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> Hmmmm. I would argue the web would have been significanty different.

One can imagine a world without JavaScript...

That x-ray shot made me thinking I was looking at the head of a futuristic robot.

In some ways, I guess I am.

That is such a fantastic comparison and this is the first place I've heard it made. I'll be stealing it, thank you :)

I just learned about this elsewhere and HN really needs to discuss it.

Strong disagree. For anyone who makes enough to be getting severance, it's better to have it in the new tax year.

They continue to make very strong arguments and propagate their story into western media (Channel4 did a story about it and so did NYT).

They even have explainer videos, like the one you linked, or this one here from a month later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60EK-3-kGLI

Their arguments are well produced and cast doubt on the Israeli/American story in every possible way.

But isn't that also what a sophisticated propaganda campaign would look like?

As I said, I watched it unfold live, and my assessment was that they couldn't possibly know there were 800 dead on such short notice. When the sun rose, I expected to see a leveled hospital, like so many other buildings in Gaza. Instead, I saw a tiny crater in a parking lot.

It was then that I learned the "Ministry of Health (Palestine)" is actually a government agency, effectively Hamas. That was the entity that supplied the numbers that drove the headlines that caused so many more problems.

You might think "Who would exaggerate the numbers of dead to cause international outrage!? That's unthinkable!". But they are literal terrorists. This is the playbook.

In the video you linked, they don't show the impact site. They don't mention that the hospital is still very much functioning. They don't show the surrounding buildings not having been impacted. But if you were making an honest assessment of "israeli airstrike on hospital" or "stray rocket hit hospital parking lot", those details make a huge amount of difference.

When it happened, I thought we would see retractions from AJ and other Arab media after the sun rose, but they were continuing to run the "Israel bombs hospital" story while omitting key video and photo details that were widely available on Wikiepdia.

Where it crystalized for me was watching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio... as it happened live.

The AJ coverage: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-ha...

From reading the AJ coverage, you would believe that Israel bombed a hospital and killed hundreds. An inexcusable atrocity, obviously, if it were true.

But on Wikipedia, you can see the actual impact of the bombing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...

The US and Israel's story of it being a jihad rocket seems consistent with the explosion. The intelligence assessment that it was dozens not hundreds dead seems much more plausible to me.

The AJ perspective seems to be to treat Hamas claims as valid by default throughout this conflict, which I find concerning.

That would explain the factual inaccuracies that I've noticed in their reporting since the events of October.

I assumed it was because of a religious ideology, but a state sponsor makes sense too.

What'd google do now? I've been watching youtube all day on firefox with ubo. No ads, no issues.

For your TV needs: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

I think YouTube doesn't realize the size of the beast they're provoking if they intentionally break downloaders, adblockers, and alternate clients.

If this is a cat and mouse game of technical prowess between hackers and Google engineers to consume content without ads, Google will either lose or use the government to do violence on open source developers.

If that game begins in earnest, then people will fear for the long term existence of YouTube, and it will become self-fulfilling as people mirror content on other sites until the cat-and-mouse game becomes pointless -- investing ever more money into ever smaller returns.

New video sites will gain massive number of users and over-inflate in value if there's a YouTube exodus and the process can begin anew.

She started as a "inside job" 9/11 truther, then worked at RT for a few years, and is now actively covering Palestine from an explicitly pro-Palestinian point of view.

She also works on the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" anti-Israel movement.

Maybe she has valuable footage or a valuable viewpoint or just an opinion you're curious about, and that's fine. Just know what you're getting.

I really know nothing about this conflict, but when I check the source for that youtube video I find it is put together by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abby_Martin

If you're looking for objective facts, this might not be it.

I would be 0% surprised to find out this comment was written by a bot.

Also by unintelligent services

If this idea gets too popular, we'll have to invent texting.

Perhaps someone could come up with a clever system for using a dumbphone's numpad to type efficiently...

> The goal is to grow, not set back.

If you're a university, the goal is to fill up your university with satisfied customers and increase revenue.

If you're a student, the goal is to form social networks that you can later use to help in business.

If you're a politician, the goal is to increase college attendance rates.

If you're a hard-line right winger, the goal is actually to set undesirable groups back, but that's a pretty fringe position.

If you just want to learn and grow, you should avoid the university system entirely.

> All our lives we're told that skills matter. Society will reward those who are most skilled.

Remember, kids: you don't get what you deserve -- you get what you negotiate.

Having been around a bunch of former-government people and bumping into FIPS myself a few times (like yubikeys) and reading about it, that's also been my sense, but it's nice to see a formal writeup with examples.

Thanks for the link.

Unfortunately Ubiquiti now requires you to buy into their proprietary NVR :/

You forgot to get yourself paid.

I noticed this project while comparing restic/borg and am thinking about trying it.

Initially I thought this was a corporate project and was looking for the monetization model, but then I found https://github.com/kopia/kopia/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md

I feel like the project might benefit from making their governance model more prominent on the website.

The API still works. I've been using https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt/ in my workflow.

It's the same effect.

If you want pain meds, I'm sure it's easy at any of those "pain management clinics" I see advertised.

If you call a few doctors and ask "Does your practice handle worms? I'm worried I might have worms," you'll have at least some of them say "absolutely, all the time, come right in".

If they want a happy customer and they know your expectations and they know the risk of dewormer is low, then they'll probably go along with it to make you a recurring ~~customer~~ patient.

You might not even know you've accidentally guided the doctor in that direction.

> My recommendation is if you feel like you want piece of mind, to talk to your doctor about it. If your doctor recommends a treatment, follow it.

I don't know anything about worms, but I'm very certain that I could choose a doctor that would recommend treatment or one that would not, depending on what I've already decided I want.

Perhaps the right take is to take every experiment to its extreme even if it's confusing.

People have mostly learned photos can be edited. What we need are outlandish experiments and examples, and then media showing off how wild this technology is.

Attempting to bubblewrap this tech both won't work and will lead to more confusion.

Sure.

Carla: https://github.com/falkTX/Carla

It lets me install any normal audio pro audio plugins, for example https://github.com/xiph/rnnoise

It also does some cable management, but qpwgraph is maybe better for that.

I looked at your code and the approach (IMO) is kind of bad.

If you want to solve the problem of "voice changer", you can skip the UI entirely and just use plugin parameters. You can also skip the problem of managing the connections. And when you publish your work, every pro audio software (Ableton, Reaper, whatever) can use your audio processing.

Hope that helps.

I run pipewire and let me offer some generic tips:

* Make loopback devices that are always there for headphones/mic -- software doesn't handle connection/disconnection well

* Keep all your processing in carla (i load it with systemd as a user unit on login)

* You still need some way to control "pulse audio" (even though it's pipewire provided) for per-app volume control, profile selections, etc, so you probably want pavucontrol for that.

> Agoraphobia involves fearing and avoiding places or situations that might cause panic and feelings of being trapped, helpless or embarrassed. You may fear an actual or upcoming situation. For example, you may fear using public transportation, being in open or enclosed spaces, standing in line, or being in a crowd.

Wait, do I have agoraphobia now?

I thought we were still supposed to be avoiding indoor spaces and crowds on account of the highly infectious disease propagating the globe.

We're supposed to be comfortable sharing air with others again?

Sure thing. There's a bunch of ways to do it, but here's some quick notes on what I did.

* arch linux has tons of `rocm` packages. I installed pretty much all of them: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=rocm&maintainer=&fla...

* you also need this one package from AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opencl-amd

* llama.cpp now has GPU support including "CLBlast", which is what we need for this, so compile with LLAMA_CLBLAST=ON

* now you can run any model llama.cpp supports, so grab some ggml models that fit on the card from https://huggingface.co/TheBloke.

* Test it out with: ./main -t 30 -ngl 128 -m huginnv1.2.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin --color -c 2048 --temp 0.7 --repeat_penalty 1.1 -n -1 -p "### Instruction: Write a story about llamas\n### Response:"

* You should see `BLAS = 1` in the llama.cpp output and you should get maybe 5 tokens per second on a 13b 6bit quantized ggml model.

* You can compile llama-cpp-python with the same arguments and get text-generation-ui to work also, but there's a bit of dependency fighting to do it.

* koboldcpp might be better, I just haven't tried it yet

Hope that helps!

Edit: just tried https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp and it also works great. I should have started here probably.

Compile with `make LLAMA_CLBLAST=1` run with ` python koboldcpp.py --useclblast 0 0 --gpulayers 128 huginnv1.2.ggmlv3.q6_K.bin`