@ndoto And back in the old days, it was *typical* to have a separate receiver and transmitter. As in entirely separate physical items on the desk, or mounted in the rack. Which you needed to manually keep tuned to the same frequency, unless of course you were set up with a whole separate frequency oscillator. And the transmit/receive switch was an actual toggle switch which controlled which of the two the antenna was connected to.
@Synchro It has a great idea about time travel in that they build a box that simply reverses time while you're inside it. So if you want to go back an hour, you have to spend an hour in the box. And if you want to go back a week, be prepared to spend a week in the box and pack supplies. So it's not a trivial "jump to whenever" time travel.
They start to use it, successfully, on minor tests, and everything seems alright. Then things start unraveling...
The web becomes far more interesting when you explore it on your own instead of letting a bot spoon feed you the highlights. 😊 It just feels more human.
Ukraine downs Russian Mi-8 helicopter with deep strike drone for first time
#Ukrainian forces shot down a #Russian Mi-8 #helicopter with in #Rostov Oblast with a deep strike #drone, Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SSO) reported on Nov. 22.
The operation marks the first time #Ukraine has used a deep strike drone to down a Russian Mi-8
"We are changing the rules of the game: now we are hunting," Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said on Nov. 22. The Mi-8 was allegedly downed over Russia's Rostov Oblast.
“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here, but that we will stop it.”
Western Politicians be like "we have to be on Twitter, it's what that Rich Man said it is, a 'global town square.' We're ever so well behaved, we're playing the Game"
okay i need a new laptop. i am looking for something that can easily handle steam remote play, and ideally runs linux. doesn't need to run many games directly, the only ones i will be playing directly on it are things like Nubby's Number Factory.
No specific things to suggest, but I would say look at Lenovo, they make solid stuff, and deals can be found if you look around on deal sites and retailers.
Who has that one soundalike meme with a Hershey's bar where "her" and "she" are each circled pointing to a woman's restroom symbol, while "ys" is circled pointing to the Ys protagonist Adol?
Is there a sort of LinkedIn for Free software nerds? I'm thinking a (fedi, obviously) social network where you can post your CV, tech interests, project history, etc. as a way of working together, talking about the stuff we're building, and creating a profile around contributors.
If there is, I'd love to join. If there isn't, I'd love to build one.
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine's President's Office earlier said that Witkoff is shaping the plan in direct coordination with Kirill Dmitriev, -- Russia's top economic negotiator and an operator in Moscow's efforts to influence Washington.
"He has been doing it for months," the source said, mentioning Witkoff's 28-point plan that has been seen in Kyiv as a de facto capitulation to Russia.
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
I don't think it takes billions to build a platform but it does seem that it usually requires millions to get more than a few people using it.
I have accounts on loops, lemmy/piefed, mastodon, element and more. I've never met a person IRL that uses them and I've never gotten to know anyone in an online community (gaming, interest forums, etc.) that use them. Viewing my loops app makes me feel like I'm alone on an island. The communities I follow on Lemmy/Piefed will go weeks without a post. The communities I manage will go the same without a submission from the community. Now that my immediate family have grown tired of the bugs on element after I forced them to use it to chat with me, I am literally the only person I know on the messaging platform.
I love open source but if I were the type of person that required a true sense of a well-rounded social community, I would use something like tiktok to scratch that itch.
kokorobot.ca/site/remove_ai.ht… "Sadly, everytime a company adds AI features to their tools they do so automatically and without letting people opt-out by default. And so it is necessary to exorcize AI features out of the tools that we use ourselves by following these instructions:
uBlockOrigin Firefox Gmail Google DuckDuckGo Github Youtube UBlockOrigin uBlockOrigin is a free, open source ad content blocker. I've been using it as an add-on on Firefox for many years.
Consider adding this extension to your browser so that in turn you can add this AI blocklist with 1000+ websites of AI-generated content to it.
Firefox Doing the following will remove hot AI garbage such as Smart Tab Grouping, automatic tab naming, and an optional AI chatbot in the sidebar.
Type about:config in the address bar, press enter and accept the warning.
Search for(separately) and set the following entries to false:
Type about:addons in the address bar, on the left side menu click on On-Device AI and remove downloaded models(if any), and disable automatic updates.
Gmail The first step is to open Gmail in the browser.
Then click on the Gear Settings Icon(⚙️) in the upper right corner of the page.
In the General Tab, scroll down to Smart Features and UNCHECK THE BOX(halfway down).
Then, right below that is yet another monstrosity: Google Workspace smart features. Click on Manage Workspace Smart Features and make sure both accursed toggles are turned OFF.
WARNING! It is worth mentioning that doing this will turn off automatic email filtering and lump in your emails together in your main inbox(I was told it shouldn't happen if you made those labels yourself). Turning off the above settings will also prevent Gmail events from being synced to your Google Calendar(events are pulled from your emails and put on your calendar automatically.
Consider moving away from Google services by switching to other mail services like Startmail, Migadu(that's what I use) or Posteo.
Google When using Google as a search engine you will get AI Overviews showing up first. There is no way to disable it permanently when making searches from the google.com homepage, but there are ways to bypass it:
By using web search. On the Google search engine homepage make a search and then select Web from the tabs below the search bar. If you can't see it there, click on “More” in the search menu and select Web so you only get website results. (Evidently, this option still sucks because you have to view their damned overview before turning it off.)
Bypass it using your web browser. It's possible to bypass Google's AI overviews via your web browser by going into the browser's search settings and creating a new entry which will tell Google to only give you classic web results(using &udm=14).
To do this in Firefox, type:
about:preferences#search in the address bar.
In the Search shortcuts section, disable Google, then ADD a new browser with the following settings:
Search engine name: Google (web) URL: google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14 Keyword: Google (web) When you want to make searches using Google via Firefox, select the desired search engine in the address bar's dropdown menu(left side). It'll now say "Google (web)"(the entry you created) in the search bar on the left.
Disable trending searches
While on the Google search engine homepage, click on Settings in the lower righthand side of the window, and then select Search Settings.
Select Privacy & Safety and under Content turn Search personalization OFF.
Again in Search settings, on the left side menu click on Other settings and disable Autocomplete with trending searches.
Evidently, using alternatives to Google would be best, but I too sometimes find myself using it(when I don't get results from DuckDuckGo). At least with these settings, I won't be bothered by any AI nonsense.
One day I might just give up and browse the yester-web(pre-2022 internet) via Wayback Machine, or take refuge in Gopher, or Gemini(the internet protocol. I hate that Google also took over this name for their AI agent).
DuckDuckGo For web searches, it's possible to use the HTML-only DDG, and the NO AI version of DDG. You can add these to Firefox by adding them to your search settings(by typing about:preferences#search in the address bar and adding the browsers under Search Shortcuts).
If you want to stick to the original DDG, modify it by going to Settings AI Features, then:
Turn off Duck.ai Set Search Assist to NEVER in the dropdown menu Turn Hide AI-generated images ON
Click on Save And Exit and refresh the page before making a new search.
Github Github's AI tool is called Copilot. You may have noticed that Github now has a pesky "Ask anything" section that appears in your account page, to get rid of it click on your avatar image on the top right of the screen and click on Copilot settings.
Under a section called Visibility is an option called Show Copilot, setting it to DISABLED will hide Copilot features.
Youtube First off, this is unrelated to AI, but for your well-being I do recommend installing Untrap, an awesome add-on for YouTube, I highly recommend it. I've stripped it all the way down, my homepage is just a search bar, settings, my avatar, and few links in the left side bar and it is... effing glorious. My Youtube experience is so much better for it. Nothing shows up unless I look for it.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an option that disables AI features globally for Youtube... yet. There doesn't seem to be a way to get those annoying and often innacurate AI summaries to go away either(no more than choosing not to expand the tabs), but here are things that you can do:
Youtube Studio AI Features(for creators)
If you have a YouTube creator account, while in YouTube Studio click on Settings, then on Channel, then click on the Advanced Settings Tab. Scroll down and uncheck anything under Video Quality Enhancements and under Third party training uncheck the box that allows them to train their AI model on your videos.
Turn off auto-dubbing
I don't have any auto-dubbing as an option on my account yet, but it's coming(I got an email about it). For those who have it, to disable auto-dubbing on long videos, click on the Gear Icon ⚙️(or 3 dots for phone users) on the top righthand corner of the video screen, select Audio track and select Original audio track.
For those who use YouTube studio, click on Settings, then on Channel, then click on the Advanced Settings Tab, scroll down and uncheck the box under Auto-dubbing."
This is a public service announcement poster with a serious and cautionary tone. It features a portrait of a person in a blue and white striped shirt, appearing to be in the midst of smoking something, possibly a cigarette or a joint. The background is a blurry, neutral color. Prominent text on the poster reads: "This Thanksgiving remember the cranberry sauce, but forget the Marijuana." Below that, it states: "Terry was convinced to take a 'toke' of a joint with his friend 'just to relax'. Immediately after, Terry killed his friend who had given him the marijuana in a murderous craze. Not so safe, is it?" At the bottom, the text "Marijuana. Not Even Once." is displayed, along with a small logo for Ad Council and contact information.
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still haven't heard an explanation of why Ukraine should give up land to Russia in exchange for peace, after they *already did that* with Crimea and got re-invaded anyway.
European politicians are selling us out. The faith of Ukraine is linked to ours and our 'leaders' are walking on the leashe of Trump instead of developing a strong European defense that takes shit from nobody. 😞
@Whistlen @benroyce @HunterZ Can you guys please blame the russians who invaded, killed, raped military personnel and civilians, kidnapped children, suppresses domestic and foreign opposition to the Zar with radioactive poison and tries to erase the Ukrainian language, history and culture? A country that salivates at attacking the Baltics.
The US did some horrible things but you shouldn't take the side of another genocidal empire just to go against it.
unfortunately this is wishful thinking… facts of the war is based on the scenario this is as best as it gets as AFU has reached a breaking point after which the territorial loss will be too large to render this peace plan obsolete
The last time some foreign would-be conqueror tried to get Ukranians to surrender, they were treated to a hilarious, and contemptuous response. Here's a video of Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi reading those letters. (Strong language.)
@Khurram Wadee True, but I think those countries right below Russia are all former states of the USSR, and Russia has a lot of supporters there, and IIRC Russia's been making in roads into Africa, so that's also not a surprise nor is the Arabian countries, they all have a lot to gain from influencing the US.
Someone tell me if this is a thing, as I think it would be cool. You find a youtube link that you want on your computer. Is there any way to just download the audio from the video? Or do you have to somehow save the video to hear it again later. Is this whole downloading the audio thing even legal?
It's legal unless you do it with copyrighted music but who will know? There are certain apps/websites you can use to rip the audio files from the videos.
Here there are scripts for JAWS for Windows and audio games for Blind People. JAWS Scripts, Symbian accessible software using Nuance Talks and Mobile Speak
Every single one of the 86 Corporate Democrats who voted to "condemn socialism" & was in Congress when Biden used taxpayer money to bailout the banks, supported Biden using taxpayer money to bailout the banks.
They believe in socialism for the wealthy but rugged individualism for the working class. MLK called them hypocrites, and for good reason.
Fundamentally thats what Capitalism is, distribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. Everything from corporate liberals to capitalists plundering, to the genocide in Palestine is a feature of capitalism.
The system is working exactly as intended and therefore must be destroyed
Servers are safer to use if a setting called "authorized fetch" (also known as "secure mode") is switched on. Ordinary members cannot activate it, it can only be activated by the server's admin.
When it's activated it makes blocks much more effective and greatly reduces unwanted interactions.
You might want to ask your server admin to switch it on. If they're unsure about it, they can find lots more info and step-by-step instructions at fedi.tips/authorized-fetch
p.s. Years ago "Authorized Fetch" used to cause compatibility and/or resource problems, which is why it is switched off by default and why some longer-serving admins may be reluctant to switch it on.
However, nowadays it works well and some newer Fediverse platforms like GoToSocial have it activated by default.
Speaking personally I've had Authorized Fetch switched on for several years on my own server, and have not run into any problems with compatibility or resources.
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Someone would stab him in the next bar he went into though.