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  • PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022

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  • Thanks for sharing. The default launcher on my phone is terrible and I hate having to move to different layouts every time I switch phones (which only happens every 5+ years, but is still annoying) so I have been using Nova for many years.

    Just turned off its internet access on both data and wifi, let's see if it complains about it.

    As a note: I can see that it only transfered a few hundred kilobytes in the past month, which isn't a lot, but it's still more than zero.

  • Reddit Email Grab

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  • OP's account is on SJW and that instance does not require email verification. Plenty of instances don't.

  • Von der Leyen won’t rule out working with right-wing parties

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  • Correct me if I'm wrong, I didn't follow EU politics at the time of the last election, but didn't she campaign on green-deal policies for her first term? I remember reading about this somewhere. So moving away from that and closer to ECR would be quite the shift.

  • Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition

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  • LMAO. As much as restrictions of this kind suck, at least DNS makes more sense than IP without any transparency.

    It really does sound like whoever came up with the IP solution had no idea of what the hell they were talking about.

  • Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition

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  • I mean, you shouldn't stay on here if you don't like it, that goes without saying, but I think all in all the benefits outweight the few very annoying issues that this platform has. For instance, I think that the smaller number of people tend to mean that if you leave a comment somewhere you are likely to find someone to chat with and discuss whatever it is that you brought up in your comment.

    Often times on Reddit there are so many comments that you either blow up getting over 20 replies or get forgotten and ignored. No inbetweens.

  • Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition

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  • Do they? I think most of Lemmy still prefers online freedom, it should be one of the reasons that brought us here. Plus, the people you are gonna meet even by changing instance are going to be more or less the same. The number of instances you are barred from by staying on .world is pretty small.

  • Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition

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  • One can hope...

  • Piracy Shield Cloudflare Disaster Blocks Countless Sites, Fires Up Opposition

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  • You know, in a way I am glad that we managed to implement such a piss poor implementation of a PiRaCy ShIeLd. They are going to have to roll back or disable this piece of crap in a matter of days and that will hopefully be the end of these silly internet restrictions for good.

    Had the implementation not sucked ass this bad, we would have needed to wait for some EU infringiment procedure or ECJ order to shut it down. Instead, this way it's gonna end way more quickly.

  • Why are all the #peertube instances defederated from each other?

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  • Nah it should not. It would hurt decentralization and small instances. We already have a tool for curbing spam, it's called the Fediseer. You may or may not have heard about it, but most admins have.

  • I’m in Rome, and confused why I’m seeing the Fleur de Lis in St. Peter’s Basilica and other places. What’s the connection with Bourbons and the Vatican?

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  • Like others have said, the lily you saw are likely related with papal coats of arms. In general, popes often embedded their coats of arms into the monuments and villas they built.

    Symbologically speaking, the fleur-de-lys is generally associated with various religious symbols such as the Blessed Mother, St. Joseph and purity in general, which is why we find them so often in heraldry (like you said the Bourbon coat of arms but even before then it's always been a symbol of France since the Frankish king Clovis' conversion), the Italian city of Florence, the French city of Lille, the British House of Lancaster and an uncountable number of Italian comuni.

  • Any EU based users of reddit should immediately file a complaint under GDPR with their supervisory authority for the sale of their data to Google to train their LLMs

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  • Thanks for sharing, OP, just sent a report to my authority, the Italian Garante per la Privacy.

  • Now that you have settled here on Lemmy. What is your impression of it?

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  • Huh. Different instances, I guess. I generally don't browse by all, but on my feed most news were non-US (mostly Europe although quite a few about Asia as well). But then again my instance is pretty tiny and definitely isn't federated with most large communities, so my perspective might be skewed.

    To get a better view of the general content on Lemmy maybe we should look at the all feeds of lemm.ee or lemmy.world which, now that I look at them, are indeed quite US centric. So I guess it was just my perspective.

  • Now that you have settled here on Lemmy. What is your impression of it?

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  • Matured? Really? I guess you haven't had a taste of the defederation drama. Users are great, but discussion between admins feel like the constant bickering of small children. And I say this as an admin myself, who at times does take part in those discussions. I think we still have a long way to go, when it comes to being matured.

  • Now that you have settled here on Lemmy. What is your impression of it?

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  • I got the opposite idea. I think this place is much less US-centric than Reddit. And actually, if you look at the servers' location, there's way more in Europe than in America. So it would be fair to assume that many users would pick a server near their location and thus be from Europe rather than America.

  • AI has such a bad rap, but I actually found this tool to be really helpful with some of my challenges

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  • Like others have said I am a bit concerned by the privacy implications, but I like how nice the model is. Defintiely wouldn't consider it as an alternative to therapy or even real conversations (the sentences it generates look very fake at times, plus I wouldn't want to trust a machine's advice anyway), but it's pleasant to talk to and that's probably all that matters.

    Great if you have some time to kill or maybe need someone to take your head off something you've been thinking too much about, just gotta be careful on what you reveal to him.

    EDIT: as I was chatting I got a prompt asking me to log in to continue the conversation. I logged in with my Google account, then kept going for a bit, then singned off and closed the conversation. After I told him I was going to close the tab he greeted me with my real name without me ever have mentioned it in the convo (of course, he took it from Google), but it still weirded the heck out of me. Be careful with what you share lol.

  • AI has such a bad rap, but I actually found this tool to be really helpful with some of my challenges

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  • I am no expert either, but I once trained and ran an AI chat bot of my own. With a decently powerful Nvidia GPU it could output a message every 20-ish seconds (which is still too slow if you want to keep the conversation at a decent pace). I also tried it without a GPU, just running on my CPU (on a PC that had an AMD GPU which is about the same as not having one for ML applications) and it was of course noticeably slower. About 3 minutes per message, give or take.

    And bear in mind, this was with an old and comparatively tiny model, something like Pi would be much more demanding, the replies my model produced hardly made any sense most of the times.

  • EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine

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  • Correct, but that review process won't have any votes on it, meaning it also won't be possible for Hungary (or anyone else) to veto it. Doesn't seem like that great of an accomplishment on Hungary's side.

  • EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine

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  • Possible. I'd love it if they actually went through with the article 7 threats, but until then using said threat to have Orban sit down is the next best thing.

  • EU leaders unlock €50bn support package for Ukraine

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  • News outlet are being extremely vague about Orban's motives, but it's clear that no funds have been unfrozen. By the looks of it, it seems Hungary received no grants at all and just changed its mind out of the goodness of her heart, which is weird.

    From DW

    "From what we are hearing from our sources, they made it very clear to Viktor Orban that he is standing all alone in the EU, blocking this essential aid for Ukraine," she said, adding that following the message it became clear Orban would finally say yes and so the EU leaders sat together to finalize the deal.

    This makes me wonder if anything went on behind those closed doors. We know that yesterday Orban met with Meloni, who according to euronews

    [Meloni] has fashioned herself as the most dexterous mediator between Budapest and Brussels. Meloni and Orbán held bilateral talks on Wednesday evening in anticipation of the high-stakes meeting.

    All that's left to hope is that Meloni and other EU leaders succesfully managed to scare off Hungary and that no backroom deals went on.

  • Why I started Sublinks: A timeline of events

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  • Exciting stuff! In particual I really like how neatly organized the project roadmap is, with a quick glance at the project GitHub page I can tell what you guys are working on and how development is proceding.

    Also, props for using a widely established language like Java. I know Rust has lots of advantages and is all in all an awesome language, but having to learn a new language just to be able to contribute and submit PRs to your favourite open source project kinda kills the hype (and takes away a bunch of time).

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator

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    Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy

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    Nerd02 @lemmy.basedcount.com

    Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy

    github.com /ornato-t/lemmy-automoderator
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Nerd02 @lemmy.basedcount.com

    Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy

    github.com /ornato-t/lemmy-automoderator
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone defederated your instance? Introducing Defederation Investigator

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