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Excrubulent

@ Excrubulent @slrpnk.net

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  • Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica

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  • And anytime I see anyone advocating this crap it's always because it gets the job done "faster", and like, the rule is: "fast; cheap; good; pick two", and this doesn't break that rule.

    Yeah, they get it done super fast, and super shitty. I'm yet to see anyone explain how an LLM gets the job done better, not even the most rabid apologists.

    LLMs have zero fidelity, and information without fidelity is just noise. It is not good at doing information work. In fact, I don't see how you get information with fidelity without a person in the loop, like on a fundamental, philosophical level I don't think it's possible. Fidelity requires truth, which requires meaning, and I don't think you get a machine that understands meaning without AGI.

  • Can an Australian on here give me an idea of what the election is about?

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  • This is my consistent strategy - labor above liberals, but anyone further left or independent goes above them both. Below liberals is reserved for the out-and-out bigots, like one nation and clive palmer.

  • Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all

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  • Oh the chicago school you say, as in the people who were happy to slash and burn south american economies just to see what human rights abuses they could get away with in the pursuit of cheaper labour?

    Why wouldn't you hear them out on this labour issue?

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • Is there an alternative? I just started using it but the experience is incredibly grating, especially the way they gate your progress behind "lives" that stop you learning unless you can pay.

  • List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs

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  • GIMP has been the photoshop alternative for many years now. It stands for gnu image manipulation program, and it is an image editor. The category is named a bit weird but the program listed is the right one.

  • Open source text editor poisoned to target Uyghur users

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  • And splitting hairs over what exactly constitutes a genocide, conveniently ignoring the fact that the US wanted cultural genocide excluded from the UN definition for propaganda purposes.

    I guess they're fine with US propaganda as long as it aligns with their chosen capitalist state's interests.

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • Glamux.

  • Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)

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  • You said "far more likely" and it turns out you don't have the numbers and you were just making that up? Wow, I never could've predicted that.

  • Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)

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  • I live in a country where our ISPs are required by law to keep a record of our internet metadata. When VPNs have been subpoenaed in the past ths answer has often been "we don't keep that data".

    So in that case we're looking at a likelihood of 1 vs less than 1. So you're wrong there.

    Plus, I would love to hear your source on these probabilities you proclaim. Can you share how you know this?

    You said "far more likely", so one assumes you have the numbers.

  • Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it

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  • Yeah, this is just the thin end of the wedge.

    Although I suppose you could call windows itself the thin end of the wedge, this is a slightly wider part.

  • What's something people use the internet for that can be done just as easily offline?

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  • I use librecalc - I would've used excell in a previous life, but most spreadsheets will do - and what I like about it is that I can keep a running tally of the entire calculation chain as I go. And once you learn to use the tool, it can do much, much more powerful things.

  • China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time

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  • And those laws were written under the belief that "it is surely safe to assume any truck this big is a work truck, nobody would ever drive a truck this big just to go get groceries, that would be absurd".

  • I got my first cat!

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  • I've always had a lot of success with holding out my hand towards the cat, palm down, limp, and allowing the cat to inspect it in their own time.

    I've heard this is also a technique from experts, but I just found it when we had a cat. It seems to work on dogs too.

    It's non-threatening, and it doesn't put any pressure on them for a response. Just get it close enough to be just outside their personal space. If they stretch their nose towards it to sniff, you can bring it closer, and then you may just get the coveted nose bump and cheek nuzzle.

    You may also get the, "what are you doing, you freak, leave me alone" body language, in which case you just have to wait and try again later.

  • What popular TV show did not do it for you and you quit watching?

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  • My kid wanted to watch it together, and I was like, that's fine as long as you let me tell you that Rick isn't always right and he's not the hero.

  • What popular TV show did not do it for you and you quit watching?

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  • Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?

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  • The 1.0 interface is a night & day improvement on the previous UI, so I'd say that was a good call.

  • Stepping up from Tinkercad but to what?

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  • I was recently using entirely legitimate professional software because I was sick of Fusion360's cloud crap. Admittedly I wasn't using it at a professional level, but previously I would've had the same trouble with FreeCAD, which was what drove me to my entirely legitimate alternatives.

    But just recently I was trying FreeCAD, and struggling a bit with the interface, when I checked the latest version which was 1.0.0.

    So I updated and it's had a complete UI overhaul. It now looks and runs like pro software. It has a modern look, and the UI interactions are extremely smooth.

    My favourite part of it is the spreadsheet system. It's fully-fledged spreadsheet software, and when you've made all the calculations, you just have to name the cells you need, and then you can access them as variables from the design. It's really powerful for parametric design. That part of it was already much better than autodesk's parameter system.

    Anyway, I'm not going back to Fusion or any of the pro software again. I'm doing my latest project in FreeCAD and it's a super smooth experience.

  • YouTube Music wants me to verify my age.

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  • Oh cool. I can still access spotify on the computer, so I'll probably just check and search up the artists I like. Thanks!

  • YouTube Music wants me to verify my age.

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  • Just installed that, and it works!

    I've not been able to get spotify to work for ages. Not through xmanager, not through revanced, none of it. Maybe it's because I'm in australia, I don't know, but thanks to your comment I've got a music player again.

  • Now that S&P 500 is climbing and a lot are celebrating, does anyone else feel like this is just the tip of the shitberg?

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  • "Tip of the iceberg" means there is more lying in wait under the surface that can sink your ship. Sailors give icebergs a wide berth for this reason.

    The point of the saying is that there is more danger than just what's immediately visible.