Tuukka R

He has a child.
He knows what it would mean for the child if he sat years behind bars. That changes the calculation quite a bit!

A loving parent won’t get themself in a jail unless it’s something that benefits the child enough to cover for losing a parent for many years.

Suspended sentences work so that if you trigger the activation of the suspended sentence during the probation time, the whole length of the suspended sentence starts rolling. Therefore, if at 4 years and 11 months of a 5-year probation you do a crime that triggers the activation of your suspended sentence, you sit 7 years. And if you commit the same crime on day 8 of the probation, you still sit the same 7 years.

At least over here in Finland it can also work so that the suspended sentence is only a couple of months for some crimes, but the probation is still 4 years or 6 years or whatever. People often read that “damn, only two months and they are free”, but in reality it means you must spend 5-ish years having to be mindful of not doing any similar-ish, even much less serious, crime or you’ll find yourself sitting behind bars for those two months plus whatever the repeated offence carries.

Back when it sank, it was said that it was carrying cranes needed at the Vladivostok port for expanding the Russia’s ability to export over the sea to southeastern Asia.

Might have been true as well, but it’s interesting that this kind of important piece of information managed to go missing for so long because it looked like there was already an answer to why the ship was on the way. And also, to why it was sunk.

I’d like to clarify here that Voyager can do with PieFed everything it can do with Lemmy. But PieFed has a lot more features than Lemmy does, and of those extra features, Voyager supports none. But that only means that the PieFed experience on Voyager is precisely the same as the Lemmy experience on Voyager!

PieFed and mBin exist. Both do everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. They use less resources as well. What reason would there be for forking Lemmy? The only reason Lemmy is the most popular one among these is that it was the first one. Since then, better things have surfaced.

PieFed is essentially what OP means. It exists, it does everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. And it does it faster, both for the user and for server resources.

Then probably something else will be funded in the same amount. That will be either PieFed or mBin.

PieFed has this out of the box. You click a link at your home instance once on the browser you use. After that, you can get from any post on an unknown instance to yours by adding a few letters in the front of the URL on that browser.

It’s 14 days from Dec 11th to Dec 25th.

7 days after a Thursday, it’s a Thursday again. And then 7 days after that Thursday it’s once again a Thursday.

If Dec 25th was sometimes a few days later and sometimes a few days earlier (for example, if in some years the day after Dec 17th was Dec 21th and days 18, 19 and 20 would be skipped), then the weekdays would vary.

You can basically formulate your question in this way:
“If I look at what day is three days after a Tuesday, it’s always a Friday, regardless of year and week. Why is that?”

What does “walking away from Ukraine” even mean?

USA is not supporting Ukraine in any manner.
If a weapon bought by some other country is going to be donated to Ukraine, USA adds a 10% punishment fee to the price of the weapon. I don’t think this will end if USA “walks away from Ukraine”.

The only thing USA walking away would mean would be it no longer trying to pressure Ukraine into capitulating to the Russia.
So… Maybe we should help Trump see us as weak? Walk away, dude, just walk away. Good riddance.

I wonder why this is considered surprising. If a country considers it acceptable to use a name of a unit of 1940’s Nazi Germany as a name for its contemporary unit, why is it a surprise that the country does stuff typical to Nazis?

The Russia is what it is.

It is implied in the article that the chatbot was able to point out details about the image that the reporter either could not immediately recognize without some kind of outside help or did not bother looking for.

So, the chatbot added making the reporter notice something on the photo in a few seconds that would have taken several minutes for the reporter to notice without aid of technology.

You can see my comment history to determine if I’m an LLM or not :)

In any case, have fun in your circles!

If the part of the image that reveals the image was made by an AI is obvious enough, why contact a specialist? Of course, reporters should absolutely be trained to spot such things with their bare eyes without something telling them specifically where to look. But still, once the reporter can already see what’s ridiculously wrong in the image, it would be waste of the specialist’s time to call them to come look at the image.

The article says they used ChatGPT or some similar LLM bot. It says they used a chatbot, and that’s what the word chatbot means by default. A skilled reporter mentions if it was something else.

The reporter used a chatbot such as ChatGPT to ask if there’s anything suspicious in the image, the chatbot, by coincidence, happened to point out something in the photo that the reporter could then recognise as AI-generated indeed, and got on typing his article again.

The only part of this that is not mentioned in the article is that the reporter confirmed the referred spot in the image with his own eyes, but that is such an integral part of a reporter’s education that you need specific reasons to work against the assumption that this was done.

There’s hoping that the reporter then looked at the image and noticed, “oh, true! That’s an obvious spot there!”

This helps only if you wash your towel after each shower.

Ah, so the object slides a very little bit, causing printed filament to be in a spot where there should be none yet, which produces a tiny hill that might even slide another quarter a millimetre and gather even more filament on top of it, at which point the object to be printed touches the extruder?

I’d assumeits biodegradation takes 5 years instead of something like 10 000 years of conventional plastics