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elucubra@sopuli.xyzto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion RoundEnglish1·59 minutes agoMaybe another tech bro o ketamine, like Musk?
Would you give money to that?
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto News@lemmy.world•Germany plans to enlist 40,000 teens annually to military5·1 hour agoI did a tour as a conscript. I hated “losing” over a year of my life when I was drafted.
Looking back, I actually had fun, learned a lot about society, as we were from all walks of life and I came from a priviledged environment. Made great friends.
Got to play with a bunch of things that go bang and brrrrrr. (The MG is awesome!).
Learned to kill in a bunch of ways, being in a Scout unit. Thankfully I never deployed, so it all stayed theory.
Learned a lot about patience, discipline, survival within a dystopian bureaucracy, repressing the urge to frag, teamwork, esprit de corps, and much more.
I really think that despite all the shit that being in the military entails, it was definitely a net positive for me, especially because I never deployed.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto Technology@lemmy.world•“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” English121·1 hour agoBut I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.
That’s called testing, and the companies behind these LLMs should, before launch, put a very important amount of their resources into testing.
“Product testing is a crucial process in product development where a product’s functionality, performance, safety, and user experience are evaluated to identify potential issues and ensure it meets quality standards before release” (Gemini)
We are literally using alpha/beta software to deal with life altering issues, and these companies are, for some reason, being able to test their products on the public, without consequences.
A bit reckless giving advice, aren’t we?
We don’t know if OP has personal data in the windows drive, or copies thereof, and yet, you write:
If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.
Also:
If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.
Would you please enlighten me about why you shouldn’t dual boot on a single drive? I, and millions of others have been happily doing it for decades. As a matter of fact I’m willing to bet some money that that’s precisely the most common desktop setup in the world for Linux. The major caveat is that sometimes Windows upgrades/updates won’t respect your dual boot setup, which is usually trivial to fix.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto News@lemmy.world•FDA's New Drug Approval AI Is Generating Fake Studies: Report2·2 days agoThe article says mint chocolate chip. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it looks more like roadkill rat balls barf ice-cream to me
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•Spanish airline denies allegations of antisemitism after removing French Jewish group from flightEnglish2·2 days agoMedia reports and social media posts claimed the group was removed after Jewish students aged 10 to 15 were heard singing songs in Hebrew on the plane.
Who the fuck,except jews, would recognize Hebrew songs? That excuse is so weak its laughable.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic productionEnglish1·4 days agoI imagine you have searched for data, and have looked up Almería (city) not the province. The city is on the shore. Almeria province is hilly. As soon as you go some few hundred meters up climate becomes way more extreme.
temps are consistently above 95° (35°C) blow Almeria and everywhere in Europe out of the water. Hate to tell you, but in Madrid (and it’s not the hottest) it’s been between 34 and 40ºC since June. Albox, in the province of Almeria for example had a max in 2021 of 45º C.
For most vegetables, passive methods, such as greenhouses, with shade systems and ventilation, these extremes can be reduced.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your opinion on "restocking fees"? Greedy retailer? Or do you think the fees are justified?33·4 days agoIn Europe we are paying restocking fees, just not overtly. I have been in the ecommerce business, and know others who have. You just mark up the goods taking into account your returned goods cost.
It’s like physical stores adding a the spread cost of shoplifting into the prices.
When I lived with my ex-wife, I always ordered more or larger, and when at home, Id make more of whatever. Always. First couple of years i simply got annoyed, then I realized I couldn’t fight it, so samity prevailed.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, othersEnglish1·4 days ago80% is not SOME, iT’s almost everybody, FFs sake!
75M Americans voted for a fascist piece of shit in their last election. Would it be weird if I held a grudge against white Christians in Norway because of that fact?
1st. Only some Christian denominations are fanatically pro Trump. 2nd. They are faithful, of many ethnicities. Jews are an ethnoreligious group, and in fact, while most faiths welcome converts, Judaism makes you jump through loops. Jews don’t like to welcome the non ethnically pure. This if you look at the many branches, especially the Yiddish, with their predominance of fair skin, light eyes, blonde or redhead, is very ironic, as the amount of Yiddish women who have jumped beds through history to turn Levantine populations into almost nordic, is staggering, and thus highly hypocritical.
LiebensraumLebensraumI don’t speak German. Please excuse my mistake.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic productionEnglish1·4 days agoStill cost effective
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•US imposes a 17% duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes in hopes of boosting domestic productionEnglish1·4 days agoYes they can. See Almeria, Spain. Similar to Arizona/NM weather, and as dry. Also, the Dutch do it, in climate controlled greenhouses, price competitive.
It can definitely be done.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, othersEnglish141·4 days agoI’m mostly on board with this, but censorship is a dangerous road to go down. Where does it stop?
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto World News@lemmy.world•YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, othersEnglish2·4 days agoIn Israel (outside the numbers may differ) about 80% support the war and genocide.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 English1·4 days agoSure. I simply point out that developing above ground rails much cheaper. I’m not criticizing. I’m all for nay kind of public transport, and electric car and moto sharing.
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Public transit in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 vs Chengdu, China 🇨🇳 English2·4 days agoYou mean that that is all the public transport in Toronto, combined?!
elucubra@sopuli.xyzto Technology@lemmy.world•Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-dayEnglish4·4 days agoAgree. I work with an org that uses SharePoint, I don’t. When they share docs with me, I can’t directly transfer (or maybe I haven’t found how) to One drive. I mean, they are both MS Cloud. Why?
The Muslims basically let the Christians and Jews carry on with their lives, albeit extracting taxes.
Historically, in countries and regions following Islamic law, the religious communities that Muslims recognized as People of the Book were subject to a legal status known as dhimmi, meaning that they had the option to pay a special head tax called jizya in exchange for being granted the privilege to practice their faith and govern their community according to the rules and norms of their own religion. (Wikipedia).