Maroon

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Substack promoted a Nazi blog again in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Note that the largest Nazi groups today are in the "allied" nations that "won" WW2.

I read a piece (can't find the source now, sorry) that blamed this squarely on the lack of education and remorse given to the colonial backdrop in which WW2 was fought.

Most parts of the world view WW2 as very much a European war that was imposed on unwilling global participants. The axis powers lost and Germany has since tried its best to reinvent itself while acknowledging its chequered past (check out: Vergangenheitsbewältigung), but the allied powers failed to recognise their colonial atrocities. For example, British history textbooks will loosely allude to the British empire saying that they were once a dominating global entity, but will make absolutely no mention of the numerous massacres and genocides for which they were responsible.

When wars are framed as competitions rather than tragedies, you will see the emergence of false victors instead of acknowledging lost generations. This directly results in a poor public understanding of how bad ideas can fester and hollow out any society.

the elder gods in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I thought soft-tissue didn't fossilise. Cephalopods don't have skeletons, then what exactly is getting fossilised here?

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Laboratory note book for my new research group (lemmy.world)
 

I won a new grant (yaay!) and dipping my toes in the role of PI in my university. For now, I will have a PhD, a post doc and a couple of masters students in my team.

In all my previous labs, everything was on paper and very poorly documented (...don't ask). I myself used to use LaTeX to keep a "neat" labnote. Obviously, it is not easy to collaborate and work with others.

Any researchers here who have experience hosting their own e-lab book in their labs?

rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Two of Lemmy's favorite things together in c/pics@lemmy.world
Deaf Teenager and 24-Year-Old Gain Ability to Hear After Experimental Gene Therapy in c/science@lemmy.world
Deaf Teenager and 24-Year-Old Gain Ability to Hear After Experimental Gene Therapy in c/science@lemmy.world
[ExoComics] The Crown in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Maroon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I am in the EU. I want to help make the TOR network more robust by contributing a relay node. I have one of three hardware options: a raspberry pi zero W, raspberry pi 4B, or ThinkPad T470s.

In your practical experience, which of these computers would be the best for the network? As I understand, beyond a point, the CPU power doesn't matter unless massive traffic loads go through the node.

P.S: Not sure if this is relevant, but I currently have a pihole hosted in a separate RPI zero. I plan to host this at home. I do not have a separate connection line. My router doesn't support vlan.

Add: Thank you for the kind replies. Based on the feedback, it think I'm currently not setup to help the network. I will instead continue with my annual contribution.

I will look into hosting a node on a VPS and just pay a monthly subscription fee or something.

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Pdf to odt/docx conversion has me weeping! (lemmy.world)
 

You will see that I have posted about this before asking for suggestions on which software I can use to convert PDF to docx/odt.

I am a teacher. During my time as a researcher I wrote a lot of documents and regularly draw upon them to teach my students. I often have to take the text, modify them, or build upon them. A lot of my material is bound up in PDFs. Sometimes, I have grant applications to write where a previous draft I wrote was stored as a PDF. Converting them to text has become the bane of my life.

I am forced to use online tools because none of the software I have seem to do the trick. Lot of people keep saying pandoc. Pandoc does not convert PDF to any other format. It can only be the output format.

Is there a magic open source solution that I have missed out?

Office Fling in c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
Release v0.6.14 · open-webui in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
money. the answer is money. in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
Ke$ha's Quantum Party in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
Meta? Facebook! X? Twitter! Alphabet? Google! in c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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What it means to sign Elsevier's Copyright Transfer Agreement (lemmy.world)
 
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Taking one for the team... (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25519139

Gut health gone wild

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Gut health gone wild (infosec.pub)
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Costs to thee, but none for me! (lemmy.world)
 
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Request help / resources to install debian and host website on an old mobile (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Maroon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
5 comments fedilink
 

I have an old OnePlus 5T that has LineageOS installed. I don't really do anything with it and I thought it would be cool to host my first ever website (static) on it.

What I've done so far:

  1. Got the HTML file for my website.
  2. Got the CSS style sheet for that site.
  3. Purchased a domain name.

I request help/guidance with:

  1. Minimal install of Debian, nginx, Docker, and Fail2ban. (I feel I need help with the Debian installation because the rest is seems easy enough).
  2. Hosting my website from my home, so like if I should consider subnet or vlan for my home to protect other devices when I expose port 80 (http) and 443 (https) of my router so other servers can access my server phone.

I know this sounds like complicating matters for something I have never done before, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I have hosted stuff at home (pihole, LibreTranslate, etc) but I think this website project may not be straightforward.

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Poor pay for postdoctoral researchers makes it difficult to attract and retain talent (www.irishtimes.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20663580

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Poor pay for postdoctoral researchers makes it difficult to attract and retain talent (www.irishtimes.com)
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Please suggest some good self-hostable RAG for my LLM. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Maroon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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A while ago, I had requested help with using LLMs to manage all my teaching notes. I have since installed Ollama and been playing with it to get a feel for the setup.

I was also suggested the use of RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation ) and CA (cognitive architecture). However, I am unclear on good self hosted options for these two tasks. Could you please suggest a few?

For example, I tried ragflow.io and installed it on my system, but it seems I need to setup an account with a username and password to use it. It remains unclear if I can use the system offline like the base ollama model, and that information won't be sent from my computer system.

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I am a victim of a data breach, what do I do? (lemmy.world)
 

I am an EU citizen and I was informed that my EURAXESS account was breached. They informed me that while the password wasn't stolen, all of my personal data including addresses, IDs from the CV was stolen and made available on some website.

They say that they're working towards making the site secure, etc., but I know that my personal info is out there. They have even told me to watch out for scams and phishing attempts over the next few months to come.

I am a bit shaken. Please tell me what steps I can take to gain back some control over this situation?

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