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  • Familiar

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  • The Planck Cruncher: The universe's fastest password cracker

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  • Not sure if this is what you're referencing, but there's a famous quantum computer researcher named Scott Aaronson who has this at the top of his blog:

    If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel.

    His blog is good, talks about a lot of quantum computing stuff at an accessible level

  • The Planck Cruncher: The universe's fastest password cracker

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  • Idiomatic awk

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  • Does anyone here actually use awk for more than trivial operations? If I ever have to have to consider writing anything substantial with bash/awk/sed/etc, I just start writing a Python script. No hate to the classic tools, but Python is just really nice.

  • Finally did it, got my parent on linux.

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  • Finally did it, got my parent on linux.

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  • MeanwhileOnGrad @sh.itjust.works
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    The US having ambitions to fight China will never stop being hilarious.

  • Where'd everybody go?

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  • I've been wondering how much of that is back to school. I have the sense that Lemmy has a lot of younger users. I can't judge though as I've been inactive for long stretches due to life. I've been trying to contribute more now

  • Undersubscribed Communities

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  • Probably my favorite set of stories is by qntm, who writes lots of short fiction you can check out at his site. He wrote There Is No Antimemetics Division, which I think is best described by the intro he wrote for it:

    An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

    Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn't share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…

    But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can't record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you're at war?

    Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

    No, this is not your first day.

    There's a lot of other good entries too. They generally take the form of a wiki entry at https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/, as a classified file describing some anomalous thing or event. They have a shared canon but only loosely, individual stories can conflict with one another. Here's a couple good ones:

    I'll post over in !scp@lemmy.world too, to see what other people recommend for getting into it

  • Undersubscribed Communities

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  • Progressive Metal Music @sopuli.xyz
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    Atheist - Mother Man (US-FL, 1991)

  • Progressive Metal Music @sopuli.xyz
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    Akphaezya - Dissociative Identity Disorder (France, 2024)

  • French Lemmy instance jlai.lu wonders if a certain cursine instance is worth federating with, users immediately demonstrate that they're not

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  • Hexbear in a nutshell. They externalize their self-hatred onto others because it's easier than actually fixing themselves

  • [CLOSED] FediLore + Fedidrama @lemmy.ca
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    French Lemmy instance jlai.lu wonders if a certain cursine instance is worth federating with, users immediately demonstrate that they're not

    jlai.lu /post/11504685
  • Progressive Metal Music @sopuli.xyz
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    Sleep Terror - Above Snakes (USA-WA, 2021)

  • What are specific examples of Google shaping web standards, especially ones that require browser support?

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  • Please suggest some good self-hostable RAG for my LLM.

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  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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  • Not in general, sorry. Best bet is to make sure you're using the most recent kernel, which Ubuntu tends to lag on. You can also try checking out the arch wiki entry for it. It's a different distro, but the wiki is good and commonly has tips relevant for any distro.

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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  • What kernel are you running? From what I understand, that should be the major differentiator if you're not using S3.

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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  • Couldn't tell you unfortunately. It looks like AMD is also on board with deprecating S3 sleep, so I would guess that it's not significantly better. The kernel controls the newer standby modes, so it's really going to depend on how well it's supported there.

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?

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  • Sleep kind of sucks on the original 11th gen hardware. They pushed out a bios update that broke S3 sleep, so now all you've got is the s2idle version, which the kernel is only OK at. Your laptop bag might heat up. S3 breaking isn't really their fault, Intel deprecated it. Still annoying though. I've heard the Chromebook version and other newer gens have better sleep support.

    Other than that, it's great. NixOS runs just fine, even the fingerprint reader works, which has been rare for Linux

  • The Dislike to Ubuntu

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  • Canonical lives and dies by the BDFL model. It allowed them to do some great work early on in popularizing Linux with lots of polish. Canonical still does good work when forced to externally, like contributing upstream. The model falters when they have their own sandbox to play in, because the BDFL model means that any internal feedback like "actually this kind of sucks" just gets brushed aside. It doesn't help that the BDFL in this case is the CEO, founder, and funder of the company and paying everyone working there. People generally don't like to risk their job to say the emperor has no clothes and all that, it's easier to just shrug your shoulders and let the internet do that for you.

    Here are good examples of when the internal feedback failed and the whole internet had to chime in and say that the hiring process did indeed suck:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426558

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059857

    "markshuttle" in those threads is the owner/founder/CEO.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN I HATE THE ANDROID GRADLE PLUGIN...

    github.com /Anuken/Mindustry/commit/5548e727501793479c4cdb557e267a9441dd5698

  • [Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users

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  • I'd be careful of pushing the narrative about computers not being a good choice for regular users. I'm going to channel a bit of Stallman and say that that's how we end up without The Right To Read

  • [Unpopular opinion] Linux is not a good choice for regular users

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  • For your bullet points:

    • Yeah, GNOME can be flakey with extensions. Almost no regular users will install extensions though. Windows also has tons of bugs and issues that users just ignore because it's the "default"
    • Regular users won't care about desktop scaling. I've seen people using the blurriest, weirdest aspect ratios on Windows because they liked it that way
    • Bluetooth sucks on all hardware and with all software, to various degrees.
    • Syncing files is trivial with Syncthing
    • MacOS keeps breaking my coworker's setups with every update.

    GPU issues can be hard, but that's not really Linux's fault. There's a reason this image exists of Linus giving nvidia the middle finger:

    That being said, it's getting better. As of this year, nvidia has started putting some real effort into making things work with wayland.

    EDIT: I've found nirvana with NixOS, speaking of GPU drivers. I just add a few lines to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and it goes off and ensures that the nvidia drivers are present. I also run lots of CUDA stuff on top of that and it all works about as seamlessly as possible.

  • Progressive Metal Music @sopuli.xyz
    BitSound @lemmy.world

    Entheos - The World Without Us (US-CA, 2017)

  • Progressive Metal Music @sopuli.xyz
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    Black Crown Initiate - Holy Silence (US-PA, 2020)