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At its core, the cabinet judges that public anger and the call to “crush” Hamas will outlast the US estimation of a ‘few weeks’ war at most. By Alastair Crooke Biden and his team, who w…
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An der Grenze zu Polen stecken tausende ukrainische Fernfahrer fest. Seit November 2023 blockieren polnische Lkw-Fahrer die wichtigsten Übergänge in die Ukraine. Ihr Protest richtet sich gegen die ukrainische Konkurrenz.
Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we bring it back?
Il y a près de 200 ans, la mousseline de Dhaka était le tissu le plus précieux de la planète. Puis il a complètement disparu. Comment en est-on arrivé là ? Et peut-on faire revenir ce tissus à la mode ?
Geneva, SANA- Spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Adnan Abu Hasna, has warned of the outbreak of diseases and epidemics in the Gaza Strip, as a result of the massive humanitarian needs there, pa…
Well this native zealot is having breakfast at the moment while browsing fedi 😀 To be fair I do still believe in no tux no bux because I want to support those developers who put in the effort to make a native Linux version. I was just never enough of an asshole to try to force others to agree with me or follow me. I simply put my money where my mouth was and was quiet about it unless asked. What I truly hate is when I make a thread in a game's forum asking if a developer has any plans for a native Linux version only to have it flooded with Linux users telling me how well it works on Wine/Proton. It had nothing to do with the thread topic.
People don't like being lied to, even if they're ultimately okay with the end result. I was ultimately okay with LIMBO not being a native port at the time, but I felt a little cheated when it didn't run properly on my underpowered netbook because it was the WINE version. Humble didn't make that clear from the get go and neither did CDPR/Virtual Programming. The latter doubling down on their tech even when actual WINE ran the game better for many.
@Unaccounted4 good point. But I dont recall either humble specifically saying that these were native clients in the first place. They just provided Linux binaries and without further info. So not sure if people were actually misled in the strict sense of the term?
I don't know if they ever specifically promised anything other than making the games the best they could be (from the AMAs). But after 4 Humble Indie Bundles with only native ports, I don't think that expectation was unreasonable.
Personally I think it's mainly that Proton/WINE has gotten so good in recent years, there's not a major reason to have a native port. Like you said, many native ports had their issues.
While it's great to have native ports, a poor running native port is infinitely worse than a Windows build that runs amazing via Proton/WINE.
The fact that the game runs on Linux is a huge win, most people don't care if it's native or not, they just want it to work, just look at the Steam Deck!
@PalePimp a minimal loss of performance is a nice tradeoff for zero effort ports. Also Valve does the testing for you with their verified program. They carry a lot of the costs.
In this episode of Breaking History, Gordon and I discuss the roots of the Middle East crisis with a deep dive into the British Empire's Palestinian Expedition Fund, Lord Kitchener, the Muslim Brotherhood and more. Or watch on Youtube here, Bitchute
Terrorist Attack In Mindanao, Philippines Kills Four, Wounds At Least 50. ISIS claims responsibility. Philippine Armed Forces: "The AFP is validating the claims made by ISIS in the recent news reports as well as the involvement of the DI (Daulah Islamiya)-Maute Group".
Nach seinem Ausbruch aus dem Gefängnis, wo er 20 Jahre unschuldig einsaß, hat Edmond Dantès nur ein Ziel: Rache. Durch den gehobenen Schatz zu Reichtum gekommen, tritt er von nun an als "Graf von Monte Christo" auf.
libertytree.ca/quotes/Immanuel… "Everyone may seek his own happiness in the way that seems good to himself, provided that he infringe not such freedom of others to strive after a similar end as is consistent with the freedom of all according to a possible general law."
"Everyone may seek his own happiness in the way that
seems good to himself, provided that he infringe not such freedom
of others to strive after a similar end as is consistent with
the freedom of all according to a possible general law.
Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization
libertytree.ca/quotes/Cato.Quo… “By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit:
"By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hinderin…
This week saw a welcome break in Israel’s constant destruction of the Gaza Strip, but it was only a pause, not a ceasefire, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made sure everyone knew.
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While the global elite is debating climate change at COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, African countries face the devastating impact of the El Niño weather phenomena. Flash floods in East Africa have...
Copyleft licensing has been the primary strategy of the FOSS community to guarantee users’ rights to copy, share, modify, redistribute reinstall modified versions of their software. In our earliest days, we naïvely thought that the GPL would work like magic pixie dust; we’d sprinkle it on our code, and our code would remain free as in freedom.
The reality check that we’ve received over the last 35 years has been painful on this issue. Nevertheless, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
This talk will not only discuss the primary past GPL enforcement efforts around the world, but also provide a whirlwind tour of how copyleft came to work how it does and discuss ideas and suggestions of future strategies in copyleft that, informed by this history, are our best hope for software freedom.
SFSCON23 - Karen Sandler - The History of, and Path forward for, Copyleft and the GPL
Copyleft licensing has been the primary strategy of the FOSS community to guarantee users’ rights to copy, share, modify, redistribute reinstall modified versions of their software. In our earliest days, we naïvely thought that the GPL would work like magic pixie dust; we’d sprinkle it on our code, and our code would remain free as in freedom.
The reality check that we’ve received over the last 35 years has been painful on this issue. Nevertheless, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
This talk will not only discuss the primary past GPL enforcement efforts around the world, but also provide a whirlwind tour of how copyleft came to work how it does and discuss ideas and suggestions of future strategies in copyleft that, informed by this history, are our best hope for software freedom.
"what the #GnuGPL, what #copyleft is, is a software #RightToRepair, [...] it's the idea that we have a right to that software so that we can do something about it"
"people are starting to understand that they rely on software for everything [...] they understand that these big tech companies that they've been relying on [...] don't necessarily have their interest at heart"
2/ On a pragmatic aspect within the overall meaning for the society of #FreeSoftware under #copyleft licenses:
"When you purchase a piece of equipment, anything, see if there are any notices about the software contained in the product [...] purchased, and exercise the license! This is really important because, when we exercise the [...] "offer for source", we ask the companies to actually produce the source code"
"First of all, it sends the message ‹‹We care about this!››, compliance matters, [...] getting the #SourceCode matters because we want to do something with this. These are not theoretical rights, this is an actual thing that we are supposed to be able to do"
"What I want to focus on is that right now we have that state where free and open source software really is in everything, it's everywhere, but we have a lot less #freedom than ever before."
"We are a lot less able to control our own technology, [...] a lot less able to exist in a world where we don't use #ProprietarySoftware [...] despite that widespread use, and despite widespread understanding of what these licenses are, [...] almost no companies are in compliance"
From @fsf, a public reflection on #copyleft versus #MachineLearning applications "to autocomplete code for developers as they write software" and the associated "serious questions for the #FreeSoftware movement and [its] ability to safeguard user and developer #freedom"
L’économie de guerre américaine face à l’urgence de la paix au Proche-Orient les-crises.fr/l-economie-de-gu… Le 19 septembre 2001, huit jours après le 11 septembre, alors que les dirigeants des deux partis faisaient déjà frénétiquement résonner les tambours de guerre, un groupe très divers d’Américains inquiets a publié une mise en garde quant aux conséquences à long terme en cas de réponse militaire. Parmi eux on trouvait d’anciens militants des […] #Politique #Géopolitique #PolitiqueÉtrangèreUs #PolitiqueMilitaireUs
Le 19 septembre 2001, huit jours après le 11 septembre, alors que les dirigeants des deux partis faisaient déjà frénétiquement résonner les tambours de guerre, un groupe très divers d'Américains in…
red. media's special feature from the ground in Gaza looking at the evidence and impact of Israel's illegal phosphorus use in Gaza, war crimes enabled by the US.
The Game-Changer We have been praying for prodigals to return to their relationship with God. We’ve established that we are conduits of God‘s power, and must release this power into situations - not just ask God to act.
#AntarcticaUkraine 2/5 Торік наші зимівники пожартували, що це вони риють рови для захисту від навали пінгвінів, і деякі медіа навіть прийняли такий дотеп за чисту правду Але до чого це ми? Та до того, що 28-ма УАЕ саме завершила💪 розчищати шлях до “джеті”. Звісно, їм трохи більше пощастило, ніж попередній експедиції, адже цьогоріч в районі “Вернадського” не було рекордних снігопадів: найбільша висота снігового покриву сягнула трохи більше 2 метрів (а торік – 3,5 м).
une économie capitaliste attache de l'importance à la valeur d'échange des marchandises (la valeur à laquelle on peut les vendre) et non à leur valeur d'usage (utilité qu’elles ont pour qui les emploie). Mais une économie humainement rationnelle, celle du socialisme de l avenir, devrait faire l’inverse et être basée sur les valeurs d'usage.
La « culpabilité » **: **Bertrand Russell résumait bien la situation : « On nous dit souvent que nous devons sympathiser avec Israél a cause des souffrances des juifs aux mains des nazis. Je ne vois la aucune raison de perpétuer une quelconque souffrance. Ce qu'Israël fait aujourd'hui ne peut être justifié. Invoquer les horreurs du passé pour justifier celles du présent est une grossière hypocrisie. »
The deputy speaker of the Slovak parliament, Luboš Blaha, said that the country’s citizens do not lose their historical memory, so no one will ever force them to hate Russia.
Viktor Zhora, the ex-deputy head of Ukraine’s State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP), is accused of facilitating a corruption scheme involving the procurement of software.
Le problème principal du mouvement de solidarité est qu’il tend a voir le conflit comme se passant essentiellement là- bas, alors qu'il se déroule aussi en partie ici.
🚨 BREAKING: The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport @bmdv gets a ticket for sluggish climate action! Here's what happened and why 👇#HowMuchMore #COP28 @ScientistRebellion
Six Scientists have pasted posters on the @bmdv building with declarations by past governments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a promise constantly and neglectfully postponed. #HowMuchMore broken promises will we witness? All of them have been arrested by the police. Fighting against climate failure is criminalised, whilst continued profiteering of the #FossilMadness is subsidised. 🤯
Additionally, 100 Scientists 🥼 marched and protested 📣 against #ClimateFailure. Again and again the government failed at delivering results and excelled at delaying the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.
The coalition contract states: "We want to gain additional budgetary leeway by reducing superfluous, ineffective and environmentally and climate-damaging subsidies and expenditure in the budget." – BUT:
Aviation is shamefully subsidised by tax-free kerosene and VAT-free international flights with 12.4 billion euros a year. 🤯
Highly inefficient and resource-intensive individual transportation 🚗🚗🚗 without fuel-saving speed limitation is promoted over transitioning to a climate-neutral public transportation system 🚎.
Emission reductions in the transportation sector are promised, but targets are missed and the pathways towards the stated goals are clearly inadequate! #UniteAgainstClimateFailure @AufstandLastGen @xrgermany
Since 2009 at the G20 meeting, German governments have repetitively pledged to phase out fossil and environmentally damaging subsidies. Germany still spends 65 billion euros in environmentally harmful subsidies each year!
🌍 #HowMuchMore failure can we take? Today's action is part of SR global campaign: follow for more updates this week, and donate to our campaign if you want to support us! 🙏 opencollective.com/scientist-r…
We are a large and diverse group of scientists and academics from every continent. First, we were concerned. Then, we were alarmed. Now, we are terrified.
Les spectacles de Dieudonné ne constituent absolument pas un trouble de l’ordre public. Ils ne sont pas non plus illégaux, vu qu’il peut les jouer dans son théâtre à Paris. Mais, lorsqu'il sort de Paris, ses spectacles sont souvent interdits sous prétexte de troubler l’ordre public. C’est en réalité une façon de le « punir » pour ses activités politiques. Ces interdictions arbitraires démontrent la force d’intimidation des groupes qui s’opposent à Dieudonné.
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …
I don't know that this post really addresses the flaw in the analogy. Large language models are nothing like calculators, in my view.
The important fact about calculators isn't that they give you repeatable answers. Though obviously that's an important feature in some cases, there are calculators that let you sample from a probability distribution. No, what's important about calculators is that if you "ask" a calculator a "question", you can rely on its output to be a "reasonable" answer that you'll understand. I've quoted those words because I'm being vague on purpose, but I think we could all fill them in with precise definitions for a calculator.
If you "ask" a calculator "what's 2+2?", it's not going to spit out Wikipedia-style text about the history of arithmetic, or some poor random person's PII. It will give you the expected arithmetic result.
To put it differently, a calculator has a well-defined, well-scoped set of use cases, a well-defined, well-scoped user interface, and a set of well-understood and expected behaviors that occur in response to manipulations of that interface.
Language models have none of those qualities. They have an open-ended set of unspecified use cases. Sam Altman seems to believe you can do almost anything at all with them, for instance; Timnit Gebru has argued they're trying to "be God". The user interface is fairly well scoped, I guess, but it's extremely impoverished relative to comparably-complex tools. The outputs are not at all well understood, even by the people who make these models.
I'd add, as an aside, that the underlying architecture and engineering principles of calculators are almost fully transparent. Undergraduate computer science and electronics engineering students, among others, are taught all the principles they need to know to build a calculator. By contrast, the underlying architecture of GPT has never been published, despite the "open" in OpenAI's name; nor, to my knowledge, has their training procedure. There are increasingly more open alternatives, which is nice to see, but no one really knows what's going on inside a deep neural network (and anyone who claims to is either naive or trying to mislead you). They are deep black boxes. To the extent these tools are based on deep neural networks and variations thereof, they are not transparent.
To sum up, the analogy between large language models and calculators only appears to be valid in the most surface, superficial reading, and does not hold up to scrutiny. Which suits the topic I suppose, since the outputs of large language models are also the most surface, superficial expression of language and do not hold up to scrutiny either.
One of the most pervasive mistakes I see people using with large language model tools like ChatGPT is trying to use them as a search engine. As with other LLM …
I always thought of calculators as giving the same answer to the same inputs tomorrow as they do today, and whose operations I can not only understand but reproduce given enough time and patience.
Silly me, I guess they’re just magic boxes not even their creators understand, where some numbers go in and other numbers come out, and I have to coax them and hope I can rely on their results.
I'm not looking for a model that knows accurate facts about the world, I want a model I can run on my laptop which can do the "calculator for words" (and apparently now images) thing
One of the most pervasive mistakes I see people using with large language model tools like ChatGPT is trying to use them as a search engine. As with other LLM …
Il y a une grande différence entre le fait que je décide moi-même de ne pas aller voir un spectacle et le fait que l’État (ou les municipalités) décident à ma place en l’interdisant
Edward Curtin “Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” S…
It remains to be determined how different inputs for memory-encoding, such as the use of paper notebooks or mobile devices, affect retrieval processes.
Ex-Bundespräsident Gauck (83) ist der Ansicht, dass man die AfD demokratisch aushalten könne, dass unsere Demokratie stark genug dazu sei, und dass das ja nicht alles Nazis seien. Warum ist ein so alter Mann mit so viel Erfahrung so naiv? Zu lange auf der Position "naja, eigentlich haben ja alle irgendwie recht, und alle wollen ja für uns alle nur das Beste" gehockt? Weil wir in der besten aller Welten leben, kann es darin ja gar nichts wirklich Schädliches geben? Also idealistisch bin ich ja auch, aber irgendwie anders idealistisch. tagesspiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
Ex-Bundespräsident Joachim Gauck hält nichts von der Debatte über ein AfD-Verbot. Deutschland wäre schöner ohne die Partei, sie sei aber in freien Wahlen gewählt worden, sagt er.
La science : le réchauffement climatique a une raison principale, c'est la combustion des énergies fossiles qui libère des gaz à effets de serre dans l'atmosphère. Si on veut arrêter le réchauffement climatique, on doit arrêter les énergies fossiles.
Le président de la COP : la demande de sortie des énergies fossiles n'est pas etayée scientifiquement.
les États-Unis préfèrent le néo-colonialisme au colonialisme classique. Ils préfèrent le contrôle à distance, la manipulation des gouvernements en place, pour assurer un « climat favorable aux investissements » et d’autres dispositions qui font plaisir aux capitalistes.
In a world where more and more of our life, photos, and documents drift in the digital ether, it's time to reflect on the popular cloud trend and explore the cloud repatriation movement of bringing our data in-house.
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