Vittelius

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[–] Vittelius 3 points 3 weeks ago

BioNTech, the German company that actually developed the Pfizer Covid vaccine, has a bunch of open job listings. So yes, they have a need for people with that skill set. Most of the jobs seem to require German language skills, but not all of them.

And if the most famous German biotech startup is looking for people, then there are bound to be even more lesser known companies also searching.

[–] Vittelius 5 points 3 weeks ago

I agree. On social media they posted this:

Europe is ready to negotiate with the US.

We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods, because we're always ready for a good deal.

But we’re also prepared to respond with countermeasures and protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion.

We will focus on the 83% of global trade beyond the US.

Europe stands together for our businesses and with our businesses for all Europeans in the EU and beyond.

https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114297268233791229

[–] Vittelius 4 points 3 weeks ago

Replacement with a different stability.

As the famous quote from Spider-Man goes: "with great power comes great responsibility." Past WW2 the US acted as hegemon. They where the most powerful country and tried to use this responsibility on the global stage - at least to an extent. NATO, free access to US markets for other countries (though that also benefitted the US because it cemented the USD as reserve currency)

Now the government wants to keep the power but have none of the responsibility. It's similar to their position on free speech.

To put it an other way: They want to be a bully.

[–] Vittelius 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wero is great for what it does (sending money to other people) and it's going to gain the functionality needed for online commerce.

But that only covers half the functionality provided by Visa and MasterCard. You also need the functionality to pay at a restaurant or in the supermarket. You know, the card part of MasterCard?

Some European countries have their own debit card system (here in Germany for example giropay) but once you cross the border that stops working. Which is why those cards are usually co-badged with one of the big networks to act as a fallback. That's where the EU should act to ensure that the fallback functionality isn't necessary anymore, at least as long you're in the Euro-zone.

[–] Vittelius 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would you have been able to create your specific use case on Windows? Because most people don't try "getting mulvard out of the VM". That's the type of thing that's in my experience usually (I don't know about this case specifically - that's why I'm asking) a lot easier on Linux than on Windows (not that it's easy)

[–] Vittelius 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Her voice? Who are you talking about?

You know that Moxie is a dude, right?

[–] Vittelius 91 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Bazzite:

  • Fedora based, so newer libraries
  • Atomic updates, therefore doesn't break on updates
  • Steam and Lutris are preinstalled
[–] Vittelius 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think this one is Android only, but there is Candle

https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/candle

[–] Vittelius 2 points 1 month ago

All the open source alternatives also work on windows. You could try them on your current OS and make the switch to Linux once you're confident you've found a workflow that works for you.

Lightroom: Darktable Photoshop: Gimp (version 3 just released) or Krita Illustrator: Inkscape

One note though: The Windows versions tend to be a bit of an afterthought. Performance can therefore be not as good as the Linux version.

[–] Vittelius 13 points 1 month ago

Thank you, I've added it to my post

[–] Vittelius 1 points 1 month ago

I hate to be the one to break it to you but AIs aren't actually people. Companies claiming that they are "this close to AGI" doesn't make it true.

The human brain is an exception to copyright law. Outsourcing your thinking to a machine that doesn't actually think makes this something different and therefore should be treated differently.

[–] Vittelius 1 points 1 month ago
 

In Köln haben sich am Samstagmittag tausende Menschen zu einer Demonstration gegen rechts versammelt. Aufgerufen zu dem Protest hat des Bündnis „Köln stellt sich quer“, das von zahlreichen Vereinen, Parteien, Gewerkschaften und Initiativen unterstützt wird. Am Mittag berichtete die Polizei von einer Teilnehmerzahl von 15.000 bis 20.000 Menschen. Damit ist die von den Veranstaltern angemeldete Teilnehmerzahl von 5.000 Menschen bereits deutlich überschritten worden.

 

Die Landwirte müssen die Erdkabel unter ihren Äckern dulden. Überirdische Stromkabel seien keine Alternative. Diese würden Wohngebiete zu sehr belasten. Zudem gibt es bei solchen Baumaßnahmen Entschädigungen für die Landwirte. Das Urteil dürfte Signalwirkung für ähnliche Verfahren haben.

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Original reporting in German: https://archive.is/gWLZL

[W]hat if Elon Musk hadn't written the article himself? What if Welt am Sonntag had not printed a controversial guest article by one of the most powerful people on the planet, but an AI-generated text created in seconds? One that presumably agrees with Musk's views, but whose argumentation may have been cobbled together from millions of freely available bits and pieces about Germany and the AfD on the internet?

If one asks [Musk's] language model Grok to write an opinion piece for a conservative newspaper that shows why only the AfD can save Germany, the program spits out a text that is remarkably similar to Musk's “Welt” article. In tone, argumentation, structure - and in many places literally. Like Musk's op-ed, the AI-generated text begins with the words: “Germany is at a critical point - its future is teetering on the brink of economic and cultural collapse”. This is followed shortly afterwards in both texts by the formulation that has particularly angered many in Germany: the AfD, it says, is the last spark of hope for Germany. Dozens more overlaps follow, some of them verbatim.

Translated with DeepL.com

 

https://archive.is/gWLZL

[W]as wäre, wenn Elon Musk den Beitrag gar nicht selbst geschrieben hätte? Wenn die „Welt am Sonntag“ keinen kontroversen Gastbeitrag eines der mächtigsten Menschen des Planeten abgedruckt hätte, sondern einen KI-generierten Text, erstellt in Sekunden? Der sich mutmaßlich mit Musks Meinung deckt, aber dessen Argumentation womöglich aus Millionen im Internet frei verfügbaren Versatzstücken über Deutschland und die AfD zusammengeklaubt wurde?

Beauftragt man [Musks] Sprachmodell Grok damit, einen Meinungsartikel für eine konservativ eingestellte Zeitung zu schreiben, der zeigt, warum nur die AfD Deutschland retten könne, spuckt das Programm einen Text aus, der Musks „Welt“-Beitrag zum Verwechseln ähnelt. In Ton, Argumentation, Struktur – und an vielen Stellen auch wörtlich. Wie Musks Gastbeitrag beginnt auch der KI-generierte Text mit den Worten: „Deutschland steht an einem kritischen Punkt – seine Zukunft taumelt am Rande des wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Zusammenbruchs“. Wenig später folgt in beiden Texten jene Formulierung, die vielen in Deutschland besonders sauer aufgestoßen ist: Die AfD, heißt es, sei der letzte Funken Hoffnung für Deutschland. Es folgen Dutzende weitere, teils wörtliche Überschneidungen.

 

The article is already 2 weeks old, but I think it got missed before

The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety of vehicles with automated-driving systems.

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