Womble

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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months 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.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months 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.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months 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)

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The crazy thing is, its not impossible you're right. It's not impossible that the most successful party in democratic politics (in terms of winning elections) implodes and is consumed by a brand new crypto-fash party built around one man.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months 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.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not easy to extract sure, but is it secure enough for you to claim that it hasnt been leaked and so forms a secure chain of custody? Once one has been leaked then that can be used to sign any fake pictures you like. I woudnt buy that for anything for serious than is this meme picture real.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In order for it to be traceable with a public key, it needs to be signed with the private key. That means the private key has to be on the camera. That means it can be extracted from the camera and leaked.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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?

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months 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.

 

I've recently been writing fiction and using an AI as a critic/editor to help me tighten things up (as I'm not a particularly skilled prose writer myself). Currently the two ways I've been trying are just writing text in a basic editor and then either saving files to add to a hosted LLM or copy pasting into a local one. Or using pycharm and AI integration plugins for it.

Neither is particularly satisfactory and I'm wondering if anyone knows of a good setup for this (preferably open source but not neccesary), integration with at least one of ollama or open-router would be needed.

Edit: Thanks for the recommendations everyone, lots of things for me to check out when I get the time!

 

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