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  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

  • there’s this idea in the AI development zeitgeist that “rare data” is the only advantage left. this stuff is almost certainly motivated by that type of thinking. if they can have data in their datasets that no one else does, they view that as the only way left to be ahead of the competition.

  • Someone didn't like me posting such "awful" fried rice last week. So I'm reflecting on what they said and...

  • you’re gonna struggle to get a good sear on that ceramic top. the cooktops they use in east Asia look like friggin jet engines, and mise en place is basically a necessity because of how fast things move. even on full blast your wok is gonna struggle to maintain temp up those rounded sides.

    that said, authenticity in food is just another story we tell ourselves. the chilis in Asian cuisine, just like the tomatoes in Italy or the potatoes in Ireland, came from America. i say go nuts. the experiments are more fun to me than an “authentic ramen”, a dish that was invented in the 20th century and designed to be pub food.

  • Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people and block them from some playlists

  • this latest AI stuff was just the last straw for me. Spotify has routinely shown disrespect for the artists they rely on

  • Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why

  • what i mean is that Claude Code wouldn’t report as a Linux desktop browser without some nefarious behavior. what i mean by “surely” is that it would be shitty of Anthropic or OpenAI to do that for no benefit on their part. curl, wget, httpie, xh, whatever client use a specific user-agent that would be a reasonable default to use for any agent without fucking around pretending just to skew metrics.

    those header report that they’re bots.

  • Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why

  • sure, but is that implying that 5% of this traffic is bad faith or rogue agents? the tools built into Claude Code and Codex surely have their own user-agent settings.

    and why would they spoof Linux instead of Windows?

  • Linux just cracked 10% desktop usage in North America, but no one's sure why

  • the AI explanation and reasoning is weak. what does “largely disappears” mean without numbers? Cloudflare doesn’t do vibes; give me numbers. in any case “desktop” surely means that the user-agent reflects a desktop browser and not a CLI tool, right? otherwise this number would be closer to 90% than 10%. unless the agents are intentionally spoofing browser user-agents i don’t buy it.

    no mention of Steam’s and Framework’s hardware offering that come with Linux? no mention of the clear mass migrations?

    here’s an AI explanation: LLMs are helping people who otherwise would struggle move to Linux

  • Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now

  • again, why do you hate yourself? do you think using Windows and holding it wrong is empowering? i don’t get it.

    trust is required somewhere. if you don’t trust Microsoft, why would you use Windows in the first place?

  • RFK Jr. To Host Cooking Show

  • is it going to be produced by the new InfoWars? it seems like it would fit in their programming

  • Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now

  • why work on a feature that your users categorically reject? this isn’t me projecting, i literally have this conversation with a buddy all the time. he’s a programmer and talks about all the problems with Windows like there aren’t options. use the OS the way the devs designed it, pick a different one, or stfu

  • Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now

  • woof these downvotes. Windows users will never stop hating themselves

  • Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now

  • you say that like that makes it not worth doing

  • Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now

  • Windows users get what they deserve here. Windows gave you an app store, and you spat on it. maybe it was a bad implementation, but signed apps exist for a reason.

  • duck egg omelette

  • thanks :D

  • duck egg omelette

  • i had that thought, too. the yolks were incredibly rich and also way more stable than chicken yolks, but that could be an issue of freshness, etc.

  • Cooking @lemmy.world
    chrash0 @lemmy.world

    duck egg omelette

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

  • not precisely. Rust has let mut and Kotlin has val; ie the member layout and the mutability are treated differently, since those languages have mutability rules.

    this is a circular argument anyway. the language designers could have figured out a way to do type inference like, eg, Java, but, again, explicitly chose not to.

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

  • a lot of modern languages explicitly disagree, eg Kotlin and Rust

  • Slice with a single element cut out of itself

  • classic. this has been a problem since the language was new.

    the problem is that Rust is designed to not have this as a use case, or rather has machinery to make this marginally safer (mutexes etc) or make it unstable (panic) or just as unsafe as C (unsafe). if this is a pattern you want to maintain, Rust is going to throw friction at you by design, because tbh this pattern is the source of a ton of bugs.

    it’s conceptually more complicated, but game engine devs have been moving to some form of Entity Component System[1] architecture, because it gives you a way to access memory that is both cache efficient and safe.

    all that said i’m not a game dev. i think Bevy[2] was the blessed solution for a while?

    1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system?wprov=sfti1 2: https://bevy.org/

  • Distro recommendations and the right questions to ask

  • my hot take is that a distro at the end of the day is just a package manager and an install script.

    the question i would ask is: what do you want out of your package manager?

    this would be an odd question for your given non-Linux user because their package manager before was called “fuck it YOLO”.

    i’ll go through some that i use or have used.

    apt/rpm/etc: stable. designed for the Linux of the 90s. uptime is king. i end up using these usually out of network effects. some popular package uses it in their Docker file or my VPS only supports these. they’re boring, but that’s on purpose. updates are purposeful and vetted (relatively). these are your Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc flavors.

    pacman: seriously just a great design philosophy imo next to the others. rolling release. no versions. fix forward. also with the AUR, you get your “fuck it YOLO” packages back in a way that they can actually be maintained, updated, or nuked as appropriate. if you ever caught yourself waiting for a CUDA release on apt, this is for you. Arch, Manjaro,.. i think there’s a ton of vibe coded configs that all pretty much amount to Arch.

    nix(/maybe guix?): a software engineer’s package manager. everything is declarative, reproducible, and version controllable. what was that thing i installed last weekend? it’s in the commit log. need 3 different C compilers/graphic drivers/toolchain dependencies installed? handled by the OS, and cleaned up when those versions change. this is my current rig cuz it helps me keep a bunch of machines in sync for my home projects.

    Gentoo and LFS and anything else would be a bit much.

  • Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated

  • yeah, i mean it’s all bit abstract, but that’s essentially what it is.

    a concrete example would be Nvidia. they’re wildly profitable, and they don’t care how overleveraged you are as long as their barrels full of cash keep coming in.

    i agree with you that there is a concerning amount of debt and leverage going on, but it’s undeniable there’s money changing hands.

    but also, speaking of abstract, all this shit is made up and most of the money “moving” is just flipping some bits in a database somewhere. i also agree with you that it’s all a bit of a facade for people with power to play with power while the true “value” of society such as cost of living and quality of life take a low priority cuz “AI has a $T valuation”. but if you live in this system, this is what it is.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    chrash0 @lemmy.world

    what do y'all use for CI/CD?

  • Appliance Repair @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    chrash0 @lemmy.world

    my hot water line is too long for my dishwasher

  • Bicycles @lemmy.ca
    chrash0 @lemmy.world

    help me choose a cycling computer?