Womble

@ Womble @lemmy.world

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9mo ago

Mistral's new "environmental audit" shows how much AI is hurting the planet
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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago
People dont like it when you point out that them commuting to work uses vastly more energy than LLM usage though.

9mo ago

Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming.

Dont be a dick, people arent simping for Thiel just because they think the article you posted is over interpreting a single pause.

9mo ago

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Starmer is no where near Blair 2.0, Blair at least had charisma, a political plan and, at least before Iraq, genuinly had mass grass roots support. Starmer has none of them, he's an apolitical middle maneger who has been pushed to the top of the party by a right wing clique in labour as a way to purge the left.

9mo ago

Labour knew Palestine Action posed no violent threat, but banned it anyway amid lobby pressure

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Its definitely not terrorism, but its more than just vandalism. Spraying paint into a jet engine is going to severly damage if not completly break it. Sabotage is probably the best description, of military equipment that wasnt doing anything involved with Palestein.

9mo ago

Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Also, I’m not sure to what extent this law is applied in practice.

as per the article general_effort posted:

The act – which makes it a criminal offence, punishable by life imprisonment, to advocate abolition of the monarchy in print, even by peaceful means – has not been deployed in a prosecution since 1879.

Its one of those laws that are on the books mostly becuase no one has got around to modifying it and removing the bits that are unused.

9mo ago

introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Yup, I tried to run the docker image with the suggested docker command and it errored out for lack of a config file (though it did offer a fix in the logs for mounting the current directory as read/write)

9mo ago

UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

You are right, but also I doubt she was expecting her protesting to directly change anyone in power's mind. The tactic is obviously to keep doing this with people who are very media friendly (little old grannies and the like) so stories keep getting into the papers of "lovely person arrested for protesting!" which does put pressure on the government.

9mo ago

Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Sure it wouldnt be rational to care about DRM being broken a small amount allowing limited amount of copyright material to be copied.

What do you think their response would be?

9mo ago

Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

No way they'd do that though, because then they'd have the mouse and the other members of the content mafia breathing down their necks.

9mo ago

Bubble Trouble

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

It depends, if they're use a transformer or diffusion based archetecture I think it would be fair to include it in the same "AI wave" thats been breaking since the release of chat gpt publicly.

9mo ago

Plans for direct train to Berlin in new UK-Germany treaty

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Given that there's ~50 flights just from Heathrow to Berlin's main airport today, my guess is quite a lot of people.

9mo ago

Israel levelling thousands of Gaza civilian buildings in controlled demolitions - BBC News

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Womble @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Verified footage shows large explosions unleashing plumes of dust and debris, as Israeli forces carry out controlled demolitions on tower blocks, schools and other infrastructure.
Multiple legal experts told BBC Verify that Israel may have committed war crimes under the Geneva Convention, which largely prohibits the destruction of infrastructure by an occupying power.

Gosh, such a mouthpiece for Israel

10mo ago

Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

I mean, if we're going to shoot people for their awful beliefs I would like to know there is a good system in place so that we don't end up shooting Alex Jacobson because Alex Jacobsonn has been spotted attending Klan rallies.

So again, if you want to advocate for extrajudicial violence: who gets to decide where the boot is stamping, and how do you propose making sure that it isn't co-opted by bad people for their own ends?

10mo ago

Does the fediverse really have a civility problem and what can we do about it?

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

and who gets to decide who is a fascist, you?

10mo ago

It might be too late for the Threadiverse...

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Essentially that there a bunch of far-left users (in reddit in this case but in other places too) colloquially refered to as "tankies". They are noticably different from other groups and the centre- and far-left in what they talk about, who they associate with, and the agressiveness of their discussions.

They are far more focused on parroting the offical state position of the CCP, DPRK and Russia, far less interested in social issues and more interested in geo-politics, and far more likely to use violent language "kill the libs" etc.

The authors show this by looking at a huge chunk of reddit posts seeing who posts what, where and how communities link to each other.

This figure

is hard to understand at first but instructive once you do. For each of the word pairing the word on the left is what the tankie subreddits use and the one on the right is what the non tankie far-left subreddit in that column uses, the number is how strong this difference is. For example the blue one in the third column (Zelensky - Trump) means that the tankies use "Zelensky" in the same way the r/DemocraticSocialism uses "Trump", presumably talking shit about them. It gives a sense of just how different the discourse is between them and even the groups who you would expect to be ideologically most similar to them, and how they hugely prefer to use terms and framing that the Russian and Chinese government do.

10mo ago

It might be too late for the Threadiverse...

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

I saw some research about this recently let me see if I can find it, it was based on reddit communities but I think it applies to lemmy as much if not more.

ah here it is

ABSTRACT
Social media’s role in the spread and evolution of extremism is a focus of intense study. Online extremists have been involved in the spread of online hate, mis- and disinformation, and real-world violence. However, most existing work has focuses on right-wing extremism. In this paper, we perform a first of its kind large-scale measurement study exploring left-wing extremism. We focus on “tankies,” a left-wing community that first arose in the 1950s in support of hardline actions of the USSR and has evolved to support what they call “Actually Existing Socialist” countries, e.g., CCP-run China, the USSR, and North Korea. We collect and analyze 1.3M posts from 53K authors from tankie subreddits, and explore the position of tankies within the broader far-left community on Reddit. Among other things, we find that tankies are clearly on the periphery of the larger far-left community. When examining the contents of posts, we find misalignments and conceptual homomorphisms that confirm the description of tankies in the theoretical work. We also discover that tankies focus more on state-level political events rather than social issues. Our findings provide empirical evidence of the distinct positioning and discourse of left-wing extremist groups on social media.

10mo ago

It might be too late for the Threadiverse...

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Aye quite possibly, there's a pinned post about it on their front page so its possible its taking a bit of a load battering. I'll keep my eye out for your instance then.

10mo ago

UK to lower voting age to 16

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Lots of people witter on about young men becoming right wing in the UK like we're America, in reality young men were the second most left wing demographic after young women in the last election.

10mo ago

UK to lower voting age to 16

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Given that in the 2024 election the two most left wing groups (lab+lib+green voting) were 18-24 women followed by 18-24 men, probably not.

10mo ago

It might be too late for the Threadiverse...

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Womble @lemmy.world 10mo ago

Is there a post on this anywhere? I'd consider moving to solarpunk to get off lemmy and away from the tankies, but when I tried the .world piefed instance it was incredibly slow.