I wouldn’t blink if you told me these were randoms you picked up on the streets of Beirut or Latakia. I can probably find a doppelgänger for every person in these photos in a 5-minute stroll down the Ras Beirut corniche and recreate them with very little effort.

I wish there was anything to say about this like “Isn’t it cute how racists are willfully blind to what’s in front of them” but it’s not. I’m beyond finding the humor in shit like this.

I can’t wait until we (Lebanon) get sanctioned over this.

His face looks a bit like a stereotypical random Syrian teenager as well to me which is funny.

The monkey’s paw curls.

We now have a one-state solution where every citizen regardless of origin has full legal rights, stolen land and houses have been returned, the renamed towns have been reassigned their original names, and a sizable proportion of colonists have willingly chosen to leave because they were only ever interested in being the protected class in an apartheid society. Robust border infrastructure has been rebuilt to Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt, with a direct maglev like from Al Quds to every major nearby city. The world rightly recognizes the crimes that have occurred west of the river and the Nakba now sits in the global public consciousness in the same place as Rhodesia and the Nazi Holocaust.

The catch? The country cannot be named Palestine. It has the be named Donald J Trump (PBUH) Presents: The Miraculous Peace in our Time West of the River of America Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter, Buy Gold and War Bonds

Too optimistic huh. We are allowed to dream

I love my city (Beirut) it is full of trams (Kia Picanto 2013 base model w/ automatic transmission)

I’ve gone down parts of this rabbit hole (reading, not implementation). Wish I could guarantee that I could set anything up (including just setting up Meshtastic nodes in fun places) without getting arrested for setting up what can only look like an espionage infrastructure network to the government.

Difficult explanations of complex subjects that may not be aligned with the statistical word pattern distribution of the corpus of a dead web.

It’s not impossible that this exact paragraph could be generated. But it was more likely crafted by someone who both understands the subject matter on a comfortable level at the very least, and who understands what parts of it are intuitive enough to create a scaffolding of knowledge that are distinctive to this topic.

I don’t think I could have come up with anything that doesn’t use the word iota a half dozen times and then falling backwards on myself trying to get across the idea of how energy could not exist in measures that are not multiples of a minimum iota of energy (and explaining that it’s just how it is, no I don’t know how that was measured, etcetera etcetera)

This is what LLMs are taking from us, and I say this without a shred of irony

I do miss having languages listed on the side by default. I felt like it gave some depth to how important or culturally isolated a subject can be. For example, a short article available in 30 major languages, a long article available in 30 major languages, and a long article only available in like 3 languages would all feel just a little different.

English is not my native language and a lot of subjects I like (or fixations I may have, knowing Wikipedians) just exist in the realm of English. So these long long pages that don’t exist in many languages have a particular vibe to them.

I personally think cooking will have serious staying power.

Yes. They do make long lifespan SD cards for things like CCTV recording, they cost a bit more but might be worth taking a look at. I know people running more critical systems on Pi 4s and Pi 5s will use something more durable than an SD card nowadays, like an actual SSD.

I won’t count on this being particularly productive. Most people in Lebanon are glad to see the old regime finally out of power but I don’t see any optimism about this one.

Oh I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. I wonder how this integrates into something like Jellyfin if I want to host my own personal music streaming for myself.

I’ve read the entire profile and it seems to me more like satire than an actual serious summary (quite some hyperbole in there), tho it’s worrying that your entire reddit history can be analyzed so quickly.

Punched in my old profile. I don’t think any of the actual pieces of info it are inaccurate, but the dull, gummy gleam of “quirky” corpo speak that LLMs love to imprint on all of their output makes it much yuckier for me. The roast section is especially silly, my commenting ramped up before the API broke in 2019-2022 during a genuine phase of societal chaos in my home country and this tool makes it sound like my exasperated rants over my society beginning to crumble are obscure rants about modern Star Wars.

I’m not as familiar as many people now with LLM tone, and more precisely tonal dissonance, so I guess this is a lesson. But I can’t say I enjoyed that.

Did someone just print out the list from the photo that’s been doing the rounds for a month now and post it to TikTok as a copy-and-paste joke?

I think reposting jokes is the lifeblood of the internet but being a meme cover artist seems kind of… hm. Sharing a joke reveals a good (or bad!) sense of humor. Copying it beat for beat reveals something a bit different, but I can’t place it.

The original had an Arabic keyboard in the background. Gotta look out for one of our own.

I didn’t know about this. That’s kind of disgusting.

They’ve been on a very aggressive charm campaign all over the Middle East as well. Still undoing the damage from that time their products were prominently photographed with the modern SS.

I think that’s a Y510p. This was the machine that made me think Lenovo knew what they were doing and were the true successors to IBM, for laptops at least.

This machine was released right before the gaming laptop age really kicked off, so its paltry GT750(M! Sometimes two of them) was about as good as it got outside of a sketchy DTR from a company you’ve never heard of. Only a few years later did the standard go way up for gaming laptop performance, with everyone and their dog getting an Nvidia 1050/1060/1070 machine.

But I really liked the Y500/Y510. Serious design that made it look like a thick business laptop with polished black surfaces and cool red key edges vs gaudy RGB sludge with LOOK AT ME I AM EPICLY GAMERING all over it. I kind of wish they kept this design style.

Oh well. Tongfang has my back now.

doesnt look so bad

Everyone knows having less than 30% of the open air prison you call home be tuned into an unlivable scorched hell is perfectly normal. Decadent luxury even. Most of the population isn’t even getting shot within seconds of going outside! Having fun in the sun in Khan Yunis and Rafah, who needs the north? We truly did it R*ddit!

With all the doom posting going on here you would have thought Gaza had been turned into rubble.

You’ve really pulled the scales from my eyes, you have given me perspective I’ve desperately lacked. I now understand that I should shut up about it until the entire population of Gaza is fertilizing the ashes of their home, and only then will feeling anything other than ironic detachment be valid, even as part of my own country is currently occupied by the IDF with increasingly unrealistic demands being asked for them to withdraw.

Thanks bro! Really showing us all how much better Lemmy users are than R*dditors. I’ve got IDF MK drones buzzing outside reminding me of who has the arbitrary power of life and death over me, but it’s not the drones, it’s comments like yours that scare me. Jesus fucking Christ.

So, there are other peers, some of which gave me all of the data that I have so far, a small number of them. They can connect just fine to me, so their ports are open.

There are other peers with only a small percentage of the total torrent that are permanently connected, which might mean that they only wanted to download some of the files, but looking at the file list availability when they were the only connected peers, they had scattered chunks of data and not one continuous folder.

Now the convoluted part that I feel needs its own post:

In my quest to get the data, I’ve done some digging on BTdig, and added a few torrents with what seemed to be almost identical content. Most of these were completely inactive, but it seems like my client figured out that there’s overlap with this torrent, somehow. It now shows one of these inactive torrents as having a small % completion, despite also showing that 0 bytes were downloaded. I suspect it was able to match some of the data.

I wish I better understood that part of torrenting, a lot of what I want is relatively obscure and I love nothing more than seeding files that took months to complete. Being able to stitch together torrents and make rarities a bit less rare is exactly what I want to do.