TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on The use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight. 1 month ago:
Quite apart from all these people telling you that the day used to start at sunset, I am curious as to how you came to the thought in the first place, since the moon and it’s phases do not align to hours at all.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 1 month ago:
Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”
Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 1 month ago:
A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 1 month ago:
People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren’t as linked as they would be in French.
All of these are valid:
- I went to a Moscow school
- I went to a school in Moscow
- I went to a Versaille cafe
- I went to a cafe in Versaille.
- I dated a London girl
- I dated a girl from London
These sound more natural than the following: *I went to a Muscovite school *I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn’t use fhat)
- I dated a Londoner girl.
At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 2 months ago:
I’m not sure this even counts because the guy basically said let’s be friends and she has leapt to thinking about getting back together. This just sounds like someone with issues of their own, if dating someone who is obviously unthinking but falls well within the predicted bounds of normal behaviour for a teenager makes them think they might be a lesbian.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 3 months ago:
Rockerface is Ukrainian, not American.
Being a seemingly temporary non-nation, Americans don’t always understand that people don’t usually just give up and accept conquest. If a people continue to distinguish themselves strongly enough without being literally wiped out or assimilated, they will survive annexation until the next opportunity for rebellion or freedom. Ireland resisted Britain for 800 years - a few years in the shadows of dictators until ordinary Russians grow balls/tits again isn’t necessarily the end of Ukraine.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 3 months ago:
the accepted terminology
No, it isn’t. The OSI specifically requires the training data be available or at very least that the source and fee for the data be given so that a user could get the same copy themselves. Because that’s the purpose of something being “open source”. Open source doesn’t just mean free to download and use.
opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
Data Information: Sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system so that a skilled person can build a substantially equivalent system. Data Information shall be made available under OSI-approved terms.
In particular, this must include: (1) the complete description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data, disclosing the provenance of the data, its scope and characteristics, how the data was obtained and selected, the labeling procedures, and data processing and filtering methodologies; (2) a listing of all publicly available training data and where to obtain it; and (3) a listing of all training data obtainable from third parties and where to obtain it, including for fee.
As per their paper, DeepSeek R1 required a very specific training data set because when they tried the same technique with less curated data, they got R"zero’ which basically ran fast and spat out a gibberish salad of English, Chinese and Python.
People are calling DeepSeek open source purely because they called themselves open source, but they seem to just be another free to download, black-box model. The best comparison is to Meta’s LlaMa, which weirdly nobody has decided is going to up-end the tech industry.
In reality “open source” is a terrible terminology for what is a very loose fit when basically trying to say that anyone could recreate or modify the model because they have the exact ‘recipe’.
- Comment on Wonder Woman Game is "Years Away From Release" As Warner Bros. Gaming Division Struggles 3 months ago:
How about if the idle animation is Gal Gadot in full IDF regalia singing “Imagine”?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Quite the opposite, my workplace is pretty fun and we definitely don’t need to couch jokes in emotions for safety. Maybe this is the same thing that requires people these days to use sarcasm tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Please don’t wink in a work context
- Comment on Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you 3 months ago:
While I sympathise, hat’s not what imposition means. For better or for worse, both Discord and Reddit got where they were by being good for what they offered.
I’d almost agree in a way about Reddit - they basically imposed a shitty app after building their base. But apart from the username change, Discord is as shitty or great as it always has been.
- Comment on Someone ported Discord to Windows 95, because why wouldn't you 3 months ago:
Imposes?
You just not use it right?
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 3 months ago:
The point is that no branch was ever called a slave branch, just as no audio copy was ever called a slave copy. One does not direct the other in the same way that master and slave implies. Usually quite the opposite.
Oh and master-slave usually refers to hardware infrastructure, not programming. Where, as you mentioned, client-service is the equivalent, or parent and child.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 3 months ago:
Master in branch meant the same as the master of an audio track or video. We haven’t all stopped saying “remaster” or “masterpiece”.
As it turns out, there are software developers from outside the country with people whose grandparents-grandparents were chattel slaves, and they name things without the same baggage. It’s Gulf of America stuff, but for the ‘good guys’.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 3 months ago:
It reads like regurgitating dehydrated phlegm
- Comment on Civilization 7's post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace 3 months ago:
I’ve put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I’m so fucking sad that I don’t care about this new release. I’m Irish and I can’t even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 4 months ago:
I live in a functional society where ordinary people families don’t have to worry about giving an extra few thousand people cancer to feed their families. Maybe work towards that instead of the new American trend of “we can’t fix that, it’s hard”
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 4 months ago:
headlines
Do you mean the Food and Drug Administration regulator? The one that’s about to be gutted in a week?
What about people getting cancer for a company’s benefit is key to a “functional society” to you?
- Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm 4 months ago:
Yeah they should be able to wind down the cancer doses in an orderly fashion. We wouldn’t want to hurt their EBITDA
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 6 months ago:
No source code and no federation just makes this a worse app with less liability for bad actions. Not sure why he’s pushing this before those are ready. Pixelfed itself isn’t exactly finished yet.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 7 months ago:
I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 7 months ago:
Too cowardly to do anything useful to make amends. Just let another conscript fill his space.
Brave enough to drive over Palestinians and call them “terrorists in their hundreds”. Not brave enough to stand up to criticism from his countrymen. This is what spending billions of dollars on an asymmetrical war gets you: a system in which the weakest people can still take the lives of hundreds before being thrown away themselves.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 7 months ago:
Right. Not something we knew 30 years ago, though.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 7 months ago:
There were nukes in Ukraine. This is not the same as Ukraine having nukes. They couldn’t control, and worse, couldn’t maintain the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union left behind.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will stop working on outdated Windows 11 and Windows 10 versions 8 months ago:
Do you not have a browser?