IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares)....
Also since I’m now out of Instagram, this is going to be my biggest audience. Knowing Instagram thought, more people are probably going to see this here either way....
A 21-year-old Cornell University junior was charged Tuesday for making online threats to Jewish students at the Ivy League school, authorities said....
To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things....
An Alabama man has been indicted on federal charges that he threatened violence against a Georgia prosecutor and sheriff related to an investigation into former President Donald Trump....
Ron DeSantis is receiving pushback from Israeli diplomats, Florida Democrats and the White House after he falsely claimed credit for a gun-running operation to assist Israel’s military operations in Gaza....
If you think about it, there are already tools that can do pretty convincing face swaps with few clicks and just from one low res photo at whatever angle. Long are gone the times you had to train the models for hours and had to have few hundred photos to just get “okay” fake. Once deepfake video creation becomes this simple,...
So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...
Excel sucks open ass. At storing data, at displaying data, at analyzing data. Scientists, of all people, should understand how to use an RDBMS and a data processing framework like R.
I’d be embarrassed to call myself a scientist if I didn’t know how to at least script basic shit and effortlessly reproduce data analyses. The bar for entry into every single stage of academic science is too fucking low. 95% of this literature is irreproducible shit, in part because fuckwits don’t know how to code. Scientists don’t need to be software engineers, but yes, they need to be able to program. It wasn’t this way 20 years ago, but it most certainly is nowadays.
Many rioters who stormed the Capitol received long prison sentences. Sidney Powell, an architect of the effort to subvert the election, negotiated a misdemeanor plea deal and cooperation agreement....
A ruling prohibiting the enforcement of a new Florida law targeting drag shows will stay in place for the time being, according to a federal appeals court decision....
Bah Humbug! (lemmy.world)
U.S. intelligence assesses Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 casualties -source (www.reuters.com) Ukrainian
The Israel-Hamas War Could Sink Gas Development in the Eastern Med (www.worldpoliticsreview.com)
The Israel-Hamas war poses clear challenges to the regional energy ecosystem that has emerged in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Deputy of the “People’s Council of the LPR”, Oleg Popov, was killed when his car exploded. (files.catbox.moe)
Source: t.me/astrapress/43570?single...
Ukrainian Sniper Breaks Cover to Claim World-Record Hit of More Than 2 Miles (archive.ph)
The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 29.11.2023 (www.mil.gov.ua)
mil.gov.ua/…/the-total-combat-losses-of-the-enemy…
Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO (techcrunch.com)
IPO = Initial Public Offering, where shareholders offer to sell their shares to the public, shifting a company from a “private company” (it belongs to me, you, and that guy) to a “public company” (it belongs to anyone who pays enough for the shares)....
In Kolomna near Moscow an explosion happened early this morning near a machine building plant. A drone heading that way was captured on camera. (streamable.com)
Mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/6f6gme.mp4...
Ukrainian government reacts to American billionaire Elon Musk's 'advice' to 'stop resisting Russia' and urging the world to 'sympathize with the Russian occupiers' (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5574803
Men of lemmy, what would you do if you woke up female one day
[OC] Sometimes it's worth hauling a real camera with me on my bike rides (i.postimg.cc)
Also since I’m now out of Instagram, this is going to be my biggest audience. Knowing Instagram thought, more people are probably going to see this here either way....
"We will not stop at Kyiv, Warsaw, Paris. We will stop when we feel secure." - Russian propagandist Solovyov (streamable.com)
Mirror: https://files.catbox.moe/b2jfwt.mp4...
Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? (foundation.mozilla.org)
Microsofts new Terms and Service agreement is rather questionable. In short; It does not clarify if Microsoft will use your data to train it’s AI....
Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video (www.rollingstone.com)
It’s like watching a clown show. Maybe he should watch more porn and grow up.
“War takes the best of us... but we are not ready to give our freedom to this f***ing terrorist Putin. That's it. That's why we are fighting.” Zelenskyy said in an interview with NBC News. (streamable.com)
Mirror: files.catbox.moe/p2eaqc.mp4...
Second teacher at Missouri school on leave over OnlyFans side hustle: 'It’s working out ok so far' (news.yahoo.com)
A second teacher at a high school in Missouri was put on leave after administrators discovered her OnlyFans side hustle....
Call to fight 'snow penises issued in Russia (www.bignewsnetwork.com)
Cornell University student threatened to stab and rape Jewish students and ‘shoot up’ school, prosecutors say (www.nbcnews.com)
A 21-year-old Cornell University junior was charged Tuesday for making online threats to Jewish students at the Ivy League school, authorities said....
Trump visits secure facility to view evidence in classified documents case: Sources (abcnews.go.com)
The wife of a Russian soldier complains that they've received absolutely no money. (streamable.com)
Translation by me....
What got you into coding ? (aside from money)
To give some context, I’m a developer myself and once I had a conversation with someone who has not “tasted” programming, but was wondering about passion and career. I was asked what I like about programming. My answer was that my interest in it came from writing small scripts when I was young to automate things....
Billionaire Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, the biggest owner of commercial real estate says remote employees 'didn't work as hard' (fortune.com)
Alabama man charged with making threats against Georgia prosecutor, sheriff over Trump election case (apnews.com)
An Alabama man has been indicted on federal charges that he threatened violence against a Georgia prosecutor and sheriff related to an investigation into former President Donald Trump....
Reginald "Gob" Barclay (lemmy.world)
Scary Fast Apple Live Event Discussion Thread
We are 30 minutes away from the Scary Fast Apple event....
Ron DeSantis’s claim he sent military equipment to Israel unravels (www.theguardian.com)
Ron DeSantis is receiving pushback from Israeli diplomats, Florida Democrats and the White House after he falsely claimed credit for a gun-running operation to assist Israel’s military operations in Gaza....
Donald Trump's allies are falling like dominoes (www.newsweek.com)
TIL - J and J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder and failed to disclose it to regulators or the public. (www.reuters.com)
Nine Inch Nails - Wish (i.imgur.com)
youtu.be/kuoFiIFkdAA?si=jEyk1kVldgot24W3
Ukrainian spies with deep ties to CIA wage shadow war against Russia (www.washingtonpost.com)
What's your favorite piece of alternative history?
AI content generation is on fast track to kill the whole porn industry.
If you think about it, there are already tools that can do pretty convincing face swaps with few clicks and just from one low res photo at whatever angle. Long are gone the times you had to train the models for hours and had to have few hundred photos to just get “okay” fake. Once deepfake video creation becomes this simple,...
First time winning our annual pumpkin painting! (lemmy.world)
Has HP printers always been this bad? (sh.itjust.works)
So my mother recently bought an ET-2800, By HP we had an HP printer before and we got a new one because the old one would not work with my sister’s Windows 11 Laptop. So I had to set it up for my mother, the manual said you can use it without the app. But there was no way to physically do that. Anyway, I downloaded the app on...
Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
Jan. 6 defense lawyers ‘gobsmacked’ by Trump ally’s plea deal (www.politico.com)
Many rioters who stormed the Capitol received long prison sentences. Sidney Powell, an architect of the effort to subvert the election, negotiated a misdemeanor plea deal and cooperation agreement....
Florida law targeting drag shows can’t be enforced for now, appellate court says (apnews.com)
A ruling prohibiting the enforcement of a new Florida law targeting drag shows will stay in place for the time being, according to a federal appeals court decision....