dave

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[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you make a leaderboard? We can see which of us is closest to LLM—I’d place myself quite high up.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fact you haven’t seen it and that it’s so common in LLM output just means there’s a huge amount of the internet you don’t look at. That could be a good or bad thing—depending on your perspective.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 135 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Countries which support the implementation of Chat Control:

Spain, Romania, Portugal, Malta Lithuania, Hungary, Ireland, France, Denmark, Croatia, Cyprus, and Bulgaria.

Countries that are undecided:

Belgium, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Slovakia, and Sweden.

Countries which oppose Chat Control:

Slovenia, the Netherlands, Poland, Luxembourg, Germany, Estonia, Finland, the Czech Republic, and Austria

[–] dave@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Not like the good old days.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those IP addresses were about the most believable thing in that episode. It’s occasionally amusing nonsense, requires about 1% concentration, and if you fall asleep in one episode and wake up in the next, you won’t need to reach for the remote.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It’s from FUBAR. I think they took the show’s name as a general directive.

 
[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You could buy a webserver outside the country and set up your own VPN software or something. I think there are forms that look like https.

Anyone used / got any opinions on Algo?

[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

Ha, never thought of that. Wonder what the current is—less than what some AAs can source. Guess I’d better not find out :)

 

I’m replacing a trivial pcb in a battery pack for a small fan. It’s 6V (4xAA) with a SPST top left and a USB socket top right. But why on earth would the power line on the pcb follow that curved path? There are no other components, just the 2 ends of the battery pack and a plastic housing.

Maybe just ‘because you can’?

[–] dave@feddit.uk 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So glad they put an onion in that shot—I had no idea what they were talking about until I saw it.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Actually (pronounced acktschually) it’s ‘shayz long’ The ‘s’ is usually only silent when it’s the last letter of the word.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

The character was created specifically because when we write we use different length dashes to mean different things—subtraction through to a pause for thinking.

The automated test will have no difficulty telling them apart. Are you saying it’s hard looking at the results of this tests? You might need to use a font that makes that easy (I agree many monospaced fonts don’t, but that’s not the character’s fault. Or include a step that replaces en with 2 hyphens and em with 3.

 
 

I’ve been using Arch for just over a year on my older Dell laptop, and have been regularly running sudo pacman -Syu but not once have I had a problem or anything break. What am I doing wrong?

 

I saw this comment which included a link to a crosspost in a different community. When I open that link, I see the post and the top of the view has the community name with menu. But I seem to be able to do everything (subscribe, favourite, block, read the sidebar) except just ‘open’ the community to see other posts. Am I missing the right place to click / menu entry?

 

Don’t know if this is from the most recent update but I just saw this post and it doesn’t show the image in the feed—just a grey placeholder box. Opening the post shows the image.

https://feddit.uk/post/11005731

 

I got a reply to a comment in what’s become quite a bit post (≈150 comments). Clicking the message in the inbox goes to the post comments but not to the reply. It seems to go to a slightly different place each time I open it.

I saved the original comment I’d replied to, and navigating from my ‘saved comments’ does go to the right place.

 

This is an assumption on my part, and may have other explanations. I’ve noticed sometimes the feed ‘jumps’ down a post while scrolling, and I’m assuming this is due to a background feed update combined with a sort order that puts a new item anove where I was currently scrolled to. If that’s the case, having an option for manual refresh only would be great.

If that’s not it, there might be a bug somewhere but it’ll be hard to find I guess, as it happens quite rarely.

 

I find the high contrast cards in the main feed a bit hard on my eyes. I’d like to reverse the back card background and the grey page background, and maybe also dial down the text colour a bit. It would be fab to have RGB colour pickers for those kinds of elements.

 

Sorry, can’t quite remember if you’d mentioned this already, but it resets to Hot if you force quit and restart the app.

 

Direct messages in the inbox tab always show as ‘unread’ and there doesn’t seem to be a way to clear that. They also don’t show the name of the other person you’re messaging (seems to show my id instead). It would also be great to link to their profile so you can find their posts / comments easily.

 

Not sure if I’ve got the right expectations here, but for me, changing the sort ordering on All or in a community seems to have no effect. I also just turned off ‘Hide Read Posts’ and yet refreshing the feed still hides those I’ve read.

Sometimes quitting and restarting does seem to change the sort order, but I’ve also seen it come back still showing the previous ordering.

Are there known problems with sorting / hiding, or is this news?

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