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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)

  • Evolution of Cellphones [Gudim]

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  • Not an abomination at all, there were a few of these. I still think the Nokia N95 was the pinnacle of gizmo gadget phones. It looks downright hilarious now but my god that was a thing of beauty in its day.

    Boring black slabs are practical, sure, but has that practicality improved our lives that much?

  • S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

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  • I think you might have missed the original story. There was some fuckery going on with changes to the rules of what does and doesn’t get listed at IPO, seemingly designed to force the stock to (be allowed to) launch at a nonsensically high value on the indices, in turn forcing the least gamble-minded investors (which includes a fuckload of normal people via pensions, insurance schemes etc) into becoming bag holders for the most transparently greedy rug pull of all time.

    I live eight thousand kilometers from the US, and have no vestigial belief in capitalism, and this made me sell my US index funds this week. What an irresponsible shitshow even if you believe in nothing besides capital, even if you are a true believer in this system.

    The definition of being listed on any index isn’t waiting for someone to announce “I want each share to be worth ten trillion dollars! Actually no, eleventy billion dollars!” and taking that at face value. That’s why this is news. It’s not Mr Standard and Mr Poor sitting in an office and deciding they don’t like the stock.

  • Probably the most sweat-inducing user input verification code in history.

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  • The first one insisted to make sure one of the most competent human beings who ever existed oriented a thing downward in order to not die during a very well-rehearsed procedure.

    The second one is a reference to social media companies “outsourcing” support to chatbots with no intelligence and plenty of control, allowing people to prompt said chatbots into giving them other people’s accounts.

  • AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

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  • My fucking CPU comment was not that serious. The projects we were doing were just that. I have a notebook full of diagrams that I understand less and less every year.

    It was just a bit shitty that the CPU part wasn’t included with the chip itself. IIRC the nicer ones had hardware CPUs/CPU cores anyway.

    I meant it more as “hey I need to do this simple task, better write a processor real quick” which is not convenient. I’m almost certain there are dozens of FOSS RISC cores that could be burned to all of Xilinx’s FPGAs. It’s theoretically hardware agnostic but these are super popular parts.

  • AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

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  • I was a student and this was the first time I really felt like programmery things were paywalled. I think the licenses were per-deployment but free for education.

    I think people who learned about programming in a previous generation may be more comfortable with things being very proprietary, and arguably the newest batches of people learning it in the slop era too. But until that point everything I touched had a free (as in beer) or free-ish equivalent. I remember the professor being very excited about the Chinese less closed down stuff, saying it didn’t matter that it was slower for a lot of applications.

  • AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

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  • The world of FPGA is full of proprietary hardware and software blocks sadly. I haven’t dabbled since being a student but I remember finding it extremely jarring how on one hand you basically could write whatever hardware blocks you wanted (the freedom is comparable to learning programming all over again but in a fundamentally different way), but also you had super optimized “IP blocks” of software you can pull in like a paid library that you had to license. These blocks make the damn chip much more powerful for those of us not willing to write a fucking CPU, what the fuck do you mean DLC for the chip on my lab table?

    Vivado was a bit of a pain but not too bad as far as proprietary software goes. There’s more steps involved than just burning a .hex to a regular microcontroller, the debugging is different, I get it, another program makes sense.

    Personally I don’t write much code these days but I find myself yearning for like MS Visual Studio 2008. If I ever want to go back to programming on the side I will probably have to figure out my IDE situation from scratch. VS Community seems nice but there’s a lot of unnecessary features and of course Microslop’s grubby fingers all over it

  • Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

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  • Frankly “people team” is one I’ve been seeing and I think that’s disingenuous or condescending or something. I don’t know what I think it should be.

  • its INVIGORATING

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  • I’ve been paying more attention to my health lately and honestly going from occasional sugar free soft drinks to even more occasional full sugar drinks has been a great “perk”. The sugary version tastes better, and 300-400 extra calories per month isn’t a big deal when I’m paying attention to my actual day to day consumption.

    Besides, yeah yeah natural fallacy etc, but those non-sweetener ingredients probably aren’t stellar for your health either, and less overall volume of this stuff is probably better.

  • Flipper Unveils New Flipper One Modular Linux Cyberdeck: Flipper One hacking multitool offers 5G, Wi-Fi 6E and Linux on ARM

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  • I wish their stuff didn’t get as widely marketed as it did. They seem like luxury little hardware toys and exactly like something that can stimulate me back into making more projects. But they are universally known as “those hacking things for thieves”, so even importing one can get me into hot water probably.

    Nice step up, so this is the Pi Zero one if the Zero was the Pico one (try saying that three times quickly). Cool

  • The AI bots are coming and the young are booing, not applauding

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  • I mean this is an extreme case. The booing warms my heart but everyone I know who is in teaching is either 100% on the Kool Aid IV drip or absolutely crashing out over what they feel is the end of organized society.

    An old friend of mine was a younger, well liked middle school teacher who was very motivated to get the kids interested in actually wanting to seek out more stuff and to nurture that, since our curricula here are ancient. She quit this year. Outright. Mid fucking year. She says that in French the chatbots are even more repetitive and every student from the most inattentive to the “best” seems incapable to hand in any essay without at least running it through the slop machine for good measure.

    The infinitesimally thin silver lining is that I’m not just hearing of AI fatigue online.

    But the kids call it lies, they say “that’s AI” to mean that’s a hoax, they call their memes brainrot, so the self awareness is there. Then they completely fall apart on writing and researching. I was a dreadfully unfocused categorically shit student with a bad work ethic at school and even I’m offended

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    The AI boom hasn’t stopped U.S. companies from hiring cheap offshore labor, and overseas call center employment is still skyrocketing

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  • “Semantic search” / “semantic indexing”. Yes. Would be a great thing to optionally have. But you don’t need to hook it up to a prompt and have it spit out natural language output.

    It could be just like a standard search with search results, just with a backend that looks at more stuff based on meaning not just explicit word matching. And search engines have worked like this for years to be fair.

    But I agree, the general purpose chatbots are probably helpful to get a foothold on looking something up when you don’t really know what it’s called or how to concisely describe it. The problem is that the companies that make them have every incentive to feed you their explanation too, not just point you in the right direction and have you leave their service.

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  • Not creating and searching as far as I understand (or as far as I’m willing to allow it to in this case) but more summarizing, truncating, some but not all types of rewording (not technical parts for example).

    They’re getting better at extracting information out of a closed set of data, but it’s still literally impossible to guarantee that it won’t generate a contradictory or unwanted piece of text that looks very close to the right thing, based off the training data inherent to the model.

    But the “best” case is something closed ended where you know what the output is. So cleaning up a tiny piece of code, summarizing something that you provide in its entirety, translating a block of text, that’s all a good use case. Using it to distill the entire web’s information into a chatbot format? Fuck no

    The entire problem is people thinking this tool that can turn text input into soup and reliably pull text back out of said soup is something it just is not.

    Most of the models I’ve played with before the boom were not instruct models. So you didn’t prompt them and have them churn out slop that sounds like the answer to your question. Instead you just wrote text (story, article heading, etc) and it would continue the pattern. The results were “worse” in quality, but because we only thought to use it a specific way, it felt like a very powerful new tool.

    My enthusiasm for this shit has fallen through the floor in 2022 and presently is about 18% through the earth’s outer crust

  • Mujadara

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  • I personally don’t like mjaddara but if you at all want to try the more traditional preparation you need to put way less rice next time. This looks like a rice dish with lentils and not a lentil porridge with rice giving it consistency. You want the rice to soak up way more liquid.

    As an adult making lentils I never add rice at all. Lentils are plenty of carbs as it is. You can go more soupy or more porridgy. Funny how it’s cheap comfort food now but as a kid I pretty much hated it.

    If you don’t want to caramelize onions, you don’t have to. My rough, zero thought, not strictly traditional, lentils recipe is more like this:

    Wash/soak some lentils for 20 minutes to an hour. 300 grams dry red lentils as an example quantityChop up a small onion, any kind, finer is better, rougher is fine Slice up a whole head of garlic (or less if you’re less garlic inclined) Lentils go into a pot, with enough water to cover them once over (I just eyeball it). I have an electric kettle so I pour in boiling water. You can start with cold water, it’s fine. You can add water to get it more soupy or let it become chunkier later. Just throw the onions and garlic in. They should cook annd soften over time. If you really really like garlic you can add it a bit later so less of the kick cooks off. In my case I just add more later lmao

    I usually use red onions and watching them lose their color is a decent indicator of getting closer to completion. Stir so it doesn’t burn.

    And here you just wait. You can add some extras if you want here, but you just do dishes and stuff until the lentils become soft. I don’t know what to say here except let them cook until they’re done.

    I sometimes add tomato paste here, or any leftover leafy greens (kale, spinach, sorry grandma I never have chard on hand), I’ve thrown in like a tablespoon of dried oats before, it’s really just a flexible base for different ideas. Mjaddara is the variation with rice. I’ve once blended my lentil soup with an immersion blender for a very different texture. It’s just a base.

    I eat this pretty regularly. If you’re on hard times you can eat a lot of this stuff for very cheap and it’s pretty nutritious and low effort. Lots of fiber and protein in there as well.

    The most important thing taste wise is probably the seasoning. I appreciate you probably can’t run out and buy the standard Lebanese Seven Spice blend, but you can absolutely throw it together yourself. And that’s what will make it taste like what I know from my childhood. It’s very allspice heavy. I once ran out while cooking something else and used about half “garam masala” and half allspice and it was a bit fennelly but a reasonable substitute.

  • Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps

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  • OSM coverage in Lebanon is pitiful outside of a few areas, and even then nobody updates anything.

    If I drove around the south during peacetime sketching things out on a tablet I’d be questioned for espionage. Not because it’s a police state here, but because everyone is extremely paranoid. Guess why.

  • Control theory

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  • Yeah I’ve been involved in stuff on that level by pulling in a library in a university project. But there were higher level research projects going on where they were going into real nitty gritty fine control, I think they had a control model with an obscene number of degrees (as in xth order physical model implemented as a PPIIIIDDD system or whatever). That was a little intuitive since there was a physical process that you can observe.

    But the theory is definitely something I’d like to at least understand a little

  • Control theory

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  • This was my weakest subject, I found it fascinating but my math was just not good enough for it.

    Hopefully someone here has some interesting resources for this stuff, I would honestly love to integrate things like PIDs where they absolutely don’t belong in my bullshit hobby procrastination projects.