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misk@sopuli.xyzOPto Technology@lemmy.zip•Traders Say ‘Insane’ Tech Is Making FX Markets SleepierEnglish2·1 day agoMarket maker is a regulatory designation where a financial institution has to provide liquidity, which sometimes means taking on trades you wouldn’t otherwise. It’s not as glamorous as it sounds, especially in FX markets where profit margins have been nanometer-thin for ages.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Technology@lemmy.zip•Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from SearchEnglish3·1 day agoThe thing about internet is that anybody can do the hosting and they do not have to operate with same ethical standards as we do.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Technology@lemmy.zip•Google will use hashes to find and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery from SearchEnglish9·1 day agoThe whole point of using hashes here is to not store images.
Suggestion: in case of breaking API changes maintain old endpoints for a bit? This caught me off guard as a Voyager user this morning because versioning suggests that Piefed is stable (1.x) and that this was a minor release (x.0 -> x.2), yet it broke down completely.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Nintendo@lemmy.world•Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase Announced For Tomorrow, 31st July 2025English4·2 months agoIt was a bit of a letdown.
I read Feddit.nu rules and couldn’t understand a word but we have credible intel that it’s just a cover for developing weapons of mass surströmming.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Technology@lemmy.zip•Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without noticeEnglish71·2 months agoNayara Energy Limited is an entity established in India and operating an important refinery in Vadinar. That refinery is 49% owned by the Russian State oil company Rosneft, and is a major refiner of Russian crude oil. The energy sector, in particular the oil sector, is a sector providing substantial revenue to the Russian Government.
Therefore, Nayara Energy is involved in an economic sector providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation, which is responsible for the annexation of Crimea and the destabilisation of Ukraine.
Microsoft doing the right thing here. If you don’t want to worry about consequences of sanctions don’t use services from companies subject to jurisdiction of countries that sanction you.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Technology@piefed.social•Children Getting Smartphones Before 13 Have Skyrocketing Suicide Risk2·2 months agoStudy recognises very strong correlation between poor family relations and poor mental health outcomes but doesn’t really attempt to separate it from smart device ownership. I’d be interested in seeing difference in outcome for a group affected by other potential causes and smart device ownership before jumping to conclusions like in the title of the post.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Ye Power Trippin' Bastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com•First ban on my new account! Once again for voting "wrong"...in the "voting community" 😑2020·2 months agofor using the functions of the website
This talking point is a huge red flag of a shit stirrer. Please provide an example of a mod action taken against anything other than using functions of the website.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Technology@piefed.social•Children Getting Smartphones Before 13 Have Skyrocketing Suicide Risk6·2 months agoThere is no causal link shown, just correlation. It could be absent parents who use gadgets to occupy their children that are causing this as well.
misk@sopuli.xyzto movies@piefed.social•Zach Galligan reveals that Gremlins 3 is almost ready and just needs Spielberg to sign off on it14·2 months agoI pray to every god that it is the Red Letter Media script.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Europe’s Elites Are Terrified of This Man. Here’s Why.31·2 months agoThis seems be to be an ad for a book?
misk@sopuli.xyzto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety ActEnglish31·2 months agoSaudi Arabia has plenty of soft and hard power too. Possibly more so than UK. I think we’re getting overly dramatic. UK doesn’t have enough pull to start extraditing thousands of people for not complying with their weirdo laws.
misk@sopuli.xyzOPto Games@sh.itjust.works•Here's why that embattled retro gaming YouTuber might not be so innocentEnglish7·2 months agoNo idea but in Europe copyright law doesn’t seem to be enforced as much against little guys but taxman will come for everyone. That YouTuber seems to be a grifter, collecting money for his defense while also making money off a Telegram shop. He knew he could make things up and people (and „journalists”!) would fall for it because Nintendo bad.
misk@sopuli.xyzto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety ActEnglish25·2 months agoHow would that even work in another country? Wouldn’t Saudi Arabia pressure hosts for breaking blasphemy laws?
misk@sopuli.xyzto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety ActEnglish123·2 months agoI’m confused, why are non-UK instances banning UK users? Are their admins located in the UK? Is anyone afraid of being extradited to UK because of their local laws? Do you block Saudi Arabia too because you can’t guarantee blasphemy laws are going to be upholded?
misk@sopuli.xyzOPto Games@sh.itjust.works•Here's why that embattled retro gaming YouTuber might not be so innocentEnglish151·2 months agoHe was selling them outright via Facebook / Telegram. I’ll speculate a little bit - it’s likely it wasn’t taxed which is why he was singled out.
I found capsules to be an absolute pain to load on the account of shaky hands. If you’re using capsules on a stem loaded vaporiser you have to try it with MAD Heaters Reload or one if it’s many recent clones (like 420vape Stash Tube in Europe or Sneaky Pete Travel Storage Debowler in US). This way you can load the stem directly by pushing and twisting into weed stored in one of two containers (middle/bottom). Once you’re done vaping you drop AVB into top container that has a debowler inside. It’s a game changer even if you don’t use it with butane vape.
LLMs can’t deal with highly reflective languages at the moment. In English or Chinese you can assign tokens to entire words without having to account for word morphology (which is also why models fail at counting letters in words) but it falls apart quickly in Polish or Russian. The way models like ChatGPT work now is that they do their „reasoning” in English first and translate back to the query language at the end.