The TLDR of the paywalled article:

The order stems from fears that the chat group may have become the target of targeted cyberattacks.

The decision was made according to the report after the Commission became aware of the group’s existence last month and deemed the risk of compromise too high. While there is no evidence yet that communication has actually been intercepted, the threat situation has escalated.

The Commission is now reacting with stricter IT guidelines and regular checks of employee hardware.

Recently, Dutch authorities warned of a global campaign in which Russian cybercriminals are using fake Signal support bots to lure users into traps.

I feel the title is really not in line with the article contents: the only thing it says about signal specifically it is that it lacks some security and management features common in state run infrastructure.

It seems it is more a case of generally tightening the rules about the politicians’ communications’ channels in general.

I’m not sure what you are really interested in, if you are searching frontier model’s capabilities with a good privacy policy… The answer is no.

If you are interested in privacy and can take an hit to performance, there’s lumo by proton, which I’ve never tried personally, but it should use open models, and there should be the list somewhere there.

Otherwise you can go European with Mistral’s Le Chat, which is not as good as the multibillion dollars companies offerings but it is quite good. I tend to use this one. Check the settings to disable data training.

Last but not least you can use a wrapper around the frontier models like the one offered by duckduckgo. There are many.

If you don’t mind paying there are no logs services that give you access to KimiK2 level models. Or you could spin up something on runpod or vast ai style gpu rentals.

So. It depends.

The big problem is that we have long stepped over that line.

Now even when you pay you are still shown ads (maybe, but not surely, not-targeted) and your data is still scrapped and analyzed to hell and back.

You can leak memory in perfectly safe Rust, because it is not a bug per se, an example is by using Box::leak

Preventing memory leaks was never in the intentions of Rust. What it tries to safeguard you from are Memory Safety bugs like the infamous and common double free.

You could consider a physical donation to the Internet Archive too, which is potentially more useful than a normal library because, as they say and I quote, they “try to digitize materials and make them available publicly as funding allows”.

More info here: https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donation-to-the-internet-archive/

I don’t have them: I generated a new one modifying the prompt

Is this what you meant? If you want it in other styles I can try them out, but it will take some time

EDIT: If it was because I said it was straightforward to gen them in whatever style, it is because of the dataset Chroma used for training: I would be incredibly surprised if centaurs aren’t in there

Sorry about the confusion

Using Chroma (v50 annealed GGUF Q4) it was pretty straightforward to get a centaur in whichever style, so I tried to make something weirder, making the head a completely different style from the rest of the image.

It was kind of a PITA to get something somewhat coherent and not messed up, but I think with enough prompt massaging it could output something really nice, but I don’t have the hardware to experiment too much: it just takes too long to gen.
Still, it was fun.

This, plus the recent ‘pay or consent’ fiasco, makes pretty clear they are going straight for a deliberate collision route with the EU.

I assume they got some kind of political backing for it, it’s a quite sudden all in. Sigh.

EDIT: Wrong link

50501 (short for “50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement”) is an American progressivist grassroots political organization founded to protest the policies and actions of the second Donald Trump administration in the United States.

From wikipedia

The parade I assume is in reference to the birthday military parade for the 250th Army Anniversary of June 14, 2025. More here: wikipedia

This is a nice looking one, I really enjoy the colors, any info about the model, prompt, lora?

You could try asking in !caffeitalia@feddit.it too, feddit.it is an italian speaking instance

125g per person if you only eat that, 80 to 100 if you eat something else too

Good brands you can usually find outside of italy with not outrageous prices are Rummo and Garofalo, less good but still okay, and at a generally lower price, you can usually find Voiello or De Cecco

Barilla is the most common, but outside of their spaghetti I’m not a big fan

There are a bunch of others, but these tend to be easier to find

That’s all, thank you for coming to my TED talk

I’m not sure if you are referring to this, but I’ve noticed some people overriding their comments after around 24h they have posted them - probably running an automated script. I assume they are doing it for perceived privacy reasons.

Giorgia Meloni is trying to position herself as a mediator between America and Europe, which honestly I think is a fool’s errand, but it is in line with her Atlanticist foreign policy.
I would have personally preferred a real, firm, statement towards Ukraine’s support but until we’ll have people like Salvini - a Putin’s lover - and his ‘Lega Nord’ party in the government it is infeasible to expect it.

At the same time FdI (Meloni’s party) has historically been pretty pro-ukraine, so I will be very surprised if something is not going to happen in the next few days.

Remember that this quote is from Crosetto, the current Minister of Defence, just a few days ago: “Peace, however, must not mean humiliating a free people who have done nothing but die and sacrifice to defend themselves.”

I’m not in line with their national policies - by a wide margin - but currently Meloni’s party and the Partito Democratico are the only pro-ukraine voices in Italian politics with some weight

It’s depressing.

“Look, Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade,” he continued. “They’ve treated us very unfairly on trade, and we will be able to make that up very quickly because we don’t need the products that they have.”

Hahahahaha…oh god, comedy heaven!

…Wait, what do you mean this is not the onion?

This was all theatre where nothing in reality changed, to show how tough and intransigent this admin wants to be: the real problem is that if formally and informally allied nations start to think that the USA would really commit to bullying as a real negotiation tactic, they will start to divest from it and expand their pool of partners to make these tactics less impactful.

This could be disastrous in the long run, with decades of integration and diplomacy going in smoke. But in the short term there will be a lot of “winning”, as they keep saying. I guess.

The first Trump term was seen as a short term derailing. The second one has a complete different international impact.

Goodwill is a real diplomatic form of currency and it is getting burned at a real fast pace.

That’s the bad thing about social media. If no one was doing it before, someone is now!

Jokes aside it’s possible, but with the current LLMs I don’t think there’s really a need for something like that.

Malicious actors usually try to spend the least amount of effort possibile for generalized attacks, because you end up having to often restart when found out.

So they probably just feed an LLM with some examples to get the tone right and prompt it in a way that suits their uses.

You can generate thousands of posts while Lemmy hasn’t even started to reply to one.

If you instead want to know if anyone is taking all the comments on lemmy to feed to some model training… Yeah, of course they are. Federation makes it incredibly easy to do.

The whole information is in this paragraph:

The central bank’s governing council gave unanimous support to October’s decision to cut rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.25 per cent, arguing that “the disinflationary trend was getting stronger” and that it was important to avoid “harming the real economy by more than was necessary”.

The rest is basically padding and speculation, which can be summarized with:

“On december there could be a cut up to 50 points, or none, no one knows because we have no idea what is going to happen and we are going in blind. The growth was higher than expected (.4 instead of .2) but the inflation was too (2, instead of 1.7).”

What a time to be alive. I’m not worried at all about the future.

Nice data, but I think we should take a broader view too:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023&locations=RU-IN&start=2019

I semi randomly picked India because it is part of BRICS and had a similar economic trajectory: It is quite interesting playing with all those nobs and labels.

In this context I think PPP - which you showed - is a good indicator of the internal quality of living, but as far as I understand it, it has an hard time showing the difference in quality and standards of the consumer products between countries, so a dip in nominal GDP is an interesting context with the PPP adjusted rise. Less expensive things, because they are less regulated?

Aside from that Russia has almost completely pivoted to a war economy which, as far as I know, tends to give a big initial boost but it stresses and makes the real (for lack of a better term) economy crash in the long run.

What do you think about this? It is an interesting topic.

I was reading @superkret@feddit.org and @MaggiWuerze@feddit.org exchange and I found it an interesting - albeit moot - topic. So I went and spent the last hour to download some data and filter it: I will post some numbers with no commentary. I will add my opinions after them in a spoiler.

imf.org GDP, current prices, Billion of U.S. dollars

2023 GDP Nominal
NATO 52392,344
BRICS 27330,345

2024 GDP Nominal (estimates)
NATO 55148,819
BRICS 28442,630

imf.org GDP, current prices, Purchasing power parity; billions of international dollars

2023 GDP PPP
NATO 63996,245
BRICS 66010,889

2024 GDP PPP (estimates)
NATO 66812,821
BRICS 70911,69

imf.org GDP based on PPP, share of world

2023 GDP PPPSH
NATO 34,731
BRICS 35,824

2024 GDP PPPSH (estimates)
NATO 34,339
BRICS 36,446

BRICS

Brazil, People’s Republic of China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates

NATO

Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Republic of Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States