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- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
Did anyone read the grammar of graphics paper from Hadley Wickham? I kind of enjoyed it a lot, and got to know what’s the power source really. I’m amazed so many software libraries came to reinvent compossibility in such unergonomic ways… But it’s nice to have options.
I think I might prefer base R over matplotlib though… :p
- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
Can you do a plot a hundred times with a hundred different datasets with these templates? Without having to apply such template to each file, just pointing to the folder with them…
To me that’s the whole point of programming, you can automatically do a thing and it doesn’t matter if it took an hour to write the code. Once you have it, you point it to the folder with all datasets, iterate over while you drink a coffee and then you have the hundreds of plots.
- Comment on short kings 4 weeks ago:
I only learnt this recently, buy snail depictions were ubiquitous in gothic manuscripts’ marginalia. Oftentimes, with social implications, very much like satire. The snail, being slow and seemingly harmless, simbolizes futility or absurdity of certain endeavors. There’s many interpretations among historians and art enthusiasts.
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- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 1 month ago:
Objection! Hehe… No, wait. Really, I see a problem…
If registration are closed, mods would be exclusively from outside. And, since reports are not federated, this communities would be prone to difficulties for moderation. Unless reports are correctly federated, I don’t think this is a good idea. And, even if you were to open registrations only for mods, we would have only moved the inconvenience to this (who wants to have so many accounts, really?)
There’s also the problem with centralization of domain names under you. I don’t know you, and perhaps you’re well intended… So, it’s fine for the most part, let’s just assume that’s okay. Now, what happens if you had an accident or decided to go live in a farm? Without domain name renewals, etc. all communities would be in trouble. There’s centralization in the shape of a single point of failure.
I can’t see this happening even if the domain names are cool.
And, leaving disadvantages aside. What’s the point on this? Can you name any advantage?? I agree that it would be more ordered and I like that. But it’s quite subjective, and hardly anything huge to really break the inertia or status quo of things as they’re now…
Thanks for the intentions. Let’s focus on some new ideas, they’ll come…
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
Human genome would be a handful of gigabytes, depending the file format, compression and so on… But it can hardly fill 1 of those 360 TiB.
Indestructible? Yeah, sure…
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
I have filtered out some terms: elon musk and donald trump
- Comment on Submit Your Cool Site/Blogs 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dreams come true 1 month ago:
In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality (“garbage”) information or input produces a result or output of similar (“garbage”) quality. The adage points to the need to improve data quality in, for example, programming.
There was some research article applying this 70s computer science concept to LLMs. It was published in Nature and hit major news outlets. Basically they further trained GPT on its output for a couple generations, until the model degraded terribly. Sounded obvious to me, but seeing it happen on the www is painful nonetheless…
- Comment on Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design 1 month ago:
Exactly my feeling when everyone was jumping into touch screens.
(I was able to type SMS in my pocket, using one hand, while walking. Sure, it took a 100 meters a sentence but it worked.)
Anyway, a smartphone comes with many other differences, mostly advantages. This is another leap of quality for gaming, watching movies, filling government forms on old websites, etc.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
They still store the passwords like that? I remember that quote of Zuckerberg doing so, in the early days, and boasting about it to a friend… This was so outrageous at the time. Now it’s beyond absurdity… Not to mention the fine is so small!
- Comment on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store 1 month ago:
Hopefully more devs switch to f-droid.org or start their own repositories ;)
- Comment on As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He'd Pushed For 1 month ago:
it was implying that there is nothing interesting, hence no title.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
It’s not sexist to credit the french. France is gay. /s
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
This kind of messages should have a “/s” attached. IMHO, that’s just proper Netiquette.
- Comment on Amino acids 1 month ago:
First post was fun. The pedantic conversation not so much, only a little because the one that comes correcting then it’s shown to be wrong.
- Comment on Mental hell 1 month ago:
It’s difficult to know if this might just be a correlation to age of onset, plus the effect of new project or career. Maybe other graduates of similar careers that doesn’t go into PhD programmes would be a nice control. But there’s no curve there. Alas, I know academia is difficult. But I wouldn’t dare drawings conclusion without a proper comparison.
- Comment on This Week in Self-Hosted (20 September 2024) 1 month ago:
Indeed! Before I was relying on the listing’s of linuxserver.io , yunohost , casa os , etc .
- Comment on ZeroTrust Your Home 2 months ago:
Nice write-up. I’d take this as a blueprint. Anyone can swap 3rd-party services to their like (e.g. headscale, xmpp bot on that vps, backblaze s3, etc.) and extend upon (e.g. oidc providers, mailboxes, arr suite, etc.)
- Comment on ZeroTrust Your Home 2 months ago:
A cheap VPS with headscale. Or just ZeroTier.com free plan.
- Comment on How to avoid "things going wrong" and immutable distros? 2 months ago:
This! And, baby-steps: don’t go about installing every app you see. Try backup strategies, put them to test (bring service down and up again with data from backup). Play, have fun.
- Comment on Farfalle vs Perplexica 2 months ago:
He asks whatever model is running behind either system to do the comparison and pastes the text. It’s full of errors, like perplexica saying farfalle doesn’t use LLM. Meanwhile, I just checked and it supports anything from ollama to groq (gpt4o, sonnet, etc.)
This post is ultra low quality.
- Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. 2 months ago:
Btw, libgen domains were seized recently. Here are new ones: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26690539
- Comment on biology subfields 2 months ago:
This only shows how ignorant on bioinformatic analyses is whoever listed two items on the left. Without effort, I can say… git, bash, python, R-lang, alignment algorithms, UMAP, clustering algorithms, snakemake, nextflow, slurm, amazon web services, google cloud platform, conda, heuristics, more algorithms, deep learning, machine learning, imputing missing values, frequentist statistics, parametric or not, bayesian statistics, mmm… Ok, point given.
- Comment on GitHub - Owez/yark: YouTube archiving made simple. 2 months ago:
This is oooold. Like in, it was superseded long agooo.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
using Tor is enough meta data if you were to use it to safeguard from some actors (e.g. state). I’m just saying from the perspective of some of the hypothetical personas as defined by Tor project itself. If it were to boil this down to me, I would rather live without the correlation attacks (e.g. ISP giving me seemingly random disconnects) and just do my casual reading on cracking on the clear-net.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Plus, just connecting to Tor is very much a huge exposure imho. I’d use a VPN. Now, if I’m having a VPN, probably wireguard, why would I need Tor? Some providers grant you the ability to interconnect devices under your account. So, just run the VPN on the server. This is why I love NordLynx. It’s just like tailscale.
- Comment on "PSA: Update Vaultwarden as soon as possible" 3 months ago:
I might try vaultwarden myself, given that my life partner is always asking me for some platform password I already shared. Is possible to use just on LAN to sync and keep using the passwords from the android client while out of reach? I was just reading about 30-days sessions in the docs. Apparently, yes. That’s huge (for me, I’d like not to expose anything, even with VPN)
- Comment on "PSA: Update Vaultwarden as soon as possible" 3 months ago:
The syncthing server only gives metadata (no files, only IPs) between the devices, so they can connect to each other. And it’s self-hostable.
- Comment on "PSA: Update Vaultwarden as soon as possible" 3 months ago:
I said my needs. I was just sharing. Hardly understanding your normal use case of 10-50 users on a same kdbx. The best you could do is having multiple kdbx, fro subgroups of users. Since not everyone should have the master password to all those kdbx… But I am sure that if those were my needs I’d jump to vaultwarden too. That’s why I specifically added the disclaimer sentences on my post. I didn’t mean to rob vaultwarden of its value. Just pointed out the tradeoff. Your comments adds on to those tradeoffs, they’re just different solutions with different pros and cons. The user who mentioned using vaultwarden behind a VPN gave great input, I wasn’t considering that. Anyway, have a nice day.
