I’ve noticed some installers have at least a voting system (e.g. Octopi) which helps… slightly. At least in knowing what the right package name probably is. Crowd source reviewing is probably the only option for such a vast and open system, even if it can be gamed sometimes.

That happened to me, but I’m happy with CachyOS now for most things. I can’t believe how much it a step down 11 was from 10 though, it was astounding. Worse than 7 to 8, even.

Farming karma on the fediverse requires Arch Linux, Star Trek, beans, US politics in an unusual channel, and of course, hate posts about reddit.

Oh and pro-tankie or anti-tankie depending on which instance you want karma on.

Incidentally, I’m glad we don’t really care but the fun part is voting is all public so… be mindful. Lol

Yeah… That’s a violation of FERPA and is reportable offense that’ll get ya fired or sued. Lol

I love the idea of someone trying this stupid question irl only to realize it wasn’t even plugged in. That’s … well fuck, that’s most IT work. The convoluted approach is definitely the wrong one. Lol

Breeze has a day/night cycle now too, haha. Sweet just caught my eye since it has custom icons for discord and steam that match the theme. Lol

And yeah, the experts on Lemmy can probably explain better but there’s issues with screens depending on what the distro uses to manage that stuff. I’ve had trouble before, but I had no trouble last night detecting my ultrawide, and they added HDR support since I last tinkered. I’m using CachyOS (which is arch based), so what they’re using might be different. They also seem very anti-flatpak, haha.

Oh, I just fixed my broken partition with a fresh install last night. Haven’t played with Linux in a while but I spent way too much time themeing.

If you or anyone else is in KDE Plasma, surprise your friends with something like Reactionary 98 or WhiteSur. It was enough to get someone to try Linux, lol. (I ultimately went with Sweet, though. Lol)

Santa already extrapolates data for children without lists but with generative AI, we’re going to see new and exciting ways to disappoint children this Christmas!

It’s a lot of individual tables because Santa’s excel struggles with anything past a few hundred thousand rows. It’s not just names, but addresses, lists of desires, and so on.

There are around 2 billion children. If you wonder why he skips so many children, it’s not religion or poverty, it’s because Santa’s files got corrupted.

Holy hell, your recommendation algorithm is all sorts of fucked. I tried to replicate it but just searching for “FOSS budgeting software comparison” it looks like there’s a few legit ones in the mix, but plenty of AI, too.

I’m not going to watch them to check though, since hitting one AI one will probably make them all AI, lol.

Mumble was… fine. My friends actually moved to Discord from Mumble for our MMO stuff but that was primarily because it was easier to invite randos to the chat. That quality makes it almost impossible to break away from atm.

I recall the latency being only a little worse than Discord, but I think that’s because a friend set up the server at his work as a side thing (he also hosted Minecraft and Terraria). It’s not too complex to setup, but your quality will depend a lot on the computer and network you’re running. At least, it did for us, back in the day.

We’ve thought about alternatives to Discord. Old names were Ventrilo and TeamSpeak but they’re just not very modern. Plus, now almost every chat app has voice, too. Just, for features, it’s hard to beat Discord at this… though I’m willing to read the other comments to get for ideas, too. Lol

I’d take it with a big grain of salt — it’s Forbes, they lube up people with money with pretty weak arguments. He is a billionaire, but mostly through overvaluation of the company he’s ultimately gutting for profit. (Although if it died, he is still rich, unfortunately, just not a billionaire).

Some of the arguments being made in the article though, like it being an “authentic place” and having more traffic is a little misleading. For AI, we already know 50% of the Internet is AI made now, in a remarkably short amount of time and a hefty amount of that is going to be on Reddit. If the 90% by 2026 prediction holds true, he’s basically an owner of a gold mine that’s already tapped out. Users won’t necessarily catch on, but they will be drowned out as a source of LLM data.

Admittedly, the traffic increase isn’t all bots but to classify it as organic is misleading too- iirc, they have a deal with Google to push reddit in exchange for Gemini training. Even unrelated searches are propping up Reddit as the first result; it’s like using SEO cheats. As with the poisoning of his data with artificial data, that deal may not last (and if the AI bubble bursts, that’s certainly gone).

Frankly, we need the bubble to burst but we also need heavy regulation on these industries. I’m not too hopeful of the latter and the former isn’t going to be pretty— it’s not like the .com bubble made the 90s a better era, for instance.

I found success just saying Alexa wasn’t working and a bunch of stuff uses it. Not even that far from correct, at least?

Or like 95% of my college students. :(

It’s ok. I see a tilde. And yes, ~

Not to be nitpicky but those locations are all over the place, lol. I wonder what the actual percentage of programmers need to pivot to slop cleanup duty.

Oh, this is wonderful news. Looks like it’ll be a time before it’ll work with my phone, though, which is a shame since I use it to sync save files for games I play cross platform.

Oh no I’m reading the news too much because I read that as Pedophilia Eagles. Ya’know, the fightin’ Epsteins. Yes, very different comments indeed.

This reminds me of how I showed a friend and her company how to get databases from BLS and it’s basically all just text files with urls. “What API did you call? How did you scrape the data?”

Nah man, it’s just… there. As government data should be. They called it a hack.

When I needed to pick up on some basics, it actually did help but ultimately not as much as actual guides and tutorials written online. This image of a chimera certainly matches the kind of Frankenstein code I was getting.

That said, when I was having some very interesting ideas about making automated code in R, it did make for a good sounding board. You don’t need to Google when everything in R has documentation but you do when you’re combining libraries in unique ways to automate 98% of the stupid shit you do at your data researcher job (e.g. can you look up in our database how many students pick their nose during philosophy class on a Friday?)