Tuuktuuk
@Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee
A human being from a Finland.
- Comment on I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop 2 weeks ago:
Back when I originally dabbled with using Linux on a computer of my own, maybe around year 2003 or so, I didn’t know about rm -rf and was many years from being an adult as well. But I did know about /dev/null, and was really fascinated by the concept of the /dev/ directory!
So, I tried removing a file by
# cat filename > /dev/null ``` . The next time I booted my computer, there was... An error message./dev/null: Not a file
```From the perspective of a person who has now used Linux since 1998 (first with only user rights on my parents’ computer) this sounds like an absolutely bonkers solution for that problem, but yeah: it’s er-em-dash-rm-ef-slash level of error. And those do really happen. It’s good to keep in mind what a n00b can be able to do!
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 2 weeks ago:
I have watched a couple of them because the only video I have found on some interesting theme has been such a reaction video.
But, I’d say that I do feel kind of comfortable “having someone around” when watching the video. I would still prefer the video without the extra commentator saying things aloud that I can see myself, but I bet there are people who really do get something out of the reaction videos. I’d imagine they are very nice things for the most intoverted among us?
Still, they are there mainly for generating revenue for their makers and for youtube, not so much for some actual need…
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 2 weeks ago:
I can have a 2-hour-long conversation in Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Latvian, Estonian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Russian, Dutch and Lithuanian.
I do not think you’re right in your claim that I’d struggle learning one more language as an adult.
It’s also a myth that children learn languages faster. It takes them about 5 or 6 years to learn their native language at a level we adults would call “fluent”. An adult can do the same in some two years if they have an active approach to the learning.
There is a technique about learning languages. Learn that and learning languages becomes quick.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 3 weeks ago:
So, do I have a right to reside in that country?
I assume I’d need to get an alien passport first?
What would be needed as soon as possible is a roof over my head, a source of income and starting to learn the local language.
And then I’d have to figure how to get my children where I am.I would survive essentially the same way I am surviving now. There is no huge different between how life is in difference countries. I’ve started my life largely anew some five times now, in various countries. All in all, it’s the same experience anywhere.
So, the answer to the question is: Relatively easily.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s PieFed’s “Donate” page: https://piefed.europe.pub/donate
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
I’d like to clarify here that Voyager can do with PieFed everything it can do with Lemmy. But PieFed has a lot more features than Lemmy does, and of those extra features, Voyager supports none. But that only means that the PieFed experience on Voyager is precisely the same as the Lemmy experience on Voyager!
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
PieFed and mBin exist. Both do everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. They use less resources as well. What reason would there be for forking Lemmy? The only reason Lemmy is the most popular one among these is that it was the first one. Since then, better things have surfaced.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
PieFed is essentially what OP means. It exists, it does everything Lemmy does, and a bit more. And it does it faster, both for the user and for server resources.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 weeks ago:
Then probably something else will be funded in the same amount. That will be either PieFed or mBin.
- Comment on Is there a redirector plug in 3 weeks ago:
PieFed has this out of the box. You click a link at your home instance once on the browser you use. After that, you can get from any post on an unknown instance to yours by adding a few letters in the front of the URL on that browser.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 3 weeks ago:
It means that one side is has gained an ability that is extremely dangerous for the society. It is a real imbalance, but the solution must be to raise awareness of the danger.
- Comment on Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal? 4 weeks ago:
I would be surprised if there was a country that don’t have their all laws set in the paper form.
But, regarding Finland: You’re thinking of http://finlex.fi .
There’s for example this gem, telling about how you should take care of the hops trellis the law requires you to maintain! :)
(Please don’t tell anyone, but I do not actually have a hops trellis! I’m breaking the law.)
It’s also helpful if you want to know how to let your pigs to run in an acorn forest. Or if your bees escape and land inside someone else’s tree.Also, the beginning words of our Criminal Code are a bit, well, outdated? Here goes: https://www.finlex.fi/en/legislation/1889/39-001?language=swe&highlightId=798156&highlightParams=%7B%22type%22%3A%22BASIC%22%2C%22search%22%3A%22rikoslaki%22%7D
(I’m linking the Swedish-language versions because I believe a machine translator does a better job translating to European languages from Swedish than from Finnish)
- Comment on Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers 5 weeks ago:
If anybody wants a good laugh, they should read about why Walmart failed in Germany :D
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 5 weeks ago:
It is implied in the article that the chatbot was able to point out details about the image that the reporter either could not immediately recognize without some kind of outside help or did not bother looking for.
So, the chatbot added making something on the photo noticed in a few seconds that would have taken several minutes for the reporter to notice.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 5 weeks ago:
You can see my comment history to determine if I’m an LLM or not :)
In any case, have fun in your circles!
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 5 weeks ago:
If the part of the image that reveals the image was made by an AI is obvious enough, why contact a specialist? Of course, reporters should absolutely be trained to spot such things with their bare eyes without something telling them specifically where to look. But still, once the reporter can already see what’s ridiculously wrong in the image, it would be waste of the specialist’s time to call them to come look at the image.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 5 weeks ago:
The article says they used ChatGPT or some similar LLM bot. It says they used a chatbot, and that’s what the word chatbot means by default. A skilled reporter mentions if it was something else.
The reporter used a chatbot such as ChatGPT to ask if there’s anything suspicious in the image, the chatbot, by coincidence, happened to point out something in the photo that the reporter could then recognise as AI-generated indeed, and got on typing his article again.
The only part of this that is not mentioned in the article is that the reporter confirmed the referred spot in the image with his own eyes, but that is such an integral part of a reporter’s education that you need specific reasons to work against the assumption that this was done.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 5 weeks ago:
There’s hoping that the reporter then looked at the image and noticed, “oh, true! That’s and obvious spot there!”
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 month ago:
This helps only if you wash your towel after each shower.
- Comment on Do people who have bad relationship with their parents care about "insults" like "I fucked your mom last night"? Or do you just not care? 1 month ago:
Why would anyone care? Huh?
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Dunno. I’m using PieFed and this is how this discussion’s th-characters look on my screen:
I’m pretty much okay with this :)
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Why spite?
People consider something a problem and this fixes the problem. The person can continue writing whatever characters make them happy and the others won’t need to worry about their text being cumbersome to read.
It’s a much more a usability improvement than something done out of spite. I would say the assumption about spite stems from your outlook to the world.
- Comment on Pla keeps balling up 1 month ago:
Ah, so the object slides a very little bit, causing printed filament to be in a spot where there should be none yet, which produces a tiny hill that might even slide another quarter a millimetre and gather even more filament on top of it, at which point the object to be printed touches the extruder?
- Comment on Want some advice on which filaments to use 2 months ago:
I’d assumeits biodegradation takes 5 years instead of something like 10 000 years of conventional plastics
- Comment on Absolute zero is almost always colder than sub-zero. 2 months ago:
This lead me to wondering: Do the Fahrenheit people talk about sub-zero as well?!
I had never thought of that possibility. 0 degrees is just generally cold, but -17,778 degrees is already in the area of “seriously cold”.
- Comment on These 3D Printed Ceramics are Insane 2 months ago:
Klarna can also be used for payments directly from your bank account. They probably didn’t have another platform for handling that internationally. Much nicer than using a bank card for the payment!
(Well, okay: That site has elected to disable that feature. I tried choosing Helsinki, Finland as delivery location and payment by Klarna, and all I got was this:
Kiitos kun harkitsit Klarnaa
Arvostamme kiinnostustasi fiksumpaa maksutapaa kohtaan. Valitettavasti joustavat maksuvaihtoehtomme eivät ole juuri nyt saatavilla tällä alueella tai tälle valuutalle.
Tiedämme, ettei tämä ole paras mahdollinen tilanne, mutta toivomme pian tarjoavamme maksuvaihtoehtojamme useammissa paikoissa.
So, they don’t want to use Klarna for what would actually be a fair and sensible thing, only for the bad stuff. Heh.)
- Comment on Pla keeps balling up 2 months ago:
Why does this work?
Or, more precisely: Why does the dirty plate cause this balling-up?
- Comment on Want some advice on which filaments to use 2 months ago:
If there’s any risk you might lose something you’ve printed while outside, it’s very good if the material is biodegradable!
- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 2 months ago:
A possibility does exist that I may, or may not, have read XKCD more than the recommended centennial dose.
