Ephera

@ Ephera @lemmy.ml

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3h ago

Is Firefox signing you in to your Mozilla accounts?
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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3h ago
Firefox Sync is end-to-end-encrypted. Mozilla cannot see your synced data.
Either way, I have no idea how this is supposed to happen without you entering your credentials into Firefox at some point. Even if Mozilla wanted to be sus, they couldn't just guess which account is yours.

3h ago

Widelands, the open source Settlers-like devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions

Well, you don't really need to announce anything, if the AI-generated submissions were super helpful anyways.

But yeah, I guess, all I can say is that I really don't believe your theory. Especially Widelands could've done so many other things in the past, if they cared so much for attention.

But I have also been in the maintainer role, having to deal with generated submissions, and it really isn't fun. I'm talking specifically about fun, because these are community-driven projects, so you need volunteers to have fun for anything to happen.In theory, a generated code submission could bring useful changes to the project, but it still isn't fun to review, because there isn't a human on the other side that you can teach. Even worse, you're effectively just talking to an LLM through a middleman. If I wanted to use an LLM, I'd use it directly.

7h ago

Widelands, the open source Settlers-like devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 7h ago

Community-driven open-source projects don't have anything to sell. They don't care terribly much for the publicity.

13h ago

Is Firefox signing you in to your Mozilla accounts?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 13h ago

Are you using Firefox Sync with the same e-mail address? I believe, that all gets put into the same account system.

15h ago

TIL drinking, smoking, games, etc are all "social lubricants" for making conversations easier.

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 15h ago

Referring to alcohol or cannabis as social lubricants has been criticized because they have negative effects on empathy.
I feel like weed does the opposite to that lol to me at least 🤷‍♀️

Might be referring to drugs making it harder to follow an intelligent conversation. You might have stronger reactions to certain emotions, but proper empathy requires a deep understanding of another person's situation, which you won't gain while your mind is booked out...

20h ago

Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 20h ago

I once fried some champignons and put those into a flatbread, and that slapped more than it had any right to.

21h ago

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 21h ago

LLMs do tend to be pretty good at textbook problems, because they've been trained on the textbooks. We have working students at $DAYJOB, who tell us that you can often get a flawless grade by handing in something AI-generated.

But then, yeah, you don't learn anything, and that will become a problem sooner or later, because none of problems at work are textbook problems.

22h ago

LOL

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 22h ago

Well, apparently you can extend Emacs to have it:

Emaccordion
Control your Emacs with an accordion — or any MIDI instrument![...]You can e.g. plug in a MIDI pedalboard (like one in a church organ) for modifier keys (ctrl, alt, shift); or you can define chords to trigger complex commands or macros.[...]The idea for the whole thing came from [dead link]. I immediately became totally convinced that a full-size chromatic button accordion with its 120 bass keys and around 64 treble keys would be the epitome of an input device for Emacs.

https://github.com/jnykopp/emaccordion

1d ago

LOL

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 1d ago

Music keyboards do have that sweet n-key rollover. So, there's probably some Emacs users playing their editor like a piano.

2d ago

/etc? Never heard of her.

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

[OP] accidentally untarred archive intended to be extracted in root directory, which among others included some files for /etc directory.

2d ago

Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Yet more suggestions which you didn't ask for:

GitNote might be up your alley. Its UI is not as slick as QuillPad, nor does it have as many features, but it does faithfully keep the folder structure.Somewhat of a deal-breaker for me personally: It can't do reminders.
Embrace the chaos. 😅 I have a little program for managing my notes on desktop and it just dumps them all in one folder, too. If I need to find something again, I've got a little text search, which is basically the equivalent of grep -iR. I just make sure to mention enough keywords in each note, so that I can find it again.Personally, I much prefer this workflow, because you can start typing (and hitting Ctrl+S) and then later ensure that it has all the right metadata, rather than having to select a folder upfront where it will be saved.

I actually tried QuillPad not too long ago and couldn't make it work for me, but being able to save as normal files seems to be a recent addition, so maybe that's what I was missing.I'll probably try setting it up to work with my desktop note system then...

2d ago

Does anyone have a good suggestion for a markdown note organiser?

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Well, Kate would be the obvious choice for KDE...

2d ago

ich-iel

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

Musste letztens auch auf einen Bus ausweichen, weil der Zug nicht mehr weiterfahren konnte. Laufe also aus dem Bahnhof raus und schaue mich nach einer Bushaltestelle um. Ca. 200 Meter weiter sehe ich die einzige Bushaltestelle in weitem Umkreis, stelle mich da also hin. Dann sehe ich wie der Bus auf der Gegenüberseite der Gleise angefahren kommt, rechts abbiegt und eine halbe Minute später hinter mir auf einer Brücke davon fährt.

Es gab nämlich noch eine Haltestelle, nochmal 100 Meter weiter, im dicksten Grün eingewachsen, wofür man hätte die Treppen zur Brücke hochlaufen müssen. Mein Fehler war, dass ich nicht an der Bushaltestelle "Kackkaff" stand, sondern an der Bushaltestelle "Kackkaff (P+R)".Und natürlich, dass ich meinen Röntgenblick an dem Tag zu Hause gelassen hatte, mit dem ich die zweite Bushaltestelle hätte finden können.

2d ago

Guilty

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

2d ago

At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life.

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 2d ago

It's the R programming language, typically used in statistics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

3d ago

Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

Oh man, for some reason I thought the title was going to end with:

by boosting software and network service efficiency.

Of course, they're just talking about offsetting the costs, not actually about reducing them. 🫠

3d ago

Morge continvoucly

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

To be honest, what I'm most mad about isn't the typoes, it's that someone generated this image and figured, yeah alright, that will clear things up.

On some level you want to believe that even if someone does not come up with a proper concept for a visualization, that they still check what the AI shat out, so that it's at the very least not conceptually wrong and not confusing.

This image isn't just shitty, it's actively worse than having no visualization. They could've generated that, chuckled, and not used it. Just how do you blunder your perception check so badly that you decide to include it anyways?

3d ago

Morge continvoucly

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

Wow, it stole it badly enough that it might not count as copyright infringement in court, but it also stole it badly enough that it isn't useful at all.

3d ago

Morge continvoucly

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

I admire your ability to interpret anything into this fucking picture...

3d ago

KDE Plasma 6.6 released

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Ephera @lemmy.ml 3d ago

Yeah, I've done that occasionally, too, but it adds a load of friction for moving windows between screens, in particular also when un-/replugging the screen, so it's still painful enough that I don't bother with a second screen.

I guess, it also plays a role that I do use lots of workspaces, so it's 1) extra painful and 2) I don't have as big of a need for a second screen, since I can just switch out what first screen displays very quickly.