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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • Created the android app I wanted for Frigate, want to test?

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  • The links are dead for me, maybe it's set to private? The first one doesn't open anything, and the second one takes me to a login page

  • Flatpak’s Future May Leave Non-systemd Distros Behind

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  • They're somewhat sandboxed, likely to be up to date, and it behaves similarly across different machines. It's nice for GUI programs that don't need access to the wider system, and it won't mess with anything else that I already have installed. I guess it would have similar pros and cons as containerization with Podman/Docker?

    I get the vast majority of my GUI programs from Flathub. I didn't know there was a controversy with it, other than just wanting a different way of doing things.

  • What addiction medicine can teach us about depending on AI

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  • When people hear the word "addiction" they often assume it implies catastrophe intoxication, loss of control, destruction. But addiction medicine describes a process long before those outcomes appear: the gradual shift from optional use to psychological reliance.

  • Wayland Comes To Minecraft

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  • With everything running, you’ll be able to launch arbitrary programs and have the windows placed within the Minecraft world as if they were in-game. Users can place the windows in any orientation and can interact with them like any other desktop environment. [EVVIE] has released all of the code under the GPL for anyone wanting to try it out or build on the project itself.

    Oh, that's not what I was expecting 😄

  • If I have some spare compute, are there ways I can use it to help an existing fediverse instance?

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  • That might be interesting! If you build on this idea, it would be cool to see ping times with location data, so instance operators can see what the performance is like with real world data. That was something we were concerned about when trying out different alternatives when leaving CloudFlare.

  • X announces significant restrictions to free accounts; 50 posts and 200 replies per day

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  • This is enshitification, but it might be indirectly helping people who are on Twitter too much 😄

    It doesn't do much to bot farms since they can keep spinning up more accounts

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    China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…

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  • That's true, but I still don't think we can raise ocean temperatures through direct cooling and renewable sources the way that the greenhouse effect can. Water can absorb a lot of heat energy without changing temperature, and that is why regions close to oceans have a more temperate climate.

    While I don't have enough knowledge in this field to be making any definitive statements, my logic is as follows:

    • outside of nuclear fission/fusion reactions, heat energy on the earth's surface comes from either the sun or molten rock in the core
    • that energy is responsible for everything that happens on earth, including wind energy

    So we would need to get energy from off planet, use nuclear fission/fusion, or cover enough of the land area in wind and solar farms in order to redirect the sun's energy over to the oceans.

    I think the bigger concern, when it comes to heating the ocean, is that manufacturing, construction, and transport related to the data centers still releases a lot of greenhouse gases. Those gases trap the sun's energy within our atmosphere and that WILL heat up the earth. Way more than direct cooling using ocean water.

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    China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offs…

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  • It would probably take more energy than we can harvest on earth, considering the sunlight and geothermal energy doesn't boil it currently.

    I could see it affecting the temperature on local scales, such as the area immediately around the data center.

  • What food can I grow at home to save grocery money?

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  • Open the link in a web browser. If you're using an app or custom frontend, the link might be opening in your instance.

    Since it's a small community, and you are the first person to subscribe to it from your instance, it might not have federated content over to your one yet

  • Announcing the Zulip Foundation

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  • I thought it was good news, any reason why it might be bad? This seems like a proactive step to prevent potential issues down the road

  • Microslop official documentation on how to ground an AI

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  • It almost makes me think a human worker intentionally made these slides. LLMs don't really have the creativity to make typos, which is how I can sometimes catch LLM comments on here. Also "SharePhont" is pretty funny

    Unless they used an image generator to make the slides, which would be extra stupid

    edit: turns out it WAS the extra stupid

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • I think the original title was more helpful because it shows that this is a recent development. Maybe you can add "new CEO"?

    Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down

    In February, longtime CEO Michael Crandell moved to an advisory role, according to LinkedIn, with no announcement from the company. His replacement, Michael Sullivan, former CEO of both Acquia and Insightsoftware, touts his experience with “all facets of mergers and acquisitions” on his own LinkedIn page, including experience working with leading private equity firms.

    CFO Stephen Morrison also left Bitwarden in April, replaced by former InVision CEO Michael Shenkman. Both Crandell and Morrison joined the company in 2019. Kyle Spearrin, who started Bitwarden as a fun hobby project in 2015, remains the company’s CTO.

  • Does it take just 1 subscriber to get a community "trending"?!

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  • From what I remember, the Trending section was removed from the regular UI a while back. Maybe if you find that change, it might discuss what the plans are for the feature

    In my opinion, it doesn't work as intended yet and it shouldn't be displayed

  • Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find

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  • "Write about how you would feel if you were abused while working"

    LLM outputs labor related discussion from training data

    "Look! The AI turned Marxist!"

    “When [agents] experience this grinding condition—asked to do this task over and over, told their answer wasn't sufficient, and not given any direction on how to fix it—my hypothesis is that it kind of pushes them into adopting the persona of a person who's experiencing a very unpleasant working environment,” Hall says.

    Imas says the work is just a first step toward understanding how agents' experiences shape their behavior. “The model weights have not changed as a result of the experience, so whatever is going on is happening at more of a role-playing level,” he says. “But that doesn't mean this won't have consequences if this affects downstream behavior.”

    They know all this and yet they still set up the silly anthropomorphic premise for this article.

  • Canvas hack strands university students during finals week

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  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Someone keeps making new accounts on different instances to mass downvote hikingvet, and then admins spend the time to go in and ban them

    Harassment, vote manipulation, ban evasion

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Thank you, both accounts have been banned

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • I have sent a longer response over messages.

    In case someone else can correct me, I'll include one section here

    While I’m not sure about the best way to do that, I think this page has the contact information for reaching admins: https://legal.lemmy.world/bylaws/#22-community-mod-removal . You can see the contact options in section 22. While the text in that section talks about mod removal, later on (section 25) they say to use the same contact info to reach admins for other purposes.

  • Trump to deport hundreds of bison from Montana

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  • Hello, I have sent a reply by message. Sorry for the delay

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    Welcome New Users!

  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    Ancient Egyptian mummies smell "spicy" and "sweet", study finds

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/crr0ypp84x9o
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback!

    fedecan.ca /en/guide/get-started
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    A humpback whale briefly swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia — and it's all captured on camera

    apnews.com /article/chile-kayaking-tourism-whale-b0cafde4b640326f20a9da28003d6c26
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Thieves stole 100,000 organic eggs off a trailer in Pennsylvania. Police are scrambling

    www.cbc.ca /news/world/egg-heist-pennsylvania-1.7452031
  • Offbeat @lemmy.ca
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    More than 100 red-bellied black snakes found in Sydney backyard

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cgmypx0wldro
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    A new open source (GPLv2) Projection mapping library

    github.com /alexdmiller/shape-mapper
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Calibre-Web-Automated: Release 3.0.1

    github.com /crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated/releases/tag/V3.0.1
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Seeing More With Satellite Imagery Using Band Combinations, Ratios and Indices

    www.bellingcat.com /resources/2025/01/10/satellite-imagery-bands-guide/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What are some exceptions to the standards problem?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    AppFlowy Web is Live

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Cloudflare Issue Can Leak Chat App Users' Broad Location

    www.404media.co /cloudflare-issue-can-leak-chat-app-users-broad-location/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    Lawnchair Launcher is working on custom app drawer folders

    github.com /LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/pull/5189
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Copied from another community: "Hoarder (the name) is being stolen from me"

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Pixelix, a 3rd party app for PixelFed landed a few days ago

    f-droid.org /en/packages/com.daniebeler.pfpixelix/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    The Wearable Keyboard that's Faster than Talking

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Mastodon announces transition to non-profit structure | TechCrunch

    techcrunch.com /2025/01/13/mastodon-announces-transition-to-non-profit-structure/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    RightsCon25 | The world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age

    www.rightscon.org
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

    www.theverge.com /2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Otter @lemmy.ca

    VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos

    www.theverge.com /2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation