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@ rbos @lemmy.ca

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Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.

  • AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet

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  • I've been told that the LLMs are reaching pretty hard diminishing returns, in that you need exponentially increasing amounts of compute for linear returns in model performance. The cost of marginal improvements is bumping into practical limits.

    It can't turn into general AI, that's not how LLMs work. So they're uselessly throwing money after nothing.

  • Polish twitter gem

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  • Russians.

  • Clawdbot farm owner shares his bots have a 0.5% ban rate so far on reddit

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  • The ratio of human admins to users is better too, I think that will work in our favour.

  • Bean thinking of you, Lemmy

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  • That's definitely it. And it's pretty self-aware, I think.

  • Rule

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  • I saw a thing about boiling supercritical CO2 to drove a low temperature turbune the other day.

  • Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative

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  • Supposedly this is wreaking some havoc among their military, which uses WhatsApp extensively for logistics.

  • (solved) What is the best tool to mass resize all images in a directory, including sub-directories, while keeping aspect ratio?

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  • Yeah, I tested it on some large TIFF datasets I have around. 3x less memory and 4x faster.

  • Adulting is hard

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  • Like, how many elderly men can't do laundry?

  • (solved) What is the best tool to mass resize all images in a directory, including sub-directories, while keeping aspect ratio?

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  • Well, this is exactly what I needed for work... we process like 200MB tiffs and imagemagick speed and mem use is an issue

  • NSFW

    330 gallons of sulphuric-acid was purchased for Epstein Island on the day the FBI opened investigation

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  • Supposedly the Breaking Bad producers intentionally chose an acid that wouldn't work.

  • I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it?

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  • I'm told that trying a cloth around the neck of a molotov cocktail is as effective and much safer. It will break and ignite as easily.

  • China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sink

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  • Yeah. Pioneer species providing shade, soil retention, and water slowing. Very important.

  • Hearts

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  • Hah, nice.

  • Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard

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  • Be nice if they could set up an etransfer QR code. Generate code at till, scan with bank app or browser, double check the target and amount, submit.

  • Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard

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  • Can you do etransfers without having to input an email address? Super annoying to have to set up a payment target every time.

  • u mad?

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  • Trump threatens to bar the new US-Canada bridge from opening, demands talks with Ottawa

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  • "Oh, they want something. Clearly that means I can shake them down for something I want, too."

    Dealing with this fucking toddler is exhausting

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  • Yeah. Looks like the USD and rouble have been trading fairly evenly the last few years, within about 20%. So they've probably been inflating roughly at the same pace, I guess...

    Regardless it seems like the basic thesis, that Russia doesn't seem likely to have any more room for increasing spending, is accurate.

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  • Although I guess a deflated dollar would look like an inflated rouble, and vice versa. On the other hand they can both inflate/deflate relative to yuan or euro.

  • Sysadmin @lemmy.world
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    Memory compression on hypervisor vs host

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Maru was ...

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maru_(cat)
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Replaced by a drone!

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Storage, DoGE, and cognitive biases against tape

    sysadmin1138.net /mt/blog/2025/04/storage-doge-and-cognitive-biases-against-tape.shtml
  • theNetherlands @feddit.nl
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    Post-war Dutch music

  • EVE Online @lemmy.world
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    chat filtering?