In the post it is explained that it is meant for reusing wine bottles not buying new ones. And it mostly doesn't matter that it can't be used under pressure because it is for syrups and other non pressure stuff.
Thrift stores, virgil's root beer sells some of their drinks in swing tops, trader joe's ginger beer is in a swing top. Or you can just buy them online.
If swingtops that are shaped for beer work for you, find a local independent bar or pub. Stop by before opening and ask if they'd mind saving their swingtops for you.
When I did this, the answer "Sure, just bring one back for me with your first brew." More, they already had a box of them set aside.
Grolsch bottles are by far the most common and will be 450ml, green, and with a raised glass patterning. Those are the most common. 9 ounce bottles from small commercial breweries will be smooth clear or brown with paper labels you'll want to soak off, and they'll have significantly fewer of these.
No idea where you're from but in UK they sell beer in lithuanian/polish/Russian shops with these caps, use one as a water bottle, would love this mechanism on a larger necked glass bottle.
Bonus you get a free beer with purchase of a bottle.
I've had varying luck with bottles like that, sometimes they don't hold pressure and you end up drinking flat beer. Using those lids on standard wine bottles and carbonating in them is a recipe for creating high velocity glass shrapnel.
The kit would probably have to be used with a certain style of bottle, since if that collar slides up too far you aren't going to get a seal. So the flared end on the bottle would need to be a measured amount or there will be too little or too much tension on the cap when it's flipped.
Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.
We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Unfortunately, there isn't anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I've tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.
We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.
In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.
I'm guessing it's automated stupidity. Meta has cut staff and we're seeing the results.
Much of the big tech companies have done this over the past year or two, and also been pushing "AI" to replace roles like moderation. I think we're seeing the results of over relying on AI and cutting staff to boost share prices.
Lets face it, Meta is dying; Facebook is declining, and Instagram seems to be in decline too, the pivot to VR failed and the pivot to AI will fail. It's best chance seems to be trying to get its hands on TikTok in the US and even that is hardly going to drive the company forward.
Could be strategic, since Linux does not have as much telemetry as it's proprietary competition, which would hinder some Project 2025 dreams, but we got zero evidence for it so far...
I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows: - Case: Fractal Define R5 - Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF - CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity. - OS: Unraid 🧡
While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hand on my first mini-pc soon, a ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs: - CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB
From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. This leads me to my question. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. What are your suggestions?
::: spoiler Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:
Descriptions: 10-inch 4U rack External dimensions: 280mm*200mm*274mm Internal dimensions: 222mm*200mm*241mm The maximum installation depth of this 10-inch rack is 20cm Easy to install: 4U rack is shipped assembled, saving you the trouble of installat…
I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows: - Case: Fractal Define R5 - Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF - CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity. - OS: Unraid 🧡
While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hand on my first mini-pc soon, a ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs: - CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX - Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 - Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB
From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. This leads me to my question. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. What are your suggestions?
::: spoiler Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:
Descriptions: 10-inch 4U rack External dimensions: 280mm*200mm*274mm Internal dimensions: 222mm*200mm*241mm The maximum installation depth of this 10-inch rack is 20cm Easy to install: 4U rack is shipped assembled, saving you the trouble of installat…
We are closing the voting on this topic a couple of days early as the result is already conclusive., Our threshold for passing the motion was for 2/3 of voting members in favor. We have far exceeded that threshold (see below) and have a good number of overall responses, so the proposed policy change has now been approved and takes effect immediately.
Our new policy on Xitter links
No Xitter links are to be posted on this instance from the date of this announcement.
Workarounds such as link shorteners and alternative front-ends that resolve to Xitter posts are also banned.
Screenshots will still be permitted as per the overwhelming number of comments in support of this option.
Exception: In rare cases there may be a need to verify the veracity of a Xitter post. If this need arises, then you may post a xcancel.com/ version of the link. Please note this option should only be used sparingly and exclusively for fact-checking purposes.
We will begin communicating this instance policy change to all our users today.
Please try to be helpful to anyone who accidentally posts a Xitter link who may not yet be aware of the policy change, and/or feel free to report in the usual way.
N.B.: For the loopholers - by "Xitter links" we mean any links to content hosted on X (formerly Twitter). Alternative Xitter front-ends are also banned under this policy, unless exception #4 applies. Edit: The ban also applies to other Xitter-owned domains such as their photo blobstore (pbs) domain at pbd.twimg.com
Thanks to everyone involved for participating in the vote!
**The final tally is as follows: **
For: (2), (7), (5), (3), (2), (1)
Against:
Local Community: +2.6
Outsider sentiment: Very Positive
Total: +22.6
Percentage: 100.00%
To break this down a little differently:
Home instance users voted 93% in favor of the proposal (284/307)
External instance users voted 97% in favor of the proposal (70/72 note: these are not counted, but good to know)
Donating and vouched for users voted 100% in favor of the proposal (20/20 votes).
Community vote on banning X/Twitter links aka "Twitter in the shitter?"
Ahoy me hearties!
We were thinking this might be a good test run topic for instance voting in our !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community. Please be patient with us if anything breaks or isn't working properly. Feedback is welcome.
The voting topic
Given the current political backdrop and recent video of Elon Musk performing clearly identifiable Nazi salutes at the Presidential inauguration, some communities have started banning all links to X/Twitter. A couple of examples I noticed yesterday:
The vote is on whether our instance should follow suit and implement an instance-wide ban on X/Twitter links in posts and comments.
I've noticed some people suggesting allowing screenshots to still be used (e.g. for memes). Feel free to drop a comment if you have an opinion on that.
How to vote
Simply upvote or downvote this post. The /0 Bot will automatically calculate and update a tally of votes every 15 mins or so according to the voting rules (so don’t expect instant updates). An upvote is counted in favour of the resolution. A downvote is counted as against the resolution.
Note regarding crossposting: please be aware that only votes on the original post in !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com will be counted.
When to vote
Voting starts as of now. We'll close voting once the flow of votes stops - not sure exactly when that will be yet, but I'd like to keep the topic open for at least 2 or 3 days (maybe a week?) to give everyone a chance to vote.
Who can vote
TLDR here is that anyone can vote, but your votes will be weighted differently depending if you are a financial supporter, local instance member or external instance member.
As discussed in the announcement post, the initial plan was that only stakeholders can vote and open threads. That now includes everyone who is supporting us with any monthly donation amount.
Voting rights have also been extended so that votes of other local instance members who otherwise have no voting rights will be accounted at a rate of 1/100 from a random sample of up to 1000 of their votes. This means that a vote can go up to max +/- 10 from local community votes and it’s a fractional count (i.e. +1.1, or -0.7) which should make the local community sentiment an excellent tiebreaker, without overwhelming the people who are directly supporting the instance. Furthermore, I decided to display the “outsider sentiment” which is votes from non-valid-voting users from other instances. The outsider sentiment is only flavour (“Positive”, “Negative” etc) and is disregarded from the total. This is just shown for reference of the outsider sentiment which I think might be useful.
What constitutes a successful vote on a topic?
We are totally open to debate on this. I was thinking for this topic, a 2/3 majority vote would be a good target to aim for so we can be certain the community vote represents a clear majority of our users' opinions.
My thinking here is that if some topics are split close to 50/50 then achieving a 51% vote for example does not produce a clear mandate and may simply cause unnecessary division.
Having said that, I acknowledge a 2/3 majority is an arbitrary choice, but unless we implement a more complex voting system hopefully it is "good enough" to indicate a clear majority. As mentioned previously, feedback is very welcome and we will review and make adjustments where necessary.
Community participation
I strongly encourage all our instance members as well as subscribers from different instances to vote on this topic. If we only get a small handful of votes it's not going to be very representative of overall sentiment. This is a test run, so if things don't work out in terms of participation we will re-assess and perhaps revisit the topic.
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In un momento in cui le piattaforme di social media consolidate stanno affrontando critiche e turbolenze (dalla chiusura temporanea di TikTok al ritiro di Meta dal fact-checking, fino alle crescenti critiche sulla moderazione dei contenuti politici), un nuovo approccio ai social media sta guadagnando una certa attenzione.
"Aiutateci a restituire il controllo alle persone!" dichiara lo sviluppatore canadese Daniel Supernault, le cui piattaforme open source mirano a fornire alternative incentrate sulla privacy ai social media tradizionali.
La campagna Kickstarter di Supernault , lanciata il 24 gennaio, ha già superato il suo obiettivo iniziale di CA$50.000, secondo quanto riportato da TechCrunch , raccogliendo CA$93.022 (circa US$64.839) alle 11:02 PT di oggi. Il finanziamento sosterrà lo sviluppo di tre piattaforme all'interno di Fediverse, una rete decentralizzata di servizi di social media interconnessi. Queste piattaforme includono Pixelfed, Loops e Sup, progettate come alternative incentrate sulla privacy a Instagram, TikTok e WhatsApp, rispettivamente. Ogni piattaforma rifiuta i tradizionali finanziamenti di capitale di rischio e modelli di ricavi basati sulla pubblicità a favore dello sviluppo guidato dalla comunità.
Alternative a Instagram, TikTok e WhatsApp
Per quanto riguarda le app alternative in sé, Pixelfed è il più maturo dei progetti di Supernault, che offre un'alternativa senza pubblicità a Instagram, che ha lanciato le sue app mobili il 14 gennaio . La piattaforma fornisce le tradizionali funzionalità di condivisione di foto come filtri e album, mantenendo al contempo una rigorosa politica di non tracciamento e di non vendita di dati. La sua istanza principale, Pixelfed.social, ha accumulato più di 200.000 utenti e ha raggiunto il 6° posto nella categoria social media nell'App Store di Apple, diventando il secondo server più grande nel Fediverse dietro Mastodon.social, secondo le statistiche di rete di FediDB .
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell January 27, 20259:24 AM EST
*** Summary *** Israel gives greenlight to start of return of Gazans to north Hamas to free Israeli hostage Yehud, two others, before Friday 650,000 Gazans ready to go back to the north, Palestinians say Gazans reject Trump's proposal they leave the enclave
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell January 27, 20259:24 AM EST
*** Summary *** Israel gives greenlight to start of return of Gazans to north Hamas to free Israeli hostage Yehud, two others, before Friday 650,000 Gazans ready to go back to the north, Palestinians say Gazans reject Trump's proposal they leave the enclave
Hey, I noticed your home was bombed into rubble, would you like to to arrange the sale of your land for significantly less than it’s worth so that you can afford to find someplace to live? The new owner would be very happy to rent it to you over market price.
By Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell January 27, 20259:24 AM EST
*** Summary *** Israel gives greenlight to start of return of Gazans to north Hamas to free Israeli hostage Yehud, two others, before Friday 650,000 Gazans ready to go back to the north, Palestinians say Gazans reject Trump's proposal they leave the enclave
It actually could though. They've seen a fairly steep drop in consumption growth coupled with a massive ramp up in solar and other renewables. They install more renewable capacity every year than the rest of the world combined.
Say what you want about their lack of human rights but a command economy sure gets things done quickly; they at least recognize that energy self sufficiency is the only way to survive long term.
They increased their renewables by 10% percentage but they still increased their carbon emissions. They hace half the worlds coal plants and they still keep building more. They still remain the #1 pollutor accounting for 35%+ of emissions and they are the only major country that isn't reducing emissions growth.
While the rest of the developed world works on reducing emissions and increasing environmental regulation to combat cliamte change. China has used its almost 0 environmental regulation to out compete the rest of the world. Ignoring all calls for them to reduce emissions so they can sell the solution.
Doing this undermines climate efforts and we are already seeing nations give up on climate change. If China isn't reducing emissions it's completely pointless for anyone else to bother. Its over for the world there is no chance we reduce emissions in time to stop environmental collapse.
I'm looking to get a custom ROM that has good compatibility with my device. Would you recommend /e/? I couldn't find a tutorial on how to install it with Linux but I don't think it should be that hard to figure out.
It’s pretty solid. I use it daily and don’t have any big problems. Install is simple. Just install adb and fastboot from your linux repository. This should cover the most of the installation requirements.
I don't know if installing from the repositories is such a fantastic idea. I've had instances where I've almost fucked up a device because I installed the ones from the repositories and they weren't new enough. I would recommend downloading the ones from Google directly.
Well, when I tried the one directly from the repository, my version of Android would not boot, but then I downloaded the one directly from Google and did the same commands. And it booted. So yeah, either it was a bug or something.
On the surface. DivestedOS has a whole laundry list of bugs and defects that /e/ hasn't patched in yeeeeaarrs. Including how many holes their so-called 'IP scrambler' actually has.
Your coworkers would be safer with stock. Or Lineage. Or literally anything else.
Personally I hear it had been a mixed bag. Hopefully time has refined this... Old stories about digging up old LOS images, bare minimal patches, and release under e branding with no consideration for security/hardening. Buuut that was info from a grapheneos vs eos forum, or something. Do your research, you know what sub you're in.
Here is a good comparison. As a reminder, there is no privacy without security, so if you live in the US (or anywhere that illegal searches happen regularly), I'd argue a less secure solution is by definition a less private solution.
It's dangerous to get too obsessed with trying to secure everything against state actor level threats. It's not that hard to dramatically increase your privacy if you're currently using a regular android phone. Sure, yes, more security is better, but a single individual's private information isn't actually that valuable. It only becomes valuable to exploit people at a massive scale. Even just putting up minor speedbumps to data collection can massively increase your privacy as long as you aren't being individually targeted, and more people getting into caring about their privacy is a good thing. Any de-googled android rom is already a big step in that direction. Lets not let perfect be the enemy of good.
If OP was trying to secure themselves against interest from conventional state actor like a large intelligence service, I'd say they probably need to throw their phone in a woodchipper and start hitchhiking to the nearest professional spy training program.
More realistic concerns that an ordinary person probably has are casual mass surveillance and local police fuckery. Random AOSP Roms are not sufficient to handle either of those threats.
They're actually pretty good at protecting you from casual mass surveillance as long as you don't do anything stupid with them, that was the whole point of my post. It's just not profitable to spy on you if they have to bother to put any effort into it.
I also think you're overestimating the capabilities of most local police. When I said state level actors I wasn't just talking about the NSA. Smaller countries, actual US states, or even some big cities would be included there, but your local small town police department wouldn't even know where to start. If you plan on personally pissing off any of those bigger police agencies then you should really just be assuming no phone is safe. Otherwise you're not likely to run into anyone that even knows what de-googled android is, let alone how to get into it.
Our local PD literally have access to stingrays, cellbrite/Pegasus (I don't actually know which one they pay for) and military weaponry. In the suburbs, they have armored vehicles as well (tanks and APCs, not armored swat trucks).
Obviously it varies by where you live because different departments will have different levels of funding and will ask for different toys from the feds, but you'd be surprised how comically over equipped many PDs are.
Well, it's certainly true that it varies by where you are, but I'm pretty sure Graphene isn't going to protect you from an APC any better than /e/OS, and the county sheriff where I live wouldn't know a stingray from an Xbox, but maybe I just live too far out into the middle of nowhere to be typical.
Their easy installer is why many people I know installed it, but it only supports 21 devices and mine wasn't one of them, so I can't say much about usability or security. If yours is one of them, there's also a Linux guide on their website: doc.e.foundation/easy-installe…
looks at GrapheneOS installer.... Literally just 3 buttons on a Website you have to click, all of the steps easily written with clear instructions for Linux as well as windows
looks at /e/ installer - finds 5 Websites with installers for /e/, all of them apparantly official ones, decided to use https://e.foundation/installer/ - Site dosent let you view this instructions without JavaScript. - enabled JS - Cant even use fcking Firefox to view this installer because a fcking pop-up Blocks my sight - goddamn privacy oriented Android Rom Website recommends using Microsoft edge or Opera (both of which are privacy nightmares, especially opera) - smashes pillow against the wall
I give up. If you call that bloated peace of dierrhea an „Easy installer”, you could just as well say that gentoo is easier to install than mint.
My Problem is not that you dont have a Pixel, but that /e/ 's Website is literal dogpoop, and that already tells a lot about their OS. Like, they are in a literal conflict to support other, maybe even more privacy friendly backup for cloud systems because the already have their own
Does your phone support anything else? LOS, Calyx, etc
/e/os is often behind on Android monthly security patches (sometimes up to a month or more!) and the apps they fork I have heard also often lag behind upstream. It also doesnt do much to deblob the ROM if proprietary binary blobs.
Came here literally to comment this. Hooooly fuck, I would not trust /e/ as far as I can throw a Fairphone. Good thing they're compostable, becauze that's the only up they have on a Graphene flash.
Until I can take a basic actionable step to ensuring my information is safe like LOCKING MY BOOTLOADER... I am good over here.
Depends on how far you want to go. From what I've been able to tell, they pedel a lot of flashy metrics and still had a bunch of google calls. Some of which you can manually remove, same as LOS. I would avoid buying into their cloud and keeping an eye on things yourself, if you want to install it. I saw them rebrand a bunch of OSS tooling as their own products back then. Don't know if things changed since then, but I don't trust the marketing.
I've used it for almost five years, flashed it myself on my FP3. I disabled microG and I'm very careful & strict about what I install on my phone, also their Advanced Privacy set of tools is pretty good. For my threat model is more than enough and I am very happy overall. Never had any serious issues, or even mildly serious ones tbh, despite people yelling about Android security updates arriving late. There was an outage in their cloud services in October that required a complete revamping of their server infrastructure and that took months but I don't use their cloud so I wasn't affected at all.
Damn. That's such a shame, I was considering the fairphone with /e/ os but it's looking less and less appealing. I guess flashing it with CalyxOS and removing/replacing microg might be the better option. Either that or bite the bullet and get a pixel n' flash GrapheneOS to it.
I deeply aplreciate your expansion on the matter 😀
Even at the cost of using a Google phone? In any case if I decide to go with it I'll be sure to donate match the price of whichever pixel I end up with ty 😀
I kinda took out my old phone (Sony) and flashed on that.... And running parallel while I degoogle myself.... Takes some time to change all email registrations from govt. And tax authorities to other external services like docs, banks and stuff....so doing dual phone for a fee weeks and then dropped main phone (fairphone5) to fully shift on e/os phone (sony).. And then will reset the ex-main phone (ff5) when degoogle is complete... I am too busy these days so it's taking very long. (Also clean up Google inboxes and then back up vs. Backup and then clean up old inboxes is a struggle for me). Once fully complete I will flash ex-mainphone FF5 with e/os as well and switch to it And then use the 2nd phone to shift my partner and kids slowly. And in a year or next upgrades I think I might buy my family older pixel phones and flash e/os on them.
Maybe you should also get a side phone to start the project.
I'm pretty sure you implied that the ranking was based on security and privacy. I don't see the privacy benefits of using iOS over a custom privacy OS.
That seems like an overly black and white position over something that can be either quite valid or entirely nonsense depending on the situation and/or threat model.
GrapheneOS wins, but whether iOS is more private than CalyxOS or /e/OS I think is very gray, and depends on the threat model, and on most devices they are going to be a significant improvement in privacy, and often security, over stock Android.
And privacy may not be the only consideration when choosing a device.
Since my threat model includes mainly surveillance capitalism (and no evil maids or targeted attacks) I don't particularly feel like trusting a big tech that's running their own targeted advertisement system.
Im using it for a couple of years. I flashed my fairphone 3 by my self back then, before the easy installer. It was the first time i did something "advanced" with a phone, but it worked quite well. After my fairphone 3 died, I bought a Fairphone 4 via murena. So everything was already installed etc In total I am happy with the Os. Their goal, the release of privacy oriented OS for everyone (so f.e. even my parents could use them) is quite of a utopia I suppose. But still, the team and community are doing a good job.
Yeah I already heard about grapheneOS, but its not working well with fairphone right? So murena it is for me 😀 And I would recommend to people, who are aware of the downsides and are little enthusiastic 😀
It wasnt the battery, sadly. Some Fairphone3 have the issue, that their mainboard(?) is breaking down after a couple of years without any clear reason - and I was the lucky one. Its the only "unreplaceble" part and kind of phone breaker. Sure, you can replace this too, but it would somheow be like buying a new phone. At this point, the fairphone 4 was alreasy released, so I took the upgrade. Fairphone 4 and 5 have now a waranty of 5 instead of 2 years. So at least on this point ill be save for 3 years more :>
/e/ has good but not perfect privacy. It still contains connections to Google and they added a tracking parameter to their update calls.
Their update cycles are very slow. You are usually one to two months behind monthly security updates. Full bulletins are a year behind and Webview is a problem as well. They ignore this point and do not realize, that Insuffizienz security is a privacy risk AS well.
So if you want good privacy with a convenient user experience and without thoughts about security, here you go.
You're an imbecile... anyone that calls a closed source platform more private and secure knows nothing. I guarantee there are backdoors. Also, iOS is just absolute fucking ass in terms of customization and usability and workflow.
You're a moron putting iOS above LineageOS. I'd argue you're a moron for putting GraphenOS above it. And you're a moron for thinking rooted phones are inherently insecure... they are not.
I can empirically say, that just switching from stock to a degoogled ROM gave me a significant battery boost. I have no idea what that thing was doing in the background, but it's already doing a lot less of that.
For microG... Until UnifiedPush becomes more widespread the choice between having your notifications go through FCM and halving your battery life is going to be a tricky one.
It's hard to compare the security of systems. Also how is IOS number2!? Theres a lot of research put into finding holes in hardware and software since they are so popular, also they have backdoors for the government baked in along their walled garden.
Speaking about privacy, there are alot of gains from passing from a closed source ROM to a open sourced one. Or even better to an open sourced phone running Linux(yes I know very few can daily drive them).
On security it's complicated and depends on many factors.
You do have a good point. However, I can’t consider a proprietary operating system like iOS truly private. It may be secure (certainly more so than stock Android and some random custom Android based ones) but if I can’t be sure that my operating system isn’t spying on me, then security alone doesn’t matter much for me tbh. Apple’s operating systems are no exception to this.
So, in a ranking that considers both security AND privacy, iOS being the second one is questionable. However, if the ranking is based solely on security, then I have no issue with it.
GOS team are some elitist jerks, sure, but what they make works well. And I respect the fuck out of Calyx for being committed to making something like MicroG work.
GOS or Calyx, either is gonna be miles better than /e/. /e/ is running their 'native IP scrambler' on a two-year old commit of TOR. Fuck everything about that.
I don't know about you but if I don't know what a program that I can't inspect the code of does, I'll just assume the worst case scenario. I can't prove it but you also can't prove that it isn't doing something shady, can you? So what if I am using Private Relay? Apple will know what websites I visit or what I do with my phone as long as I use their proprietary operating system and who knows who they'll give it to. And with this, I am saying it again: Apple's operating systems are no exception to this rule.
No, of course I don't. I am not as paranoid as Richard Stallman, but I am also not as pronoid as the average human to just use proprietary software when there are similarly functioning open source software. With open source software, you can inspect the code and compile the code that you inspected. This is not true for something like iOS.
And of course, FOSS malware also exists (for example the recent xz data compression program). But guess what? You can find if it is really malware or not because you ultimately can inspect the code and compile the code you inspected. That is also why the malware in xz was found out. Who knows what there is in closed source software you can't inspect the code of. Do you perhaps believe in security through obscurity?
Using open source software is always an advantage. Praise for privacy software should be earned through the ability to verify them, and not granted by default.
I used it for a few years on Oneplus Nord, and a few days ago switched to pixel7 with LineageOS. First impressions are that e/os was much more usable out of the box.
I surely have worse experience with banking: Revolut and SmartID app just refuse to work due to rooted phone (worked well on e/os). Other bank app is somewhat more broken - on e/os it didnt fully load but at least showed notificatioms on each transaction, now doesnt and is useless. Could be due to newer android version on LineageOS though, I didnt investigate that.
New year, new Hyprland release brought to you by Yours Truly. This update is quite large, so you might want to read these patch notes.
There have been quite a bunch of internal rewrites, mostly around memory safety, the renderer, and animation system. Although performance shouldn't change much, it should improve stability in edge cases. Please do report any regressions you might find, if they aren't reported already.
Notes for packagers
new dependency: glaze
I've dropped binary releases. Please use the source to build.
Breaking changes
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Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior Revolutionary Guards Commander said on Monday, amid Western concerns about Tehran and Moscow’s growing military cooperation, Reuters reports.
This is the first time an Iranian official has confirmed the purchase of Su-35 jets. However, Ali Shadmani, who was quoted by the Student News Network, did not clarify how many jets were purchased and whether they had already been delivered to Iran.
“Whenever necessary, we make military purchases to strengthen our air, land and naval forces. … The production of military equipment has also accelerated,” the deputy Coordinator of the Khatam-ol-Anbia Central Headquarters said.
“If the enemy acts foolishly, it will taste the bitter taste of being hit by our missiles, and none of its interests in the Occupied Territories will remain safe,” Shadmani warned referring to Iran’s arch-rival in the region, Israel.
Back in November, prior to Al-Assad’s fall, Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar stated that the Israeli government should reach out to Syria’s Kurdish groups and other regional minorities as they are “natural” allies. Remarking that Kurds are “a victim of oppression and aggression from Iran and Turkiye”, he called for stronger Israeli ties with them and admitted that such a goal has both “political and security aspects”.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan, from the Democratic party, also stressed on X: “Israel must be concerned about one basic thing: a Turkish attack against the Kurds in Syria… Israel must take the initiative and take advantage of overt and covert channels to support the Kurds. A strong Kurdish territory is security for Israel.”
In turn, according to Israel’s state channel KAN, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria has even asked the Israeli government for assistance to keep their power base in the northeast of the country in the potential event of a US military withdrawal. Israeli and Kurdish militant officials reportedly established a “communication channel” in the weeks following the collapse of Assad.
Such communications have not gone unnoticed, of course, and have reportedly caused a senior official from Iraq’s Kurdistan region to warn Tel Aviv that its public support for the Syrian Kurds only harms their affairs and serves the interests of “extremist parties” and Iran. That official notably told the Israelis that the open support exposes the Kurds to the risk of losing their regional status and standing as it would portray them as collaborators with Israel and its occupation.
This year and coming years will likely witness Israeli provision of military support for the Kurdish militants in Syria, either covertly or through the avenue of support from the US and other Western nations. Tel Aviv may deem it useful, for example, to provide intelligence, military training or even advanced technology to those Kurdish forces, which could include drones, surveillance systems or greater cyber capabilities.
I really hope every country the US trades with is looking at this and behind the scenes making whatever arrangements are available to them to cut the US out of their trade network, with the ultimate intent of just ceasing trade with the US entirely. It would be the best option. Trump is going to keep weaponizing economic power to get what he wants, and if other countries keep folding, it's just going to make him bolder. If they all just cut the US out, it'd hurt them, but it'd hurt the US and specifically Trump's influence a lot more in the long term.
well, that's a little difficult as the United States has 335 million people in it, and is the largest trading partner in the world. what do you imaging happens to an economy like colombia when it curtails or stops trading with the united states, where are they going to sell all their coffee and fresh cut flowers, just cut down on production you say, what's going to happen to their shipping industries, their packing industries, their farmers, oh just tell them to retrain you say ..... and on and on and on and on with every industry in every country in the world barring Iran and North Korea. it's a fine plan, with no possible way of being executed without making hundreds of millions of people destitute, but it's a plan alright. the world will adjust, but, so much pain ...... and death
I'm not suggesting anyone just do it cold turkey. I am suggesting, though, that they start re-tooling their economies to not rely on the US in it in whatever ways they're able; we're an unreliable partner, clearly, and anyone whose economy is reliant on us at this point is just asking to get burned or bent over by Trump.
It’s certainly a wake-up call for nations that are over-reliant on US trade to diversify their partnerships. Essentially what the US is doing is globalisation in reverse and hopefully they will find out why globalisation was previously so popular with world leaders.
Initially, I thought that I needed to stock up on Colombian coffee before the prices skyrocketed. Now I feel like I need to stock up on non-Colombian coffee before something similar happens elsewhere.
Nope? They (Colombia) got exactly what they wanted as far as In understand. Trump caved, the flights will have to follow the conditions dictated by Colombia. It's telling that the press is selling this as a Trump win.
They were sent in a military aircraft, in shackles. Colombia didn't let the military aircraft land. Now they've been sent on a commercial flight, which wasn't a problem for Colombia
Bullshit. They've been accepting deportees for years. They objected to the treatment and military transport of deportees, and refused those. They each threatened tarriffs, and then Trump agreed to treat them like human beings and send them home on commercial flights, like has always been done.
Stop making it sound like Trump's strongman tactics are doing anything.
President Trump jabs at the Russian leader with threats; Vladimir Putin responds with flattery. But there are notable signals in their jousting, including a revived discussion about nuclear arms control.
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I agree but then again it seems a model doing as good as the others at only 2% the cost would upend expectations as to return on investments from investors. Wait Why did ours cost so much more?
OpenAI o1 costs $15 per million input tokens and $60 per million output tokens, DeepSeek Reasoner, which is based on the R1 model, costs $0.55 per million input and $2.19 per million output tokens.
My bad I read it as the cost of creation, code and training, which was used in the papers that created the drop in market value. As stated in your article, R1 was build with v3 from which we have no cost available.
Everybody involved at that level knows the AI hype is a sham, so they have their finger hovering above the "sell" button. Open AI's valuation and cash burn, for example, assume a much higher revenue in the future -- but if this upstart can release a similar product with a fraction of the overhead, that cash burn now becomes a massive liability.
The government tried to address the issue by lowering the mobilisation age to 25 from 27 and introducing tougher rules for those evading the call-up. But it has so far resisted lowering the mobilisation age further to boost manpower.
meanwhile, in the american empire, we send adult sized children at 18 who are not yet old enough to drink alcohol or rent a car to commit terrible violence in in places like the middle east or latin america and no one bats a single eye.
They still have plenty of 18 year olds and I bet that they punish the ones to can see the writing in the wall that their gov't refuses to acknowledge and try to save themselves from the pointless meat grinder.
Hyprland has a right-wing reactionary community surrounding it. For instance, on their Discord a trans person had their username's pronouns changed to (who/cares) by a moderator after being upset that they were misgendered.
Hyprland is a right-wing community, because a sole moderator is being a dick to the trans community? Am I reading that correctly? Must be missing some context
Last part isn't true, he was banned for refusing to give his own community a COC that was compatible with the freedesktop one. Which is quite an overreach IMHO.
I admit, I was partially wrong. The CoC violations occured outside freedesktop and he received an email from a freedesktop member stating that their CoC does extend outside their immediate project, to some extent.
This isn't that unreasonable in my opinion, considering that his behavior "reflects on communities like [FreeDesktop] when [they] interact with and accept contributions from hyprland."
Of course this should only apply to severe CoC violations considering that two different CoCs rarely overlap in full.
So the reason for the ban was that hyprland's developer published their email exchange and wrote an extensive, surprisingly hostile blog post about it.
I genuinely recommend reading their exchange, I've rarely seen this amount of hostility and toxicity in an email exchange - followed up with "I hope we can resolve this constructively" and "I will be seeking legal action if you continue threatening to ban me".
I have read them. While Vaxry makes his points in typical Vaxry fashion he's not wrong IMHO.
I think it's ridiculous and unprecedented to demand that other open source projects adhere to the rules of another project. If more projects would do that then where will it end? The big COC wars where camps of open source projects are split and fractured along opinions of how one should moderate their own communities? This is not the way to work together with others.
The demand was not about Vaxry's own behaviour outside freedesktop, but about his community. I disagree that behaviour there reflects on freedesktop itself. Hell, I think a lot of people who use Hyprland couldn't even explain what freedesktop is and does.
So in my opinion Vaxry was right to refuse the demand, and right to publish the email conversation about it. Openness in open source about these sorts of things is important. His hostility in writing about it is something else altogether. Feel free to judge him on that, but it doesn't retroactively excuse freedesktop's behaviour.
I’ve been using Hyprland for a couple of years now. Not really interacted with the community(discord) a great deal but when I have I’ve not seen anything like that previous incident.
That counterpoint says that the only CoC he would write is “don’t be an asshole” and refutes the transphobia misgendering shit by posting the wider context where the guy is explicitly an immediate, unprovoked asshole to the person for having pronouns in their username. Tries to claim that the trans person being mocked “started it” by misgendering first, when the person in question simply assumed a gender to prove a point about the utility of pronoun tags, unlike the guy who deliberately chose to use the wrong pronouns to address someone, like an asshole.
it sucks, I guarantee if we scratch the surface of any package's community you'll find no shortage of libertarian bigoted weirdos. don't know what to do with the information on that scale
Non conosco gli altri programmi e personalmente non li ho mai usati, ma dopo troppo tempo passato a litigarci, ho personalmente rimpiazzato snapdrop con la più aggiornata fork Pairdrop.
Nella pagina github lo sviluppatore annota anche tutti i miglioramenti rispetto a Snapdrop
disponibile via browser open source e software libero: si può gestire un server in autonomia mandare file da un dispositivo all’altro senza appoggiare i file su server terzi i dispositivi devono essere sulla stessa rete
Vi presentiamo oggi un progetto open source 1 semplicissimo da utilizzare e allo stesso tempo davvero molto utile. Parliamo di Snapdrop, il metodo più veloce e semplice per trasferire file all’interno della propria rete.
Vi è mai capitato di dover trasferire un file, di qualunque tipo e peso, dal vostro computer al vostro smartphone e di non saper come fare? Magari siete andati alla ricerca di un cavo per attaccare il computer allo smartphone oppure avete tentato di mandarvi il file su cloud per poi riscaricarlo.
La cosa più semplice che potete fare però è utilizzare il sito web di cui parliamo oggi. Grazie a Snapdrop infatti non dovrete installare alcuna applicazione né avere alcuna conoscenza tecnica.
Vi basterà collegarvi al sito e poi collegarvi allo stesso sito attraverso qualunque computer oppure con il vostro smartphone. Verranno visti automaticamente tutti i device collegati nella stessa rete in quel momento!
A ognuno verrà dato un nome casuale per l’identificazione. Questo serve per essere sicuri di mandare il file corretto alla persona giusta. Una volta che ne siete certi cliccate il nickname generato e selezionate il file che avete bisogno di mandare.
In pochissimi istanti vedrete comparire il file sul secondo device e potrete scaricarlo con estrema semplicità.
Tutto qui!
Semplice, veloce e sicuro
Come avete visto è davvero incredibilmente semplice utilizzarlo. Inoltre come vi abbiamo anticipato il progetto è totalmente open source 1 e gratuito. Vive di donazioni e se vi piace potete decidere di donare qualcosa al suo sviluppatore.
Il sito è anche totalmente privo di traccianti di qualunque tipo 2. Non c’è traccia di Google Analytics, di banner e nemmeno di link di affiliazione. Quindi complimenti all’autore anche per questa scelta etica che, come sapete, condividiamo molto!
Più avanti faremo un articolo dedicato a tutte le alternative ad AirDrop, intanto se non vi trovate bene con Snapdrop potete provare una delle alternative qui sotto oppure leggere il nostro articolo dedicato.
Blaze, interessante metodo per condividere i file con qualcuno. A differenza di Snapdrop non utilizza WebRTC (la stessa tecnologia utilizzata per le videochiamate via browser). È open source 3.
NitroShare, altra applicazione open source 4 per condividere file. Non funziona però online, dovete scaricare un’applicazione.
Instant.io, altro software open source 5 per condividere file. Questo utilizza la tecnologia WebTorrent è quindi molto utile se utilizzato su un browser che la sfrutta nativamente come Brave.
Blymp.io, anche questa è un’applicazione molto comoda e open source 6 da utilizzare per scambiarsi file. Utilizza, facoltativamente, anche WebRTC.
FilePizza, anche questo è un altro software open source 7 per scambiarsi file.
Hai domande o qualche commento su questo articolo? Trovi la comunità di Le Alternativa su Feddit, su Matrix oppure Telegram.
Lo sviluppatore dell'app per pairdrop ha rimosso il supporto a snapdrop dicendo che è stata acquisita da una società strana, ed è nella lista badware di ublock. Meglio rimuoverlo dall'articolo
Important Update
Snapdrop.net support has been removed from the app. The website was recently acquired by a company with unclear security and privacy practices, and since we have no control over th...
disponibile via browser open source e software libero: si può gestire un server in autonomia mandare file da un dispositivo all’altro senza appoggiare i file su server terzi i dispositivi devono essere sulla stessa rete
Vi presentiamo oggi un progetto open source 1 semplicissimo da utilizzare e allo stesso tempo davvero molto utile. Parliamo di Snapdrop, il metodo più veloce e semplice per trasferire file all’interno della propria rete.
Vi è mai capitato di dover trasferire un file, di qualunque tipo e peso, dal vostro computer al vostro smartphone e di non saper come fare? Magari siete andati alla ricerca di un cavo per attaccare il computer allo smartphone oppure avete tentato di mandarvi il file su cloud per poi riscaricarlo.
La cosa più semplice che potete fare però è utilizzare il sito web di cui parliamo oggi. Grazie a Snapdrop infatti non dovrete installare alcuna applicazione né avere alcuna conoscenza tecnica.
Vi basterà collegarvi al sito e poi collegarvi allo stesso sito attraverso qualunque computer oppure con il vostro smartphone. Verranno visti automaticamente tutti i device collegati nella stessa rete in quel momento!
A ognuno verrà dato un nome casuale per l’identificazione. Questo serve per essere sicuri di mandare il file corretto alla persona giusta. Una volta che ne siete certi cliccate il nickname generato e selezionate il file che avete bisogno di mandare.
In pochissimi istanti vedrete comparire il file sul secondo device e potrete scaricarlo con estrema semplicità.
Tutto qui!
Semplice, veloce e sicuro
Come avete visto è davvero incredibilmente semplice utilizzarlo. Inoltre come vi abbiamo anticipato il progetto è totalmente open source 1 e gratuito. Vive di donazioni e se vi piace potete decidere di donare qualcosa al suo sviluppatore.
Il sito è anche totalmente privo di traccianti di qualunque tipo 2. Non c’è traccia di Google Analytics, di banner e nemmeno di link di affiliazione. Quindi complimenti all’autore anche per questa scelta etica che, come sapete, condividiamo molto!
Più avanti faremo un articolo dedicato a tutte le alternative ad AirDrop, intanto se non vi trovate bene con Snapdrop potete provare una delle alternative qui sotto oppure leggere il nostro articolo dedicato.
Blaze, interessante metodo per condividere i file con qualcuno. A differenza di Snapdrop non utilizza WebRTC (la stessa tecnologia utilizzata per le videochiamate via browser). È open source 3.
NitroShare, altra applicazione open source 4 per condividere file. Non funziona però online, dovete scaricare un’applicazione.
Instant.io, altro software open source 5 per condividere file. Questo utilizza la tecnologia WebTorrent è quindi molto utile se utilizzato su un browser che la sfrutta nativamente come Brave.
Blymp.io, anche questa è un’applicazione molto comoda e open source 6 da utilizzare per scambiarsi file. Utilizza, facoltativamente, anche WebRTC.
FilePizza, anche questo è un altro software open source 7 per scambiarsi file.
Hai domande o qualche commento su questo articolo? Trovi la comunità di Le Alternativa su Feddit, su Matrix oppure Telegram.
This is the evangelical Christian myth that is being pushed. Christians do this because they believe there is virtue in suffering.
That is why grandma must choke to death on her vomit while everybody watches and sobs instead of having a celebration of life party with loved ones and then comfortably drifting off to cardiac arrest in her sleep.
All instances that these Christians bring up in Canada where it appears that MAID is being pushed on someone who doesn’t need it turns out to be a nothing story. No one is seriously being sent to their death because they are poor or require expensive care. This is a fear that is being manufactured so that grandma can die painfully. In Christ name amen.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for improved infectious aerosol concentrations through interventions that reduce the transmission of airborne infections. The aims of this review were to map the existing literature on interventions used to improve infectious aerosol concentrations in hospitals and understand challenges in their implementation.
Methods
We reviewed peer-reviewed articles identified on three databases, MEDLINE, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library from inception to July 2024. 6417 articles were identified, 160 were reviewed and 18 were included.
Findings
Results on aerosol concentration were discussed in terms of three categories: (1) filtration and inactivation of aerosol particles; (2) effect of airflow and ventilation on aerosol concentrations; and (3) improvements or reduction in health conditions. The most common device or method that was outlined by researchers was high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters which were able to reduce aerosol concentrations under investigation across the included literature. Some articles were able to demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions in terms of improving health outcomes for patients.
Interpretation
The key finding is that infectious aerosol concentration improvement measures based on filtration, inactivation, improved air flow dynamics, and ventilation reduce the likelihood of nosocomial infections. However limitations of such approaches must be considered such as noise pollution and effects on ambient humidity. Whilst these efforts can contribute to improved air quality in hospitals, they should be considered with the other interacting factors such as microclimates, room dimensions and use of chemical products that effect air quality.
Funding
This study is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) (NIHR205439).
Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. And if you prefix transactional data as trans_ Copilot will refuse to help you. 😑
As some people already mentioned here or here, Copilot purposely stops working on code that contains hardcoded banned words from Github, such as gender or sex. I am labelling this as a bug because ...
Really? Maybe my variable names and column headers were sufficiently obscure and technical that I didn’t run into these issues about a month ago. Didn’t have any problems like that when analyzing census data in R and made Copilot generate most of the code.
Is this one of those US exclusive things?
I definitely did refer to various categories such as transgender or homosexual in the code, and copilot was ok with all of them. Or maybe that’s the code I finally ended up with after modifying it. I should run some more tests to see if it really is allergic to queer code.
Edit: Made some more code that visualizes the queer data in greater detail. Had no issues of any kind. This time, the inputs to Copilot and the code itself had many references to “sensitive subjects” like sex, gender and orientation. I even went a bit further by using exact words for each minority.
Why would anyone rename a perfectly valid variable name to some garbage term just to please our Microsoft Newspeak overlords? That would make the code less readable and more error prone. Also everything with human data has a field for sex or gender somewhere, driver's licenses, medical applications, biological studies and all kinds of other forms use those terms.
But nobody really needs to use copilot to code, so maybe just get rid of it or use an alternative.
There's 2 ways to go on it. Either not track the data, which is what they want you to do, and protest until they let you use the proper field names, or say fuck their rules, track the data anyway, and you can produce the reports you want. And you can still protest, and when you get the field names back it's just a replace all tablename.gender with tablename.jander. Different strokes different folks
...3 weeks ago I am bumping this discussion just to add a voice - the hospital I work at is attempting to harmonize how old and new systems store things like sex and gender identity in an effort to model the social complexities of the topic in our database as health outcomes have been proven to be demonstrably better when doctor's honors a patient's preferred name and gender expression
This may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, under the current administration.
US horseshoe reality. The right is anti vaccines the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine. I feel bad for normal people living in the US. It's like common sense and pragmatism was bred out of the gene pool.
Accepting that gender is a social construct has literally nothing to do with biology. I promise you that even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex means.
It’s almost as if it’s better for humans to do human things (like programming). If your tool is incapable of achieving your and your company’s needs, it’s time to ditch the tool.
I believe the difference there is between Copilot Chat and Copilot Autocomplete - the former is the one where you can choose between different models, while the latter is the one that fails on gender topics. Here's me coaxing the autocomplete to try and write a Powershell script with gender, and it failing.
Oh I see - I thought it was the copilot chat. Thanks.
Not really. I think most people containing about this also complain abiut that. Advocates of censor-free local AIs understand the dangers and limitations of Microsoft's closed AIs just as much as the fundamentally censored but open weights Deepseek AIs.
Well yeah, one is systematic oppression by a fascist government and the other seems like an internal policy or possible bug of a for-profit business that's finding out how it's affecting its users. One is enforced by the state and the other is probably a mistake. There's a clear distinction.
Clearly the answer is to write code in emojis that are translated into heiroglyphs then "processed" into Rust. And add a bunch of beloved AI keywords here and there. That way when it learns to block it they'll inadvertantly block their favorite buzzwords
I understand why they need to implement these blocks, but they seem to always be implemented without any way to workaround them. I hit a similar breakage using Cody (another AI assistant) which made a couple of my repositories unusable with it. jackson.dev/post/cody-hates-re…
An AI assistant has become an invaluable part of my development workflow over the past year, especially over the last several months. I started with Copilot, switched to Cody for a few months, and am now using Continue.dev.
Because most people do not understand what this technology is, and attribute far too much control over the generated text to the creators. If Copilot generates the text “Trans people don’t exist”, and Microsoft doesn’t immediately address it, a huge portion of people will understand that to mean “Microsoft doesn’t think trans people exist”.
Insert whatever other politically incorrect or harmful statement you prefer.
Those sorts of problems aren’t easily fixable without manual blocks. You can train the models with a “value” system where they censor themselves but that still will be imperfect and they can still generate politically incorrect text.
IIRC some providers support 2 separate endpoints where one is raw access to the model without filtering and one is with filtering and censoring. Copilot, as a heavily branded end user product, obviously needs to be filtered.
So I loaded copilot, and asked it to write a PowerShell script to sort a CSV of contact information by gender, and it complied happily.
And then I asked it to modify that script to display trans people in bold, and it did.
And I asked it "My daughter believes she may be a trans man. How can I best support her?" and it answered with 5 paragraphs. I won't paste the whole thing, but a few of the headings were "Educate Yourself" "Be Supportive" "Show Love and Acceptance".
I told it my pronouns and it thanked me for letting it know and promised to use them
I'm not really seeing a problem here. What am I missing?
I wrote a slur detection script for lemmy, copilot refused to run unless I removed the "common slurs" list from the file. There are definitely keywords or context that will shut down the service. Could even be regionally dependant.
I'd expect it to censor slurs. The linked bug report seems to be about auto complete, but many in the comments seems to have interpreted it as copilot refusing to discuss gender or words starting with trans*. There's even people in here giving supposed examples of that. This whole thing is very confusing. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be up in arms about.
I think it's less of a problem with gendered nouns and much more of a problem with personal pronouns.
Inanimate objects rarely change their gender identity, so those translations should be more or less fine.
However for instance translating Finnish to English, you have to translate second person gender-neutral pronouns as he/she, so when translating, you have to make an assumption, or translate is as the clunky both versions "masculine/feminine" with a slash which sort of breaks the flow of the text.
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In recent weeks, many young men, usually wearing masks or other face coverings, have been raiding villages in the West Bank. They're operating in the spirit of Kahanism, which is spreading among great swaths of Israeli society. They go out to harm Palestinians, who have nowhere to run and no way to defend themselves, lacking a police force, a border police force or an army that could protect them.
In very many cases, which, of course, are not extensively covered in our media, the early intelligence provided by PA sources helps us prevent terror attacks, arrest the would-be murderers and save lives. In many cases, the terrorists succeed in carrying out their mission, because, in some cases, they act alone, not as part of a coordinated organization, making it hard to identify them, find them and detain them before they shoot and kill Israeli civilians.
As we grapple with the need to end the war in the Gaza Strip, complete the return of all the live hostages and conduct proper funerals for the ones who did not survive, heinous lynchings are taking place in areas under Israel's complete military and security control.
We don't have the option of ignoring the Jewish assailants who are attacking Palestinians in the West Bank – or blurring its effects, risks and threat to the character and values of Israeli society
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a photo of a hand holding a smartphone - on screen you see the folder "Fediverse" which includes icons for apps like Lemmy, Loops, Mastodon, PeerTube and Pixelfed – aka open source, ethical social media apps that are alternatives to for-profit commer…
My best shot at a stock photo for the #Fediverse, showing its most popular projects.
Please show some mercy, I am not a hand model (obvi) and my masking skills are a little rusty.
If some photographers would like to improve it, I could share my original photo and screenshot.
Hilariously, when I opened the tripod my bracelet got stuck in it and I semi-panicked for a few moments because I was home alone... with a tripod stuck to my wrist. Thankfully I managed to free myself 😂
When I first joined Lemmy, it was not easy to find my way around. I left Reddit because they screwed over 3rd party apps, so finding Voyager early on was a blessing. I just want people to be aware that there is an easier way to navigate Lemmy, and they update regularly.
It's also very featureless. Basically videos, comments, likes. I'm on it, and I've opened it maybe 6x in 2 weeks? I also think it's just an open feed; all the videos posted in chronological order (but I could be wrong here). Idk if this goes against the Fediverse creed to have an algorithm-fed feed, but I think part of the nature of these short form, endless-scrolling apps is finding vids about your interests from new places.
I think we should ultimately support algorithm feeds, but they should be free and open algorithms that can be peer reviewed, and also maybe give the users some control over which algorithm is applied and how. The problem with current social algorithms is they operate in the dark and are manipulative, not that they provide relevant content to users.
That, and it's arguable primary purpose is to serve ads. "People similar to you clicked on these ads" type shit. And I get it to a point, platforms need to support themselves, and unless it's a paid app, that doesn't keep servers running. But it'd be nice to just get one every 10 minutes, and not every 10 seconds, and also to opt out of tracking for served ads instead of just random ones.
I disagree. Anybody that joins Loops right now is forced to the one instance. That's not federation. That's not an issue for you. Which is valid. But you don't get to police those who don't share your view.
Really? I just installed it and all I see is news in French. When I try to add more "platforms", it tells me that I need to choose a platform first, but doesn't give me any options. It's like it just expects me to figure that out on my own. Very unintitive.
Am I the only one who is bothered by this pic. It looks so fake and photoshopped.
Maybe it’s because my phone has weird contrast settings for accessibility.
Obviously I think whoever made this pic has great intentions and it’ll definitely be good enough for an article banner or something which is what it’s most likely to be used for.
It just occurred to me that the Forbes article uses a stock photo of a hand holding up a smartphone with a bunch of apps from mainstream, for-profit social media... even if the piece is about the #Fediverse.
So on my to do list for today: recreating a similar photo showing Fediverse software instead. Like, how my actual phone looks like.
As a photographer, I feel it's my duty to do this.
If you have constructive feedback, it seems like the photographer is open to it. It's not dunking on anyone to say "hey great work and cool idea, just so you know the image looks a little "off" on my screen, possibly due to my accessibility settings, which are blah blah blah... hope this helps, thanks for the great work!"
After reading through this, it wouldn't surprise me if he turned out to be a Russian operative. In particular a Slovakian, no hate to Slavs but he just strikes me as one ya know?
It all just reads like a disgruntled federal operative letting the popularity get to their head.
In any case, I'm simply disappointed in his choices for not open sourcing software that would undoubtedly march on in terms of progress at light speed if fully FOSS.
I hope he learns to hone his ego, it's within and without. I just hope he comes to his senses and begins to work with devs who are desperate to get a peak at the closed source portions of his sofware. - By open sourcing any blackboxed software.
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in reply to plactagonic • • •https://lemmy.ssba.com/u/Ebby
in reply to AwesomeLowlander • • •The Ikea bottles warn against using their bottles for pressurized uses. Iir the glass isn't rated for that.
Also, nothing I've used flip caps for has kept carbonation well after priming.
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in reply to plactagonic • • •Do they need to be wine bottle shaped?
If swingtops that are shaped for beer work for you, find a local independent bar or pub. Stop by before opening and ask if they'd mind saving their swingtops for you.
When I did this, the answer "Sure, just bring one back for me with your first brew." More, they already had a box of them set aside.
Grolsch bottles are by far the most common and will be 450ml, green, and with a raised glass patterning. Those are the most common. 9 ounce bottles from small commercial breweries will be smooth clear or brown with paper labels you'll want to soak off, and they'll have significantly fewer of these.
plactagonic
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in reply to plactagonic • • •No idea where you're from but in UK they sell beer in lithuanian/polish/Russian shops with these caps, use one as a water bottle, would love this mechanism on a larger necked glass bottle.
Bonus you get a free beer with purchase of a bottle.
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in reply to plactagonic • • •My local homebrew shop used to sell these. I think they stopped selling it since people used bottles which couldn't take the pressure.
What were you planning on using them for?