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tldr; Teheran uses criminal networks throughout Europe to silence Iranian dissidents.

" The Dutch intelligence service AIVD has accused Iran of being behind an attempted murder of an Iranian activist in Haarlem last summer.

Two of the suspects are known to police through criminal networks and are also wanted in connection with a failed murder attempt in Madrid in late 2023. That case involved former Spanish politician and vocal Iran critic Alejo Vidal-Quadras, the AIVD said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28633828

finally some simple UI, you click on browser extension "icon" and get taken to a webpage that will show you all the video that rank by cosine similarity (I just now realized has UUID when it should have shortuuid), linked below is the webpage

https://github.com/solidheron/peertube_recomendation_algorythm/blob/main/example1.PNG

above is just example with my recommendations luckily the links change colors if you've already seen them. of course the video at the top is the video I watched the longest.

other than that I been cleaning up backend stuff and ignoring minor error that pop up. it should more accurately capture watch time on peertube videos and doesn't just say you watch an hour of a video you didn't care about. probably adding a bunch of code that needs to get cleaned up.

my opinion has shifted a bit on this simple algo it seems like the videos I get tend to be random and take require me to find videos independently to get some decent suggestion, also there's a Linux pipeline

I do have a software engineering problem where view time is only input to the algorithm, like, dislike, and finished status of a video is available. I have decided on going with cosine similarity for likes and dislikes and adding it to the time engagement. if you like a video all the tokens of that video get a +1 in length and dislike makes all the tokens -1 in length. I thought it was a good solution because it doesn't rely on converting a like to time. I wouldn't know how to deal with like being a multiplier for time engagement vector and would dislike be negative or something or just zero. generally adding a like cosine vector to a time engagement vector generally means both time and likes normalized (sorta) both can contribute to a video recommendation.

seems like cosine recommendation will need processing

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Tomorrow my two remaining wisdom teeth are finally getting pulled. So today I enjoyed spending my Feierabend in my garden with my cat Miez.

Zu meinem 13. Kuchentag schenke ich euch Ruhe - Gartenzeit für meine Katze Miez und den letzten vollständigen Tag mit den anderen

Morgen werden mir noch meine beiden verbliebenen Weisheitszähne gezogen. Deshalb habe ich den heutigen Feierabend mit meiner Katze Miez im Garten genossen.

Miez keeps in view most of the times while I'm out there. However the tracker gives her some additional freedom.

Miez bleibt die meiste Zeit im Blickfeld, während ich mit ihr draußen bin. Der Tracker gibt ihr jedoch etwas mehr Bewegungsfreiheit.

The weather was perfect for her thick fur today with 19°C, a bit windy and cloudy.

Heute war mit bewölkten, leicht windigen 13 Grad perfektes Wetter für Miez.

Not even the ambulance in the distance can disturb her. She likes to keep tabs on me though.

Nicht einmal der Krankenwagen in der Ferne kann sie stören. Sie behält mich aber gern im Auge.

Koda if ever mostly purrs softly. He is expressive in other ways.

Koda schnurrt wenn überhaupt nur sehr verhalten. Dafür ist er sonst sehr expressiv.

Lilly jumping to switch from one of her fevourote spots...

Lilly springt, um vom einen Lieblingsplatz...

...to the other.

...zum anderen zu gelangen.

Lilly is such a beauty and softy.

Lilly ist so eine zärtliche Schönheit.

This is the only vid I got of Pünktchen today with Koda behaving dikish as always. Pünktchen let me pet her today but only for some seconds.

Dies ist das einzige Video das ich heute von Pünktchen machen konnte. Immerhin hat sie sich heute von mir Mal streicheln lassen, wenn auch nur für ein paar Sekunden.

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Hello, I’m currently trying to figure out how to make an intro page for my ProBoards forum but can’t seem to figure out how to add text.

I can choose to add a post, but it keeps telling me “invalid Post ID” and I cannot find any sort of “post ID” except for the post URL and it doesn’t work when I type the URL in.

Can someone help me out? Thanks a bunch!

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I’ve seen some people getting 35fps+ in certain areas of the overworld. This is true, especially in my testing. But to do this you have to lower literally every single setting to the lowest possible. In doing so the game looks like total garbage and really isn’t worth playing IMO. Not only that but the game still drops frames below 30fps quite a bit. I’ve been digging around online and doing some tweaking myself and found ways to maximize performance while not making the game look like garbage. In my testing results I’m getting 30fps locked in about 90% of the game with some dips below in random areas. This does not improve the random lag spikes or texture pop-in, just so you’re aware. The actual settings are mostly medium, with a mix of low. This results in the game looking ascetically acceptable at a much more stable frame-rate.

I have spent hours testing this. This is the best balanced configuration I’ve found so far. We really need an official patch still.

Step 1. The graphics settings in-game are as follows:

Window Mode - Fullscreen

Display Resolution - 1152x720

Framerate Limit - 30fps (DO NOT CAP THE FRAMERATE IN THE DECK SIDEBAR, RESULTS IN INPUT LAG)

Brightness Intensity - 0

Motion Blur - Off

Screen Space Reflections - On

Custom quality settings are as follows:

View Distance - Medium

Effects - Low

Foliage - Medium

I’m lazy but set everything down below this to MEDIUM except for Hair and Cloth. Those go down to Low.

I’ve tested many upscaling methods and in my testing FSR BALANCED with Sharpness set to 25 seems to deliver the best results. XeSS Performance delivered similar performance but at a lower image quality.

NOTE: Set the GPU clock to Max in the Deck sidebar.

Step 2.

Download the Engine.ini configuration from Nexus. Huge props to this user as it made a big difference performance wise and IMO actually improved visuals:

Just follow the instructions here and it should get you going.

Step 3 (Optional) Disable LumenRT

I’m leaving this as optional because in my testing, disabling this causes artifacting in dark environments. It’s….pretty noticeable. But if you want to, in my opinion it definitely makes a drastic improvement to performance and makes lighter environments prettier. Just follow this link to do it. You have to edit the Engine.ini file after you downloaded the config above:

Step 4. Profit. You should find the game to be much more aesthetically pleasing over the default configuration AND have a bit of a performance boost.

I was just watching the new season of andor that made me go like "fuck i'm going to have to read theory aren't I."

she says "propaganda isn't enough, you need to support a radical insurgency on the ground that you know are going to do the wrong thing"

Stop using Chrome already!

It seems like it could in fact be a valid sexuality type to be attracted exclusively to sex rather than gender, but the only common term that seems to describe this sexuality is "super straight" (when referencing the heterosexual form of this, while "super gay" might be an unused but equivalent term for the homosexual form) which carries harmful connotations that aren't inherently entailed by having this sexuality type - which I agree is not a broader sexual orientation like heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual/asexual etc, but is more like a "microlabel" such as demisexual, in that it's an additional descriptor that further specifies the exact nature of someone's individual sexual preferences/orientation. However, that also doesn't mean it needs to be considered as part of the LGBTQ+ community, as it's not a marginalized sexuality or identity - in fact I'm pretty sure it's one of the most common sexuality types there are, if not the most common. Especially due to how stigmatized or misunderstood this sexuality is, or that people feel it's invalid or tied to discrimination against LGBT people somewhat inseparably, there isn't much research on it, so it's possible that people who are attracted to gender are more common than people who are attracted to sex, but it could be the opposite.

I understand the history of this word is problematic as it was created by transphobes, and its perception is so heavily tied to those origins that it's considered a hateful ideology in itself. That's one reason the word needs a different replacement and a "fresh start". People are identifying as this sexuality without any bigoted ideas toward LGBT people, even being vocally pro-LGBT, but simply having no other word to describe their exact sexuality, and then using this word despite it having other connotations they don't agree with, because it's the closest word there is - and then being misunderstood and criticized for using it. It seems like replacing this word with a more well-intentioned one would actually serve to hinder those hateful ideologies from spreading (by stopping people from resorting to using it with no other alternative, as is happening a lot) and enable people to acknowledge the validity of all sexual preferences or orientations as distinct from any hateful rhetoric.

Additionally, the word itself carries problematic connotations linguistically - even if it wasn't tied to attempts to undermine LGBT rights movements - since it could be interpreted as implying that people who are attracted to people of the opposite gender regardless of sex are "less straight" than people who are only attracted to the opposite sex regardless of gender. This recalls the fairly backward arguments (or offensive jokes) that someone who is attracted to people who were born as the same sex as them but who identify/present as the opposite gender, is actually "secretly gay" or "in denial of being gay" due to that attraction and is not really straight - that, for example, a man who is capable of being attracted to either cis women as well as trans women is therefore somehow less straight or more gay (or bi) than one who is only attracted to cis women - and this may come across as undermining the validity of those people as truly being the gender they identify as, or in other words attempting to deny or downplay the fact that trans women are women and trans men are men.

But it must be understood that being attracted to sex rather than gender does not mean denying the validity of gender identities in any way. Someone can fully support the rights of and acknowledge the legitimacy of trans people, that trans women are women and trans men are men in full, etc. The reality is just that sex is something distinct from gender and some people are attracted to one or the other or both, but not necessarily both. It's not something that can be entirely rationalized or explained, just like why someone is attracted to men rather than women or vice versa, or any other sexuality. It's something that people just naturally feel. Some so-called "super straight" people, non-bigoted and well-meaning ones in search of a way to explain and justify their sexual choices, genuinely just don't feel attraction to people who were born as the same sex as them, even if those people identify as/present as the opposite gender to them, and even while still considering them to be women/men in alignment with their gender etc. For the homosexual equivalent, aka "super gay", some people also are only attracted to their own sex, and would not be attracted to someone who was born as the opposite sex even if they identified/presented as the same gender as them. How can we criticize someone for having a particular sexual preference or orientation like that? I'm not saying they're oppressed or anything for having that nature (for being gay, yes, not for being "super gay" or "super straight"), but it seems silly and harmful to not be able to distinguish between people who are attracted to sex and people who are attracted to gender - it also doesn't need to be necessarily words based on how it relates to a larger orientation (like "super straight" and "super gay") but rather an additional label that you can place on any sexuality which denotes whether your attraction is gender-based or sex-based, or either, or both. To say that that is somehow discriminating against individuals just by not being attracted to them in some way you can't change - despite fully respecting them - seems no different from suggesting that someone is discriminating against women or men just by not being attracted to them since that's their sexuality. Are gay men necessarily misogynists? Of course not. So why would people who are attracted to cis people (of a particular sex) and not trans people (of the opposite sex-assigned-at-birth to the sex they're attracted to) necessarily be transphobes? It seems like there would be further variations to this as well depending on how people's exact sexuality cashes out.

The fact we can't seem to talk about this without assuming people have bad intentions, lumping them together with other people via association fallacies, and strawmanning people as being bigoted while misunderstanding or deliberately misrepresenting their experience/position is silly. It's obviously a nuanced subject, and human sexuality is complex. There could well be some unrecognized validity to a differentiation between sex-based vs gender-based attraction, and it seems like it would benefit the LGBT rights movements to be able to acknowledge these kinds of experiences, of people who are genuinely supportive of LGBT, rather than immediately demonizing it without trying to understand it. Maybe we can have a bit of good faith here?

(Btw, I don't identify with the super straight label nor with the sexuality type it describes even with the bigotry removed, but I don't find it to be justified to criticize people for having this particular experience of sexual attraction, and think it deserves a proper unproblematic term, or multiple words related to the larger concept of sex vs gender based attraction).