I guess the echoes of a "slaver mindset" that I hear in the way a lot of people talk about the benefits of modern LLM platforms isn't so much of an echo after all.
incredible take from one of the GNU maintainers, seriously
@ariadne honestly I think the “community” should split, people who feel ethics are important on one side and people who don’t care on the other. Starting from scratch is not easy, maybe not even practical in the slightest, but is it ethical to use past work of people who have now become unethical or perhaps have always been unethical. Ethics is complicated but “is slavery bad??” Is one of the simplest things ever and when someone can’t answer that correctly it’s time to split.
Tonight was surprise #game night with our neighbour unexpectedly joining us for a session of the always enjoyable #Garphill #BoardGame Raiders of Scythia. Muggins lost as per usual, but enjoyment was had by all, so that's a win-win in my book.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117579843945074274
insane numbers; #putin really hates russians
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While I believe these numbers are accurate, do you know of another source that corroborates?
Has the "ambiguous case" ever caused any "real-world" problems?
It's been a while that I've done maths but I don't see how EF could be equal both to EG and BC, without changing the 51° angle's value ?
If you slide BC to the right in the first figure, either the angle will change or C will leave the AC line (well, the original AC line I mean; C' won't be on the AC line, if you call C' the new position of C and keep the old one as C).
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One of the first things on the agenda for the new majority has to be doing everything possible to defund and abolish ICE.
I honestly don’t know how a person is told “go arrest this eight-year-old child” and doesn’t quit on the spot. https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2026/11/06/haitian-boy-8-detained-during-scheduled-immigration-appointment
@publicvoit @gc Yes, Org-modders love the Org format and Emacs, we all know that.
@fabi1cazenave @gc Yes. And we do have arguments you could address with counter arguments.
Orgdown is an excellent example of one lightweight markup language (LML) among many for reasons and not for gut feelings alone. 😉
There are other LMLs that are awesome as well.
Unfortunately, Markdown has many downsides we should be aware of.
By just using different LMLs (doesn't have to be org), you could mitigate many risks associated with MD. And this is the discussion I'm looking for.
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#QuestionOfTheDay what's a creative work you like that had absolutely/basically no impact or influence at all (on society, on the genre, on the medium, etc)*?
Do you wish it did, and if so why?
*launching the careers of various people count as influence
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@ami_angelwings I was strongly influenced by two books I found in library sales. One was on dealing with procrastination and the other one on creating positive habits. I can't remember the titles or the authors.
The procrastination book was good because it asked to fill your schedule of what you actually do. Doing this made me realize that I had very little free time. I couldn't physically do most of what I had to do. It wasn't avoidance, it was lack of time. It brought me peace.
The personal goal one was based on behaviorism. It seems to make sense. It should work. For most things, it doesn't work.
Why is this good? Because ir gave me the insight that behaviorism was flawed. Behaviorism can't modify physical issues like metabolic problems or being addicted to nicotine or alcohol. It can't overcome lack of time.
It works well via CBT for people of a certain generation, because it is about thinking habits. It is successful for inducing addiction, although we later discovered that it works through the manipulation of dopamine.
Learning how limited something that seem to be so self evident has helped me to both experiment myself with ideas to see if they work and to be skeptical of similar philosophies that should work, but don't, like economics
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fwiw people "rewriting it in rust" has been an annoying pain point for years and suddenly the sloppers doing it is nothing new.
having one viable implementation is nothing new. this is true of most languages. you can say that's bad, sure, but bootstrapping won't magically fix itself just because you think it's important.
the project has AI supporters on it, sure, but the overwhelming majority of us are tired of them, the endless waves of slop, etc. and it would be unfair to pretend that the project itself endorses slop, only that progress on that front has stalled and companies pay their employees to fuck shit up at a rate 100x faster than they pay us to deal with it.
sure, you can say the project is compromised by having corporate sponsors, and I'd agree. but these sponsors have less control over the project than you think, both in reality and in the actual bylaws of the Rust Foundation. the project has a unilateral veto over the Foundation's corporate members, even though it would rather not use it, and we are rapidly approaching the point where there are more people funded through corporate donations to non-profit orgs than direct employment at corporations.
so, if you want to complain about Rust, feel free. but if you wanna talk about corporate slop takeovers, take a jab at Go or TypeScript instead of Rust. we're paid by companies, not owned by and beholden to companies. and the reason why they prefer Rust over those languages is only because it turns out the "get good" mindset of programming language design is bad actually
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How private do you consider your votes in the Threadiverse?
From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes, but I'm curious at what the community's perspective on how "private" that is. I think Mbin already shows upvoters? Piefed allows anonymous voting. I also know there are sites which show all voting history, but assuming those are fairly disliked.
My general questions to the community: - Do you expect your votes to be private, or just not shown in the UI? - Would per-voter votes showing up on another aggregator platform bother you, even though your instance already shares them with other servers?
For context I'm the dev doing some two way bridge interop between atproto + Threadiverse, in atproto the votes/likes are generally publicly accessible, you just look at the users repo through something like pdsls.dev, they're readable and archivable by anyone. In my opinion this isn't that big of a problem since it's fairly hard to look at and discern (Ex all my votes: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:lmdkqemqrqnfiix72pyjhfey/social.coves.feed.vote). Ultimately trying to figure out if there's already a mutual understanding that they are public and we can just mirror them or whether they should stay hidden as an aggregate.
About 10 years ago I decided that the only way I could proceed forward in life is to automatically assume I’m being watched and listened to always. This has nothing to do with paranoia and everything to do with the nature of tech ownership and capitalism.
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How private do you consider your votes in the Threadiverse?
From the technical side anyone can spin up their own Lemmy instance and view all votes, but I'm curious at what the community's perspective on how "private" that is. I think Mbin already shows upvoters? Piefed allows anonymous voting. I also know there are sites which show all voting history, but assuming those are fairly disliked.
My general questions to the community: - Do you expect your votes to be private, or just not shown in the UI? - Would per-voter votes showing up on another aggregator platform bother you, even though your instance already shares them with other servers?
For context I'm the dev doing some two way bridge interop between atproto + Threadiverse, in atproto the votes/likes are generally publicly accessible, you just look at the users repo through something like pdsls.dev, they're readable and archivable by anyone. In my opinion this isn't that big of a problem since it's fairly hard to look at and discern (Ex all my votes: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:lmdkqemqrqnfiix72pyjhfey/social.coves.feed.vote). Ultimately trying to figure out if there's already a mutual understanding that they are public and we can just mirror them or whether they should stay hidden as an aggregate.
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@sinza @alexandra You couldn't ask for a more concise summary of why the movement has utterly failed. Why the entire world is being crushed under the boot of surveillance tech, and its applications in marketing, propaganda, social manipulation, and weapons systems, while one percent of the computing public plays around with their linux distros like toy trains.
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