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  • Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

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  • Congrats, you managed to find the dictionary, but didn't even make it to the encyclopedia, let alone the acutal literature.

    And now, with just the barest of definition and no deeper knowledge on anything you think you are an expert.

    Here, please read at least the wikipedia entry to get a very basic understanding about what the adults in the room are talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

  • Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

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  • Sentience is roughly defined as "Line in the sand between humans and things we are allowed to eat".

    It's a concept created to justify treating animals differently than humans in a world where the old justification ("You can eat animals because God said so") isn't applicable anymore.

    Since the concept is defined backwards to justify preexisting actions, it doesn't have any actually solid definition, and whether something's sentient or not depends pretty much entirely on the opinion of the person deciding it.

  • Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations

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  • I mean, it kinda is.

    Lemmy is setup in a way that it totally crumbles at around 100-200k active users. The "every instance replicates almost everything while being legally liable if it doesn't correctly moderate everything" means that it's close to impossible to run a Lemmy instance if there's too many people on the platform.

    Reddit has more than one billion accounts and hundreds of millions of active users.

    Lemmy physically cannot sustain anything near those numbers. Thus it's kinda hard-coded to prevent it from getting serious astroturfing, for better and for worse.

    For comparison: Both the LTT forum and the crackberry forum have more total and more active users than all of Lemmy combined.

  • Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical

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  • Yeah, go tell that to your company's IT department.

    That's what WSL is used for: keeping developers somewhat sane in a company that's Windows-only.

  • Who has the best name in the programming space?

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  • Amazing quote!

    Probably the closest way to pronounce the name as an American would be "Virt", with "i" pronounced as in "will".

  • Making companies liable could rein in runaway AI

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  • Kazaa, LimeWire and similar products were proprietary for-profit software that made money with copyright infringement. LimeWire was opensourced later on.

  • GitHub has been down for most of the morning - Engadget

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  • GitHub has been down for most of the morning - Engadget

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  • Only partially helpful. For me, when I open up issues archive.org often only has the first post in the thread. Often the stuff is months outdated.

    Don't get me wrong, the Wayback Machine is an incredibly amazing piece of tech and I use it all the time. But it's a less-than-satisfactory replacement for a working Github.

  • Making companies liable could rein in runaway AI

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  • Because it's new tech, and any time there's new tech it takes the judicial system around 20 years to figure out that old laws still apply even in the context of new tech.

    Remember how long it took for copyright to become somewhat relevant on the internet?

    Or how long it took for murder threats to become illegal on the internet?

    When I was growing up it was totally 100% to be expected that once you step online, especially in games, someone will graphicly threaten to murder and rape you and your entire family in an arbitrary order.

    Stuff like that would have gotten you in legal trouble instantly if you said that in real life, but online it was totally fine for a very long time.

  • Periphery as open source project is ended.

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  • This here. FOSS as a dedicated concept exists since around 40 years and we still haven't figured out how to fund it.

    The only meaningful way to fund FOSS is the Linux way: Coprorations use the FOSS in a way where they can't sell the software directly, instead, the software is used as infrastructure to make money another way.

    Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle and so on, they make money by selling cloud compute running Linux. To do so, Linux needs to be really good, so they contribute developer time too the Linux kernel and to certain tools.

    The same strategy works for programming frameworks, like Angular, which is being developed by Google, because Google uses it in tons of their products.

    But this doesn't work for end customer software and it's basically impossible to get a "grassroots" developed piece of FOSS into the corporate mill.

  • Periphery as open source project is ended.

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  • Periphery as open source project is ended.

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  • Looks like you have never tried to monetize FOSS.

    It's close to impossible. Look at heartbleed or the xz disaster. Two fundamental pieces of software used on billions of devices, neither of them made enough money for a single full-time dev.

    And you are suggesting that one can make enough money from a FOSS REST client?

    Look at breadsmasher's original comment. There's not a word in there about "betraying FOSS ideals", nor does it contain a complaint about "closing the source".

    No, the whole comment is "Fuck Thunder REST because they want me to pay for features". Breadsmasher is a freeloader. He would never donate anything. He uses FOSS, not because he wants freedom as in free speech, nor does he use it because he wants to review or modify the source. He uses FOSS for the "free as in free beer" aspect.

    And when someone says "Now please contribute to a project you've been using for free", he gets entitled and throws a fit like a two-year-old.

  • France's Power Prices Jump 22% as Heatwave Trims Nuclear Output

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  • Heat is the worst form of energy. It's super hard to extract energy at all from it. Basically, you can't extract energy from heat itself, you can only extract it through the process of heating something up. So you always need a cold component that gets heated up and a hot component that does the heating.

    Without a cold component, you can't extract energy from heat.

  • Periphery as open source project is ended.

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  • It is pretty standard, but the narrative is wrong. In reality it's more like this:

    Build a little tool for yourself. It's small, it's simple. Someone else sees it and likes it, so you open-source it. People start using it, and it feels good. The hobby project starts consuming more and more time.

    Companies start using it. Bug reports and feature requests pile up. Users who see themselves as customers without ever having paid a cent for it start to demand bugfixes and features. Toxic, entitled people kill the mood and the hobby project seriously isn't fun anymore.

    Nobody contributes or donates, they just demand.

    So now you got a choice: drop your hobby project or go professional.

    What you are seeing in the OP or with Thunder REST is the second option: People going professional. Cause that means money is coming in, the main dev can quit their day job and maybe even hire some extra staff to deal with the workload and with pesky entitled users.

    So to you now, breadsmasher: You seem to think that you are entitled to free updates for Thundar REST. I guess you contributed significant amounts of code to it or donated significant amounts of money to it?

    You did do that, right?

    You aren't just demanding other people to work for free for you, right?

    Because if you did that, that would be seriously shitty of you. But I'm sure you aren't that kind of person, are you?

  • Removed

    Nah it wasn't him. He was with me studying about Jesus.

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  • Don't they have cameras to find out who did it?... Oh, I guess they don't now.

  • The Tech Market Situation is Crazy

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  • Have you heard of the concept of black comedy?

  • New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak

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  • Don't worry, the phones don't have to be repairable as long as they are waterproof.

  • The Tech Market Situation is Crazy

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  • Looks like you didn't read the post or reacted too quickly and too angrily.

  • The Tech Market Situation is Crazy

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  • Missing that an article is satire, that happens. Missing that an article is satire when it's marked as satire and calls itself satire within the overy-over-the-top-satire article, that's a completely different thing.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that it's even possible to make a kazoo sound good

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    How fair is a Fairphone? (Or, how much of the sticker price does Fairphone spend on fair/eco?)

    www.fairphone.com /wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fairphone-Impact_Report-27-May.pdf
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    Monopoly Go is the highest-budget video game so far.

    en.m.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop