gedaliyah

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 19 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

Hey everybody, remember when we let billionaire scammers crash the global economy, so then we made an organization to stop that from happening again?

We had a nice run.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

Least antisemitic trump fanboy

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I dig it either way!

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The original verse is Duet 22:10 and it's a prohibition against abusing a working animal.

I wasn't aware of the later Christian tradition of interpreting it as a metaphor for nonbelivers. Thanks for sharing it.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

The most approachable distros are Ubuntu based IMHO. That means Ubuntu (full featured, great interface, but can be slightly more demanding on old hardware), Lubuntu, Xubuntu (Ubuntu based, but with more basic desktop environment. They may be snappier on old hardware but not as fully featured), Mint (already mentioned here, generally considered the best of both worlds).

If you want to use very limited hardware, you might also consider a distro like Puppy Linux.

If you are new to Linux, the most overlooked consideration is the community support. You will have things come up that require help to do/fix. A strong, active community means you will have a much easier time.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

The whole thing about being unequally yoked is about forbidding animal abuse, but you do you.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder what substance may have inspired this...

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

What kind of problems? So many others present it as virtually worry free.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is anyone suing over this yet?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder why the author is crossed out.

 

I see a lot of posts about people who like their Zigbee and Z-Wave products. As I'm setting up the hardware in my home, I'm using Wi-Fi products because I already have Wi-Fi. I don't see much difference in price. What is the actual benefit of setting up a separate network for home devices? Is there a reason that I should consider setting up one of these networks?

 

LLMs are built by generating a network of weights based on a large volume of training data. Some models have made those weights public/open, meaning you could, in principle, go in and manually edit the weights individually to change the outcomes. In practice, you would never do this because it would only ruin the output.

However, you could theoretically nudge a lot of values in just the right way to change the model to favor an ideology, have a different attitude, produce disinformation etc.

Right now, this is done practically in a brute force manner. The program will have certain instructions and parameters appended to the input in order to force a certain disposition, limit the scope, etc.

There are a lot of reasons to want to adjust the fundamentals of a model, but AFAIK such a technology doesn't exist yet (publicly). For example, this could be used for political gain, or for positive purposes like removing racism that has been well documented.

Is anyone working on such a thing?

Note: This community is "no stupid questions," but I am actually pretty stupid and I probably misunderstood some (all) of the fundamentals of how this works. Please respond to any part of my question.

 

According to a memo obtained by NBC News, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause of all activities and events related to 11 “special observances” in compliance with President Donald Trump’s ban on DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs in the federal workplace.

In addition to Black History Month, the agency also ordered the suspension of events marking Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, National American Indian Heritage Month, LGBTQ Pride Month, Women’s History Month, Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day.

 

It's especially great if you get paid by the month.

 

I'm not sure the best way to ask or if there is a better community to post...

I'm hoping to use my home server to control my home thermostat but not sure where to start.

Does anyone use Home Assistant for this? Another software?

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to ask about hardware here, but are there things to be aware of in making sure that a wifi thermostat is best suited for the job?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/38443025

On a sleepy road on the outskirts of Sydney sat a caravan that would make international headlines.

Inside, New South Wales police discovered enough explosives to cause a “potential mass causality event”, but no detonator. There was a list of Jewish sites and a note that included the words: “Fuck the Jews.”

It marked a significant escalation in a wave of antisemitic vandalism and arson attacks over the past months across Sydney.

Eleven people have been charged under Strike Force Pearl, which was set up to investigate hate crimes across Sydney, including one man charged on Friday evening with allegedly defacing a wall with Nazi symbols.

None have been charged in connection with the caravan. The Guardian does not suggest anyone charged over separate incidents has any connection to the caravan incident.

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For the families of the released hostages, it was a day they had long been waiting for.

Wilas Thaenna wept after receiving a call to say his son Pongsak had been freed on Thursday.

"I never thought this day would come, everything has been too quiet for a while," the 65-year-old told the BBC.

He revealed he had barely slept the night before, as he was so excited at the prospect of his son being released.

"I don't know how to explain how I got through all that happened," he continued.

"My son was taken captive, I lost my wife, I had to stay strong.

"First five or six months, I've lost so much weight. It was distressing, I didn't have strength to do anything or go anywhere. I was worried all the time.

 

For the families of the released hostages, it was a day they had long been waiting for.

Wilas Thaenna wept after receiving a call to say his son Pongsak had been freed on Thursday.

"I never thought this day would come, everything has been too quiet for a while," the 65-year-old told the BBC.

He revealed he had barely slept the night before, as he was so excited at the prospect of his son being released.

"I don't know how to explain how I got through all that happened," he continued.

"My son was taken captive, I lost my wife, I had to stay strong.

"First five or six months, I've lost so much weight. It was distressing, I didn't have strength to do anything or go anywhere. I was worried all the time.

 

A Mississippi district attorney proposed new legislation Wednesday to pay bounty hunters a reward for helping to deport immigrants in the country illegally.

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