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Auster

@ Auster @thebrainbin.org

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  • Any MediaWiki experts? Looking for help/contributors in establishing our new community.

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  • Iirc NodeBB with ActivityPub active federates subforums as communities to thread-oriented forums, so once the forum is live, you could link the subforums with !subforum_name@instance.name, e.g. !fediverse@lemmy.world for !fediverse@lemmy.world.

  • Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

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  • NY Times

    Nuff said

  • AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure

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  • Checking out of morbid curiosity, but before that, I can't help but to think, did some government commission the article?

  • Probably want to stop using Booklore...

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  • Can't check now, but if there aren't forks named like BookTale and BookStory, I'll riot.

    Jokes aside, if the license he used allows forking, dude's tripping, and could even get sued depending on the country for false accusation of crime.

    And ah, Discord, great for nuking inconvenient chats. Imagine if it had happened over at a public forum so people's reactions could be backed up.

    And dunno where I'd draw the line, but 20k lines imo is a bit past reasonable. How would anyone audit that many in a timely manner? But with the "dev" doing that daily, that'd be hard to even pretend.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Mint Xfce on my 2015 laptop compared to its previous system was the difference between usable and waiting 10 minutes for it to even boot, and things like gaming, VMs, comically large spreadsheets (surprisingly the memory hog), etc., were an eternal challenge on it. On my current laptop, I have the luxury of picking the systems by aesthetics and non-optimization functions instead. And to compare, I've run even the same updates on the two laptops, as the older one still works.

  • might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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  • Dunno this paradox theory, but the impression I get is that when you're part of the process, it's harder to notice changes. But if putting the two devices side by side, trying to run the same systems, programs, etc., the difference is glaring. And from tests I did, if the software doesn't work on either of the devices, slapping a VM on the newer one to test older programs still tells quite a lot.

  • Dealing with YOLO Vibelord colleagues

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  • Adding to that, about the "stealth merge", couldn't it be just the rollback? Don't change what works, as the saying goes.

    And expanding on the meeting or post mortem idea, take this time not to fix the code, but to make an essay showing what broke, how it broke, and how it could be avoided in the future. Also preferably not letting your tone getting acid or those hearing from the company could instinctively refuse to listen to you even if your points are solid.

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  • Also about Moltbook, paraphrasing an older comment of mine, social medias run by AIs are like Computer vs Computer battles in PS2 games - it's fun to watch only for first one or two battles.

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  • Had forgotten Moltbook was a thing. Or maybe it was something else with the proposal of "social media for AIs; humans optional".

    Reminds me of some news about Meta pushing LLMs in the comments of Facebook, and also about the zombie profiles where those from dead people would keep posting through LLM mimicry as if the person was alive. I wonder if Meta is hellbent on making the dead internet theory real.

  • Digital ID, programmable money pave way for ‘dystopian hellhole, horrific totalitarian regimes’: ESN at European Parliament

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  • The article's UI's... certainly something.

    But on money the citizen doesn't control, the Brazilian Workers' Party government's been trying to shoehorn its own take on it, DREX, since they got back in power of the Executive. Also the president's been quite on that for a while, but for some ~2 years, he'd insist on a global currency too. Wonder if the two were meant to cross at some point.

  • Portugal’s New Anti-Corruption Tool: Flagged €110B in Suspicious Contracts

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  • it's just the tip

    Portugal's current government is pretty unstable in these past few years from what I check every now and then, so I wonder if they're trying to make it amid the confusion of political shift, "as the lights are turning off" as a local saying goes, so no one notices as dust settles.

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  • For those that use WordPress, maybe people can (politely) poke the site owner to enable ActivityPub integration? Might help with traffic at least.

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  • I've had a similar issue with / and some special keys. Numpad solved the / problem, using the system through SSH allows properly using your keyboard, and I'd imagine keybinds such as Gaomon's or AntimicroX's could be used too.

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  • I think I get it.

    Personally, I like the idea.

    And something that comes to mind, Mastodon, Lemmy and PieFed all have methods of account migration. Perhaps such Bytescape tool could integrate to those too?

    And further on that, apparently Piefed doesn't import info that it doesn't federate with, e.g. Kbin.Social since iirc it can't be reached (correct me if I'm wrong pls). Also maybe that happens with Mastodon and Lemmy but haven't checked. But if I'm right on that, it would also apply to active but defederated instances. So maybe such potential integration could be used to preserve information that would otherwise be lost as it's not imported?

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  • If I'm getting it right, sounds like a more refined and self-hosted form of Linktree, a.k.a. a hub for your social medias so people can find you more easily. Is that it?

  • Chat Control Plenary vote Results

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  • There's a party called "Pirates"...

    On a serious note, I'm not familiar with those that were absent, but I always advise to check if it's common for them to vanish when touchy subjects are discussed.

  • Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint Eye Age Verification Amid California Law Backlash

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  • this is becoming a global standard

    Forcefully pushing something is different from actually becoming

  • It might be a good thing for the Internet to get intrinsic resistance to DDoS attacks

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  • Worth noting resistance is not the same as a solution. While building it is important, the alternative being losing, it's an eternal process.

    As a comparison, quoting Sabaton's Versailles song:

     War will never entirely die
        
it will evolve, it will change
and War will return, sooner than we think

  • Setback for the Commission: EU MEPs let chat control fail

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  • Skimming through the article, it also sounds pretty negative.