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Do we have a date for the lemmy 0.19.5 upgrade?
  • @Ategon@programming.dev might give a more precise date, but unless there is an important security update, we prefer to wait 1-2 weeks to see how the update goes.

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    Just a reminder that we sent you a DM some time ago, but have yet to receive an answer. Happy cake day :)

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  • Futo, Please don't attempt to create your own Open Source Definition · Danb Blog
  • Per our Code of Conduct, please avoid insulting users when commenting on our instance, even if "they started it".

  • Meta, a Human-Friendly Programming Language
  • While we have opened up community creation for users, please refrain from misusing the feature.

    Also, as specified in our code of conduct, try to avoid personal attacks. @Lmaydev@programming.dev

  • Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities?
  • Community creation is open for all users, you are free to create a community dedicated to Q&A if you want a community explicitly for it. The admin team is willing to help out with moderation if that is what's holding you back.

  • AllocPPx.pl -> A Perl script that preprocesses C with garbage collection!
  • Please refrain from using slurs and disparage people for no good reason on our instance.

  • D&D makers also want a Baldur’s Gate 4, but say they won't rush to a sequel (it shouldn't take 25 years, mind)
  • A shame we won't get an expansion or sequel by Larian, but DOS 3 sounds good too.

  • Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
  • I didn't mean to imply CD stores sounds files of worse quality, only that if you aren't after the experience vinyl provides, digital files is a more convenient form of media.

  • Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
  • Maybe I should have written a longer comment to elaborate on what I meant. What I meant to say is that if your primary concern is sound quality rather than the experience physical media gives you, I would assume a flac file would be a more popular option due to its convenience.

  • MIT scientists have just figured out how to make the most popular AI image generators 30 times faster
  • There's way more to a game's look than textures though. Arguably ray tracing will have a greater impact than textures. Not to mention, for retro games, you could just generate the textures beforehand, no need to do it in real time.

  • Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running
  • If you're going for quality, you'd just buy the flac file though

  • History lives in the present
  • Nobody would ever say "Asian" when referring to the south east Asians powers though. Call it European colonial powers or something. It gets tiresome being lumped in with destruction caused by Britain, France, etc... when your own nation was nothing but potato farmers at the time.

  • [Closed] Looking for new moderators #302
  • Appreciate the offer, but we want to try to avoid another situation with reports not being seen by mods for weeks.

  • [Closed] Looking for new moderators #302
  • Added as moderator

  • [Closed] Looking for new moderators #302
  • Added as a moderator, we will likely add at least one more if there are more volunteers showing up.

  • [Closed] Looking for new moderators #302
  • programming.dev will migrate over to (lemmy compatible) Sublinks once it's ready, which will feature a different set of mod features. For that reason we will need new moderators to have an active programming.dev account. If you're willing keep an active user account on our instance let me know. We would prefer people we know will actively use their mod account to make sure reports are handled in a timely manner.

  • [Closed] Looking for new moderators #302

    Describe the problem

    3/4 moderators of the community are inactive, leading to a backlog of unresolved reports from the community.

    Suggested solution

    Find 1-2 active programming.dev users in the community volunteering to moderate c/programmer_humor in the comments of this post.

    Expected time cost

    A few minutes each week, the volume of the reports from the community is currently low.

    Temporary solution

    The community will be moderated by the admin community team until new moderators are found.

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    Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
  • I'm pretty sure it's generating racially diverse nazis due to companies tinkering with the prompts under the hood to counterweight biases in the training data. A naive implementation of generative AI wouldn't output black or Asian nazis.

    it doesn't have EQ or sociological knowledge.

    It sort of does (in a poor way), but they call it bias and tries to dampen it.

  • Instance admin updates + Blahaj
  • The team is fairly unison in wanting to avoid defederation as much as possible and leave it users to filter out content they personally don't enjoy. Programming is a big and diverse field, and we want to make it as open as possible to everyone. Unless the instance breaks our own rules as described in the sidebar under "federation rules", I feel like it would be an overreach by us to defederate an instance due to personal opinion.

  • Overview of planned features?

    Are there any websites or posts where one can see planned features for the app? It would be nice to know what's missing from the initial release. I see plenty of feature requests, but none contains confirmation of whether that feature will be worked on or not.

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