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DefederateLemmyMl

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  • s p e e d y

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  • The plane shot the bullets upwards, then continued on a level path.

    Once shot, the bullets take on a ballistic trajectory, i.e.: a parabole. On the downwards part of their trajectory, the bullets' path intersected with the plane's level flight path.

  • It's your amigo, Ralph!

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  • Don't worry Ralph, I got you.

  • "there is nothing less than PERPETUAL PERSISTENT SPY-WARE BUILT INTO MY LINUX OS. I am referring to the HIDDEN FILES recently-used.xbel and thumbnails"

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  • þ

    I have to ask... what the hell is that thing?

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • That is a self-inflicted wound caused by how Wayland was designed, particularly the part where they offloaded so much responsibility onto the different compositors.

  • [Jenny Gorelick] Co-Stars

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  • in most straight relationships I’m familiar with

    So because it doesn't happen to you, it doesn't happen to anyone. Ok.

    It's probably a little bit rarer than the other way around, but male anorgasmia exists especially as men get older.

    But as usual, male feelings and sexual problems are ridiculed and swept under the rug as unimportant.

  • [Jenny Gorelick] Co-Stars

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  • they are different senses, doesn’t really work as an analogy

    It works just fine. Men tend to be more visually oriented, for women the physical part is often the limiting factor to reach a climax.

    In both cases something external is added to get over the other party's "inadequacies".

  • [Jenny Gorelick] Co-Stars

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  • Wonder how she'd feel if instead of her needing a physical aid, it would be him needing a visual aid.

    It's like, if Mia Khalifa is on your team ... Are you mad that she scored more points than you?

  • Nova Launcher is basically dead, and Android is worse off for it

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  • Yes, I get your point and I paused for a second if I should really use the word guarantee, because sometimes development just stops on software, regardless of license.

    The thing is, if development stops on proprietary software, the project is truly dead. With FOSS it can always be revived by someone with enough interest in the software because the codebase is freely available. So instead of being dead, it's merely "in hibernation".

    A good example is the Amarok mp3 player that I used in KDE 15 years ago. It stopped being maintained around 2011 and fell in disuse until last year some people picked up the code, cleaned it up and ported it to Qt5, and now it's being actively maintained again.

  • Nova Launcher is basically dead, and Android is worse off for it

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  • It's been dead since they didn't release it under a FOSS license.

    That's really the only way a piece of software is guaranteed to survive.

  • Elon Musk Appears to Be Completely Addicted to Anime Gooner AI Slop

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  • So if the anime characters are all clearly representing children, then sure, why not count that.

    "But she's really a 120 year old vampire so it doesn't count, you just don't understand bro"

  • Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription

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  • In many cases there’s no extra wear

    You can't change physics. More HP = more torque = more wear on the whole drive train. Also more boost = more stress on the turbo = it will fail sooner.

    Also, back then, cars with the higher specced variant of the "same" engine almost always had mechanical upgrades compared to the lower specced engine: usually bigger brakes, a stronger clutch, and various other drive train components.

    So while in many cases you could chip your car without much immediate harm, you were definitely cutting into various safety margins determined by automotive engineers who know much better than you and me.

  • YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • Guys this content was by boomers for boomers

    Tom's Hardware sold out looong ago, sold in 2007 to some faceless consortium. The original "Tom", Thomas Pabst, who is GenX and not a boomer btw, has had nothing to do with the site since.

    The editor of this article looks to be a millennial btw.

  • YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • DNS does nothing for youtube.

  • ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

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  • I think the problem stems from how LLMs are marketed to, and perceived by the public. They are not marketed as: this is a specific application of this-or-that AI or ML technology. They are marketed as "WE HAVE AI NOW!", and the general public who is not familiar with AI/ML technologies equates this to AGI, because that's what they know from the movies. The promotional imagery that some of these companies put out, with humanoid robots that look like they came straight out of Ex Machina doesn't help either.

    And sure enough, upon first contact, an LLM looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... so people assume it is a duck, but they don't realize that it's a cardboard model of a duck with a taperecorder inside that plays back quacking sounds.

  • ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

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  • LLMs are decent with coding tasks if you know what you’re doing

    Only if the thing you are trying to do is commonly used and well documented, but in that case you could just read the documentation instead and learn a thing yourself, right?

    The other day I tried to get some instructions on how to do something specific in a rather obscure and rather opaquely documented cli tool that I need for work. I couldn't quite make sense of the documentation, and I found the program's behavior a bit erratic, so that's why I turned to AI. It cheerfully and confidently told me (I'm paraphrasing): oh to do "this specific thing" you have to use the --something-specific switch, and then it gave some command line examples using that switch that looked like they made complete sense.

    So I thought: oh, did I overlook that switch? Could it be that easy? So I looked in the documentation and sure enough... the AI had been bullshitting me and that switch didn't exist.

    Then there was the time when I asked it to generate an ARM template (again, poorly documented bullshit) to create some service in Azure with some specific parameters. It gave me something that looked like an ARM template, but sure as hell wasn't a valid one. This one wasn't completely useless though, at least I was able to cross reference with an existing template and with some trial-and-error, I was able to copy over some of the elements that I needed.

  • How it feels to use Debian

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  • That's another option, but it's a bit more cumbersome having to cherrypick which exact backports you need for your specific hardware. Also, if you then for some reason don't upgrade to the next stable release when it comes out, backports get abandoned after 1 year instead of the customary 3 years for the rest of the oldstable release.

    From my experience, running trixie/testing the past year or so on a minipc with hardware that was a bit too recent for bookworm, I can say that the cadence of security patches has been about the same between bookworm and testing.

    And let's be honest, on a desktop system your main attack surface is going to be the software you go online with, i.e. the browser. So if you make sure that is kept up to date (flatpak, vendor repo, ...) that already goes a long way.

  • Me, when my new job forces macos for development

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  • the ctrl-super-alt is completely different

    It's not "completely different" ... and that's the problem. Completely different I can handle. I can manage knowing vim keybindings, readline keybindings and standard windows keybindings at the same time. What I can't handle is: having to use command + C on one Mac and control + C on Windows to copy, but then in some cases you do use "control" on both OS-es, and sometimes control and alt are switched ... It's because they are similar but different that it's such a mess trying to get proficient in both at the same time.

  • Me, when my new job forces macos for development

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  • Eh. Windows has its share of annoyances, but once I have set it up to my liking my desktop workflow is very similar to my KDE setup, and WSL + Windows Terminal gives me a functional Linux shell environment.

    And at least on Windows I don't have to deal with cmd/control/alt switcharoo messing up my muscle memory.

  • How it feels to use Debian

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  • The correct way with a new computer with recent hardware is to install Debian Testing to get a recent kernel, firmware and mesa and stuff, but put the code name of the next release into your apt config instead of "testing". So then when the next version is released, you can just stay on that, now stable, version.

    Trixie just got released today though, so for the time being you can probably get away with using that.

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • every service will get your ID or photo

    To be fair, that's not how it will work. The site and the identity verifier will be two different things, the verifier only attests that you are not underage and the site doesn't get your identity.

    Still harmful though, because you can be sure that there will be scamsites redirecting people to fake but real looking verifiers for blackmail and identity theft purposes.

    I for one will never put my ID or photo into any age verifier ever.