merdaverse

@ merdaverse @lemmy.zip

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Alt account: @merdaverse@lemmy.world

1w ago

PSA Huggingface is scraping GitHub
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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 1w ago
Microsoft is already working hard on this by shoving AI in everyone's faces

1w ago

This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content

Thinking more about it, even if the mapping would be generated dynamically (let's say you could generate them secretly on your server), the scraper could just parse the font file and reverse lookup the words.

1w ago

This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 1w ago

If this gets any adoption, it will work for about a week, after which scrapers will just detect the font, and do a reverse lookup of its mapping table. Ironic that the repo of the font is also AI slop.

If the author had asked any competent person how viable the solution is, instead of a sycophantic AI, they would have just gotten a laugh instead.

4w ago

You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 4w ago

I would gladly use only one package manager, but different applications offer different types of downloads. Do this for 30 applications, and you will probably need 3-4 package managers or install methods that do not auto update. Example:

Firefox: ppa, because that has always been the fastest and most convenient
Krita: flatpak, since the others suck
Qbittorrent: only AppImage
Godot: native executable

4w ago

You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month: here’s how it went

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 4w ago

I have the exact same problems with overheating, fans and sleep/awake on Windows. It's crazy that this even happens on a clean install. You would think that after 40 years of OS experience they would get something as basic as this right.

Desktop Linux solved keeping applications updated decades ago. Microsoft seems to be making it worse every time they add another different application delivery and management framework.

True, Linux did solve this decades ago. And then made it significantly worse in the last decade with multiple package managers (apt-get, AppImage, Flatpak, Snap, brew, random .sh install scripts etc.). Remembering how a Linux application was installed and calling its update command is a chore, and updating will probably pull in some other 500MB+ dependency that's not shared with other apps because of a minor version change.

Would still use Linux any time of day over Windows, since I can actually use my laptop, but the state of package managers on Linux today is hot garbage, and in a worse state than 10 years ago.

1mo ago

Data centers emitting more CO2 than thought: study

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

Climate damage related to AI workloads could exceed $50 billion by 2030

It's a sad state of affairs that even when talking of extinction level threat, it is still quantified in monetary terms. Unsurprising, considering it's written by Allianz.

"Do you know how much money our investors will lose if the human race goes extinct???"

1mo ago

Task Manager.

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 1mo ago

This is the way I feel when Feedback Hub process (which I never opened) is using 15% CPU

2mo ago

Mamdani calls AIPAC ‘monsters’ in rally ahead of NY primaries

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

Not sure who called it "Netanyahu's wars", but I hope Mamdani has more sense than that. We can't allow for Netanyahu to become the fall guy for what is a genocidal ethnic supremacist state, and just pretend that it will all be better when some former terrorist becomes PM.

2mo ago

I may not be rich monetarily, but I'm rich in other ways [beetle moses]

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

Everyone is now rich thanks to the concept of human capital! The only problem is that it's imaginary

2mo ago

We are a family at this company.

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

Yeah, the scene is literally Joker gathering the money to burn it in front of some gang boss to show him that he doesn't care about the money. I'm guessing OP wanted to say that the CEO is burning money needlessly?

2mo ago

Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

It's crazy to think that this is basically more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer that got people onto the moon. It costs 3 cents, and we use it for shit like this and then throw it away. What spectacular waste.

2mo ago

Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wanted

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

Firefox has implemented many of the same features that Chrome has recently (groups, split tabs, vertical tabs, reading mode etc.) but has also consistently been implementing them earlier and better. There are just so many small annoyances with these features on Chrome that aren't there in Firefox, and Chrome is always late to the party.

The golden era of Chrome is long gone, probably because the most competent people working at Google have moved on.

2mo ago

SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

I'm all for spacing capitalists, but I don't think there's enough of them to blot out the sun.

2mo ago

Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

The idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself.
-- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

2mo ago

Bernie Sanders proposes bill to give the public a 50% stake in AI companies

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merdaverse @lemmy.zip 2mo ago

What profits? All AI companies have major losses. Except Nvidia of course, which just sells the hardware to the other companies so that they can make a loss.