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NeatNit

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  • The instance appeared in a list of pubic instances, and its description seemed to match what I was looking for.

    Enjoy your favorite Lemmy communities at tchncs! This instance is general purpose but it tends to attract techy people. It is hosted in Germany.

    That's it. I tried my hardest not to overthink it, and it worked out!

    (I'm not German)

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    apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people

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  • CVS style

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  • Haha, arch bad

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  • Yeah...

    I wouldn't say this is "what GitHub has become" per se, only a handful of unlucky projects need to deal with PR/issue spam. What @Zangoose@lemmy.world said is right, the Linux PR spam is largely inconsequential because GitHub PRs (or issues) were never accepted in the first place.

    But then there Express.js, which receives loads of useless PRs because some terrible YouTube tutorials show kids how to make baby's first GitHub pull request: https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?page=1&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+Readme.md So in a way this is what GitHub has become. This and the inescapable AI crap.

  • Haha, arch bad

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  • No.

    A joke like this is funny once. The screenshot in the OP can be reshared endlessly (whether it's real or not), and anyone trying to make another iteration of this joke is just spamming the project with useless noise. It makes work for maintainers.

    Fortunately it seems like this hasn't been a problem in this particular repository, unlike the Linux repository which received endless spam before GH gave them the tools to block it. But if this becomes a trend, Arch might need to deal with dozens of joke issues per week, and there's just nothing funny about that.

    Edit: just confirmed that the OP screenshot is fake, which is good. (Issue #4269 doesn't exist yet and the number itself is two memes.)

  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • Thanks.

    What I still didn't figure out about the comment I replied to is:

    1. What is each row? They're labeled I, II, III, IV. What's being counted?
    2. Why did they link to a home interior design website under "via"?

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • 1000℅

    Surely you mean 1000‰ (1000 per mille), not care of. How did you type that, anyway?!

  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • ... what

  • Do you like (AI) clocks?

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  • The last one, Kimi K2, has been consistently good as long as I've been looking at it. That's pretty impressive.

    The rest are hilarious!

  • I guess I'll go incognito

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  • That's kind of the problem that targeted ads are intended to solve, in theory.

    Without ads, how else are you going to discover stuff? How does an unknown startup make people know about its product? Word of mouth can only get you so far, and if you don't have the reach you're locked out.

    Targeted ads make advertising cheaper, because you don't have to waste money advertising to people who aren't even in your target demographic. It's supposed to make it possible for newcomers with a good product to establish themselves in the market without starting out with an astronomical marketing budget.

    But as I already said, it only works in a dream. On TV or on billboards, you only see the huge budget ads. Coca-cola et al. But on the web with targeted ads, you get spam ads. So many fake products, scam websites, get-rich-quick schemes, etc etc, that the advertising space itself is devalued because just by having your name there you look like a scammer.

    But what choice is left? If you're a new company making a cool product, how do you make it so that people know about it? For a lot of cases, targeted ads are the only affordable option.

  • I guess I'll go incognito

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  • In a perfect world, I could appreciate the concept. At the end of the day, I do need to buy stuff, and I'd rather know about the available options. If I'm definitely not going to buy diapers but I'm definitely going to buy a new keyboard in the next month or two, I'd rather see keyboard ads than diaper ads.

    But that's only in theory. In practice, "targeted" ads are invariably sleazy scams. You bet I use uBO.

  • WhatsApp is launching third-party chat support across EU Countries, which means you can now ditch WhatsApp for an EU alternative: BirdyChat from Latvia.

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  • fucking finally!

  • Linus vs Linus

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  • Thank you, I have now been unwooshed

  • Linus vs Linus

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  • ... four?

  • Posers listening to plywood smh

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  • What's the non-metal stuff? I see plywood on the bottom and plastic pipes (PVC?) on the top left, but what's top right?

  • be a friend to the animals

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  • I don't get the joke with the beaver.

  • what everyday technology do you think future generations will find completely baffling?

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  • I think you are totally wrong about all of these except the dentistry (and for that I simply don't know enough).

    Analog clocks are not going away. They're aesthetically pleasing, all the luxury watches are analog, all the smart watches have analog modes... I don't think this is changing any time soon. One caveat: I hear there's a trend where younger people (e.g. today's teens and younger) often don't know how to read analog clocks. So perhaps I can be convinced on this, but I still think they're here to stay.

    Flashlights produce orders of magnitude more light than any smartphone. Headlamps provide light while keeping your hands free. Phone flashlights are useful in a pinch but flashlights are not ever going to seem alien, they might be more niche but not strange. In any event, this has already happened so you're describing the present, not the future.

    Keys? No way. Every electronic locking system includes a mechanical backup for a reason: power outages happen, batteries don't last forever, and electronics fail a lot more often than mechanical lock mechanisms. None of these facts will change. People don't really like being locked out of their home then the power's out, so you bet they'll keep carrying keys.

    Fax machines are already out. A story made the rounds maybe a year or two ago about how Japan was finally going to stop using faxes, and before that Japan was one of the few (if not the last) to still be using fax. So again this is the present, not the future.

    Lastly, dentistry: man I hope that happens, it sounds great. But it doesn't really fit the question, it's not something we "use" every day, it's a treatment to a medical problem. Advances in medicine aren't they here IMO.

  • I knew it

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  • Look, I happen to know what this is but I really hate posts that just assume everyone knows what they're talking about.

    So for everyone else: this is the newly announced Steam Machine, a gaming PC/console that will run SteamOS (Linux) (or any other OS of your choice) and overall looks freaking awesome.

  • What are popular, iconic, and must-listen songs from where you are from?

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  • It sounds that way on first listen! But it's actually about his daughter.

    If I remember correctly: during a holiday and a large family gathering, his young daughter fell and hit her head very seriously. She lost consciousness and it seemed like she was in mortal danger. Gave them (her parents) the scare of their life! They put her in the car and sped all the way to the hospital emergency room.

    This song is about that incident. "I wanted to tell you how much I love you" is what he kept thinking on that drive.

    She's alright now :)