Qwen VLo: From "Understanding" the World to "Depicting" It
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
QWEN CHAT DISCORD Introduction The evolution of multimodal large models is continually pushing the boundaries of what we believe technology can achieve. From the initial QwenVL to the latest Qwen2.Qwen Team (Qwen)
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.Sanya Mansoor (The Intercept)
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Not to sound alarmist, but we seriously need to hit the brakes on the massive surveillance state being built around us, especially when those in power are willing to bend or break the law to make it happen.
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The Bluetooth chipset installed in popular models from major manufacturers is vulnerable. Hackers could use it to initiate calls and eavesdrop on devices.
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That PSU sounds good enough to me.
Could be worth a motherboard firmware update?
and i would double check all the power cables.
It looks ike mangohud is an application to monitor stuff.
I've never used it but you could give that a go - see if you're ever getting close to the 750W.
"Great cities fall to the sound of cheering crowds." Ami Kozak on "X"James Howard Kunstler (Clusterfuck Nation)
In the following interview on Al Arabiya, broadcast on 18 June 2025, prominent Chinese scholar Victor Gao, Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization, gives a powerful critique of the Israeli-US aggression against Iran.Friends of Socialist China
I don’t know for sure that my country is being run by a bunch of corrupt and compromised sociopathic kleptocrats…
But if it was, what exactly would be different?
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Loin d'être la révolution attendue et/ou proclamée, Against the Storm s'avère être une expérience robuste, aux mécaniques de city-builder bien huilées. Pour ce qui est de sa facette roguelite, on se montrera...Kyujilo (Gamekult)
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Je ferai un concert unplugged (mais en ligne) dans le cadre du #RadioFreeFedi Fest, le 9 juillet à 19h (heure française).
Socool - Sweetgale 💚
This is my new song! Kind of swoony, and very sweet sounding - an instrumental track but the synths and instruments have a lot to say. An uplifting reflection of the hopefulness of springtime, having emerged from a difficult winter.
Sweetgale was released on June 20 on a free compilation of wonderful music called The Four Seasons of Bonk Wave: Bonks of Spring 2.
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Lilting melodies and pastoral textures reveal a vernal celebration through gentle BonkWave patterns.Bonk Knob Records
#zealot #of #the #net #sarcasm
What I find unbearable about people who are way too politicized on the internet — whether they’re maga, woke, or any other cult followers of flimsy ideas — is that they have only one obsession: their little guru and their sacred truth. They’re like robots programmed to recite catechism 24/7, never stopping to wonder if what they’re spouting isn’t just a mush of recycled slogans. Honestly, they look like AIs, but with less common sense and more blindness.
Denmark seeks to make it illegal to spread deepfake images, citing concern about misinformation
https://apnews.com/article/deepfake-denmark-ai-artificial-intelligence-misinformation-73ed761617ebbdb8382086287530a7f6?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ce que je trouve insupportable avec les gens trop politisés sur le net — que ce soit les maga, les woke, ou tous les autres sectateurs d’idées en carton — c’est qu’ils ont qu’une seule obsession : leur petit gourou et sa vérité sacrée. On dirait des robots programmés pour réciter du catéchisme 24h/24, sans jamais se demander si ce qu’ils débitent n’est pas juste une bouillie de slogans recyclés. Franchement, on dirait des IA, mais avec moins de jugeote et plus d’aveuglement.
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It was interesting listening to Adam shill for the deep state.
He was making fun of Candace Owens for stating the Congress has the responsibility to declare war.
Maybe he should take a few seconds to read that part of the Constitution.
As a radio guy, maybe he is incapable of reading so he could ask Rob, the Constitutional Lawyer, and he could explain it to him.
"To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;"
Oh yeah, I forgot.
I wonder why Jefferson refused to go after the Barbary Pirates until authorized. He could simply have bombed them in a defensive action, right?
now you're getting it. "police actions" don't count either.
Nothing since WW2 really counts either.
Illustrating every legendary creature in Wisconsin folklore: The Kidrick Swamp Willy Wooly Whatsit.
This was a massive, possum-like swamp monster, with the horns of an ox and the teeth of a crocodile. It is the size of a hippopotamus and is covered in shaggy red hair.
KIGALI, June 26 (Xinhua) -- China's Juncao cultivation technology has accelerated mushroom farming ien.people.cn
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If you need any technical help with online services, or if you've ever considered hosting your own email, website, fedi instance, or other resource and would like a way to do it responsibly and ethically while maintaining your privacy and digital sovereignty I'm your runner. Hit me up!
#Syria #HTS #sectarianviolence
@palestine
"Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah – an HTS offshoot – claimed responsibility...the Syrian government has never issued a warning about the group, including after it took credit for some of the massacres perpetrated against Alawites on the coast in March...At the same time, Christians were reminded after the attack of the hostility that members of the Syrian government hold toward their faith"
Syria effectively governed by al-Qaeda 👇
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Under the rule of a rebranded Al-Qaeda administration, Syria’s Christian minority faces state-sanctioned terror – this time inside their own churchesthecradle.co
Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York not only upended the political establishment, but it also repudiated the Islamophobia of U.S. politics since 9/11.
mondoweiss.net/2025/06/mamdani…
#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York not only upended the political establishment, but it also repudiated the Islamophobia of U.S. politics since 9/11.Ahmad Ibsais (Mondoweiss)
What plays during an advert for a tool store. #MusicProduction #guitar
Israeli Soldiers Ordered to Shoot at Unarmed Palestinians Waiting for Aid: Report
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/israeli-soldiers-shoot-unarmed-palestinians-aid-gaza-1235373984/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Israeli soldiers and military officers told Haaretz they have been ordered to shoot at Palestinians seeking aid at distribution sites.Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
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10 Years of Pomological Watercolors
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A decade ago today I published a blog post calling for the US government to release its paintings of fruits.Parker Higgins (parker higgins dot net)
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the real reason I supported Iran over Israel is Iran has a town in their north named
>Babolsar
i thought Iran was real for that
A summit without unity, a club without purpose—the 2025 G7 in Canada revealed just how irrelevant this exclusive forum has become in today’s multipolarРикардо Мартинс (New Eastern Outlook)
The Effect of Noise on Sleep
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Oh, that just pissed me off.
Couple weeks ago I was at a bachelor's party, to which a number of people had brought Magic decks. I knew nothing about the game (never even watched a video), made this clear, and said that I just wanted to watch everyone else play.
Someone handed me a deck and said, "no buddy, you're playing!" I protested, but it was fruitless. I'd been roped in; and I was excited! A group of people excited to show a new player their hobby.
The guy that handed me the deck then proceeded to explain nothing and get increasingly frustrated when I had no idea what he meant when he'd say "uh, no you have to UNTAP your cards first.. ok now tap them.. yeah I know you just untapped them but tap them 😠🙄" (I still do not know what the point of turning my cards sideways for two seconds was but I guess it's super important?)
The other two players were fairly intoxicated and probably didn't pick up on the toxicity, but the whole table was frustrated with how God awfully slow the game was taking since the new guy just wasn't getting it. I just wanted to watch.
Up until now I thought homeboy had just oversimplified a few rules in his head and forgot a thing or two, but seeing that the actual instruction manual is 500+ pages, I'm furious that he had the audacity to forcibly rope a drunk person with zero interest in playing into the game, just to treat them like a moron for not instantly getting it.
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Vaccine panel votes no to mercury for babies; SCOTUS bomb incoming; media fires on ivermectin; and the medical civil war begins as patients show up better informed than their white-coated foes; more.Jeff Childers (☕️ Coffee & Covid 2025 🦠)
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The 12 days of fighting between Iran and Israel, along with the U.S. intervention, left a deep impact on all three countries. Where do each stand now that the fighting has stopped, and what comes next?
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What comes next following the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran?
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Picture this: you're on a cruise ship with other people. You’ve got two choices:
– You can scream, “I’m the captain!” set the engine on fire, sink the ship and die shouting, “BUT I WAS RIGHT!”
– Or you can park your butt on a deck chair, grab a drink, and enjoy the ride without being a pain in everyone’s ass.
Me? I say long live the chill cruise… and may the ego stay locked in the baggage hold!
Dünya'dan 110 ışık yılı uzaktaki gezegen, doğrudan gözlemlenen en düşük kütleli ötegezegenJulia Musto (Independent Türkçe)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that 103 martyrs and 219 injuries have been reported to hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.The ministry said in a press statement on Thursday that a number of victims areDAILY YEMEN
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"For years, the country’s biggest banks lobbied against a post-2008 financial crisis rule that was intended to shore up their stability and ensure they could withstand steep losses in times of turmoil. This week, financial regulators ... agreed to ease the rule..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/b...
So I've been using rootless podman-compose to run my arr stack forever, and I've never had this issue. What seems to be happening is that sometimes, but not always, when a new folder is created or an existing folder's contents are modified, it seems to be setting the files and their folder's owner to "52587" which does not exist. This causes it to then not be able to access those files. I can manually change them back, of course, but the container just overwrites it again. If I specify the user in the compose.yml, it seems to ignore it. It is happening with a few different containers (all in the same compose.yml), as I've seen it now with Radarr and NZBget. The files are on a 12TB drive, and the container mounts and compose.yml are on the same drive, but the OS (Bazzite) is on a separate drive.
My thoughts so far for possibilities:
1. The podman install is fucked somehow
2. The drive itself is fucked
3. Bazzite's weirdness is causing an issue
For #1, podman comes with Bazzite by default so I'm not entirely sure if I can rpm-ostree remove and reinstall, though that might be the next step I try. I'm not terribly good with podman to begin with so I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting it much otherwise.
For #2, this is entirely a possibility, the drive is pretty old, but I'm not seeing any errors or anything in the SMART stuff and outside of this specific issue I have seen no other problems there.
For #3, this issue did start to happen maybe a month after switching from Arch to Bazzite, mostly because I also wanted to use this machine for Sunshine streaming and my arch install was a mess anyway. I know Arch, though, and this immutable stuff has tripped me up before, so maybe I go back. Feels like admitting defeat though, lol.
Any ideas to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
So I’ve been using rootless podman-composewhen a new folder is created or an existing folder’s contents are modified, it seems to be setting the files and their folder’s owner to “52587”
Rootless Docker and Podman run their applications within a user namespace. This means most of the user IDs within the container are mapped to a different uid range on the host, often called a subuid. It's part of how "rootless" mode can allow an unprivileged user to run software that expects to have privileged IDs.
github.com/containers/podman/b…
which does not exist.
Are you sure it doesn't exist? Have you looked at the ranges defined in /etc/subuid on the host?
My first thought is that the uid numbers you see might be some of your host user's subuids. If so, they will appear as different uids (perhaps with usernames) within the container. Try launching a shell within the container and examining the same files, to see what their owners appear as there.
If this is what's happening, it's normal. As long as the software trying to access the files and the software creating the files are both in the same container, it should be fine. If it doesn't work, there's probably another problem in play.
By the way, Podman almost certainly has a way to map certain container uids to host uids of your choice, which can be convenient when you want to share files between containers or between a container and the host.
Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods. - containers/podmanGitHub
Out of curiosity, are the containers that are having issues using non-root users internally? Podman maps your user to root inside the container, so a non-root user can have strange effects.
I had this issue when an image inherited a non-root user upstream.
"The National Post systematically rewrites wire stories to include loaded anti-Palestinian language, omit the context of occupation, and frame stories around Israeli viewpoints, a comprehensive data analysis shows."
National Post quietly rewrote wire stories to push pro-Israel narrative, analysis finds ⋆ The Breach
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🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷 Erreurs judiciaires : même combat, pas mêmes chiffres.
🟥 États-Unis : Plus de 3 400 personnes innocentées depuis 1989. Moyenne : 9 ans de prison pour rien.
👉 47 % étaient Noirs.
👉 Principales causes : fautes policières, faux aveux, erreurs médico-légales.
👉 Certains étaient même condamnés à mort.
🟨 Canada : Environ 29 erreurs majeures reconnues (surtout meurtres).
👉 Statistique officielle : 0,06 % des condamnations annulées.
👉 Témoignages erronés, experts douteux, failles systémiques.
👉 Les chiffres sont faibles… mais la réalité ?
🟦 France : Très peu de révisions.
👉 Cas emblématique : Patrick Dils, 13 ans pour un crime qu’il n’a pas commis.
👉 Pas de registre officiel. Pas de chiffres clairs.
👉 Ce qu’on ne compte pas n’existe pas ?
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Trump is working around the clock to convince the world that Iran’s nuclear program has been “obliterated,” but we have yet to see any proof of his claims...Rachel Blevins
Ok, so why is the right so terrified of this guy? (keep in mind, this asshole is a sitting U.S. congressman calling for his deportation).
Perhaps partially because Mamdani is calling for inexpensive city-run grocery stores and other programs to benefit the poor and working class.
But even more so because of what his victory represents: The mass outrage of the U.S. public, over half of whom cannot afford the basic necessities of life, at the billionaire class, as it strips away the minimum safety net that previously existed, loots the government coffers, and gives itself massive tax cuts, while promoting genocide, environmental devastation, and world war.
God forbid other Mamdanis start winning in D.C., Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
So, what should we expect next?
Ans: Cuomo 2.0, running as an independent in the general election, courting the votes of so-called moderate Dems, as well as the Republicans, and quite possibly becoming the next mayor of NYC, just like Brown did to Black Lives Matters activist India Walton in the 2021 race for mayor of Buffalo.
#classwar #capitalism #newyork #election #corruption #racism #immigration #islamophobia #fascism
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okay fedi, i finally caught up a little on the #cc #creativecommons #signals thing.
so like... there just isn't going to be a CC-NFAI (No Fucking AI) option? CC's idea of being proactive is helplessly embracing this shit and then asking the owners of AI scrapers to pretty please give credit and maybe some money based on *their* financial means? I wouldn't say this to a fellow human under normal circumstances but with respect to AI scrapers, how about fuck your financial means, you should have asked the price before you stole my shit?
Also, maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole thing, so feel free to clarify anything I stated incorrectly.
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CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to increase reciprocity and sustain a creative commons i…Anonymous (Creative Commons)
It's shocking how many "conspiracy theorists" think radiation negligible 4th gen nukes don't exist and aren't used regularly.
Propaganda wins again
Israeli defense minister, Yisrael Katz, ordered the Israeli Air Force to come up with an "air superiority enforcement plan" in order achieve and keep full aerial supremacy over the skies of #Iran and bomb Iranian cities whenever they please just like #Israel has been doing to #Lebanon and #Syria for the past two years.
#Politics #AirSuperiority #Occupation
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I already talked about the /e/ Android ROM, a while ago, and while I really love this ultimate de-googled version of Android, there were also a few concerns about security, look and feel, how degoogled it all really is, and where the data is going. The /e/ project has also been updated quite a lot since my last video, so I think it's time to take another look at /e/.
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List of stuff /e/ removes from AOSP:
https://e.foundation/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/e-state-of-degooglisation.pdf
Ok, so one of the main comments I got on the video is that /e/ is based on an old version of Android. It was Android 8 in my previous video. Of course, /e/ also has releases based on newer Android versions.
On my Galaxy S9+, it goes up to Android Q (Android 10), which is also the case for a lot of phones out there.
One of my main problems with /e/ was that all the apps looked disjointed, using different accent colors, and sharing a kit-kat era look and feel.
I can happily report that with versions 0.15 and 0.16, this is no longer the case. The default apps, which are forks of open source android apps, now sport a nice white and blue color scheme, except for the email client and the maps app, which haven't been updated yet.
Another common comment I got on the previous video was that you were just giving your data to the /e/ project instead of giving it to Google.
While that, in itself, is a weird argument, as /e/ is a small nonprofit, and would really struggle to do anything with that data, it also doesn't apply here at all.
First, the account isn't mandatory: you can skip if if you'd prefer to use what you already have.
Second, the data you send to your /e/ account is encrypted, the /e/ project can't access it.
And third, /e/ doesn't sell ads, so they wouldn't even have any use for your data in the first place.
Now, speaking of the /e/ account, they only offered 1Gb of free storage, which was a meager amount, and you couldn't really upgrade that.
They now announced that, while the free tier is still only 1Gb, you can up that to 20Gb for 2 euros per month, all the way up to 1Tb for 13 euros per month. It's pricier than what the "big tech" companies offer, but it's still not a terrible deal, especially as this data isn't shared or accessed. If I didn't already have my own Nextcloud server, that's definitely something I'd be interested in, even if I didn't use /e/ on my phone.
The only issue is that this ecloud is basically access to a Nextcloud account, but you don't get to install your own apps on it
Now another common comment I got was "just use Lineage OS instead". While /e/ is a fork of Lineage, it's also going a lot further to remove Google stuff from AOSP.
Lineage still uses the Google DNS servers, so they know what your device is trying to access, and they also use Google to connect to captive portals, like airport wifi.
It also uses Google services to aid GPS positioning, and as the Android Open Source Project webview, which calls to Google as well.
/e/ removes the connectivity check to Google, replacing it with their own servers, they removed calls to the Google time servers and replaced them with the standard provider for internet time, and while the DNS servers aren't changed automatically, you can change them in the settings as well.
So, in short, Lienage OS is great, but if you want to remove every bit of Google from your phone, /e/ is a better option.
Now some people were also saying that /e/ has "stolen" code from Lineage OS and other apps, without giving credit. This has been proven to be completely false, as they are clearly stating what they based their stuff on in their FAQ:
https://e.foundation/get-started/
Smartphones preinstalled with /e/ weren't available in the US or Canada when I made my previous video, now they are.
Some concerns were raised about security, especially since /e/ doesn't use the Play store, so how could we be sure that apps were unaltered binaries? the /e/ store uses the CleanAPK repositories.
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Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
We have here on Mastodon several amazing candidates for this EU panel about AI...
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EU Commission seeks experts for AI Scientific Panel
The European Commission is setting up a scientific panel of independent experts to support the implementation and enforcement of the AI Act.
The panel will focus on general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and systems, advising the EU AI Office and national authorities on systemic risks, model classification, evaluation methodologies, and cross-border market surveillance. It will also alert the AI Office of emerging risks.
The Commission looking for 60 members for a renewable 24-month term.
Candidates should have expertise in GPAI models and systems, AI impacts, or related fields, such as model evaluation, risk assessment and mitigations, cybersecurity, emerging systemic risks, and compute measurements and thresholds. Experts must have a PhD or equivalent experience and remain independent of any AI provider.
The selection process will ensure gender balance and representation across EU Member States and EEA/EFTA countries. While *EU citizenship is not a requirement*, 80% of the experts must be from the EU or EFTA Member States.
Applications are open until 14 September.
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