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- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 5 days ago:
Chuck https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2025-08.zim.torrent in the Wayback machine
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
though a sizable amount of feminists instead characterize men as also victims of the patriarchy system
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 week ago:
I think commenters here don't actually do Wikipedia. Wales was instrumental in Wikipedia's principles and organization besides the first year of Sanger. He handpicked the first administrators to make sure the project would continue its anarchistic roganization and prevent a hierarchy from having a bigger say in content matters.
I would characterize Wales as a long-retired leader rather than leadership.
- Comment on YSK about qalculate, an opensource, versatile calculator with nice cli 1 week ago:
called qalculate
spotlights gtk version - Comment on This is very funny to me. 1 week ago:
Europe has so many treasures—it’s hard to choose just one! For example, I really admire Switzerland: not only is it stunning with its snow-capped Alps and crystal-clear lakes, but it also has a long tradition of neutrality and diplomacy, helping foster peace in a region with such a rich and complex history. It’s a place where natural beauty and human cooperation come together beautifully.
... that's obviously AI!
- Comment on YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me. 1 week ago:
I thought the point of this sub is to centralize life tips from all areas useful to a significant population. The second top post is about identifying ripe watermelons, which is only useful for people picking watermelons. That's a smaller population than programmers in the Fediverse.
There just aren't many universally-applicable tips out there to be bought here. When the rare ones that are incredibly nonspecific come up, such as the Lemvotes things, they are highlighted out through having on average more upvotes than the "insular ones". I would argue that disgraceful information (e.g. Kristi Noem shot a puppy, which is indeed good to know but absolutely not "tips and tricks that will help you improve your life") does far more damage to the community.
- YSK that JetBrains IDEs do not remove old share and cache files from the previous version when upgrading. Every folder includes a local LLM, plugin executables, and old search indices. They go unused. Removing old versions freed up 14.8 GB storage for me.kbin.melroy.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 weeks ago:
well at least it doesn’t look like it’ll spoil, rot, and gadfly
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 weeks ago:
If you're going to break things up, at least use the Waterman Butterfly, which doesn't look disgusting or split Greenland in half.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 2 weeks ago:
Mercator is awesome with compass directions. That's why it's the oldest and most popular out of the popular ones today.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 2 weeks ago:
the scale would momentarily say you got heavier because of the added force pushing down on it from air movement but you you actually get lighter and the scale will soon say that as well
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 weeks ago:
thanks but i felt like that’d be obvious from the URL lol. the SO survey is probably the largest sample size we have for this…
…that isn’t outright from an AI company (not that SO doesn’t have AI but they’re still an answers company as opposed to, say, Cursor AI whose main selling point is the AI) and their sample should be pretty close to all online devs, maybe slightly exclusionary of very experienced ones. SO’s evangelist proportion is not even close to 4chan’s chud proportion; not sure why had the impression needed to name that comparison.
it’s not like Codidact has a dev survey and even if they had one they’d have as much bias as this comment section
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 weeks ago:
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai/
47% daily use
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 2 weeks ago:
How is that pro-AI? It clearly very neutrally says it’s just a tool, which you can also hate.
- Comment on it shouldn't be too hard to extend the right to be forgotten to deadnames as well, legislatively 2 weeks ago:
i’m not even trans cro
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 3 weeks ago:
Sure, LLMs give worse-quality output. That does not mean the have-haves more influence over the narrative. In fact, I'd wager LLMs won't be able to replace search engines because of how much faster and more accurate the latter are with simple queries.
- Comment on it shouldn't be too hard to extend the right to be forgotten to deadnames as well, legislatively 3 weeks ago:
i also think about free speech. you do not. we are not the same
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Trump’s envoy ‘misunderstood’ Putin’s territorial demands as concessions, media report 3 weeks ago:
The source is Bild, known for "UFO sect about to clone Hitler!", made the poster child for sensationalism by The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum—school reading in many German states—and nicknamed "Angst, Hass, Titten und dem Wetterbericht" by a hit rock single.
- Comment on The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age. 3 weeks ago:
Then the answers will be given even more strongly and with far less transparency by those who control the LLMs
I don't think so, Google's algorithm's transparency doesn't seem any better
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 3 weeks ago:
I mean, the article embeds a video plastered with "VILEISBANNED.COM" in warning tape–style text.
- Comment on I have never seen the 😗 emoji used, but I have seen a TON of :3 4 weeks ago:
to me 😗 looks like childish cutely mumbling bad curses under one’s breath
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 weeks ago:
The best ones are the Incidents tracks and the credits songs. Here’s one of the latter:
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 weeks ago:
Portal 2
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 4 weeks ago:
Not For Broadcast
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 4 weeks ago:
the bundle includes postal 2
- Comment on Things that make you go hmm... 4 weeks ago:
huh?
- Comment on Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China 4 weeks ago:
In other news, Big Tech uses Chinese labor
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 4 weeks ago:
you can't order foreign entities to change especially if you've banned them already
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 4 weeks ago:
on the 2023 trial:
At the time, Google was quick to point out that the ability to sideload apps on Android meant Epic hadn't been completely barred from distributing Fortnite on the platform (as it had been on iOS). "The open Android ecosystem lets developers distribute apps through multiple app stores," Google said in 2020. "While Fortnite remains available on Android, we can no longer make it available on Play because it violates our policies. However, we welcome the opportunity to continue our discussions with Epic and bring Fortnite back to Google Play."
By April 2020, Epic had returned to the Google Play store, accusing Google of imposing a number of important limits on its sideloaded software. As the company said at the time:
Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third-party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.
