[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I am not 100% sure of the answer (I am sure there are websites where this is explained), but I am reasonably sure it has to do with the fact that V and U used to not be distinct letters, but variations of the same letter.

I find both of those names silly, I like the fact that my first language (German) doesn't call any letter "double" anything.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Better than the blockade in Gaza and the apartheid system in the West Bank they've been living under for the last decades.

I don't think it would be a model in terms of human rights, doesn't make Israel's actions any better.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 weeks ago

Who is "we"? My understanding is LLMs are mostly being trained on a large amount of publicly available texts, including both reddit posts and research papers.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago

Nothing of course. I post stories about KOSA in order to make people aware what's happening about it.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago

It was a mistake that the Unicode people started to add emoji of their own at all ever in the first place.

My understanding is that emoji were originally added because they existed in other preexisting standards. They should have kept it at that. Now we get public discussions what concepts are important enough to "deserve" emoji, which is a stupid, pointless discussion that could have been avoided if they had not started doing that. We were able to communicate just fine before emoji were a thing.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

Number of German-language posts? I'm somehow not seeing those. I am however a native speaker of German already, so no need anymore to learn it.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In languages that distinguish definiteness (e.g. English) usually if you're talking about a "kind of thing", you can use either the definite or indefinite form and make sense. Only if you're talking about a specific thing does the distinction matter: "a mirror" = a mirror I'm now introducing and you don't know about yet, "the mirror" = the mirror we talked about before and you already know about; but either form can mean "mirrors in general". There are slight stylistic differences what's preferred in what contexts depending on the language, but in German too you can say "in den Spiegel schauen".

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 months ago

LLMs aren't virtual dumbasses who are constantly wrong, they are bullshit generators. They are sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but don't really care either way and will say wrong things just as confidently as right things.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago

Most domain and web hosting plans expire when no one pays to renew them.

One thing you could do is put your work under a free license. That would allow people to copy it which should make sure that your work will be preserved by others.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 5 months ago

Didn't that happen a long time ago which is how we got MATE?

I no longer follow developments in GTK based DEs much because nowadays KDE Plasma is so clearly the best choice for me, but it has long been my impression that GNOME just wants to be its own thing that doesn't really care about anyone not using GNOME. This is probably because the main role of GNOME is to be the DE for installations commercially supported by Canonical, Red Hat, etc.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 months ago

you see, the problem is: if you can do that, any spambot or troll farm can do it too...

Some years ago I was actually able to post to reddit through Tor. Has that really changed?

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