You’re right! Sorry for the typo. The older nomic-embed-text model is often used in examples, but granite-embedding is a more recent one and smaller for English-only text (30M parameters). If your use case is multi-language, they also offer a bigger one (278M parameters) that can handle English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified). I would test them out a bit to see what works best for you.

Furthermore, if you’re not dependent on MariaDB for something else in your system, there are also some other vector databases I would recommend. Qdrant also works quite well, and you can integrate it pretty easily in something like LangChain. It really depends on how much you want to push your RAG workflow, but let me know if you have any other questions.

Have a look at Ollama embeddings. Easy to set up and the models are much smaller than a typical LLM.

No one is stopping them from buying meat though? There are still big sections full of it in stores that you see whenever you go grocery shopping.

Heck, I would ban the ads on all food products if it were me. Same with pharmaceuticals.

My bad, I initially read that we should give Florida to Russia in exchange for Ukraine getting back Crimea, haha. I said giving Alaska instead because it was also part of Russia before, so they could spin it off the narrative similarly to what they did to Ukraine.

But yeah, I don’t think the clown in the White House can really understand the situation unless you put it in perspective for him.

Why not give Alaska back to Russia? You know, if we’re at the stage where we say we cede territories…

It would be a shame if someone were to make a post with their office locations across Europe and share it in all the European communities on Lemmy…

What’s the plan against this? It’s pretty clear that this type of grifting works. Hungary kept Orban in power for far too long, and now Romania might be next.

Wait, you didn’t need a passport before, did you? Since it was still EU travel, you could get in with just a national ID, or am I wrong?

Romania has previously jumped into a war, only to change sides later. I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up taking the bait before the upcoming presidential elections. From what I’ve heard, the far right candidate that’s left in the race is betting that he will get the votes of everyone that voted for Calin Georgescu. His platform? Being a boot licker for Trump.

Troubling times for the Balkans.

It was just announced that the EU is pausing sustainability requirements on smaller business (< 500 employees) for 2 years. This stems from fears related to the trade war, as they want to keep smaller businesses competitive. Nevertheless, I’m pretty sure that this won’t be great for the environment.

For notes, I have moved to Joplin with the option to synchronize my data using a WebDAV server. It works really well, and it has both a mobile and desktop app. If you’re interested in developing your project, maybe you can have a look at the options this provides. For example, I really like the ability to separate notes between groups, assign tags, create drawings, and the possibility to use Markdown.

Good luck with your projects! To mirror @enemenemu’s suggestion, I would also look into collaborating with the people trying to push the EU Docs alternative. Not sure if that will work, but it’s worth a shot if you’re interested :D

Thanks for the SherpaTTS suggestion. I really like the GLaDOS voice <3

I am not sure which phone you use, but are you able to set FUTO Voice as the default “Voice input” in the Android settings? I played around with a few apps, which show up. However, FUTO is not an option here :(

Thanks for the suggestion! I gave this a try, but it seems that it won’t register any voice 🤔 However, it seems like it shows up in my settings, so it’s a good sign. I’ll try to get it to work :D

Thanks! I was actually looking at this, but I gave up because I couldn’t really figure out how to get a multilingual model running through Obtainium. I’ll try again :D

Mine’s just one I got from a random kid name generator.

A bit off-topic: not sure why, but I keep seeing posts here on Lemmy lately about Romanian women pulling the short end of the stick in terms of gender equality. I hope I’m not offending in any way with this question, but is Romania sticking to the traditional gender roles?

Accurate user name

Some other EU countries have had their own struggles helping Nazi Germany, and some still have parties that support far-right characters. That doesn’t mean that the countries themselves are led by nazis. Furthermore, as the guy above mentioned, the leadership of Ukraine never followed through to regard this guy as a hero today. However, I find the following quite interesting:

A poll conducted in early May 2021 by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation together with the Razumkov Centre’s sociological service showed that 32% of citizens considered Bandera’s activity as a historical figure to be positive for Ukraine, as many considered his activity negative; another 21% consider Bandera’s activities as positive as they are negative.

So, right before Russia invaded Ukraine, people were against this guy. However, as soon as Ukraine’s independence was threatened by the same entity that this guy advocated against, people changed their opinion. The poll was taken immediately after the invasion, which would be a bit of a confounding variable here.

I chalk it up to socio-economic issues due to the Soviet Union, which led to poor education in many areas of Ukraine. See East Germany, where a majority of people have voted for AfD. Oh, and let’s not forget the overall negative sentiment against Russia after they invaded in 2014.

Nevertheless, would you argue that invading Ukraine to “denazify” them makes sense in this context? You mentioned atrocities from WW2, but that’s not being done today. Whatever deaths that were happening pre-2022 conflict were due to the Donbas War, which Russia also instigated. What reason would you then have to support Russia in this conflict? It is pretty clear that they are pulling in many arguments to justify their expansionist wishes.

Don’t get me wrong, I am also of the opinion that the US should gtfo of Europe, but I do not see a reason to excuse whatever Putin’s regime has been doing.

You keep throwing the word “nazi” around quite a lot. Explain what it is, and why Ukraine is ruled by nazis now.

Russia has been increasing trade with China in the past few years. I’m afraid that, even without US support now, Russia would still be able to carry on for a while longer :(

Ok, but there are laws involved here. In Romania, you can’t be president if you are under 35 years old, or, among others, if you have a criminal record. The people that were stopped from running for president weren’t barred because they went against the mainstream parties, but because they openly promoted personalities that were doing the equivalent of the Holocaust in Romania. This is punishable by law by up to 3 years in jail, and they’re being actively investigated.

The lady in this post was previously denied her run in the summer of last year, and she kept quiet about it until now because they probably told her they won’t pursue it further if she steps back. She took the deal, probably because she realises that she’d rather keep grifting on Facebook than spend 3 years in jail.