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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.

  • rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

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  • As was said elsewhere on the Internet:

    Don't get me wrong, I welcome this policy, I just wish the "one line zinger" was a little more detailed, because if you come away from the article without reading on (or, more realistically, if secondary sources pick up this quote without the surrounding context), one could easily get a wrong idea.

  • rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

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  • The policy summarizes itself this way: It's fine to use LLMs to answer questions, analyze, distill, refine, check, suggest, review. But not to create.

    Saying that "it's fine" seems a little overly broad, because sometimes it isn't, but I suppose that by "fine" they simply mean that it's not forbidden by the policy. A more complete summary would also mention that where it is allowed, disclosure of LLM use is required.

    Personally, on the few occasions where I've resorted to querying an LLM it's been very much the same kind of experience that using Stack Overflow used to be. It's a quick way to see one way that other people have done some thing, but you wouldn't want to rely on it being the right way.

  • Block lemmy.ml if lemmy feels tirening.

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  • People were complaining about .ml long before I thought it was justified, but I looked again recently and yeah, maybe. This instance doesn't federate with it so I don't see it often. Based on my quick impressions the other day it's gotten worse. Not that it's an "echo chamber" and I don't mind hanging out with communists, but there's too much low-quality noise.

    Personally I wouldn't block the whole server if it were up to me. There are still good people there. Just be quick to block the people and posts you really object to.

  • Interesting observation from the Mastoverse

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  • Protecting children from accidentally seeing anything slightly sexy is naturally the top priority. That's what is harmful to minors. We better all stick to legally safe things like racism-based disinformation.

    ... but yeah, the designers of mastodon deliberately chose to avoid posts any longer than very short.

  • Is it only me or is romhacking.net blocked?

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  • Normally I get around it by using Tor browser which works 95% of the time since it's a totally normal-looking web browser — but here they've got the settings turned up so high that not even that works. It's unusual enough that it probably wasn't an accident, so telling them about it probably won't help.

  • Is it only me or is romhacking.net blocked?

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  • Scroll down that page a bit and you'll see the message at the bottom stating it's Cloudflare.

    Site owners can configure cloudflare to block half the world if they want to, as they appear to have done here.

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

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  • Sex and drugs are fine but don't neglect your rock and roll.

  • Removed

    Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

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  • This would be one of those times where your post would be a lot better if it included more than just the deceptive clickbait headline.

  • Is it me or does Lemmy have a propaganda problem?

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  • I suspect that your vague, unsubstantiated feelings that someone you had a passing interaction with might have been a bot (it's possible! who knows!) is not the valuable contribution to this community that you presumably thought it was going to be.

  • In a genderless and sexless society, what would pronouns be based on?

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  • Well there are several possibilities. For instance, pronouns could be based on simple clicking sounds that indicate one's social proximity to the queen.

  • first it was @property, then @container, and now interpolate-size

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  • There ought to be some kind of 2016 css subset that everyone sticks to and then we can reconsider maybe updating it to include any newer stuff that's absolutely essential once every ten years.

  • TIL Jonathan Frakes from Star Trek TNG has a platinum record

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  • all of the outtakes from my trombone playing became a song called “Riker’s Mailbox”

    Huh, there it is — in a dusty old corner of my record collection. Not sure if I'd call it a "song" exactly. I had no idea it was actual Riker trombone playing.

  • What's your favourite cover of a song you dislike?

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  • Feelings — The Offspring

    The original was played on the radio way too much in the 80s.

  • TIL the difference between Possums and Opossums

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  • opossum: The American one.

    possum: Could refer to either kind of animal.

    Failing to acknowledge that it's like that in reality will only cause further confusion.

  • Best Star Trek Captain (wrong answers only)

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  • It's Neelix, obviously. Although technically I guess he outranks the captain.

  • Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

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  • Statcounter, huh. I'm guessing "unknown" means Windows 11 but they haven't updated their software to recognise it yet.

  • TIL about hedonic regression which decomposes the item being researched into its constituent characteristics

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  • There was a big online debate about it maybe 15 or 20 years ago and I spent some time looking into the details. It's not a bad idea in principle, but at least in the US and Canada they often take it to crazy extremes in order to hide price inflation.

    They might for instance fail to adequately account for the high prices paid by early adopters of something new being representative of something other than the inherent merits of the new thing. Today's cars and vacuum cleaners are indeed better than their 1980s equivalents in many ways, but imo they're not better by nearly so much as to explain the "hedonic" adjustments that have been made.

  • What do you think about using older memes?

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  • Mine only cost $300 sometime in the late 80s. Computer prices kept on declining all the way from 1950 to 2016.

    (edit to make a better guess at start and end years — 2016 because it was the year of the 1080ti)

  • Rust @programming.dev
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    estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Relativity

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    As expected, the long-awaited ntsync has made its way into kernel 6.14.

  • Debian operating system @lemmy.ml
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    If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need