[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 8 months ago

Let's do the CBA.

Keep playing:

  • Gain playing-from-a-losing-position XP
  • Gain end-game XP
  • Gain playing-without-a-queen XP
  • Allow your opponent the satisfaction of a mate
  • Bestow honour onto the name of your family

Resign:

  • Save 1 minute of your time
  • Feel like a stupid pansy bitch

Tough choice.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 9 months ago

It's true. And people try to jump on to similar things. "It's just like how email works!", or "It's just like how international phone calls work!"

Yeah, nobody has any clue how those two things work, either.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

How is something a crime if you do it once, but not if you do it a million times?

You can dream up other examples of this.

If you're a DJ performing for a large audience and yell "I want to see you shake it for me!", that is legal. If you walk up to one specific woman on the street and pull her aside and say "I want to see you shake it for me", that's sexual harassment.

If the government announces that the median income of Detroit residents has gone up by 3%, that's normal. If the government public announces that John Fuckface, 36.2 years old, living at 123 Fake Street, had his income increase by 5% in the previous year, that's a privacy violation.

The whole point of training the AI is to build a model that can't reproduce a single work. It may seem superficially strange, but the more works you include, the less capable it is of reproducing one work.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

after all, people are taking pictures to actually capture the moment

Depending on what you mean by "the moment", I don't think that's really true. Modern cell phone photography doesn't really give you what the sensors have picked up. You take a picture of your friend with his eyes closed and the phone will change the picture to have his eyes open. You take a blurry picture of the moon and your phone will enhance it to make a better picture of the moon. I mean some people hate it but a lot people do actually like it.

And they like it because they don't really take pictures for the purpose of posterity. They don't take a picture of their friend because they need to look back 20 years from now and remember exactly how that one plastic bag 30m in the distance was crumpled. They take the picture because they want to post to Instagram, get some likes from their friends, and maybe look back 20 years from now to remember the general vibe, and if their phone can "enhance" that for them.

If people could record a voice memo and have their phone actually make a really decent Instagram post out of it for them, I 1000% believe people would do it instead of taking an actual picture. Posting pictures is more about socializing than it is about posterity.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Yup, total bullshit. When I got to:

Kaufman hopes it will “transform how the medical community screens for diabetes”.

I started to lose faith that there was anything of interest there. For those who don't know, "how the medical community screens for diabetes" currently is to...draw blood. Like, that's literally it. You fast overnight, go to the doctor's office, get blood taken, and the next day you learn if you're diabetic. If your doctor is really fancy, they may do the thing where they take blood once, then ask you to drink some ungodly sickeningly sweet glucose potion and take blood a second time so they can see how your body responds. But that's about the extent of it.

The authors are making it sound like you currently have to hike through the Himalayas to get a diagnosis now. No, you just take blood. It's fast. It's cheap. It's easy. And it's just about 100% accurate.

I can see that something like this could come up in some niche situations where someone's very remote and it's better than nothing, but "transform how the medical community screens for diabetes" overall is pretty laughable.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

It wasn't, by the way. Though it could have been flagged by the dumbest of online translators (or even anyone who could read Cyrillic, since some of it uses English loanwords, like "sex" and "gay"). It should never have made it in release, but I disagree with categorizing it as "hate speech". I feel comfortable posting it here, even though it's pretty crude and #3 in particular is very vulgar. If anyone's curious, here are the Google Translate translations of the vandalized parts (except for one of them, fullInstallationSubtitle, which I think is too offensive to be repeated here. It references the Israel-Palestine war):

Suck dicks in this {DISTRO}
Your pants aren't off yet
.
Classic gay sex
Only the bare essentials, circumcised beards and Jewish pornography.
Warning: This feature is not supported by your synagogue and cannot support updates to future versions of the Podor system. Please, take off your pants already.
It's not that difficult, just take and take off your pants
Experimental encryption of the ancient Hebrew language
Complete infection with syphilis
Turn off RST, spread your buttocks, and continue
Everything is a hook
You left with your pin point
Too much grease on the primary socket
Leave unwashed
The mount point should start with removing the pants "/"

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're paying them money, so it's in their best interest to keep hosting.

The uploader uploads their stuff to their own Usenet provider (whom they're probably paying for). Usenet servers are frequently mirroring/syncing with each other. So very quickly after the uploader uploads, you will find their post on your Usenet provider, and you download directly from them.

If a Usenet provider someday decided not to host any more, they would be out of business (because who would use them), and so you'd switch to a different Usenet provider, where you'd find exactly the same stuff mirrored.

Usenet providers compete/distinguish themselves mostly based on:

  • Cost (duh)
  • Speed (duh)
  • Retention. This means "how long is a post kept on our servers after it's been uploaded". Some cheaper providers might have only 30 day retention while some might have 180 day retention, etc. If you're only interested in recent posts/releases, it might not matter as much to you.
  • Tooling. Most Usenet providers have a web-based interface, with varying levels of service. Can you search for a specific filename, do different types of filtering, etc. Many providers will automatically package together files that have been split up, so you only have one download, and don't have to worry about par files and unrar and all that. Some will give you thumbnail previews, or even short video previews, of videos before you download, so you can check quality and language (important!! Some people on Usenet don't even bother to label the fact that they're uploading, say, a Spanish language version of something)
  • Obscure communities. Many people do still use Usenet for discussion, its original purpose. If that's you, you're going to want to check that the provider you choose is going to have alt.fan.obscure.howdy-doody-berenstain-bears-crossover-fanfic.bonk.bonk.bonk or whatever weird interest you and 3 other people in the world have. You might think since the discussion communities are so low-bandwidth every provider would just carry everything, but you might be surprised.
[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Honest question: what does i3wm that swaywm doesn't?

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Keep in mind that the tar "manual" does not actually call itself a "manual": it refers to itself as a "book". It has 20 pages of preamble (5 title pages, discussions of the authors, descriptions of the intended audience, etc.) It has another 20 pages elaborating on important structs in the tar source code. The licence takes up another 10 pages. The index at the end is 25 pages long.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago
if decision.confidence < CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD:
    wheel.give_to(JESUS)
[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

(Whoops, accidentally hit "Delete" instead of "Edit" and Lemmy doesn't ask for confirmation!! Boo!! I'll try to retype my comment as best I can remember)

I'll buck the trend here and say "Yes, for a home LAN, it's absolutely worth it. In fact for a home LAN it is more important than in a data centre. It is absolutely the bees' knees for home and is worth doing."

All of that depends on how your ISP does things. When I did it, I got a /56, which is sensible and I think fairly common. If you're ISP gives you anything smaller than a /64, (a) your ISP is run by doofuses, but (b) it's going to be a pain and might not be worth it. (I now live in literally one of the worst countries in the world for IPv6 adoption, so I can't do it any more)

The big benefit to it is that you can have your servers (if you want them to be) publicly reachable. This means you can use exactly the same address to reach them outside the network as you would inside the network. Just make one AAAA for them and you can get to it from anywhere in the world (except my country).

When I did it, I actually just set up 2 /64s, so a /63 would have been sufficient (but a /56 is nice). Maybe you can think of more creative ways of setting up your networks. Network configuration is a lot of fun (I think).

I had 1 /64 for statically-assigned publicly-reachable servers. Then I had a separate /64 for SLAAC (dynamic) end-user devices, which were not publicly reachable (firewalled to act essentially like a NAT). (Sidenote: if you do go to IPv6 for your home network, look into RFC7217 for privacy reasons. I think it's probably turned on by default for Windows, Android, iOS, etc., these days, but it's worth double-checking)

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