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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Honestly it's not the worst idea, the french have tried something like that during one of their revolutions.

Semi-relatedly, I'm salty they didn't push for duodecimal numbers and base metric on that, it would incorporate the only good part of imperial system & 12-based time system, not only into measurements but also all other aspects of life.

Then they could make time more consistent too, maybe have like 10000 (20736 in decimal) "metric seconds" in a day (which would mean 1 "metric second" ≈ 4 "normal" seconds) and derive stuff from there (e.g. 100 "metric seconds" in a "metric minute", 10 "metric minutes" in a "metric hour", 10 "metric hours" in a "metric day"). Would be really quite neat.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Of the two, Celsius is less arbitrary because it is based on actual measurable reproducible things and not "we threw in some salts in water, and guesstimated a human body temperature". It also makes a lot of sense in our post-industrial society because we do/don't want to freeze/boil water almost every day for a variety of uses. Water is both an extremely important substance for humans and its freezing/boiling points occur in everyday life (unlike air or metals).

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

To be fair, it's the other way around. Kelvin scale is Celsius scale shifted by -273 ℃.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 12 hours ago

NGL it would be awesome to have hardware manufacturers put a community distro like Bazzite on their devices. I think it would be fine for them to say something like "Runs Bazzite out of the box" in the promo materials, and even tweak it a bit themselves. But why lie about being in contact with the Bazzite team and sending them a device? Very weird.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ads aren't just verbal, they are also visual. A "strong brand" would be instantly recognizable even if you don't know the language at all.

E.g. you probably almost immediately know what this is, without even knowing the alphabet:

That's kind of the point, advertisements are intentionally designed as brain worms which interact with deep parts of your brain and get you to instinctively associate them with something (ideally positive, but even general awareness is beneficial).

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

That's true, for me the main issue with any automation under capitalism is that it brings yet more power to the corpos and the billionaires and takes away power from the labor.

In this particular case it also sucks because the end product of genAI is soulless slop, and video genAI is quite a power hog. I agree that it's ok for assisting developers/writers/artists/video editors in boring repetitive tasks.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I think LLMs are neat and useful tools in some circumstances. So I don't hate "AI", I hate the billionaires who are pushing it down our throats, or trying to replace us.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, the reasoning behind this is sad, but the outcome is very positive.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These particular news are based and a long-term good for the humanity. Moving from spying corpo slop to an open-source solution is a win-win for the french people. Sad that it is only happening now, this should have been done decades ago, the US empire and its corporations have always been evil. Now they are just showing their true face to europe and the US population.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

People's opinions are measurably linked to the opinions of their (perceived) peer group. Conservatives were not born evil, they become evil after hearing evil bullshit from everyone and everything around them. That's why "brainwashing" in the form of repeating the same lie over and over from various sources works so well in convincing people it's the truth. Ban it, punish the liars, and the influence is reduced significantly. Invest in better education for the general population, specifically around critical thinking and media literacy (ideally something based on dialectical/historical materialism, which seems to be the best philosophical framework for understanding social realities) & historical education about dangers of fascism and capitalism, and the society gets a good anti-fascist vaccine for a couple generations at least.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The absolute worst case is that you slightly annoy the HR/TA at the company and they reject you again with a slightly annoyed letter.

Most likely case is that the same garbage AI system that rejected you the first time just rejects you again.

And best-case you get your case heard again and get hired, even if just for the perseverance.

So I don't see why not, an employment relationship is not like personal relationships where "no means no", it's not like you're stalking the company.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bad idea. ICE is going to break in anyways (or some nazi collaborator will just let them in) but well-intentioned people won't be able to render help, or at least document what's happening inside. Locks are there to keep honest people honest, fascists are definitionally not that.

 

This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

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Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

 

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

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