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Melmi

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  • Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5

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  • The idea is that it isn't just operating the vending machine itself, it's operating the entire vending machine business. It decides what to stock and what price to charge based on market trends and/or user feedback.

    It's a stress test for LLM autonomy. Obviously a vending machine doesn't need this level of autonomy, you usually just stock it with the same thing every time. But a vending machine works as a very simple "business" that can be simulated without much stakes, and it shows how LLM agents behave when left to operate on their own like this, and can be used to test guardrails in the field.

  • 15 Signs Linux Is Not For You

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  • If you want to share software like that, just use AppImage. It's perfect for sneakernet software sharing: no internet access required, and it requires less technical knowledge from end users than telling them to use a package manager. Just copy the file and run it.

  • 15 Signs Linux Is Not For You

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  • Wine literally stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator".

    That said, Proton is pretty transparent, you can just install any game off Steam right now and it'll work 9 times out of 10 without you noticing that you're using wine. I often can't tell if I'm using proton or not and get surprised when I go into the game files for one reason or another expecting proton and am surprised to find a native Linux build. There has even been at least one time I've switched from a native Linux build to Proton because it ran better, and it was just one toggle.

    Why the resistance to wine? Did you have an issue while using it, or is it the principle of using a compatibility layer?

  • rule hub

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  • I think it's a bit of a double entendre, because it's also referencing this specific part of the report:

    As the stock of “femboys” rose, the fate of porn featuring “straight” guy porn has fallen. Searches for “straight” on PornhubGay tumbled nine spots to 19th place, just above “cruising” and two spots below “cute femboy.” (Notably, “straight guys first time” is still in the 6th spot, though it was knocked out of the top five.)

    So "straight" guys are "out" as a gay porn category and femboys are "in".

  • raile

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  • Really the appropriate term for that is versatile, switch refers to kink roles. In this context I read the post as referring to tops who are switches, but I suppose it could refer to someone who is either a top or vers if they were using a more loose definition.

  • The (successful) end of the kernel Rust experiment

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  • If you don't like the functional syntax you can usually use for each loops to the same effect.

     Rust
        
for element in array {
    println!("{element}");
}

  • Docker security

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  • If there's a port you want accessible from the host/other containers but not beyond the host, consider using the expose directive instead of ports. As an added bonus, you don't need to come up with arbitrary ports to assign on the host for every container with a shared port.

    IMO it's more intuitive to connect to a service via container_name:443 instead of localhost:8443

  • Rule

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  • It's perfectly appropriate to use thorn for all th sounds, eth existed in Old English and modern Icelandic but it wasn't a thing in Middle or Early Modern English, unlike thorn. Old English is basically unrecognizable as English though, so this dialogue is faux Early Modern English. Most people who use thorn in English nowadays are drawing from the Early Modern usage.

  • the monster mash rule

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  • My understanding is that not federating downvotes means that for blahaj communities, the canonical vote count has no downvotes, and instances can downvote if they like but their downvotes don't get federated.

    So if someone makes a post on this community and 20 people upvote it, then 10 Lemmy worlders downvote it, Lemmy.world would see a score of 10 but sopuli.xyz would see a score of 20 still.

  • the monster mash rule

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  • You're not on blahaj, so you'd be able to downvote anyway. But I did notice when I used Boost that it doesn't disable the downvote UI, so you can basically pretend to downvotd even though it doesn't work.

  • rule

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  • Someone censored the Palestine flag in this screenshot at some point, that's crazy.

  • A massive Cloudflare outage brought down X, ChatGPT, and even Downdetector

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  • It's a trend for homelab folks to use Cloudflare themselves...

  • Thanks DnD

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  • 5e commoners are 10 across the board.

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

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  • The UX just isn't there for MPV. Jellyfin isn't always ideal but it gives an interface roughly on par with a streaming service. Why should I replace that with a tool like MPV? I don't need keyboard controls, I watch from my couch. It seems like all downsides to me.

  • Sex ain't the only thing on the table

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  • Where's the second part from?

  • transpeople is dehumanizing rule

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  • You're right. Incidentally, I searched lemmy for "transpeople" and found quite a few hits, some of whom were trans themselves. Not just allies can do it, I suppose. Maybe I've just not noticed it before.

    I've never noticed "transpeople" before, but I've heard a lot of trans folk use "transgirl", "transwoman", "transman", etc, including myself once upon a time. I think it's an easy mistake to make if you don't think about it that hard.

  • transpeople is dehumanizing rule

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  • Linguistically they're prefixes I mean. You're right, when used on its own it is an abbreviation but within transgender or cisgender they're prefixes. It's a relatively new thing to use "trans" or "cis" as an abbreviation instead of a prefix, so it feels natural to turn it back into a prefix by attaching it to the next word, and "transwoman" and "ciswoman" still kind of work as long as you do both because cis- and trans- are modifying the womanness. I agree that even that is uncomfortable and othering though, it's definitely better to use trans as an adjective on its own and not divide women/men into separate subcategories based on transness. I just am more understanding of that particular faux pas because I get how people come by it.

    "Transpeople" on the other hand doesn't work the same unless you're referring to those who are trans-person and don't identify as people, which I imagine is not who these people are referring to on purpose and rather they are dehumanizing us as a whole. Both are bad, but I don't think they're equivalent.

  • transpeople is dehumanizing rule

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  • Trans- and cis- are prefixes, so I can understand how it feels intuitive to people to say "transman" as one word, but it's only appropriate if one also says "cisman", and for some reason combining cis with the respective words is less frequent. Transphobia, I'd imagine.

    I feel like I've never seen someone write "transpeople" who isn't actively being hateful. That one seems like there's less of an excuse for it. But then, maybe that reflects more on the communities I move in than anything.

  • I find myself in this debate amongst friends and family regularly

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  • The scary part isn't being a duplicate, it's more like if someone killed you and then said "but you have a twin so it's fine"