Crotaro @ Crotaro @beehaw.org

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You're right! I thought of the typical soda can and, as far as I remember, those tabs are lifted a little so you can get underneath even by just shoving your finger skin in. But just yesterday I tried opening a can of tuna and was surprised not only by how naturally I do the little lift with my finger nails but also by how very difficult it is to open when you don't use your fingernails.

Genuine question because this might be a design difference between your country and Germany, where I'm from: Can you not lift the tab a little bit with the skin of your finger and then just pull on it? Are they welded onto the can?

True, true. We literally omly have a wood furnace, so are absolutely not affected by this, but I'll see how reporting potential GDPR violations in the name of someone else works.

Sorry that it didn't land as an obvious joke. With the NSDAP NPD AfD on such a steep rise, I think I have transcended gallows humour and arrived at necromancer humour levels to be able to cope with this reality.

This is my reasoning, too. I keep my keyboard QWERTZ + German Umlaute, but almost everything else is set to English. Pretty much the only exception are videogames and movies that have a superior German version to them (like Kingdom Come Deliverance)

Samesies!

One very important word of caution (unfortunately coming from experience): Syncthing, as the name suggests, makes it so the content of one device is the same as that of another device. So, even if you have one device set to only receive data, it means that if you delete a file from the sending device, the receiving device will also delete that file to stay in sync with the sending device.

There is a way to use Syncthing as a simple backup storage program (not necessarily the best solution but much better than manually backing up your files every few months and just hoping for the best). But it means that you have to use the advanced folder option "ignoreDelete". I also use the file versioning system, so even if something is automatically deleted by mistake, it's still versioned in a special subfolder and accessible to me.

Thank you a lot for the load of information! I just now got to reading it all. I was very skeptical about the fact that it is fed by the output of other LLMs but the way you explain it makes sense to me that it might not be that much of a problem. I guess a super blunt analogy could be "It's only incest if it's your children" lol

Hahaha the production lead actually suggested that I might have been sick and coughed germs onto the sample sponge or that the sponges themselves were already contaminated during manufacturing, because every single sample showed high counts of pseudomonas.

Maybe instead she should start listening to us when we tell her that production equipment from 1970 might not be sufficient to run a food production with the hygiene requirements of today. But no, replacing that would cost more money than just taking samples over and over until the results are low enough (probably because by the 37th swab I cleaned the surface better than the production workers)

Good idea, I'll try to get a torrent client working on my Raspberry Pi for these types of documents.

Edit: Set up qBitTorrent and am downloading and then seeding it. Thanks for the tip! According to a reviewer, you want to use this link instead, because the autogenerated one has some missing files?

Reviewer: chilimachine - favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite - February 3, 2025

Subject: Use full-20250128-cdc-datasets-USETHIS.torrent file in the file list

If you're seeding made sure to use the torrent file named "full-20250128-cdc-datasets-USETHIS.torrent" instead of IA's auto-generated one. The auto-gen one is missing files and a bit buggy.

Thanks for the explanation. I don't understand enough about large language models to give a valuable judgement on this whole Deepseek happening from a technical standpoint. I think it's excellent to have competition on the market and it feels that the US' whole "But they're spying on you and being a national security risk" is a hypocritical outcry when Facebook, OpenAI and the like still exist.

What do you think about Deepseek? If I understood correctly, it's being trained on the output of other LLMs, which makes it much more cheap but, to me it seems, also even less trustworthy because now all the actual human training data is missing and instead it's a bunch of hallucinations, lies and (hopefully more often than not) correctly guessed answers to questions made by humans.

Thank you for that perspective. It seems to be somewhat similar and thankless to when I get tasked with taking microbio samples from the machines to check for contamination and then get grumpy department leads because the analysis results show over and over again that their cleaning procedure is inefficient.

Does open sourcing require you to give out the training data? I thought it only means allowing access to the source code so that you could build it yourself and feed it your own training data.

Additionally, if a day one patch were actually enough to fix these issues, then just delay the game by a day. That way, the launch day gamers won't suffer through a (sometimes) unplayable experience and possibly leave bad reviews.

I really can't speak on the security or data privacy of it, since I'm not knowledgeable enough in these topics, but I pay 1€ per month for Port87. I just love the ability to easily create sub-adresses and never have to worry about my "main adresses" receiving the spam I get for e.g. online shopping

Wouldn't be the worst thing. I don't mind the EU cooperating with USA but we've been piggybacking too comfortably off many US "services" when it comes to consumer tech and the military. That way we forgot to build something on our own in case of "Europe's Saviour" turning into a political (if not, yet, military) enemy.

Thank you, immediately saved and gonna download it later on. Many of these steps are only partially useful for me here in Germany, but since the AfD is on the rise as well, it might come in handy. I wish that it won't need to, though.

Holy shit that was depressing. I already agreed with your sentiment before scrolling for literal minutes just to see the wealth of Jeff Bezos and then after that, the real deal just began.

I absolutely agree that voting based on policies would be the better way. This is honestly how I cast my vote here in Germany every time. The only parties I inherently strike off my list are the big three (CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP) because they've been found to definitely be corrupt and didn't actually follow-through on so many policies. And the AFD because they are the new NPD (which were the new NSDAP).

Every other party is up for grabs and I check their general "mission statement" as well as their statements and planned policies to see if it aligns with my beliefs. I literally have no clue who the politicians are and don't care as long as they stay true to their policies.

Getting this good overview on multiple topics by this many parties is made easier thanks to the Wahl-O-Mat (Elect-O-Mat) that is set up for the major elections. In it, you put in your position on the relevant topics and not only do you see a numerical score of how your views compare to any other parties' but also can you (and are encouraged to) read through each party's detailed response to any particular topic.

This is probably the best and most realistic answer here. Just tell them that you're here to work and not chitchat. I've done a similar thing when asked why I don't take a break so we (my superior and I) could go on break together. I work less than 6 hours so I'm not legally required to go on a 30 minute break.

Smh at a few of those other comments that read more like someone trying to write bad fanfiction.

Sounds like a job for a group similar to Anonymous, just less focused on actual illegal activities and instead just playing out the legal methods of fighting against corporations.