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  • Further complicating this, the Threadiverse also has "display names" for communities --- something which I think is probably a mistake --- and one has to know how to get the actual name for the bang-syntax link. For example, the display name here is "New Communities", but the actual community name is "newcommunities".

    I'd like standard bang syntax to be able to link to a post and comment as well in a home-instance-agnostic fashion. That doesn't exist today, and we can't really do it today without Mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed adding support.

  • Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units

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  • You could maybe do it in some environments that want year-round heating, but yeah, the UK doesn't seem like the best place for that.

    For some uses, there might also be physical security concerns for the servers.

  • California sues, says El Cajon police are illegally sharing license plate info with other agencies

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  • California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against the City of El Cajon, accusing its police department of repeatedly violating state law by sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with law enforcement agencies in more than two dozen states.

    I mean, this was kind of guaranteed to happen once ALPRs rolled out. Legal or not. If you don't want that information to get out, probably want to avoid having ALPRs.

  • What is a Wrecker according to Hexbear mods?

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  • Specifically for hexbear, lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad.ml, you might also take a look at !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works.

    EDIT: Well, okay, it's not really specific to those instances, but YePowerTrippingMods is about behavior by mods in general and whether it's appropriate, and MeanwhileOnGrad is specific to criticism of objectionable tankie things, which often involves mod/admin stuff.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • DNS

    There's systemd-resolved. I don't know if you mean that it has some kind of limitation.

  • The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of

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  • Only the king has more power than this gas executive in a Russian emergency.

    I'm pretty confident that the prime minister has a larger role than the king in a "shit hits the fan with Russia" scenario.

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  • Honestly, the bang syntax for home-instance-agnostic community links isn't very obvious to new users. It's not a piece of standard Markdown syntax, either, so it's not like someone can use knowledge from Reddit or elsewhere.

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    Why People Want To Go To Hell Knowingly?

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  • Android/Phone Alternatives? [Discussion]

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  • You can use VoIP if you have a cell data connection.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • The amount of mental gymnastics to come up with (and justify) this is insane

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer

    David William Plummer (born August 9, 1968) is a Canadian-American programmer and entrepreneur. He created the Task Manager for Windows, the Space Cadet Pinball ports to Windows NT, Zip file support for Windows, HyperCache[2] for the Amiga and many other software products.

    2025: The guy that wrote Windows' Task Manager at Microsoft is creating burner accounts to get the OS installed.

  • Do you like systemd?

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  • Frankly, this should be implemented with something like a combination of:

    https://github.com/QazCetelic/lemmy-know

    Lemmy Know (let me know) is a lightweight CLI application / Docker service that monitors Lemmy for reports on posts and comments and sends notification. These can be sent to a Discord channel with a webhook or as MQTT messages (schema), which is useful for more complex setups with e.g., Node-RED.

    https://www.home-assistant.io/

    Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts.

    https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/

    MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.

    https://github.com/DevelopmentalOctopus/ha-buttplug

    Buttplug.io Integration for Home Assistant

    https://intiface.com/central/

    Intiface® Central is an open-source, cross-platform application that acts as a hub for intimate haptics/sensor hardware access

    Some collection of hardware devices from:

    https://iostindex.com/?filter0Availability=Available%2CDIY&filter1Connection=Digital&filter2ButtplugSupport=4

    That'd permit for, say, having message events drive a state machine to control devices or something like that.

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    Are there scalping communities?

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  • http://lemmyverse.net/communities provides a searchable list of communities on all instances. Searching for "scalp" there doesn't turn up anything relevant. If something like that exists, it probably uses a different term.

  • "I'm not going to discuss that": Bondi clashes with senators over Comey, Epstein and Trump

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  • Well...it depends.

    First, I don't know if she was under oath.

    Second, there is executive privilege. That doesn't mean that she can apply it in this case (or that she was even trying), but it's not a blanket "Congress can demand all communications, period".

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_privilege

    Executive privilege is the right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications under certain circumstances within the executive branch and to resist some subpoenas and other oversight by the legislative and judicial branches of government in pursuit of particular information or personnel relating to those confidential communications. The right comes into effect when revealing the information would impair governmental functions. Neither executive privilege nor the oversight power of Congress is explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution.[1] However, the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that executive privilege and congressional oversight each are a consequence of the doctrine of the separation of powers, derived from the supremacy of each branch in its area of constitutional activity.[2]

    That being said, Congress is expected to perform oversight of the Executive Branch, and you don't get to just invoke executive privilege every time they require you to provide information, either. I imagine that one could wind up with court cases and more case law finding the limits of the privilege if it comes up, especially if --- as I assume will most-likely be the case --- the Democrats take the House in the midterm elections and then start promptly use control of the House to start sticking their nose into everything Trump's been doing.

  • Elon Musk reveals 2026 launch for his AI game alongside Grok-made garbage

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  • There are some existing video games that incorporate LLMs or diffusion models. So in one sense, that's probably very doable.

    But I think that it's probably going to be a slow process. There are probably going to be dead ends. I kind of suspect that early games, even if they're technically-novel, probably will suffer the same problems that past video games did before they matured. End of the day, a video game needs to be fun, and just throwing a new technology like a powerful graphics card or a fancy natural-language parser or whatever at it doesn't get you to that fun game. I think that it's going to take quite some years of game developers iterating to incorporate generative AI stuff well.

    That being said, there are some things I'd like to see tried.

    • My guess is that it's probably possible to create to develop some sort of social-media-based video game that generates a choose-your-own-adventure style video game, remembering story branches generated by other users to take advantage of human-assisted creation, and trying to show "top" story forks. Like, make the bar low, use voting or link tracking or something to determine what story branches people like, and show those.
    • I'd like to see some kind of system for tracking world state that isn't purely based on having an LLM look at the entire preceding text for context. That's a pretty inefficient way to store world state, and implementing game logic at the LLM level is, I think, going to be problematic. Think of something like, oh, a game system like Inform/TADS/glulx-based interactive fiction. You have objects and properties and a game engine that handles tracking them and their interactions. But you try to get an LLM to generate text for those objects.
    • There are some games that use diffusion models, either statically or at runtime, to generate illustrations, where the number of permutations would be impractical for a human artist. The ones I've seen have been adult-oriented; I don't know how the field has developed, and there may well be a lot more out there now.
    • One thing that I think could be done today is to start using procedurally-generated voices. Generative AI can do pretty decent voice synthesis. Video games are good at doing procedurally-generated text, but if you do that, you don't get voice audio. That's not really a game genre, but it's a way in which one could provide some neat added functionality. I think that to really take advantage of this, there'd need to be a training corpus of text annotated with emotional information and such, but I've seen people doing this in a usable form for game mods.

  • Elon Musk reveals 2026 launch for his AI game alongside Grok-made garbage

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  • I don't think that that'd be very analogous. He explicitly said that he wasn't going to do the Hyperloop himself, just proposed it as an idea that someone else could implement.

    That being said, you could dig up something that Musk had said that he would do that he didn't. considers FSD on Tesla vehicles is probably the prime example.

  • Dollar slice (of pizza)

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  • before they agreed to fix the price at $1 in September.

    Probably not going to be enforced, given the context, but I believe that this is illegal.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing#United_States

    Price fixing is an anticompetitive agreement between participants on the same side in a market to buy or sell a product, service, or commodity only at a fixed price, or maintain the market conditions such that the price is maintained at a given level by controlling supply and demand.

    In the United States, price fixing can be prosecuted as a criminal federal offense under Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.[3]

    Criminal prosecutions must be handled by the U.S. Department of Justice, but the Federal Trade Commission also has jurisdiction for civil antitrust violations. Many state attorneys general also bring antitrust cases and have antitrust offices, such as Virginia, New York, and California. Further, where price fixing is used as an artifice to defraud a U.S. government agency into paying more than market value, the U.S. attorney may proceed under the False Claims Act.

    Private individuals or organizations may file lawsuits for triple damages for antitrust violations and, depending on the law, recover attorneys fees and costs expended on prosecution of a case.[4][5] If the case at hand also violates the False Claims Act of 1863, in addition to the Sherman Act, private individuals may also bring a civil action in the name of the United States under the Qui Tam provision of The False Claims Act.

    Under American law, exchanging prices among competitors can also violate the antitrust laws. That includes exchanging prices with the intent to fix prices or the exchange affecting the prices individual competitors set. Proof that competitors have shared prices can be used as part of the evidence of an illegal price fixing agreement.[5] Experts generally advise that competitors avoid even the appearance of agreeing on price.[5]

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • I would guess that it's probably not much by way of change --- theoretically, maybe just a single line patch --- to cause this check not to take place.

  • Germany decides against supporting chat control

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  • I believe that the point of the Czechia situation was that it was a modification to the constitution; this will have a higher bar to change than would be the case for simply enacting an ordinary law. The idea was to entrench the status quo behind the bar for constitutional modification.

    kagis

    Looks like it's a 60% supermajority in each legislative house:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Czech_Republic#Amending_the_Constitution

    With reference to the provision of the article 39, paragraph 4 of the Constitution, which states that "for the enactment of a constitutional act, 3/5 of all deputies must agree, and 3/5 of senators present", changing the constitution is a more difficult procedure than changing an ordinary statute, making it an entrenched constitution in the typology of constitutions. Despite the tradition of entrenched constitutions throughout Czech history, some voiced the opinion, during the preparation of the Constitution of the Czech Republic, that this one should be flexible.

    So to produce such an effect, if there are laws that would prohibit bans on end-to-end encryption, say, those laws would need to be constitutional law or similar in an EU member state where such a law has a higher-than-ordinary bar to change.