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squaresinger

@ squaresinger @lemmy.world

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  • What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse?

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  • I started work on an automod a year or so ago, and there was no real interest in it. Tbh, I think lemmy is far too small to really benefit from an advanced automod.

    Remember, all of lemmy together is smaller than the Crackberry forum or the LTT forum. It's smaller than many city subreddits.

    That means the time investment of setting up and tuning an automod bot and the trouble caused by false automod actions probably isn't worth the time saved by the automod's correct actions.

  • Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation

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  • What bothers me most is that they equate a model with reality.

    Quantum gravity theory is our current working model that we use to describe our observations. It's not reality itself, and no scientist worth their money would claim that it is, because if it was, physics would be solved and it isn't.

    That's how science works: We have observations, we build models to describe them, then we have more observations that don't fit the old models, so we build newer models that also describe the new observations. Since we aren't omnicient, there's always something we can't observe (yet) and what we can't observe we also can't describe.

    “Therefore, no physically complete and consistent theory of everything can be derived from computation alone.”

    This, in fact, would fit quite well to an imperfect simulation that doesn't perfectly follow all the rules we made up when observing.

  • Serverless Is An Architectural Handicap (And I'm Tired of Pretending it Isn't)

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  • "We can solve any problem by introducing an extra layer of abstraction. Except for the problem of too many layers of abstraction."

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  • Considering how important WASM is, I haven't seen a single application of it.

    WASM on the server seems especially weird since it's not much more than a bytecode interpreter. At that point you could just use a JVM, maybe with some more cut-down API to make it more sandboxed.

  • After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence

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  • Every single day of my life I am grateful that my parents didn't go through with their plan of moving to the USA when I was little.

  • Good Cop/Bad Cop (Buying a Car)

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  • The bad cop is the husband. He's just there crying instead of handcuffing and kicking the corpse.

  • What could be the best way to introduce the world of computers to a kid, let's say of 6 years old, so that he learns to handle it like a toy and stops dreading it like some esoteric, arcane and

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  • Is there such a thing as a kid that dreads playing games on a computer?

  • Computer Science Courses that Don't Exist, But Should

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  • Yeah, the problem is the balance. In-house code sucks. Nobody outside the team tests your code. Self-developed code is not battle hardened. You can only use the skills available in your team and especially for specialist topics like databases, security or cryptography having in-house expertise is rare and expensive.

    Using external dependencies sucks. You are dependant on externally developed code and on someone elses skills, quality controls and trustworthyness, and you usually don't have time or ability to really verify any of that. Even a good dependency can get stuck in some kind of development hell (like e.g. OkHTTPClient) and not deliver updates for years, and supply-chain attacks are constant threat.

    In the end both options suck for different reasons and it really depends on the scenario where one or the other is useful. Leftpad is an extreme example, but most options are less obvious.

  • Computer Update

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  • Most FOSS projects have a way to donate money, for example. But hardly anyone donates because they use FOSS because it's free as in free beer.

  • Hey guys, did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon...

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  • Pokerus, or "how no-vaxers think that measles work".

  • The ‘Chinese owner’ of Nexperia: How Zhang Xuezheng’s tech empire fell to geopolitics

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  • But that wouldn't make for a catchy headline, would it?

  • Guide recommendation for absolute newbies?

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  • For a "general purpose" 3D printer I would totally recommend FDM.

    Resin is toxic, causes allergies, is a mess to handle, needs washing and curing after printing, is usually much less UV resistant, is less durable and more expensive. The only upside it has is much, much better quality prints especially for fine details.

    So if you want to print miniatures go resin, otherwise go FDM.

    In regards to FDM printers, you need to decide if you want to tinker or to print. Both options are fine, but depending on whether you want to spend significant times upgrading, modding and tuning (and want to have the ability to do so), or whether you want a fire-and-forget machine that just works but doesn't let you upgrade stuff, you need to get different devices.

    Bambulab printers are the fire-and-forget kind that gets ever-more locked down but prints perfectly out-of-the-box.

    Prusa or Creality/Ender are more tinker-friendly.

    In the end it comes down to what you want. Read some reviews.

    If you want to test the waters, get a Bambulab A1 Mini, see if you like it, upgrade to a different printer in the future.

    In regards to filaments: Most filament brands are decent nowadays. It used to be that some brands were much better or worse than others, but nowadays unless you buy the cheapest crap it's going to be fine.

    The biggest difference is the material type. As a beginner start with PLA (regular, not Silk PLA, Flex PLA, HT PLA, Tough PLA or any other type of modified PLA). It prints easily, doesn't need anything special in regards to heating or drying.

    Once you mastered that, you might want to get into PETG (more difficult but tougher) and/or TPU/TPE (flexible, rubber-like).

    You will likely never need more than that.

  • Career Advice

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  • You had your first total team wipe within 3 months? Impressive.

    I had three of them so far, but within 12 years.

  • Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

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  • The question is what did she consent to (as in, what was the thing she did expect that this checkbox created)?

    "Cameo" doesn't exactly evoke "allow people to create fetish porn with my face".

    If the button was labelled with that or some other more clear text, I don't think there would have been a need for this article.

    And that's pretty much the point of this article: "Beware of corporate double-speek, this harmless word here means 'allow fetish porn with your face'", and that kind of warning article is not only important but pretty much essential in today's world, where "autopilot" doesn't mean that the car is fully self-driving, and where even "full self-driving" doesn't mean "fully self-driving".

    And the only indication one has that words don't mean what they mean is a multiple hundred page long terms of services full of legal jargon that most people can't understand but that legally protect the corporation.

    As Marc-Uwe Kling said: "Die Welt ist voll von Arschlöchern. Rechtlich abgesicherten Arschlöchern."

    "The world is full of assholes. Legally protected assholes."

  • Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

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  • If someone expects content moderation or the other safeguards you have in large parts of the internet it might come as a surprise that a large platform allows fetish porn content to be made with "cameos".

    Tbh, the word itself is super vague and ambiguous and doesn't reflect what it means in this context.

  • Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

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  • In a situation where someone doesn't understand the implications and a corporation can make money of their misfortune. That pretty much describes most of social media.

  • How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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  • That's not really language dependant but region/culture dependant.

    Nigeria and UK both have English as their official language, still their viewpoint on history is quite different too.

    A good Wikipedia article would include all relevant viewpoints that are based in reality, and probably even some that are not, though with a disclaimer.

  • Code like a surgeon

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  • ... that's what I was saying.