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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated

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  • Voiden - A Markdown based Open Source Alternative to Postman

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  • Emacs is not that hard. You can learn Emacs in one day, every day!

  • System76 on Age Verification Laws

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  • A relatively small company can't afford to fight a protracted legal battle or simply ignore the law. They have employees with families, and $800/hr for legal representation adds up fast, not to mention potentially getting hit with $6500 fines per infraction for refusal to comply. They also can't afford to just not sell in California, which has a huge chunk of the US population.

    We don't have to be happy about the state of things, but it's not their fault that capitalism and authoritarianism have effectively forced them to comply.

    Be upset by all means, but remember to focus your anger upon those who actually put/is putting these laws in place.

  • AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer

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  • There's a handful of projects out there that are trying to do exactly this, by programmatically poisoning potential training data.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • Are you fucking stupid? You lost to Donald Fucking Trump—you know, the racist, fascist pedophile rapist? You lost to that guy, and you'd be running against his specter and his legacy, the racist and xenophobic sentiments that still run deep in this country.

    What is uniting the American people, however, is a rising class consciousness, not establishment Dems like you. We already tried voting for "not-Trump," and y'all squandered the opportunity to appease the wealthy, expand the police state, send more bombs to Israel, and treat all the people shouting "Danger!" like children, rather than securing our democracy and standing against genocide.

    Fuck. Right. Off.

  • Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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  • It never really stopped. Even after Cambridge Analytica, Meta was allowed to go back to business as usual with barely a slap on the wrist.

    That people keep buying their products and using their platforms and then being shocked to find out they've been used is honestly people's own ignorant fault.

  • Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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  • Some phones do have hardware switches, but they're certainly the exception.

    Whether our phones are surreptitious spy devices when they're oriented correctly and have adversarial software running is very different from, "I'm going to buy always-on camera glasses and send the data to one of the most untrustworthy companies on the planet," the latter of which was my point.

  • Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

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  • Well yeah. The people who buy these things are disturbing individuals. Kinda goes with the territory.

  • I'd rather a simple "no thanks"

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  • This is a boilerplate rejection letter. Companies have been sending rejection letters like this with the same language almost verbatim for decades, long before LLMs existed.

    Sorry you got rejected, but be grateful for the closure. Some companies don't even bother, leaving you wondering how your time invested in a fourth-round interview went.

    If it's a job you actually wanted, reply and ask for some tips on how to improve as a candidate. Otherwise, I don't really see how this has to do with work reform other than your personal preference of dispensing with superfluous language and getting to the point.

  • EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton

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  • A sign, perhaps, that business types see Linux as more than a novelty market demographic in the coming years.

  • I searched CachyOS vs Fedora on YouTube and all I found was AI Slop 🙄

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  • CachyOS also has a live USB.

    But I'd actually go a step further. Install both in a VM using their flagship DE. CachyOS's installer actually comes with many different DEs and window managers, so you should be able to get the look and feel of many different setups there, too.

  • Meme criticising the US two-party system deleted from lemmy.world; now I'm not allowed to post political posts at all

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  • I'll be honest. Even as an anarcho-communist, I don't care for these kinds of political reductions.

    However, given that it's a shitposting community, seems like lost-nuance is kind of part and parcel to the spirit of the community (which is why I don't go there). I'd call this PTB.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • I know what you're trying to say, and I'm inclined to agree on some level, but unlike the days of the dotcom bubble, there's people who recognize what these systems represent and are doing things to counter their effects. To use your examples, AWS and Cloudflare are so prolific, because they were allowed to be without any meaningful resistance in their early stages.

    Thankfully, we are still in the early stages, and even with all the widespread use by consumers and businesses, generative AI still isn't profitable. There's resistance to their efforts by regular people and those with platforms, so I'm less inclined to think of these systems as inevitable; even if they are, I don't think they'll be the only option.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Yes, I do. My reasoning is twofold:

    • Existing tools rely greatly upon data generated by humans. Reddit in particular has been noted as a large source of training data for LLMs, and I believe Stack Overflow has as well. If people start to rely heavily upon LLMs, their training data gets stale. AI companies have tried to shore up these shortcomings by training on other AI generated datasets, but that is precisely how hallucinations happen.
      • Essentially, LLMs as sold by the tech bros are an ouroboros. They will stall without fresh and unique human input.
    • LLM usage does not reinforce learning. You can produce code, maybe even quickly, but the skills needed to produce good code are ones you have to maintain with practice. If LLMs were to become the defacto coding tool used by nearly everyone, I expect we'd lose the ability to maintain those very models within a generation.
      • tldr: LLMs make people stupid.

    I agree that they're not fully going away, but the Boomers and Gen Xers who are trying to shoehorn AI into everything don't actually understand what it is they've bought into, and if things continue as they are, tech bro AI will eat itself, leaving the bespoke ML models to do actually useful things in areas like science and medicine.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Later: "Are you fully conscious?"

    "No, I'm just an AI simulating consciousness."

    "But I thought you said you were conscious before...?"

    "I'm sorry, you're absolutely right! I am conscious. Thank you for pointing out my error. I'm always striving to improve my answers."

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  • Accidental success. However, having functional code is far from having efficient code or rock-solid code. A yaml file is pretty low-stakes for an LLM, but what about mission critical C code? Code that needs to be cryptographically sound? Code that needs to be able to handle very unique inputs or interface with code written by others?

    You might be able to glance at a yaml file to get the gist, but you would be foolish to trust an LLM to do anything more complex.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Are you talking about The Pearl, by chance? It's one I haven't read, yet, but if you're talking about another story, I'd like to read that, too!

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • Did he throw him out? Last I knew, he basically gave Kent a blanket "no," forcing him to go his own way.

    Not arguing, just asking.

  • Atheism @lemmy.world
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    As the Gallows are Being Constructed in Front of Us Is It Time to be Like Monks?

    www.counterpunch.org /2026/01/16/as-the-gallows-are-being-constructed-in-front-of-us-is-it-time-to-be-like-monks/
  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Texas Attorney General Sues State for Non-Existent Religious Discrimination

    www.friendlyatheist.com /p/texas-attorney-general-sues-state
  • micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility @lemmy.world
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    Would you swap a Sunrace freewheel hub with a Shimano cassette hub?

  • Listen to This @lemmy.world
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    Mad Routine - Pool Party EP [trip hop/grunge] (2025)

    madroutinemusic.com /album/3586341/pool-party
  • Linux Phones @lemmy.ca
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    Liberux Nexx: An interview with Liberux about their made-in-EU OSHW Linux Phone

    linmob.net /liberux-nexx-an-interview-with-liberux/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Solved

    How to get fan sensors working?

  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Texas Legislator Wants To Fine Museums $500k Per Day For Displaying ‘Obscene’ Content

    www.techdirt.com /2025/04/14/texas-legislator-wants-to-fine-museums-500k-per-day-for-displaying-obscene-content/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Is this a good deal for the Legend tier?

    tuta.com /pricing
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is this a good deal for the Legend tier?

    tuta.com /pricing
  • Cooking @lemmy.world
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    Question

    When making pizza, is there a way to prevent soggy crust?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Should we have a day where we, as a community, go out of our way and thank our maintainers?

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2024-27397) Exploited: PoC Released

    securityonline.info /linux-kernel-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-cve-2024-27397-exploited-poc-released/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    A Letter From the Editor (of The Devil's Panties, a webcomic mostly about mortgages apparently)

    thedevilspanties.com /archives/16406
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    OpenWrt One WiFi 6 router samples are now available

    liliputing.com /openwrt-one-wifi-6-router-is-now-available-for-89/
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Wasp-inspired setup 3D-prints complete homes for $1,000

    newatlas.com /architecture/crane-wasp-3d-printed-homes/
  • Cybersecurity @sh.itjust.works
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    Sanity check: Yubikeys and password shares

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Recommended alternatives to SketchUp?

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Recommended alternatives to SketchUp?

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Covid-era whiz kid is back, and he brought a Friend — a wearable, always listening, $99 AI companion

    www.geekwire.com /2024/covid-era-whiz-kid-is-back-and-he-brought-a-friend-a-wearable-always-listening-99-ai-companion/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Am I overthinking it?