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NeatNit

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NeatNit ,

My guess: it's a mouthful and not catchy. "Linux" is short, catchy and easy to pronounce. With "GNU/Linux" I don't even know if I'm supposed to spell out the GNU or pronounce it as a word, and I don't know if I'm supposed to say the "/" as "slash" or "plus" or "and" or if it should actually just be silent. I like to type how I speak, so if I don't know how to say it I'm not going to write it, and I'm not going to like reading it.

I can totally see the merits for "GNU/Linux" but don't underestimate the importance of catchiness. Maybe if it were shortened to "Ginux" it could stand a better chance, but then we'd have another gif situation.

NeatNit ,

4th row 3rd icon

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and Windows 10 is obviously so outdated it's not even worth including

NeatNit ,

QR codes require the background colour (white) to extend at least 5 pixels around the corners. This won't scan.

NeatNit ,

Until earlier this year, I could make NFC payments with the app of my credit card company. AFAIK contactless payments on Android were never locked to Google Pay/Wallet. But I have no idea why there's no competition in this space. I'd expect e.g. PayPal to have something, but if they do I never heard of it - and I did look once, briefly.

NeatNit ,

For generic contactless payments at shops? Or some closed system that only works with other PayPal users?

NeatNit ,

Alright, good to know.

NeatNit ,

You mean the thing any credit card issuer does anyway?

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Okay, but can't it be an optional feature? I'd like it if a new device could download message history from an old device by having both online at the same time.

NeatNit ,

I feel like cars make enough noise even without honking. I am, however, heavily brainwashed by Not Just Bikes. Cities aren't loud, cars are loud.

NeatNit ,

That's what any brainwasher would have you believe, isn't it? ;)

I cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

When I try to submit a post or comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash] passwd, the submit button goes into a loading state and spins indefinitely. The request is blocked by Cloudflare with status code 403. I can't even search for the forbidden string. You have to check dev tools to find out what went wrong, this error is...

NeatNit ,

Are you using the website or an app?

NeatNit ,

Best not to try to roleplay as an ******in

NeatNit ,

How dare you go outside the bounds of ASCII! 95 printable characters ought to be enough for anyone.

NeatNit ,

I just realized my previous reply from 3 days ago might not be visible to you.

You wrote password instead of passwd, I think that's why it passed the filter.

Link to the comment you probably didn't receive: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/17139304/10847588

NeatNit ,

they're running 10 screens in parallel

NeatNit ,

This piece of equipment is woefully out of spec!

NeatNit ,

would you go to the yard for it?

NeatNit OP ,

Reposted because someone else's post was removed after I took issue with its AI-generated summary. If you're reading this, I didn't mean for this to happen, I hope you're not too angry. I actually would have preferred if you just edited your summary to correct it. And FWIW, I upvoted your post.

NeatNit OP ,

I'll try to add that in. It's actually a fairly old story (in AI timescale) but you're right, it's worth mentioning.

NeatNit OP ,

We'll see if my efforts fare any better.

NeatNit OP ,

Also feel free to cross-post this to the other community, or anywhere else.

NeatNit ,

Where did he claim that it would make it less likely to manipulate? Can you give me a timestamp?

NeatNit ,

Watch the actual video before your instant qualification? That summary seems AI-generated to me and isn't even close to faithful to the video

NeatNit ,

Reasoning and "thinking" can arise as emergent properties of this system. Not everything the model says is backed up by direct data. As you surely know, you've heard of AI hallucinations.

I believe the researchers in that experiment allowed the model to write out its thoughts to a separate place where only they could read them.

By god, watch the video and not the crappy AI-generated summary. This man is one of the best AI safety explainers in the world. You don't have to agree with everything he says, but I think you'll agree with the vast majority of it.

NeatNit ,

well the recap is wrong :(

NeatNit ,

Do you watch every video available? I certainly can’t. So I make use of teasers and descriptions. That’s what they’re there and useful for.

Sure, me too, but when you literally say "Instant disqualification for me" that's an insane reaction. You should know when reading a summary that it's not a perfect representation of the source. Even human-written summaries or articles very often misunderstand or misrepresent their sources, many times stating the exact opposite of the source because of it. This obviously happens with AI summaries as well. The "instant disqualification" is what you can't excuse.

NeatNit ,

What in God's name are the rules of this show?

NeatNit ,

As long as I can still get notifications and see the time, I don't think I care.

NeatNit ,

no list of apps anywhere

NeatNit ,

please enlighten the rest of us

NeatNit ,

They're out because your didn't add AI to the mix

NeatNit ,

wait, I'm confused now, can you bring the sharks back?

NeatNit ,

This approach is doomed to fail, so long as the general public isn't aware of the problem or its scale. Government regulation is the only way.

NeatNit ,

what does this have to do with anything

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Depends on what country you live in. Just because they call is that doesn't mean the law and courts will see it their way.

Relatedly, check out www.StopKillingGames.com. When you buy a game without an expiration date on the box it either is illegal or should be explicitly made illegal to destroy your copy of the game when the company shuts down their servers. Stop Killing Games is a campaign to stop this from happening, and it's actually getting some progress like being noticed and picked up by politicians. If you know Freeman's Mind, Civil Protection, or Ross's Game Dungeon, this campaign was started by Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) who made all of those.

Edit: quote from the FAQ in the website:

Q: Aren't games licensed, not sold to customers?

A: The short answer is this is a large legal grey area, depending on the country. In the United States, this is generally the case. In other countries, the law is not clear at all, since license agreements cannot override national laws. Those laws often consider videogames as goods, which have many consumer protections that apply to them. So despite what the license agreement may say, in some countries you are indeed sold your copy of the game license. Some terms still apply, however. For example, you are typically only sold your individual copy of the game license for personal use, not the intellectual property rights to the videogame itself.

NeatNit ,

🪓🐸

NeatNit ,

Tarantism... is that a real phenomenon? I can't imagine there'd be a word for it if it wasn't a real thing, or people at least believed it was a real thing due to mass panic. But seriously, what the fuck?

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Yes, I was right about it being mass hysteria, but it's interesting nonetheless

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I have heard that at least the main ingredient being advertised must be real and the actual product. So for example, in a McDonald's commercial the patty must be an actual edible McDonald's patty, but the vegetables and bun can be made of whatever.

NeatNit ,

Trickle down economics works perfectly fine. It's just that billionaires are subhuman and so are further down than the rest of us.

NeatNit ,

AFAIK that should give you +infinity, not NaN

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#Floating-point_arithmetic

In IEEE arithmetic, division of 0/0 or ∞/∞ results in NaN, but otherwise division always produces a well-defined result. Dividing any non-zero number by positive zero (+0) results in an infinity of the same sign as the dividend. Dividing any non-zero number by negative zero (−0) results in an infinity of the opposite sign as the dividend. This definition preserves the sign of the result in case of arithmetic underflow.

NeatNit ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#Floating-point_arithmetic

In IEEE arithmetic, division of 0/0 or ∞/∞ results in NaN, but otherwise division always produces a well-defined result. Dividing any non-zero number by positive zero (+0) results in an infinity of the same sign as the dividend. Dividing any non-zero number by negative zero (−0) results in an infinity of the opposite sign as the dividend. This definition preserves the sign of the result in case of arithmetic underflow.

NeatNit ,

To be fair, it turns out not all environments implement floating-point arithmetic by the IEEE spec, meaning division by 0 can produce different results depending on where you run it. So in C++ float division by zero is undefined: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42926763/the-behaviour-of-floating-point-division-by-zero

But I'm fairly sure (note: based on literally no research) that most environments today will behave like the IEEE spec.

NeatNit ,

The process that's used to kill, or in short, the 'kill process'.

(though I like the other answer better)

NeatNit ,

I didn't read this all the way through (yet) but it's excellent so far

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