dominiquec

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[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Wow, that's a Dostoyevskyian level story right there.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The first Don Quixote book was so popular it spawned a lot of fake sequels. Cervantes killed off Don Quixote in the second book to preclude any more copycats. That's what I remember anyhow from the preface of a paperback edition from way back.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Missed me by that much!

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Ah, like the Cone of Silence from "Get Smart!"

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

One of the noblest and saddest characters in one of the most cruel stories ever written.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As I recall it was longaniza, cucumber, and carrots.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I should have taken a cross-sectional cut to show what was inside. Next time....

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if this will fully meet your requirements, but my combination, which I'm happy with, is Moon Reader Pro on my Android devices and Ubooquity on my server.

Moon Reader has a Sync to WebDAV option but I haven't needed to use it. If you're not inclined to pay for an ebook reader software, there is also Librera which is free.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Seasoned vinaigrette.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any of the 90s horror anthology shows. Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Friday the 13th: The Series heck even X-Files and Buffy. I don't think we've had a decent horror anthology show in recent years. Black Mirror is less horror than just plain meanness sometimes.

[–] dominiquec@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My daughter just started school. She's pretty stoked about it, and so are we.

 

Found this stray cat while out on an evening stroll.

 

Using genomic techniques to change the color of plants to make it easier for robots to harvest them.

 

Photo by me.

 

...replacing the previously hydraulic version.

Insert obligatory welcome statement here.

 

What's worrying about this report is that it's coming from Google itself.

With Russia's full-scale invasion in its third year, Sandworm (aka FROZENBARENTS) remains a formidable threat to Ukraine. The group’s operations in support of Moscow’s war aims have proven tactically and operationally adaptable...

...Mandiant continues to see operations from the group that are global in scope in key political, military, and economic hotspots for Russia. Additionally, with a record number of people participating in national elections in 2024, Sandworm’s history of attempting to interfere in democratic processes further elevates the severity of the threat the group may pose in the near-term.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14276504

Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI

 

Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has been working with immigrant and refugee communities around the world to create images of scenes that have never been photographed, or to re-create photos that were lost when families left their previous homes.

 

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License," and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

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