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peacememories

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Software developer, student of media informatics and hci, photography hobbyist.

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aral, to DuckDuckGo
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Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.

(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)

Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).

peacememories,
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@Cheeseness @aral they have some nice features and I tried switching to it full-time, but for one the performance and quality of results is not really there right now (forgivable) but they also started incorporating Aishit into their search :/

peacememories,
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@Cheeseness @aral I couldn't find any mention on their website as well, but the summarization feature made me suspicious, so I dove into the code: https://github.com/StractOrg/stract/blob/e74978c5bc1570e10e8f54e2a36a28461f576ead/crates/core/src/summarizer.rs

Of course, providing a summarizer is way less problematic than what other search providers have been doing. But the obvious inaccuracy of these summaries combined with the questionable ethics of anything ChatGPT are imo not compatible with the mission of an open, accurate, and fair search.

blinry, to random
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Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to #emfcamp, a hacker camp in the UK! #emf2024

Getting excited! 😆 This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

peacememories,
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@blinry are you perhaps travelling from Nice?

netbsd, to random
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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

peacememories,
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@daniel_collin @asmodai ability of perfect enforcement is not a prerequisite for a policy. look at... i dunno... law

SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    peacememories,
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    @Kommentator @SheDrivesMobility beide sind ein gutes argument gegen Autos

    blinry, to NixOS
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    Let's say I wanted to move my personal server from Arch to #NixOS…

    Are there more modern webservers than nginx in 2024 that you can recommend from personal experience? Or is it still a good choice?

    And are there alternatives to a dovecot + postfix + rspamd mail server?

    Or calendar servers you like better than Radicale?

    peacememories,
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    @blinry there is others, like caddy and traefik, but nginx is rock solid and the integration in nix modules is excellent

    benroyce, to Women
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    Seventy seven codebreakers from revealed for the first time.

    Many of them took the secret to their graves.

    "Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe – a who worked in in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock – was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: “Oh, I made the tea.”"

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/17/cambridge-newnham-college-alumnae-bletchley-park-codebreakers

    peacememories,
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    @benroyce now I want "making tea" to be the new slang for crypto analysis and code breaking

    mcc, to random
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    Me: It is the year 2024. Computer Science has reached the peak of its technological and cultural development. I would like to call the function std::min from a C++ program on Windows now please

    Microsoft: No

    peacememories,
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    @mcc

    > Computer Science has reached the peak of its technological and cultural development

    This probably makes the top 5 in "scariest sentences I've read this month"

    nblr, (edited ) to random
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    This is fine...
    "We observed that participants who had access to the AI assistant were more likely to introduce security vulnerabilities for the majority of programming tasks, yet were also more likely to rate their insecure answers as secure compared to those in our control group."

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622

    peacememories,
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    @nblr following this, and also the slew of “i had an idea and let chatgpt flesh it out, please treat this as proposal with merit” posts , I propose an additional nickname for LLMs:

    Dunning-Kruger-O-Tron

    aeva, to random
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    your reflection stands slightly closer to the mirror than you do, but otherwise appears to be normal

    peacememories,
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    @aeva i would freak out a bit. And am now thinking about whether you could construct such a mirror. Further away seems easier, but wouldn’t be as freaky, I think 😅

    b0rk, to random
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    today I'm thinking about the tradeoffs of using git rebase a bit. I think the goal of rebase is to have a nice linear commit history, which is something I like.

    but what are the costs of using rebase? what problems has it caused for you in practice? I'm really only interested in specific bad experiences you've had here -- not opinions or general statements like “rewriting history is bad”

    peacememories,
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    @b0rk

    1. Most people don’t get taught how to do it well, get told it can break everything (not really, thanks reflog), so I’ve had to help quite many panicked devs who thought they’d deleted their work.
    2. We’ve had problems with rebase creating multiple versions of the same change, which makes merges (and further rebases) very unhappy
    3. We’ve had some instances where it became very unclear why a change was made, because the commiter mashed together commits in a confusing manner.
    ZDF, to random German
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    Fahrräder und Autos müssen sich den Platz auf der Straße häufig teilen – das kann gefährlich werden.

    Worauf achtet ihr in den dunklen Monaten besonders beim Radeln? 🚴🏻

    peacememories,
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    @ZDF einen klanggenerator der sich anhört wie zerbrochene scheinwerfer, damit die autofahrenden von ihrem handy aufsehen weil sie denken ihrem auto wäre etwas passiert

    aeva, to random
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    Are there any star trek episodes that deal with biological incompatibility with alien computer display color spaces?

    I feel like there should be a TNG episode where like Barclay or someone is in a bind on an alien space craft because he can't read a computer screen because the color gamut is entirely UV. The day is saved when Geordie pops by and he can read it just fine with his visor thingy.

    peacememories,
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    @aeva maybe the aliens never added a second polarization filter to their lcds because either their photoreceptors can detect polarization, or their eyes already polarize light, so all humans see is a white screen? 😅

    mattblaze, (edited ) to random
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    This may be obvious, but I recently started routinely adding "-youtube" to google searches. This eliminates most pages with links to garbage YouTube-monetized videos that try to attract people looking for basic instructions on how to do simple things. Greatly improves the quality of search results.

    peacememories,
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    @mattblaze when I was hoping for DuckDuckGo to catch up to Google in niche search result quality I didn’t expect it would happen because Googles results became unusable 🤦

    esther, to random

    It’s almost funny how far the conspiracy theories about Fediverse admins are removed from reality.

    Like, some people believe we’re making big money off of this for example and you know the “profit” is usually like a pizza once or twice a year.

    Or the “secret meetings” where we supposedly pull all the strings. It’s just a discord channel with a mix of tech support, venting, and haphazard group therapy.

    peacememories,
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    @esther my assumption is that we’re so acclimatized to venture capital money grabs that someone providing a service, with no ulterior motive, does not parse. And since we’re not able to find the actual hidden agenda, it must be much worse than e.g. Facebooks, why else would you hide it so well? 🙃

    malwarejake, to random

    I hope this email finds you well. I'm writing to ggin4yhg9316hj49nbT56B U7 3IU87J2N U2B6V 5Cfgtrj576kj8638509ol,men whg,./;/UP[p987j6q54`2ewfzxczzju

    video/mp4

    peacememories,
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    @malwarejake classic example of hostile architecture

    Radical_EgoCom, to random

    Damned if you do, damned if you don't

    peacememories,
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    @Radical_EgoCom don’t you know the only real job is inheriting wealth?

    emilygorcenski, to random

    It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

    peacememories,
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    @emilygorcenski what I find equally alarming is that we have a few good courses at my uni talking about real-life impact on our software on one hand and rigorous software on the other (basically in the track that is about building software for cars, plains, factories), and the majority opinion of students is „that useless social stuff“ and „that boring q/a stuff“ and I just can’t anymore. They start studying cs expecting to „just work with computers,“ and somewhere we promised them that.

    peacememories, to random German
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    Long shot, aber - hat irgendjemand eine Ahnung wo man in Wien Acryl- oder andere Plastik-Rohblöcke fürs Fräsen herbekommt? Die Maße müssten zumindest 1508080mm sein, für ein kleines Wasserreservoir.
    Mein Google-Fu lässt mich leider im Stich. #diy #cnc

    GeePawHill, to random
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    "Passion" is bullshit, promulgated by marketeers and exploiters, but joy is real.

    If geekery gives you joy -- it does me -- then do not let the geek trade take it from you.

    That trade is very broken, and grown-upping is very hard, and we all gotta do what we gotta do.

    But joy? Mmmm. Joy is rare. Don't let this broken trade rob you of your geek joy.

    peacememories,
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    @rysiek @GeePawHill I… think I haven’t gotten it back yet.

    I think I need to do something about that

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