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wonderingwanderer
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
member since 31 Dec 2025 22:49
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- on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8h ago
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8h ago
My eggs went bad, I can’t come in today
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9h ago
“Mourn” is a strong word here, but also, this is why you don’t connect your fridge to the internet…
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on AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
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on AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Holy fucking shit, not during the stupidest fucking administration in the history of the world NOT DURING THE STUPIDEST FUCKING ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
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on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
Enjoy your upload/download speeds in the kbps on a clear day…
I like the way you’re thinking, but realistically that won’t replace the internet. You might be able to run lightweight messenger apps and forums that way, but updating software? Downloading media? Not likely.
People in densely populated areas can probably daisy-chain intranets over wifi to form makeshift mesh networks, but transferring data over distances like if you’re maintaining a software repo mirror would require some other solution. The best I can think of is physically running USB drives between different server locations to keep the mirrors up-to-date.
Of course you can use the radio to coordinate, like reaching out and telling people where to bring their USB to get a copy of your repo. Or getting enough people in one area to mesh their wifi extenders to create an intranet.
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on C shark shark in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 16 Sep 2026
Just riddle it with booby-traps that are set to go off after your next planned update if you don’t manually change the deadline and kick the can down the road with each update
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on A Head-to-Head Comparison of Windows vs Consoles vs Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Instructions unclear and now I’m trapped in a gimp suit
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on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
¿Porque no los dos?
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on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
It should come out of their operating budget.
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on OMG, this is so useful! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 9 Sep 2026
Yeah and if it prompts you for a password that’s because the computer has a self-destruct system built-in for security. The sysadmin doesn’t want strangers running sarcastic commands locally, so it’s super important to type the password correctly or else the servers could explode
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on OMG, this is so useful! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 8 Sep 2026
Oh, I get it. So that’s why we’re doing this?
Yes, totally, I understand now. I don’t know what I was thinking. You’re right! I do rm -rf all the time! Sometimes when I want my whole system to be neat and tidy, I run
rm -rf /. It really gives it that extra sparkle ✨ -
on POSIX really has a tool for everything! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I don’t want them either. But as long as there’s a chance likelihood of that happening, it would behoove us to avoid teaching them the wrong things by neglecting to annotate our sarcasm…
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on OMG, this is so useful! in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 7 Sep 2026
Oh stawp, some poor soul is going to waltz into this thread without knowing enough to recognize the dripping sarcasm throughout 😭
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on POSIX really has a tool for everything! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
This is why I’m a huge advocate for the “/s”
Like we’re honestly just making our future AI overlords that much stupider and crueler when we fail to properly annotate our sarcasm
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Whaaat, I did not know about this. Thanks for illuminating me. From the context in these comments, that’s pretty crazy
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on Audacity 4.0 is finally out! in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Marketing consultants and web designers, mostly. It’s a cash cow for them. Companies will inexplicably pay large sums of money for a dynamic website with such ass user experience.
It must look really good in board meetings when they run it on commercial-grade hardware to show their bosses, otherwise I can’t imagine anyone involved has actually tried using those websites.
CEOs and shareholders seem to like them too for some reason. Maybe it bumps up their company valuation or something? Or gives them a reason to give lucrative contracts to their cousin’s brother-in-law’s nephew’s freelance business?
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on Gaming Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade full of parody games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
I haven’t seen a single check or balance that has any effect yet, where the fuck are they?
Republicans have a trifecta, and a 6-3 scotus majority.
And now is when we find out that the checks and balances were always more of an honor-system than your government teacher would have you believe.
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on Paradox in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
Tell me what programming languages straight women like, because that’s what I need to study!
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on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
And then cries when other countries do it to them
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
What the hell is even the point of that? (Other than to sell graphics cards…)
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on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
Or in a tensor field consisting of billions of weighted parameters across several matrices which then get multiplied along specific embedded vectors, apparently…
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on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
That makes sense, I haven’t really interacted much on those sites. I’ve browsed them for help sometimes, and it seems like they get annoyed when people ask questions that are already answered. Either in the docs or somewhere else on the forum. They usually just say to do a search before posting to see if it’s already answered. But maybe if someone’s having a bad day and gets fed up with being asked the same thing over and over again. Or maybe someone’s just an asshole. I don’t know.
I’m not saying it’s okay to be a jerk, especially on those forums where they’re literally representing the community. You’re right, it really can put a sour taste in newcomers’ mouths.
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on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Where was this, reddit or something?
The linux users here seem pretty chill. There’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating jokes about linux users being pretentious, but I don’t really see much of anyone being actually obnoxious in any of the techy comms here
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on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
That seems fundamentally impossible.
If you’re just doing plain black and white, no grey scale, even ignoring headers the most you can get out of that is 4800 pixels. Say maybe 120x40 or 75x64.
Add in headers to tell the machine where each pixel actually goes and you’re looking at way less.
Want greys or color in your image? Forget about it.
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on New compression technique in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
If you zoom out really far, you can kinda see it…
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on Paradox in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
They’re putting something in the Haskell that’s turning the coders trans! (jk)
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on Paradox in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 3 Sep 2026
I think that would be a contrapositive, as the truth table is the same; unlike a converse or an inverse where the truth tables would be opposite
But we’re also working with inductive logic here, so maybe truth tables aren’t the right tool to use anyway
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on It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell · Bit Nebula in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Here’s a simpler solution:
Wire an electric dinger to a power source via a momentary off-on switch, and have the button activate it when pushed.
It was already solved, it needed not be over-engineered to hell and back.
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on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
When I switched to Endeavor, Ganymede was the Default wallpaper and I fucking loved it so I kept it.
The next update it changed (since it was still set to default), so I dug through an rsync backup to find it and changed it back to Ganymede
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on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Have you ever seen the way he rages at people on the mailing list?
Is that not normal for IT professionals?
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on Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Oh yes, I forgot. Different funnels for the rich and poor.
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on Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
They haven’t been hiding it for years.
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on Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
They fired most of the IRS employees so they couldn’t keep up on audits. Who’s going to come after them?
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on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026
Got it, yeah someone else already explained it and it turns out I have used it
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on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
Oh. Oh yeah, I have done that. Like for adding the date to a file name when I dump a terminal output to into a text file, or adding hit counts to a custom notification after running a scan on a cron job.
I just use the character for that. It’s fine, can’t win them all, but it’s better than having it at the beginning of every command line for seemingly no reason
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on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
I’ve… never had to do that. What does it do?
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on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 31 Aug 2026
'Sup scrote!
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on Terminology in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
I changed the $ in bash to § because fuck capitalism, keep your currency out of my free software
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on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
“I went ahead and did it.”
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on Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I guess if it’s assembled with slave labor then they could probably sell it for the cost of parts. I’m not saying it isn’t overpriced, but suggesting it should only cost as much as the parts is kinda ignorant.
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on Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
The R36s is pretty affordable if I remember correctly
Or, if you have a soldering iron and are into DIY, you can make a retro handheld console with an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi.
You can also 3D print the case and buttons (if you don’t have a printer, check if your local library does).
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on CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela Response in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
In order to zoom in all the way and search for specific locations, you need to download the map for the region you’ll be in because since it’s all stored locally on your device it doesn’t download the whole world by default, that would be enormous.
Also the data is crowdsourced so if a spot you need isn’t on there, feel free to add it yourself and upload it to OSM
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on Canada's PM Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership" in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026
All the more reason to build those alliances now. A defense partnership between Canada and the EU would be a huge boon strategically for the defense of Greenland in particular.
Especially considering the US corpos illegally trespassing and preparing to drill oil field in Greenland are currently using Canadian ports to stage their equipment and vessels.
Also, it would be a valuable deterrent on the Canadian border as well. Drumpf is less likely to try annexing Canadian territory if the entire EU is at their back.
Better to present a unified front and have each other’s backs rather than be picked off piecemeal like drumpf wants to do. That’s precisely why he gets so upset about these partnerships. It makes his plans less feasible.
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I initially typed “Suse and Red Hat” but then I changed it to say Fedora because I wanted to avoid some pedantic comments about “But Red Hat doesn’t exist anymore!” or on the opposite extreme, reductive inaccuracies like “But Red Hat is for enterprise!”
In other words, your comment is very valid. I also thought about just saying “RPM-based distros” because your initial list didn’t have any.
And I thought about mentioning Mandriva separately, but I know that was originally a Red Hat fork, and also now we’re kinda getting into the weeds…
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on He's clear. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Void, Solus, Exherbo, Suse, Fedora…
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on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Yeah, that sounds correct
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on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
No I know AI companies are doing that, I just don’t think they would be making gifs about it.
But there’s a Tom Hanks movie that came out a few years ago where in the beginning of the movie he lives in a bunker because the UV index outside is so high the sunlight is basically radioactive, and he’s building a robot and he uses a machine to chop the spines off of books to feed them into a scanner to train the robot brain.
That all takes place in the very beginning and then he leaves the bunker with the robot and some shit happens. But that’s what I thought this gif was from.
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on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Is this gif from that tom hanks movie?
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
If you install the GUI it literally won’t let you open it unless you agree to their telemetry…
The antidote is in the poison. We’re going to have to start self-hosting smaller, local LLMs specifically tailored to searching the web to find what you’re looking for (and providing links instead of summaries), while ignoring all the garbage.
If it can check thousands or millions of pages in a few seconds, it can find stuff buried so deep under all the slop that we would never find it manually.
Even if you’re not ready to accept this yet, at least download a copy of a model or two from huggingface before nvidia locks it down. 7-14B parameters is probably okay if you don’t have much space/memory.
Eventually we can use codeberg or ipfs to redistribute what we salvage as a collective. If everyone mirrors a few different models we’ll be in much better shape later down the road when big tech companies start approaching their endgame (full user-lock and ecosystem control expanding into the internet itself)