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  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people

  • Looks like I failed ...

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  • S(he) be(removed)ed 😔🙏

  • In addition to hardcoded blocklist, Tesseract downloads secret censorship list at runtime without telling anybody

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  • It was periodically backed up to the repo. The file has the same name. I just downloaded a few different versions of it from the file’s version history on the db0 fork, and decoded them by pasting the plaintext into a web page that does the decoding on-device. I wasn’t in the file on date A and was in it on date B, I found that by trial and error.

    I wouldn’t worry too much about it

  • In addition to hardcoded blocklist, Tesseract downloads secret censorship list at runtime without telling anybody

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  • Oh I was wondering if I could see the date I was added. Where can I see the commits?

    So I figured it out. The original repo got nuked ish but the db0 fork keeps the commit history (I know nothing about git) and some trial and error leads me to understand I was added between March 27 and May 30. Interesting. I wonder what post it was.

  • Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left

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  • Definitely raises an eyebrow if corpo media says “hey lefties check this out” and hits the FOMO button on a “popular must-read” I’ve never heard of before. Doesn’t automatically mean it’s a problem, but something to note I guess.

    The title sounds like something I’d definitely skim in a bookstore.

  • Kalshi’s New Midterms Hub Comes With a Felony-Sized Asterisk

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  • Oh are they finally admitting they’re bets now at least?

  • Port Sherry - Empiricism

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  • Huh. It was seemingly random where I am. Always interesting to see what’s standardized around the world. Smaller/less important markets are full of stuff that are initially designed for specific faraway places.

  • LLM-bot activity on question communities?

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  • I’m genuinely curious to know how those people end up in those coms or on the Fediverse at all. I don’t get the impression they keep tabs on this part of the internet.

    Back in the day, random people falling into random internet corners was a product of boredom and a relative openness to trying out new Internet forums, I feel like most non-techy people just would not step anywhere outside of like eight walled gardens now

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • Just skimming this thread (I don’t even know what Zig is) and this automatically flagged something in my mind. Ugh. Make it fucking end already

  • git-llmfs, a git filter that will reduce your repo code size through the power of LLMs!

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  • I remember GPT2TC, LLMs were a very interesting niche little proof of concept software area for a few years before

    <incoherent exasperated gesticulations>

  • Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware

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  • I know but I mean a literal 1 in 1 out female-female Ethernet box that is triggered by a dumb remote. I err on the side of dumber is better.

  • Connecting an LG Monitor to a Windows PC Trigger the Silent, Unprompted Installation of Adware

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  • This is why I think remote Ethernet jacks should be a thing. Like the same as those HDMI input multiplexers, but just to connect and disconnect a device from a wired connection. Glue that shit to the bottom of the remote. Boom. Parents get to rot their brains in front of the screens just like how they warned you not to do decades ago, and they get to enjoy doing something to stay “safe from viruses”

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    Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

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  • On the flip side, if you’re vibe coding an app you should seriously consider whether it’s something you want to open source or make available publicly. There’s a social contract that comes with that.

    This is the attitude of an existing programmer who is using these tools. What I’ve found on here is a specific pattern that keeps repeating:

    1. A post is sharing/advertising a project. The poster is two hours old.
    2. The poster is extremely coy about how their project was made despite obvious slop in the post body. They’re a bit clueless about anything that looks like a social contract that comes with that and think there’s something strange or accusatory/interrogatory when people ask questions they think are too difficult or technical
    3. Some Lemmy users have generally polite but fundamental critiques and questions the poster can’t answer or thinks must be gotchas
    4. The poster has a crash out about us all being mean/unappeasable/anti-AI/luddites/Linux users/godless commies and is usually the only one downvoting comments, even ones that read like genuinely interested, though cautious
    5. The post and account are deleted

    There’s a clear disconnect. You’re talking about the homelab community which is a bit different but I specifically remember someone making an accessible Android UI and being extremely frustrated at people asking for the entire code to be released, and at people saying there’s not enough features there for that poster to be looping in advertisements on a fucking home page UI.

    I get the impression that primarily-slop coders on some level think they’re doing programming, because of how you can get functional prototypes of code that is way above what a total beginner can write on their own. They think having code that compiles (whatever it’s usually Python there’s no compiling) means the hard part is over. They don’t seem to understand that the questions and concerns about vibe coding aren’t moral complaints but genuine concerns about liability, running code even the author doesn’t understand, and a complete cluelessness about what they should be doing to evaluate the code besides prompting it to be “good with no mistakes”.

    That Android UI project seemed like a little thing a few people could install on their grandparents’ phones. It’s normal for the author not to understand every little thing. But being totally clueless and being offended at the suggestion, being entitled to put ads in it to get 0.0016 USD per year per grandma in exchange for taking up a quarter of her screen forever, not understanding why this looks scummy, why refusing to release 60% of the code looks scummy, why half the questions are being asked at all.

    Again this would not be a problem if this wasn’t now expected for a significant portion of any projects you find online. A lot of projects are the first genuine effort of someone out there and they’re not perfect but they didn’t feel like the unceremonious implosion of the entire philosophical concept of personal computing.

    And I’m fucking shit at writing good code and I’m pissed.

  • xkcd #3266: Holes

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  • Multiple countries

  • Ferrari marketing boss quits just weeks after EV launch backlash

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  • Low volume high end cars usually had a lot of overengineered solutions to problems that are now easily solved in modern budget cars by software and new materials/manufacturing. They could come up with a complicated battery system that gives them more design flexibility if they wanted to. They fucking should frankly.

    The one in the pictures had a fuel bladder system IIRC. Not as exotic as figuring out asymmetrical distribution of multiple different sized battery boxes, but they did weird stuff to make their cars all the time. That’s the point of exotic cars that look stupidly different from other cars.

    Cars are a weird one because they are a big part of the system of why the world sucks and luxury cars are just absurdly expensive status symbols. But fancy cars used to mean cool engineering! I’m even all for keeping most cars running on gasoline so long as there’s 90% fewer cars on the road. Usually online you can’t hate cars (the economic-social phenomenon ) and love cars (cool torque machine living room) at the same time. And I hate that

  • Ferrari marketing boss quits just weeks after EV launch backlash

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  • It’s definitely not possible to create something that looks exactly like that with modern safety design standards but they are being very stupid by not at least trying to evoke that more in their cars.

    Then again, as far as I understand it, rich people are completely detached from my idea of good taste. So we might like the classic designs and the companies might know their customers prefer novelty or “the next big thing” over that kind of continuity

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  • Just an extension to this, when I used Reddit, /r/all was too big and had a bunch of crap I didn’t care about, and I browsed my home page of subscribed communities.

    On here I only ever browse All, despite the drawbacks. I think it’s practically the only way to use Lemmy. OP might have subscribed to a dozen communities and felt claustrophobic especially if they’re coming from Reddit.

    Different instances are more or less insular though. Hexbear can be good fun but once you realize 95% of the posts and comments are from like 200 people it feels more like a discord server than a federated link aggregator. db0 federates with most big instances so even our local communities don’t feel as insular. .world is .world, for better and for worse.

  • Getting back up to speed with writing my own code after a long time away? Scattered thoughts on how different the landscape looks now.

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  • This is 100% about the personal side and not the technical stuff, yeah. Is the expectation on this com to mostly talk about technical issues and news?

    I was thinking that someone might have been in a similar situation where they had to re-learn a lot of things, even basics, and that it would be of interest to me. I’m more than happy to go through the paces of a beginners’ guide but maybe someone will explicitly say “hey don’t do that, the pace will kill your enthusiasm, try doing this other thing”.

    I’m right there with you on the noise not being drastically different from a few years ago, incorrect commenters in stack exchange are/were just as confidently wrong as slop bots. Maybe I should finally make an account on there.

    The time for debugging thing is just about the difference between being a full time student who can butt heads against documentation and opaque compiler output and being someone who has to squeeze re-learning into much less time after a workday. I can and do have those nights but it’s not the same at all.

  • When the Open Social Web Hybridizes: Raccoon for Friendica is a new app... Mastodon. And it even has a little Lemmy in it! That's why the Free Software + Fediverse duo is such a valuable resource.

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  • Have you seen the new show? It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now. Go to Poob. Dive into Poob. You can Poob it. It's on Poob. Poob has it for you. Poob has it for you.

    Posts about Fediverse interoperability are always a mess of different flavors of internet nerds who post in radically different formats clashing. It’s a glorious mess.

    Personally I think micro blogging is an atrocious anti-discourse format but I also think anyone who writes the word “discourse” is automatically not worth listening to. So what do I know.

    Insert 23 redundant hashtags about open source software here and tag eight accounts run by three people across six instances

    (Mastodon friends I appreciate you but your posts are painful to look at through the Lemmy interface good god)

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Getting back up to speed with writing my own code after a long time away? Scattered thoughts on how different the landscape looks now.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Are there any decent GPT-detection tools that can be run locally?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Has YouTube just blacklisted every Mullvad server in some countries?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Thoughts on needing, using, and changing a "home" VPN exit country, in the wake of increasingly restrictive internet laws.

  • Palestine @lemmy.ml
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    Culture - Music

    [3:00] Faraj Suleiman - Shere3 Yafa (Streets of Yafa/Hymn to Gentrification) - Has official closed captions in English

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    My Windows machine woke itself up from hibernation while I was at work. An obscure torrent that was stuck at ~80% for almost a year completed during this time.