Leichen von zwei weiteren Geiseln im Gazastreifen geborgen
Israels Armee hat im Gazastreifen die Leichen zweier weiterer Geiseln geborgen - bei einer handelt es sich um einen Familienvater, die Identität der zweiten ist noch unbekannt. Mehr als 50 Menschen befinden sich weiter in den Händen der Hamas.
Remember my goat that we named Cybertruck because of his various safety issues? He's been doing great, until earlier when he went offroading (in the barn) and high-centered himself and had to be rescued, again living up to his name. All hail Cybertruck!
Wow. What a goof. I'm so glad you're around to help him out of all these jams he keeps putting himself into. At least he doesn't catch fire randomly, like a real Cybertruck.
Being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s was heartbreaking. I was losing parts of myself, my memory, my focus, my connection with others. Conventional treatments gave me little hope. Then I tried the herbal treatment program from EarthCureHerbalClinic.com. Within weeks, I noticed meaningful improvements. My mind felt clearer, and my memory started to return. For that, I’m truly grateful.
Please keep taking the documentary photos of the adventures of Cybertruck. Not only are they great for day-to-day amusement, but also you and he have the material for a fantastic children's book.
A nice explanation from reality as to why AI images and results regularly look pretty similar or are gross nonsense: Things that can jump around uncontrollably end up in real problems in real life.
Well, I'm not sure. While your goat may be a little stupid, which shows similarities to its namesake, I'm not sure about the fairness of the name. I mean it is probably nice to people, at least idoes not kill them. It is soft, round, warm and squishy - in contrast to hard, edgy and cold. It does not explode, randomly. No machine gun can be mounted on it. So maybe a little bit nicer name would be appropriate?
@gilesgoat hahaha! Bailing twine. Very different energy. (Though I am hopefully going to string a couple of network cables in the barn to get my new meteorite camera set up!)
j'adore l'émission "Vu" de France 5, littéralement la même chose que l'ancien zapping de Canal+ mais encore plus de gauche, dernier îlot de fraicheur à France TV, je me demande jusqu'à quand ils vont tolérer ça mdrrr mais en attendant j'en profite !
Disney knows their IP is in the training data so the LLMs can never *not* breach their copyrights and trade marks, so now is the time to lock in licensing deals so they can get a stream of income from it.
Transfer of value from VCs to rapacious IP hoarders. No winning horses in that race, but it’s fun to watch.
"character copyright" is a special beast, slipperier than traditional copyright of individual works. I don't know what it means but it's going to be harder to weasel out of than accusations of violating copyrights to a particular work.
So, known parties tirelessly work to make Linux a new Windows. Gnome announces even harder dependency on systemd. GDM will depend on systemd userdb infrastructure. gnome-session will use systemd service manager instead of its own code that "has received very minimal attention in the 17 years since it was first written". As per article, even now they do not test Gnome in non-systemd environments. It's like a writing on the wall. blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202… #Gnome #Linux #systemd
Benno Ricehttps://2019.linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/156/systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. As a FreeBSD developer I decided I wanted to know...
@kkarhan this. Every time this. Other systems need to move on and have something around that provides functionality. It's not an option to cry why blah desktop is not supporting you anymore and how bad they are if you stuck in a 20years ago-world
@fabiscafe @kkarhan The trouble is that this modernisation makes Linux progressively less flexible - hence the comparisons to Windows. At work we're constantly fighting to preserve the ability for things like the same user account to be logged in twice. Anything that doesn't fit the simplified view of single user systems gets broken. Everything is constantly reinvented, with mistakes from earlier generations repeated and we're forced to come up with fresh workarounds.
@okapi it gets streamlined. Functionality that was made with different tooling on different distros is now mostly only one across all (important) linuxes. I don't miss the old times thanks to systemd. On your example, what's the use-case for logging in multiple times with the same user?
@fabiscafe @okapi espechally in the form of an interactive desktop...
I could see it valid for multiple shell sessions, but #tmux & #screen cover that pretty well.
If one has to login into different machines then chances are #aithentification is centralized anyway.
Needless to say #modernizations like #SystemD don't happen because people like #Poettering are "hobbyless", but because the preexisting status-quo (#SysVinit) was slow, inflexible
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@fabiscafe @okapi espechally in the form of an interactive desktop...
I could see it valid for multiple shell sessions, but #tmux & #screen cover that pretty well.
If one has to login into different machines then chances are #aithentification is centralized anyway.
Needless to say #modernizations like #SystemD don't happen because people like #Poettering are "hobbyless", but because the preexisting status-quo (#SysVinit) was slow, inflexible and error-prone by strict linearity and non-parallelization.
With a literal /etc/init file one can literally get a system to hang due to a mistake (i.e. certain call doesn't get invoked correctly), whereas on #SystemD (and competing solutions like #LaunchD on #macOS and #SMF on #Solaris) your desktop / laptop will continue to noot even if it doesn't have a network connection.
Not to mention as Benno Rice explained: 'Shit just gotmore dynamic!': We don't have that one big ass maingrame and serial terminals, instead we have laptops that may he carried around a campus or traveled with all day and that constantly switch between wireless and wired networks and have VPN tunnels open and whatnot...
The problem is after some hefty "init wars" with like #Upstart and others SystemD became the de-facto standard, and the "(statistical) rounding errors" of #BSD users got sidelined, in part because BSDs looked at that mess and went like "Nyet, SysVinit is fine!" and continued their fiddling around...
And sadly there's nothing they (or anyone else) could've done unless they had multiplied suddenly and being able to keepcthe old tech stack maintainable.
Similarly #Xorg is dying and there are already GPUs that only support #Wayland and #X11 apps get run using #XWayland.
OFC I wish for more diversity in solutions, but #Linux being #streamlined is what makes #portability across distros easier and boosted adoption as well as providing massive gains in solutions like #DXVK, #Proton and #Wine in general.
And TBH most "#TechIlliterates" aka. "#Normies" frankly don't give a shit what OS they use. All it needs to do is serve them their eMails and allow them to 'consoom themselbes happy' as in watching YouTube, Play games, etc.
So, known parties tirelessly work to make Linux a new Windows. Gnome announces even harder dependency on systemd. GDM will depend on systemd userdb infrastructure. gnome-session will use systemd service manager instead of its own code that "has received very minimal attention in the 17 years since it was first written". As per article, even now they do not test Gnome in non-systemd environments. It's like a writing on the wall. blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202… #Gnome #Linux #systemd
Imho: The problem here is not really systemd, but a missing abstraction-/rpc-layer for basic system-level services. Think of a XDG-like spec for those services…
F.e. if varlink would be adopted more widely, than, instead of relying on systemd, f.e. gnome could rely on well defined varlink-apis and other systems would be free to implement those apis instead of hard dependencies to a specific implementations…
In an ideal world, stuff would be portable enough that the underlying init (and Userland in general) as well as Kernel didn't matter and merely be a different config file.
In reality, a substantial part of #Gnome devs (or at least contributors) are paid by the 3 major #Linux distros (#RHEL, #SLED, #Ubuntu) and whilst not being antragonistic towards #BSD|s don't get employed to enshure it runs on #FreeBSD, but that it runs better on the distro their employer is selling…
And given that these projects don't have infinite resources and espechally maintainers I don't blame them
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I don't deny this to be a problem, far from it.
In an ideal world, stuff would be portable enough that the underlying init (and Userland in general) as well as Kernel didn't matter and merely be a different config file.
In reality, a substantial part of #Gnome devs (or at least contributors) are paid by the 3 major #Linux distros (#RHEL, #SLED, #Ubuntu) and whilst not being antragonistic towards #BSD|s don't get employed to enshure it runs on #FreeBSD, but that it runs better on the distro their employer is selling…
And given that these projects don't have infinite resources and espechally maintainers I don't blame them to redelegate a lot of work to #SystemD instead of reimplementing something themselves.
OFC it's saddening in regards to non-Linux #Unix-esque OSes, but given self-amplifying network effects both the murder of #OpenSolaris at the hands of #Oracle (with @EUCommission and #FTC as enablers!) and @iXsystems ditching #FreeBSD in #trueNAS alongside regressing #driver support for hardware outside of Linux, #macOS and #Windows, it's not a good time for these projects.
Which is bad because BSDs and other OSes force Linux to innovate and ' get gud '!
Die USA ziehen Personal von ihrer Botschaft im Irak ab. Berichten zufolge gibt es Sorge vor einem möglichen israelischen Angriff auf das Nachbarland Iran.
Using the display output on my mainboard (tho using the iGPU) saves me up to 20W power consumption when watching a YT Video. Total System power consumption with onboard display port: 40W. With the display plugged into the dedicated graphics card port (RX6800), total power consumption is 60W when watching a video.
Next thing to test, how many FPS I'll lose when using the iGPU output and playing a game.
Familienangehörige von Diplomaten, nicht dringend notwendiges Personal: Die USA reduzieren ihr Botschaftspersonal im Irak. Anlass könnte ein möglicher Angriff Israels auf den Iran sein - oder scheiternde Atomverhandlungen.
➡️ das darauf wartet, dass dir das, was dir genommen wird, zurückgegeben wird, und erst dann kannst du mit deinem Leben weitermachen, aber die Stille nimmt kein Ende, weisst du, die lassen die Möglichkeiten offen, dass Dir das, was du willst, eines Tages zurückgegeben wird, und so bleibst Du klein, gelähmt, stumpf, wie ein altes Messer, und die Stille endet nicht, denn die Stille ist die Quelle in ihrer Macht, das ist ihre heimliche Bedeutung." S. 166/167
Lassen wir es nicht noch einmal soweit kommen .... mit den zündelnden CDU -Verbindungen zum Projekt 2025, zu The Heritage Foundation ...
Nach Musks öffentlicher Reue zeigt sich auch der US-Präsident offen für ein Ende des Streits mit dem Tesla-Chef. Zuvor hatten die beiden offenbar miteinander telefoniert.
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.
“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label. An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like. Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.
“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
The English Wikipedia editorship is solidly against incorporating AI. The Wikimedia Foundation developers, not so much, but maybe this time they got the message?
“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
In the demo screenshot, the “summary” block above the wiki article includes this at the end:
“This summary has not been checked for verifiable accuracy or a neutral point of view.”
This line right here should be the stop point of this discussion. If Wikimedia lacks confidence in the output of these models to the point they feel obliged to include this line, then the feature absolutely should not included in Wikipedia.
"We're not the sheep some people imagine us to be — we take oaths to the Constitution and are trained in laws of armed conflict and rules of engagement. Like, if we hosed a protester down with a chemical like the police do, that'd be called a war crime. It's a totally different culture."
"Among the enlisted force, the recent survey showed a 43 percent favorable rating. [for #Trump] For officers, however, only one-third responded with a positive view."
What if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? @torproject's @1s4 joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and @jgkelley on the new episode of “How to Fix the Internet.” eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podc…
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best.
Our company is using #AI for document processing and pays for the dedicated hardware used. It's a few thousand bucks a month. Otherwise people have to look at the docs and have to key in the numbers. It's replacing a boring job nobody really should aspire to. We are using two completely different algorithms, the results get compared. If the results differ, a human looks into it.
But we pay for it.
It's the insane "for free" model that should die. Because you pay with your privacy and dignity.
Ich werde mit dem Alter immer aggressiver, damit meine ich nun nicht blind aggressiv. Das Wort ist ja fast immer negativ assoziiert, ich glaube jedoch an gesunde Aggression. Ich werde eifach nur immer schärfer. Und ehrlich gesagt, gedenke ich es dabei zu belassen. Wir können gut miteinander umgehen, oder wir können uns gut umgehen. Ich drohe dir auch nicht. Ich tue dir nichts an. Ich ignoriere und entferne dich. Das schreibe ich mir als Recht zu.
In meiner Welt ist das einfach: Wir mögen uns, oder wir lassen uns in Ruhe.
So if anyone is interested, and if two clicks isn't too much for you, here's 3 hours of eclectic music, put together for no other reason than the love of it. Ordinary people, putting it out there.
Am Montag (16.06.) beginnt die Menschenrechtswoche mit dem #Bürgergeld-Quiz des Tübinger Arbeitslosen-Treff (TAT) im Foodsharing-Cafe #Mehrrettich in der Neckarhalde 70. Dabei können die Teilnehmenden ihr Wissen über #Sozialleistungen in Deutschland und deren Rahmenbedingungen testen.
Beim Quiz will der TAT auf unterhaltsame Weise mit falschen Vorstellungen brechen, denn am Ende gibt es eine Auflösung mit Hintergrund-Infos und der Möglichkeit zur gemeinsamen Diskussion.
We need a budget wakeup call. The states driving up debt need to stop blaming it on everyone else. Many orange states have been dependent on aid for decades. Instead of addressing their economic issues, leaders are busy thinking about other people's bottoms and where women are driving.
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To make the lower price stick, we'd need to get as many people to try Murmel as we possibly can.
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@vivocalle.bsky.social It gets completely strange at work. I'm a software architect and sometimes decisions have to be made. That's when colleagues start to have ChatGPT formulate their expectations in order to write an ADR and then present it to me. They want to change something in the architecture, but leave the argumentation to an LLM, admitting that they don't even know what they want.
I hate it. I hate to start to discuss with a LLM output. 😒
Yesterday, I heard about a workplace where the employees asked ChatGPT to make a document from a few bullet points. The manager couldn't bother less to read a long document, so he asked ChatGPT to make a few bullet points.
@beandev "Da Gemini Fehler machen kann, auch bei Informationen über Personen, solltest du die Antworten überprüfen." - wie man ein nutzloses Informationswerkzeug beschreibt.
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Umstrittenes Atomprogramm“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Konflikt mit Iran? USA reduzieren Botschaftspersonal im Irak“.
Der Streit um das iranische Atomprogramm schwelt weiter. Kommt es zu einem Angriff des israelischen Militärs? Die US-Regierung reduziert aus Sicherheitsgründen ihr Personal in der Region.
Die Bundesjustizministerin hält eine rechtlich haltbare Begründung der Zurückweisungen im Einklang mit EU-Recht für "sehr schwierig". Polen erwägt Grenzkontrollen.
An interesting development in NZ - "The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) has begun work on an app that will improve the way New Zealanders interact with government" digital.govt.nz/digital-govern…
Personally, I think a better approach from a consumer perspective is to go the gov.uk/ way.
But it would not be a "quick fix", and would require mandates, resourcing, time, and a significant change in culture from every agency and government-related organisation with a website.
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
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Glad he didn't explode. Whew.
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love this kid
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Als Antwort auf Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Goats are some combination of too smart and too stupid.
Kinda like people.
Roy -- the dull one
Als Antwort auf Prof. Sam Lawler • • •Please keep taking the documentary photos of the adventures of Cybertruck. Not only are they great for day-to-day amusement, but also you and he have the material for a fantastic children's book.
Just thinking out loud...
Johanna, CanCon variant
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Hopefully he matures out of this phase before exploding or anything like that.
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