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It’s more likely that some unfortunate new user will run this command, than any LLM. Especially because commands like this would be the first to be added to an LLM harness’ regex blacklist.
Otter@lemmy.caMto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Neither Principled nor Pragmatic: Carney Closes the Door on Palestinian Students
1·5 days agoA PhD is not a standard university degree. It’s a research apprenticeship that takes place over multiple years around a specific question/research group. Even if a particular school is better (by some magazine’s questionable ranking system), someone might choose to go to the “worse” school if the research of a particular supervisor is aligned with their background.
As per this article, our schools have identified that these particular students have backgrounds that are in line with the placements that they applied to, enough so that some of the students are fully funded so that they can come here and help push the work forward.
But I’m pretty sure you understand this already, and are choosing to sealion anyway. This explanation is for anyone else that comes across this thread. I’m applying a temporary ban so you can think about how you should speak about other human beings.
Otter@lemmy.caMto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Neither Principled nor Pragmatic: Carney Closes the Door on Palestinian Students
11·5 days agoThat’s not what the denial is about.
Despite two years of sustained pressure, Prime Minister Carney and Lena Metlege Diab, the minister responsible for student visas, remain unconcerned by the distress of these students. For many months, Diab’s spokespeople have claimed that applications for study visas can’t be processed without biometric testing. This is a ludicrous requirement given Israel’s total elimination of all relevant facilities in Gaza and past practices for Ukrainians, Afghanis and Syrians coming to Canada.
As for why your premise wouldn’t be grounds for a denial, by definition every immigrant petitions to be let into a country. You are picking and choosing when you see that as a request vs a protest.
Someone that is allowed in on their first request would have no reason to ask again. You can’t then point to their subsequent requests and say that they’re being “entitled” and “uncooperative”. Not to mention that these aren’t charity cases:
During his acclaimed Davos speech in January, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada would exercise what he called “principled and pragmatic” leadership on the world stage. Among his government’s pragmatic goals is attracting top international talent to Canadian universities. In keeping with this, Canada implemented an expedited 14-day processing period for PhD students seeking study visas and pledged $130 million (CAD) to assist “top international doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers [to] relocate to Canada.”
It is hard to square Canada’s enthusiasm for recruiting the world’s best and brightest with its stonewalling of some of Palestine’s most distinguished graduate students. Currently, 130 students from Gaza who have been accepted to study (and in many cases awarded full funding) in masters and PhD programs in Canada are in limbo. Some have been waiting nearly three years for a study visa.
Be better.
Is this a certain type of rabbit or is it normal to shave them while leaving a moustache?
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website
8·8 days agoTo be fair, wikipedia does this too and I find it helpful. The problem is the color scheme
My friend managed to find a compatible eraser at some stationery store while travelling, but he couldn’t tell me exactly which one he went to. This was before we could just order everything online, The best part was that you could use up the eraser a little bit to get a snug fit, you can’t do that with the yolks.
I don’t know why more stores didn’t carry those erasers
Otter@lemmy.cato
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•mean, lean, dean machine keeping you animals under control
31·9 days agoWhy is this marked nsfw 😄
This deserves another post
Looked at the article, and it starts off pretty stupid
While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.
Some people live in areas where the water tastes bad, but seeing the water as “boring” might mean that you’re drinking too much of the other stuff (soft drinks, juice, sugary etc). It’s not that those other things are not hydrating, but they’re unhealthy for other reasons.
The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
I refuse to normalize a world where people lack access to clean drinking water. 😠
The rest of the article is pretty standard advice. There’s no set amount of water that everyone needs to drink, and your diet/lifestyle/body composition/the weather will all play a role. Going based on thirst is a good indicator, but make sure you actually drink water when you’re thirsty. !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
But using that to justify unequal access to clean drinking water is a big no.
Otter@lemmy.caMto
Canada@lemmy.ca•Campus Antisemitism Report Hid a Key Finding that Turns the Results Upside Down
9·14 days agoWhat is the justification for rolling disclosure? That seems like a very obvious problem for this kind of a report
The above methodological concerns, however, are amplified by a rhetorical concern, obscured by what one might call the CASE report’s “rolling disclosure” — an opaque process by which the report’s findings are slowly and partially revealed over time, rather than all at once. This complicates the ability for readers to scrutinize the report’s raw data, as well as its author’s interpretation of that data.
When the CASE report was first released on Aug. 5, it exclusively highlighted the experience of Zionist Jewish respondents, while making zero reference to the experience of those anti-Zionist students who participated in the survey.
In stark contrast, amongst anti-Zionist Jewish respondents, a whopping 92 per cent said their campuses were safe and inclusive for Jewish students. In the National Post column, the authors try to write off the anti-Zionist data as a “psychological or social” phenomenon rooted in “a desire for social acceptance.”
The reality seems much simpler: Zionist Jewish students conflate hostility towards Israel with hostility towards Jews, whereas anti-Zionist Jewish students do not.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•[Video] Jewish Zionist in Montreal yells at a brown man that he is going to kill a lot of brown people. "I f**king killed a lot of motherf**kers like you... I'm going back to do more."
4·16 days agoI added a comment with a source that I found that has some of that context
Otter@lemmy.caMto
Canada@lemmy.ca•[Video] Jewish Zionist in Montreal yells at a brown man that he is going to kill a lot of brown people. "I f**king killed a lot of motherf**kers like you... I'm going back to do more."
3·16 days agoI added a comment with the source confirming that the incident was real, and the person’s name was collected by the police
Otter@lemmy.caMto
Canada@lemmy.ca•[Video] Jewish Zionist in Montreal yells at a brown man that he is going to kill a lot of brown people. "I f**king killed a lot of motherf**kers like you... I'm going back to do more."
20·16 days agoWe got some reports/comments looking for context, so I went looking. So far there is this article: https://therover.ca/montreal-police-stand-back-while-man-assaults-photographer/
There is an open investigation and the person’s identity is known to the police:
It was only after a video of the incident went viral two days later that Montreal police confirmed it was opening a hate crime investigation.
Police took the assailant’s identification and let him go. Montreal police did not immediately comment on the assault, but one police source says it’s not uncommon, in situations like these, for police to take down information first and make an arrest at a later date.
Please keep our guidelines in mind when commenting. You’re free to share your frustrations/feelings about this situation, but please take a moment to see if there is a better way to word what you are trying to say: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/
Otter@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela ResponseEnglish
4·16 days agoWhich is great, but it’s not always convenient.
For example, this article
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Finally moved family off Google Photos to Immich on a closet Optiplex 7040 — almost lost a month of kid photos in JanuaryEnglish
13·17 days agohow do you handle backups without making it a second job?
Shouldn’t this be automatic once it is set up?
The heat part is harder to deal with. Some computers are more power efficient than others
Otter@lemmy.cato
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Meta: XCancel has been taken down for the time being with a cease and desist letter
8·17 days agoXCancel is actually one instance of many that was running the Nitter software, so it was pretty close to what you were describing. People could run it themself, or pick the specific server that they wanted (ex. One closer to them).
Unfortunately, the software project itself got shut down: https://nitter.net/
I imagine we’ll see forks on other code repositories soon enough.
What is the gameplay like, the screenshots make it look like a mosquito simulator 😄
Sometimes full sedation is too risky, or at least not worth it for factors other than cost














The cast and location make it so unique, I can’t think of anything similar.
I watched through the episodes just now, and it feels like catching up with old friends. Its nice to see all of the characters again