kzhe

@kzhe@lemmy.zip

FOSS enthusiast, Linux user, Android enthusiast, Transformers fan (he/him)

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kzhe ,

Hexbeara are definitely wrong about things... But I have never seen them do anti-Semitism. And the Nazis really can't be considered socialist— you can disapprove of socialism without lying or being misinformed and claiming that the Nazis were socialist—Hitler essentially joined and took over what maybe at some point was a pro worker party. They killed like a lot of communists.

kzhe ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/897ffa2c-1988-4c3c-bfbc-4e54ee0380c4.webp

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" ( futurism.com )

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

kzhe ,

I mean I agree that AI is stolen because of its basis and all, but the 5 hours weren't just hitting regenerate, they were likely consisting of changing extensive parameters and such. Have you seen the insanely long prompts people write that are only half comprehensible?

Whether the stuff is art is questionable, effort did go in though

kzhe ,

That's not true though— extensive effort is put into prompting, parameter tweaking, etc.

kzhe ,

Same issue. Does this work?

Nvm. Looks like you have to access it from the thread and not here?

kzhe ,

Fergie Chambers, a 39-year-old self-proclaimed communist with a net worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Chambers’ wealth comes from his father’s family’s company, Cox Enterprises, a global conglomerate with automotive and media holdings, including AutoTrader, Kelley Blue Book, Cox TV, the political site Axios, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With a fortune of some $26.8 billion, the Cox family, a powerful force in Atlanta philanthropy, made the second-largest contribution in 2022 toward the training facility, with their foundation providing $10 million of a planned $60 million in private funding. (Georgia taxpayers are putting up $31 million.)

In contrast, Chambers estimates he’s donated “a couple million dollars” in the last year to groups opposing the very facility that high-profile members of his family want to be built. Not only has he financially supported signature gathering for the referendum, he’s sponsored buses to shuttle protesters to the site, and contributed “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to funds that paid for bail and lawyers for those who had been arrested.

While the broader Cox family’s political reputation is squarely centrist, Chambers’ is somewhere in the vicinity of Chairman Mao. When we spoke—after a few weeks of phone tag that involved me missing some pre-dawn calls back from Chambers—he seemed to relish defying mainstream orthodoxy, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “one of the better statesmen of our century,” and describing Hamas’ October 7 attack as “a moment of hope and inspiration for tens of millions of people.” While he denies a recent claim in Los Angeles Magazine that he chants “death to America” every day, he allows that the idea is more or less true. “I think the most important thing for the prosperity of humanity is the destruction of the US,” he told me.

kzhe ,

He wants a ding, not a responses required alarm.

kzhe ,

He wants a notification— note, no input required to end it.

kzhe ,

I assume Lemmy user there was referencing the "Democrats are center right" line, which isn't wrong, but also it's clear what the person they were replying to meant.

What do you call a Lemmy user again? Lemmite?

kzhe ,

But there's no reason to believe you'll reach the extinguisher, it's pretty much impossible in first past the post.

kzhe ,

Don't do it. Daylight savings time saves 366 lives a year from traffic accidents alone Coate and Markowitz which while isn't that much is still worth the inconvenience.

Also,  2015 paper from the Brookings Institute claims a 7% drop in crime, when they extended by 4 weeks, we saved 60 million dollars. If we account for indirect costs like those of murder, rape, we get 246 million saved (Popular Mechanics)

Basically more light is good

kzhe ,

I want them to keep it alternating and nt stick to it.

Daylight savings time saves 366 lives a year from traffic accidents alone Coate and Markowitz which while isn't that much is still worth the inconvenience.

Also,  2015 paper from the Brookings Institute claims a 7% drop in crime, when they extended by 4 weeks, we saved 60 million dollars. If we account for indirect costs like those of murder, rape, we get 246 million saved (Popular Mechanics)

Basically more light is good

kzhe ,

cannot get satire

kzhe ,

The specific claim that "birds aren't real" has been a long-standing joke on the internet meant to parody real conspiracy theories

kzhe ,

Trump isn't in the Washington primary.

kzhe ,

In other news, the sun showed up again in the sky.

Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? ( shop.boox.com )

Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I'm a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I've been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and...

kzhe ,

What? You absolutely can. Look at... Every recent model of kindle.

kzhe ,

Not sure about that, I think the term backlit is applicable there even if technically incorrect.

kzhe ,

...yes, but that's a minority of the time. Cumalitively the slightly bad experience averages out with the 99% of the time better experience to be solidly superior

kzhe ,

Hasn't happened to me yet. At least not enough that the trade off is anything other than totally worth it for Linux.

kzhe ,

Kagi (although recent drama leaves me soured)

kzhe ,

The problem was mainly their questionable response

(Constructively) What is your least favorite distro & why?

I’ve been distrohopping for a while now, and eventually I landed on Arch. Part of the reason I have stuck with it is I think I had a balanced introduction, since I was exposed to both praise and criticism. We often discuss our favorite distros, but I think it’s equally important to talk about the ones that didn’t quite hit...

kzhe ,

VanillaOS looked really promising but it was terribly buggy when I used it.

Trump Promises Voters Vengeance In His Final Pitch Before Iowa Caucus ( www.huffpost.com )

INDIANOLA, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump implored his supporters Sunday to brave frigid temperatures and deliver him a decisive victory in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, saying their vote would help bring to Washington the retribution he has repeatedly promised if he returns to the White House.

kzhe ,

Do you really think that he would be impeached and convicted even after violating the Constitution?

Israel Bombed an Al Jazeera Cameraman — and Blocked Evacuation Efforts as He Bled to Death ( theintercept.com )

“IT WAS AS if a storm had targeted us.” On the afternoon of December 15, an Israeli airstrike slammed into the Farhana school in Khan Younis where Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, had just wrapped up filming the aftermath of an earlier bombardment in the area....

kzhe ,

Lemmy? Are you sure? I've seen zero pro-Zionists (in the most used sense of the term, regarding Israel's current actions and etc.) on Lemmy who aren't trolls.

kzhe ,

Which c/news is this?

kzhe ,

You clearly cannot comprehend basic English as the above poster has indicated they plan to vote Biden

kzhe ,

Except that Biden himself says 50 other Democrats could beat Trump.

Kagi doubles down on paid Brave partnership despite losing at least 0.5% of users in 1 day. And invoking Godwin's Law ( kagifeedback.org )

"Should we not be buying VW, BMW, Siemens and Bayer technology and products today because they participated in holocaust and directly collaborated with Hitler?" -- CEO of Kagi when given feedback re: Brave partnership

kzhe ,

There will be according to the Discord but they haven't changed their attitude.

Looking for Notes App for Android & Linux

I am trying to slowly de-Google-ify myself by moving to open source apps, I wanna ditch google notes and evernote. I tried obsidian, standard notes, and joplin, I liked using obsidian on PC and standard notes looks nice on android but obsidian you need to pay to have sync and standard notes doesn't do markdown unless you pay...

kzhe ,

Sync Obsidian with Syncthing.

kzhe ,

https://zeta.one/viral-math/

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