Scipitie
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Hey,
Person here who despises electron apps in part because of the memory footprint and in part because I don’t like neither chromium nor node.js - personal preference mainly.
From your description I have the feeling that it’s unclear to your user base if electron is set or up to debate. There is only a thin line between “explaining” and “defending”.
In terms of communication: “We’re using electron as foundation because it allows us to focus on development. We’ve considered alternatives like Tauri and XYZ and opted in favor of electron.”
If there are situations that might make you rethink state those as well (“if someone provides a proof of concept via XYZ that an alternative is faster by y% while enabling us to still use (your core libraries and languages) we might consider a refactor.”
If you’d engage with me after an electron rant on your codebase you’d just raise my hope that I might change your mind! Don’t give people hope, don’t feed the trolls and do your thing!
Just please be honest with yourself: your app doesn’t use “50 to 60 MB”, it uses 500MBish on idle because of your choice. And that’s okay as long as you as developer say that it is.
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 2 weeks ago:
That’s my problem: any single word humanizes the tool in my opinion. Iperhaps something like “stochastic debris” comes close but there’s no chance to counter the common force of pop culture, Corp speak a and humanities talent to see humanoid behavior everywhere but each other. :(
- Comment on How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate in Document Q&A Scenarios? A 172-Billion-Token Study Across Temperatures, Context Lengths, and Hardware Platforms [TLDR: 25%] 2 weeks ago:
Accepting concepts like “right” and “wrong” gives those tools way too much credit, basically following the AI narrative of the corporations behind them. They can only be used about the output but not the tool itself.
To be precise:
LLMs can’t be right or wrong because the way they work has no link to any reality - it’s stochastics, not evaluation. I also don’t like the term halluzination for the same reason. It’s simply a too high temperature setting jumping into a closeby but unrelated vector set.
Why this is an important distinction: Arguing that an LLM is wrong is arguing on the ground of ChatGPT and the likes: It’s then a “oh but wen make them better!” And their marketing departments overjoy.
To take your calculator analogy: like these tools do have floating point errors which are inherent to those tools wrong outputs are a dore part of LLMs.
We can minimize that but then they automatically use part of their function. This limitation is way stronger on LLMs than limiting a calculator to 16 digits after the comma though…
- Comment on Mother in tears after £11,500 battery waste fine 3 weeks ago:
“I didn’t know battery powered toys have batteries”.
Sob story framing for over of the few things that individuals can actually do: don’t put highly toxic bullshit like batteries in the regular water systems.
I don’t know the UK specifics but the impact of this was part of my school education and I’m fucking old.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is beyond ridiculous to blame anything or anyone else.
I mean accidently letting lose an autonomous non-tested non-guarailed tool in my dev environment… Well tough luck, shit, something for a good post mortem to learn from.
Having an infrastructure that allowed a single actor to cause this damage? This shouldn’t even be possible for a malicious human from within the system this easily.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 3 weeks ago:
That’s an utterly ignorant statement.
To expect others, often volunteer, to take such a personal risk because the legislation in one part of the world is utterly fucked. How about expecting the people who actually live in the country and state and have a chance to influence those laws to step up their game instead of trying to tell third parties to take individual and personal consequence.
- Comment on System76 on Age Verification Laws 3 weeks ago:
They outline the issues from their perspective.
What else should they do? Break their own licence model (which prohibits (geographic) discrimination) or break the law? It’s either one of those two or comply.
- Comment on Is there a program for tracking IEEE reference numbers and adjusting their order? 3 weeks ago:
The answer is a clear yes.
In short: Choose your tool that will suit you throughout your degree and really dig into it and learn it now while doing your paper.
Long version:
This is absolutely common and I’m not aware of a text editor which supports footnotes but doesn’t support automatically numbering and referencing.
In latex there’s actually a \footnote that takes care of that. In libre office, if I recall correctly, it’s Insert -> Footnote and I’m sure there are templates with the proper formatting and font sizing already in place.
Now it sounds like you’re quite early in your higher degree career - depending on your goals and future challenges you might want to either go the easiest route or really dig into writing-based formatting: It’s just faster if you’re typing all the time to not switch to a mouse to inert footnotes - but only if your really used to it.
- Comment on Does anyone have any experience with Sync-in for online files? 3 weeks ago:
Opencloud is the was to go from the established systems in my opinion. github.com/opencloud-eu
File sharing and -management for me has a higher level of trust and stability requirements. Syncin with four developers and “doing everything” while based on typescript makes me suspicious - but I haven’t tried it hands-on.
- Comment on Best reverse proxy with ACME to run in docker 4 weeks ago:
Traefik and caddy were mentioned, the third in the game is usually nginxproxymanager.
I’m using both traefik and nginx in two different setups. The nginxproxymanager can be configured via UI natively which makes checking configurations a bit easier.
Traefik on the other hand is configured easily within the compose itself and you have everything in one place.
This turned out to be tiresome though if you don’t have a monolithic compose file - that’s actually even hr history why I switched to npm in the first place.
I don’t have any experience with caddy so can’t provide anecdotal insights there.
- Comment on homepage dashboard custom css 4 weeks ago:
I really like it already so take this as an alternative, not as improvement:l. I don’t have a good eye for aesthetics anyway don’t his is more about structure.
Personally I switched from a single dashboard to purpose driven hubs - I can’t imagine a situation where I need my infrastructure and my calendar at the same time regularly for example.
Another point is context typing: your release checker is quite far away from your appointments and calendar. It looks to me to be sorted by content rather then function (i.e. it’s entertainment so it’s next to YouTube). The same is true for your interaction patterns. There is a lot of visual information which I’m sure you’ll rarely interact with but instead consume. And then there are clearly external links, both bottom left (opencloud, tooling) and top right (external media) in addition to your own self hosted content.
My suggestion is therefore a process instead of a change: Note down when you consume which features of this awesome dashboard together for a few days. Then restructure the content of the whole dashboard based on your usage patterns - either as a new Monolith or even experimenting with splitting it.
I even suggest using a different medium then your usage device (if it’s a desktop PC mainly use pen and paper, if it’s your laptop use your phone, if it’s your phone you use this dashboard on then you might have different problems :D)
- Comment on Sometimes I wonder if my older brother and I both were in grave danger, who would my parents save first... 🤔 4 weeks ago:
As I don’t know your parents I can just project from myself: Whoever would be the physically closer one at that precise moment.
I can’t imagine a situation where this could be a rational decision unless one of you fucked them over in a way I can’t even begin to fathom.
This is so deep monked brain territory that it really comes down to pure instinct and that is driven by perceived higher chance.
If the situation is in a way there it’s impossible (for example would have to carry both of you but you’re too heavy) chances would be high that we’d all die together - not because of some heroism bullshit but simply because I know my inner monkey quite well and it’s self preservation instinct vs kin preservation are … Let’s say not in my favor ad an individual :D
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 month ago:
Which are all of them who claim to hear a difference.
- Comment on Windscribe alleges warrantless seizure of VPN server by Dutch authorities 1 month ago:
Haha that was an auto correct fuck up - I agree with you!
It was supposed to be “are preferable” - that’s what I meant with the first sentence: There must still be effective encryption in the wild if some… elements fight so hard to kill it.
- Comment on Windscribe alleges warrantless seizure of VPN server by Dutch authorities 1 month ago:
You realize they"trying to destroy" implies existence?
It’s not " good vs bad" for me, it’s a “better vs worse”. And for them: yes, European date centers as few preferable at this point in time from my current knowledge.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is an ad. At least tuta marked it but that doesn’t make it way better.
All YouTube “options” are YouTube frontends. All android “alternatives” are android - which isn’t the guides fault as there are none in my opinion. Still unserious from my point of view.
It’s once more a catch all “guide” that doesn’t guide but simply mentions enough popular alternatives to get popularity.
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 1 month ago:
I’m not talking about usability, just about the foundation. Besides what others already said about why it’s not a good idea to answer your specific question regarij moderation tooling is:
Your requirements are incompatible with decentralization. Every moderation tool will have to use the network itself which means a moderation event has a significant delay in which the content has a “head start”.
There is no way to have an instant kill switch for content or a centralized gated release of content.
And at the end everyone can spin up an instance and decide on moderation, after all - and decide on the moderation rules there. This will cause an even bigger delay until the malicious instance is blacklisted by others.
- Comment on Why would i abbandon KeepassDX? 3 months ago:
If you do don’t trust em then don’t update syncthing - it’ll work for quite a while I assume.
And in addition the keepass safe default encryption of AES-256 and is even secure against theoretically existing quantum computer attacks to our current knowledge. It is designed to be not trusted by the storage owner :)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Which is quite a feat for a showerthought community…
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 5 months ago:
While I understand the aggressive anti religious sentiment I also emphasize with your beliefs so perhaps a different way of phrasing it:
The link to religion is not so much on right or wrong but accepting or not. I’d I understand your context than your church teaches accepting and empathy.
This is not a universal, objective “correct” thing! You, and me as well, feel these values as right and choose to defend them. But there’s no nature law enforcing this.
And now the opposite as true as well. By having a peer group which is self reinforcing people can come to the belief that there are people who are worth less. Or evil. Or dumb.
Now the step to fascism is only a small one: my nation is best, my leader is best, etc.
If belief gets strong enough than objective discussion can’t take place anymore - both for things that we connotate positive as well as negative.
- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 6 months ago:
Copy/paste instead of linking because Lemmy doesn’t like me>
I can shad a light on that! […]
When we’re in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before they’re finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as “my opinion is …” And in the middle transfers to “oh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!”.
Or I’m mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice …
Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that it’s clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying “and perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a question” I fall back to “question mark.”
- Comment on xkcd #3143: Question Mark 6 months ago:
Oh I can shad a light on that! Hope it’s not en pair with the shelter animal hunting though.
When we’re in a fast paces dialogue with a high level of rapport I start speaking my thoughts before they’re finished - and it happens that a thought starts out as “my opinion is …” And in the middle transfers to “oh it would be way more interesting what your thoughts on this are!”. Or I’m mentally distracted and fall back to the monologue voice …
Either way: the flow of the sentence already started as a statement and now I want to make sure that it’s clear that your input is wanted and appreciated - and instead of saying “and perhaps that sounded like a statement but please treat it as a question” I fall back to “question mark.”
- Comment on Will Lemmy instances be forced to verify users' ~~ages~~ identities? 6 months ago:
There isn’t a global law about age verification they countries could be exempt of. It’s individual countries doing it.
And on top of that the laws are different from what I’ve seen, in the UK for example you have to fullfil certain criteria to fall under that law. But frankly it seems to be a mess in my opinion.
This is what an age verification service says about it:
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 6 months ago:
In the very first post on this thread I pointed out that I’m not talking about this specific case at all.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 6 months ago:
To your last point I fully agree!
For the first point: that’s how I understood you - what I failed to convey: adultsshould fall victim more in cases like this because parents can be a protective shield of a kind that grown-ups lag.
Children on their own stand easy less of a chance but are very rarely on their own.
And to be honest I think it doesn’t change result of requirements for action both in general but respectfully for language based bots, both from a legal as well as an educational point of view.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 6 months ago:
I see your point but there is one major difference between adults and children: adults are by default fully responsible for themselves z children are not.
As for your question: I won’t blame the parents here in the slightest because they will likely put more than enough blame on themselves. Instead I’ll try to keep it general:
Independent of technology, what a parent can do is learn behavior and communication patterns that can be signs of mental illness.
That’s independent of the technology.
This is a big task because the border between normal puberty and behavior that warrants action is slim to non-existent.
Overall I wish for way better education for parents both in terms of age appropriate patterns as well as what kind of help is available to them depending on their country and culture.
- Comment on Do LLM modelers maintain a list of manual corrections fed by humans? 7 months ago:
Sadly there is no answer for you available because many of the processes around this are hidden.
I can only chime in from my own amateur experiments and there are answer is a clear “depends”. Most adjustments are made either via additional training data. This simply means that you take more data and feed it indi an already trained LLM. The result is again an LLM black box with all its stochastic magic.
The other big way are system prompts. Those are simply instructions that already get interpreted as a part of te request and provide limitations.
These can get white fancy by now, in the sense of “when the following query asks you to count something run this python script with whatever you’re supposed to count as input, the result will be a json that you can take then and do XYZ with it.”
Or more simple: you tell the model to use other programs and how to use them.
For both approaches I don’t need to maintain list: For the first one I have no way of knowing what it’s doing in detail and I just need to keep the documents themselves.
For the second one it’s literally a human readable text.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 7 months ago:
Friend, there is only one kind of dumb question: those that are statements with a question marks at the end of are simply a vehicle to place a statement.
And even those are fine by me if the asking being realizes this within the discussion. (“Why are we allowing women to vote if they are that much dumber than men?” is a stupid question in my book - and even that can lead to “oh wow I always just assumed that to be true but (data/argument) made me realize that I was wrong!”. Rare but can happen…)
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 8 months ago:
Understandable, he was right very often and “only” his tone was…unfiltered. but I ignore the “was right” part when using that phrasing :)
I’d like to imagine that this would be close to the phrasing Linus himself would choose, although I could be off of course!
- Comment on SHUT THE FUCK UP! 8 months ago:
I really don’t enjoy Linus’ content without context I have to admit.
He was an absolute dipshit back then and he’s one of the few people I’ve read about who not only acknowledged that but also put effort into changing it - and succeeded.
Yeah the newer mails are not as funny to third parties anymore but I’m really happy for him and especially the kernel devs around him.