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Not this particular picture. The ad is for a funeral service in Berlin but the station depicted is Hamburg Messehallen. Though I think there are real pictures of ads like this from within Berlin.

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

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Stadler (sic)

?

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Actually the correct answer is clearly 0.2609 if you follow the order of operations correctly:

6/2(1+2)
= 6/23
= 0.26

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I did read the post (well done btw), but I guess I must have missed that. And here I thought I was a comedic genius

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Es ist zum wahnsinnigwerden. Bei der NPD hieß es ja die sind zu unwichtig, als dass von ihnen eine echte Gefahr ausginge, da verbietet man nicht. Und jetzt?? Ist das etwa auch keine echte Gefahr??

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Hamas are not in the West Bank

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As a native German speaker I agree that ChatGPT is very English-flavored. I think it’s just because the sheer amount of English training data is so much larger that the patterns it learned from that bleed over into other languages. Traditional machine translations are also often pretty obvious in German, but they are more fundamentally wrong in a way that ChatGPT isn’t.

It’s also somewhat cultural. The output you get from ChatGPT often sounds overly verbose and downright ass-kissing in German, even though I know I wouldn’t get that impression from the same output in English, simply because the way you communicate in professional environments is vastly different. (There is no German equivalent to “I hope this email finds you well”, for example.)

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Yeah I mean you can translate it literally, but it means nothing. The English equivalent of what it communicates in German would be more like “I hope this email gets delivered to you.” which is just a weird thing to say.

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Yeah, but even that is stretching it for a work email unless there is a concrete reason you’d be concerned, like you know they’re dealing with stuff. Otherwise – at least in my northern German circles – that’s already getting pretty personal

Palestinian Death Toll in Gaza Tops 13,000 as Israel Repeatedly Strikes U.N. Schools Housing Refugees (www.democracynow.org)

Over the weekend, at least 82 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Jabaliya refugee camp, including multiple United Nations schools sheltering Palestinians. At least 85 incidents of Israeli bombing have impacted 67 facilities run by the United Nations relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) in the last two months....

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I would post the UN human rights council’s analysis but I already know you would just move the goalposts and say the UN aren’t “international policy experts” so why even bother

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Was ist eigentlich mit der deutschen Medienlandschaft los, dass sowas mehr oder weniger komplett unkritisch übernommen wird, wenn selbst die ansonsten sehr ähnlich gestimmten UK und US Medien (NYT, CNN, Guardian, …) das Vorgehen der israelischen Regierung inzwischen nicht mehr gutheißen?

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Well that’s also quite reductionist.

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I regularly have those dreams where I am desperately trying to open my eyes because of some danger or other, but they’re suuuper heavy and it doesn’t work. This is that

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I am in pure disbelief at how aggressively the country is prosecuting dissent on this particular conflict compared to previous crises. Literal neo-Nazi marches are scrutinized less than activists calling for peace. Germany has just gone full mask off

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How would they e2ee this without intercepting the messages? Also the irony of fighting against an exclusionary service by making your access tool also exclusionary …

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You wrote a whole essay speculating when it literally says in the article:

Nothing Chats then leverages Sunbird’s undisclosed number of Mac mini computers across Europe and North America as a waypoint for sending and receiving iMessage-compatible texts and media.

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It also says that in the linked article itself lmao

How safe are grammar editing tools?

Without naming names, there’s a well advertised grammar editing tool that’s available either as an app download or browser extension. This is something I’d value for a number of reasons (good grammar is important!) but I’m super cautious about anything I’m giving permission to watch what I’m typing....

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Grammarly has a terrible privacy policy, so you are right to be cautious. Unfortunately I don’t have any good alternatives to offer as I only use spellcheck myself.

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The community is called “No Stupid Questions”, maybe you could adjust the tone of your answer accordingly.

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The link you provided doesn’t even answer the question because it only tells you what NASA uses and then what would happen if you used no decimals at all. So your answer is not only rude, but also lazy and unhelpful.

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Are you aware where you are posting this? Do you think advertising NFTs here will be a viable marketing strategy?

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You can also just use the “Following” feed instead of the default “For you” feed, it’s sorted chronologically and doesn’t have ads

Could Lemmy be used as a classroom tool (like having a classroom's own instance)

I feel like it would be an interesting learning tool cuz I learn a ton on here and it gets me writing without anyone having to hold a gun to my head. I mean like even essay-length or at least essay-worthy treatments of things I respond to in longer-form, and even for the shorter-form stuff

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As an educator who has only ever worked with Moodle,
I agree that Canvas has better UX. I can’t imagine another platform being as terrible to use in 2023 as Moodle lmao

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Not really? It’s a programming class with automated assignment submissions and grading, I don’t see a lot of overlap with Lemmy’s feature set for the kind of thing I’m doing.

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On Safari 17 every time I visit the site it claims it’s my first visit, despite a trust score of 57%. Not sure if I’m interpreting the results wrong or ITP is just doing its job.

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Yea, I’m just using the browser on my phone, with Private Relay and intelligent tracking prevention on for all websites. I’ve visited it a bunch of times now and I’ve gotten it to count consecutive visits a few times, but if I just wait a little while and refresh it goes back to 1 and the fuzzy fingerprint is wildly different

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That’s what I was kind of thinking/hoping based on the results, but I wasn’t sure if I was understanding it right. Thanks for elaborating!

Compact view without […] on long titles

After the recent update the compact view is unusable for reading news boards, where nearly every post has more than two lines of text and the new memmy app cuts them off with a […] in the end. Can we please get the option to allow multi line titles in the compact view again? I am now only able to read the full headlines with...

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I know it’s not the point of the post but man that’s a lot of depressing news in one screenshot.

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Like when Covid lockdowns were causing shortages and every right winger said “this is what life under socialism would look like” without a hint of irony

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My legs, the shower is small and I am tall so it’s a lot of work to actually soap them up properly. Usually I only bother maybe every second or third shower.

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Huh…? Salzburg is pretty small and so is its airport. What route would you have to take that you end up in a small, barely international airport and not realize at your last transfer that you were in the wrong part of the world?

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If it’s in the minified front end code it’s already client side, of course you don’t show it to the user but they could find out if they wanted to. Server side errors are where you really have to watch out not to give out any details, but then logging them is also easier since it’s already on the server.

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Bears Favor exists in German too (jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen)

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I’m from Hamburg and I know the majority of these as well, but some are a bit different. Here’s some variations on yours:

  • Das macht den Kohl auch nicht fett (that doesn’t fatten up the cabbage)
  • Herr, lass Hirn vom Himmel regnen! (lord, let it rain brains!)
  • Wie ein Schluck Wasser in der Kurve (like a sip of water turning a corner) - sitting very lazily/not upright
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We say “das ist mir Wurst” in Hamburg too, so it must be a pretty universal saying.

Is Mietschuldenfreiheitsbescheinigung used in a saying? The only meaning I can think of is the literal one (attestation of no rental debt)

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No I am not sure actually, it might very well be! Both would make sense conceptually but I never actually looked into which one it is

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In a socialist system he would still be allowed to sell his own work and profit from his labor. Your point makes no sense

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I was brought up on Python and also do not like it for a variety of reasons, both practical and by personal preference. I also have the opinion that if you are trying to learn software engineering it is not a good language to start out with, despite it being so easy to pick up at first.

Some people try to use Python’s popularity as a counterpoint, and while it does show that my view is a minority opinion, it’s not a very convincing argument for the language itself.

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Well, I think for a 9 year old it’s fine. I think the stage where you would run into issues is when trying to get into “actual” software development, where the flexibility in scoping and typing afforded by Python can lead to some bad habits (e.g. overusing global/shared variables, declaring them from within functions, catching errors late instead of validating data first, …)

I don’t have a ton of experience with it but I think C# strikes a pretty good balance between strictness and beginner-friendliness. Modern Java isn’t all that bad either, though it doesn’t have very good options for fun things to build. But again, I don’t think this necessarily applies to a child; I’m an educator at a university so both my target audience and point of reference are freshman compsci students.

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When any message with some contents is received - Right now this is limited to a list of contacts. I’d like to have a shortcut where someone could text me, “Where are you?” and it’ll just auto-send my location.

You can already do this! Just leave the Sender field on “Choose” and fill out the Message Contains field only.

Need Suggestions: MacBook or Windows Laptop? (kbin.social)

Backstory/Context: My wife is an aspiring writer and wants to self-publish a novel that she's been writing. Currently she's typing on my old Asus ROG gaming laptop that I no longer use. It's (barely) running Windows Vista, it was built with Crysis in mind (really shows you how old it is), it's bulky & heavy, and the battery is...

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How does she feel about the MacBook keyboard? I personally quite like it, now that they’re normal again, but especially for an aspiring writer I think that is a pretty significant criterium.

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Well there’s a couple interesting answers here already. Time to save this post so I can “come back to it” (aka forget…)

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It’s not code anyone is supposed to read or work with, this is the result of minifying it to be as short as possible. And from a quick glance what’s happening is that a variable is set to correspond with whether the cursor is currently over a certain element. Not sure what’s funny about this?

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There is an organization called nyob (I think) pushing back against that and going through the courts to have more sites penalized for their violations. The process is slow, but I see more and more pages adopting the required “reject all” so there seems to be some pressure on them.

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I would have made the same mistake if they didn’t hit me with “VPN voting not allowed”. Not a very good first impression from this website…

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I have a 500m walk to my nearest station in a residential area, and my list of places looks very similar:

  • 2 hairdressers and a barber
  • 3 regular restaurants and 2 fast-food places (both Döner lol)
  • 2 bakeries
  • a small supermarket
  • a drug store
  • a pharmacy
  • a bank branch
  • a flower shop
  • a book store
  • a few other shops I’ve never really paid attention to and genuinely couldn’t tell you what they sell

All of that is there because about half of the apartment buildings have a shop on the ground floor. It’s great, and I don’t even live in a fancy part of the city.

Creating decoy Lemmy accounts for plausible deniability

So, I’ve started my own Lemmy instance. The main issue is that right now, I am the only user, which makes it pretty easy for anyone to see what kinds of communities I visited, or am subscribed to. Is there any way to automate creation of some amount of accounts, and subscribing to random communities?

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…walla?

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ooooh of course. I should’ve just tried saying it out loud haha

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