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  • Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone

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  • Is buying a smartphone with a properietary OS from an EU company really a smart decision after chat control?

    I think I'm going to be sticking with Graphene

  • AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms

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  • I think people are too polite to call shitty programmers out on being shitty. It's probably not a fair assumption, but whenever I see someone admit they use some AI coding tool, I immediately assume they're either a junior, or one of those people who just were never intelligent enough to be a good developer, and ended up getting filtered into some low skill web dev job. Those are the kinds of people who probably feel threatened by AI, and I feel are more likely to use it.

    We need to make elitism and public shaming cool again.

  • I'm making a FOSS all-in-one file converter app - looking for opinions!

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  • Godot? Wtf?

    Also,

    I’ve looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

    Idk Handbrake specifically, but generally when that kind of thing happens it's for a good reason. There are a lot of options when converting a video file, and you can't support them all without exposing that complexity in some form. If you don't think so, then you haven't done enough research into the problem space.

    With that said, a "dumbed down" version of Handbrake that is optimized for a single common use case could be useful. For example, re-encoding iPhone videos to minimize compression artifacts when sharing over Whatsapp could be useful to people. However, I don't think a desktop app is the most accessible implementation for that.

    EDIT: also, even if a desktop app was a good choice, it might be more practical to implement it as like a preset for Handbrake rather than a whole separate app. My mom isn't very tech literate, but I could probably teach her how to activate a preset (idk if Handbrake supports presets, but it probably does lol)

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • I just remembered that I'm the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

    Guess it's time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

  • suddenly im a chef

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  • You can, but you can only take one byte

  • Looking for a federated alternative to Signal as they might have to comply with ChatControl, I tried SimpleX, XMPP, Matrix, NextCloud Talk and DeltaChat. It was quite a ride

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  • I settled on DeltaChat too. XMPP is great in theory, but the apps aren't great on iOS. That basically killed it for me in terms of getting people to switch to it, which sucked since I went through the effort of setting up my own server.

    So far, Delta chat has been working for everyone with zero issues. Maybe the only complaint is that the gray logo isn't as exciting as the bright green whatsapp one lol

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • Both. I'm strongly of the opinion that monopolies should not exist, and if they do it's the result of illegal and/or unethical activity, and should be fixed immediately. They break the free market and end up hurting everyone in the long run.

    In addition to what @Asterisk@lemmy.world said, they also include a forced arbitration clause in their terms of service to prevent class action lawsuits from customers.

    Tbh, they're very low on my personal list of monopolies to hate, so I don't really have that many arguments ready to go. I'm sure others have made a good case against Steam somewhere on the internet already.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • I think what's important in this drama is that, despite their evil monopoly shit they're guilty of, Valve really does do the right thing sometimes to win consumers. Gamers want AI disclosures, even if devs don't.

    That's why it's not surprising to see that statement from Sweeny, and why it's not surprising that people still hate the Epic Games Store.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Don't use Mint or Ubuntu, use Bazzite. It actually is "just works" with the added benefit of "you can't break it". It's perfect for both beginners and experienced users who are looking to do work rather than tinker with their OS.

    And if you have a graphics card (which you probably do since you mentioned gaming), Bazzite comes with Nvidia or AMD drivers preinstalled, so you don't have to do anything extra to get it to work.

    But if you really want to follow the YT influencer Linux memes, at least go with Ubuntu instead of Mint. Mint is just Ubuntu with a different default desktop, but worse in every other way less reliable (edit: toned down the exaggeration)

  • Bazzite noob calling for aid

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  • You dont need to yse the terminal/command line for this. Just open the settings app and look for the Bluetooth section. Pairing your keyboard is pretty much the same process as on a phone ir tablet.

    Btw, Bazzite has different versions. Which did you install?

  • They're just like us!

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  • I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. By "the commenter" do you mean the human or the AI in the screenshot?

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    For instance, many SoTA models are trained using reinforcement learning, so it’s plausible that its learned that spamming meaningless tokens can delay negative reward

    What's a "negative reward"? You mean a penalty? First of all, I don't believe this makes sense either way because if the model was producing garbage tokens, it would be obvious and caught during training.

    But even if it wasn't, and it did in fact generate a bunch of garbage that didn't print out in the Claude UI, and the explanation of "simulated progress" was the AI model coming up with a plausible explanation for the garbage tokens, it still does not make it sentient (or even close).

  • They're just like us!

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  • I hate that normies are going to read this and come away with the impression that Claude really is a sentient being that thinks and behaves like a human, even doing relatable things like pretending to work and fessing up when confronted.

    This response from the model is not a reflection of what actually happened. It wasn't simulating progress because it underestimated the work, it just hit some unremarkable condition that resulted in it halting generation (it's pointless to speculate why without internal access, as these chatbot apps aren't even real LLMs, they're a big mashup of multiple models and more traditional non-ML tools/algorithms).

    When given a new prompt from the user ("what's taking so long?") it just produced some statistically plausible text given the context of the chat, the question, and the system prompt Anthropic added to give it some flavor. I don't doubt that system prompt includes instructions like "you are a sentient being" in order to produce misleading crap like this response to get people to think AI is sentient, and feed the hype train that's pumping up their stock price.

    /end-rant

  • The stolen heat!

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  • I've seen this joke done hundreds of times on TV and in movies growing up, but never experienced it myself. I have pretty much always lived in the suburbs in homes with their own water heaters, yet I still have yet to experience this phenomenon.

    I don't doubt that it's possible, but the conditions to "trigger" it are probably very specific to regions where film makers and comic artists live.

  • A statement concerning the Fedora and Flathub relationship from the FPL – Fedora Community Blog

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  • I don't like this. Flatpaks are a huge step forward, but Fedora Flatpaks are two steps back. I'm not at all convinced by his arguments here or in the rejected proposal.

    The only potential benefit that might make sense is that they will contain the same Fedora-specific patches found in the fedora RPMs... Except that is exactly the type of thing Flatpaks were supposed to prevent! Neither users nor developers want a middle man adding or removing features for their software. It has historically been one of the biggest pain points for migrating to Linux as a user, or supporting it as a developer. It was necessary in the past for compatibility reasons, but Flatpaks fixed that. Now, developers can publish one Flatpak that will work on all distros, and users don't have to wonder if they'll be able to use some app or not, or whether it will work... Unless they're on Fedora

    But I don't like this post nor the wording in the proposal. He doesn't actually outline why he wants this to go through. I'm not claiming any tinfoil hat conspiracy behind the scenes, it's just his argument is not well articulated. If someone wants to use an app with Fedora-specific patches for some reason, they can layer the RPM on top of their Atomic distro. There's no reason to add uncertainty and confuse users by turning those into flatpaks.

  • Systemd timers or classic cron?

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  • If you already know cron and are too lazy to learn something new, then use cron with the knowledge that it's a personal failure and not a real technical decision... Otherwise, use systemd timers.

  • TUXEDO Computers Drops Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Laptop Plans

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  • I know nothing about what it takes to develop a laptop. Are these issues (BIOS updates, virtualization support, USB4 support, etc) something the laptop manufacturer needs to develop solutions for in-house? Wouldn't that be the job of Qualcomm? Or are Tuxedo saying that these things aren't supported on the Linux side yet? Qualcomm claimed to be contributing to the kernel last year, so idk if that just hasn't happened yet or if they just lied.

    Either way this is disappointing, but understandable. There's no sense in working to release a laptop with previous-gen hardware that's not going to be competitive.

  • Man, FB is horridly optimized

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  • uses Facebook

    Boomer, or Gen X?

  • Lucky enough, I am C++ Developer

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  • The White House?