Qwel
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- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 1 week ago:
Most of the errors aren’t so bad, but it’s definitely nice to correct them.
You need to know Wikipedia’s system a bit though, because ChatGPT suggests these kind of things:
Want me to draft a crisp correction note you can paste on the article’s talk page?
Using LLMs when interacting with other users is “strongly frowned upon”, and you can get banned if you refuse to stop
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 1 week ago:
fyi, the drivers for AI and gaming are not the same. They’re in the same project, but they don’t use the same parts of that project. I wouldn’t use them to argue for the stability of gaming.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 2 weeks ago:
They made a blog post “for transparency” that listed all the projects they supported, and called for the community to submit their favorite projects in a form.
The blog post did not acknowledge the situation, but the list showed that they stopped supporting Omarchy and kept support for Hyprland. It was noted during the drama that Hyprland’s toxicity levels have dropped since they set up a moderation team. Their reputation might not represent them as they are currently.
I stopped following the events at this point, so if something happened after that, I’m not aware of it
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Yikes.
The advice is decent actually. It’s the non-advice comments that should just be deleted. Even the advice from that .ml guy is careful. Wouldn’t have caused any issue if someone didn’t pick the fight while fully aware that there will not be a resolution.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 2 weeks ago:
If you’re going to fund something, go for Servo
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
From what OS?
Generally, I would advise finding out by yourself with a Ventoy USB.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 weeks ago:
Only to Zorin
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 weeks ago:
FYI, subliminal messages, as in “messages that you can’t see but your subconscious will be affected by” are not a thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_stimuli
I remember watching a science show where someone wanted to demonstrate them, blatantly failed, tried again, failed again, called a psychologist to try better, and failed again. At the end the guy excused himself and said that it must surely be working for everyone but him, for some reason. Except no one actually managed to get it working, the guy who invented the concept later admitted he faked the result.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 weeks ago:
What did XP do? I’ve never heard someone complain about it
- Comment on Screw it, I’m installing Linux 3 weeks ago:
Looking at the specs, I would guess it is
You can setup a Ventoy USB stick if you want to try multiple options
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 4 weeks ago:
It’s similar in that it has an application launcher at the bottom, a windows-like start menu, and aims to be simple.
Zorin has a modern UI where Mint is more windows-7-ish. They don’t have the same file explorer, settings app, app store, generally the core apps are different.
Look they’re quite different, it’s hard to make a full comparison, just run a Mint .iso in gnome-boxes if you’re curious.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 5 weeks ago:
Do you actually feel your computer slow down? I would guess your 20 unused tabs would be swapped out and the rest should run relatively fine
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 1 month ago:
They might disinherit you for being disrespectful? That’s insane. Did they threaten you to do that? If the relation is that bad I can understand why you would care. My parents would just think I’m being weird.
I hadn’t thought about a DNA test, but I definitely don’t see how it could help me with my life. If it comes positive, nothing changes. If it comes negative, I don’t see the administration doing anything about it. They won’t even know you passed a test, even if they had procedures for these cases. You or your parents would need to bring up the issue in a legal procedure for the administration to consider it.
What I mean is that if you have issues with your parents or tutors, knowing what they are exactly does not fix the issues by itself (surely there is a better angle to think about it?). I understand that you would think about it, but if you don’t like thinking about it, I think you usually don’t need to invest yourself into it. Like, you can keep the obsessive thought without worrying about it. And that will make it stop over time. I don’t know how much sense this makes, it made sense to me back then :shrug:
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 1 month ago:
I did, and shrugged it off
for me this is the same kind of questions as “maybe the universe was created 5 seconds ago”. It’s impossible to resolve, and doesn’t change anything
- Comment on for future fireflies 1 month ago:
It helps I guess ? Making some of the conditions more likely makes the sum* of all conditions more likely
*math vocabulary may be approximative
- Comment on Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware 1 month ago:
And the hashes are displayed on the website that got compromised
- Comment on Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system 2 months ago:
Is the franchise still popular nowadays?
- Comment on How long can someone physically walk for? 2 months ago:
The body is not designed to keep effort going at all costs. You will be informed when you have a cramp, because you should slow down and wait it out before continuing. The whole point of pain is to react to broken stuff, usually by stopping using it.
It will however keep life going at all costs, sometimes digesting replaceable muscles into energy for non-replaceable elements. But it’s more about starvation resistance than about chasing. It could also be the case if we were a specie of static filter feeders
A lot of the human body has been affected by long walks and runs, and we do have (well, not me in particular) over-average stamina developped presumably for hunting. It’s just the specific exemple of muscle digestion that I’m going after here
this knowledge comes from, uh… idk :3
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 2 months ago:
Hey so, is this a normal thing in meta analyses ?
We identified 46 studies for inclusion in our analysis. Of these, 27 studies reported positive associations (significant links to NDDs), 9 showed null associations (no significant link), and 4 indicated negative associations (protective effects).
27+9+4 is 40 I think ? What happened to the 6 other papers ? I’m always confused by the whole “we ignored half of the studies and we won’t tell you why”, if they can also ignore some of the 46 studies they selected, what does the 46 number mean ?
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
A blank 10cm by 10cm square piece of aluminium. About 2 cm thick
I think I wanted to know how it felt. Like, the vibe of aluminium