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From the Wikipedia page about elections in 1933 Germany:

The resources of big business and the state were thrown behind the Nazis' campaign to achieve saturation coverage all over Germany. Brownshirts and SS patrolled and marched menacingly through the streets of cities and towns. A "combination of terror, repression and propaganda was mobilized in every... community, large and small, across the land".[1]: 339  Irene von Goetz wrote, "In a decree issued on 17 February 1933, Göring ordered the Prussian police force to make unrestrained use of firearms in operations against political opponents (the so-called Schießerlass, or shooting decree)".[4]

To ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organisations also "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia, 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Der Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police (Hilfspolizei) in another decree by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring.[4]

Full page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election

Does this remind you of anything? Anything at all? See you in November.

What has been bugging me for a long time is the fact that LLMs are called AI when they are very clearly not.

The promised capabilities are just not there, LLMs are never going to magically turn into AGI. And yet, CEOs promise exactly that although they surely must know better by now.

Just to make it abundantly clear: they are making claims about the technology that are patently false, misleading and vastly exaggerated. They're selling snake oil.

It really reminds me of Theranos, where the idea sounded good but once they tried implementing it they realized it wasn't feasible. And yet, Elizabeth Holmes continued, there was just too much money going around.

"AI" is just the same. LLMs looked amazing in the beginning, but by now we know how limited their application really is. And yet, there seems to be no limit in how much money can be sunk in the whole "business".

It's not a bubble when everyone is lying about the product, it's a scam.

I've been wearing Calvin Klein shorts for years, they were durable and nice. Now I'm looking for a European alternative with an emphasis on quality.

When it was announced many pointed to its rather moderate spec as a problem. What are your feelings, would you consider it low spec? And even if it is, it's this really a problem or possibly even a positive?

I've personally have been thinking for a while that ever more powerful, and power hungry, hardware is not the way forward for PC gaming.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/35694277

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/44859587

I convinced my teenage son to install bazzite on his gaming laptop to avoid Windows 11 and he likes it!

The best part: he wanted some game and worked his way through using Wine and Bottle to make it work, all by himself. He told me he feels "a bit like a hacker" now.

Can't tell you how proud this made me.

I convinced my teenage son to install bazzite on his gaming laptop to avoid Windows 11 and he likes it!

The best part: he wanted some game and worked his way through using Wine and Bottle to make it work, all by himself. He told me he feels "a bit like a hacker" now.

Can't tell you how proud this made me.

Ich habe noch nie ein Paket von DPD wirklich direkt in die Hand bekommen.

Gestern war es mal wieder soweit. Ich sah den DPD Lieferwagen anfahren, der Fahrer hielt auch an, nahm mein Paket - ich war voller Hoffnung - sah, dass ich nicht im Erdgeschoss wohne und zog wieder ab. Ich habe ihm noch nachgerufen, er hat es einfach ignoriert. Ein paar Stunden später dann die Meldung, dass ich nicht anzutreffen war und mein Paket im Shop liegt. Der Shop ist natürlich nicht irgendwo in der Nähe, das wäre ja zu einfach. Zwei Bus- und drei U-Bahn-Stationen, schon kann ich meine Sendung abholen.

Ich finde das einfach dreist.

Und es ist immer so mit DPD, schon seit ich zurück denken kann. Wenn ich etwas bestelle und dann die Lieferankündigung von DPD kommt, weiß ich bereits, worauf ich mich einstellen kann.