This is almost certainly about the Shah flag, this is an interesting spin on that

pastime

Really? I think these events could be memorialized as a sort of messed up cultural thing to look back upon, but using such a banal word for it feels pretty odd in its own right

It’s been happening for ages already. What reality do you people live in?

I live where people run to for safety. This is supposed to be a normal safe part of Beirut. It’s quiet now and I’m fine but every year is an innovation in terrorism from this criminal entity.

Thank you for the well wishes.

Death toll is higher than 300, injured over 1200. They’re pulling bodies and survivors still. This is worse than August 4 2020. And they’re still fucking bombing!

This is senseless, savage terrorism. I think I heard over a hundred thuds in Beirut during the first hour. What the fuck is wrong with these people

Our water infrastructure’s been shit for like fifty years at this point.

I’d conservatively say well over a million people are displaced right now. Racking up war crimes like it’s a checklist. How can anyone be this fucking evil. What’s happening here is nowhere near as bad as the crimes in Gaza, and I don’t think they deserve any less dignity than us over there, but my blood has been just boiling over the past month like never before. It’s different when you’re directly in the crosshairs. I haven’t lost anyone in this war yet but many of my acquaintances are grieving. The fact that this terrorist regime keeps getting free passes and special treatment and subsidized weapons and unlimited investment while we are being hit with fucking white phosphorus is just so hard to live with. You think your environment breeds doomerism? Come gamble with your life for the insolence of being born in the wrong fucking place, come watch every government and company pretend like your suffering is something expected and to be ignored. Fuck.

I know people, here in Lebanon, with the last name Israel, who are older than the terrorist state.

Maybe more people here would be accepting of Jewish people if the only Jewish people they ever met hadn’t been soldiers at checkpoints in the 1980s pointing guns at their faces.

I’m literally Arab lol

Cool, me too

For example in Southern Lebanon you’ll find a lot Christian people

I’m literally a Lebanese Christian from the South. Well half of my family is from there. I have an extremely Arabic first name, and last name for that matter. Is that enough?

Ali, Umar, or Yusuf

These are stunning examples. Youssef is Joseph, so that’s a Christian name first to me (if I want to be that guy, I don’t.). But the other two are very explicitly coded to a single sect. Ali is not even used by half of the Muslim population, Omar is also not used by the other half. You’ve picked the probably single most uniquely Shia and Sunni names respectively. Maybe it’s different where you live, maybe there are no explicitly Sunni or Shia names around you. But no Christian bears a name like that anywhere in the country.

This is like reading a headline about a Portuguese guy named Jesús Espírito Santo and going ballistic over him not being explicitly mentioned as Christian. It’s fine. Our hero today is almost certainly a Muslim, and even if he isn’t, I’m glad he did what he did and has been a good representative for the Lebanese community around the world regardless

What a weird little internet slapfight I’ve walked into.

This is not a first name that is common among Christians here. I think adopting mainly Muslim names among Christians is common in some parts of Africa? It’s also possible that you wouldn’t be familiar enough with Arabic names to distinguish between explicitly Muslim names and secular / nonsectarian religious names (and Christian ones, we have a lot of those).

Ahmad is a 1,000,000% Muslim name. I think this is common knowledge in most places around the world since this is an extremely popular name almost exclusively used by Muslims.

This would be like arguing that a guy named Jesús could be from any religious community. Technically that’s true, but - Jesús. Really? Is an argument worth it?

That’d be like me calling my kid Suddam Hussein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_Vinladen

Vinladen is named after Osama bin Laden, the founder of  Al-Qaeda […] His brother is named Sadam Huseín after the dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, and his father planned to name the third sibling George Bush after U.S. president George W. Bush if it had been a boy.

Everyone who has looked up useful stuff to print knows about Gridfinity, but boxes.py looks so cool! Reminds me a lot of an earlier era of computer software, when it seemed like half of all programs were made to help you do things off-screen, a lot more printing and scanning. Maybe that’s just me, I don’t know.

At least to me, Overwolf is the third or fourth iteration, following acquisitions, buyouts, restructurings, etc. The original FTB launcher worked perfectly fine. It’s mostly just obnoxious now and I make sure not to have it running in the background. No direct rent-seeking behavior just yet, I don’t have an account on there and it’s not a problem.

Right now I have it on my computer just use it to update packs that are only available there and then yoink them straight into MultiMC.

AFAIK it is owned by Curse and I guess those guys make most of their money from those godawful wikis and their ads.

I thought I’d check this before posting it, and it turns out it’s the other way around. Overwolf bought Curse. Worse, Overwolf is a company based out of Tal Abib… that’s two discoveries in one day. I was looking into getting a CaribouMini until I learned where that comes from. Less than two hundred kilometers away from me as the missile crow flies (and sadly, has flown). Great. Fucking great.

The shitty thing is that a lot of cool pack creators only publish through Overwolf, so I don’t want to delete it just yet, but I don’t like this at all. At best a minor security risk, at worst I don’t even want to know. I just thought it was just some shitty ad company’s Curse buyout as a billboard for more ads. For all the issues I might have with Nexus Mods, I don’t think they’re quite this bad. Concerning that this is the de facto standard repository of MC mods.

I think I should have been more clear, this is exactly what I’m asking about. I’m somewhat surprised by the reaction this post got, this seems like a very normal thing to want to host.

Doesn’t help that some people here are replying as if I was asking to locally host the “trick” that is feeding a chatbot text and asking it whether it’s machine-generated. Ideally the software I think I’m looking for would be something that has a bank of LLM models and can kind of do some sort of statistical magic to see how likely a block of tokens is to be generated by them. Would probably need to have quantized models just to make it run at a reasonable speed. So it would, for example, feed the first x tokens in, take stock of how the probability table looks for the next token, compare it to the actual next token in the block, and so on.

Maybe this is already a thing and I just don’t know the jargon for it. I’m pretty sure I’m more informed about how these transformer algorithms work than the average user of them, but only just.

That’s a shame. Never had any of their household appliances so I wouldn’t know. I’m mostly thinking about power tools, auto parts, and like those laser distance things.

I hate paying 5x for a German-made Bosch spare part for my car when I’m tired of the AliExpress quality lottery but I have to admit it’s one of the few hardware manufacturers I still think pretty highly of. They make Dremels too, right? I imported one of those at an extortionate price and haven’t regretted a single penny, reminds me of how old durable tools were built to actually last.

When I was a kid and you picked up something with a (for example) Sony logo on it, you know you were holding something that was at least relatively well made. Nowadays pretty much every single company gives me marrow-sucking quality-be-damned vibes. And come to think of it Bosch was not one of the companies I saw that way.

Disgusting how they’re treating their workers (who I’m assuming are damn good at their job given how highly I think of Bosch’s stuff), but someone still needs to be doing that job.

boy that infant really shouldn’t have let that cluster bomb fall on his head was he even trying

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

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 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.

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.