I’d like to share this video of a low cost tumbleweed like device that slowly clears landmines

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=99tsY2nsTkE

‘Mine Kafon’ is a “low-cost wind-powered mine detonator with the appearance of a giant, spiky-armed tumbleweed.”

There’s an estimated 110 million mines still buried around the world. The inventor of ‘Mine Kafon’ – a former Afghan refugee – hopes it will inspire others to join the effort to make the world mine-free by 2027.

Also these rats in Cambodia

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

APOPO (Dutch: Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling1 ) is a registered Belgian non-governmental organisation and US non-profit which trains southern giant pouched rats1 and technical survey dogs to detect landmines and tuberculosis.2 They call their trained animals HeroRATs and HeroDOGs.3

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

Magawa (November 2013 – January 2022) was a Southern giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei) that worked as a HeroRAT sniffing out landmines in Cambodia for the non-governmental organization APOPO (in English, Anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development) which trains rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. Magawa was the most successful landmine-sniffing rat in the organization’s history, and received the PDSA Gold Medal in 2020.

Finally, this map of which counties signed the Ottawa Treaty vs. those who are still contributing to the problem

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

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction

I’ve heard that the 11 didn’t change much from the 10, and degraded on some key points (security, which is why grapheneos is incompatible), so the 10 is often the recommendation

I thought this post was going to be about the “missionaries in your area”, as a reference to the “hot singles in your area” ads

It seems to differ on desktop vs mobile

Even then, it’s only useful when you are using a program that doesn’t need the keyboard, and only if you don’t need to use any other programs at the time.

For example, if you are in class and you want to take notes, a separate tablet works a lot better than folding the laptop.

That’s where my mind went, I was surprised with how “normal” it felt

I think the problem with a ban is that the creators of AI slop will stop disclosing or tagging it.

Allowing it with tags + letting users filter it out might be the best way to reduce it?

IMO the title cards would have worked better. This makes it seem like you’re supposed to hear the sound that the vehicles made

Also, was Air Wolf that popular? I would have swapped it with MacGyver, and I’m judging that based on how often other pop culture seems to reference the shows above (ex. Community, etc).

MacGyver is popular enough that some people use it to describe when something is juryrigged/improvised. They might even understand it better than those alternate definitions

I think better compatibility with the Mastodon side would go a long way towards fixing the userbase / content problem.

https://fedidb.com/

There are 672k monthly active users on Mastodon who can’t easily interact with threadiverse. Although this is mostly a change that they need to implement

Do you know if there are limits to movement, expression etc that are tells for the realistic video?

With how many different models there are, I don’t think there is any standard to look for

@zeejoo@thelemmy.club

Going through and downvoting unrelated content on a user’s profile is seen as harassment and vote manipulation. Doing that repeatedly will result bans

I find that I can’t catch AI more easily if I’ve seen what it can output.

For example, the older videos used to use generative AI on the images and videos themselves, which made it easier to spot those.

Some newer videos are made with the “agentic” tools that have access to various scripts and animation libraries, which come out looking very polished and visually identical to human produced ones. For those, I find that the AI will put unnecessary “work”, into the irrelevant parts of the visualizations. Some of the libraries and fonts are more popular than others, so you might notice a pattern that way too.

For an example to the second category, check out the recent videos from this channel, which has AI generated “music videos”: https://m.youtube.com/@degenerativepixels

That’s true for a hard fork, not a downstream fork

Most of these other browsers are downstream forks. I’m not aware of any popular/reputable hard forks of Firefox

I’m using one of those, it still depends on Firefox being around

While Firefox alone doesn’t transport you to that internet, I think the point is that browsers like Firefox are one of the pieces that makes up that older experience. Fediverse being another, I would say a lot of us are here because we remember this style of social media.

They have improved the intentionality of the AI features, I wish they had it opt-out and easily configurable from the start. I moved to Zen a while back (which still relies on Firefox pushing out updates)

I also think some outreach is important, especially if they can get that through memes instead of paying Facebook/Google.

Having more people using Firefox instead of Google chrome is a good thing. If nothing else, websites will have more of an incentive to make sure websites work on non-chromium browsers.

And hey, if a few of those new users donate to the project, they can be less reliant on Google and sponsored content

That’s great to hear! Sorry if the post caused any potential stress, I’ve edited the end of the post and I’m open to editing it further to not give anyone the wrong impression.

Looking forward to seeing this in action :)

The spammer was this user, it looked like one of those impersonation accounts that pop up on Mastodon instances from time to time. You might have already banned the user by the time we got to it: @elonspacex49.bsky.social@coves.social

The seller isn’t necessarily being weird, “sofa-cum-bed”/“sofa-come-bed”/“sofa-co-bed” is actually how people refer to it in some places.

https://www.urbanladder.com/blog/5-types-of-sofa-cum-bed-that-every-home-needs

I think it comes from the Latin for “with”. The same thing happens with some historical academic distinctions

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

summa cum laude (/ˈsuːmə/), meaning “with highest praise”, typically awarded to graduates in the top 1%, 2%, or 5% of their class, depending on the institution. Some institutions either do not award the summa cum laude distinction or award it only in extraordinary circumstances

Again, open to hearing your thoughts on this. It sounds like you think there’s something we should be doing differently

can we talk about the amount of trolls on the lemmy.ca and piefed.ca instances?

We’ve banned plenty of troll-like accounts and are actively working on updated guidelines. Now is a good time to point out issues

https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/

Yes that’s the format for linking to other communities, which most apps will render nicely. You can also link to users with the @ symbol: @otter@lemmy.ca