This attack occurred as our Jewish community came together at the Chanukah by the Sea celebration. This was a celebration of peace and hope for the future, severed by hate.
This will surely help everyone to discontinue support for Israel and the violence in palestine will stop immediately.
Define love.
My "company" is tiny, and only employs myself 1 colleague, and an assistant. We're accountants.
We self host some models from huggingface.
We don't really use these as part of any established workflow. Thinking of some examples ...
This week my colleague used a model to prep a simple contract between herself and her daughter where by her daughter would perform whatever chores and she would pay for cello lessons.
My assistant used an AI thing to parse some scanned bank statements, so this one is work related. The alternative is bashing out the dates, descriptions, and amounts manually. Using traditional OCR for this purpose doesn't really save any time because hunting down all the mistakes and missed decimal places takes a lot of effort. Parsing this way takes about a third of the time, and it's less mentally taxing. However, this isn't a task we regularly perform because obviously in the vast majority of cases we can get the data instead of printed statements.
I was trying to think the proper term for an english word which has evolved from some phrase or whatever, like "stearing board" became "starboard". The Gen AI suggested portmanteau, but I actually think there's a better word I just haven't remembered yet.
I had it create a bash one liner to extract a specific section from a README.md.
I asked it to explain the method of action of diazepam.
My feelings about AI are that it's pretty great for specific niche tasks like this. Like the bash one liner. It took 30 seconds to ask and I got an immediate, working solution. Without Gen AI I just wouldn't be able to grep whatever section from a README - not exactly a life changing super power, but a small improvement to whatever project I was working on.
In terms of our ability to do our work and deliver results for clients, it's a 10% bump to efficiency and productivity when used correctly. Gen AI is not going to put us out of a job.
You've missed a few critical elements.
Firstly, pets can't reason, don't understand what's happening to them, and the worst part - aren't able to minimise their own suffering. For example, I lived with a dog that had quite advanced cancer in one leg. Every time he got up he would hurt himself. The leg just couldn't support his weight but he couldn't not put it down. He had cancer in other parts of his body as well.
Secondly, lots of people are just unable to provide the high level of end of life care that an animal like that needs. Like, if you need to go to work every day, you just can't be there to carry your dog every where they need to go, and make sure they don't hurt themselves. There's no social security for pets, they haven't worked hard and saved up for their end of life care. The vast majority of pet-owners can't afford indefinite high level care.
Every day you own a pet, you are making decisions on their behalf. Yes they can't choose euthanasia themselves, and you have to make that decision as their guardian. Ask yourself, what would this creature choose to do if they could reason and if they were aware of the relevant considerations.
Obviously that's not an easy decision. I haven't had a pet for the last 15 years because I don't want to have to make this kind of decision.
IDK, I think there's a niche here.
I have a home server and rent a larger bare metal server in a data centre. Each has many docker containers. I haven't had to deploy ssh keys in years.
There's another school that seems to prefer to spin up a digital ocean vps for every new thing. That's fine too, and I can see how this project would make that kind of workflow more manageable.
network effect. There's fewer people here so there's fewer people here.
That said, I like it just how it is and would caution anyone against wishing for more users.
Don't focus on getting more users. Focus on making the content here the best it can be.
It's inevitable that the quality of the experience here will change with more users. Whether it's a net positive or negative remains to be seen.
To be sure, these are the "good old days" of lemmy.
Maybe the blocked doors are just window shutters ? who knows.
Those masks sure are creepy.
Edit:
Actually from the dropbox folder that @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works shared there's this photo:
The pitch of the roof and the position of the doors makes it look like the outside of the room with the night stands in-front of the doors. It looks like they could be used as a kind of pavillion during outdoor events, like a place to serve snacks and drinks.
I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions about the steel bars blocking those doors from the outside. You can see them horizontally across the two doors on the left, and there's one propped against the wall next to the door on the right.
Honestly, I think if they had rooms in which to detain people against their will it wouldn't be like this, but IDK.
Maybe everyone already knows this but you can generally see better in your peripheral vision in low light.
Almost all of your color vision / cones are concentrated in a tiny central area of your retina.
The grey scale / rods are dispersed around that.
In some ways I think night vision is a kind of skill that some people might be better at than others, even if the mechanics of their eyes aren't special.
Yeah me too. I think this is called "coil hum". I notice it with things like usb-c thunderbolt ports. Often you can swap a cable or something and it's resolved.
I do feel like these idiots should be thrown under the bus, and punished to the full extent of the law. I really do hope they're held accountable for their wanton destruction.
That said, I can imagine some college graduates going along with something like this simply because they don't have the life experience to really understand the legal, political, and social ramifications of what they're doing.
I'm trying to parse this but I just don't get it.
The only explanation I can come up with is simply that Trump identifies Mamdani as a popular democratically elected official, and wants to share some of that sunshine.
Still weird as hell.
Direct link to footage of the legend of the century:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-14/active-shooter-bondi-beach-sydney-nsw/106141580