Just blocked FIFA and world cup tags :(
Probably the only sport event I have followed since I was little.
They have turned it into a sad decadent cabaret for the rich.
Don't care who lifts the cup, they have all lost.
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This is the day. I will be moving my trusty steed over to debian 13 (hopefully all the major real-world bugs have been ironed out).
So far, things are going great. Hard to believe this system started on debian 7, and dist-upgrade is all I have done. This last bump might be tough though. I have been switching DEs a lot so there are a lot of warnings about files that don't exist ... fingers crossed.
#debian #debian13 #debian12 #debianStable #debianMigration #software
Alarming. Had to work over ssh and I think I may be incapable of using git without magit ... T_T
Privacy or Security ?
Too many hardware and software companies are forcing consumers to choose one or the other.
This is a false choice. Choose security and they install malware that erodes your privacy. Choose privacy, and they compromise your security, which ultimately destroys your privacy anyway.
An excellent investigation by Gamers Nexus. Smart devices should be banned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM
#UsersAreFodder #greed #BadTechnology #EvilCompanies #LG #GamersNexus #SmartTech
DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns
I have been using aptitude since forever. Today, however, I needed to search through installed packages and remembered just how unintuitive the syntax is!
A few articles deep I learnt that good old apt-get has a new API through apt and it appears to be designed for clarity and ease of use. Should I switch?
Which tool do you use? If there is a specific reason besides habit I would be very curious to hear it!
#debian #apt #aptitude #aptget #packageManagement #linux #software #sysadmin
What did we expect ? We are training our students for mediocrity and that is exactly what we are getting.
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
A lot of us are boycotting the world cup. Don't care about it. At all.
Please tag your world cup posts so our feeds can filter them out thank you !
Because real service where you deal with your customer face to face can't accept "You are absolutely right! I have incorrectly identified you as a criminal and was about to fine you..." as a valid response.
AI is not ready for all products. Certainly not products where quality matters. Maybe as clippy 2.0 or an IDE suggestion engine or a documentation reference engine.
Great technology but greed is making us use it won't.
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@aspragg@ohai.social I was searching for name and version number only.
I have been using Debian since 2004 or so and apt did not exist then. Didn't like apt-get so the way I learnt to install/upgrade was aptitude, which I use as a CLI rather than a TUI.
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@Strandjunker I think it is finely tuned to its audience - exploiting their marked stupidity, their voyeuristic appetite for gore, and their utter inability to take any meaningful action.
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@minad@mastodon.world @jameshowell@fediscience.org @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz Wow, hello Daniel and Omar, so wonderful to run into you on here. Much respect for your contributions to making emacs usable for forever-noobs like me!
I think last time I used cape I couldn't understand how cape-dabbrev is different from dabbrev (I understand now...). I will give it a go too!
I am especially struggling with my python vterm REPL though. I see a wall-of-text dump of all the candidates from the code as well as the REPL buffer! Any pointers?
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@OrionKidder@mas.to Yeah. Very sad for our new cohorts of students who not only use machines to lift weights, but have been told this is the only way one lifts weights. You are not only weak, but you also don't know that you are weak.
I think the students are doing whatever it takes to get grades. It is the companies that aggressively market AI for everything that have ruined their lives/careers.
I am expecting a massive intellectual regression in the coming decades.
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@GossiTheDog I think GenAI is quite mature to take on a C-suite job right now. As a society we need to make the push.
@malwaretech So the Chinese companies actually had to pay to train their models ? That sounds terrible. Wait. No. That sounds almost fair ?
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe Mi manca la pizza con salsicce e friarielli (non so se fanno dove vivi).
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@jameshowell@fediscience.org @oantolin@mathstodon.xyz @minad@mastodon.world
A fantastic read, thanks for sharing !
Have to find the time to look at prescient and embark. Cape is too complex for me. I do use corfu and it works great except for the python-shell.
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@Nick_Stevens_graphics Very very cool. Thank you ! If I keep looking at it, it transports me into a story in a parallel universe!
Scary.
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@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I think most working websites are also trying to do the same T_T
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@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social The first logo was an annulus. Then they applied the best AI, the generative AI. Peak creativity has ensued.
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@petrikas@mastodon.art They are doing a Steve Jobs. That's what we get for letting con men run tech. Death of words by a thousand cuts.
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@byte@tech.lgbt Hot take indeed. It's the modern tech-scene equivalent of the degrowth movement. Something that we have known forever, but those with even a little bit of power and affluence find altogether repulsive.
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@tao@mathstodon.xyz Thanks for sharing. Have indeed noticed this in my field too. Very helpful in exposing ideas you may not have been familiar with. But its sycophancy means you have to be very careful at all times about hallucinations. In problems where you have a good grasp of the literature this is a synergetic collaboration, but in problems where you are less confident it is indeed a minefield and tends to make tasks take longer.
@harriorrihar Let us all become programmers. The capitalists' pets, and the most pampered and insipid group of people I know.
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@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social Whatever they say will be a lie. Multiply their prices by 1.2-1.4 or you will cause the collapse of all social order. You must pay for your food, and also contribute to staff wages.
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@jaystephens @MMantscheffAu By this token all their software and model parameters should also be open to all.
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@cstross@wandering.shop It is because grown ass adults go around reading trash like Harry Potter as if they were reading serious literature.
1/ Looking at 2-bed rents in Cambridge/Somerville : $3.5–4k/month, 3x income requirement !
That puts you at ~$140k/year just to qualify. At that income, you could carry a mortgage on a condo in many parts of the country, and honestly, in parts of this area too.
So why are we all still renting?
#boston #cambridgeMA #propertyMafia #rentierIncome
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@jwz@mastodon.social But look you can run it locally on your machine, and it helps to code better and faster, and it really doesn't consume as many resources as you think, I have the maths on it that I copied off a neutral website, and why would you not use it come on, do it, do it ?
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@parigotmanchot@mastodon.social @jon@social.vivaldi.net @DavidBHimself@mastodon.social @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Containers is make or break for me
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone I know a group that will happily give up their id. Teens, because they are too young and uneducated to know better, and too eager to get their jollies on :(
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@adam_harvey The obvious solution is to go and write a regex patch, because that's how intelligence works.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Her smirk because she knows she has struck a chord is disturbing. She knows her career is about wrapped up so she's ok pushing whatever crap will help her get the best exit deal on to the next generation. Disgusting lot.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al The former have lots of dialects like shameless, revisionist, thieving. Both languages evolved from genocidal.