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I dunno that 'like' is an accurate description; I don't 'like' my wrench, but it's useful for turning bolts. AI is the same. I'm working on a novel project and I've been using ChatGPT and related tools to help with things like worldbuilding, naming, formatting, structure, grammar, etc, basically everything but the actual writing itself. It's been a big help, but I can also see the concerns of people whose jobs/livelihoods/etc are threatened by it; that wrench also works pretty good as a blunt object to chuck at peoples' heads.
I was actually developing a crude form of AI, for graphics processing, between 2009 to 2017.
When I realized that my algorithms could be repurposed to the point of cloning someone else's voice, if I just had enough RAM and processing time, nobody believed me back in 2017.
Chucking 8 years of work seems like a drastic step, especially since others were (and now have) surely developed similar algorithms and are a lot less scrupulous about how they train and use them. Why did you feel like you had to step away from the field altogether after such a big time investment? Not that I'm judging, I'm just curious at the motivations involved.
My original algorithms were specifically designed to help artists perform nearly perfect color matching, based largely on text inputs. It started off as a single purpose application, but totally human driven.
The more I used and tested my own software, it taught me more than I even expected to learn about photochromatic processing. More than I even designed it to do even.
I was already also studying acoustics around the same time. I saw how well my chromatography software was working, and just barely started adapting the algorithm to process acoustics.
I quickly realized that I didn't have nearly enough RAM or processing power to do anything meaningful in any sensible timeframe, but I could already see that it was possible to go as far as changing one's voice with the voice print of someone else.
I announced that with online friends at the time, around 2017, and nobody believed me. Probably because I couldn't quite prove it yet. But I knew it.
The more I thought about that, the more I thought it would only contribute to fraud. So, I just fucking stopped, slammed on development brakes, and said fuckit.
I don't want to be part of the problem, I just wanted to design a better color filter/processor system.
Fair enough, although I'm not sure why you turned a color filter/processor into something that could process acoustics if that's all you wanted, but I get not wanting to be part of the problem.
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#TooLong4FessHole I have been trying to become better friends with the partner of my bestie for over a decade since they hooked up - for the obvious reasons. I never felt as though I was making any progress; all of the work was being done by me and I still felt like I was receiving "disapproving father in law" vibes.
Recently I behaved poorly about something; I immediately reconciled with bestie, but their partner overreacted and have cut off all contact.
@violetmadder imagine being Britain and proud to have hitched your wagon to a declining power descending into civil war, but then we do have a thing for fascist losers, so...
I admin a Facebook group with just about 30k people in it. It used to be great, and over the past few years the enshittification has been too much. Lately there is an out of control Facebook AI bot posting constantly pissing everyone off that we can't seem to turn off. I only use FB for the group, and don't have their spyware - I mean, app - installed and wont. Admin abilities are severely limited on the webapp.
I'm stepping down as admin cuz I'm tired of this mess. But I'd like to offer an alternative community to members who are ready to jump ship. Is a Lemmy community the best option? It's a photo heavy group so when Pixelfed launches groups that will be great, but I haven't seen an ETA on that. I've read that Piefed has better mod controls. It can/should be public and accessible across platforms.
Thoughts? And before anyone points it out, I know most folks won't bother switching. But I also miss when it was smaller and had more chill vibes so I can live with that.
@JustOneMoreCat If all accounts are on Lemmy, all images are also federated. But in the communication between Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse there are still some restrictions regarding pictures in replies. A #Friendica forum would probably be more suitable. Here is an insight into what this could look like: peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEY… (an older version of Friendica is shown here, but in principle it is currently similar)
Pixelfed won't launch groups anytime soon unfortunately, I've followed closely and it seems it'll be out about the same time as Tesla's full self driving.
I think the best way would be choose yourself piefed or Lemmy, and then you offer mastodon or pixelfed as places for your users to join and subscribe. So it's a little more natural to them.
While your goal is noble, reality is that I would expect a very small percentage of people to migrate. Less than one maybe even. I think that even a few hundred more people joining the fediverse here is a great idea, but I don't want you to be discouraged when it doesn't turn out the way you hope. People love their platforms. (I also just read your last paragraph after writing this, my bad, glad you're in the right headspace 😀
Send fotos de gatetes y perretes y otros animaletes que hoy tengo un día un poco de mierda. Y me preocupa que con este calor y poder hacer muchas menos cosas vaya otra vez a bajonas... Perdonad el desahogo 😅
Edito: muchas gracias por todas las fotos! Estoy mucho mejor
Ah yes, the riveting tale of 1953 where the West gave #Iran a little "freedom makeover" 🎭🤡. The article spends eternity explaining how the big boys played #oil #Jenga with a side of #espionage, but really, we all know it's just a #history #lesson in how not to make friends. Meanwhile, Wikipedia users continue to struggle with the basic concept of logging in. 🔑💤 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ira… #Freedom #Makeover #HackerNews #ngated
The IDF reports that Israeli Air Force fighter jets recently completed a wave of strikes in western Iran. Several sites and dozens of surface-to-surface missile launchers were attacked.
#OpenSource projects should not use a closed-source chat software like #Discord.Full-stop. That's not even taking into account just how much of a #privacy and #security nightmare Discord actually is. It's closed-source! Plus, there's simply no need. Not when #Matrix or #IRC already exists.
Last time I checked #GB was not part of the EU. And it’s also a member of #FIVEeyes.
So we have a service sponsored by EU, to protect the #privacy of EU citizens using mainly non-EU services and routing all of their traffic, at least for the sample I took, via an non-EU provider.
Don't forget that normal DNS traffic is unencrypted! 😩
This is another post that started after several toots on mastodon. Most of the things presented here were already tooted by other people, but I think this is a good chance to write a mini tutorial about what to look at.
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The first change you'll notice here is the Activities button. Functionally, it's the same, but visually, it shows your current virtual desktop as a pill, and the other available virtual desktops as small circles, so you know where you are in your strip of desktops. This change also comes with the removal of the app menu from the top bar.
The quick settings get the ability to control keyboard backlight from this little menu. You can also open the quick settings menu with a keyboard shortcut which is Super + S. In the top bar, next to these quick settings, you'll also get a new webcam activity indicator.
The Adwaita cursor theme has changed a tiny bit, with a longer stem for the main mouse cursor, and revamped cursors for dragging stuff, and hovering over clickable links, but the changes are really minor.
There is also a true Light theme available, although you'll have to enable it using dconf or through an extension. Apart from that, there's a new "split headerbar look" that reached a few apps, like the settings, the calendar, or the file manager.
Nautilus gained a way faster search. Once a search has completed, you also get a "Search everywhere" button that lets you search the whole filesystem. Selecting columns in the list view is now a bit nicer looking, you can move the columns around to change the order, and you can apply the changes to all folders, or just the one you're viewing.
There's also a brand new image viewer for GNOME, called Loupe. It replaces the old "eye of gnome" viewer, and functionally, it's the same, but it's much more in line with modern GNOME apps.
Other core app changes are Snapshot, the new camera app that replaced Cheese as the default in GNOME. GNOME calendar also gained infinite scrolling in the month view. The event dialog has also been revamped using libadwaita components.
GNOME console got a new preference item to customize fonts, GNOME maps gained a new experimental vector based tileset, and the Connections app now supports copying text, files and images through RDP. GNOME Web got the tab overview.
And finally, the calculator app now handles more currencies and currency conversions.
For Flatpak apps, you'll now get the option to clear the app storage, and remove all the data associated with the app, when uninstalling it, just like what KDE added recently in Discover. Flatpak apps that are end of life will be marked in the app page in Software, and in the "installed apps list" in GNOME software itself.
Mutter now supports YUV color space, which is generally used for video and image processing. Fractional scaling under wayland now is also officially supported, and the compositor now handles the mouse cursor's movement in its own thread, which means it won't be impacted as much by anything else needing to be rendered.
The "About" page gained a new "System details" dialog that will give you a bit more information, with a "copy" button to quickly share these when you have to write a bug report or something along those lines.
A few options from GNOME tweaks also made their way to the Date and time settings, there are smaller changes as well, like the ability to remove a wifi network with a dedicated icon, and a confirmation dialog to verify you actually want to remove it, the sharing page losing its global toggle, and searching through the settings has been improved.
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You can't currently run any linux distro you want on Apple Silicon hardware, but thankfully, some insanely good developers have created Asahi Linux: it's Arch Linux with some super bleeding edge drivers to support the newest macbooks, and desktop macs, from M1 to M2.
Installing Asahi Linux is a simple process: you just run a single terminal command.
Asahi supports all M1 machines for now, except the mac Studio, and you'll need about 60 gigs of storage. Once the script has done its thing, you'll need to completely shut down the mac, then reboot it by pressing and holding the power button, until you see a volume list to boot on, where you can pick Asahi Linux.
So, on my macbook pro, a lot of stuff works perfectly without anything to do on my part. The keyboard is perfectly recognized. Keyboard backlight also works out of the box. The touchpad works perfectly. The display is recognized with its full resolution although it doesn't support the high refresh rate that it should have, it's locked to 60 hertz. Wifi also worked immediately, but audio didn't.
Bluetooth also works perfectly. Of course charging the laptop works, and in terms of ports, the USB C ports do work, but only as USB C, and USB 2 for now, not USB 3 and not thunderbolt either.
The SD card slot also works, but the HDMI port doesn't. Your webcam also won't work here, and the onboard mic isn't detected for me either.
What about CPU performance and battery life then? The M1 Pro under Linux got a single core score of 1718 and a multi core score of 10079.
Compare that to Geekbench 5 on macOS, where I got 1775 in single core, and 12521 in multi core. That's a difference of 3% for single core, and 24% for multi core, in favor of macOS.
In terms of battery life, though, it's WAY WORSE. With youtube videos playing in a loop in the background, Asahi barely lasted for about 5 hours.
THe Asahi Linux team managed to write a fully conformant OpenGL driver for Apple SIlicon, something APple themselves doesn't have, because they only support their own graphics API, called Metal. You CAN install these GPU drivers, optionally, with a few commands. They will replace your current version of mesa, with one including these nice openGL drivers.
And now, you DO get GPU acceleration, and it's now recommended you use Wayland, because the Asahi team said X11 wouldn't really be a supported target for their graphics drivers.
As per gaming, don't expect much here. Steam won't run, because, well, it's ARM, and Steam on Linux doesn't have an ARM version. Even if it did, there are no Vulkan drivers yet, so stuff like DXVK wouldn't work, and there is no translation layer baked in to run x86 apps in there.
And of course, we need to talk about app support. Asahi Linux is basically Arch + more drivers, so you do get the AUR and everything else Arch has access to. BUT it's also an OS running on ARM, which means some software just isn't available for that architecture.
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El presidente de los #USrael (me encanta este termino) amenaza con matar al dirigente de otro país y aquí no pasa nada. No veo al gobierno llamando a Consultas al embajador, ni ruedas de prensa con Ursula "consternada". Cero Luego recuerdo que #IsraelTerroristState está cometiendo un #GenocidioEnGaza y tampoco dicen nada y me bajo del guindo.
shitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$ echo CONFIG_MUX_MMIO=y >> .configshitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$ make oldconfig## configuration written to .config#shitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$ grep MUX_MMIO .configshitbox:~/src/linux-rcore$
Khamenei is a personification of global evil like #Putin.
Israel has the political will to act, unlike others. Khamenei’s elimination or exile could stop Iran’s aggression, prevent nuclear #war, and break the current stalemate. #Trump must not obstruct this momentum.
Today, global evil has taken the form of two specific individuals: Vladimir Putin and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. No one has the political will to deal with Putin.
#Khamenei has concentrated power, making #Iran 's regime personalist. In such systems, removing the leader - especially one committed to destroying another state - significantly increases the chance of ending #war.
Without his elimination, the war will likely be prolonged and result in many deaths.
I ask you to clarify your question in more detail, because I don't understand why you're asking the same thing for the second time. Since I don't see how this question relates to the thought I originally published, I would like to understand your question in a more expanded form.
Still, if you want to continue the discussion, I would ask you to state position in a more detailed way.
I answered your question. If you don't like my answer, that is your right.
I believe that rulers like #Khamenei and #Putin have concentrated absolute power in their hands and are waging #war to the detriment of their own countries in order to destroy another nation. Their removal increases the chances of ending the war. In this case, their successors are irrelevant.
"...and are waging wat to the detriment of their own countries...". except that iran didn't start this war. so you still haven't answered Alexander's very relevant question and now you're proposing falsehoods on top of that.
You posit this is some hell-bent regime, despite the fact that they have attacked no countries in their 46 years. Either way, if we accept your narrative the question is obvious. What will replace them? Is the logical outcome of a country being carpet bombed a peaceful regime? Is that what you suggest? Because I think that's extremely relevant. It either proves or disproves the very foundation of your argument. What do you think the outcome of a war of regime change is going to be? You have plenty of examples to choose from, no?
Zionist enemy forces raided the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in occupied Palestine, on Monday, while other forces arrested a Palestinian youth from the town of Silwan.
I am of the opinion that every word editor should have the mechanism that when you highlight a word and type ", (, etc, the word becomes surrounded with those signs.
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30 mars 2025 - Le rabbin Younes Hamami #Lalehzar, chef de la communauté juive d' #Iran, a dénoncé #Israël dans l'un des talk-shows les plus populaires d'Iran, où les participants discutent de divers sujets en adoptant des points de vue différents : "Nous sommes des Juifs qui croient en notre sainte Torah. Nous désapprouvons le gouvernement d'Israël. Nous recherchons la paix pour le monde entier, pour tous les habitants de la Terre Sainte". Dans une interview accordée à Channel 3, il a condamné « les sionistes et le gouvernement israélien pour avoir commis des crimes de guerre et tué des innocents à Gaza et au Liban ».
"Il a souligné que les crimes du régime sioniste étaient en contradiction avec les principes religieux du judaïsme, affirmant que « le judaïsme suit les enseignements de Moïse et s'oppose fondamentalement à l'arrogance et à l'oppression ». Il a également cité la loi juive, affirmant que « même en temps de guerre, le judaïsme impose la protection des civils » et a noté que la tradition juive interdit la destruction des arbres fruitiers pendant un siège. « Bien que le sionisme soit issu de la communauté juive, il est politique et ne constitue pas une véritable représentation du judaïsme », a-t-il déclaré...
Hamami Lalehzar a conclu ses remarques en assimilant le #sionisme à #ISIS : « Les sionistes ne représentent pas le #judaïsme, tout comme ISIS ne représente pas l' #islam. » Durant la « Journée d'Al-Quds » (un événement annuel en Iran destiné à protester contre le contrôle israélien sur Jérusalem et à exprimer la solidarité avec le peuple palestinien) le 29 mars dernier, des manifestations de masse ont été organisées dans tout le pays contre Israël. Parmi les manifestants se trouvaient des membres de la communauté juive iranienne, qui ont participé à des marches à Téhéran, Ispahan et Chiraz, scandant des slogans pro-palestiniens et appelant à la « libération de Jérusalem des sionistes ».
If you revisit Arendt’s analysis in The Origins of Totalitarianism, you’ll see how she links imperialism directly to the rise of fascism. Whenever imperial expansion becomes the norm—administered through bureaucracy, justified by moral exceptionalism, and blurring the line between internal order and external war—the door to fascist dynamics is wide open. Today’s Western interventions are a textbook case of this logic. #Arendt #Imperialism #Fascism
which arendt, rather than the interpreters of the arendt text failed to condemn… It is quite possible to see why her liberal texts ended up becoming a fascism.
I think this falls more within the imperialist framework. It is the American imperial logic that applies, in Ukraine with Biden as in #Palestine with Trump (pro-Zionist). As I have already said, Israel, France and the United Kingdom are to be considered sub-imperialists.#Israel will be rewarded (unofficially) if they sufficiently destabilize Khamenei's #Iran (number one objective of US #CENTCOM, it should be remembered)...#imperialism is a stage towards #fascism (according to #Arendt).
Trump demands unconditional surrender from Iran The United States is deploying additional fighter jets and military aircraft to the Middle East strengthening its air force in the region. Reuters reports this on its website citing U.S. military sources. And on Truth, the U.S. president asks Iran for “unconditional surrender.” #news
I hope they don't take that "commander-in-chief" thing too seriously. He could end up bankrupting the US military, as he has everything else he's touched.
No matter what you think of Israel's assault on Iran, it's clear Trump is a coward and a shyster. Says he's not involved, then suggests he's involved when things are going well. Wait until the assault is going really well and then jumps in to try and grab the glory.
Tulsi Gabbard, Directrice du Renseignement national des États-Unis (nommée par Trump) dit que l'Iran ne fabrique pas l'arme atomique. Ce à quoi répond "le faiseur de paix" : "Je me fous de ce qu'elle dit". Du coup Tulsi Gabbard va t-elle démissionner ?
The beginning of the industrial development of LISA was among the highlights for the European Space Agency on the second day of the International Paris Air Show.
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Mes amis, c’est confirmé : sans le soutien des États-Unis, des Anglais et de l’Occident, Israël n’est rien. On nous a vendu cette entité comme une puissance forte, mais en réalité elle est faible. Ils ont surtout montré leur force contre des enfants et des femmes, croyant jouer les pharaons des temps modernes.
Mais dès que l’Iran a répondu, le pharaon s’est soudain transformé en fugitif, cherchant à fuir par tous les moyens et quémandant la protection de ses alliés.
Voilà la vraie nature de ceux qui se prenaient pour des géants : forts contre les faibles, faibles devant plus forts qu’eux.
PSA to the leftist "revolutionaries" and other "activist" scum in fediverse defending Islamist regime:
ayatollah regime 100% deserved it. they financed terrorist groups. they did assassination attempts on Western soil. they supply weapons to other dictators (such as Shahed drones to russia).
so I don't shed tears for every single IRGC filth killed, and I never will. to everyone cheering for Islamist regime: go fuck yourselves.
to all the leftist "revolutionaries" and other "activists" scum in the fediverse defending the massacre of civilians because their government isn't approved by me: go fuck yourselves.
man, the quality of anti-Zionist & Islamist jerkoff filth is deteriorating day by day – just like your hamas/Hezbollah/houthi idols and other filth that deserves to die.
"Regime change" is a fantasy in reference to Iran. They built their political system against the exact thing that is happening now. I know shitlibs and Zionists believe they are destabilizing Iran with the assassination of multiple leaders.
There are failsafes built-in for the death of every ranking person in their government. And their deaths are used in propaganda to unite the Iranians further against their Western white-faced adversaries. The people replacing them could be even more galvanized and committed to the job.
They literally built their political system to require any adversary to genocide Iran successfully to win.
If you want "regime change" as shitlibs and fascists put it, you would do it by changing the culture, which means soft power, and assurances of peace. Mutual respect and all that jazz over many decades.
Ergo, the end of the current system of government in Iran will only happen when Imperialists stop being imperialists. #Iran #Imperialism #Colonialism
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@RandomDeamon It's always been my fear. I expect machines to fail. I drive my car expecting the steering or brakes to go out or a wheel to fall off at any moment.
While attending the Paris Air Show June 16, NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro signed an agreement with DLR (German Aerospace Center, or Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) to continue a partnership in space medicine research. This renewed collaboration builds on previous radiation mitigation efforts for human spaceflight. As NASA advances the Trump-Vance Administration’s goals […]
Enquête de Chris Marker et Pierre Lhomme dans le Paris du mois de mai 1962, juste après les accords d'Evian, désigné par certains à l'époque comme le premier...
Cette crapule, appelée pompeusement "Grand Rabbin de France", ose invoquer la Bible pour justifier les crimes du Sionistan contre les populations civiles à Gaza, au Liban et en Iran. Haïm Korsia est un démon qui sera maudit par l'Éternel.
Honda Global | Honda R&D Co., Ltd., a research and development subsidiary of Honda Motor Co., Ltd., today conducted a launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket*1 (6.
Mit dem Fahrrad durch die Stadt: Vor allem Großstädte haben laut dem ADFC ihre Radfahrtauglichkeit verbessert. Kleinere Kommunen und der ländliche Raum können noch mehr für sicheres Radfahren tun – und Münster steigert seine gute Note erneut.
Un ex-camarade, historien et anthropologue de formation, qui a trahi toutes les causes progressistes et viré à l’extrême droite, vomit régulièrement sur sa page Facebook sa haine de tout ce qui n’est pas blanc. Entre deux négations du dérèglement climatique, ce sont des diatribes incessantes sur l’ #Islam, responsable de tous les maux du monde. Hier, en lisant (mais pourquoi je perds mon temps à ça ?) un de ses posts tentant de nier la réalité des #massacres israéliens à Gaza, j’ai craqué et lui ai écrit « Il wist al dat je een krapuul was. Nu weten we ook dat je een grote onnozelaar bent… » (On savait déjà que tu étais devenu une crapule ; maintenant nous savons que tu es aussi un imbécile »). Réaction épidermique idiote et inutile, bien entendu, qui m’a juste valu une volée de bois vert de la part de ses supporters. J’ai donc quand même pris le temps, aujourd’hui, d’expliquer pourquoi je pense pouvoir traiter un intellectuel jadis brillant, de crapule et d’imbécile.
5 août #1862, #Minnesota, #USA. Une troupe de #Sioux #Dakota, dirigés par #LittleCrow, révoltés par les conditions de vie désastreuses que leur imposent les autorités US et leurs « traités » ( #spoliation de leurs terres, #destruction de leurs moyens de subsistance, #famine…) attaquent des fermes isolées et les villages de New Ulm et Milford. Entre 500 et 1.000 #colons blancs, hommes, femmes, enfants, sont massacrés. Des femmes sont violées, des enfants sont brûlés vifs. Dans les mois qui suivent, l’armée américaine et la milice du Minnesota répriment violemment la révolte. Les campements Sioux sont rasés. Leurs guerriers pendus lors d’exécutions de masse. Le capitaine Silas Soule témoigne : « j’ai vu des soldats éventrer des femmes enceintes et tirer sur des enfants fuyant. Ce n’était pas une bataille, mais un massacre lâche ». Ce fut un #génocide, estiment la plupart des historiens aujourd’hui.
On comprend évidemment qu’à l’époque l’opinion des blancs ait été presque unanimement révulsée à l’encontre des #Indiens et de leurs actes. Le Chicago Tribune écrivit, au lendemain des attaques indiennes : « La race indienne doit être éradiquée du Minnesota. Leurs atrocités prouvent qu’ils sont des bêtes sauvages, indignes de pitié ».
Pourtant, quelques grands intellectuels courageux osèrent prendre leur défense. Ainsi, le philosophe Henry David #Thoreau écrivit-il dans son journal : « Nous entendons parler de "massacres indiens", mais ne sont-ce pas des représailles pour les massacres commis par nous d’abord ? […] L’homme blanc est un loup pour l’homme rouge. ». Et l’abolitionniste Wendell #Phillips : « Si j’étais un Indien, je me lèverais aussi. Quand un peuple est acculé à la famine par la fraude, et que ses enfants meurent faute de pain, la guerre est sa seule issue. ». L’écrivaine Lydia Maria Child n’est pas en reste : « Nous avons pris leurs terres, brisé nos promesses, et maintenant nous les appelons "sauvages" quand ils résistent. Qui est le vrai barbare ? ».
D’autres personnalités, la majorité à vrai dire, préférèrent hurler avec les loups et justifier le génocide des Indiens. De la part des militaires, on ne s’en étonne pas. Tout le monde connaît la phrase attribuée au général Philip Sheridan : « Les seuls bons Indiens que j’ai jamais vus étaient morts ». La citation est contestée, mais pas celle-ci : « Ces #sauvages doivent être châtiés jusqu’à ce qu’ils apprennent à obéir ou disparaissent ». Mais on sait moins que de « grands intellectuels » de l’époque se sont abaissés au même niveau de crapulerie. Ainsi Horace #Greely, l’éditeur du New York Tribune, pourtant progressiste sur beaucoup de sujets, écrivit après des attaques apaches en 1859 : « Il est temps de reconnaître que les Indiens ne peuvent coexister avec la #civilisation. Leur férocité naturelle exige une solution finale : la #soumission ou l’ #extermination ». Un quart de siècle après la révolte Dakota, le futur président des #États-Unis, Theodore #Roosevelt, écrivait encore : « *Les Indiens étaient des barbares sanguinaires, et leur disparition devant la marche de la civilisation blanche fut aussi inévitable que salutaire ».
Évidemment, des propos aussi ignobles ne peuvent passer les lèvres d’un intellectuel que si ce dernier parvient à se construire un discours de justification. Il lui faut nier la réalité, comme le fit Roosevelt : « Les tribus nomades n’avaient aucun droit permanent sur ces terres. Les prétendues ‘spoliations’ sont un mythe inventé par des sentimentalistes ». Ou le sénateur John M. Thayer : « Les histoires de famines infligées aux Indiens sont des inventions. S’ils meurent, c’est par paresse ou incapacité à s’adapter. Le gouvernement a toujours été magnanime ». Ou cet éditorial du Rocky Mountain News : « Les pleurnicheries sur les ‘innocents’ tués sont ridicules. Tous les Indiens, même les enfants, sont des ennemis nés ».
Mais en s’enfonçant dans un tel déni de réalité pour tenter de justifier sa crapulerie, l’intellectuel le plus brillant finit par se transformer en imbécile.
"The rugged individual who relies on no one else is a figure who can only exist in a culture of domination where a privileged few use more of the world’s resources than the many who must daily do without.
Worship of individualism has in part led us to the unhealthy culture of narcissism that is so all pervasive in our society."
This decision is part of a broader trend of democratic erosion. The Schoof cabinet, now in a caretaker role, symbolises a technocratic governance model devoid of transparency, empathy, and responsibility — a cabinet without a mandate, without vision, but with a dangerous tendency toward authoritarian reflexes.
If one of the possible answers to your question is "yes, I am indeed armed, and committing a felony by impersonating a law enforcement officer", you should reconsider your most recent life choices. In particular, asking them that question.
Observe from a safe distance, and call 911. What on earth do you hope to gain by going up to them for a chat?
excuuuuuuuse me. Are you actually taking people hostages? Or is this some kind of publicity stunt? Hellooo?! Are you really shooting at me? That's just, like, so rude.
I have cautioned people to be thoughtful about their actions when opposing the ruling class. I have also told people that if ICE shows to your door, it's best to just consider yourself already cornered and soon to be dead, so fight and kill as many of them as you can.
You're making shit up.
You are far more likely to be dealing with ICE than someone impersonating them. Acting like you're the next potential target for a political assassin is a bit weird.
Stop telling people to assume that active criminals are law enforcement. If they refuse to identify themselves they aren't law enforcement, and should be immediately detained, or if necessary put down.
The civil servants need to be reminded who their bosses actually are.
I said detain, and kill only if necessary. ROE must be followed. Arrest these criminals that refuse to identify, and if they resist then meet their violence with the greater violence that a crowd can muster. They are breaking the law. Therefore they aren't law enforcement, and should be treated as such.
If I lose my life because I am sick of their shit, so be it. They are actively killing us every day, so my rhetoric isn't getting anyone killed. It may just wake some of the people up to the fact that the cops are rioting, and threatening to kill us nationwide.
And again you are hearing what you want to hear and changing the meaning of the words I used. That is called lying.
Ce qui caractérisait Joe Biden, malgré sa sénilité, c'était sa constance (liée à son passé personnel et douloureux). Ce qui caractérise Donald Trump, c'est sa versatilité. Or on ne dirige pas l'État le plus puissant de la planète en changeant d'opinion tous les dix minutes.
L’hébreu moderne a des intonations qui rappellent l’allemand ou même le russe. À mon avis, c’est à cause des colons venus d’Europe de l’Est et d’Allemagne, dont la langue maternelle était le yiddish, un mélange d’allemand, et de langues slaves etc...
Libra00
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in reply to Libra00 • • •I was actually developing a crude form of AI, for graphics processing, between 2009 to 2017.
When I realized that my algorithms could be repurposed to the point of cloning someone else's voice, if I just had enough RAM and processing time, nobody believed me back in 2017.
I will never touch AI again.
Libra00
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over_clox
in reply to Libra00 • • •My original algorithms were specifically designed to help artists perform nearly perfect color matching, based largely on text inputs. It started off as a single purpose application, but totally human driven.
The more I used and tested my own software, it taught me more than I even expected to learn about photochromatic processing. More than I even designed it to do even.
I was already also studying acoustics around the same time. I saw how well my chromatography software was working, and just barely started adapting the algorithm to process acoustics.
I quickly realized that I didn't have nearly enough RAM or processing power to do anything meaningful in any sensible timeframe, but I could already see that it was possible to go as far as changing one's voice with the voice print of someone else.
I announced that with online friends at the time, around 2017, and nobody believed me. Probably because I couldn't quite prove it yet. But I knew it.
The more I thought about that, the more I thought it would only contribute to fraud. So, I just fucking stopped, slammed on development brakes, and said fuckit.
I don't want to be part of the problem, I just wanted to design a better color filter/processor system.
Libra00
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in reply to Libra00 • • •Like I said, I was also studying acoustics at the time, and also writing sound card drivers.
I probably have one of the longest open bug tickets ever for VirtualBox...
forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopi…
Sound Blaster 16 Emulation Failure - virtualbox.org
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Just gonna leave these here.
AI Is Destroying a Generation of Students
Frank Landymore (Futurism)over_clox
in reply to BroBot9000 • • •Thanks!
Although, the first PDF link says invalid format..