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Elvith Ma'for
Former Reddfugee, found a new home on feddit.de. Server errors made me switch to discuss.tchncs.de. Now finally @ home on feddit.org.
Likes music, tech, programming, board games and video games. Oh… and coffee, lots of coffee!
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•AI is plastic: cheap and shiny, worse and harder to maintain. Companies love it, it’s everywhere, and now it’s in our brains.
16·6 days agoAI does have excellent usecases. They just diminish to almost zero if you only look at LLMs
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The word "expert" is used frequently in news headlines, but its meaning is notoriously vague.
2·16 days agoSo… Now the pressure is gone? Or is it still there, but it’s not a drip anymore?
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World News@lemmy.world•Rat poison found in baby food jar in Austria after product recallEnglish
82·29 days agoPolice in Burgenland said in a statement that a sample from one of the 190g (7oz) jars of carrots and potatoes baby food reported by a customer had tested positive for rat poison
[…]
The police statement said the affected jars had a sticker with a red circle on the bottom […]
Now… Was it one or were there several?
One important tip from that community to be more successful:
Do not use the “original” link, but link a YouTube short. Why?
- It’s not the known link (“XcQ”)
- Shorts do autoplay
- Shorts are ad free
- Shorts are optimized for mobile and usually start playing quickly
Where as the original link will probably just dump you to 1-3 pre roll ads and the rickroll is only seeing the title and closing the tab/app…
!rickrolltactics@lemmy.world will be having a field day, when that happens.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.
5·3 months agoThere’s an app that I find useful. Many many years ago (on Android 2.3 or maybe Android 4?) I got a lifetime license for it.
Then a few years ago they updated the app and introduced a subscription. I don’t care, because the features that I use are still accessible in the grandfathered lifetime license. BUT after every update without a subscription you now need to complete the whole “let’s personalize this app for you” thing. Afterwards it just dumps you onto a screen to select the subscription you want to pay for. You need to dismiss that screen in order to use the free features OR login and restore your old license to unlock most of the features.
They intentionally put a white X to dismiss that screen in the top left, but also put a very bright image there directly under it, so that it’s barely recognizable.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Since AI companies don't care about Copyright, que should incentivize model distilation, just so we can laught at their hypocrisy.
5·3 months agoReal models are trained on copyright-, license- and ToS violations! Those cheap bastards found a way to only train with ToS violations (of a single source, mind ya!). That’s not real AI!
/s
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Buy European@feddit.uk•What are the most European Linux distributions?English
2·3 months agoI had many problems with the NVidia drivers on Open side tumbleweed. But if it wasn’t for that, I’d probably be rocking it, because everything else was to my liking.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today.
21·3 months agoThe ankles? Looks nervously in the rough direction of the middle east You mean her face?
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memes@lemmy.world•I will be this old man for the rest of my life
2·3 months agoI’m using Fedora. Works out of the box. You need to add a MOK if you want to use custom kernel modules (or the current Nvidia drivers). But using the nouveau driver or just a standard installation of not using Nvidia hardware works flawlessly without MOK.
Im using Nvidia. The initial import of the MOK is a bit… strange or scary for non tech people, but afterwards, akmods makes it a breeze. You don’t have to think about it. With Fedora 42, akmods regularly failed to build the driver’s and I had to restart the build manually after a kernel upgrade, but since I upgraded to Fedora 43, it just works.
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memes@lemmy.world•I will be this old man for the rest of my life
2·3 months agoNot every Linux distribution supports Secure Boot, but almost all of them do. No need to toggle it depending on your boot target. Dual booting with secure boot works just fine.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux. Have a stupid or niche question no need to be judge just ask an LLM.
6·3 months agoI usually try to iterate - read available documentation (e.g. comments in a config file, product documentation,…) and try to find stuff out. If I get stuck, an LLM answer may be confidently wrong, but it may give me some new pointers in which direction I should go next. Or maybe mention some buzzwords/techniques/concepts that I might need to investigate further.
As it’s underlying concept is pattern recognition it might not be completely correct, but more often than not nudges me generally in the right direction. Bonus: Now I probably learned some things that will help me later on.
So far I never had something a little more complex that an LLM gave me a correct solution for. But as I like to tinker, explore and learn for myself, I’d probably hate getting a complete working solution without any work I did myself.
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World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Twitter Office in Paris Raided by Cybercrime UnitEnglish
11·3 months agoOh gosh, what did I just witness?!
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memes@lemmy.world•When he/she enters the elevator and you can't breathe
8·4 months agoAnd she’s smelling, like she never smelled before!
Believe me, we would, if we could
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World News@lemmy.world•Dollar on track for steepest annual drop for almost a decadeEnglish
13·5 months agoBig beautiful drop!
I know, but still it’s clearly a “you had one job to do, taskmanager”.
Here’s a German one. The guy behind it also hosts Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed,… instances and so far they have been quite stable. I haven’t used XMPP there yet, though.
https://hookipa.net/