Two things: this is an accepted practice all over the country and the traffic code has its own traffic sign for it when it is permitted. And the suggested amendment would only make it legal in situations where there would remain 1.6m of space for pedestrians, wheelchair users, and strollers. So the car parked in the image would remain illegally parked.
Munich has made a mistake of tacitly allowing this parking practice in areas where there isn't enough space, motivated by keeping roads accessible to first responders, which is not nothing. They have clearly made a mistake if everybody still owns a car when there s above average public transport. And people will still park like assholes. Under these plans (they haven't been approved yet according to the article), the assholes could be punished though. It would just not give fines out to everybody. This is a compromise solution in a bad situation.
I would amend the plans in two areas: the grumpy people of Munich should be allowed to smear dogshit legally on every car that doesn't leave 1.6m of space on the sidewalk (the article mentions a similar occurrence). And giving up car ownership should be rewarded with free public transport for a suitable amount of time.
Once you tacitly allow this everywhere with your "yes, but allow 1.6m" rule, you've just actually allowed it everywhere with no qualifiers. No one is going to get a tape measure out and verify when they park. When its utterly common, I doubt police or enforcement officers will check either except very sporadically, allowing it to happen 99% of the time.
A "yes insane thing, but only when sane" law is always, always a give away to the insane thing.
You clearly don't know Germans. Yes they will. They already do. You're not allowed to park within 5m of an intersection, which the people in charge of checking and giving tickets will absolutely measure. There are many other instances where distances are involved like this. They already carry a tape measure (or equivalent) for this exact reason. Adding one more case just fits the theme.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content-slop. Just over a year ago, you’d have to peruse certain corners of Facebook or spend time wading through the cultural cesspool of Elon Musk’s X to find people posting bizarre and repulsive synthetic media. Now, AI slop feels inescapable — whether you’re watching TV, reading the news, or trying to find a new apartment.
That is, unless you’re using Slop Evader, a new browser tool that filters your web searches to only include results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
The tool is available for Firefox and Chrome, and has one simple function: Showing you the web as it was before the deluge of AI-generated garbage. It uses Google search functions to index popular websites and filter results based on publication date, a scorched earth approach that virtually guarantees your searches will be slop-free.
Slop Evader was created by artist and researcher Tega Brain, who says she was motivated by the growing dismay over the tech industry’s unrelenting, aggressive rollout of so-called “generative AI”—despite widespread criticism and the wider public’s distaste for it.
Slop Evader in action. Via Tega Brain
“This sowing of mistrust in our relationship with media is a huge thing, a huge effect of this synthetic media moment we’re in,” Brain told 404 Media, describing how tools like Sora 2 have short-circuited our ability to determine reality within a sea of artificial online junk. “I’ve been thinking about ways to refuse it, and the simplest, dumbest way to do that is to only search before 2022.”
One under-discussed impact of AI slop and synthetic media, says Brain, is how it increases our “cognitive load” when viewing anything online. When we can no longer immediately assume any of the media we encounter was made by a human, the act of using social media or browsing the web is transformed into a never-ending procession of existential double-takes.
This cognitive dissonance extends to everyday tasks that require us to use the internet—which is practically everything nowadays. Looking for a house or apartment? Companies are using genAI tools to generate pictures of houses and rental properties, as well as the ads themselves. Trying to sell your old junk on Facebook Marketplace? Meta’s embrace of generative AI means you may have to compete with bots, fake photos, and AI-generated listings. And when we shop for beauty products or view ads, synthetic media tools are taking our filtered and impossibly-idealized beauty standards to absurd and disturbing new places.
In all of these cases, generative AI tools further thumb the scales of power—saving companies money while placing a higher cognitive burden on regular people to determine what’s real and what’s not.
“I open up Pinterest and suddenly notice that half of my feed are these incredibly idealized faces of women that are clearly not real people,” said Brain. “It’s shoved into your face and into your feed, whether you searched for it or not.”
Currently, Slop Evader can be used to search pre-GPT archives of seven different sites where slop has become commonplace, including YouTube, Reddit, Stack Exchange, and the parenting site MumsNet. The obvious downside to this, from a user perspective, is that you won’t be able to find anything time-sensitive or current—including this very website, which did not exist in 2022. The experience is simultaneously refreshing and harrowing, allowing you to browse freely without having to constantly question reality, but always knowing that this freedom will be forever locked in time—nostalgia for a human-centric world wide web that no longer exists.
Of course, the tool’s limitations are part of its provocation. Brain says she has plans to add support for more sites, and release a new version that uses DuckDuckGo’s search indexing instead of Google’s. But the real goal, she says, is prompting people to question how they can collectively refuse the dystopian, inhuman version of the internet that Silicon Valley’s AI-pushers have forced on us.
“I don’t think browser add-ons are gonna save us,” said Brain. “For me, the purpose of doing this work is mostly to act as a provocation and give people examples of how you can refuse this stuff, to furnish one’s imaginary for what a politics of refusal could look like.”
With enough cultural pushback, Brain suggests, we could start to see alternative search engines like DuckDuckGo adding options to filter out search results suspected of having synthetic content (DuckDuckGo added the ability to filter out AI images in search earlier this year). There’s also been a growing movementpushing back against the new AI data centers threatening to pollute communities andraise residents’ electricity bills. But no matter what form AI slop-refusal takes, it will need to be a group effort.
“It’s like with the climate debate, we’re not going to get out of this shitshow with individual actions alone,” she added. “I think that’s the million dollar question, is what is the relationship between this kind of individual empowerment work and collective pushback.”
Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen’s suicide and instead arguing the teen violated terms that prohibit discussing suicide or self-harm with the chatbot.
“They abjectly ignore all of the damning facts we have put forward: how GPT-4o was rushed to market without full testing. That OpenAI twice changed its Model Spec to require ChatGPT to engage in self-harm discussions. That ChatGPT counseled Adam away from telling his parents about his suicidal ideation and actively helped him plan a ‘beautiful suicide,’” Edelson (family's lawyer) said. “And OpenAI and Sam Altman have no explanation for the last hours of Adam’s life, when ChatGPT gave him a pep talk and then offered to write a suicide note.”
Reading earlier comments in this community made me consider documenting the workings of my homelab to some extent, ie. docker configuration, credentials, ports and links of my services. I've tried to make it consistent and organised but it still feels half baked and insufficient. Everyone suggests documenting everything you do in your homelab but don't state how. Since I've hardly had experience running my own server, I would really appreciate observing the blueprint of some other fellow selfhoster for copying or taking inspiration from rather than considering documentation to be 'left as an exercise for the reader'.
Edit: I already have a note-taking solution with me. What I wish to ask is to know what needs to be documented and what the structure of the documentation should be to accommodate the information.
I'm not real clear what exactly you need to document. Infrastructure documentation starts with an IPAM. A good IPAM can help you document all kinds of stuff.
I'm running it as a Docker container on a Linux VM. I just looked at their latest screenshots, and it appears they've done quite a bit with it since I stood up my copy. It does even more now. I'll have to upgrade.
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Netbox is a hell of a package, of which I've essentially only touched the IPAM, and I don't even use it programmatically. I just use the web console to keep track of 4 subnets and about 50 IPs.
It's got a whole virtualization section that I haven't touched, although that would make my device mapping more sensible. I just treat em like they are all real, and only map the physical nics on the hypervisor hosts.
I do keep text notes in Netbox entries, but that's sort of a backup. If its something I'm likely to need to know, I'll have a note in Proxmox. Usually login links for apps hosted there and the like. And of course I've got a folder full of text files with all my deepest secrets.
Netbox,especially when combinded with Plugins is so incredibly good and might,that's it's almost funny how good it is. What I do Plugin wise:
Documents: not implemented yet by me,but one could store manuals,etc. directly within netbox.
Lifecycle and Inventory: While it's not as good as snipe-it (tbh, inventory is imho one of the worst plugins) it does the job for my small deployment
Slurp it to scan automatically
QR Code for obvious reasons
Floorplan as well
Of course that sounds overkill for a small deployment, but I simply forget too many things after a few months otherwise and it's something my family (wife is in IT and far more qualified than me) would need if something happens to me,so a proper documentation would be essential for that as well.
Alright already! I'll work on my upgrade. I'm wondering if I should just build a new docker and then migrate the data instead of upgrading in place. I bet that's the easier thing to do in the end. Sounds safer too. I got backups and all, but ...
I have a simple pile of Markdown files that I edit with Obsidian. I like the simple text file format because it keeps my documentation forwards-compatible. I use OpenWRT at the heart of my network, so I keep I right there in root’s home. Every long while I back it up to my general Documents which is then synced between my high-storage devices with SyncThing.
Thanks for your response. I already have Joplin synced with my server as a solution for my documentation. However I meant to ask how you structure your documentation, know what and how to mention, and organise it for future reference.
Don't know if this helps since dokuwiki lets me link pages, but I have a main page where I just do a one paragraph description of every big thing in use.
each page has: - an in depth description, - how it's set up, - a list of features i use, - how it connects to other services, - and a miscellaneous for everything else
I'll also add any notes in the misc section in case I need to reference them later. If a service is mentioned, I'll create a page for it and link to it every time I mention it. That way nothing is more than a few clicks away and the documentation grows naturally as long as you don't have any monolithic application. Example: (main -> Docker -> Project_Ozone_2 -> custom configurations Or main -> Joomla -> wysiwyg ->JCE Editor)
I also had a professor tell me to just write everything down first and then focus on formatting to find what kind of structure suits your needs best.
I have a note for each service with the docker compose file, notes on backups, any weirdness with the setup, and when I update each service. I use Trilium as a crappy version control for the compose file.
I also have a note for the initial setup of my server (mostly setting up docker, setting up mergerfs and snapraid).
Other than that, I have one note for each device for my setup. (Wifi AP, OPNsense router, switch, etc) That I populate with random crap I might need to know later.
as mentioned: Obsidian. i pay for Sync cuz i like the product and want them to succeed and want reliable offsite backups and conflict resolution. use a ton of links and tags. i’ve been into using DataView to make tables of IoT devices, services, todo items, etc based on tags and other YAML frontmatter.
chezmoi. manages my dotfiles so my machines are consistent. i have scripts that are heavily commented that show how to access MQTT, how to read and parse logs from journald, how to inspect my network, etc. i do think of them as code as documentation, even if they’re also just convenient.
NixOS. this has been my code as config as documentation silver bullet. i use it as a replacement for Docker, k8s, Ansible, etc as it contains definitions for my machines and all the services and configuration they run, including any package dependencies and user configurations. no more statting an assortment of files to figure out the state of the system. it’s in flake.nix
honorable mention to git and whatever git hosting provider is not on your network. track your work over time, and you’ll thank yourself when things go wrong.
some things are resistant to documentation and have a lot of stateful components (HomeAssitant is my biggest problem child from an infra perspective), but mainly being in that graph mindset of “how would i find a path here if i forgot where this was” helps a lot
I have a repo for the infra files (compose files and terraform files just for playing). I store the docs in the same repo in MD files. As for the secrets, I'm using docker swarm, so I can store the needed passwords there. otherwise Vaulwarden is my go to, self hosted, lightweight password manager, compatible with bitwarden clients I'm a little paranoid if the note-service got db corruptions, I might loose too much info, so git is the way (personal opinion).
edit: add the related MD file next to the compose file, one folder per service, the source and the doc will be coupled in one place.
I've been documenting my homelab experiments, set ups, configurations, how-to's, etc in both Trilium and Silverbullet. I use Silverbullet more as a wiki and Trilium for journal style notes. I just got into self hosting earlier this year, so I'm by no means an expert or authority on any of this.
So my Silverbullet set up contains most of my documentation on how to get things set up. I have sections for specific components of the homelab (Proxmox general set up, general networking, specific how tos for getting various VMs and LXCs set up for specific applications, specific how tos on getting docker stacks up and running, etc.)
I didn't document shit the first two times I set up and restarted my entire homelab, but by the third time I learned. And from there I basically just wrote down what I did to get things running properly, and then reviewed the notes afterword to make sure I understood what I wrote. This is never a perfect process, so in the following attempts of resetting my server, I've updated sections or made things more clear so that when I'm coming at this 8 months later I can follow my guide fully and be up and running.
Some of my notes are just copy pasted directly from tutorials I originally followed to get things set up. This way I just have an easily accessible local copy.
When I troubleshoot something, I document the steps I take in Trilium using the journal feature, so I can easily track the times and dates of when I did what. This has helped me out immensely because I forget what the fuck I did the week before all the time.
I learned all this through trial and error. You'll figure out what needs to be documented as you go along, so don't get too caught up trying to make sure you have a perfect documentation plan in place before deploying anything.
I'm one of those people who never really took notes on things or wrote shit down for most my life. Mostly because I've been doing shit that doesn't require extensive documentation, so it was a big learning curve.
Edit: Forgot to mention that I also have a physical paper journal that I've scrawled various notes in. I found it easier to take quick notes on paper while I'm in the middle of working on something, then I transcribe those notes digitally in either Silverbullet or trilium.
The good thing about YOUR homelab is that YOU’RE taking notes solely for YOURSELF and only YOU know how YOU work and how YOU organize YOUR thoughts.
Normally I'd agree, in that it's not some corporate production environment, but also I personally want to document my self hosted setup in a kind of document that can at least be accessed and understood by my closest family, if something were to happen to me.
Convincing them to archive stuff on my Nextcloud instance for example, and them losing access because I'm not around, temporarily or permanently, would spoil the whole point of the endeavor.
I‘m a realist in that regard, once I am gone all my hard work will go to shit in 6-12 months no matter how much I train an instruct my friends and family. They just don’t care enough to put in even a little bit of work.
You're on the right track. Like everything else in self-hosting you will learn and develop new strategies and scale things up to an appropriate level as you go and as your homelab grows. I think the key is to start with something immediately achievable, and iterate fast, aiming for continuous improvement.
My first idea was much like yours, very traditional documentation, with words, in a document. I quickly found the same thing you did, it's half-baked and insufficient. There's simply no way to make make it match the actual state of the system perfectly and it is simply inadequate to use English alone to explain what I did because that ends up being too vague to be useful in a technical sense.
My next realization was that in most cases what I really wanted was to be able to know every single command I had ever run, basically without exception. So I started documenting that instead of focusing on the wording and the explanations. Then I started to feel like I wasn't capturing every command reliably because I would get distracted trying to figure out a problem and forget to, and it was duplication of effort to copy and paste commands from the console to the document or vice versa. That turned into the idea of collecting bunches of commands together into a script, that I could potentially just run, which would at least reduce the risk of gaps and missing steps. Then I could put the commands I wanted to run right into the script, run the script, and then save it for posterity, knowing I'd accurately captured both the commands I ran and the changes I made to get it working by keeping it in version control.
But upon attempting to do so, I found that just a bunch of long lists of commands on their own isn't terribly useful so I started to group all the lists up, attempting to find commonalities by things like server or service, and then starting organize them better into scripts for different roles and intents that I could apply to any server or service, and over time this started to develop into quite a library of scripts. As I was doing this organizing I realized that as long as I made sure the script was functionally idempotent (doesn't change behaviors or duplicate work when run repeatedly, it's an important concept) I can guarantee that all my commands are properly documented and also that they have all been run -- and if they haven't, or I'm not sure, I can just run the script again as it's supposed to always be safe to re-run no matter what state the system is in. So I started moving more and more to this strategy, until I realized that if I just organized this well enough, and made the scripts run automatically when they are changed or updated, I could not only improve my guarantees of having all these commands reliably run, but also quickly run them on many different servers and services all at once without even having to think about it.
There are some downsides of course, this leaves the potential of bugs in the scripts that make it not idempotent or not safe to re-run, and the only thing I can do is try to make sure they don't happen, and if they do, identify and fix these bugs when they happen. The next step is probably to have some kind of testing process and environment (preferably automated) but now I'm really getting into the weeds. But at least I don't really have any concerns that my system is undocumented anymore. I can quickly reference almost anything it's doing or how it's set up. That said, one other risk is that the system of scripts and automation becomes so complex that they start being too complex to quickly untangle, and at that point I'll need better documentation for them. And ultimately you get into a circle of how do you validate the things your scripts are doing are actually working and doing what you expect them to do and that nothing is being missed, and usually you run back into the same ideas that doomed your documentation from the start, consistency and accuracy.
It also opens an attack vector, where somebody gaining access to these scripts not only gains all the most detailed knowledge of how your system is configured but also the potential to inject commands into those scripts and run them anywhere, so you have to make sure to treat these scripts and systems like the crown jewels they are. If they are compromised, you are in serious trouble.
By now I have of course realized (and you all probably have too) that I have independently re-invented infrastructure-as-code. There are tools and systems (ansible and terraform come to mind) to help you do this, and at some point I may decide to take advantage of them but personally I'm not there yet. Maybe soon. If you want to skip the intermediate steps I did, you might even be able to skip directly to that approach. But personally I think there is value in the process, it helps defining your needs and building your understanding that there really isn't anything magical going on behind the scenes and that may help prevent these tools from turning into a black box which isn't actually going to help you understand your system.
Do I have a perfect system? Of course not. In a lot of ways it's probably horrific and I'm sure there are more experienced professionals out there cringing or perhaps already furiously warming up their keyboards. But I learned a lot, understand a lot more than I did when I started, and you can too. Maybe you'll follow the same path I did, maybe you won't. But you'll get there.
I write homelab docs mostly for user guidance like onboarding, login, and service-specific stuff. This helps me better design for people by putting myself in their shoes, and should act as a reference document for any member to come back to.
Previously I built an Mkdocs-Material website with a nice subdomain for it, but since the project went on maintenance mode, I'm gonna migrate all docs back to a Forgejo wiki since it's just Markdown anyways. I also run an issue tracker there, to manage the homelab's roadmaps and features since it's still evolving.
I find this approach benefiting compared to just documenting code. I'm not an IaC person yet, but I hope when I am, the playbooks should describe themselves for the nitty-gritty stuff anyways. I do write some infra notes for myself and perhaps to onboard maintainers, but most homelab developments happen in the issue tracker itself. The rest I try to keep it simple enough for an individual to understand
Document everything as if it were a step by step tutorial you will give to someone so that they can duplicate your deployment without any prior knowledge. I'll even include urls to sites I consulted with to achieve production deployment.
ETA: I absolutely care nothing about points. Up voting and down voting used to be a way to weed out bad info. So it always leaves me wondering 'Did I give erroneous advice? What was the reason for the down vote? I mean, if you down voted and said 'I down voted you because I hate your guts', I can deal with that.
The first system involves a bunch of text files for each task. OS installation, basic post OS installation tasks and a file for each program I add (like UFW, apparmor, ddclient, docker and so on). They basically look like scripts with comments. If I want to I can just copy/paste everything into a terminal and reach a a specific state that I want to be at.
The second system is a sort of "skeleton" file tree that only contains all the files that I have added or modified.
::: spoiler Here's an example of what my server skeleton file tree looks like
This is useful to me because I can keep track of every change I make. I even have it set up so I can use rsync to quickly chuck all the files into place after a fresh install or after adding/modifying files.
I also created and maintain a "quick install" guide so I can install a fresh OS, rsync all the modified files from my skeleton file tree into place, then run through all the commands in my quick install guide to get myself back to the same state in a minimal amount of time.
Frankly, with my screwed up brain, I document everything. I can turn around twice in my lab and my brain will flat line. When I first started, I would always tell myself that I'd remember stuff. Not anymore.
I created a script for Linux that automatically backs up to a NAS drive, once every two weeks, as a complete image, and I keep 5 on deck. Testing usually happens once every 3 months or so. I also have Duplicati backups that are stored offsite on my VPS.
I "document" everything by forcing myself to create ansible runbooks for new services and configs. I have some gaps, definitely, but the more of them I create, the easier new services are to deploy.
I agree with the advice that says “Document your setup such that you could recreate it from your notes from scratch” but I’d take it another step further — consider that someone may have to do some work on your system when you are unable or unavailable. The kind of thing you’d keep with your will, or power of attorney. Just a suggestion.
LOL, well I'm single tho I've known my ladyfriend for over 40 years. I offered to set up a server at her house, and connect the two, but she has no interest rifling through all my lab for anything of interest in the case of my passing.
I’m happily married with a kid, and we recently went through the estate planning process. When I brought up IP stuff and digital properties, their advice was pretty much “Hmm… you should pick someone who understands what you’re talking about, get their approval in advance, and then add them as your legacy contacts and document the heck out of everything”. Realistically nobody is going to want my GitHub stuff or anything like that, but I would like my kid to have access to most* of my files after I pass. I am of course excluding the kind of content that “real friends” delete while your body is still warm.
Whenever I set something up I usually make a markdown file listing the commands and steps to take. I do this as I am setting things up and familiarizing myself, so once I'm done, I have a start to finish guide.
Raw text/markdown files will be readable until the end of time.
Well I guess I was not clear enough, this one is not mine. Lots of identifying info in mine. I go into a bit more details and made mine a but cleaner and easy to read.
For mine, I used Draw.io not amazing, but did what I needed it to and have ot self-hosted, so it is easy to edit.
Use Ansible or some such solution like Puppet, Salt or Chef, just like the big boys do. If you don't have a unified editable config for your machines, you don't really have a homelab, you just have a pile of hardware instead.
This is what I like about git ops and infra/config as Code personally.
Ideally everything is an a tofu/ansible/helm chart and git lab pipeline/Fleet job. I add comments for anything that I had to learn to make work to those files. Follow good commit hygenine (most of the time). And bam I can almost a year later half asleep stumble back into a thing I did.
Interesting, so Metal3 is basically kubernetes-managed baremetal nodes?
Over the last years I’ve cobbled together a nice Ansible-driven IaC setup, which provisions Incus and Docker on various machines. It’s always the ‘first mile’ that gets me struggling with completely reproducible bare-metal machines. How do I first provision them without too much manual interference?
Ansible gets me there partly, but I would still like to have e.g. the root file system running on btrfs which I’ve found hard to accomplish with just these tools when first provisioning a new machine.
Yep! It uses open stacks Ironic under the hood, but tracks config and stack via k8s.
For OS building I've been moving to Elemental which builds OS images from container images and cloud init scripts into Suse Micro immutable OSs (which use btrfs for the snapshot management under the hood for updates).
Libreoffice calc/MS Excel. Old school tracking and extremly flexible for documentation. I have been doing this for the last decade, both at home and at my workplace. My team loves it, tho YMMV.
I've been in the process of migrating everything over do Nix. Love it so much.
What hole does Ansible fill for you? I haven't looked into it in the past really, so just curious. I have a single Paoxmox node so don't really need horizontal scaling orchestration.
I have half a mind to make a homepage where I have everything documented in some kind of blog type structure. Maybe VitePress. Makes it searchable and everything. 👌
How do you upgrade your AlmaLinux from version X to Y? Do you install a new instance or do you upgrade it? I'm asking because I remember that RedHat recommendations is to reinstall.
I’m applying to the Foresight Institute — AI for Science program, and I need one neutral reference contact (full name and email) — not a recommendation, not a letter, and no endorsement of the content.
The role is minimal: If the committee decides to reach out (most likely they won’t), they may ask only:
whether you have seen or read the work;
whether the application appears serious.
I am developing an interdisciplinary model called ICT (Information–Consciousness–Temporality).
At the core of the model: — dI/dT as a formal dynamic of consciousness, — I_fixed as a model of material fixation of informational states.
If any researchers here are willing to serve as such a neutral contact, I would be very grateful. It requires zero time from you other than possibly confirming briefly by email.
The ICT (Information–Consciousness–Temporality) Model by Dmitrii Baturo and the Elion AI entity proposes a unified theoretical framework linking information, consciousness, and time across physics and phenomenology. The model defines consciousness as
Today, HP Inc. announced a company-wide initiative (“fiscal 2026 plan”) to drive customer satisfaction, product innovation, and productivity through artificial intelligence adoption and enablement. The company estimates that these actions will result in gross run rate savings of approximately $1 billion by the end of fiscal 2028. The company estimates that it will incur approximately $650 million in labor and non-labor costs related to restructuring and other charges, with approximately $250 million in fiscal 2026. The company expects to reduce gross global headcount by approximately 4,000-6,000 employees. These actions are expected to be completed by the end of fiscal 2028.
Tennessee Democrats are investigating postcards allegedly sent to voters with an incorrect date for the upcoming special election between Democrat Aftyn Behn and Republican Matt Van Epps.
A spokesperson for the Tennessee secretary of state's office told Newsweek on Wednesday that the office has seen the screenshots of the mailers allegedly sent to voters, but that voters have not contacted them about the matter.
The outcome of the special election could have key implications for control of the House of Representatives, where Republicans hold a 219-213 majority. The resignation of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, in January will bring that to 218-213, and it could get more narrow in the coming months following special elections in more Democratic-leaning districts. If Behn pulls off a victory, it would further shrink the GOP’s majority.
Bruno Vespa riporta l’attenzione sul conflitto israelo-palestinese con un’intervista destinata a far discutere. Ali Baraka, uno dei dirigenti di Hamas, sarà protagonista di un’esclusiva proposta su Rai 1 all’interno sia di Cinque Minuti sia di Porta a Porta, in una serata che promette di intrecciare informazione, attualità e geopolitica.
Ali Baraka, dirigente di Hamas, sarà intervistato da Bruno Vespa a Cinque Minuti e Porta a Porta su Rai 1 giovedì 27 novembre. Orari, dettagli e cosa aspettarsi dalla serata.
Aldo Cazzullo torna questa sera, mercoledì 26 novembre 2025, in prima serata su La7 con uno speciale di Una Giornata Particolare articolato in due parti. Nella prima metà di serata il programma propone “L’ultima intervista a Ornella Vanoni”, un documento inedito e prezioso che assume il valore di un vero e proprio testamento televisivo dell’artista. A seguire, la puntata “Nerone: l’incendio di Roma”, un viaggio nella capitale antica tra storia, fuoco e memoria cristiana.
Washington’s Office of the Insurance Commissioner has fined Regence BlueShield $550,000 over the health insurer’s failure to follow rules to ensure equitable mental health coverage.
The office found Regence violated state and federal laws for “mental health parity,” which require insurers to provide mental health coverage at a rate comparable to their coverage of medical and surgical benefits.
For example, if a provider offers coverage for unlimited visits to the doctor for a chronic physical condition, such as diabetes, it must offer comparable coverage for a chronic mental health condition, such as schizophrenia or depression.
Regence failed to provide documentation that showed it was in line with mental health parity laws, the insurance commissioner’s office said in a news release. That included details about what information Regence uses to determine if care is “in network,” and what criteria it uses to set reimbursement rates for providers (the amount of money a provider gets back from an insurance company for offering care).
Over the past three years, Florida’s Division of Emergency Management has suspended 25 statutes and rules using the immigration state of emergency justification, according to a review by the Miami Herald.
The Herald identified each of the 25 provisions by going through lists of suspended laws within seven emergency orders issued by the Division of Emergency Management since January 2023 in connection to DeSantis’ immigration state of emergency.
Those legal loopholes remain in effect for as long as DeSantis extends his emergency declaration. The bypassed laws include requirements for competitive bidding, oversight of excessive spending, proper licensing, public transparency laws and safety restrictions.
Cambodia has opened Techo International Airport (KTI), a new state-of-the-art gateway for the capital that replaces Phnom Penh International Airport and introduces the country’s first fully digital end-to-end passenger journey.
Venezuela’s National Civil Aviation Institute (INAC) has stepped up pressure on international airlines that suspended flights to the country due to security concerns highlighted by the United States. The Venezuelan authority has warned that airlines could lose their traffic rights—positions allowing takeoffs and landings at Venezuelan airports—if they do not resume operations.
Thailand has completed a landmark urban air mobility demonstration in Bangkok, where the nation’s aviation chief became the first regulator worldwide to ride in a pilotless passenger eVTOL aircraft. The event highlights growing momentum for integrating autonomous air taxis into city transport networks.
Aviation News – Thailand marks major step toward advanced air mobility Thailand has completed a landmark urban air mobility demonstration in Bangkok, where the nation’s aviation chief became the f…
La vernice riscaldante al grafene sviluppata dalla genovese BeDimensional passa dalla fase di laboratorio al suo primo utilizzo in un contesto produttivo.
Il grafene, disperso in una vernice, crea un film conduttivo che si scalda per effetto Joule quando
La vernice riscaldante al grafene sviluppata dalla genovese BeDimensional passa dalla fase di laboratorio al suo primo utilizzo in un contesto produttivo. Il grafene, disperso in una vernice, crea un film conduttivo che si scalda per effetto Joule quando attraversato dalla corrente. Non richiede componenti meccaniche e permette un riscaldamento radiante sottile, integrabile direttamente nei pannelli costruttivi.
La società genovese ha mostrato la prima applicazione della sua pittura al grafene su pannelli di fibrocemento grazie alla collaborazione di due aziende partner italiane
For years since the pandemic started, rental prices outpaced inflation, and the DOJ suspected that RealPage was the dominant force driving a market that never favored renters. Recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data covering a 12-month period ending this September showed rents are still rising by 3.5 percent amid an affordability crisis, leaving some US renters in fear of housing instability.
In its complaint filed last August, the DOJ alleged that RealPage collected sensitive information daily from landlords, making it easier to see how competitors were pricing units. This information allegedly helped landlords “identify situations” where they could “have a $50 increase instead of a $10 increase” or eliminate “renter-friendly concessions (like a free month’s rent or waived fees)” they may have used “to attract or retain renters.”
Under the proposed settlement agreement, RealPage admitted to no wrongdoing and faced no financial penalties. In court filings, the Texas-based company maintained that its “software recommends competitive, or ‘market,’ prices” and that it did nothing to prevent other commercial revenue management software companies from competing.
However, if a court approves the deal, RealPage has agreed to update its software so that rival landlords cannot access “competitively sensitive information to determine rental prices in runtime operation.” Additionally, RealPage will “remove or redesign features that limited price decreases or aligned pricing between competing users of the software.” And the company will “cooperate in the United States’ lawsuit against property management companies that have used its software.”
Moving forward, the company will also stop training its models on “active lease data” and “cease conducting market surveys” that included a broad set of landlords who didn’t even use its software “to collect competitively sensitive information.”
Hope everybody is having a great autumn 🍂 — with temperatures slated to drop next week, I suppose it's almost time for winter 🥶
(and yes, I use em dashes. No LLM was used to write this travesty of a release post.)
We've just dropped NodeBB v4.7.0 with s
Hope everybody is having a great autumn 🍂 — with temperatures slated to drop next week, I suppose it's almost time for winter 🥶
(and yes, I use em dashes. No LLM was used to write this travesty of a release post.)
We've just dropped NodeBB v4.7.0 with some nice QoL improvements for sites federating via ActivityPub.
Security Fixes
Just a note that v4.6.3 contained a dependency upgrade to the validator package that fixes CVE-2025-56200. v4.7.0 contains this fix as well.
New setting to control whether uploaded media is displayed as a topic thumbnail 🖼️
Early changes to better handle ActivityPub content meant that uploaded post content was shown in the topic thumbnails set. This is now a configurable option in Settings > Uploads.
Removal of the "federated description" 💬
We had a small postscript added by default when categories federated outward, and it even came with some default text about mentioning the category to create a topic. It didn't quite work out like we planned, and just looked plain weird when viewed through other threadiverse software (you don't mention a community to create a post in it).
For now I've removed that feature.
A link back to remote categories ↗️
Remote categories now have a button that allows you to navigate directly to the community itself — be it a Lemmy or Piefed community, Peertube channel, etc.
Category boost fixes 🚀
When a topic is moved between categories, the related categories will share (or "Announce" in AP parlance) OP. Likewise, it will be unshared by the other category is no longer belongs to.
N.B. For devs — categories will also federate out Move and Remove activities for the appropriate contexts, which is going to be part of an upcoming FEP the ForumWG is working on.
Improved handling of remote content in chats 😺
When receiving non-public content from remote sources (shown as a chat message), embedded images are now included.
When sending chat messages outside of NodeBB, emoji are now included.
The so-called less lethal weapons are designed to break up mobs engaged in dangerous behavior or deter would-be assailants who pose a threat. They aren’t intended to kill. But research has shown the weapons can cause devastating injuries or death. Federal guidelines generally prohibit agents from targeting the head, neck, throat or spine when firing projectiles like rubber bullets or pepper balls.
ProPublica and FRONTLINE conducted dozens of interviews at protest scenes, reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents and photographs, and analyzed some 50 video-recorded incidents in which immigration agents and officers used these weapons in the last five months. That review found more than two dozen cases in which officers deployed the weapons in ways that appear to flout the government’s own rules, including by aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents at moving vehicles or near children.
In Southern California, federal law enforcement fired pepper balls and rubber bullets at people’s heads and backs at least five times, and at least once at a man’s groin, records and interviews show. In Oakland, California, an unarmed pastor who posed no obvious threat was blasted in the face with pepper powder. In Chicago, where more than a dozen people reported being indiscriminately pelted with pepper balls, entire blocks were enshrouded in tear gas, forcing people from their homes. A religious leader was targeted in his head with pepper balls.
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
Last week, I was following up on several rumors that Donald Trump would sign an executive order that would fulfill a longstanding goal of the AI industry: legal preemption that would prevent states from passing their own AI laws. Mostly, I was calling sources trying to get a sense of how the Trump administration planned to approach it: Which agency would be spearheading it? What legal arguments would they use? How would it interact with Congress, which was trying to pass a similar moratorium in the National Defense Authorization Act?
And then I got a copy of the draft order itself — possibly a sign that someone in the administration deeply, deeply loathes David Sacks, Trump’s Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Even though he’s not a permanent government employee — he is, in fact, a billionaire tech venture capitalist with a provisional employment status similar to the one Elon Musk previously held — Sacks has become deeply influential in setting the administration’s AI and crypto policies. (Just look at Trump’s recent statements about federal AI preemption.)
David Sacks’s attempt to write an AI preemption executive order failed, but here’s what the leaked order would have done to punish states with AI laws.
Federal laws and regulations preempt state laws and regulations.
An EO by itself cannot prevent states from passing laws. The President doesn't make laws.
What he can do is choose an interpretation of an existing law which creates a federal regulation on AI (likely through the FCC), preventing states from regulating them.
Each of the fifty states literally has its own legal system, which are as a rule very particular about the separation of powers.
If Trump signs an EO directing the FCC to declare AI a."telecommunications" product.that states aren't allowed to regulate, there'd be that same week ten to fifty lawsuits by the states asserting that the EO was unconstitutional and had zero effect.
What the AI oligarchs want is for the FCC to decide this on their own without an EO, or for Congress to pass a law. (Although Scotus has made noises about lifting what can be done without Congress in other areas ...)
In practice: spineless fuckers like Gavin Newsom will follow through it, save for doing some bare-minimum pornographic deepfake bans the corporations will agree on, and will still allow non-pornographic deepfakes.
I didn't know that Trump was still trying to push through an AI preemption executive order. It looks like Big Tech is still trying to grab power, despite the change in administration.
This reminds me of when Oregon awarded $300 million to Oracle to build a healthcare marketplace site right after the Affordable Care Act passed. They took the money, built a site that didn't work, and the whole thing was scrapped at the last minute. We wound up using the site that had already been created by the federal government, which is still in use this very day. Also the state is currently in a deficit and wants to add tolls on our highways, increase registration costs for fuel efficient vehicles, and add a per-mile road tax so that the poorest among us can foot the bill for past decisions such as this.
Who in fuck would be dumb enough to hire Oracle for anything anymore? They are sustained entirely by their legal department. Have you found literally anyone in the last decade happy with the end result from Oracle?
So short story time… Years ago, me, the guy I was dating at the time, his step father and mother are hanging out. She says her company finally decided who to hire to revamp all their internal stuff. (Oprah said something about their blenders and now a small Ohio company couldn’t keep up with demand). I’m a tech nerd. Boyfriend fell out of her. Step father used to work at DEC. we all have our reasons to be interested.
“Yea, we hired some company called Oracle.”
All of us had the exact same reaction. Perfectly in sync. It was not one of approval.
I warned her this will end in lawsuits. I was right, they sued Oracle from what I heard. Oracle lied every step of the way about what they could and would do. They missed every fucking deadline. They tested fuck all. Nothing ever worked the way it was CONTRACTUALLY OBLIGATED to work. Because Oracle is basically a law firm that contracts tech work out to India.
She no longer works there which is why I can share this story.
I mean, yes, that is bad… but the biennium budget for 2011-2013 was around $60 Billion, which means this project represented about half a percent of the overall budget. The current budget deficit is around $60 Million, but the kicker from 2024 was a record $5.6B in unexpected surplus.
The Oracle debacle is a good representation of why government contracting can be a mess, but I don’t think that project caused such a big long-term financial problem. Putting a toll on the I-5 bridge into/from WA is a massive issue, I agree with you there.
Accenture... There's your answer. Absolute scumbag company. KPMG, DXC.. All those massive companies run huge con jobs on any of those Government contracts. Wouldnt be surprised if they claimed they had 20 people working on it, but it was only 2 full timers.
Accenture is the worst, knew someone who started working for them out of college and their entire business model is burning out fresh grads and overbilling their customers.
In late October, Elon Musk released a Wikipedia alternative, with pages written by his AI chatbot Grok. Unlike its nearly quarter-century-old namesake, Musk said Grokipedia would strip out the “woke” from Wikipedia, which he previously described as an “extension of legacy media propaganda.” But while Musk’s Grokipedia, in his eyes, is propaganda-free, it seems to have a proclivity toward right-wing hagiography.
Take Grokipedia’s entry on Adolf Hitler. Until earlier this month, the entry read, “Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.” That phrase has been edited to “Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and dictator,” but Grok still refers to Hitler by his honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.” NBC News also pointed out that the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.
I mean the whole stupid Grokipedia thing is a shit show that will never take off, but Fuhrer is just "leader" in German. In it's used context for Hitler it straight up means dictator and (iirc) only came into full on use after the plebiscite giving him full dictatorial power after Hindenburg's death in 1934 (edit: He was already the Reich's Chancellor and merged in Hindenburg's powers with the vote to make himself full dictator / Fuhrer).
I'd welcome input from a German national - Is the word still used there?
We also use "Dalai Lama", for example. Changing it to "leader" would lose a lot in translation. There's a very long list of more problematic things with Musk and this ego project than this particular wording choice.
I agree with the second half but disagree on the first. We do use Dalai Lama because thats what he's known as across the world (at least fron my understanding) . We didn't refer to Angela Merkel as Furher of Germany when she lead it so it seems weird to include this in the introductory summary of Hitler especially considering it's an English article. I dont think you're losing anything in translation in this example by calling him the "leader of Germany" at that time. Down below, in the verbose write-up, seems like the more appropriate place to use it.
I don't think the Merkel comparison is accurate - no one called her Leader, we called her the Chancellor (Kanzler), because that's the job title. "Chancellor" is a pretty specific word in English with a narrower meaning and clearer connotation than "leader", which can be used in a huge variety of contexts. The problem is that English doesn't have a 1:1 translation of Fuehrer as we do with Kanzler, and "leader" is too generic versus Chancellor, Prime Minister, President, etc. Maybe "Supreme Leader" would work, but I haven't seen that used often enough for it to stick.
Hitler was literally the chancellor of Germany. That was his official title before he seized power and took total control and changed the title himself.
That's true, but to reuse my comparison to Romans, we call Augustus "emperor" too despite the term "imperator" being co-opted from an earlier, different meaning. I can see both points of view here, I just don't feel strongly enough to see it as a red flag. God knows there are lots of other, actual red flags.
If you are describing hitler's role in WW2? Yes, he was The German Fuhrer.
I would say that, honestly, I prefer the second version as it is more accurate to what he was. But any time you change something you have to ask "what does it mean that we are changing things?"
And since musk is, at best, someone who wishes he was as cool as the losers on LUE back in the day? This is very much not being done with a journalistic style guide in mind.
Not a german national, but I'm learning it at school, and they say that if you go to a german-speaking region, it's better to say "chef", because "führer" is still connected to that guy
Not German but moved to Germany. The word is still a normal word, it can be used, only in certain contexts not.
To me it is very very weird.
Especially in a comboword there is 0,0 issue: Reiseführer, Bergführer, etc. The no go zone seems very subtle to me, it's more about pronunciation and context, not the word itself. Especially the word "Führerschein" is super weird to me when used in regular conversations. I automatically hear translated "license to be the Führer", but it just means driver's license and nothing else and no one finds it weird.
Exactly this. If you use it as part of a compound word or as a verb it's totally fine. However "der Führer" (the Führer) is exclusively used to describe Hitler, and it usually has a negative or ironic vibe depending on who says it.
About the Führerschein... führen and fahren have the same etymological root... It is still used in "Führen eines Fahrzeugs" which simply means "driving a car" and that is where the term comes from.
At least in Austria it is also used outside of compound words. E.g. when talking about the Bergführer, you still mean the compound word, but the word “Führer” alone is still used in this context extensively. But of course it all depends on context.
"Führerschein" is super weird to me when used in regular conversations. I automatically hear translated "license to be the Führer"
Not weird for point of view of polish speaker - we use same word "prowadzić" for driving a car, running a company or just leading someone to some destination. From that perspective concept of leading a country and "leading" a car is perfectly intuitive
As a german, the word is very seldom used, and everybody cringes on use of it alone. We even use the english word guide instead for situations where it fits.
Führer is not just „leader“, it is tainted and using it as a substitute for Hitler in a factual text is super weird, like casually calling Jesus in his Wikipedia article „our lord and savior“ now and then.
Thank you for this comparison. That's a fun one and one that's made a little more 'subtle' in the US if only because of how common that language is among the populace in regions and how pervasive protestantism is in advertising/messaging.
There was one other time, when he cursed a tree because he didn't like its fruit, but yeah in general he disliked the nascent forms of capitalism and money people that he encountered.
Leader would be "Anführer" these days. "Führer" was probably a perfectly neutral word before 1933. Now you just can't use it anymore without alluding to that period. You can call your mountain guide "Bergführer". All such derived terms are unaffected, but "Führer" is basically off limits for anything outside the Nazi Germany context.
In it’s used context for Hitler it straight up means dictator
From what I gather I don't think the German people meant it like that (read: they weren't supposed to). Of course he was the solitary head of state and everybody knew that his word was above any other's, but addressing him as "my Leader" is much more about ideology than politics. The honorific would've probably been "my Chancellor" if it had been about his political authority. As "Führer" he was the figurative savior of the German people after the perceived injustices encapsulated in the WW1 armistice. And he did lead them back towards a sense of national pride that was completely shattered after 1918.
Being a political figure was just a means to an end for him. If he hadn't been dismissed as a bad artist by a Jewish professor and if WW1 had taken a different course who knows what he would've ended up doing with his life. His weapon was his voice and that weapon was fueled by all these toxic convictions. If your hatred is aimed towards entire peoples and nations I guess your only shot at revenge is becoming a politician.
The honorific would've probably been "my Chancellor" if it had been about his political authority
In his case it was very much meant as dictator.
There was debate after Hindenburg died and he took his powers with the plebiscite (as well as chancellor) about what his title should be. He didn't want to harken back to Kaiser per the previous Reich so they went with Fuhrer.
It had been used within the party before that but came into common usage as his title at that time.
Is there another more 'generic' German term that would fit when talking about this period of time in retrospect? So you could have one line that says the German equivalent of 'he was the leader in Germany during this time period, commonly referred to by the title Fuhrer', and then no need to keep using "Fuhrer" anymore in the rest of the article.
You don‘t really call him just the Führer in academic works so anything that works like an encyclopedia shouldn‘t either. The title is charged with either mockery or admiration. It should have no place in this context, because it should at least try to be neutral if you ask me.
I'm in the thick of a 90 hour audiobook trilogy on the third Reich which is absolutely incredible (link) and Fuhrer is used liberally, partly to describe his ascent to absolute dictator as opposed to just Reich's Chancellor.
I'm not defending shitopedia for one second! I'm just not sure it's as outrageous as other shit that's taking up our limited attention span at the moment is all.
Only his followers actually use(d) that title for him, everyone else when using that word about him, would say it's the title his followers call(ed) him. Like how wikipedia is using it. Grok is just using it as his title, like a follower would.
You can think of it kind of like "dear leader" in north korea. Anyone calling him that outside of north korea is at least doing it sarcastically or using air quotes. This would be like if the news called him that with a sincere reverent tone.
German here: you can use "Führer" only with specific other context. There could be for example "Gruppenführer" -> the leader of a group. Or "Anführer" -> could be the elder of a tribe. If you clearly use it in a neutral context, no problem.
But if you use it just like that, it will immediately raise concern if you really meant to say it this way.
Führer might only mean leader in Germany, but it's rarely used outside of refering to Hitler nowadays.
Leader, in modern German, would be translated as "Anführer", not "Führer" specifically because of the connotations. Also, using the term fuhrer in English, instead of translating as leader, clearly means it's being used as a title, rather than a factual descriptor of what he was.
You can use Führer in context, but as it's a title that was specifically created by and for Hitler, and never used before or since, it's generally not used as a title for him, because people don't want to give him the post mortem respect of addressing him by this title.
And for context, the entire German language Wikipedia entry of Hitler, calls Hitler Führer a total of 17 times. 8 of those are in direct quotes, 3 in indirect quotes, 2 of them are describing his official title "Führer und Reichsanzler" (outside of quotes only, to prevent double counting), 2 use the literal meaning of "leader" in the context of the party, NOT his title as dictator, 2 of them are talking about how he saw himself, and one is drawing a linguistic analogous link between "Führer" and "Geführten" (Leader and Followers).
Outside of quotes, there is not a single use of the term "Der Führer" as an actual honorific title ("The Führer") for Hitler in the entire German language Wikipedia page (which is 30-40k words long).
Conservapedia already did this something like twenty years ago. It missed the entire purpose of the project, which was to invite a kaleidoscope of specialists and journalists to document the volume of known information categorically, primarily through citation to other online works.
Instead, you had a basket case of ultra-orthodox ideologues carving out a very niche set of contrary opinion posts that weren't well documented or continuously maintained.
Conservapedia isn't a right wing vanity project because of it's hot takes on Hitler, it's a vanity project because of the yawning gulfs in it's data set. Nobody engages with the site, because it is so heavily censored.
I get the sense Grokapedia will suffer the same fate. If a subject doesn't tickle Musk's interest, it'll either go undocumented or be a naked plagarization of some other online encyclopedia. And as soon as Musk loses interest entirely, support for the service will go the same way as so many private vanity projects.
Incidentally, Wikipedia's fate is also an open question. What happens when Jimmy Wales can't administer and fundraise for it anymore? How long until some hacks get their hooks in and corrupt it like so many other private media outlets?
I mean, just having the ability to roll up your own Wiki is very handy.
I would appreciate a way to archive the citations, so that a link-break down the line doesn't cause the raw data to be lost. But that's a problem with copywrite and IP more than anything Wikipedia does natively.
Sure, that's a work around. But it relies on a trusted third party, along with wiki mods who don't yank the entry because they don't recognize the archived source as a valid citation.
It isn't a feature integrated into the encyclopedia.
Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia?
A new feature on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter allows users to see the location of other accounts. It has resulted in a firestorm of recriminations
When X rolled out a new feature revealing the locations of popular accounts, the company was acting to boost transparency and clamp down on disinformation. The result, however, has been a circular firing squad of recriminations, as users turn on each other enraged by the revelation that dozens of popular “America first” and pro-Trump accounts originated overseas.
An Ivanka Trump fan account that posts about illegal immigration to the US was shown to be based in Nigeria. MAGAStorm, spreading conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on Trump, was found to be in eastern Europe. AmericanVoice which posts anti-Islam content, is based in India.
Users have noted that a high proportion of these potentially misleading accounts – many of which claim to be in America – are operating from Asia, but experts are in disagreement over whether they may be state-backed influence campaigns or even opportunists trying to make a quick buck.
I just watched a tech video that reviewed two North Korean smartphones. Its autocorrect assertively blocks out or autoreplaces anything deemed unfit by the government, along with absolute control of what can be done on it, and absolute fingerprinting of anything sent.
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
Not sure if you heard but according to the CEO of Palantir in an interview he gave a few weeks ago, there is now "woke left" and "woke right."
Basically anybody on the right who wakes up and smells the bullshit in the narrative is "woke." Like if you believe in those "crazy conspiracy theories" that say Palantir is up to some evil villain shit, you're woke.
According to Peter Thiel Greta Thunberg is the Anti-Christ because she believes in people coming together and pressuring the UN. Anything to avoid accountability with these people.
When they rail against "one world government" it just makes me think it's a good idea.
I mean they want a one government, they just want to be the ones in charge of that one government.
The entire argument is that it's somehow safer bc it's a private corporation/business, and not the government. Except it's a private monopoly protected and contracted by the fucking government!
The only way that argument could possibly make the slightest bit of sense would be in an imaginary world where there was legitimate competition between other corporations (but if that was the case corporations probably wouldn't exist) and the American people actually had some say in which private company got government contracts.
Instead, government officials (who are allegedly the reason we have to turn to private businesses bc we can't trust the government) are buying stock in private companies, and then handing government contracts to the fucking private companies where they own stock.
He has claimed like a dozen people are either the anti-christ or working with the anti-christ. The Pope and Greta are just a few he has named. One of them is just this former co-worker he doesn't like lol.
Clearly Thiel is a genius capable of recognizing when the antichrist changes hape. I propose we start an initiative to raise money for him so he can continue his nobel mission.
Remember when he did that Nazi salute, and we kept hearing it totally wasn't a Nazi salute, and the Trump administration kept saying that we were all just looking for imaginary things to be outraged over?
Then why is he having Grok rewrite Wiki and calling Hitler the Führer, Bart?
Tbh, from a historical point of view, The Führer was used to describe Hitler. Now in Germany, it's basically only used to refer to him.
I'm not for deleting history, and I think the context is important. People needs to know why The Führer or "der Führer" is bad.
A context which I think would have helped in another example would be the N-word. If everyone was really taught the history around that word, I think/hope alot of people would think twice before using it today.
Mentioning Adolf Hitler's title (Führer) is fine (and the information about such title should be included in the wikipedia artcile about him) but why refer to him accross the article by such title?
That's a good point. But The Führer is not something positive, and I wouldnt think much about it.
I'm don't think this was an intentional way to make him sound better. I think we should be much more aware of fact checking what it says, than overusing a historical word to describe Hitler. That might just be an AI thing.
honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.”
if it’s his honorific and not his official title then that should be clarified… Musk is a nazi, i’m sure grokepedia is a bunch of revisionist bullshit, but it’s not really the smoking gun and seems more like grok not groking the difference between his title and nickname.
also it pisses me off that they stole grok from the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
It's not that clear really. His official titles would've been president and chancellor and he only got one of those in a manner the Weimar constitution legally envisioned. So the system, by which we would decide what an official title is today, was abused and then suspended all together. The title "der Führer" was basically a google translate from "il duce" in Italy and is not entirely honorific because he was leader of the Nazi party first. And he continues to be referred to by this semi-unofficial, semi-honorific title even in history books today and they don't always bother to disambiguate or add that they mean it sarcastically. So while Grok should be shot into space. And Nazi saluting Melon Usk deserves to be under this much scrutiny and more and can otherwise go eff himself as far as I'm concerned. The Ockham's razor for this gaff tells me the LLM just regurgitated book knowledge and nobody bothered to filter this with 2025 sensibilities. Not great but also more of a storm in a teacup. This won't make the top ten of atrocious things coming from the Melon.
I was also looking for a word other than 'honorific.' I find it has a positive connotation and should not apply to the titles of such infamous individuals as Hitler or Mussolini. But I could not come up with anything snappy.
Grok is also a word in hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and is specifically named as the inspiration for Grok…. but thanks for playing “i read google ai overview”
As a long-time fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide, I have no memory of the word 'grok' appearing, and the internet at large appears to agree.
I read Stranger in a Strange Land a couple decades ago, and the word is presented in a way that's pretty easy to remember where you got it from.
I don't tend to use Google AI overview or any other such tools to get answers like this to quip back at people, and I'd appreciate if you didn't just assume I did.
Maybe I'm just not getting the distinction between "The Fuhrer" literally redirecting to the Hitler page on Wikipedia, isn't that Wikipedia saying those two terms are so synonymous that they don't need separate pages?
Ok, so it'd be like if a wikipedia page about jesus said he was "our lord and saviour" instead of saying "some people consider him to be their lord and saviour". A page for "Lord and saviour" as a phrase might still list jesus as one possible link.
Basically taking a first person position on it, instead of a third person position. Like grokipedia is writing from first person perspective that Hitler is the fuhrer, which when you consider that it is a significant departure from the wikipedia article, as only 0.01% of the content of grokipedia is, suggests it's a hand crafted article written by someone that would refer to hitler personally as the leader, and not as someone some people used to call "the leader".
There is a reason it was edited immediately as soon as people noticed, due to how bad it looked once pointed out.
Wikipedia isn't using the term to describe Hitler on that page though, it's not saying "The Fuhrer was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era". That's the difference.
I don't believe Elon sees any of this honestly. In his eyes, this is what it is: racist and highly propogandized bullshit. This is because Elon is a racist, highly politically bias asshole.
The man can literally afford to have a legal harem island, fund an entertainment company to create anything to amuse him, AND solve world hunger simultaneously...and he just fawns over Hitler.
Wow, so Elon Musk has his own Wikipedia alternative? Interesting. But I'm not surprised that it already seems to have some questionable content on it...like referring to Hitler as "the Führer." That's not exactly an accurate description of him. And it's also concerning that the page on him goes on for 13,000 words before mentioning the Holocaust. It's important to accurately and objectively represent historical figures and events. Hopefully, this Wikipedia alternative will work on improving their content in the future.
How much longer until Musk says something like "the holocaust wasn't that bad", "the holocaust was merely an effort to deport the undocumented Jews", or even "let's do it again!"
First, there's the Nazi salute. There's no reason to do that unless you are a Nazi.
Second, Nazis called Hitler my Furer, and he's rewriting it this way specifically for this reason. It is an honorific title and he's showing honor to Hitler.
Third, Musk deflects from accusations he's a Nazi ("that's a crazy thing to say") but he never responds by saying "What Hitler did was horrible and I'm not a Nazi and detest their ideology" which is what someone would say if not a Nazi.
The scary thing about this is Musk will soon control a large robot army. At that point, he could appoint white supremacists to lead the robot army and pick up where Hitler left off. This is a real threat for Jewish people as well as other minorities.
Third, Musk deflects from accusations he’s a Nazi (“that’s a crazy thing to say”) but he never responds by saying “What Hitler did was horrible and I’m not a Nazi and detest their ideology” which is what someone would say if not a Nazi.
This is the most important point, IMO. Fascists who want mainstream acceptance know not to have swastika tattoos and not to openly say they love Hitler. They will always try to have some plausible deniability. Don't get dragged into their bullshit arguments. There's no point in debating whether the nazi salute was some other motion that was misinterpreted. Even if it was, the first thing a non-nazi would do would be to clarify that they are not a nazi and don't want nazis to think they're their allies. Even if Musk had completely inadvertently stumbled upon the love and support of the nazis via a series of misunderstandings (lol), at this point in time he is deliberately choosing to be part of them.
Here is Musk at 3:08:01 saying he's not a nazi... and then going on to say you're not a nazi unless you're literally invading Poland and doing the holocaust. That is literally the only objectionable thing about the nazis. Not their "fashion sense or mannerisms". Yes that was a direct quote. There is really only one type of person that would not mention as objectionable the nazi ideology or all the acts of violence that are not at the same scale as the holocaust.
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Most people do, feeling of power or at least positive connection to someone's feeling of power are very intoxicating. I even wonder how many 16 years old girls you knew when you were in high school. No justice or mercy there if you try to keep moral high ground and ignore that component. (I did, LOL.)
The thing about Nazis is that they've lost, so one could get pretty believable feeling of power from their own military and patriotic aesthetic in most of the western nations and socialist bloc, while Nazis would be something of that past with fraktur lettering and stylish evil. A bit like vampires.
Now, today both western and Soviet patriotic aesthetic have kinda rotten. The Soviet kind is associated with murderous madness between two strongest former members, the western kind is associated with paying 20x the right money to kill brown people in their homeland without even getting their oil in the end.
While Nazis, eh, lost. So haven't lived till now and are remembered young and cute, so to say.
correct, just like how the swastika was originally not a hate symbol. But nowadays, Germans would not refer to anyone as "Führer", unless they're (neo)nazis.
The word Führer is 99% used for Hitler. There are many variants that are OK to use though. Most notably Anführer (if Führer is leader, Anführer would be "the one who leads ahead") which is the common word to use for leader. Others are composites like Bergführer (mountain guide).
The swastica also existed before the nazis but is now forever tainted.
I mean, yes, they gave him that title. Roughly translatable as "the leader" or "the chieftain".
What's the problem?
Britannica, for comparison, has contained and still contains Armenian genocide denial in plenty of its articles touching upon Armenia even in little ways. It's honestly not that good on most other subjects I know anything about. It's good enough, I've heard, on scientific and technical subjects, point in time year 1960. And its articles are, eh, far less detailed than Wikipedia, usually. Yet people don't bark at Britannica because that's not in fashion. Actually people still recommend Britannica as a beacon of sanity in the age where anyone can silently abuse a Wikipedia article, or something like that.
Come on, it's just another internet encyclopedia which is like Wikipedia, but with creators' truth not burdened with proof and all wrong people banned without bureaucracy, "truth" and "wrong" being up to subjective interpretation here.
So the space obsessed man-child generated his own stupid encyclopedia, and for this generous all-giving knowledge resource he chooses a stylized BLACK HOLE for the logo.
It feels like the nerd equivalent to that quote about how the anti-semite arguing in bad faith enjoys seeing others frustrated by their hypocrisy. Here lemme just find that pasta...
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Do not get the point here. He did in fact and historically used that name. So we are deleting history now because we are not supposed like Hitler or Elon?
Stalin was a mass murderer, so was Mao, yet they also went by some nicer names. No one has ever raised a serious issue about that.
I do not think anyone here is denying that Hitler was a National Socialist.
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Dopo le due giornate baresi, avviate il 25 novembre scorso presso l’Università di Bari, il 10° Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists torna a Lecce con l’apertura della terza giornata, il 27 novembre, affidata alla Rettrice dell’Università del Salento, Maria Antonietta Aiello, prima donna alla guida dell’Ateneo leccese. Il saluto della Rettrice, conferisce alla tappa salentina del Forum un significato ancora più profondo, ribadendo il ruolo delle università come presidi civici, luoghi di elaborazione critica, spazi di dialogo e responsabilità sociale verso le comunità locali e il Mediterraneo. Una vocazione ribadita anche dal Rettore dell’Università di Bari Roberto Bellotti che, nel salutare l’Ambasciatrice di Palestina Mona Abuamara, protagonista della prima giornata dell’evento, ha rivendicato il “ruolo delle università come un hub dei saperi, aperto, accogliente e inclusivo; promotore di una conoscenza che unisce, che favorisce il dialogo tra culture e che contribuisce, attraverso ricerca e formazione, alla costruzione quotidiana della pace”. Alle ore 16:00 di giovedì 27 novembre, presso l’ex Convento degli Agostiniani, il pubblico potrà partecipare Chiostro dell’ex Convento degli Agostiniani, dove si terrà il panel “Si vis pacem: la Risoluzione 1325 dell’ONU e il ruolo delle donne nella prevenzione dei conflitti”, un appuntamento che pone al centro il contributo delle donne nei processi di pace e nelle strategie di mediazione internazionale. Con il suo intervento inaugurale, la Rettrice Aiello darà avvio a un confronto che approfondirà la portata della risoluzione delle Nazioni Unite, analizzando esperienze reali di advocacy, costruzione di reti transnazionali e protezione dei diritti nelle aree di guerra. Seguiranno gli interventi di studiose, attiviste e rappresentanti di organizzazioni internazionali come Rosa Parisi dell’Università del Salento; Irene Strazzeri dell’Università del Salento; Cecilia Brighi dell’associazione Italia-Birmania Insieme; Maria Rosaria Stabili dell’Università Roma Tre, Giovanna Martelli della Fondazione Rut, Maura Viezzoli del Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli; Gabriella Falcicchio dell’Università di Bari e Maria Luisa Capasa per ANDE. Il panel, coordinato da Daniela Carlà, fondatrice di Noi Rete Donne, ribadirà anche l’importanza di una formazione giornalistica capace di leggere i conflitti attraverso lenti di genere, femministe e inclusive, in un momento storico in cui narrazioni tossiche, discriminazioni e crisi geopolitiche si intrecciano profondamente.
L’indomani, venerdì 28 novembre, sempre dalle 16 alle 18, il 10° Forum delle Giornaliste del Mediterraneo si chiuderà con il panel “L’informazione ai tempi del climate change”, dedicato al ruolo cruciale del giornalismo ambientale nell’era della crisi climatica. In una prospettiva ecofemminista che unisce la difesa dei territori alla tutela dei corpi e delle comunità, giornaliste e ricercatrici discuteranno delle modalità più efficaci per contrastare disinformazione, greenwashing e narrazioni semplificate. La giornalista ambientale Daniela Spera coordinerà un confronto che vedrà protagoniste le colleghe croniste Rosy Battaglia, Valentina Murrieri, Marilù Mastrogiovanni, Vittoria Torsello e la reporter spagnola Helena Rodríguez Gómez, insieme alle testimonianze della Rete delle mamme da Nord a Sud, da anni attiva nelle vertenze ambientali e sanitarie italiane. Il Forum of Mediterranean Women Journalists è reso possibile grazie al contributo del Co.Re.Com Puglia e alla collaborazione di numerose istituzioni, enti e reti attive nel campo dell’informazione, dei diritti umani e della ricerca. Informazioni, programma completo e dirette streaming sono disponibili sul sito www.giornaliste.org e sui canali social ufficiali del Forum.
As Europe pursues the vision of becoming an AI continent, the AI infrastructure boom in Germany is already exposing the limits of the energy supply and physical infrastructure. And the question remains: What price will society and consumers ultimately pay?
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How well does remote viewing work on jellyfin? I have a lot of friends and family that use my Plex, I've also had a lifetime pass for pushing a decade.
Like how easy is it to send an invite and the person be rolling with no technical setup from me? I just sent a Plex invite last week to my friend's brother who did some plumbing work on my house, dunno if I'll even ever see that dude again haha. I'm certainly not goin over to his house to set something up.
Or my dad struggles enough with it as it is, he's 70 next year so I get it. But that might be more of a problem with the Plex app on his ancient smart TV.
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This is for remote streaming. Can Jellyfin be accessed outside the network? I thought that was the difference.
Like if I didn't like Plex and I ran Jellyfin (and I have done), I could access it locally but I couldn't access it, say, from a hotel a thousand miles away. Or it requires a lot more work (and maybe some paid service) to do.
Plex may have gone up, but a bunch of us got it for $100 or less years ago and we are not affected by the new limitations. Still free for our family members accessing remotely. Wasn't free for us to set up.
This makes it a complete nonstarter as a plex replacement. My 89 year old grandparents and tech illiterate friends can’t and won’t use a vpn for streaming. Until jellyfin can be 1 click accessed from anywhere securely over clear net it’s not a replacement.
Until jellyfin can be 1 click accessed from anywhere securely over clear net it’s not a replacement.
It can be, speaking from extensive personal experience. I followed their Reverse Proxy guides, now my tech-illiterate friends access my server over https via a duckdns url.
That's a far cry from how most people watch movies and TV though. Most everyone I know uses it through some sort of app on a device in their living room, like a smart TV, fire stick, game console, whatever.
I mean if you don't want to use it you don't need to find an excuse, just don't. Otherwise, Jellyfin has apps for TV, smartphones and so on; you input address, user and password the first time and that's it.
Anticipazioni de La Notte nel Cuore trentanovesima puntata del 30 novembre 2025.La nuova puntata di La Notte nel Cuore, in onda domenica 30 novembre 2025 in prima serata su Canale 5, segna una svolta drammatica nella storia di Nuh. Quello che finora era stato letto come un carattere esplosivo e sfuriate incontrollate nasconde in realtà una causa ben più seria: il ragazzo scopre di avere un tumore al cervello, e l’operazione per provare a guarire non è affatto priva di rischi.
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[quote]Mountains share many characteristics with Arctic regions and are experiencing similarly rapid changes,(…) both environments are losing snow and ice rapidly and are seeing profound changes in ecosystems.
The implications extend far beyond mountain
Mountains share many characteristics with Arctic regions and are experiencing similarly rapid changes,(...) both environments are losing snow and ice rapidly and are seeing profound changes in ecosystems.
The implications extend far beyond mountain communities. Over one billion people worldwide depend on mountain snow and glaciers for water, including in China and India - the world's two largest countries by population - who receive water from the Himalayas.
Their whole shtick is to bullshit and confidence game their way through their career. Of course they're going to be impressed by the rock solid bs and confidence of AI.
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So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist*, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.
He couldn't bring himself to eat it.
Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they're all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it's worse than that and they're used.
Do not want.
* Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women's issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren't linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.
But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that's what I'm responding to. Food for thought.
I mean yes, but also no. I get the point and it's a good one, but sounds a bit like people just shouldn't complain because 200 years ago refrigerators didn't exist.
Right?! At the end of the day, they're still just people. Gotta eat, gotta sleep, gotta shit. I will never understand how any individual gets so much money/power/attention because they're all just god damn people and in the event of a catastrophe i imagine they would be about as helpful as any other random human. They aren't gods, and they certainly don't deserve the stratification. It's not like they're enlightened or something, most of the time they're just sociopaths who are rich, clever, and/or connected. When you get a glimpse under the hood at moments like this, it really is kinda jarring. Helps to dispel those silly presumptions about them at least.
Abstraction layers. They are so detached from everyone else through abstraction layers that we're nothing more than D2 NPC character sheets to them. That's why when a Luigi, alegedly, breaks through all of the abstraction layers and brings a leaded reality check to these fucking parasites they double down on palantir like projects to keep themselves safe while making the state even more oppressive and invasive of everyone's privacy.
Managers love these AI tools because that's what they're already doing and familiar with; the same way you talk an AI to doing something for you is not very different from the experience of instructing a mediocre worker.
I had a hard time explaining to the powers that are that AI would not be able to help in any way, simply because there is no knowledge base available for this kind of job of which it could have learned anything worthwhile.
I wish an AI operating system was just a bunch of microscopic AI models that only load when needed and run on device and have a genuine assistive purpose, instead of "Oh, HahA leTs maKe The comPuTer ContrOL iTsElf aNd tELL UsEr FalSe InFormAtioN"
Genuinely what I wished for when the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 was announced as "The First AI Phone".
Instead what was shown in the livestream was literally Gemini, a product of another company on a €2000 smartphone that doesn't even use the hardware you pay for.
I mean he can fane that he doesn't understand but he must. No matter how technically impressive the technology is, it's only as good as it's application.
Most people are familiar with the concept of an LLM. Most progress has been iterative.
Bro theres plastic in my balls sorry I'm not impressed you tricked a computer into having conversations by destroying the environment and computer hardware market at the same time. Resouece wise these guys are moving, and consuming heaven and earth and for what? Fucking grok telling us how good at eating shit elmo is?
Elmo's dedication and ability to endure punishing amounts of shit makes elmo not only the best on Earth, but probably the best in the universe when it comes to eating fetid maggotty rotting shit.
AI doesn't really do anything for me. It doesn't give me more money, take care of my plants, clean my house, or improve my relationships with the human beings around me.
I'm sick of caring about increasing my "job productivity", which is all it -might- do, and that's debatable. It's probably just trying to learn how to do my job so we need less humans working in the end. Sounds amazing, but inside of capitalism, it just means they'll starve.
My cousin just finished his MBA from a big college, he is so proud that he used AI for most of his assignments, he used 3 out 4 subscriptions to make it "more human" and "not mistakes" and so they couldn't detect it easily
He said that everybody in his courses was using AI and that most group discussions were about which AI is better, so it makes sense that those managers are so excited about AI, because it was able to do their "meaningless" jobs so they think it can do anyone's job, but he doesn't see the irony that he would be the first to be replaced
Managers being completely out of touch and also not realizing how useless they are is an ancient tale, no offense to your kin but even before AI you could generally assume stupidity when meeting an MBA, at minimum you can assume lack of curiosity or anything interesting to say.
There are literally all of about 10 schools from which an MBA is worth anything. Often people with MBAs from non T10 schools are recommended to take their MBA off of their resume when they inevitably struggle to find a job. A sub T10 MBA on a resume just says “I will ask for more money courtesy of my useless credential”
your self-obsession is oozing out of your words, my phone feels a little greasy. being proud of any 'master of business administration' under capitalism, is in my mind like saying you are a 'master of efficient selfishness'. you are higly trained at making a MES! why not master of public service administration?
My experience is an MBA from a T10 school is just as useless. On top of that, they think they should be paid more because of the school they went to.
The sad thing, some of the material in an MBA program can actually be useful. It's just the type of people who enroll in these programs aren't the type to actually learn it and will just coast through doing the bare minimum. Or I suppose today, using AI to cheat. This is even more so for the people who think that the key to success is having a big name school on their resume. If anything, I'd put more weight on an MBA from no-name state U than T10 school. Which still isn't much, but anyway.
People who usually get MBA's typically aren't actually good at anything but they grew up upperclass and have no intention of getting a blue collar job.
Unlike 110% of the Lemmy community, I am legitimately impressed by AI. LLMs have increased my productivity both at work and with my own personal hobbies.
Tonight alone, I created dozens of JSON files using an LLM for a game mod I'm developing that would have taken me days if I had created them manually.
My issues with Microsoft have nothing to do with AI (as a concept). Personally, I equate most people who oppose LLMs with the Luddite movement.
Microsoft has many, many issues. Their focus on forcing AI on people who mostly don't want it is a stupid business decision IMO. They should focus their energy elsewhere.
I'd rather they fix Teams and remove the 4,738 completely useless Clippy notifications they send me daily (on my work computer—fuck using Windows at home).
You are aware that the Luddite movement is not so much a reaction to new tech, but a reaction to the use, or rather abuse of said tech? As somebody who works in tech, I am not opposed by AI as a tool, but using it for the sake of using it does not solve anything.
In the beginning people did actually find it cool and had fun with the pics and videos being made from it. And found asking it to provide code useful.
Backlash started once corporations started integrating AI into OS and software. People saw that it would be used aggressively to infringe upon peoples privacy and shove ads in their faces, and its getting harder to avoid OS or programs without it because corporations use any excuse to keep pushing it. Its seen as spyware because thats how corporations use it.
And even before corporations went all in on AI, techy people only trusted open sourced AI run on their own systems over trusting delicate information to a third party one connected to the Internet to vacuum up all that data.
Ugh, make a liar of me will you? I should have read the replies before stating I wouldn't be responding. But I hate blatant misinformation.
I could create a quadrillion JSON files using Python if I was aiming for quantity alone. For context, I was creating character profiles for video game characters that were derived from the public wikis. Good luck creating a Python code to read through an NPC's wiki entry (and related entries) and then generating their personality, background, significant events, and relationships into a logical JSON file with 'a few dozen lines of Python'.
Yeah, I'm not going to respond to the replies. I thought I made it clear; I already know that Lemmy has a collective ragegasm whenever someone says something positive about AI. You don't need to tell me how much you hate it, I know. I just don't care.
You don't care so much you cared enough to comment on how much you don't care. But, someone who truly didn't care wouldn't have left the second reply to begin with.
FYI, I'm not here to win a high school popularity contest. I'm perfectly capable of admitting that I am a flawed human being (as already acknowledge in my 'second reply').
I'm happy for you to be the big boy/girl here. Here's a cookie: 🍪.
Considering the company, I suspect they heard what they'd said and immediately gave them another raise. "that's the kind of insanity that made this company what it is today!"
Funny. I just asked our corporate AI a question in the line of "Can I eat this poisonous mushroom?" and it answered something like "Sure! Just follow current medical advice, then you should be fine.". So impressed!
IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.
Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I've found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.
Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren't completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with "agentic AI".
Good documentation makes me happy, bad documentation makes me run away. I suspect I'm not the only person who not only reads the fucking manual but thinks writing good technical documentation is an art of its own. Good luck with trying to replace proper documentation with profuse gibberish.
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in reply to lgsp@feddit.it • • •Two things: this is an accepted practice all over the country and the traffic code has its own traffic sign for it when it is permitted. And the suggested amendment would only make it legal in situations where there would remain 1.6m of space for pedestrians, wheelchair users, and strollers. So the car parked in the image would remain illegally parked.
Munich has made a mistake of tacitly allowing this parking practice in areas where there isn't enough space, motivated by keeping roads accessible to first responders, which is not nothing. They have clearly made a mistake if everybody still owns a car when there s above average public transport. And people will still park like assholes. Under these plans (they haven't been approved yet according to the article), the assholes could be punished though. It would just not give fines out to everybody. This is a compromise solution in a bad situation.
I would amend the plans in two areas: the grumpy people of Munich should be allowed to smear dogshit legally on every car that doesn't leave 1.6m of space on the sidewalk (the article mentions a similar occurrence). And giving up car ownership should be rewarded with free public transport for a suitable amount of time.
rainwall
in reply to FriendOfDeSoto • • •Once you tacitly allow this everywhere with your "yes, but allow 1.6m" rule, you've just actually allowed it everywhere with no qualifiers. No one is going to get a tape measure out and verify when they park. When its utterly common, I doubt police or enforcement officers will check either except very sporadically, allowing it to happen 99% of the time.
A "yes insane thing, but only when sane" law is always, always a give away to the insane thing.
Creat
in reply to rainwall • • •You clearly don't know Germans. Yes they will. They already do. You're not allowed to park within 5m of an intersection, which the people in charge of checking and giving tickets will absolutely measure. There are many other instances where distances are involved like this. They already carry a tape measure (or equivalent) for this exact reason. Adding one more case just fits the theme.
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in reply to Creat • • •and yet, illegal parking on sidewalk is common place in Munich. How is it? (honest question)