fun facts:

bit stands for “binary digit”. “byte” is today meant to be 8 bits, but was originally just any arbitrary grouping of bits. SI prefixes are often used incorrectly with bytes: A kilobyte would be 1000 bytes, but is almost always used for 1024 bytes. To solve this, alternative binary prefixes are used: One Kibibyte (kiB) is exactly 1024 byte, and it continues with Gibibyte (GiB) and Tibibyte (TiB)

hell world

how on earth

HARDDDDDD :o

Oh fuck yes our very own pillar column post

To be clear I’m not speculating on something that could potentially be cool, this already exists and is improving

ok but AI compression is legitimately a thing that has potential because of how extreme the size reduction could be. But yeah it’s definitely no lossless format lol

Yes, actually I do expect reparations (“free handouts”) and free asylum for climate refugees.

Maybe you should ask why Australia decided to wrangle Tuvalus independence instead of just making a better offer. And also, to ask yourself for whom exactly this deal is “the best option”. Not the majority of the Tuvaluan population.

So you’re conveniently ignoring the protectorate status? And the fact that Tuvalu doesn’t really have another choice? And that this is just one in a long line of “anti-China deals” Australia is forcing on its island neighbors?

Tuvalu is now obliged to let Australia oversee its foreign policy. In exchange, Australia is “generously” allowing a number of Tuvaluans per year to flee climate disaster and settle in Australia. The climate disaster that Australia as a coal giant has no interest in stopping, or better yet, compensate the island nations for instead of slowly absorbing their governments and populations

What Australia is doing to Tuvalu for example is also completely unforgivable. Holding a country in a precarious situation hostage is not the lesson we should have learned after China expanded its influence in the pacific

Sometimes kids are just assholes. That kind of pathologizing is genuinely harmful

fuuuck what book is this again?

Yeah. More than this I’d like to go back and be a better person next time

I use like five different messengers for different friend groups. I wish I had the confidence and determination of my brother who singlehandedly forced my entire extended family to exclusively use Signal amongst each other He basically blackmailed them lmao but it worked and after 1 month of adjusting noone complained

what’s the argument against locally hosted AI? lile seriously man I have issues with plagiarism, innacurate information and social dependency, but even with all that AI isn’t of the devil. Learn to have nuance

I don’t understand why there’s so many people who don’t want Lemmy to grow. I came here because I wanted a freeer more decentralised web for everyone, not just me.

didn’t you read 3rd step? Spirit can’t return, Spirit disintegrates!

Whoa, this is really cool! I can tell it took a ton of work.

I made this little map a while ago that was supposed to be an extremely basic viablity study of high speed rail lines in europe, visualised on a map. It’s cool being able to compare it with real life!

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