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• Is Proton a Debian-based distro?

  Why use Wine? All it does is emulate Windows.

  WSL invalidates Linux’s existence.

  Linus is the Colonel of Linux.

  on dating tips in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5d ago

• Not just “trans sisters” but “trans formers” too

  on mother board rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026

• What exactly do YOU think LLMs are?

  Machine Learning is a kind of AI. LLMs are but one kind of Machine Learning Model. All LLMs are Machine Learning models, but not all Machine Learning models are LLMs. LLMs are one kind of AI, but not all AI is an LLM.

  They’re different words for a reason. If they were all the same thing, we wouldn’t give them different names. It’s completely possible and understandable that someone would find one acceptable but not the other.

  Sources:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning#
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

  There’s nothing quite so uniquely irritating as someone who holds a strong opinion on something about which they know very little.

  on First patient in live AI-assisted sight-saving brain surgery: The first use of AI to support a neurosurgeon in real time during live surgery protected the sight of a man having a brain tumour removed in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Don’t forget glazing the GTA 6 trailer

  on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Physical media also comes with a license.

  on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• licenses are a very IT central idea.

  No, that’s just the implementation you’re most familiar with. Licenses are a copyright idea that IT adopted and made digital. Every physical movie and game you own also comes with a license that authorizes your retail use of it, but forbids your commercial use of it. You can’t rent your copy of Shrek out to people, nor can you charge admission to people to watch Shrek at your house, nor are you allowed to make copies of your Shrek DVD and sell them, for example.

  on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Ben Franklin was very progressive for his time. He owned a few slaves early in his life, but soon freed them and spent the rest of his life as one of that time period’s most outspoken critics of slavery. He even bought a printing press so he could spread anti-slavery rhetoric more effectively.

  You have internet, there’s no excuse for being wrong unless you just like spreading misinformation.

  on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• All of that sounds unintuituve and complicated, which I think is the main complaint overall.

  on I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• You used to have master and slave processes too until it was changed to parent and child

  on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026

• Yeah, I’ve heard. I’ve always associated the terms with dom/sub play, not slavery.

  I get the reasoning as to why, but it seems odd to me that the IT terms were fixated on, but not the engineering terms; “master” and “slave” are still the accepted terms in the context of hydraulic systems, for example.

  It’s also generally accepted that “retard” and “retarded” are generally acceptable terms when used in an engineering context. If we can accept that some terms are accepted in the a technical context, it seems inconsistent not to apply the same thinking to IT terminology.

  Just more stuff to keep us bickering with each other so we don’t look up and realize where all the real problems are coming from, imo.

  on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026

• “Ey gurl, don’t act like you ain’t see my pull request. Lemme deep scan dem packets.”

  on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026

• Don’t forget all the master/slave terminology

  on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026