wuphysics87

joined 2 years ago
[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago
[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Instead of 'american' or USian or others, why not Yankee? It has historical significance to the united states, originated a a pejorative, and the south hates it. Perfect

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Instead of 'american' or others,

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Rather than 'american' or others, Yankee? It has historical s

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Overwrite wasn't the best choice of words. Display in place of is better. There's a literal option now called "disable hyperchan" If you use that config, you don't need to do anything else. But, having a dev introduce a feature which supercedes users' deliberate choices for his, and his cronies amusement was reason enough to leave.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

1st turnoff for me was the creator added this anime background which overwrote whatever background you had. I found the file and wrote a hook to automatically delete it on update reverting to mt background, only to find that there was a condig option to do the same thing

2nd The maintainer is a bigot and I won't support bigotted projects when there are other (better) options like sway which I know use.

TLDR: Creator violates Wheatons Law. I don't like that.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Exploitation is hard work

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Suuupa Mario Two Baebeeeee!

Why all the downvotes? If you don't like him you don't like him. Is he contraversial or something? Do people find him that annoying? At least he's not a sellout like AVGN, although I feel really bad for what happened to his content.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Sharing is caring

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I should have phrased that better. I agree copy and pasting commands off of the internet is a terrible idea. Be they from ai or from a forum or wiki. By 'try' I meant look into. As in explore that path. To you and I 'try' means something different than a new user. I will be more careful in the future

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

If ai gives you something to try it's better than nothing. But I was going to suggest another distro if someone else hadn't. Thanks ai...

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

We spend so much time and effort trying to disuade the people with "negative behavior" who we have discarded from our "civil society"

Where I live the grocery stores have carts whose wheels lock if you try to take them too far from the store. As if anyone trying to do that would know until they couldn't push them anymore. Thing is the store doesn't unlock them. Somehow they make it back and then they end up to front carts. People will try to use them until they realize they can't be moved. Some do get unlock, but the wheels aren't round anymore. People dragged them flattening out part of the wheel. If there are no other carts, which happens often because there are so many with locked wheels, you get to click and clack through the store with everyone looking at you like you are some kind of asshole.

There are literally hundreds of cameras. Including ones raised high on trailers in the parking lot. The same pole has blinking blue lights to simulate a police cruiser and a loud speaker reminding you the parking lot is being monitored. Back in the store as you walk in there is an electric gate and a camera and monitor. On which is writing which also reminds you you are being monitored. You have to wait to let them get a picture of you before the gate will open.

But the best of all of this. After you finish checking out your groceries as if you work there, you have to keep your reciept handy before your cart is checked by armed guards. Body armor. A gun. Not the police (as if that would make it better, but at least their job is to "protect and serve" the public) As you walk up they are usually shooting the shit with each other, and they maintain that pleasantness while they check your receipt (as if they actually are). You are at complete ease until you realize you went through a security checkpoint with a riot squad.

All of this. All. Of. This. Because our society sees it as acceptable to punish the entire public for lack of empathy for those who need it most and to prevent petty crime.

 

In general or something in particular

 

I've been play around with ollama. Given you download the model, can you trust it isn't sending telemetry?

 

Our university is hosting an AI summit with a student panel, a faculty panel, and attendee participation segments. It would be great to get panel questions, but we really need multiple choice, strongly agree/disagree, and yes/no style clicker questions for the attendees. Remembering they are primarily non-technical, with a wide range of exposure to the topic, what would you ask the crowd?

 

How do you "Do as as I say, not as I do"?

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A friend of mine has a daughter who is too young for a smart phone, but he still wants her to be able to listen to music on the go. I found the following devices using spotify. Have you used any of these or do you have any alternative suggestions?

https://www.tunepat.com/spotify-music-tips/portable-spotify-music-player.html

Edit: found what I was looking for. https://bemighty.com/

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When I get fast food, I don't eat the fries until I get home.

 

As an American, the US participation in the Ukrainian conflict as well as the Palestinian genocide are beyond reproach. Many describe them as proxy wars, but I'm not there yet.

During the Cold War, there was the Afghanistan, Vietnam, South America, Cuba, etc. These were proxy wars because there was a clear adversary on the other side. The Soviet Union.

Now, who is that? Russia? China? Who is "our enemy"? I see it was war is good for business and projection of power.

Am I wrong?

 

Obviously, a bit of clickbait. Sorry.

I just got to work and plugged my surface pro into my external monitor. It didn't switch inputs immediately, and I thought "Linux would have done that". But would it?

I find myself far more patient using Linux and De-googled Android than I do with windows or anything else. After all, Linux is mine. I care for it. Grow it like a garden.

And that's a good thing; I get less frustrated with my tech, and I have something that is important to me outside its technical utility. Unlike windows, which I'm perpetually pissed at. (Very often with good reason)

But that aside, do we give Linux too much benefit of the doubt relative to the "things that just work". Often they do "just work", and well, with a broad feature set by default.

Most of us are willing to forgo that for the privacy and shear customizability of Linux, but do we assume too much of the tech we use and the tech we don't?

Thoughts?

 

FOSS or otherwise

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