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  • What was the conversation about sex and drugs like in your home growing up?

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  • Basically don't use drugs or you'll destroy your life.

    Sex was avoided as a topic, but we were taught that premarital sex is a sin. I was also teased as a kid about having crushes on girls (I'm male), despite my adament (and truthful) denials, and othertimes they'd joke that I'd change my mind once I was older. I won that though - turns out I was gay and never did change my mind.

    As for LGBT issues, it was so taboo / not talked about that I didn't even connect my confusing feelings for male classmates with me being gay until I was 18. I thought everyone felt like that and was frustrated when they wouldn't reciprocate those emotions back.

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    What can Lemmy instance owners see about you?

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  • I think OP is asking "In the worst case scenario of a malicious instance owner that is able to fork the Lemmy codebase (so could disable hashing) and intercept and record all communications going to and from their instance, what risk do I have as a user of that instance?"

    The answer of course is yes, in theory a malicious instance owner could see the password you use and can see all your communications, votes, what you look at, etc. So use a unique password for that instance, and don't use the instance for private communucations whose interception could seriously harm you.

  • Modern Gaming - Deathbulge

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  • On the topic of indie films, can people in-the-known share some suggestions for what's worth watching?

  • House passes bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent

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  • Saskatchewan is effectively on year-round daylight savings time and has been for decades, and they love it. History is not as clear-cut that it will get reversed.

  • 4Chan trolls UK government with another AI hamster as fines hit $800k

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  • Which is precisely the problem; there's really no way to opt out of the UK's law. Your only options are to either comply or defy them. They leave no middle ground.

  • 4Chan trolls UK government with another AI hamster as fines hit $800k

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  • Blocking the UK isn't enough to get them off your back. They'll claim that if your website is still accessible via VPN to someone in the UK then you're still subject to their laws.

  • Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue

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  • Unless it becomes cheaper than having a datacenter on earth per quanity of compute, it won't happen in any meaningful scale even if these issues are solved.

  • What are your favorite apps from F-Droid or other open source apps for Android?

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  • I've been using AntennaPod for years now to listen to podcasts. It works great and feels like a premium app.

  • Valve says it isn't subsidizing the Steam Machine's $1050 price because of its "religious" refusal to "build a more closed system"

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  • I bet they would be (against Valve) if a competitor donated to Republicans. I mean, they're keeping a finished bridge they paid $0 for closed because the owner of a competing, tolled bridge donated to them. Of course they'll open an investigation into a smallish leftish leaning company if a large donor asked them to.

  • Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’

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  • I don't think DDR4 is significantly cheaper. Plus, they would have had to go a CPU generation back too then and I think the AMD CPUs of that generation had way worse integrated graphics, so now you'd need a dedicated GPU as well.

  • [META] Should AI disclosure tags [AI], [NOT AI] be mandated when sharing projects?

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  • What does it mean for a project to deserve the [AI] tag? This matters, because you may have a lot of projects where a developer may think "no" and someone else thinks "yes". Some examples from my day job:

    • Developer used AI to understand part of the codebase and suggest ways to accomplish goal. Developer incorporated that suggestion, though using their own knowledge deviated from AI's suggestion in parts. Developer wrote the code themselves. Is this project [AI] or [NOT AI]?
    • Developer used AI to review existing (human-written) code for quality and security purposes. AI noticed some issues and proposed fixes. Developer reviewed and accepted them. Is this project [AI]?
    • Developer knew they wanted to implement a feature, and while implementing it there was a boilerplate function. Developer asked AI to write this function, manually reviewed it, confirmed it worked, and added it to the codebase. Is this project [AI]?

    In these examples the developer carefully reviews the AI's output, which I think distinguishes it from vibe-coded slop, which at least is what I want to ignore.

    It's also worth noting that an open-source project may receive and incorporate a well-written contribution where the human developer used AI carefully like this. Unless they disclosed that they used AI, it may be unknowable to the project maintainers whether their project is [AI] or not, depending on how you define it. What tag should these projects use?

  • OpenAI joins The Rust Foundation as a Platinun member and donates funds to support Rust maintenance

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    1. "Corporations should contribute back to open source projects"
    2. Corporation donates to project>.
    3. "Fuck project>"

    It's not like Rust is using ChatGPT to rewrite the std crate. You'd prefer that they not compensate the humans actually improving the project?

  • Life in your 30s

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  • I'm top-left (my job pays well, it's engaging, and it has a positive impact on the world).

    I have some friends in a 5th category that are hyper-busy with traveling, social engagements, etc. I feel like I have to book time with them weeks in advance.

  • What's old is new again.

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  • I was looking to see if anyone would post this. This one made me seriously naseous when I watched it.

  • Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics

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  • That's fair. I wouldn't reject money from Google but instead build up an endowment with it for when it eventually disappears. If you can recover your market share (maybe by investing in your browser - the peformance is lagging) then you can also demand more money from Google to set them as default. Finally, Mozilla is a non-profit and I wouldn't be opposed to them just asking for donations, like most non-profits.

  • Mozilla accuses Microsoft of sabotaging Firefox with Windows and Copilot tactics

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  • I had an ad in my Firefox settings for "Solo AI Website Creator". It's a product from Mozilla for using AI to build your website. Note that it's not open source, and you must rely on them to host your website (no export functionality, and recurring fees outside a basic free tier).

    I agree with you, I wish Mozilla would focus solely on their mission instead of trying to build all these side projects people don't want.

  • Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC

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  • Wasn't MS just saying that they were going to work to de-shittify Windows? Evidently the same decision makers for the previous shit are still in charge.

  • AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

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  • I'm annoyed because I only saw it on my feed today. Luckily I was about 2 sentences in before I checked the date.

  • Is an individual's debt rescinded when they passed away?

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  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    festus @lemmy.ca

    700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks with no fix imminent

    www.theregister.com /2025/12/10/gogs_0day_under_active_exploitation/