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Norsk films stŸrste seier – og kanskje den siste – Ytring https://www.nrk.no/ytring/norsk-films-storste-seier-_-og-kanskje-den-siste-1.17432132

Norsk films største seier – og kanskje den siste
Triumfen i Cannes må være en øyeåpner for krisen her hjemme.

Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
#Meta

I love the fact that switching out a failing SSD just involved formatting the new SSD, copying the files over via `rsync`, powering off the computer, and swapping the new SSD in for the old one. I did have to make a minor tweak to the `fstab` because I decided to go with XFS, but the down time for the computer was only for as long as it took me to get the SSD swapped in.
#linux

"Trump demanded that energy producers keep down oil prices following US military strikes on Iran"
Trump Warns Against Rising Oil Prices Following Iran Attack | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-warns-against-rising-oil-prices-following-iran-attack

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#satire #potus45

When do you start feeling like a person and not a collection of impulses you don’t understand?

Shape2Animal: Creative Animal Generation from Natural Silhouettes
Quoc-Duy Tran, Anh-Tuan Vo, Dinh-Khoi Vo, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, Trung-Nghia Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20616

Shape2Animal: Creative Animal Generation from Natural Silhouettes
Humans possess a unique ability to perceive meaningful patterns in ambiguous stimuli, a cognitive phenomenon known as pareidolia. This paper introduces Shape2Animal framework to mimics this imaginative capacity by reinterpreting natural object silhouettes, such as clouds, stones, or flames, as plausible animal forms. Our automated framework first performs open-vocabulary segmentation to extract object silhouette and interprets semantically appropriate animal concepts using vision-language model…

I dunno. Maybe a bad angle but not hating this hair today. This is no shower or shaving. No encouragement, please, just ribbing on compliment-fishing. 😁

Et stort Ÿyeblikk i norsk filmhistorie – Ytring https://www.nrk.no/ytring/et-stort-oyeblikk-i-norsk-filmhistorie-1.17430431

Et stort øyeblikk i norsk filmhistorie
Joachim Trier lager filmer som napper i nervetrådene til filmelskere over hele verden.

I just read the story about the Italian kidnapped by a New York couple and tortured to disclose the credentials for his crypto assets - and the first thing that came to mind was XKCD 538 "Security" about the five dollar wrench.
Am I a bad person?
#xkcd538 #xkcd