30 seconds in I’d need to sneeze unexpectedly, knock everything over and then sit in a mixture of soapy water, veggies, a broken tablet, spilled wine and blood that squishes out of the cuts caused by the broken glass.

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A platform that is doing a great job so far but which (unfortunately) isn’t as relevant yet to call it a pillar of modern infrastructure. ;)

As Google no longer shares the source code of the Pixel-specific adaptions to AOSP and thus massively sabotages custom ROM development, I am no longer interested in buying new Pixel phones.

Kyll is a beautiful little stream in Germany.

they speak in this code language, evolving all the time so they can talk about normal stuff young people talk about and stay ahead of the big censor machine. And often it’s censored so poorly, everyone can still read it, like what was the point then?

If everyone can still read it, but it wasn’t detected by the big censor machine that sounds like a win to me?

Are credit card fees really 4-7% in the US? In the EU also Visa and MasterCard are really popular but fees are capped at 0.3%.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/fees-for-card-based-payments.html

Some time ago I tried InvoiceNinja as an invoicing and expense management tool and kind of liked it. It also has some CRM functionalities which I never used myself but maybe it could be a fit for you. It’s available as paid SaaS or free self-hosted.

https://www.invoiceninja.org/

I’ll for sure dig a bit deeper on the links, but for me it’s still very counter intuitive to estimate information density of spoken word just by the count of syllables.

E.g. I can vary the sentence ‘I need help’ in so many ways. I can mumble it to a close sitting person to imply secrecy, I can say it in a desperate voice to show psychological distress, I can increase the volume to indicate urgency etc. And all that doesn’t even consider body language, mimics etc. which are all part of the information flow. And I’d guess that body language varies a lot from country to country.

Thanks a lot for these insights, much appreciated!

asking a question isn’t actually a separate (“?”) character. In speech, asking a question is just a modification of tone

But if modification of tone encodes additional information wouldn’t we need to consider that as additional bits?

So if ‘You need a taxi.’ and ‘You need a taxi?’ are two different things, I don’t think we can just skip punctuation when measuring the bits of information in a sentence.

They found that Japanese, which has only 643 syllables, had an information density of about 5 bits per syllable, whereas English, with its 6949 syllables, had a density of just over 7 bits per syllable. Vietnamese, with its complex system of six tones (each of which can further differentiate a syllable), topped the charts at 8 bits per syllable.

That’s the part I don’t get. How do you determine the bits of information per syllable/word in different languages?

If I pick a random word such as ‘sandwich’ and encode it in ASCII it takes 8 bytes / i.e. 64 bits. According to the scientists, a two-syllable word in English only holds 14 bits of actual information. Anyone understands what they did there or has access to the underlying study?

Next level upcycling :)

Lemmy loves artists who have their income threatened by AI because AI can make what they make at a substantially lower cost with an acceptable quality in a fraction of the time.

AI depends on being trained on the artistic works of others, essentially intellectual and artistic property theft, so that you can make an image of a fat anime JD Vance. Calling it plagiarism is a bit far, but it edges so hard that it leaks onto the balls and could cum with a soft breeze.

While I mostly agree with all your arguments, I think the ‘intellectual property’ part - from my perspective - is a bit ambivalent on Lemmy. When someone uses an AI that is trained on pirated art to create a meme, that’s seen as a sin. Meanwhile, using regular artists’ or photographers’ work in memes without paying the author is really common. More or less every news article comes with a link to Archive.is to bypass paywalls and there are also special communities subject to (digital) piracy which are far more polular than AI content.

While I get why people have an anti-AI-sentiment, I don’t get at all why people downvote this thread. If someone is asking a legitimate question in an open and polite way, why downvote the question?

You have to wait until fresh air supply is privatized before you can try to sue them.

Can’t you just create a folder with links / shortcuts to all the applications and games and just open said folder with a click (or some kind of shortcut)?

I completely support that. Bash porn can get pretty interactive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_(command)

Assuming they release a list. How would we ever know that it’s legit and complete? I mean what if they just come up with something like Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden etc. but none of their own people. And even if they released the real list and Trump was on there, would that really be sufficient to have legal consequences? Most likely it doesn’t contain proofs for every single crime commited with dates, victims etc. along Epstein’s customers. So even with the list being published, Trump would probably just claim it to be harmless and nothing would happen.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d still appreciate the list being released. I just don’t have much hope that it will lead to real changes.

I know about some disadvantages of dams but I’m not sure if - in many regions - we have much of an alternative to buffer water over different seasons. We used to have huge glaciers in the mountains which retained snow in winter and released water in summer. But as more and more glaciers disappear, we have to come up with artificial measures to store water for agriculture, drinking water etc.

If we then can harvest electricity on top, that’s a nice byproduct from my perspective.

You should specify what kind of trip you are looking for. If you like mountains I’d prefer Spain (Picos de Europa, Pyrenees) and France (Alps, Pyrenees) over Portugal.