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  • MechanizetoProton @lemmy.worldIs Proton Down?
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    6 days ago

    Their systems currently report that everything’s fine, which - to be fair - could be a misreporting and change at any moment
    Anecdotally all their landing sites load fine for me

    Tackling it from the other side: could it be a problem with your DNS?
    Did you try with another network? Like wifi or mobile data

    EDIT: Formatting

    EDIT: Tried again and now the email service seems to not be loading

    EDIT 2: It is being reported on other sites too, but currently there’s nothing official I could find, not even on their Mastodon or Twitter various accounts

    EDIT 3: On reddit the volunteer mod alex_herrero wrote an hour ago that “The team is aware and [the] status page will be updated shortly”.




  • That’s the bad thing about social media. If no one was doing it before, someone is now!

    Jokes aside it’s possible, but with the current LLMs I don’t think there’s really a need for something like that.

    Malicious actors usually try to spend the least amount of effort possibile for generalized attacks, because you end up having to often restart when found out.

    So they probably just feed an LLM with some examples to get the tone right and prompt it in a way that suits their uses.

    You can generate thousands of posts while Lemmy hasn’t even started to reply to one.

    If you instead want to know if anyone is taking all the comments on lemmy to feed to some model training… Yeah, of course they are. Federation makes it incredibly easy to do.



  • Hangs, reboots or does it turn off? Depending on that it could be a plethora of things.

    Do you get any error prompts? Any red alerts when restarting?

    Did you check that the monitor works steadily on another system/OS?

    Did you try another DE, even on a live usb?

    Is the HDD/SSD healthy?

    Are all the fans working? Is it the thermal protection?

    Is the PSU healthy and or the power connection damaged?

    Does your system have a centralized logging like journalctl or can you reach the single log files to check and add more information?

    It could literally be anything, even aliens.




  • I assumed it was a shitpost, instead it is a real tweet. What a time to be alive.

    Jokes aside the only real reason I can fathom for the collectibles company to call their mother is because they had used it as the contact number in the registry. I would be surprised if this was some kind of intimidation tactic instead of just miscommunication - in the sense they probably just wanted to legally intimidate the itch’s owner not their immediate family. They are not 2K /s.


  • AFAIK it is still a tuning of llama 3[.1], the new Base models will come with the release of 4 and the “Training Data” section of both the model cards is basically a copy paste.

    Honestly I didn’t even consider the fact they would not be giving Base models anymore before reading this post and, even now, I don’t think this is the case. I went to search the announcements posts to see if there was something that could make me think about it being a possibility, but nothing came out.

    It is true that they released Base models with 3.2, but there they had added a new projection layer on top of that, so the starting point was actually different. And 3.1 did supersede 3…

    So I went and checked the 3.3 hardware section and compare it with the 3 one, the 3.1 one and the 3.2 one.

    3 3.1 3.2 3.3
    7.7M GPU hours 39.3M GPU hours 2.02M GPU hours 39.3M GPU hours

    So yeah, I’m pretty sure the base of 3.3 is just 3.1 and they just renamed the model in the card and added the functional differences. The instruct and base versions of the models have the same numbers in the HW section, I’ll link them at the end just because.

    All these words to say: I’ve no real proof, but I will be quite surprised if they will not release the Base version of 4.

    Mark Zuckerberg on threads

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    zuck a day ago
    Last big AI update of the year:
    •⁠ ⁠Meta AI now has nearly 600M monthly actives
    •⁠ ⁠Releasing Llama 3.3 70B text model that performs similarly to our 405B
    •⁠ ⁠Building 2GW+ data center to train future Llama models
    Next stop: Llama 4. Let’s go! 🚀

    Meta for Developers

    Link to post on facebook
    Today we’re releasing Llama 3.3 70B which delivers similar performance to Llama 3.1 405B allowing developers to achieve greater quality and performance on text-based applications at a lower price point.
    Download from Meta: –

    Small note: I did delete my previous post because I had messed up the links, so I had to recheck them, whoops




  • It’s probably a problem with the UEFI, the windows info got overwritten, and you can probably fix this with efibootmgr

    It happened to me too, but unfortunately it was some years ago and I’m not at home to find the related notes that I took. I remember there was a windows utility to rewrite the boot loader. But probably in your case the boot partition is still okay, just the UEFI entry got overwritten and you just have to add it back manually.

    Check the troubleshooting section of the wiki page to have a tip on the windows booting location


  • The whole information is in this paragraph:

    The central bank’s governing council gave unanimous support to October’s decision to cut rates by 0.25 percentage points to 3.25 per cent, arguing that “the disinflationary trend was getting stronger” and that it was important to avoid “harming the real economy by more than was necessary”.

    The rest is basically padding and speculation, which can be summarized with:

    “On december there could be a cut up to 50 points, or none, no one knows because we have no idea what is going to happen and we are going in blind. The growth was higher than expected (.4 instead of .2) but the inflation was too (2, instead of 1.7).”

    What a time to be alive. I’m not worried at all about the future.


  • Nice data, but I think we should take a broader view too:

    https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2023&locations=RU-IN&start=2019

    I semi randomly picked India because it is part of BRICS and had a similar economic trajectory: It is quite interesting playing with all those nobs and labels.

    In this context I think PPP - which you showed - is a good indicator of the internal quality of living, but as far as I understand it, it has an hard time showing the difference in quality and standards of the consumer products between countries, so a dip in nominal GDP is an interesting context with the PPP adjusted rise. Less expensive things, because they are less regulated?

    Aside from that Russia has almost completely pivoted to a war economy which, as far as I know, tends to give a big initial boost but it stresses and makes the real (for lack of a better term) economy crash in the long run.

    What do you think about this? It is an interesting topic.


  • I was reading @superkret@feddit.org and @MaggiWuerze@feddit.org exchange and I found it an interesting - albeit moot - topic. So I went and spent the last hour to download some data and filter it: I will post some numbers with no commentary. I will add my opinions after them in a spoiler.

    imf.org GDP, current prices, Billion of U.S. dollars

    2023 GDP Nominal
    NATO 52392,344
    BRICS 27330,345

    2024 GDP Nominal (estimates)
    NATO 55148,819
    BRICS 28442,630


    imf.org GDP, current prices, Purchasing power parity; billions of international dollars

    2023 GDP PPP
    NATO 63996,245
    BRICS 66010,889

    2024 GDP PPP (estimates)
    NATO 66812,821
    BRICS 70911,69


    imf.org GDP based on PPP, share of world

    2023 GDP PPPSH
    NATO 34,731
    BRICS 35,824

    2024 GDP PPPSH (estimates)
    NATO 34,339
    BRICS 36,446


    BRICS

    Brazil, People’s Republic of China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Arab Emirates


    NATO

    Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Republic of Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States

    MHO

    This comparison makes no sense for a multitude of reasons, starting from the difference in effective cohesion, motivation and raison d’être of the two organizations.

    Even if there were multiple tries, especially by Russia, to push for more integration in the economic and military structure, you can see how it is still incredibly fractured: if you are interested you can check on the current state of the SWIFT alternatives to see how much each of the big players still pull to be the leader.

    A more apt loose organization to compare BRICS to would probably be the G7, but even there it really is not the same, considering the member list and how integrated they are in other ways. Still, a better one.

    Aside from that the PPP is often touted as a great way to compare completely different economies, and it has its uses to understand how people live in different countries. Its use in a comparison like this one has, IMHO, no space.

    If someone comes to me with a one Billion random-currency investment, even if for them it only buys a loaf of bread but for me it means a new factory and 100 full-time employees, if they withdraw it it is a disaster.
    Then again GDP is not even the parameter we should be looking into, considering the article: We should check the international trade between China and the European Union, and make consideration about that.

    Last, but not least, I used the IMF numbers because they are easy to get in a nice format. They are not the best, but they are not the worst too. More info here, have fun.