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The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates
  • Dude never heard of a library. I only bought a handful of books during my degree, I would've been homeless if I had to buy a copy of every learning source

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    Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats
  • These results are just a drop in the bucket in relation to the grim state of German election results and overall societal discourse.

    There's not much room for optimism right now. Very dark skies ahead and things may get much worse before they will become better.

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    It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
  • In my workplace we worked tirelessly to get rid of all VMware VMs as fast as possible when new pricing became clear. Thousands migrated. What a huge fuckup by broadcom.

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    Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics
  • The pendulum is swinging back hard. Let's just hope we don't end up way deep into the danger since zone just because woke idiots couldn't leave "good enough" alone.

    Edit: wow leddit big mad

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    WARNING: Malicious code in current pre-release & testing versions/variants: F40 and rawhide affected - users of F40/rawhide need to respond
  • or substituted its own SSH host keys,

    why would the backdoor do that? It would immediately expose itself because every ssh client on the planet warns about changed host keys when connecting.

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    AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames
  • People who write about AI have no idea what they are talking about.

    Current gen LLMs aren't magic. They are just very advanced text completion. They will do whatever they are trained on, they are not 'intelligence' and they certainly don't make 'decisions' (in the normative sense as we understand them).

    tl;dr this is idiotic.

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    Bigger Than Godzilla: Why Are Games Using So Many Gigabytes?
  • Uncompressed WAV files, lol I’ll never get over that

    It doesn't even make sense. Simple compression algorithms like in use by FLAC or AAC are pretty much free to decompress on CPUs from this century and the cpu cycles you save by not doing wasteful IO of huge files from storage easily makes up for that.

    I'm sure game devs can make some argument to not use 'expensive' compression, but not using any is just wasteful.

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    Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey
  • 12/20 is not a good result. There's a 25% chance of getting the same score (or better) by just guessing. The comments section is a good place for all the lucky guessers (one out of 4 test takers) to congregate.

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    Germans caught celebrating Oktoberfest with Nazi salutes
  • Well they are also playing "Erika" which is a right wing dog whistle, though maybe not as uncommon in these circles, as outright Nazi salutes

    Edit: Also curiously most people, myself included, never find themselves in danger of accidentally heil hitlering even when blackout drunk. Seems to become a more common occurrence in Saxony though.

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    thank you Linux for giving a damn about Bluetooth headphones
  • does it support foobar2000 plugins?

    probably not, since those are windows dlls. So here's a short list of what I'd want from a fb2k replacement:

    • a UI plugin with the power and flexibility of Facets/Refacets
    • browse library by folder structure OR tags (most only do one or the other)
    • powerful query language to actually find what I'm looking for
    • binaural stereo for headphones plugin
    • convolver
    • convert to opus and replaygain scanning
    • DR Meter
    • handle my >100k tracks library without constantly crashing or being incredibly slow

    Most alternatives I've tried can't even deliver on half of those.

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    Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced
  • Similarly moving on to a decent issue tracker, Jira’s support for Epic’s/stories/tasks/capabilities and its linking ability is a huge simplifier for long term planning.

    Modern ticket system or issue tracker? Yes, absolutely. But Jira? Certainly not, considering Atlassian's business practices. A project like Linux deserves a system where they can maintain some control and it probably should be open source.

    Yeah email is ancient and certainly terrible from a usability perspective if you're an outsider to the workflows, but at least it can't be shut off or taken away on a whim. Also it's universal and therefore accessible.

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    How do people find good information on the internet these days?
  • There's an interesting blog post on this subject (likely someone posted it already): https://dkb.blog/p/google-search-is-dying

    I find it to be very agreeable. Search is dying and I don't agree that appending "site:reddit.com" is any kind of permanent solution, just a workaround that will also break.

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    Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to
  • when breaking the internet and end-to-end encryption are part of any kind of "enterprise certification" that certification is worthless (or worse) and probably some kind of chinese or russian (or the CIA or whoever, certainly not your friend) psyop. Only a mindless idiot would implement it.

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    Not that you guys need the reminder, but your work sees all your browser history and you may not even be able to delete it if you wanted to
  • My work has a 100% mandatory vpn and mitm proxy for ssl scanning

    These are worse than useless. They are anti safety. If this box or its private keys get compromised ALL tls traffic of all employees is immediately plaintext.

    Any company that buys one of these appliances from mcafee or whatever is asking for it (losing most/all their secrets)

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