Trying a switch to tal@lemmy.today, at least for a while, due to recent kbin.social stability problems and to help spread load.
It might be nice if auto reviewers included a “privacy rating” for a vehicle based OK whether it broadcasts anything via radio (e.g. cell or tire-pressure systems can be used to identify someone). It’s not just auto manufacturers, but anyone who wants to set up a radio monitoring network, if there are unique IDs being broadcast.
I don’t know how a reviewer could know whether there’s a way for a manufacturer to gather logs during maintenance.
I can’t imagine that it’d be possible to do that and conform to building code without some kind of special exemption.
Honestly, I’d think that if there’s demand for a leaning pub like that – and I think there is…I mean, I’ve heard about that thing repeatedly, seen video in it, and I live in the US – it’d be easier to just build one whose owners want to run one, let them gave whatever building code exemptions are required. IIRC, that pub is kind of out of the way, not really where one would expect to put a new pub, given the choice.
VS Code is going to require a newer version of glibc than Ubuntu 18.04 comes with. One does not simply upgrade glibc.
One might have an application-private newer build of glibc and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory containing it prior to launching VS Code.
If she’s the only alternative in the primary race and he has a heart attack or something, I would assume that she winds up becoming the Republican nominee.
I believe that it is, in fact, an area of focus right now. I see Stable Diffusion papers coming out on the SD community and the Midjourney guys were putting in text synthesis work in their most recent update.
https://www.greataiprompts.com/guide/midjourney/how-to-get-midjourney-to-write-text-in-image/
I would guess that any platform-exclusive game is going to have some level of that, just because you’ve got fans of Platform A and fans of Platform B. And Starfield was purchased by Microsoft specifically to have an X-Box (well, and PC) exclusive, so…
Go back to the 1980s, and it was “Mario sucks” or “Sonic sucks”.
I play games almost entirely on the PC, so the Starfield acquisition (as well as the other recent acquisitions by Microsoft or Sony or whoever that have been driving the antitrust concerns) haven’t really been on my radar, but if I had a popular game coming out on my platform and then someone paid to ensure that I didn’t get it, I’d be kind of irked.
I did use a Mac, many years back, and I remember being annoyed when Bungie – then a major game developer for the Macintosh, in an era when the Mac wasn’t getting a lot of games – was purchased by Microsoft in 2000. Halo did come out for the Mac, but Halo 2 didn’t, and I imagine that a lot of people who were on the Mac then were probably pretty unhappy about that.
I don’t agree with this prohibition, and I doubt that it’s likely going to achieve much, but if my experience looking at past government restrictions on things that people want to do is predictive of the situation here, it’ll mean that someone will sit down and figure out the exact limit that the French government prohibits and then figure out a garment or combination of garments that accomplishes as much of the original aims as possible without crossing whatever specific garment line is there.
I mean, what’s a women’s garment that does the head and neck? The bonnet?
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Hmm. Apparently it actually did have some religious background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnet_(headgear)
Bonnets remained one of the most common types of headgear worn by women throughout most of the 19th century. Especially for a widow, a bonnet was de rigueur. Silk bonnets, elaborately pleated and ruched, were worn outdoors, or in public places like shops, galleries, churches, and during visits to acquaintances. Women would cover their heads with caps simply to keep their hair from getting dirty and perhaps out of female modesty, again, in European society, based upon the historical teaching of the Christian Bible. In addition, women in wedlock would wear caps and bonnets during the day, to further demonstrate their status as married women.
But, as far as I know, they aren’t banned. So someone says “Okay, so people can’t wear (religious) abayas, but can wear (secular) trenchcoats? This new garment isn’t an abaya. This is a bonnet and trenchcoat.” Or, you know, whatever.
Blasphemy laws being expanded in 2023. Not what I think people would have predicted in, say, 1990.
Hmm.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
Under the reign of Peter the Great in the 18th, who introduced a wide range of reforms aimed at modernizing and Westernizing Russia, there was a ban on male homosexual activity, but only in military statutes for soldiers.
Historian Dan Healey, whose 2001 book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia was translated into Russian in 2008, argues that despite several prohibitive laws sexuality was considerably less regulated in pre-revolutionary Russia than elsewhere in Europe at that time. Several researchers claim that historical accounts show that before the 18th century, Russian society held rather lenient views toward homosexuality, and that homophobia was at least in part “imported” from Europe by Peter the Great — along with European traditions in food, architecture and fashion.
Stage 1: Be Western! Move away from this Eastern gay sex, at least for soldiers!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia
In 1832, the criminal code included Article 995, which stated that “muzhelozhstvo”, or men lying with men, was a criminal act punishable by exile to Siberia for up to 5 years. Men lying with men was interpreted by courts as meaning anal sex.
Stage 2: Be Western: No gay sex for men in general!
Application of the laws was rare, and the turn of the century found a relaxation of these laws and a general growing of tolerance and visibility.
Stage 3: Westernization stuff is nonsense, back to sex in the butt.
In the wake of the October Revolution, the Bolshevik regime decriminalized homosexuality. The Bolsheviks rewrote the constitution and “produced two Criminal Codes – in 1922 and 1926 – and an article prohibiting homosexual sex was left off both.”[22]
Stage 4: Lenin says sex in the butt is okay! We’ll show the West how society should properly be organized!
The new Communist Party government removed the old laws regarding sexual relations, effectively legalising homosexual and transgender activity within Russia, although it remained illegal in other territories of the Soviet Union,
…but only in Russia. Not like those backwards other SSRs!
…and the homosexuals in Russia were still persecuted and sacked from their jobs.[22]
Though clearly, not everyone was onboard with the Russian government’s program.
Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union recriminalized homosexuality in a decree signed in 1933.[23] The new Article 121, which punished “muzhelozhstvo” with imprisonment for up to 5 years, saw raids and arrests. Female homosexuals were sent to mental institutions. The decree was part of a broader campaign against “deviant” behavior and “Western degeneracy”.[22]
Stage 5: Western stuff is nonsense! Stalin says sex in the butt is Western, and it isn’t okay!
Following Stalin’s death, there was a liberalisation of attitudes toward sexual issues in the Soviet Union, but homosexual acts remained illegal. Discrimination against LGBT individuals persisted in the Soviet era, and homosexuality was not officially declassified as a mental illness until 1999.[24]
Stage 6: Sex in the butt isn’t quite as bad, but it’s still not okay!
2023:
Stage 7: Western stuff is bad! NATO is sex in the butt! Fight against sex in the butt!
I feel like there are some kinda bipolar views about the Western or non-Western nature of political positions on homosexuality going on here.
Japan has on the order of a 99.9% conviction rate, which a number of people would say is problematic itself.
yt-dlp. Just “yt” rather than “youtube”.
youtube-dl is an ancestor program of yt-dlp.
In fairness, the amount of YT that I watch on TV/iPhone makes it worth the cost
Yeah, my take was “the good I get out of YouTube is worth that, so if I’m in a situation where I need to pay that, I’d pay it”.
For me what I don’t like is that I haven’t seen anything about Google not using it to profile me. If I get an account with Google, pay them, then they have not just the usage data, but it linked to financial data, which makes it a lot easier for them to build a profile. And that I don’t want.
Google provides some good services, and they are services that I’d be willing to pay for, but I don’t want to be paying the bill and having Google building a profile on me. Maybe some people don’t care about that, but I do.
Hell, even if Google were to say “we won’t profile you”, I’d have no way of knowing that they wouldn’t change their policy in the future.
I use yt-dlp to pull down YouTube videos, and have ad blockers on my web browser (I didn’t actually realize that YouTube even had ads until what was apparently years until after they’d rolled out, was stunned when I used someone else’s computer).
However, I would assume that if a significant chunk of people go that way and YouTube decides that they’re losing out on sufficient and/or profiling data doing this, that they’re going to start blocking those. I would guess that they can make life unworkably difficult for any third-party clients connecting to their service if they put their minds to it.
YouTube probably doesn’t care about SponsorBlock, because they aren’t getting a piece of that money. Heck, they probably benefit if it encourages advertisers to go through YouTube rather than content creators on YouTube. But the profiling and the YouTube-displayed ads are probably something that they are going to care about, if push comes to shove and the impact on their bottom line is large enough.
And one more point – I can believe that the Threadiverse could potentially displace Reddit. Usenet was distributed and was once the norm for Internet forums, and something like that could be the situation again.
But the bandwidth costs of videos are a lot higher than the bandwidth costs of forum text. I am not convinced that PeerTube or something like that will necessarily work at the scale of replacing YouTube. At the least, it’s going to be a rather larger chunk of money that has to come from somewhere than is the situation with forums. Someone is going to have to be writing checks, at the end of the day. Maybe it doesn’t have to be via watching ads or users getting profiled, but the money’s gotta be coming out of someone’s pocket.
YouTube also has some of its content creators putting material up to be paid. Reddit doesn’t – well, didn’t, as it looks like now they’re exploring that – have that commercial model, where they try to pay people who create content. For YouTube content where the creator is doing it with the aim of generating income, any hypothetical YouTube replacement would need to generate money to cover not just bandwidth costs, but also paying content creators.
any realistic estimate of how this will effect the Russian supplies and for how long
My understanding is that the rail bridge is presently still in operation, though the so as things stand, my guess is that they can still use freight rail to get military supplies across the bridge, and then transfer cargo that requires truck traffic in Crimea. I dunno what kind of facilities exist in Crimea for transloading cargo, but I assume that there must be some – if for no other reason, for last-mile traffic within Crimea.
It’ll maybe increase latency or costs, but I assume that they can, if necessary, bump civilian traffic off the line, so they can have a full rail line of throughput.
He said road traffic would resume in one direction by 15 September, and in both by 1 November.
From the images I saw, it looked to me like the bridge under the northern two two road lanes was cut, but that the southern two at least hadn’t fallen, though I don’t know what kind of structural impact there was. I’m assuming that what Russia is talking about doing is first just reopening traffic on the southern two lanes, and then transitioning that pair of lanes to an undivided road, one lane into Crimea and one lane out, while repairs happen.
That being said, Ukraine has now hit the bridge and taken down spans twice, and I suspect that it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to assume that they have something else cooking and that this won’t be the last time that it gets hit.
I can’t speak as to why other people use their alternatives, but if you use mpv with yt-dlp like the guy above, and which I do – which isn’t really a full replacement for YouTube, just for part of it – then you can use stuff like deblocking, interpolating, deinterlacing filters, hardware decoding, etc. Lets me use my own keybindings to move around and such. Seeking happens instantly, without rebuffering time.
Also means that your bandwidth isn’t a constraint on the resolution you use, since you aren’t streaming the content as you watch, though also means that you need to wait for the thing to download until you watch it.
There, one is talking about the difference between streaming and watching a local video, and that mpv is a considerably more-powerful and better-performing video player than YouTube’s client is.
I generally do it when I run into a long video or a series of videos that I know I’m going to want to probably watch.
EDIT: It also looks, from this test video, like YouTube’s web client doesn’t have functioning vsync on my system, so I get tearing, whereas mpv does not have that issue. That being said, I’m using a new video card, and it’s possible that there’s a way to eliminate that in-browser, and it’s possible that someone else’s system may not run into that – I’m not using a compositor, which is somewhat unusual these days.
It definitely works, as I’ve done it. Maybe there’s some kind of bug you hit.
Large cities might have dedicated fueling stations, but I doubt that smaller places do.
If you’re serious, I would assume that it’s not that hard to red-flag cases where fuel mileage drops after you have used the vehicle, as well as before. After it’s happened a couple of times, should be able to identify the cause.
Scalie suit makers?
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