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Obelix

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  • Muslim Brotherhood are a 'threat to national cohesion' says a French report

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  • Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

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  • Yeah, I'm using AI to create some simple python programs to do some work on my files. For example a popular music download site is giving you a "Artist - Album.zip" and Jellyfin likes it to be organized into Artist/Album and I created a simple python script that unzips everything into the correct structure. Or a simple script that searches multiple folders for the biggest files / duplicate files.

    Yes, I know that I can do this with obscure bash and terminal black magic, but I'm familiar with python and it's a great way to handle stuff. This is something that AI can do and where AI is actually helpful. Of course I could program those scripts myself, but it really is faster.

    Current vision models are also awesome, esp. in combination with other technology. There is no reason that the Windows Explorer can't find all pictures of your dog or every picture you took in London last September or every picture of a hamburger you took.

    Features like that would also be awesome in a file explorer. But we are getting crap.

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    Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in attack at DC Jewish museum

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  • This is really what came into your mind after reading about this terrorist act?

  • At least we're not mixing in letters

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  • Swatch is the largest watch company in the world and you'll be surprised which brands are owned by them. Omega for example

  • I may be new here, but why is c/Europe all about Israel

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  • Yes, it seems that this community is being brigaded. There are a lot of posts on other Lemmys about the feddit.org announcement and it looks like there are people coordinating posting/voting here. It's kind of obvious when on every Israel/Palestine post multiple people from other instances show up on our small german instance who never posted here and start spreading the most blatant propaganda nonsense.

    So yeah, we should totally do a kind of pause for Israel related content. If not, this community will become "European politicians react to something happening in the middle east" and "Some protest is going on about the situation in the middle east in a european city". And there will be massive fights in the comments.

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  • Yeah, it was a really touching song about recovering from being attacked by genocidal fanatics during a music festival. That was really an emotional song and Europe seems to be moved by it, too.

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  • Or maybe people really liked the performance? If you are posting such theories, do you have any proof?

  • Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

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  • Please take a look into the articles. That really was something that a good moderation team should find and they really didn't need to listen to every podcast:

    The intention of many of these pages is obvious from their names. Podcasts with titles, such as “My Adderall Store” — which has a link in the episode description to a site that purportedly sells Adderall, as well as potentially addictive pain medications like Oxycodone and Vicodin, among other drugs — were listed within the first 50 suggested results, a CNN review this week found. CNN identified dozens of these fake podcasts across Spotify, advertising sales of medications ranging from Methadone to Ambien, in some cases claiming that the drugs can be purchased without a prescription, which is illegal in the United States.

  • Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

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  • It's because we've seen this so many times and are really tired of this: Everybody knows that you have to moderate user generated content. If you provide a upload function for user generated content and don't have a clear moderation policy in place and a moderation team, you will allow scammers, child porn, drug dealers and crypto scammers onto your platform. That has happened hundreds or thousands of times. And then some newspaper will do a report and they will remove some of the mentioned content without doing anything.

    Spotify has smart employees. Some of them even worked at other companies who ran into the same issues. But they still decided to launch the feature like that, mostly because upper management really doesn't want to pay the costs of functional moderation. That is how Facebook went on to be used in the genocide in Myanmar. That is how thousands of minors got abused. Moderate your shit. There is no way around and AI won't help you

  • Germany: Dozens injured at Berlin pro-Palestinian protest

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  • When we agree that Hamas are fuckheads, then let's agree that we should not use their slogans to advocate for peace. Use something else that can't be misunderstood for propagating violence and then let's stop this totally insane infighting everywhere and try to find a way to a peaceful solution, which gives both Palestinians and Israelis the chance to live in peace and prosperity.

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  • Yes, it totally does work like that. The punisher logo is tainted, esp. because psychos in the USA are using it. The swastika is not the good luck symbol it was before the nazis started using it. Nordic runes are awesome, but if you tattoo runes on yourself, people will think that you are a neonazi. That sucks, but the world really does work like that.

    And I have to disagree with you: The "from the river to the sea" slogan can and will bei misunderstood or maybe it does exactly what people are thinking: Advocating a violent destruction of Israel and a deportation or murdering of its citizen. I do not know, but seriously, if you want to advocate for "freedom and a life without violence", maybe use a slogan that can't be misunderstood as advocating for murdering people? It's easy.

  • Germany: Dozens injured at Berlin pro-Palestinian protest

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  • I really am surprised at your comment. I do remember how the current war started and that was not by Israel doing anything, but by a massive terror attack that killed over 1000 Israelis. That Hamas attack had the clear goal to kill as many Israelis as possible. They went through whole towns and killed or kidnapped everyone. In that context you can't use a slogan that is in the Hamas charta, that was used by Hamas in the past and is still used by Hamas and post "oh no, it has nothing to do with those terrorists, it is just a "national liberation slogan of the opressed side". No, it is a slogan used by fucking terrorists and yes, if you are using it, people will notice it and think that you are promoting the goals of this terror group. If you really want peace, just use different slogans that can't be misunderstood as trying to murder all jews in Israel and you're fine. Maybe also try to distance yourself from extremists while advocating for peace, it really is helpful

  • Germany: Dozens injured at Berlin pro-Palestinian protest

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  • I did a quick tour through YouTube and, well, I think that this is a case of "both sides". The protestors are really agressive and violent, too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwh0-d4-b0A

    I really do not understand what they want to gain by staging a protest like this. They are really not getting their message out to anyone. No bystander will go there and talk to them and inform themselves about their causes (which kind of is the point of a demonstration) when there is a big aggressive mob around. I'm going to lots of demonstrations and know that the police and esp. our Bereitschaftspolizei are too aggressive and sometimes pointlessly violent. But if I saw what was happening there, I would have left immediately. Nothing is gained by such pointless fighting and this only hurts the cause. You do not win any sympathies here by protesting so violently.

  • Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations

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  • That really doesn't make any sense at all

  • Germany: Dozens injured at Berlin pro-Palestinian protest

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  • I totally can understand why some people see this as a call for the elimination of Israel and the murdering or deportation of all jews that live there. You might disagree, but: Many people view that slogan like this and they have their reasons. And it really is stupid from the protestors to run around during a massive police presence shouting that. It's totally obvious that nothing will we gained by that. Peace in the middle east will not come because you shouted that slogan in the streets of Berlin. Palestinians and Israelis won't start a dialogue and become friends.

  • Regarding Mid-East-related Comments on !europe

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  • It's really not helpful for everyone to go around and post misunderstood snippets of books that were released before Israel was even founded. Can you elaborate more what you want to say here?

  • A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

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  • Lifetime memberships are kind of a trap, for users and a company. The company gets revenue once and then never again. That is great now, but won't pay your bills in 2027 or 2032. And the company knows that there are users who are willing to pay a huge amount of money for the service and who are using it. Of course the upper ranks will try to find a way to get money from them.

  • EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis

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  • It was not really a voluntary scheme. According to EU law, you need to have the consent of the user. If the user sends a "do not track me" signal to you, it is kind of obvious to everyone that the user does not want to be tracked. The exception here are advertising companies and judges who did some really, really strange rulings.

    But yeah, it was kind of naive. Google is a multibillion dollar company and prints money. There is no way that they would have folded and changed their business model and decreased profits. They control the browser (Chrome), the sites where the ads are placed (YouTube, Search, etc), the operation system (Android) and the whole ad ecosystem (Ads, Doubleclick). No way that those psychopaths in their upper ranks were going to give up billions of dollars in profit due to Mozilla creating DNT

  • France faces pressure at home to admit 1945 colonial massacre of Algerians

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  • I really do not get why countries are still in denial of atrocities they did years ago. Everybody who participated in that massacre should be dead 80 years later, the world knows about it, so why deny it?