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kbal

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

  • NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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  • Those are the GPUs they were selling — and a whole lot of people were buying — until about five years ago. Not something you'd expect to suddenly be unsupported. I guess Nvidia must be going broke or something, they can't even afford to maintain their driver software any more.

  • You don't need Linux to run free and open source software

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  • ... but it helps.

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  • LLMs don't know much about any people other than authors and fictional characters. Well, until quite recently at least: The next model will know the most intimate thoughts of millions of AI-obsessed humans.

  • What are your thoughts on "Don't Chase, Attract."?

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  • Works for the anglerfish I guess.

  • Only 1% of People Can Solve This

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  • Wrong number of buttons on the captain's chair.

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  • Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I'm complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.

  • TIL that on April 18, 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." and then played piano music for the rest of the broadcast time.

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  • Lucky for us that scientists have since discovered so many new sources of news to keep us busy.

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  • Things must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers "children" in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they're not children doesn't make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.

  • Why did you join Lemmy?

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  • Because it was there.

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    How can people communicate with AI as a friend or girlfriend?

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  • How? Just use your imagination. For a more healthy and meaningful relationship, consider forming a close personal friendship with your favourite houseplant instead.

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    Anyone here suffering from vilolent and homicidal tendencies? how do you suppress these?

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  • Fair enough — I don't really relate to the concept, sorry for intruding with my stupid comment.

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    Anyone here suffering from vilolent and homicidal tendencies? how do you suppress these?

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  • Hey random Internet strangers, do you ever feel like joining a terrorist group? How do you deal with the urge to plant bombs in hospitals? Or do you just go ahead with it? Help me out, share your experiences.

  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • One of the things I immediately liked about cargo is that (so far as I've seen thus far) the source is already there, without vendoring, in ~/.cargo/registry. In Debian, to get the source it's apt-get source $package and as an end user it's super easy to build things from those source packages if you want to.

  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • Yeah, the personal risk doesn't worry me as much as the idea that it might eventually get to be as bad as npm.

  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • I did not mean to suggest that crates.io is "bad". It's obviously quite useful. It's just that I would like it better if there were some kind of systematic review of newly submitted packages by someone other than their authors, and I would like rust better if its standard library included a random number generator.

    I would suggest that Debian is quite good, and is indeed something special, but that's another story.

  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • Trusting an organization because it has a long track record of being trustworthy is "invalid"? You guys are pretty weird.

  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • I got the compiler and whatever comes with it from the debian package manager, which has existed for much longer than has crates.io and has had fewer malicious packages get into it.

  • How often do you think the highest upvoted comment on a post is the one you most agree with?

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  • Probably at least 10-15% of the time.

  • TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

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  • What's the minimum recommend amount, like 500 megabits?