flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)

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The best part is that this won't even work, the max page size in Lemmy is 100.

2w ago

[AIT] The Codeberg ban on LLM content

Seems to be a bug in Piefed's linkify code for punycode. It's transforming the the double hypen into an en dash.

2w ago

Google executives are great people. They spend millions of dollars to support open-source software and undermine commercial solutions

It's relatively cheap (for Google), buys them a lot of good will and gets people contributing to the stack most of Google depends on.

2w ago

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

The part that bothers me isn’t the specific ban on LLM projects, or the specific ban on cryptocurrency projects. It’s that a hub built around “free software” is now telling its users which kinds of software are deemed good and which are not, and that is closer to censorship than it might seem. Once a platform writes into its terms that an entire category “harms its reputation” and can be removed on that basis, the deciding factor stops being whether the code is legal, or functional, or useful, and becomes whether it aligns with a position the platform has taken. […] Every platform I can think of that took this approach became divisive the moment it started enforcing an ideology on its users, whatever that ideology happened to be, and however justified it looked at the time.

As acknowledged, Codeberg already doesn't allow non-free software on it, that is itself pushing an ideology on its users. Extending this stance to other forms of software isn't the big deal the author is making it out to be, software being free doesn't absolve it of other moral implications.

We now even have people like Linus Torvalds making the fairly reasonable argument that an LLM is just a tool, and “clearly a useful one”

Appeal to authority. See this response.

3w ago

Twitch ban of robot streamer Neuro Sama was likely over Holocaust denial comment

flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc) @feddit.uk 3w ago

How the hell do you make a living off interactive LLM slop (but with a school girl veneer!) and not know about Microsoft's Tay? This was what was always going to happen.

1mo ago

Rust trojan horse

I know, I read the description. It just looks like a nicer syntax around setting up a tokio runtime and sending code between runtimes. It'd still be nice to have a non-tokio options so stuff could be single threaded.

1mo ago

Rust trojan horse

Huh, that pretty cool actually. I need to play around and see if this works with gtk-rs, channels get fairly annoying if you need to use them a lot.

1mo ago

Rust trojan horse

And if you find the borrow checker annoying in async rust, that’s mostly a tokio issue. Look into smol-rs as it offers alternatives

This is great until you want to use a library which is tokio exclusive, which is most of them.

1mo ago

Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC - 25th Jun 2026

I wonder why the man who makes money off engine royalties might have a problem with something that can dramatically affect sales after stuffing that engine with the crap people hate.

2mo ago

Private community here on the fediverse?

Sure, but I'm just pointing out that these are different features that happen to be named the same thing. I'd also point out that something that doesn't federate can't really be called part of the fediverse, which is what OP was asking about.

2mo ago

Meet Potential Language

The Wikipedia article for D links to this blog post which seems pretty damning.

2mo ago

Private community here on the fediverse?

Piefed's private communities are local only, ie no federation. The Lemmy 1.0 ones do federate.

2mo ago

Private community here on the fediverse?