AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @ AlmightySnoo @lemmy.world

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I think it's already removed? I checked by sorting with New and there's nothing right now, unless you mean another community?

Yup, they already forced Google to announce that they'll add such a choice screen for the search engine and web browser on Android: https://www.neowin.net/news/google-will-add-new-search-and-browser-choice-screens-for-android-phones-in-europe/

It's only a matter of time before Microsoft does so too.

ollama should be much easier to setup!

ROCm is decent right now, I can do deep learning stuff and CUDA programming with it with an AMD APU. However, ollama doesn't work out-of-the-box yet with APUs, but users seem to say that it works with dedicated AMD GPUs.

As for Mixtral8x7b, I couldn't run it on a system with 32GB of RAM and an RTX 2070S with 8GB of VRAM, I'll probably try with another system soon [EDIT: I actually got the default version (mixtral:instruct) running with 32GB of RAM and 8GB of VRAM (RTX 2070S).] That same system also runs CodeLlama-34B fine.

So far I'm happy with Mistral 7b, it's extremely fast on my RTX 2070S, and it's not really slow when running in CPU-mode on an AMD Ryzen 7. Its speed is okayish (~1 token/sec) when I try it in CPU-mode on an old Thinkpad T480 with an 8th gen i5 CPU.

Buy Now Pay Later is what's exacerbating this. People are dumb, have short attention spans and most of them are statistically bad at basic math, so when they see a purchase that they can make without paying anything now they'll hit buy and they'll do it many times as the e-commerce platform will usually recommend other products to them they'll likely want, they won't do the calculation to see if they really can afford the split payments + the interest.

[cites mondoweiss]

Their MBFC rating: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/

Even Wikipedia consider that Nazi Hamas outlet biased and opinionated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

Be better.

PSA: give open-source LLMs a try folks. If you're on Linux or macOS, ollama makes it incredibly easy to try most of the popular open-source LLMs like Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B, CodeLlama etc... Obviously it's faster if you have a CUDA/ROCm-capable GPU, but it still works in CPU-mode too (albeit slow if the model is huge) provided you have enough RAM.

You can combine that with a UI like ollama-webui or a text-based UI like oterm.

Hmm I don't think it's because of that feature, because it only runs when you explicitly ask it to translate a page for you. You should probably check your extensions, see if you have some redundant ones (a mistake people make is use multiple ad-blockers/anti-trackers, when just uBlock Origin + Firefox's defaults are usually good enough).

The lemmy.ca link needs to be opened inside a browser so that you see the thread on that instance. If you try to open it on an app like Voyager it will probably try to redirect you to your local instance, but the problem is that some instances purged it, probably because it quotes literal calls to violence.

Can someone explain like what are the lemmy devs political stance ?

They're tankies, ie radical communists who support authoritarian regimes like North Korea and the CCP, and fully support Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The devs also onboarded someone who openly said many times on October 8th that "all Israelis are valid targets", "anything that moves and isn't Palestinian is a valid target" and "there's no such thing as an Israeli civilian" and he's still in their team. On their own instance lemmy.ml (their choice of the .ml TLD is a reference to Marxism-Leninism), if you mention the Tiananmen massacre you get banned for "orientalism", and if you say that Hamas are terrorists you also get banned for "bothsidesing (sic)".

Does that leave a stain on Lemmy, the open-source project? Yes, for sure, it leaves Lemmy with a very questionable governance, and weird decisions like the absence of any prioritization of work on moderation tools and the very weird and completely random fact that they suddenly disabled sign-up captchas last summer leading to a bot infestation of most instances. Coincidentally, tankie instances like lemmygrad and hexbears rely on brigading, bots, and cyber-harassment to spread their poison, and strong moderation tools would hinder them a lot.

Now does that make it impossible for Lemmy to succeed? No, it's again an open-source project, and it can be forked away from the tankies at any time. In fact, there's even a highly credible rewrite in Java currently whose goal is to be 100% API-compatible with Lemmy: https://sublinks.org/ (see the announcement here: https://lemmy.world/post/11005411 )

Yup, Firefox has it: https://browser.mt/ (it's now a native part of Firefox)

Microsoft really wants someone to remind it of these days:

So sick of hearing how bad October 7th was.

You have to thank the 10/7 truthers for that. For those tinfoil hat folks "nothing happened on October 7th", "there was no rape", "Hamas are heroes", and we have many, many of these 10/7 deniers on Lemmy that are amplifying the disgusting "believe all women, except Israelis". It is important to remind that the rapes happened, that Hamas is not a "resistance movement" but merely a bunch of rapists and terrorists, and most importantly that rape is not resistance.

TRT does not have a low MBFC score

Their MBFC rating: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/trt-world/

I'd usually alternate between true neutral and neutral evil

RedReader gets a barely-glance in a single sentence. A single dev (and with users providing PRs) has one of the best, and most unknown, apps for over a decade now.

RedReader is definitely a gem. Incredible app that still works despite the Reddit appocalypse.

You're grasping at straws, you clearly didn't read the article (and don't want to), so I quote the relevant passage for you as you seem to only have read the headline:

When asked whether there was evidence of other antisemitic phrases being used at the rally, Lanyon said “certainly”.

That + repeating "where's the Jews" during a rally immediately 2 days after Hamas' killings and mass rapes on October 7th is definitely indefensible and certainly is incompatible with how you want it to be interpreted.

You hoped that this article would be a gotcha moment but you seem to not have read anything beyond the headline, because the article is actually still pretty damning.

"As a result of that examination, the expert has concluded with overwhelming certainty that the phrase chanted during that protest, as recorded on the audio and visual files, was "Where's the Jews?" he said.

"Not another phrase, as otherwise widely reported."

When asked whether there was evidence of other antisemitic phrases being used at the rally, Lanyon said "certainly".

"There is evidence of that, and those are offensive and completely unacceptable," he said.

"But I think the major contention has been about the phrase that was chanted, and quite emphatically, our expert has said that it is 'Where's the Jews?'"

Thank goodness, "where's (sic) the Jews" instead of "gas the Jews", just two days after the Oct 7 killings and mass rapes by Hamas, definitely makes it much better /s

The tone may be a bit harsh but it's muuuuch better than how he used to be during his most toxic days. This is how he used to talk: https://www.networkworld.com/article/706908/security-torvalds-to-bad-security-devs-kill-yourself-now.html

Linus definitely got much better at handling his anger since his public apology in 2018.