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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again

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  • I'd assumed it was servers running on renewable power, although I'm not sure how they measure that. I know some hosting companies and CDNs have that as an option, but I don't see how you'd know if each server chose that option so I guess it's more like "servers with green hosting companies".

  • Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again

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  • Don't downvote stuff just because you're not interested in it! There's no algorithm you're training, you're just being rude to people.

    Downvotes should be for worthless content and people being dicks.

  • TIL: Gamergate's have interesting hierarchy and can replace the queen

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  • gamergate (/ˈɡæmərˌɡeɪt/ GAMM-ər-gayt)

    Ah, so nothing to do with incels harassing women. Do incels have a queen?

  • Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?

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  • I haven't used atuin yet, but I believe the histories from other machines is more like accessible than mixed - you don't just hit ↑ on machine1 and see machine2 commands.

  • Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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  • Absolutely, that's what I was thinking of when I wrote "tedious"; all the stuff you mentioned matters a lot to the user (or product owner) but isn't the interesting stuff for a programmer.

  • Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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  • [...] a lot of AI companies are “selling dreams” that this tech will go from 80 percent correct to 100 percent.

    In fact, Marcus thinks that last 20 percent might be the hardest thing of all.

    Yeah, it's well known, e.g. people say "the last 20% takes 80% of the effort". All the most tedious and difficult stuff gets postponed to the end, which is why so many side projects never get completed.

  • xkcd #2937: Room Code

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  • Ah, the major system. I have a slightly different version: 1 is L, 5 is f/v (FiVe) and 8 is ch/J. Sun, sci-fi, lichee maybe.

  • Microsoft starts bundling Windows 11 with its 'PC optimizer' app in some regions

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  • And PC Optimiser in other regions.

  • Maybe some ALGOL 58 while we're at it too.

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  • Lisp variants like Clojure are being used for new projects (e.g. Logseq) but I'd be surprised to hear of anyone choosing COBOL for a greenfield project.

  • @roguecache's solarpunk logo v2

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  • Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows

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  • In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!

  • Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows

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  • I've been building my music collection since I was ripping CDs by hitting play, recording in Win95 Sound Recorder and running the .wav through LAME (nowadays EAC to flac, of course). I see no need to pay a subscription to listen to my music, when I can just use that same money to buy and own the albums* and not worry about them disappearing.

    also means more money goes to the artist

    Also Navidrome + Symfonium means I can still stream to my phone so the only benefit Spotify etc has is new music, but YouTube (+ uBlock) gives me that.

  • Girl power

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  • Is your point that this source doesn't back up the Mary Somerville etymology or just an FYI?

    Either way, the quote taught me about the word sciolist - a person who pretends to be knowledgeable and well informed so thanks.

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  • I used to have some with e-ink displays that showed how full they were, but I always wished I could use them to show a label instead.

  • "Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It

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  • Do you also attack dictionaries for explaining offensive words? The person I'm talking to never used the term, they merely explained the meaning behind the number.

    What you are doing is shooting the messenger. Please target your outrage more carefully in future.

  • "Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It

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  • Yeah, it's probably shooting the messenger. Reminds me of once on Reddit where someone had asked a similar question and I'd replied with a sourced quote from the dictionary and got complaining replies and downvotes.

  • "Portal" Between Dublin and NYC Shut Down After OnlyFans Model Flashes It

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  • Thanks for explaining it, not sure why you've collected those downvotes.

  • robots

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  • What's this kind of thing called in linguistics? Where you parse the sentence wrong (for comedic effect in this case), something about dangling modifiers, maybe?

  • Belgian, Dutch university students join pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests

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  • Really I was arguing with the "anti-Israel" part, since I don't think that's merely interpreted as meaning you're not in favour of Israeli policy. I was attempting to agree with the top of the thread's implication that "anti-Israel" feels like it's been used as a short step away from "antisemitic", which Israel has a long history of using in the face of any criticism.