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New comment by Schweigerose in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

Schweigerose — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:13:28 +0000

How do you make sure that the model you run locally is not tainted? Is there even a way to confirm this without providing the complete training set?

New comment by Schweigerose in "Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy"

Schweigerose — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:38:25 +0000

Because they wouldn't. I mean, they would, but they would not be in a position where we or the world would hear about them or need to care.

New comment by Schweigerose in "KDE is now my favorite desktop"

Schweigerose — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:58:54 +0000

I used XFCE for more than a decade and it's my first choice when picking a DE. Two major issues tempted me to try KDE this year: the lack of Wayland support and the absolute asinine file picker/ chooser dialogue XFCE took from gnome, if I remember correctly. Having a file picker that marks the text of the file name, but when you start typing switches to the search bar drives me nuts. (Even when you just want to drop a downloaded file somewhere in a directory ... why would I want to search in these circumstances??)

I'm keeping an eye on XFCE and they plan to release Wayland support some time this autumn. Once this is somewhere near stable, I thin I will switch back again to XFCE.

New comment by Schweigerose in "Feminist activist sent to prison for 'Allah is lesbian' T-shirt"

Schweigerose — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:13:47 +0000

Don't worry. You don't have to look at "muslim countries". Blasphemy is a valid and actively weaponized legal charge in the German legal system [0] and as such hampers any discussion on religion and its influence and ubiquitous presence in German politics [1]. It goes so far as to enforcing the presentation of crucifixes in Bavarian class rooms and government agencies even though the German Federal Constitutional Court declared it illegal back in 1995. Way to go, Germany!!

[0]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beschimpfung_von_Bekenntnissen...

[1]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatskirchenvertrag

[2]https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruzifix-Beschluss

P.S. Sorry for the links to German wikipedia. These articles describe the German situation in Germany and as such are not available in English. May be deepl.com can help.

New comment by Schweigerose in "Calling Their Bluff"

Schweigerose — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:41:05 +0000

These times are long gone. Not only with government efficiency, but the transition to digital services, railroad services, you name it. And yet people voted for a 68 year old Blackrock manager without any kind of governmental expertise on any level as their new saviour.

New comment by Schweigerose in "NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System"

Schweigerose — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:59:01 +0000

Well, I guess Germans are in for a nasty surprise since they call that garment an "Aluhut" in the respective circles where such things are required for street cred ...