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Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:05AM (#44496976)
If you want hour old accounts pushing trash political articles to the top of the site, why leave reddit.
Re:Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @03:49PM (#40920266)
Needing account authorization is new and likely not something that can be fixed. You can still use cookies/netrc, but your account might eventually be limited.
Race has to be a biological factor. Some of my family were on the transplant list for a long time, due to PKD. Throughout those many years there was a constant call for more Black donors.
Re:Gemma: New Open Models on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:55AM (#39466383)
I thought the same, until I saw the Gemini engineer on Twitter. The mystery ends there, it's definitely intentional.
Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:53AM (#38839562)
There are faster implementations of tortoise that allow fine-tuning. You can get close to ElevenLabs quality if you have a perfect dataset. https://git.ecker.tech/mrq/ai-voice-cloning
I'm still bitter about their half-baked cookie law that instantly made web browsing a much worse experience, regardless of how well-intentioned it may have been.
Lots of people on dialysis are there through no fault of their own. My mother and other members of my family were born with a kidney disease, and died while doing everything correctly.
Re:U.K. finally rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:11PM (#37572079)
The UK never wanted out of Horizon, it was part of the brexit agreement. The EU is back-pedalling here, not the UK.