I've been in a stable relationship for a while now so naturally the idea of being married to that person comes up. But I just can't think of any argument in favour of it. ...
Why is the feed algorithm so horrendously bad on Lemmy? I keep seeing the same posts I had previously seen/interacted with, even if I refresh the feed. Is it because this platform has not enough users?
What algorithm? You can subscribe to whichever communities you want, and posts from them show up on your feed organized by whatever you pick. If you want to constantly see fresh content, view all communities and sort by new.
Technically, but the algorithm consists of which communities you're viewing and what order you sort posts. Generally when people talk about an "algorithm" in social media, they mean an opaque self-tuning selection process based on your usage patterns (and whoever is paying them the most). And Lemmy doesn't have any of that.
If you're selecting sort-by-new and you're noticing problems with getting old posts mixed in, that would be a problem. But seeing the same posts when you're viewing the same communities and sorting the same way isn't a problem, it's showing you what you asked for. Why blame the "algorithm"?
In the context of social media, it's safe to say most people use the word "algorithm" to refer to the latter rather than the former. Sorting/visibility is technically an algorithm, but it's transparent and can be controlled by the user.
It is so ironic that house of cards a TV series about the US president gets shutdown because someone came forward about how the protagonist sexually harrased them when they were young. In real life more than one president has been linked to pedophilia and nothing happened 🙃.
Rock the Country, Kid Rock’s country music festival that critics have labeled a “MAGA fest,” has been canceled in South Carolina after a string of artists dropped out. ...
Too bad. I know how MAGA likes their safe spaces. My old church also had an "alternative" half-time show to protect the kids or something. And if they don't have these spaces, who will protect them from weird ideas like kindness and empathy?
While debating H.R. 1028, the "Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act" in the House Judiciary Committee on 3 February, Wyoming Republican Representative Harriet Hageman declared the term cisgender to be a "made-up word". ...
You're looking for what's called Embedded Programming, which is that low-level stuff where the software you create makes things happen in real life outside of just a computer screen. There are lots of hobby beginner kits that come with things like motors, lights, etc. That's probably your best bet for actually getting some hands-on experience.
If you want something a little higher-level, go for something like a Raspberry Pi (a Single Board Computer or SBC). On these, you'll have a full-fledged Linux kernel and operating system, but still have ways of interacting with hardware like lights and such. If you want to get lower level, try Arduino or something based on ESP32 (the key word here is microcontroller). On these, you'll either use a smaller OS or go "bare-metal". Though note that Raspberry Pi makes things at this level as well (their "Pico" line).
For making that connection between computer theory and programming, I recommend experimenting with microcontrollers. You can even do some projects in assembly and understand what all the key registers are doing. I started on PIC micros, which was a great beginner thing. Not sure if they're still around.
If you want recommendations on a starter kit, let me know your budget and what country you're in, and I can send some suggestions.
No problem! I love chatting about this stuff, questions are always welcome!
Not sure what online retailers are available or what you have access to in Vemezuela, but something like this starter kit would be ideal. But anything you can get your hands on can be fun.
In general, you need:
a microcontroller
a way to program it
hardware to control and usually some sort of input or sensor
Even if you can't find a starter kit, finding a USB UART interface lets you hack into all sorts of devices (did that to reprogram a router a while back), as long as you're handy with a soldering iron. And like another commenter said, hardware emulators would let you get started writing and running code if you can't get hardware right away.
Hope it's fun! Feel free to DM with questions if you'd like.
I don't quite get the equivalence there. I'd say an LLM response is more on par with responding with a link to lmgtfy.com or something.
The intellectual equivalent of sending someone a dick pic would be a cold contact with LLM-generated text promoting or pushing something that you didn't otherwise show interest in. Or like, that friend from highschool who messages you out of the blue and you realize after a few messages that they're trying to sell you their MLM garbage.
They're both garbage, sure, but I wouldn't call it an equivalent. Especially in severity--one is insulting, the other is sexual harassment.
The key word is "unsolicited." An LLM response to a question you ask is garbage, but it's solicited garbage. Like asking someone in Home Depot where the hammers are, and having them take 10 minutes for them to look it up on their phone. It's a stupid response, but it was solicited. It's at least a lazy attempt to respond relevantly, however insulting.
I cannot fathom doing that to another human being let alone teenagers. Not really asking for a how to guide but more like do people like that have a disease or something?
Nobody wants to believe they're the "bad guy". And some people end up with excessive wealth, more than a person could reasonably spend in a lifetime (think billionaire). And these people have to make a choice: do they keep it all for themselves, or give most of it away?
Those who hoard their wealth have to justify internally why they have so much and others are starving. To do this, they either deify themselves, or demonize the poor, or both. They truly believe the poor are morally inferior to them, and the rich are morally superior.
In addition, when you have this type of wealth, nothing is off-limits anymore. And humans seem to have a deep-seated need to strive for something that is out of reach. If you want to see this for yourself, turn on a favorite video game and enable cheats like infinite money or "god mode". Chances are, it'll be fun for a bit, but it'll soon lose your attention. Because whether we realize it or not, our brains want some things to be difficult to obtain.
Being a billionaire is an IRL infinite money hack. There's pretty much nothing you can't do with that kind of money. Except... illegal stuff. Like drugs, and raping minors. These activities bring a spark of excitement to people who are decresingly finding that feeling in anything else in life.
When you consider both of these things together, stuff like sex trafficking starts to make morbid sense. They see trafficking people much the same as trafficking animals. And it's one of the very few things that scratches that human itch of wanting something we can't have.
Excessive concentrated wealth is bad for everyone, including the wealthy.
Ah, but that is the great reality--those who "make it" are themselves still faking it, and the real question is: are they really faking anymore, or is this who they really are?
transcription: just saw a straight woman CONFIDENTLY say lesbian marriage isnt a real marriage its just "two best friends who get each other off" and like bestie, idk what has gone wrong in your life but thats exactly what marriage is supposed to be, regardless of the genders involved. as opposed to real marriage, where you have ...
A majority of voters believe that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached, new polling finds as backlash to her unconstitutional raids of U.S. communities grows. Data for Progress finds that 52 percent of likely voters say that Noem should be impeached for her handling of the Department of Homeland ...
I've been having a big think over Linux distros. See, I've been looking back at my still-new Linux experience of nine months, and wondering how my own journey can help other people get started with FOSS operating systems. Whenever the topic of a Windows refugee-friendly OS came up, I would recommend Linux Mint because, first, ...
You're not missing anything. Mint is perfectly good for the vast majority of users.
Linux distros are a bit like vehicles. For most people, a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla will do everything they need. But if you go onto forums of car-enthusiasts, you can probably find thousands of voices that say those vehicles have such low horsepower, or they're not perfectly streamlined, or arguing about the buttons on the seat belts. Things that the average user doesn't care much about.
I started 20 years ago with Slackware, tried out FreeBSD, and a number of others. I switched to Mint as a daily driver years ago. These days I found what I like (CachyOS), but I'm fairly knowledgable and quite comfortable on the command line, which is definitely not the case for most newer folks.
Mint is a great distro. When I put it on my wife's laptop, literally everything worked right away. Have fun!
Because many people take for granted their advanced understanding of Unix systems that allows them to get into the "meat".
If you're the type of person that is excited by a terminal display and prepared to read a whole pile of documentation, then sure--go straight to Arch, or Alpine if you're insane. But most people want something that's familiar, easy to set up, and will never force you to open a terminal. That's Mint (plus a number of other beginner-friendly distros). And most average people are perfectly happy to stay there. And that's perfectly fine.
It seems like a kind of a paradox that online video games are held accountable for servers that they have nothing to do with, but meanwhile a browser can be truly open and doesn't have to employ any restrictions like age verification, or banning ips? Not even China goes after the browser level.
In reality, it's likely that it's because Minecraft is largely targeted to kids. The primary presented idea of Minecraft is a game that is appropriate for kids. Web browsers don't make the same kind of presentation--their purpose is to render websites, but don't otherwise promise anything regarding the content viewed.
It would be a bit similar to a department store that stocked knives in the kids' toy section. Selling knives isn't really problematic, it's where they're located and the implied intent of that section.
To be fair, some people aren't great at being a homemaker--it's a particular passion and skill set and it's not for everyone. But blindly drawing that distinction on gender lines is definitely a boomer thing.
Had an older guy at work who had four kids, and when it came up in conversation, he proudly noted that he had never changed a diaper. Told him that I'd be mortified to admit I was such a useless dad.
There are some aspects that aren't skill-based though. Anyone can do it, but some people thrive in that environment, while others have a more difficult time, just like any other job.
From bouncing around my favorite corners of the Internet, I get the impression that large numbers of people have "a guy" (of any gender), akin to a weed dealer in furtiveness and legality, who is hooking them up with an underground, probably Plex-based (but increasingly moving to Jellyfin), streaming service. I get the ...
I can't say how many people are trying to make money on it, but there are plenty of folks running Plex or Jellyfin servers that they'll allow friends and family to access. And I would estimate that a fairly low percentage of those have no pirated content on them. So even for the small-group servers, discussions of piracy are often relevant.
I do run a Jellyfin server, but only locally on my own network.
The Jellyfin Documentation has info on setting it up and installing it. I have it running on an odroid hc4, but pretty much anything with enough storage will be fine (an old laptop laying around is a great way to experiment with server stuff).
I don't have much in terms of automation--I have a script that syncs local files with my server. What else did you have in mind?
If we consider what happened with Trump's exwife, I'd guess he'd order a hit on Melania a couple days before her NDA expires, then bury her a couple days later on one of his own golf courses.
A bizarre fundraising email for President Donald Trump threatened to sic ICE on MAGA donors who do not respond to a survey confirming they are American citizens. ...
Bean thinking of you, Lemmy
POV: You maintain a JS library that 80% of modern web infrastructure uses as a dependency. ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Re-emerged video shows Kid Rock was always a raging nonce ( www.thecanary.co )
Kid Rock in front of his own lyrics ...
Why would you want to get married?
I've been in a stable relationship for a while now so naturally the idea of being married to that person comes up. But I just can't think of any argument in favour of it. ...
Lemmy Algorithm
Why is the feed algorithm so horrendously bad on Lemmy? I keep seeing the same posts I had previously seen/interacted with, even if I refresh the feed. Is it because this platform has not enough users?
Funniest mod you've ever seen?
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House of cards stopped because of the sexual allegations while in real life presidents have sexual allegations and nothing happened to them
It is so ironic that house of cards a TV series about the US president gets shutdown because someone came forward about how the protagonist sexually harrased them when they were young. In real life more than one president has been linked to pedophilia and nothing happened 🙃.
Kid Rock’s MAGA-friendly country music festival canceled in South Carolina after artists drop out ( www.the-independent.com )
Rock the Country, Kid Rock’s country music festival that critics have labeled a “MAGA fest,” has been canceled in South Carolina after a string of artists dropped out. ...
What is up with the trend of naming pets after food?
I'm watching the puppy bowl and 2/3rds of the pups are named after celebrities or food.
Republican says 'cisgender' is 'made-up word' used to 'destroy civil order' - Pink News ( www.thepinknews.com )
While debating H.R. 1028, the "Protection of Women in Olympic and Amateur Sports Act" in the House Judiciary Committee on 3 February, Wyoming Republican Representative Harriet Hageman declared the term cisgender to be a "made-up word". ...
Help learning low-level dev
Hello! First of all this is my first Lemmy post, so if I did anything wrong pls tell me! ...
Sending someone LLM output in response to a question they ask is the intellectual equivalent of sending an unsolicited dick pic.
Why or how do people become sex traffikers like Epstein? Did he and his wife wake up one day after work and say hey lets traffik teens? Or was he or she forced into it? or something else?
I cannot fathom doing that to another human being let alone teenagers. Not really asking for a how to guide but more like do people like that have a disease or something?
Lemmings, your thoughts on Fastmail vs Proton Mail?
Looks like FM is proprietary (?), is based in a 5-eyes country, and has its servers in the US, but, uh, apart from that...?
'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise
The obvious criticism of Newton that everyone avoids
marriges rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
transcription: just saw a straight woman CONFIDENTLY say lesbian marriage isnt a real marriage its just "two best friends who get each other off" and like bestie, idk what has gone wrong in your life but thats exactly what marriage is supposed to be, regardless of the genders involved. as opposed to real marriage, where you have ...
Majority of Voters Support Impeaching Kristi Noem, Polling Finds ( truthout.org )
A majority of voters believe that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached, new polling finds as backlash to her unconstitutional raids of U.S. communities grows. Data for Progress finds that 52 percent of likely voters say that Noem should be impeached for her handling of the Department of Homeland ...
Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore ( www.xda-developers.com )
I've been having a big think over Linux distros. See, I've been looking back at my still-new Linux experience of nine months, and wondering how my own journey can help other people get started with FOSS operating systems. Whenever the topic of a Windows refugee-friendly OS came up, I would recommend Linux Mint because, first, ...
Why is Minecraft able to be forced to put restrictions on online servers, but web browsers aren't held accountable for providing access to the web?
It seems like a kind of a paradox that online video games are held accountable for servers that they have nothing to do with, but meanwhile a browser can be truly open and doesn't have to employ any restrictions like age verification, or banning ips? Not even China goes after the browser level.
Baldur's Gate 3 ( techforum.tr )
Baldur's Gate 3
How much time until there's an Aldi on the moon?
This Trump claim is so absurd it deserves only absurdity in reply ( www.rawstory.com )
Just say the word
What's up with "Plex Servers"?
From bouncing around my favorite corners of the Internet, I get the impression that large numbers of people have "a guy" (of any gender), akin to a weed dealer in furtiveness and legality, who is hooking them up with an underground, probably Plex-based (but increasingly moving to Jellyfin), streaming service. I get the ...
What is a more interesting subject for a documentary than Melania?
Chinese man dies after intensive work week, receives office text 8 hours posthumously ( www.scmp.com )
A 32-year-old Chinese programmer who died suddenly after working intensively for years received a new work task message eight hours after his death.
The more revealing of the 2 is OK and the less revealing is bad?
'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night ( www.extremetech.com )
Melania Trump's 'absolute stinker' of a documentary buried by reviewers ( www.rawstory.com )
"the fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell," giving the movie one star.
Could Poop Pills Be a Secret Weapon Against Cancer? ( gizmodo.com )
Strawberry should be spelled with an H
Shtrawberry. Drinking shtraw as well. ...
Sick Trump Fundraising Email Threatens ICE Will ‘Track You Down’ ( www.thedailybeast.com )
A bizarre fundraising email for President Donald Trump threatened to sic ICE on MAGA donors who do not respond to a survey confirming they are American citizens. ...
Is it hot in here or what? 🥵
A Cybertruck Door Latch Failed as an Oakland Dad Drove His Infant Onto a Highway ( oaklandside.org )
I'm not so sure those are "foot" steps