rechtsbeistand aussagen wollte.
Die baden-wĂŒrttembergische Landesregierung mischte sich bereits 2020 direkt in das Verfahren des Finanzamts gegen den bundesweit bekannten Corona-Kritiker ein - Geht der Strafprozess im Juli zu Ende?
La relatora presenta un informe al Consejo de Derechos Humanos en el que detalla la responsabilidad de decenas de empresas en las polĂticas de ocupaciĂłn, apartheid y genocidio que estĂĄ llevando a cabo Israel en Palestina.
En cuanto a derechos laborales, Vania Arana, portavoz del Sindicato las Kellys Catalunya, señala que se debe apostar «por los hoteles que tienen contratadas directamente a las trabajadoras, sin outsourcing o empresas de servicio que viven del trabajo esclavo», en este sentido, indica, «como turistas pueden exigir a las agencias que verifiquen si las trabajadoras del hotel en donde se van a hospedar son âcamareras de pisoâ y son parte del hotel»
Alex Jones Moderating the Fuentes-D'Souza Debate: "Why is Israel so unpopular?"
Fuentes: "They killed 100,000 people in Gaza. They kill people that are trying to get aid supplies. They kill innocent civilians. They rape the prisonersâŠ"
Spot on. Such a missed opportunity to do good squandered by poor leadership and harsh and divisive policies. I doubt Labour and Starmer will survive it.
The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor
Multiple Studies Now Suggest That AI Will Make Us Morons
Are we on the road to Idiocracy?
For the second time in two weeks, a study has been published that suggests that people who use AI regularly may display significantly less cognitive ability than those who donât rely on it. The studies have bolstered criticsâ accusations that AI makes you stupid.
The most recent study was conducted by the University of Pennsylvaniaâs Wharton School and looked at a sample size of over 4,500 participants. The study, which looked at the cognitive differences between people who used LLMs like ChatGPT to do research and those who used Google Search, found that the people who used chatbots tended âto develop shallower knowledgeâ of the subjects they were researching. Both groups were asked to research how to start a vegetable garden, with some participants randomly selected to use AI, while others were asked to use a search engine. According to the studyâs findings, those who used ChatGPT gave much worse advice about how to plant a vegetable garden than those who used the search engine. Researchers write:
The shallower knowledge accrues from an inherent feature of LLMsâthe presentation of results as syntheses of information rather than individual search linksâwhich makes learning more passive than in standard web search, where users actively discover and synthesize information sources themselves. In turn, when subsequently forming advice on the topic based on what they learned, those who learned from LLM syntheses (vs. standard search results) feel less invested in forming their advice and, more importantly, create advice that is sparser, less originalâand ultimately less likely to be adopted by recipients.
The study concludes that this occurred ironically because of ChatGPTâs advertised benefitââsparing users the need to browse through results and synthesize information themselves.â Because researchers did not have to hunt for information themselves, their âdepth of knowledgeâ was markedly lower than those who did. âIn this sense, one might view learning through LLMs rather than web search as analogous to being shown the solution to a math problem rather than trying to solve it oneself,â the research concludes.
The UPenn study follows on the heels of research produced by MIT, published earlier this month, that showed a similarly problematic cognitive impact produced by AI. That study, which observed the neural activity of college students who were using ChatGPT to study, found that increased AI use resulted in reduced brain activity, or what the researchers termed âcognitive debt.â The study used an EEG machine to measure the neural activity of three different groups of studentsâone that used ChatGPT to study, one that used Google Search, and one that used neither. The study showed that ChatGPT users displayed markedly less cognitive activity than even those who were using Google Search to find information.
The methodology of the MIT article has since been called into question by AI enthusiasts. Critics have noted that the study in question was not peer reviewed and that a small sample size of participants makes it hardly exhaustive. Similarly, critics have argued that while the EEG measurements show certain decreases in specific forms of brain activity, that doesnât necessarily mean that participants are âdumberâ as a result. Indeed, less mental exertion (and, thus, less activity) can be a sign that a person is actually more competent at a task and doesnât have to expend as much energy as a result. From a certain perspective, these recent assessments of AIâs cerebral impact reek of a moral panic about a new and not altogether well-understood phenomenon.
On the other hand, the conclusion that using an app to complete a homework assignment makes you less capable of thinking for yourself would appear to be self-evident. Outsourcing mental duties to a software program means youâre not performing those duties yourself, and, as is pretty well established, doing something yourself is often the best way to learn. Of course, the internet has been curtailing human mental activity since it first went online. When was the last time you had to remember how to get somewhere? It really seems like Google Maps collectively robbed us of that ability over a decade ago.
Other evidence for AIâs stupidification effect is even more obvious: the maelstrom of cheating thatâs been happening in Americaâs educational system means that students are making their way through high school and college without learning how to write an essay or interpret a book. While there is clearly still a lot to learn about how AI impacts us, some of its side-effects seem obvious. If a student canât write an essay without the help of a chatbot, they probably donât have a particularly bright academic future ahead of them. gizmodo.com/multiple-studies-nâŠ
Walid: il y a naissance de Tryton. Si je comprends bien, les premiĂšres actions, ces premiĂšres actions, câest reprendre le code, faire du nettoyage, etc. Vous publiez une premiĂšre version quand ?
Nicolas: au niveau de la licence, il y a le fait que tout bĂȘtement⊠OpenERP ou Odoo, je ne sais plus, Tiny, je pense. Tiny a toujours le copyright sur une partie du code, et donc on ne peut pas le changer. On voulait le changer, il faudrait quâon demande, et je ne pense pas quâils seraient dâaccord.
Nicolas: si dâaventure, le conseil dâadministration de la fondation ne respecte pas les rĂšgles, par exemple en fermant le code source, nâimporte qui pourrait attaquer ce conseil dâadministration devant les tribunaux belges en lâoccurence, pour faire respecter le caractĂšre open source.
Nicolas: oui câest ça, on a une vitesse de croisiĂšre. Nous, B2CK, on connaĂźt pas mal dâentreprises qui utilisent Tryton depuis 10, 15 ans et qui fonctionnent.
Walid: on arrive sur la fin de lâinterview. Jâavais, en guise de conclusion, des questions Ă vous poser. PremiĂšre question, câest quâest-ce que vous diriez pour parler de Tryton Ă des gens qui nâont pas dâERP ?
Su_G
in reply to Ben Royce đșđŠ • • •It's beyond time for this:
"Judge them on their intent
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Begin to think about how we fight what is coming
Stop laughing. Start fighting."
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Aral Balkan
in reply to Su_G • • •@Su_G Funny how I was branded âextremeâ for clearly stating that theyâre the enemy a decade ago.
I guess it didnât help that nearly everyone in tech either had (has) âgood friends who work thereâ and/or wanted (wants) to work there and/or were (are) employed by and/or were (are) bottom-feeders â consultant(cies), âinfluencersâ, etc. â that depend on the scraps thrown at them by Big Tech.
âItâs difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.â â Upton Sinclair
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •/embedded systems focus and different companies (Marconi, ICL, Acorn/ARM, Ferranti, RACAL, Plessey etc)
Steven Zekowski
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •That Upton Sinclair quote is one of my favorites â applies to so many issues. #evergeen
Aral Balkan
in reply to Steven Zekowski • • •