[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

the small minority of retards did the salute

The words "za dom spremni" are the salute, and everyone participated in that, Thompson initiated it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There was little to no actual anti-communism at play at that point (although it was still relevant symbolically). Both sides were already capitalist. Yugoslavia had been on the path of liberalisation for quite a while before the breakup.

Btw, that excuse is bullshit, the phrase was picked by Croatian extremists (especially the paramilitary HOS) in the 90s because it was used by ustašas (fascists) half a century earlier in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

unless the ustashe independently invented it

They did, they weren't instructed by German nazis on what words to use. Not that it makes any difference, ustašas were just the local variant of fascists.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

That's true. But people pointing out that the whole attempt is absurd and senseless also reinforces the point that current AI isn't what companies tout it as.

then you likely live in a bubble of tech nerds

Well, we are on Lemmy...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Also it’s not like this is some important topic with societal implications. It’s just a technical question that I had (and still doesn’t) that doesn’t mandate researching.

So why "research" it with AI in the first place, if you don't care about the results and don't even think it's worth researching? This is legitimately absurd to read.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

are you comfortable with a single corporation having control over this sort of service?

Honestly? A tiny bit more than a single country. I have at least some miniscule control over the corporation through voting and local regulations that international corporations must follow, whereas I have absolutely no formal influence on US govt.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Which govt? I'm not comfortable with the idea of the current US govt having control over this sort of service.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

This is mainly why I signed it. I honestly don't care about new games, and the whole narrative around the campaign is frankly infantile, but it should at the very least be a start towards fighting such practices in general.

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Update_on_the_UK_legal_challenge_to_Online_Safety_Act_categorisation_rules

Hello everyone,

My name is Phil - I work in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Legal department, and I’m here to provide two updates on our legal challenge to the UK Online Safety Act’s “categorisation rules”. Those rules are written so broadly that Wikipedia could be lumped in as a “Category 1 service”. This would subject it to extra duties under the Act that could seriously impact the privacy, safety and empowerment of the Wikipedia community, and our collective ability to sustain the Wikimedia projects. For background on the OSA and our legal challenge, see here (Diff), or a more detailed post here (Medium).

First, an administrative note: the High Court has agreed to expedite our case, and set a two-day trial next month: July 22-23. We expect the hearings to be public, and can be observed in person at the beautiful Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Second: the Foundation will be joined in this case by a Wikipedian, as joint claimant. User:Zzuuzz, a longterm UK-based user, will play a pivotal role in articulating the human rights implications of this case, including for your rights to privacy, safety, free speech, and association.

I hope you’ll join us in expressing deep appreciation to User:Zzuuzz for volunteering to take this extraordinary step, and standing up for the Wikimedia movement worldwide. This might be legal history in the making: our early searches haven’t turned up any legal precedent of a website’s host and its users proactively joining forces to bring a legal challenge.

We’ll aim to provide further updates on Meta, and we’ll watch discussions for a few days in case there are questions we can usefully answer. As this is a critical moment in active litigation, we apologise for not commenting as freely as we’d like. Best regards,

PBradley-WMF (talk) 08:10, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

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Image A shows Bosnian Cyrillic as used in stone inscriptions.

The columns go: Latin (BCMS) alphabet - Greek - Cyrillic "church letters" - Cyrillic "civil letters" (Peter the Great's reform) - Bosnian letters: 14th, early 15th and late 15th century, typical forms

For context, the BCMS alphabet mostly corresponds to the same IPA symbol, with only these exceptions: Gj /d͡ʐ/, Ž /ʒ/, Lj /ʎ/, Nj /ɲ/, Ć /t͡ʂ/, Č /t͡ʃ/, Dž /d͡ʒ/, Š /ʃ/.

Image B shows various examples of handwritten cursive Bosnian Cyrillic.

This variant of Cyrillic was used in modern-day Bosnia and parts of Croatia (Dalmatia and Dubrovnik), mainly from 14th to 17th century. It used the letter "djerv" <Ꙉ> for /t͡ʂ/, which eventually became a part of the modern Serbian Cyrillic alphabet as <ћ>.

Images from Frane Vuletić's Gramatika bosanskoga jezika (1890).

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GifCities was a special project of Internet Archive originally done as part of our 20th Anniversary in 2016 to highlight and celebrate fun aspects of the amazing history of the web as represented in the Wayback Machine. Since then, GifCities GIFs have been used in innumerable web projects, artistic works, and in the media and press, including this internet-melting combination of GifCities GIFs and the British Royal Wedding in this New York Times article and the avant-GIF “GifCollider” exhibit at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

The new version of GifCities includes a number of new improvements. We are especially excited at the drastic improvement in “GifSearchies” by implementing semantic search for GifCities, instead of the hacky old “file name” text search of the original version.

[-] [email protected] 122 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Absolutely the correct stance, nothing dirty about it. At this point, for better and for worse, the Internet is a basic necessity. Imagine having your water turned off because you threw water balloons at your neighbour.

[-] [email protected] 226 points 1 year ago

At this point I'm impressed by how much effort Twitter devs must've have put into making the site shittier and less accessible.

[-] [email protected] 152 points 1 year ago

For anyone who can't find them... :D

[-] [email protected] 132 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The last part of your comment sounds like an ad straight out of those overlong YT videos.

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