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Meta To Use Public Photos and Posts To Train AI: Here's How US, UK And Europe Users Can Opt Out
here is how to opt out.
Proceeds to never say how to opt out
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Meta To Use Public Photos and Posts To Train AI: Here's How US, UK And Europe Users Can Opt Out
here is how to opt out.
Proceeds to never say how to opt out
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State why
Well basically, I was born at a very young age.
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Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
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While I agree on the facts I want to offer a slightly different (possible) conclusion: a organisation like wikileaks needs resources and supporters. If they are targeted by all the "good guy"-countries and the only one willing to support them is "evil guy" Russia, then they are not in a position to resist. They chose to compromise their integrity instead of just not existing.
If the western world wants a whistleblower/leaks organisation that follows journalistic integrity and ethics, they need to fund it even if it leaks their own internal documents.
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451 rule
Ah yes the good old torment nexus from the hit novel "dont build the torment nexus"
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GM: it rolls to attack. Oh that's a 2
Player: PFF easy
GM: for a total of 47, dealing 70 damage and you are grabbed.
GM: for its other 5 attacks ...
My favourite is its reflect ability. If the players pull some meta bullshit like dropping tungsten rods from orbit the tarrasque can just play an uno reverso card and nuke the players.
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Anon's dad is a welder
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Exactly. If you are in the path of the eclipse and dont make it an event for the kids, you failed as a place of education and learning!
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A cool guide to Top 25 booze loving countries.
So Uganda Drinks 14L of "other" but doesn't appear at all in the total consumption?
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Many such cases
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Never heard of iDEAL. Wikipedia says its a a Dutch system that was acquired by the "European payments initiative" last year. The EPI just became active as a payment system 1 month ago.
This is VERY much still in development and not at all an established system in the EU.
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Priorities of a child
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Yeah money is useless to the kid. The leaf isnt
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Paris Agrees to Properly Represent Catholic Church in Closing Ceremony, With Scene Depicting Systematic Cover-Up of Child Abuse
This is Satire. Its not real.
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Tajikistan Set To Outlaw Islamic Hijab After Years Of Unofficial Ban
Tajik Islam is its own thing. They are (relatively) open and women are frequently seen in public. They can walk around on their own and they dont cover their heads with hijabs or similar. They are also very vary of foreign influences such as Arabic Islam, Turkish Islam and above all Taliban influences. The hijab is a staple in all of these forms of Islam, so banning it is essentialy telling those groups to stop trying to take over Tajik Islam. This is a good thing. It is protecting women from a shift to much more oppressing religious practices.
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Pls someone make this reality
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I never thought muscle memory was "stored" in the muscles. The same way a memory of a smell is not stored in the nose. I was quite confused to see this as a common misconception but it makes sense from the name
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Its gonna be wild.
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This might very well not (yet) be the "burning of the reichstag and declaration of the state of emergency" part of the fashist takeover. Trump is incompetent but if he does to much damage the government might just complety collapse and musk and zuck can enact a monarchy.
I am much more afraid of the people in the second row ready to take over than of trump himself.
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How to safely delete my home directory completely?
Deleting a file does not overwrite the data. It just marks that area of the drive as "free". Using forensic tools (or simply dd) you can read data from "empty" parts of the drive. To be save you have to overwrite each file. You can try tools like shred to scramble the data of a file before deleting it, but as they say themselfes, unfortunately your filesystem might not actually let you do that (scroll to the CAUTION section).
You can use dd to write bytes to arbitrary places of the drive, but again, the filesystem might lie to you where a file is actually located. The ONLY way to be entirely sure is to wipe the whole drive. And if your IT does not do that before handing a system to a new employee, then they are not doing their job correctly.
Not legal advice: just tell them you installed a few viruses (while the system was not connected to the company network of course) and they should nuke the system before handing it to anybody else.
(You can also wipe the drive yourself by booting from a stick and overwriting the entire drive)
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what's this thing again? my mind's a blank...
If your mind is a tabula rasa maybe you should erase your tabula cerata to match
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Alternatives for each of Proton's tools?
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There is absolutely a point to shaming and boycotting everyone who acts negatively in public. Of course beeing a secret scumbag is also bad but it doesn't promote scumbaggery to other. A quiet ass does less damage than a loud one.
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Looking for a good VPN for 2025, any recommendations?
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When the product is "trust" there is no separation. I do no longer trust the CEO so I will not use the product that relies on that trust.
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I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold
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It doesn't matter if AI is run on green energy as long as other things are still running on fossil fuels. There is a limit to how fast renewables energy sources are built and if the power consumption of AI eats away all of that growth, then the amount of fossil energy doesn't change.
All increases in energy consumption are not green because they force something else to run on fossil energy for longer.
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Clock logic
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less convenience and consistency
What? ... seriously, which convenience and consistency are you talking about.
24h only has one "inconsistency", going from 23:59 to 0:00. How is that less consistent than 12am being after 11:59pm and 12pm being after 11:59am. Solves all parts of the issue except for one. Which is a lot better than the 12h system.
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What do you think the Great Filter is?
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Would you need a power source? If you aim your ship correctly, then put everything alive into cryo, the ship could go completely dark, vent all heat and become a frozen rock. Then after [very long time] the ship enters the vicinity of a different star and can be reactivated and unfrozen using solar energy. You dont need energy to maintain cryo if the whole ship is at 1° kelvin.
(Of course that relies on cryo sleep being possible)