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What's wrong with bluesky?


Seriously i have zero idea what is going on with bluesky. I never used it. Why are people saying it's centralised?
I also heard that a lot of people are joining it.

in reply to xia

A fella down the street across the county line by one of the lakes is a radiologist who works 14 weeks a year and get $780,000.00/year.

And they bragged about it on /r/salary.

The United States is still a slaver nation if you adjust for inflation.

And tell any doctor that says they, too, want "medicare for all" to STFU. They lying.

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in reply to xia

Depending on the workplace and the labour laws in effect, they could well prefer you to work 39.7 hours a week so you're not considered full time which would cost more for the company.

A lot of grocery stores around where I live schedule you just under the 40hr full time threshold so you get no benefits.

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Automounting External Drives in Linux




GOP senator: Kash Patel will lead FBI by 'taking it apart'



in reply to compostgoblin

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the real heroes that day; the first responders who are still dealing with the consequences of helping en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health…
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in reply to Jessica

They're heroes until they ask for help on their medical bills. After that they're just freeloading degenerates.

in reply to Leaflet

Other than memory size, why do people prefer xfce these days? I use it in nowsci.com/webbian/ to keep image size down, but use Gnome on my machines.
in reply to fmstrat

Gnome is very different than xfce and has a different workflow. I find the workflow of xfce very nice and like the modularity of it
in reply to fmstrat

I like the aesthetic and theming support
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in reply to fmstrat

Xfce allowed me to replace the default window manager by Bspwm.
Also the panels are fully configurable.
This is a totally different philosophy.


Does anyone else use the bookmarks bar as a to-do list?


As the browser is by far my most used app, I find that bookmarking the current tab and describing the task with no more than a few words or even as little as a few chars, to be a good way to keep track of what things I need to do soon. For things I would get to later or whenever I feel like it, I'll put them in Firefox's "Boookmarks Menu" or "Other Bookmarks" folders, and have lots of folders consisting of Reddit posts and searches about different topics.

in reply to xc2215x

Cause the internet can't be fun anymore. if only there were a place where you could make your own server. Maybe some prehistoric creature would know.
in reply to lordnikon

The VCs know best as usual, it's important not to ruin the pure perfect possibility of decentralization by actually implementing it


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in reply to Brad Linder

I was just about to splurge on an raspberry pi to build something like this. Will definitely check this out, especially for $90, can't go wrong supporting #opensource projects.



MedAssist Update



in reply to ColdWater

"I am announcing (on Twitter) that I'm leaving Twitter!?¡ Don't anyone try and stop me! I mean it! I'm done with this stupid site, barf, ugh, gag, snugh!"

Literally everyone: ...



JS games collection


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In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into.


in reply to schizoidman

These data processing apps are just apps hooked up to big computers with big data. It's no surprise when rich people buy a bunch of computers and data then run an app on it. It's much more surprising that people are hyped into believing this is somehow important. "It took one week to copy an app and load the data?!?! Wow!!!!"

Nobody cares when "China" writes a decent word processing app or whatever, nor should they.

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in reply to catloaf

I wonder if that's a UI block like if it's mentioned then throw error, or if the model itself has a block in there. From this, it looks like it's baked in and of course they haven't poisoned it
in reply to Scrubbles

I'm guessing it's in the output handler, not the UI exactly. I don't think you can edit models like that, and the fact that it knows about it at all means they didn't whitewash the training data set. But my knowledge is limited. In their place, I would probably have included "don't talk about tiananmen square" in the initialization rules. But failing that, I would have added something in the output processor to check for forbidden knowledge and throw an exception.

Still, it's strange that it got the words out before dying.

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in reply to catloaf

Yeah agreed, I'm more surprised they didn't scrub every reference to it on the training set like you said that it's in the model at all is surprising. I may try to run it myself and see what it does with the same question
in reply to catloaf

It works in Spanish, in English it throws an error before answering about Tiananmen as you show 🤫
in reply to not_amm

Interesting. I tried Chinese and it also throws an error. Looks like it was a manual thing in only some languages.
in reply to catloaf

Someone gagged the AI before it could complete that sentence 😜


Synology transcoding


I got a second hand Synology DS916+. I am interested in installing Jellyfin on it with hardware transcoding support. I have read over the debacle of Synology removing the codecs support, but am confused whether this just impacts the Synology installed apps (Video Station, etc) or if it would also impact Jellyfin running in Docker.

Do I need to downgrade the DSM or try to install the codecs for hardware transcoding to work in Jellyfin?



Wasted - A FLOSS vehicular combat racing game


WASTED!


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Wasted is a video game that features vehicular combat racing, developed by a cooperative of hobbyist game developers. Players engage in battle arenas where they can also use weapons or other tools to damage or destroy their opponents' vehicles.
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Media segments with audio fingerprinting question


I know audio fingerprinting intro skippers have existed now for a while. I just heard about media segments being introduced. Is there any project that combines the two to make an intro skipper that (eventually, ik segments aren't supported on most clients yet) work on other clients?