jsomae

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

j k rowling

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

I just want to remind you all that Gary Bowser, switch modder, owes 30% of his income to Nintendo for the rest of his life. He also is in a wheelchair and has kids.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Please don't post hearsay. If you want to post something incriminating, take a second to verify it first. This is how bad rumors propagate, and as a society today it's a problem we're facing like never before. Do your part!

In this case you're completely wrong.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What does BLOB stand for?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

heh, it's alright. in this case I suppose I come off as the thread-hopper :P

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See discussion here. Open Source is a valid term for this. Don't police perfectly innocent and common use of language please.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh my god, stop being a proscriptivist about this. Open source is not the same as free software. You're thinking of FLOSS.

Previous discussion.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

no it isn't. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Note that

  • Permission was attained from contributors, and
  • Forks prior to this change are still under GPL naturally.

So what's the controversy, really?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

what's underage for hrt? like.. 12?

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

The conversation was not originally about OSD; I had just mentioned it.

You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS

Touchée. But FLOSS the term only emphasises even more: there's open source software, and then there's free/libre open source software -- note the distinction.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This I can believe tbh. It's a very useful tool in the hands of an expert. Otherwise it's like giving a chimp a gun.

Maybe this is why I am surprised at people's hatred of ChatGPT. It's borne of misuse of a tool for experts, like newcomers struggling with a C++ compiler error.

 

The experience seemed roughly on par with trying to advise a mediocre, but not completely incompetent, graduate student. However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached, at which point I could see this tool being of significant use in research level tasks.

 

What do y'all guys use for cloud storage, like DropBox, Google Drive, and so on? Ideally something which works even when offline.

I'd like to de-google of course.

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(Please don't downvote just because I need some help.)

I was once a privacy nut. But it's getting so hard nowadays, and there are so many more important problems -- global warming, AI, the inevitable collapse of the current world order... how does privacy improve the world? Please help remind me.

I do approve of privacy, of course. All this protect-the-children flak is bullshit. I just can't remember why I thought it was something worth fighting for and preaching about.

 

In a poll on hexbear (see link), it was observed that there are very few cis women on Lemmy. I think this is the intersection of several problems:

  • engagement of women on Reddit was always low
  • fewer women in computer science
  • I'm hesitant to recommend anything fediversy to people who don't tinker with computers like I do and thus might need a more handholdy UX.

I gather that transgender people tend to be more into CS, though I don't see why that explains entirely such an astonishing presence of the transgender community on Hexbear.

Anyway, I just thought I'd open the floor to brainstorming.

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The fool jingled miserably across the floor

(Art by canisbeans. Text exerpt from Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett.)

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