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osma

@osma@mas.to

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Systems, organizations, products, platforms, software, science, and a little bit of politics. Whatever you think I identify with, I probably don't.

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osma, to cycling
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New toys day. Sadly the bike these are meant for is getting frame repair done. I suppose I could put them on the commuter cyclo for a test drive, though.

osma, to stackoverflow
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Logged in to Stack Overflow for the first time in 10 years to check exactly what have I left there.. Now, since the few answers I've given are CC-BY, so they must attribute them to me, if I make a GDPR data subject request for them to delete all my data, logic dictates that whatever they think about text as personal data, they must delete the answers, because they can't attribute them to me as a deleted account. Right?

osma,
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Ah, cute. Stack Overflow's GDPR data subject request form does not work if your browser has an ad blocker active (I think tha's why?) -- there's a badly integrated CAPTCHA at the end of the form which prevents the form from being submitted.
https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

osma,
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Now, Quora. I haven't posted anything there in 8 years, and very little before that. If I just delete my account, do the posts also get deleted, or do I take the Data Subject Request route there as well?

osma, to random
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“Petrostates are perfecting a sinister COP playbook,” said Patrick Galey, a fossil fuel investigator with Global Witness, a human rights NGO. “Just like the UAE, Azerbaijan is planning a massive increase in gas production. Just like the UAE, Azerbaijan plans to legitimize its authoritarian regime by hosting these global talks. And just like the UAE, Azerbaijan appears set to use COP to develop its international business ties."

https://www.politico.eu/article/good-cop-bad-cop-azerbaijans-climate-charm-offensive-is-backfiring/

vonderleyen, to random
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On
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23EuropeDay
, we honour Robert Schuman's vision of a united, peaceful, and thriving Europe.
We celebrate the people who built our Union.
And those who keep building it every day.
This day belongs to all Europeans—the dreamers and the builders.
Together, we are stronger.

[2024-05-09 05:57 UTC]

osma,
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@JSharp1436
It's far more of a shame that her team at @EU_Commission has not arranged for her native presence on a social network free of privacy-invading influences.
@vonderleyen

sgf, to random
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I'm surprisingly disappointed to find out that Stack Overflow wasn't taking a stand against lazy, truthy auto-generated LLM output in order to give humans better answers and prevent the proliferation of unhelpful noise on the internet, but was instead doing it in order to sell training data free of AI-generated content.

osma,
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@sgf
Surprising, because it seemed evident from the beginning this was the reason.

Matti_Vuori, to random Finnish
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1/N Tänään pitää kuulemma kaikkien mainita Eurooppa-päivä https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/symbols/europe-day_fi

Suomen suhde Eurooppaan on jännä. Ennen vanhaan Eurooppa edusti jotain ylempää, sivistystä sun muuta (ne osaavat siellä sujuvasti vieraita kieliäkin!) - välillä toki muitakin "aatteita". Mutta sitten huomattiin, että Pohjoismaat voivatkin olla muulle Euroopalle esimerkkejä monissa yhteiskunnallisissa asioissa.

osma,
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@Matti_Vuori
Sarkasmidetektori huusi punaisena tuosta toisen töötin alusta saakka.

osma, to random
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Finally. Could we now move on to clean, measured ventilation or do we still need to wait for this generation of "public health" planners to retire?

"After four years of fighting about it, the World Health Organization has finally proclaimed that viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID, can be spread through the air."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-fight-about-viruses-in-the-air-is-finally-over-now-its-time-for-healthy/

hanse_mina, to Russia
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On Thursday #Russia will celebrate Victory Day, its commemoration of the defeat of #Nazi #Germany in 1945. Domestically, this is nostalgia. In the 1970s, Soviet leader Leonid #Brezhnev created a cult of victory. Russia under #Putin has continued the tradition.

Abroad, this is intimidation. We are meant to think that Russia cannot lose.

Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world — and for its own sake.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/opinions/victory-day-russia-war-ukraine-snyder/index.html

#Ukraine

osma,
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@johnquiggin
A lot of the Soviet fighting and dying, in general. Also the Winter War and Continuation War frontlines against Finland were to large degree manned by Ukrainian infantry. But we don't hold it against them - it was all Stalin.

hanse_mina, to Ukraine
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is to start recruiting prisoners to fight against under a new law designed to bolster its frontline forces, including with men convicted of murder or fraud.

Using a tactic has relied on to fill ranks since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, would begin to offer certain convicts a path to freedom if they are willing to join a combat unit.

https://www.ft.com/content/b5e43498-1cd2-422a-9db6-ca726c689bac

osma,
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@notsoloud
At least some violent criminals are excluded. But only some.
@hanse_mina

gabrielesvelto, to random
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Memory errors in consumer devices such as PCs and phones are not something you hear much about, yet they are probably one of the most common ways these machines fail.

I'll use this thread to explain how this happens, how it affects you and what you can do about it. But I'll also talk about how the industry failed to address it and how we must force them to, for the sake of sustainability. 🧵 1/17

osma,
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@gabrielesvelto
Thanks for an interesting thread! It brought back memories from 90s computing that was full of repeatedly running memory checkers and reseating chips - and how that taught me for a while to only accept motherboards which supported ECC memory. Indeed no longer an option available for our devices.

osma, to random
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Outo uhkaus. Ketä Suomi tällä uhkaa?

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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When I finally pull the trigger, a new 13" iPad Pro w/ 16GB RAM, keyboard & stylus is gonna cost me €3,107. It would be by far the most powerful computer I own.

That's more than twice as much as what I paid for the Mac mini I do all my development on. It even beats out my high-end gaming PC whose GPU alone was €1800.

All of that goes to waste because it’s paired with a simplified, stripped-down OS using the same technology stack and limitations as a $300 Netflix device for your grandparents

osma,
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@stroughtonsmith
The only credible argument I see for not allowing macOS on iPad is that the legacy files and folders data management approach really, really, needs to die and be replaced with an object-based, searchable and metadata-rich system for good. Apple has all the assets to execute on that, but i(Pad)OS misses the solution for cross-app data exchange.

An operating system with all the user interface capabilities of the desktop, but without the Finder? That'd be gold.

ssundell, to ADHD Finnish
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Hesarin kuukausiliitteessä oli viikonloppuna juttu ADHD:stä, joka oli mielestäni suoraan sanoen melko huono.

Siihen saatiin kuitenkin hyvä vastaus, jossa Kaisa Hernberg nostaa esiin joitakin jutun ongelmia.

https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000010406879.html

osma,
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@ssundell
Väittäisin, että nykyinen ympäristö aiheuttaa kuormitusta, piste. Ehkäpä "neurotyypilliseksi" määritellään (vain) ne yksilöt, jotka parhaiten tähän uudenlaiseen kuormitukseen adaptoituvat? Ei se silti meillekään ole positiivinen asia ja suurin osa olemme aika perhanan väsyneitä työviikon päätteeksi, ellemme koko ajan.

osma,
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@anuko
Niinpä. "Luonnossa" eli puistossa kävelyn rentouttavasta efektistä valtaosa onkin vain sitä, ettei tarvitse kulkea samassa kanjonissa murhanhimoisten metalliobjektien kanssa?
@ssundell

osma, to random
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Autocratic regimes are finding that instead of further repressing their own populations, it's easier to sow disinformation, distrust and dissent to poison liberal democracies, where there are plenty of those willing to profit from spreading their propaganda, and lack of those ready to fight against it.

Another must-read from @anneapplebaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/

osma,
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"As Western penalties have been unable to hobble the Russian war machine, Putin’s muscular, nationalist ideology continues to find sympathizers elsewhere. The Kremlin’s friends include E.U. leaders, despots in the Global South, and prominent members of the American right. They all share an aversion to the West’s perceived liberal establishment, and see a positive vision in Putin’s rejection of it."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/07/putin-russia-west-illiberal-axis-georgia-hungary/

Without a paywall:
https://archive.is/yD4tS

osma, to Ukraine
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US Air Force is buying add-on seekers designed to give JDAM-ER glide bombs supplied to Ukraine the ability to zero in on GPS jammers. This would turn one of the weapons most impacted by this countermeasure into one used to directly attack it.

https://www.twz.com/air/jdam-er-winged-bombs-with-seekers-that-home-in-on-gps-jammers-headed-to-ukraine

osma,
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@nafnlaus
Yep. Kind of like AGM-88 HARM, except optimized to home on 1575 and 1227 MHz radio noise instead of a typical directional radar signal.

Little difference between JDAM and SDB beyond size of the warhead. SDB (thus also GLSDB) being 110 kg while JDAM is 230 to 910 kg. I can see no particular reason why a similar seeker head couldn't be used on the (GL)SDB as well.

osma,
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@Infoseepage
That's the idea, as the article describes.

osma,
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@angusm
A ground based GPS jammer doesn't have beyond-the-horizon reach (well, apart from the missile/glide bomb being above the horizon). Kaliningrad can disrupt positioning on the southern Baltic Sea, and effects on the eastern Ukraine battlefield must be produced by local EW systems.

Besides, Ukraine hitting a military target even on russian territory is not escalation, but defense.

osma, to random
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A vegan French croissant, and the lack of ability of French farmers to see that agriculture remains even if cattle was reduced in favor of plant based food. Now, I want to try this..

"There it sits, in all its flaky glory, with a crust the colour of autumn leaves, and two plump claws almost begging to be torn off and devoured. Light as air and as French as the guillotine.

One impeccable croissant. "
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68944117

osma, to nuclear
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I hadn't realized that a sodium cooled reactor could use the sodium as a heat store to modulate its electrical output to market demand, while still having the reactor running at full power. But apparently that's what the TerraPower design is supposed to do. Now, you could of course place any kind of heat battery between the reactor primary circuit and the turbine secondary circuit, but efficiency matters.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052024/wyoming-terrapower-nuclear-plant/

noelreports, to random
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ERA saves a Bradley M2A2 IFV from further damage after being hit by a Lancet kamikaze drone.

video/mp4

osma,
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@noelreports
What's the source of this video? How was an immobile Bradley targeted by a camera drone and a Lancet, then gets photographed up close, yet no crew in sight? Is this a captured vehicle and russian material?

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