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@dalias @dstndstn First of all – yes, people do that. Open Data and Open Source is a thing and has been for decades.

Secondly: whether a "huge part of the magic" is an up-to-date dataset is entirely subjective.

The only rare occasion that I use LLMs is for language tasks like "generate a work e-mail to my boss" or "check this text for proper British English".

Because they're language models and not search engines or news sites.
That people misuse them for finding information is a big problem.

@dstndstn I mean, that isn't relevant if you run a model locally on your own computer. Commercial LLM services aren't the only representation of the technology.

@dansup @felixengel @jeffwbrooktree Yeah, and you're the one who explodes at people for politely questioning design decisions, bans them at random because you decided people shouldn't choose account names you don't like (brands.town, anyone), and who sexually harrassed a trans woman half a year ago on here.

Literally just look up "dansup" on the full text search.

@syntaxseed Ubuntu just was neglected and ruined for the past ~5 years or so. Virtually nobody I know recommends it anymore, especially not for beginners.

The "standard" user-friendly standard distros have been #LinuxMint and #EndeavourOS

@inthehands speak for yourself, i want that world.

im so tired of politicians calmly and politely sitting around in a big building pretending to have a nuanced discussion on whether to destroy the livelihood and identity of people or not

there should definitely be more little warning shots

Has anyone got any recommendations for something to read set in an optimistic future, perhaps something like #Solarpunk, without the heavily hammered down "messaging" and tokenisms usually prevalent in those settings?

I am quite sick of these quasi-ironic obvious fourth-wall "winks" at the reader that drive down the moral of the story in plain words every time. I would love some interesting stories that stand on their own.

#books #reading #sciencefiction #scifi #bookstodon #socialism

"History is a tremendous mechanism serving our ideals. Its work is slow, barbarously slow, implacably cruel, yet the work goes on. We believe in it. Only at moments, when this voracious monster drinks the living blood of our hearts to serve it as food, we wish to shout with all our might: What thou dost, do quickly!"

- Leon #Trotsky

#quote #quotes #trotskyism

@adityatelange Who uses a Linux system but then wants to fight against malicious software? That sounds like the worst of both worlds.

Does anyone know #OpenSource #FreeSoftware that can not only provide #spellchecking but also #language style checking, for the lack of a better term?

For context, I would like to counteract the online US cultural influence on me by re-modifying my language style to be consistent with the British English I learnt when I was little. Spelling differences like o/ou are only a small part of it though.

Vocab, slang, phrasing are aspects not covered by spellcheckers.

#UK #Linguistics #Linux #AskFedi

I haven't been using #Spotify or any kind of media streaming services for years now because I made the upgrade to physical or local media (vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital music files).

Some things I miss are the Release Radar, the auto-generated "radios" (similar song recommendation playlists), and of course #Wrapped.

Come to think of it, there _must_ be some #OpenSource tool that I can manually put my music into that replicates those features, right??

#Linux #FOSS #AskFedi #SpotifyWrapped

@cassem @sophie ...with the problem being that if my server federates with Bluesky and therefore sends it my user data, their for-profit crypto/AI investors will get access to my data.

@ricard @sophie The problem is that this is a well-established tactic for corporations like BlueSky to snuff out community-driven "competition".

They're trying to kill us off.

First they embrace the enemy technology (this is where Bluesky supports federation), then they extend its functionality to where people depend on your add-ons (say if they extended ActivityPub by something like emoji reactions), and then they use that leverage to extinguish the competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish

If I had my own band, I'd name it after an already disambiguated #Wikipedia article, just to make their life harder.

Oh, you went to the Wikipedia page "Polymorphism (computer science)"? Well, do you mean "Polymorphism (computer science) (German band)" or "Polymorphism (computer science) (computer science)"?

In other words, my new band Polymorphism (computer science) is going to launch its first EP soon.

@BeAware Yeah, but without the breakout hits like Prop Hunt or TTT, Garry's Mod would have stayed in obscurity.

Even I, definitely a techy person and interested in a libre Minecraft replacement, have bounced off of it regularly because it was simply not an enjoyable *game*.

Which content packs have compatibility with which other content packs is completely intransparent. Let alone balance considerations and stuff. Who knows if I have to run this on bare-bones Minetest or Mineclone (1,2,3?)?

@BeAware I do get it. The "test" part always underscored the main issue people had with it: it didn't feel like a game, it felt like a tech demo.

@BeAware Why not play Tekkit 2 then? It's on 1.12.2 and has BuildCraft, IC2 Classic, Forestry, and none of the new nonsense. :)