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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You ever just take a shit so huge it boosts your mood after?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Help

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit of a stretch calling it a plastic, as it’s not petroleum based from what I’ve read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot meaningfully delete your posts or comments. That’s not because of any issue with lemmy, but because you posted them publicly. They will be archived and indexed in other services.It is always best to remember that all your activity here is public, and will be linked to your username. Given that, you may wish to minimise any personally identifying information you post, and use several accounts to split up your activities by topic.

  I don’t believe other instances will receive any sort of deletion request from lemm.ee, it’ll just go away. Any instances that have a copy of your posts or comments will keep them for as long as they wish. Even if you manually delete the comments and lemm.ee federates that action out, there is no guarantee that any other server will actually act on it, and you can be certain that archiving services will not.

  Ultimately it comes down to the fact that you posted, commented or voted in public, and that will remain public indefinitely. That’s as much down to howpublic data is captured by other entities as it is to the concept of federation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might, possibly, be a viable use case if the LLM produced the summary for an editor, who then confirmed it’s veracity and appropriateness to the article and posted it themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like the Linux clipboard situation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, in X11 that clipboard behaviour was written once, and that made it work everywhere. Obviously there’ll have been work done on it over time, and non-native frameworks (java UIs and such) would have had to do it themselves, but for the vast majority of programs the author, and indeed the author of the toolkit probably didn’t have to think about it at all. It’s one of the nice things about the X11 architecture that I think we lose with the wayland approach, everything that should work the same everywhere is written once. I suspect that over time we’ll see only a few wayland compositors really lasting and being maintained, and we’ll start to get back to that common architecture.

  I can definitely understand your frustration with the clipboard situation, but it’s a decades old paradigm, and I’m used to it, so it seems reasonable to me. That said, I do use clipman to automatically store the text I’ve copied to the clipboard, and let me switch to previous values, so maybe that sort of thing would at least help you a bit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like the Linux clipboard situation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re going to teach all your tools how to use multiple shortcuts and interact with a complex clipboard situation

  The people writing the tools don’t have to do this, it ‘just works’ as it’s functionality the UI framework provides. It used to be that whether you used Tk, GTK, Qt or any of the others, you still ended up with X11 components on screen, and those components handled the UI interactions like middle click paste from selection or ‘ctrl-v’ paste form clipboard, but then we got a few UIs that tried to draw themselves (Java apps were terrible for this). I don’t know what it’s like on wayland, I suppose it could be different per compositor. I’ll get around to testing it at some point, but I’m in no hurry to leave X11 behind.

  just having them able to look back an arbitrary distance in the history of a single clipboard, like M-y in emacs.

  You’ll get no argument fro me, that would be a more intuitive approach, although rather than just a stack like that, I’d probably prefer to have a set of registers to yank to and paste from too like vi. That way I can put the information I want to keep using at a specific location, and just use the rolling stack for the more ephemeral stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like the Linux clipboard situation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still using X11, so this might be different in wayland, but in just about everything shift-insert pastes the selection and ctrl-v pastes the clipboard. In terminals paste from clipboard is ctrl-shift-v as ctrl-v already had a purpose.

  Copying to selection just involves highlighting the text, copying to clipboard is ctrl-c or ctrl-shift-c in a terminal.

  I had to actually think about those as they’re basically just muscle memory now! I might use the clipboard to store a path I need to use in multiple places, maybe in multiple tools, and the selection for ephemeral data like a snippet of output from the last command, or an ID value from a web page, something like that. It’s a bit tricky to explain, it’s just the way it’s always worked on unix and linux UIs, and it just becomes second nature to think with those tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not respond by playing loud noises back, no matter how tempting, that’ll just give him the chance to say “see, they’re the ones doing it”. Going away for a break might be a great idea though, just to get some rest and relax a bit. I’d suggest putting up external cameras covering the whole property, and internals covering doirs and windows first though, just in case he does anything harmful. I know you said he was frail, but you don’t want to take chances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like the Linux clipboard situation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very happy having the selection and primary clipboards be separate (I’ll admit I don’t use the secondary clipboard). Being able to copy one block, then select a second block, paste that in from selection and then paste from clipboard makes a lot of CLI tasks quicker.

  There probably should be a setting that says ‘K.I.S.S just one clipboard please’ though, for those that prefer that way of working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you let me know what sort of models you’re using? Everything I’ve tried has basically been so bad it was quicker and more reliable to to the job myself. Most of the models can barely write boilerplate code accurately and securely, let alone anything even moderately complex.

  I’ve tried to get them to analyse code too, and that’s hit and miss at best, even with small programs. I’d have no faith at all that they could handle anything larger; the answers they give would be confident and wrong, which is easy to spot with something small, but much harder to catch with a large, multi process system spread over a network. It’s hard enough for humans, who have actual context, understanding and domain knowledge, to do it well, and I’ve, personally, not seen any evidence that an LLM (which is what I’m assuming you’re referring to) could do anywhere near as well. I don’t doubt that they flag some issues, but without a comprehensive, human, review of the system architecture, implementation and code, you can’t be sure what they’ve missed, and if you’re going to do that anyway, you’ve done the job yourself!

  Having said that, I’ve no doubt that things will improve, programming languages have well defined syntaxes and so they should be some of the easiest types of text for an LLM to parse and build a context from. If that can be combined with enough domain knowledge, a description of the deployment environment and a model that’s actually trained for and tuned for code analysis and security auditing, it might be possible to get similar results to humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m unlikely to do a full code audit, unless something about it doesn’t pass the ‘sniff test’. I will often go over the main code flows, the issue tracker, mailing lists and comments, positive or negative, from users on other forums.

  I mean, if you’re not doing that, what are you doing, just installing it and using it??!? Where’s the fun in that? (I mean this at least semi seriously, you learn a lot about the software you’re running if you put in some effort to learn about it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘AI’ as we currently know it, is terrible at this sort of task. It’s not capable of understanding the flow of the code in any meaningful way, and tends to raise entirely spurious issues (see the problems the curl author has with being overwhealmed for example). It also wont spot actually malicious code that’s been included with any sort of care, nor would it find intentional behaviour that would be harmful or counterproductive in the particular scenario you want to use the program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny how we see the world in landscape, but live it mostly in portrait.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an interesting observation. We observe the world in landscape because our eyes are positioned to give us a goid balance between binocular vision and seeing predators in our peripheral vision, but most of our interactions are portrait, I suspect due to our upright posture. Most of the instances you mentioned are with things that either are, or are evolutiobs if things that were, designed around the fact we are talker than we are wide.

  It would be interesting to observe whether animals with a different posture interact differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understanding your target audience when marketing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a particularly good one…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole thread has been a hoot, but your comment properly sent me into fits of giggling. I can picture the nice old lady perfectly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First aid is what keeps the casualty alive long enough for second aid. Second aid is trained medical profesionals working in a medical setting, so a hospital or even the ambulace crew that take over after you stopped the casualty leaking too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What the law says, and what gets enforced are, unfirtunately, sometimes very different things. Sometimes that works in your favor, sometimes it doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that they’re doing what they can to make those orders legal. They’re not there yet, they’ll hopefully hit plenty of resistance before they get there, and they’re not exactly renowned for being competent, but they’re working on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing on that page that says the speed limit is the 85% percentile of the traffic flow. It states quite clearly that ‘Statutory speed limits are established by State legislatures for specific types of roads (e.g., Interstates, rural highways, urban streets) and can vary from State to State. They are enforceable by law and are applicable even if the speed limit sign is not posted’ and ‘Posted speed limits (sometimes called regulatory speed limits) are those that are sign-posted along the road and are enforceable by law.’

  Those speed limits are initially set based on the design speed of the road, then later they can be assessed and possibly modified based on a number of factors including the 85% percentile you referenced, however’ ‘The 85th percentile speed is not the only factor practitioners evaluate when determining an appropriate speed limit; they complete engineering speed studies and often utilize supporting tools like USLIMITS2.’

  Critically though, none of this means you can just drive at the prevailing speed of the traffic if it’s above the statutory or posted limit and not be considered to be speeding. The 85% percentile may be used to set the speed limit, but when it’s set, it’s the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh God, is everyone looking at me weird when I drink soda wrong?

  If you’re not holding it in the crook of your elbow, lifting your arm, and pouring it onto your outstretched tongue, then at least one of us is doing it wrong, and I think it’s you, and everyone is silently judging you for your weird way of drinking. They don’t drink with their elbows probably because they don’t want to embarass you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to say that sort of thing doesn’t happen, they undoubtedly do, but in places where the rules don’t permit speeding, just because everyone else is, the problem self corrects. If too many motorists exceed the limit, the police have a field day ticketing as many as they can, and the situation reverts to people driving at the limit.

  That does take setting the limits appropriately, constant enforecement that can be scaled up, a certain margin of error being accepted so everyone doesn’t have their eyes glued to the speedo, and the understanding and acceptance from motorists that the rules are fair and there for a reason. Absent any one or more of those, and things will inevitably turn into a racetrack again. Fortunately, much of the management and enforcement is usually local, so political pressure applied locally can often help correct issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you run a society?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an interesting prompt. Critically it seems like you definitely aren’t omnipotent, so whilst you can try to influence and teach the new inhabitants, there’s nothing stopping them simply ignoring you and doing something else.

  Rather than some wanting to just not contribute, I’d be more concerned by a group deciding to focus their efforts on building weapons and simply taking what they want from others.

  Fully automated luxury gay space communism is certainly an ideal, but it is extremely vulnerable to hostile forces until it gets large enough and willing enough to excert eqivalent force in return. Hostile forces can be military, ideological, or resource limit based. Responding to all of those, is a massive challenge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ball for a ball⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew there was such a thing as slicing your shot in golf, I didn’t know it meant that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They wouldn’t be driving slowly, they’d be driving at the posted limit. If the limit for the road is wrong, and other people are ignoring it, that is a separate issue that needs dealing with.

  It really grinds my gears when people complain about others driving at the posted limit (and, to be fair, I do it too sometimes, but I try to catch myself). You either think the limit is reasonable, in which case there isn’t actually a problem, or you think it’s wrong, in which case the driver isn’t the problem, the limit is. In that case rather than grousing about other drivers actually take action to have the limit changed. That goes just as much in areas where the limit is too high.

  Anyway, rant over, I shall take a couple of deep breaths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not for him, it’s for everyone who had to survive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steady on Satan, they’re only a credit card company! They’re bad, but not that bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than a platform, I’ve been wondering if you could rig it so opening the box opens some holes on the bottom, so they think they dodged the worst of it, pick it up to dispose of it and get a desk full from underneath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair observation, but I assume they’re trained to deal with suspicious packages safely, and that stuff will get transfered throughout the whole building and make everyone’s lives that bit more ‘special’. It’ll still hit the bottom line too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t use a rock, use 10lb of glitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possession⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Possesive spirit, 5 minutes later: “Let me out! Let me go back to hell!”

  Me: “Nope, you pushed in, now you gotta drive.”

  Spirit: “Please? At least it’s warm there.”